Explore Engineering for High School Women

Explore Engineering events are a series of weekend and residential summer engineering design courses for high school women.

Our Explore events are supported by our title sponsor AREVA Inc.

Our events are built around hands-on, team-based design projects that emphasize creativity. No engineering experience is needed to attend.

We have now completed four full years of Explore events! More than 200 high school women have attended one or more of our events.

Students have fun while working with engineering faculty and students. These events are a great way to see what engineering is all about — and to experience campus life at Sweet Briar. During each camp, students stay with college mentors.

Want to see what goes on during our events? Watch this news story from WDBJ 7.

Interested in getting updates on our Explore Engineering events? Sign up here.

Upcoming Events

Summer 2013 Exploring Engineering Design
Program title sponsor is AREVA Inc.
(Weeklong course, option for 1 college credit)
July 21-26, 2013

> Informational flyer about our event
> Register here!

The summer course cost is $600, which includes all meals, snacks, overnight accomodations for the week, supplies, college credit, and a t-shirt! A limited number of 1/2 tuition scholarships are available. Information about scholarships is available in the electronic registration form.

Questions about our events? Contact Hank Yochum at (434) 381-6357 or hyochum@sbc.edu

Recent Events

Spring 2013 Explore Engineering Weekend
February 22-23, 2013

> Event flyer

Fall 2012 Explore Engineering Weekend
October 12-13, 2012

> Event flyer with more information

Summer 2012 Explore Engineering Design
(Weeklong course, option for 1 college credit)
July 22-27, 2012

The summer course cost is $600, which includes all meals, snacks, overnight accomodations for the week, supplies and a t-shirt! A limited number of 1/2 tuition scholarships are available. Information about scholarships is available in the electronic registration form below.

> Event flyer

Spring 2012 Explore Engineering Weekend
March 2-3, 2012

> Event flyer

> Fall 2011 weekend event, Oct. 21-22, 2011
> Summer 2011 weeklong course, July 24-29, 2011
> Spring 2011 weekend event, April 1-2, 2011

Explore Engineering events have been supported by the National Science Foundation through the S-STEM program (award #0850092). Explore events have also been supported by the National Science Foundation through the STEP program (award # 0525388).