My son in Industrial engineering at a selective engineering Big Ten didn’t want to code. He left knowing like 5 coding languages.
He also did this after school program in high school and loved it. It was a lot of fun and had a 1:1 mentor that was a first year engineer. Did I mention it was a lot of fun but it teaches them to work in a group and what different specialties do. They went to a real site that they were working on. In Chicago these were world wide companies. Got a nice college recommendation. Etc.