Michigan Tech's Summer Youth Programs (SYP) are high-impact educational experiences for youth in grades 6-11 that provide opportunities to experience college in a fun, engaging, and safe environment. Participants meet Michigan Tech faculty, staff, and graduate students while also networking with other exceptional young people from around the globe.
Each program allows participants to spark their curiosity, explore interests, and make an impact through hands-on academic immersion. Offerings include:
- Engineering
- Science and Technology
- Computing
- Business
- Humanities, Social Sciences, and Law
2024 Course Sign Up
Courses run in June and July on our campus in Michigan's beautiful Upper Peninsula. Registration will be live in mid-late December!
Choose a program area to see a sample of hands-on course offerings.
- Build a Better World: Civil Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Engineering 101
- Geohazards and Resource Engineering
- Intro to the Perfect Machine
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering: Automotive Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering: Design the Future
- Mechanical Engineering: Engineering the Human Body
- Mechatronics
- NEXT Scholars: Geospatial Engineering
- The Perfect Machine
- Ship to Shore: Freshwater Ecology
- Aviation
- Designing for People: Engineering Psychology and Human Factors
- Introduction to Renewable Energy
- Forest and Wildlife Ecology
- Outdoor Field Skills in Natural Resources
- Introduction to Computational Physics
- CAD and Additive Manufacturing
- Intro to 3D Printing
- Wild World of Chemistry
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Climate & Sustainability
- Discover Archaeology
- Explorations in Health Careers
- Build A Computer
- Introduction to Mini Video Games
- Mechatronics: Build and Program A Functional Robot
- Coding Video Games: A Crash Course
- Autonomous Vehicle Programming
- Wild Writers
- Making a Mystery
- Nature Photography
- Cracking the Career Code
- Digital Art
- The MTU Trading Room
- Model United Nations: Climate Change
