Designing the Future of Energy, Materials,
and Everyday Life
Throughout the week, students will get hands-on experience in university labs and explore topics like clean energy, sustainable materials, bio-inspired polymers, batteries, renewable energy systems, and even the science behind coffee extraction. They’ll work alongside faculty and current students to see what studying chemical engineering in college really looks like, while learning about research opportunities and career paths in the field. This is a commuter only camp.
Program Details
June 15–19, 2026
Audience: Rising 11th and 12th grade students
Program Fees
- Early Bird (2/27 – 3/27): $675
- Regular (3/27 – 5/15): $700
- Late (5/16 – 6/8): $750
What you'll do:
- Build Your Own Battery – Learn how batteries power everything from smartphones to electric cars — then build one yourself and see energy storage in action.
- Design Cool, Flexible Materials – Explore polymers and other “soft” materials used in cutting-edge tech, and test how their structure changes the way they stretch, flow, and perform.
- The Future of Clean Energy – Discover how engineers are developing smarter, more sustainable energy systems to power the world.
- Engineer Like a Pro – Use real modeling software to simulate chemical processes, explore heat and fluid flow, and design your own reactor.
- Hands-On Engineering Lab – Experiment with mixing, reactions, separation, and heat transfer — the same processes used to make fuels, medicines, and everyday products.
- The Science of Coffee – Turn coffee into a lab experiment and apply engineering principles to brew the ultimate cup.
- Ask a College Engineer – Meet current engineering students and get the inside scoop on classes, research, internships, and college life.