Summer camps at College campuses in the SEC or Big 10 schools?

Pre-College Topics Summer Programs
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My older son attended a 2 week long engineering camp and got a food feel of the campus and dorm living. I’ve tried looking at college websites, but they are hard to find. Does anyone know of a nice camp to see an SEC or BIG 10 campus school ? My younger child is interested in much larger campuses and we will do some tours over spring break, but looking for a week + experience. Thanks

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Here’s a link to the UGA summer camp.

My D did a longer summer program at UGA (Young Dawgs) after sophomore year of high school and loved the experience.

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Purdue runs a week long engineering program for rising seniors called STEP. Wonderful program! It’s a combination of hands on classes, field trips to university labs and nearby industry partners, Purdue traditions, and some fun bonding stuff. Highly recommend! It’s a competitive entry program run by the honors engineering staff and professors and current Purdue engineering students act as mentors. Registration opens at the end of January for the summer of '25.

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University of Michigan offers a summer program (not posted yet, but you can look at the 2024 information): https://youthhub.umich.edu/hub

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Northwestern University offers a lot of 3 weeks-long academic camps. Not cheap. About $5,800. Easy to find with a quick google search. But, NU may not be large enough for your child.

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Auburn has a variety of week long summer camps for high school students. Are you looking for engineering options? They have offerings in engineering, architecture, industrial design, veterinary medicine and aviation that might appeal to a STEM kid but also have camps in a variety of other areas like creative writing, interior design and musical theatre.

https://auburn.edu/outreach/opce/auburnyouthprograms/summercamps.htm

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Thanks everyone , this will get me started. I have several friends kids looking at engineering and will pass on those schools. this kiddo is looking at journalism /media

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Take a look at University of Florida and UGA.

https://www.jou.ufl.edu/summermediainstitute/

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Thanks everyone. It’s hard when some schools call them:
Summer instutites, Summer Scholars, Summer camps, etc all different names

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University of Alabama Summer on Campus program is a 4 week long program where they take 2 courses for college credit. It is through their Early College program. Auburn has several camps through their Auburn Yourh Camps program. My daughter is signed up for Auburn’s week long ACT prep class and they stay on campus. Vanderbilt has Programs for Talented Youth where they stay on campus for one to two weeks and attend a course of their interest.

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Thanks, he has now narrowed it down to Auburn’s camp or South Carolina’s. Both under $1,000 so i think worth it to experience living on campus for a week and experiencing dorms/cafteria/campus feel

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