summer programs

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<p>Anyone have any suggestions for summer programs for high school kids to learn about different types of engineering? West coast preference.
Thanks</p>

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<p>The University of Arkansas - Fort Smith runs a week-long engineering summer camp for high school seniors-to-be. The next one will be in July 2006. The camp is totally free and introduces high school kids to mechanical and electrical engineering. PM me for more details.</p>

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<p>Not west coast, but Rose-Hulman's Operation Catapult is excellent.
<a href="http://www.rose-hulman.edu/catapult%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.rose-hulman.edu/catapult&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I went this past summer. It's for high school juniors going into their senior year and offers a ton of oppurtunites to explore engineering andh ave a ton of fun. There were people from 30 states when I went and many from California, one from Arizona, I odn't think any from the Northwest, several from Texas.</p>

<p>I would highly reccomend it to anyone who is interested in engineering and wants to see what college is all about.</p>

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<p>Again, not West Coast, but my daughter attended Carnegie Mellon Pre-college summer, took calc and Intro to Elec. Engineering. . .it was an excelelnt experience, and an introduction to the amount of, and difficulty of, engineering undergrad coursework. </p>

<p>I think Purdue has a summer intro to eng. program. . . . Sorry, I'm a midwest sort of person, no West coast suggestions.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.summerscience.org/%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.summerscience.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Be sure to look at the guest speakers......this program is amazing.</p>

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<p>Manhattan College has a 10-day program for high school students that introduces each type of engineering and explains how each works. It's very good, but it's on the East Coast (Bronx, NY).</p>

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<p>My daughter went to month-long Cosmos which is in Cal. They offer a variety of science and math related clusters. She loved the experience!</p>

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<p><a href="http://tbp-highschool.mit.edu/highschool/contents.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://tbp-highschool.mit.edu/highschool/contents.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>more summer science and engineering programs than you can shake a stick at. </p>

<p>thats where I found one that I did. WPI Frountiers and another one, RPI Preface managed to stalk me down.
I loved both and it let me look at schools I wanted to apply to and get out of my comfort zone. I also found it nice to get way away from home for a while just to get a taste of college.</p>