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Engineering Summer Camps

About our camps

Spend a week this summer learning about engineering with our instructors, students and professionals from the community. Our camps provide young students with a glimpse into their possible future as engineering students at Nevada and allow them to make contacts that can ease their entry into our engineering degree programs.

Expect to participate in hands-on activities and projects, such as building and testing bridges, blasting bottle rockets, designing a digital video game, learning about metallic materials, using our labs, touring our campus, field trips and more.

Registration and payment

Day camps

All camps run Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Students meet in the Harry Reid Engineering Lab (HREL) at the University of Nevada, Reno campus.

Registration fee per camp is $250. Academic scholarships and financial assistance are available. Girls and minorities are encouraged to apply. To apply to one of our day camps, please fill out our online registration form.

Lunch, snacks and water will be provided. Students need to provide their own transportation and enthusiasm!

Transportation Camp

Transportation camp applicants will be competitively selected by an advisory committee. The transportation camp application can be faxed, mailed or emailed to:

Elyse Bozsik, K-12 Outreach Coordinator
Sarah Fleischmann Building 101
MS 0256
Reno, Nevada 89557
ebozsik@unr.edu
Fax: (775) 682-7590

Applications must be submitted by June 15th. Space is limited to 20 students.

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Girls in Engineering

Dates: June 24-29, 2013
Designed for ages 12- 15

For Girls Only! An introduction to engineering including lessons, hands-on activities, and mentoring from professional female engineers, University faculty, alumni, and current engineering students.

Intro to Engineering Camp

**This camp is currently full, but we are taking names for the waiting list. Please email Elyse at ebozsik@unr.edu to be added to the waiting list.**
Dates : July 8-12, 2013
Designed for ages 12- 15

This camp introduces students to the various engineering disciplines through fun, age-appropriate activities such as building bottle rockets, designing concrete canoes and learning about digital gaming. Field trips and campus tours introduce students to some of Northern Nevada's engineering landmarks. Camp sessions are led by Nevada faculty and graduate students.

Transportation Camp

Dates: July 7-19, 2103
Designed for grades 10 and 11

This two-week, overnight camp brings students from Northern and Southern Nevada together to learn about transportation engineering, including traffic signal systems, airport traffic control and urban transportation planning. Students spend one week at the University of Nevada, Reno and the second week at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and participants must stay in one of our university dorms. Lodging arrangements will be made by our program. The  cost of the camp, including food, lodging and travel between Reno and Las Vegas, will be paid through federal funding.

Civil and Environmental Engineering Camp

**This camp is currently full, but we are taking names for the waiting list. Please email Elyse at ebozsik@unr.edu to be added to the waiting list.**
Dates : July 15-19, 2013
Designed for ages 14- 18

This camp introduces students to some of the main areas within civil and environmental engineering, including earthquake engineering and geotechnical engineering.

Computer Science Camp

**This camp is currently full, but we are taking names for the waiting list. Please email Elyse at ebozsik@unr.edu to be added to the waiting list.**
Dates: July 22-26, 2013
Designed for ages 13- 16

This camp will introduce students to the concepts, tools, and techniques of computer graphics for animated films, simulations, and video games, including a tour of our robotics lab.