Engineering Summer Camp for High School Students

Offered every summer since 1996!

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If you're interested in engineering, Widener's summer camp is the perfect place to start exploring. We’ll introduce you to this exciting field through the eyes of our top-ranked engineering program.

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Widener’s Summer Engineering Camp is serious fun. You’ll make concrete blocks, launch soda bottle rockets, and explore the fields of chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical, robotics, and biomedical engineering.

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Widener's Engineering Summer Camp was developed by engineering faculty at Widener to introduce high school students to the field of engineering in a nurturing, noncompetitive, "hands-on" environment.

Students experience a four-day schedule full of computer workshops, demonstrations, films, laboratory exercises, discussion groups, and presentations, all while having fun.

Typical Camp Activities (all led by engineering professors):

• Arduino Programming
• Balloon Car Design & Competition
• Biomechanics
• Blood Concentration Measurement
• Bone Stress Analysis
• Bottle Rocket Design & Competition
• Brain-Computer Interface
• Concrete Mix Design & Compression Tests
• K'Nex Bridge Construction
• Lego Robot Design & Programming
• Polyurethane Foam Generation
• Water Tower Design & Competition
• West Point Bridge Design

Feel free to browse our Engineering Summer Camp photo gallery from recent years.

*Tuition includes all laboratory materials and lunches.

**Resident camp tuition includes room and board as well as evening activities.