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This week at Michigan Tech, 120 students explored different engineering fields with projects and experiments.
Young women from nine states and Bahrain took part in the Women in Engineering Competitive Scholarship Program.
This year, participants had a cumulative GPA of 3.91.
In order to explore different engineering fields, they’ve tested, coded, built, mixed and played with different engineering projects.
“There are nine different sessions where you learn about all the different fields in engineering and then you have two group projects. One of them, which is the programming, for me, and then my other one is blacksmithing,” said participant Zipporah Cohen from St. Paul, MN. “With programming, I’ve always really been interested in programming. I never really knew what I was doing, but I’ve learned a lot more about how things are set up so you can do whatever you want to do with it.”
In one project, the high schoolers had to work in pairs to re-program an iRobot Roomba vacuum.
Another had pairs constructing buildings that can withstand simulated earthquakes.
The students even got to make bath bombs from scratch to take home.
This is just one of many educational Summer Youth Programs offered at Michigan Tech this summer.
