SEE: Summer Engineering Experience
WiSTEM Virtual Summer Academy
The Summer Engineering Experience is a 2-month virtual camp experience during June and July for rising high school 10th-grade through 12th-grade students of any gender. The experience is designed for participants to explore each engineering major offered at UT Austin and “SEE” engineering through hands-on engineering design challenges, role model engagements, and video content highlighting engineering majors and career paths.
The virtual academy includes:
- Weekly SEE informational newsletters (one per week throughout June and July) – each week, we will focus on one of our engineering departments to walk through the engineering majors, provide virtual tours, share virtual engineering student panels, showcase engineering professionals, and more.
- Weekly Role Model Monday Webinars (Mondays 12:00 – 12:50 p.m. CT throughout June and July) with alums, current students, corporate partners, and others throughout our community who share their experiences and STEM stories.
- Two engineering design challenges (one per month) completed asynchronously at your own pace; final products shared via a 2-3 minute video in a camp design challenge showcase; alums, current students, corporate partners, and others throughout our community review and provide feedback on all submissions.
- End of camp celebration for participants, family members, and teachers with design challenge showcase and UT Austin admissions presentation.
Participants spend 1-3 hours weekly on asynchronous academy activities. Other than the live, 50-minute Role Model Monday Webinars, all virtual academy experiences can be completed on your own time and your own schedule. Each newsletter’s content takes about 30 minutes to read and watch all the videos. Design challenges may take 1-3 hours to complete.
Registration will open in January 2025 for Summer 2025 virtual academies. Sign up for the monthly WiSTEM K-12 newsletter to be notified when registration opens.