Hands-on activities, and designing and building real stuff?
Problem solving and working in teams?
Developing your critical and analytic thinking skills?
Making the world a better place?
If you answered yes to these questions, and if you are a girl and will be entering 8th or 9th grade in Fall 2008, then the Summer Engineering Experience for Girls (SEE) is the program for you!
How Will I Learn to Make the World a Better Place?
Solar power, fuels cells, climate change, hybrid cars…
In SEE, you will learn how you can make a difference as a future engineer. You will learn about different forms of energy and how you can create alternative, and environmentally-friendly, sources of energy that protect the environment. You will learn about heating a house, fueling a car, and creating efficient sources of electricity.
At the end of the second week, you will work in a team to explore how you personally would like to make a difference working with energy!
You will have the chance to work with engineers from all different areas in engineering, including chemical, civil and environmental, mechanical, and electrical and computer engineering.
When and Where is SEE? How Much Does It Cost?
The Summer Engineering Experience for Girls (SEE) runs from July 14, 2008 through July 25, 2008, Monday through Friday, from 9:30 am to 3:00 pm. The program is held every day at Carnegie Mellon University.
All girls who are accepted in the program receive a full scholarship and attend the program for free.
Lunch is offered every day, and any field trip admissions are paid for by the program. In addition, if girls need to take a bus to Carnegie Mellon, bus tickets will be provided, at no charge to the participants who request them.
Please contact Alicia Brown with any questions about the program at adbrown@andrew.cmu.edu or by phone at (412) 268-5227.
How Do I Sign Up for SEE?
If you are interested in attending SEE this summer, please send in the application form downloadable from this web site, along with
A copy of last report card
The Teacher Recommendation Form: completed and signed by your math or science teacher (also available to download from this web site)
A one page essay: Why are you interested in SEE? What do you hope to learn in this program? (on the back of the application form)
Application Deadline is May 5, 2008.
Please send all application materials to:
Alicia Brown
Institute for Complex Engineered Systems
1201 Hamburg Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
For more information on SEE, please contact:
Alicia Brown Institute for Complex Engineered Systems
1201 Hamburg Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Tel: (412) 268-5227
Email: adbrown@andrew.cmu.edu