Temple's Philadelphia Youth STEM camp is an inclusive, one-week long experiential learning program for middle schoolers interested in exploring science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Our goal is to spark a curiosity in understanding how things around us work and to demonstrate that no matter our age, we are never done learning. 

Program Schedule:  

Dates for 2025 TBD 

Monday – Friday  

9:00am – 4:00pm 

Who is eligible to apply 

You will have completed the 5th, 6th, or 7th grade in 2024 

You are curious to learn more about science, engineering, math and technology 

You want to learn how you can support diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM 

Cost and Scholarships 

The program fee is $400 for the one-week program.  

Scholarships are available based on financial need. 

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Contact: Dr. Evelyn Walters ([click-for-email]) for more details.  

During this weeklong program, students will acquire computational and prototyping skills necessary to design and build a scaled formula style open-cockpit race car, according to detailed technical specification.  They will also have the opportunity to interact with and learn from students at the College of Engineering, who design, build, and compete in the intercollegiate FSAE design challenge. 

Dates: 2025 Dates TBD  

Times: 9:00am – 4:00pm

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Summer Robotics Institute

Learn how to build a mobile robot and program it to perform fascinating tasks such as autonomous obstacle avoidance, following lane lines, playing music, dancing, and much more!  You will be shown how to control a mobile robot remotely and be given resources to extend your robotics and electronics knowledge well beyond this course. It will be a great introduction to a college program in electrical and computer engineering.

Students will build an autonomous, programmable mobile robot and be introduced to some of the exciting concepts in robotics and electronics.  The application of these concepts and their connection to electrical and computer engineering will be described. The course will provide extensive project-based learning experiences in a university electrical and computer engineering laboratory environment.

Topics to be covered are:

• Sensors, motors, microcontrollers, and electrical components

• Building an autonomous mobile robot

• Visual programming with Makecode

• Object oriented programming with python

• Programming robot to perform obstacle avoidance, lane line following, and more

• Microbit microcontrollers and resources to extend your knowledge

Temple professors, graduate and undergraduate students will instruct you every step of the way in the state of the art electronics laboratory. There's no homework, but you will be challenged to learn about autonomous programmable robots and the different areas of electrical and computer engineering. 

The camp takes place:  

Dates: 2025 Dates TBD

Monday – Friday 9:00am – 4:00pm 

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Temple University's Office of Pre-college Programs offers a breadth of opportunities for students entering grades 9, 10, 11, or 12 to experience Temple University academics while exploring potential college majors through non-credit workshops. Engineering offerings include:

Bioengineering & 3-D Printing

Transform the lives of people and animals who have limb loss or disabilities by learning how to make prosthetics, orthotics, or other adaptive devices in an affordable way--through 3-D printing and other manufacturing technologies. You will work in a group to apply design thinking principles to the challenge of creating functional devices and will learn how to assemble them. 

Industrial & Systems Engineering: Supply Chain Challenge

Industrial and systems engineers plan, design, implement and manage integrated systems in a variety of industries which incorporate people, material, information and equipment so that performance, reliability and cost can be assured. In this workshop, you will learn how to optimize the distribution of goods and services by simulating a vaccine distribution network. You will explore some of the challenges faced with vaccinating residents without knowing how many people would want to receive the vaccine and how many doses are shipped from a supplier. You will practice making the same tough decisions that vaccine makers have made, and explore the complexities of the problem, working with other students to maximize the number of shots received. 

Hardware & Software Engineering: Coding Challenge 

You will learn basic coding skills using open-source hardware & software and will program a microcontroller to sense and react to things like moisture, sound, light and more. Practice prototyping and manufacturing skills and present your new product idea at the end of the program.  

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