National Youth Leadership Forum: Engineering (NYLF)
8-day forum (2026 at UC Berkeley) covering CAD, microcontrollers, rockets, capstone design.
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Summer Springboard: Fundamentals of Engineering at UC Berkeley
A two-week immersive pre-college program held on the UC Berkeley campus where high schoolers tackle hands-on mechanical, structural, civil, and biomedical engineering design challenges, including building a prosthetic limb and a scale-model building to code and budget, plus tours of Tesla Fremont Factory and Google HQ.
GetSET (SWE Santa Clara Valley)
A four-year outreach program of the Santa Clara Valley Society of Women Engineers in which 25 incoming high school freshmen are selected annually to attend an intensive week-long summer program with over 50 hands-on engineering and science workshops led by volunteer women engineers, returning each summer through senior year.
SWE Berkeley High School Engineering Program (HSEP)
Free Saturday program at UC Berkeley with SWE mentors, 10-week fall/spring term.
California MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement)
A year-round college and career prep program, headquartered in Oakland since its 1970 founding at Oakland Technical High School, that serves over 350 middle and high schools statewide with engineering-focused enrichment activities that feed into MESA's community college and university tracks and the National Engineering Design Competition.
Duke Pre-College: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Residential course on ML, data analysis, and algorithmic thinking.
EPICS High
A national engineering-design service-learning program in which high school teams partner with schools or nonprofit organizations to identify community needs and design and deliver real engineering solutions, applying human-centered design across themes of community development, education, health, and sustainability.