20
Jun

Engineering Summer Camp for High School Students

- Kirkbride Hall
Open to:
  • Community/Public
  • Prospective Undergraduate Students
Summer Camp

6/20/2023

Learn about engineering in a fun, hands-on camp offered by Widener professors! Resident Camp is Back! Stay over in the dorms and gain the full college experience!

Open to: High school students! 
Registration: Required, Closes on June 5th 
Camp Dates: June 19-23, 2023 for resident and June 20-23, 2023 for day    
Camp Registration Fees: Early bird pricing until April 28, 2023: Day Camp $400, Resident Camp $800. After April 28, 2023: Day Camp $450, Resident Camp $900.

What to Expect:

  • Interactive sessions led by engineering faculty
    • Hands-on activities 
    • Computer activities using software relevant to engineering
    • Demonstrations of engineering principles
  • Activities will represent biomedical, chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical, and robotics engineering

Ready?
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.

Set.
Widener’s Engineering Summer Camp is serious fun. You’ll explore engineering in hands-on interactive sessions, computer activities and engineering demonstrations in the fields of biomedical, chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical and robotics engineering. You'll also meet and interact with our engineering faculty.

Go!
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 four half-days full of hands-on activities, computer workshops, demonstrations, laboratory exercises, and presentations, all while having fun!

Potential  Activities *Subject to Change
Launching Bottle Rockets
Engineering measurements with Arduino 
Concrete Mix Design
Design and testing of truss structures
West Point Bridge Design
Fixing Broken Bones
Water Purification by Photocatalysis
Making Polyurethane Foam
Balloon Cars
Water on Soil Testing
Controlling Robots

Registration Link                                     Payment Link

Check out the Highlight video from Last year's Engineering Summer Camp!       

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

 

Contact Info

School of Engineering