Summer Engineering Exploration Camp (SEE Camp)
Free (need-based) week-long SWE camp at U. Michigan for students with limited engineering access.
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National Youth Leadership Forum: Engineering (NYLF)
8-day forum (2026 at UC Berkeley) covering CAD, microcontrollers, rockets, capstone design.
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.
PG&E Powering Scholars Program
An in-person day program at PG&E's Oakland headquarters where up to 40 students in grades 10-11 from Bay Area counties spend two weeks in hands-on energy explorations, field trips to local energy sites, and networking with PG&E professionals, earning a $500 stipend and an iPad upon completion.
Santa Clara University Summer Engineering Seminar (SES)
A free, five-day residential program at Santa Clara University's School of Engineering for current high school sophomores and juniors, with priority for first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students, featuring workshops in bioengineering, civil/sustainable/environmental engineering, computer engineering, electrical and computer engineering, and mechanical engineering.
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.
SWE Berkeley High School Engineering Program (HSEP)
Free Saturday program at UC Berkeley with SWE mentors, 10-week fall/spring term.