Have you ever wondered how to design and build a robot? Are you interested in learning from and with current engineering students about what it's really like to be an engineer? The College of Engineering offers K-12 students the opportunity to participate in a signature program facilitated by College of Engineering staff or faculty or to attend one of our annual Engineering student organization events. 

In 2007, the College of Engineering established a K-12 Outreach program to encourage K-12 students to explore their personal interests and engage in interactive engineering experiences. Through these experiences, K-12 students meet College of Engineering students, faculty, and staff and to learn more about careers in engineering. We partner with schools and community organizations to build skills and spark excitement for future engineers, especially underrepresented youth.

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Events

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BMindful Holy Days: Buddha's Enlightenment Day (Buddhism)

Friday, December 8, 2023 (all day)
University of Iowa Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
BMindful is an initiative that seeks to meet the needs of diverse communities by providing event and conference planners with the dates of holy days of major religious faiths for five years into the future. By providing these dates in advance, BMindful seeks to help planners avoid those dates when scheduling events. BMindful does not include all religious holy days. It focuses on three major holy days for each faith—days when faith members may choose not to go to work or send their children to...

REDCap Basic Training

Tuesday, December 12, 2023 10:00am to 11:30am
Virtual
This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as: Building forms with proper field types and validation Assigning user permissions Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production This training is optionally hands on, so you can build your own REDCap project along with...

OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAMS

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FIRST Tech Challenge

FIRST gives students the opportunity to develop the "muscle between their ears" and to gain experiences that will affect their future.

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MESA Tutoring Program

The MESA Tutoring Program is a service for students traditionally underrepresented in STEM fields who request additional support with coursework.

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Girls Who Code

Girls Who Code is a program for 6th to 12th graders to explore coding in a fun and friendly way.

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OUR OTHER PROGRAMS

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AIChE Day Camps

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) student organizations holds two annual day camps for children in kindergarten to 5th grade to conduct fun and educational STEM activities.

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Black Girls Do Science

Black Girls Do Science is a one-day program encouraging underrepresented girls in 4th-8th grades to pursue a career in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) field.

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Noche de Ciencias

The goal of the Noche de Ciencias Program is to inspire Hispanic youth to pursue STEM degrees and careers.

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SWE High School Conference

The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) annual event invites 10th-12th grade girls for a weekend conference that allows them to learn about engineering.

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Youth Policies

Policy documents and forms pertaining to our youth related programs.

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