Summer Youth Programs (SYP), weeklong explorations for students in grades 6–12, begin on Michigan Tech’s campus next week.
Explorations feature a week of hands-on activities, a taste of campus life, and a host of new friendships for participants. Popular explorations this year include engineering bridges, dams and skyscrapers, studying wolf/moose ecology while backpacking on Isle Royale, video game programming, sports science, mobile robotics and blacksmithing.
More than 1,000 students will be participating in an SYP program over the coming month. Participants live on campus, eat in the dining halls, attend classes and explorations during the day and explore the local area with SYP staff in the evenings.
“We will be hosting students from 23 different states this year,” said Steve Patchin, director of Youth Programs. “International students will be attending as well, including students from Russia, England, Puerto Rico and Canada.”
SYP staff notes an increase in middle-school participants this year. “Parents are responding to current research showing that this is the age where students are now making career- and life-impacting choices about which courses to engage in at school,” said Patchin. “Our programs have incredible impacts on students of all ages.”
Programs run July 7–13, July 14–20, July 21–27 and July 28–August 3.
For more information, visit the Summer Youth Programs website, or contact Jen Martin, coordinator of Youth Programs, at 906-487-2219 or jsmartin@mtu.edu.
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