WPI Frontiers
2-week residential program at Worcester Polytechnic with project-based engineering "majors."
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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.
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GetSET (SWE Santa Clara Valley)
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Theme-based team engineering competition run through the Technology Student Association.
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