Registration is open for University of Akron summer camps designed to acquaint teenage girls with engineering professions. The first camp, Summer Experience in Engineering (SEE UA), is a residential camp that immerses ninth- through 12th-grade girls in aerospace systems, biomedical, chemical and mechanical—polymer, computer, electrical and mechanical engineering. The SEE UA camp takes place June 13-18. Multiplying Your Options (MYO) camp, a nonresidential day camp, follows June 21-25 and introduces seventh- and eighth-grade girls to the various engineering specialties.
SEE UA camp members will participate in daily hands-on engineering activities led by UA faculty members. They also will tour local engineering firms and experience life as college students, living in residential housing supervised by upperclass engineering students and joining in campus-wide evening social activities. As members of engineering design project teams, camp participants will compete with their teams, against other teams, at end of the week. Cost is $190 and registration ends March 31.
Camp MYO features morning engineering activities led by UA faculty members. Participants will tour local engineering firms each afternoon. As teammates, they also will design edible cars and participate in a racing competition at the end of the week. Cost is $90 and registration ends March 31.
To register online for either camp, visit www.wiep.uakron.edu . For more information about these programs, contact Heidi Cressman, director of UA’s Women in Engineering Program, at 330-972-7701 or at wiep@uakron.edu.
About The University of Akron College of Engineering
The UA College of Engineering is the fourth fastest-growing college of engineering in the country (among the 150 largest; source: American Society for Engineering Education) and the fastest growing in the state. The college’s current 2,142 undergraduate enrollment represents a 54.9 percent increase in enrollment between fall 2004 and fall 2009.
Media contact: Denise Henry, 330-972-6477 or henryd@uakron.edu.