UCLA Engineering Design (Precollege Summer Institute)
3-week program with tracks (Go-Karts, Rockets, Rovers, Microcontrollers); earns UCLA credit.
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Duke Pre-College: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Residential course on ML, data analysis, and algorithmic thinking.
IEEE TryEngineering Summer Institute (TESI)
9-day residential IEEE camp (incl. UC Berkeley) building wind turbines, breadboarding, CAD.
NASA HUNCH
Classes design/fabricate real flight hardware flown to the International Space Station.
National Youth Leadership Forum: Engineering (NYLF)
8-day forum (2026 at UC Berkeley) covering CAD, microcontrollers, rockets, capstone design.
Astronomy Camp (University of Arizona, Mount Lemmon)
Week-long overnight camp operating research-grade telescopes; Beginning/Advanced tracks.