Summer 2007

• 41 applicants, 21 participants
  • 13 female, 8 male
  • 100% from underserved communities
  • 17 attended on scholarship

The camp included campus/housing tours, lab activities, guest speakers, a Diablo Canyon tour & afternoon at Avila Beach

The high schools represented last year are: Pioneer Valley, Santa Maria, Cabrillo, Nipomo, St. Joseph's and SLO.

Student Comments

Why a job as an engineer would be good?

"Engineering is everywhere. They get to design things and watch their designs in the world. Engineering changes the world into a better place."

"I love computers"

"Because you get to make the world a better place and you can do anything with being an engineer."

"Because you can help people with your research."

"I would have the opportunity to apply math and science to designing and building things to help people."

Describe what an engineer does:

"An engineer creates, builds & designs different things too make the world a better place. Engineers are the ones that decide the best materials to use for creating something, but at the same time not harming the future. Also they are problem solvers."

"An engineer is someone who constructs, but mostly a person who solves problems and makes the world a better place to live in."

"They create and build, and make new inventions."

"You use math and science to help you solve problems."

Events

Aerospace Engineering

(Led by Dianne DeTurris) - students built and tested model rockets to compare performance for various fin configurations

Civil/Environmental Engineering

(Led by Tracy Thatcher) - Water filtration (creek water) & water content analysis.

Computer Science/Computer Engineering

(Led by Diana Franklin) - Learned about binary; programmed robots to draw like a spirograph

Materials/Electrical Engineering

(Led by Kathy Chen and Lynne Slivovsky) - Designed and built dance pads and solar cells