Register for UConn’s STEM Camps for Middle and High School Youth

Register for UConn’s STEM Camps for Middle and High School Youth

Announcing SPARK, a ‘female only’ engineering camp for rising 7-10th graders and Explore Engineering (E2), a co-ed camp for rising 11-12th graders.  Both camps are hosted by the University of Connecticut’s School of Engineering Diversity and Outreach Center and are designed to teach students about STEM subjects (more specifically engineering) in a hands-on and fun way.

Welcome to SPARK! Igniting the Next Generation of Women Engineers

In light of COVID-19 regulations and social distancing requirements, we are going online!

Welcome to SPARK 2020: Virtual Edition! If you are a current 6th through 9th grade female student during the 2019-2020 school year, the University of Connecticut invites you to challenge yourself by incorporating your math and science skills into hands-on projects and experiments, exciting engineering concepts, and fun activities.

SPARK is UConn’s latest initiative to shrink the STEM gender gap. Participants will be taught and mentored by outstanding female undergraduate engineering students. Students will live in residence halls, supervised by Residential Counselors who are members of the UConn Engineering community.

Each week’s curriculum will focus on a different engineering discipline:

  • Engineering Through the Ages (Monday, July 20 – Friday, July 24): Explore the past and present while building a more sustainable city for the future
  • Designing and Flying Drones (Monday, July 27 – Friday, July 31): Apply principals of material science, 3D printing, and aerodynamics to make a drone fly
  • Coding (Monday, August 3 – Friday, August 7): Design apps, make circuits, and learn to apply programming to control the world around you

Students will be encouraged to have fun while learning, and to learn while having fun. No prior experience is required.

Please note that the program cost is $495 per session (financial aid and financing available).

SPARK 2020 has been converted to online to prevent the spread of COVID-19
Registration for SPARK 2020 is now open!

There will be three ONLINE sessions in 2020:

  • Engineering Through the Ages (July 20 – July 24)
  • Designing and Flying Drones (July 27 – July 31)
  • Coding (August 3 – August 7)

Students may apply to attend one, two,or all three of the sessions.

Eligibility: Must be a current 6th – 9th grade female student during the 2019 – 2020 school year (a rising 7th – 10th grader.)  Applicants who are not in the grade range but are interested in the program are encouraged to apply to be placed on the waiting list.

Apply here:  https://secure.engr.uconn.edu/forms/spark/application/

Decisions regarding admission will be made within two weeks of receipt of your application.

Explore Engineering 2020 [E2] will be fully virtual!!

Applications are now open!

Program Session Dates:

This year we have a single Two Week Program!

Monday – Friday, July 20 – 31, 2020

Eligibility:  Must be a current sophomore or junior in high school during the 2019/2020 school year = a rising 11th or 12th grader for the 2020-2021 school year.

Please note that the program cost is $895 (financing and financial aid is available).

Our camp already offers financial assistance if needed to every and anyone, but EDOC is committing to funding marginalized students, especially black and brown students, to attend the camp should they want to come and not have the means.

The programs takes place online!

Apply here:  https://secure.engr.uconn.edu/forms/explorengineering/application-online-camp/

Application – Online Camp

Questions?

Phone: (860) 486-5536

Email: engr-explore@uconn.edu

 

 

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