Explorations in Engineering Summer Youth

Summer Youth Mechanical Engineering Explorations
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Summer Youth MEEM car design team	Summer Youth MEEM participants testing their rubber band powered cars

Testing a paper airplane design	Summer Youth MEEM car design team
In photo above, from left, Gary Peters ('87 alumni, MEEM), Kangana Bhushan and Ron Pruse, MEEM Graduate students led the explorations.	Explorations in Engineering Facts Avg GPA of accepted was 3.42 68% of the students are in the top 10% of their class 83 from Michigan 7 from Wisconsin 15 from other states This summer Michigan Tech will have hosted 1200 seventh-twelfth grade students on campus for 1-4 weeks of hands on programming. 53% of the pre-college students are female, about 40% are otherwise underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. The support of the academic departments on campus is what makes these programs possible.



These photos are of students who selected the mechanical engineering explorations, many other engineering and science fields are available. See the SYP web site	Role Model Speakers: Front L-R, Carmon Choice, Rodwick Barton, Angela Johnston, Derhun Sanders; Back, L-R Patricia Henderson, Sheila Heyrman, Kim Nowack.
Role Model Speakers Engineers and scientists from industry and the government, educators, and university faculty lead informational sessions and discussions for students in the Summer Youth Explorations in Engineering programs. Shown below are some of this summers participants, with name and company of the participants, showing who are the alumni and those who participated in Summer Youth Programs as high school students. Patricia Henderson, Consultants of Tri-D, Inc.& Cygany, Inc., Graduated MTU '77 Geophysics Sheila Heyrman, Kimberly Clark, Graduated MTU, Chem Engineering '93 also participated in WIE ‘88 Angela Johnston, Kimberly Clark, Graduated MTU, Chem Engineering '00 Kim Nowack, Mackinac Bridge Authority, Graduated MTU, '85 Civil Engineering Derhun Sanders, U.S. Army TACOM, Graduated MTU, Biological Sciences '97 also participated in EIE '86 and SYP '89 Rodwick Barton, Chem Eng Graduate Student Carmon Choice, Chem Eng Graduate Student


Here students try out some of the engineering labs.	This program involved making robotic model cars using Legos^TM
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