Summer Engineering programs

Parents Forum
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<p>Hello,
Finally I gained some courage to my post, I am watching this forum from last 2 weeks, learned a lot since. My Daughter is studying in San francisco area (California) , in a competitive public school, looking for Summer engineering programs. As per her, she could not find any engineering programs from her school counseling dept, mostly science programs. What is the best way to find out, is anyone familiar with engineering summer programs, either in California, or near by states. Any other question that I ask myself, is this programs worth money, effort & time we spend sending my daughter far. </p>

<p>Another related question is - will it make any sense to sign up for science programs, if engineering programs are not available.
Please advice, thanks much!!</p>

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<p>You will probably get this best advice here:
[Summer</a> Programs - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/summer-programs/]Summer”>Summer Programs - College Confidential Forums)</p>

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<p>I’d do several google searches with nearby universities/colleges and the words: engineering summer program outreach (or something similar).</p>

<p>For example, searching for:
university of arizona engineering summer camp outreach</p>

<p>turned up this engineering summer camp: [College</a> of Engineering || Summer Engineering Academy :: SEA](<a href=“http://engr.arizona.edu/future/index.php?ID=69]College”>http://engr.arizona.edu/future/index.php?ID=69)</p>

<p>One DS has great camp options locally for his interests, but for my other DS, nothing locally is a good fit at this point. We are looking at summer camps taking place in states where the grandparents live now. We may combine a summer camp with a family visit. </p>

<p>As for costs and worth, that is a highly individualized question. DS participated in a state University run science camp last summer and we felt it was well worth the time and money. When I am looking at camps I try to see whether or not university faculty are involved in the program and try to get a feel for the emphasis on the camp. My kids are at a point where they are eager to learn more in their areas of interest; they aren’t looking for “fun” camps exactly, they want more project based activities. They also aren’t very interested in ones set up as college classroom experiences. They can get that locally. Good luck with your search.</p>

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<p>University of Texas-Arlington has a residential engineering camp every summer.</p>

<p>[Engineering</a> and Computer Science Summer Camps](<a href=“http://www.uta.edu/engineering/summercamps/]Engineering”>K-12 Outreach - College of Science - The University of Texas at Arlington)</p>

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<p>Check out COSMOS - California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science - held at UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Santa Cruz, UC San Diego.
[Campus</a> Programs](<a href=“Page Not Found - COSMOS Platform”>Page Not Found - COSMOS Platform)
Applications are due February 22.
Oldest son chose aerospace engineering cluster at UC Irvine several years ago. He went the summer between junior and senior year. It was a great experience. Clusters offered change from year-to-year.</p>

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<p>Though it is not close to CA (I’m also originally from the Bay Area), I had a great experience at Smith College’s Summer Science and Engineering Program, and would highly recommend it. I’m now doing Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon.</p>

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<p>You may need to google “engineering programs for high school students” or similar. I did that a few years back but only focused on programs in the northeast, so I don’t have specific suggestions for the West coast. But it seems lots of engineering schools have them.
Around here we looked at Cornell, Brown, CMU, WPI…</p>