{"675223":{"#nid":"675223","#data":{"type":"news","title":" Summer Engineering Institute Gives High Schoolers a Taste of College","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor many high school students, a summertime Tuesday might include hanging out with friends, relaxing by the pool, or a part-time job.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor a dozen metro Atlanta high school students, a recent Tuesday found them Zooming with a representative from NASCAR\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hendrickmotorsports.com\/\u0022\u003EHendrick Motorsports\u003C\/a\u003E and sliding into a simulator at Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scc.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003EStudent Competition Center\u003C\/a\u003E to test their own driving skills. Later, they designed miniature solar-powered cars to race against each other and talked to an engineer from General Motors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWelcome to the College of Engineering \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wie.gatech.edu\/sei\u0022\u003ESummer Engineering Institute\u003C\/a\u003E (SEI), a series of two weeklong camps for students to get excited about all things engineering and help them craft a compelling college application.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn week one, motorsports was the portal to almost every facet of engineering the group explored \u2014 aerospace and materials science for designing light, sleek vehicles; electrical and computer for the sensors and electronic systems in those vehicles; mechanical for the engines and chassis. For high schoolers in the camp\u2019s second week, aerodynamics served as the focal point, including indoor skydiving.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSummer camps are a great way to build our pipeline and get students excited about engineering while preparing them to successfully apply to college,\u201d said Joy Harris, director of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wie.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EWomen in Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (WIE) and a Georgia Tech graduate herself. \u201cI did summer camps in junior high school and high school, and it changed my trajectory for college.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2024\/06\/summer-engineering-institute-gives-high-schoolers-taste-college\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead the full story on the College of Engineering website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College\u2019s new weeklong camp blends engineering sessions and insider info on college admission to hook students on STEM majors.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The College\u2019s new weeklong camp blends engineering sessions and insider info on college admission to hook students on STEM majors."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2024-06-25 14:27:00","changed_gmt":"2024-06-25 14:29:26","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"674237":{"id":"674237","type":"image","title":"Summer-Engineering-Institute-GT-Motorsports-by-Liz-Kelly-0049-h.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003ESummer Engineering Institute campers toured the Student Competition Center and heard from team members about the vehicles they design and build. Here, a camper gets to sit the in cockpit of the GT Motorsports Formula SAE car. (Photo: Liz Kelly)\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1719325632","gmt_created":"2024-06-25 14:27:12","changed":"1719325632","gmt_changed":"2024-06-25 14:27:12","alt":"A Summer Engineering Institute camper sits in the GT Motorsports Formula SAE car while a member of the team leans over and tells them about the vehicle. (Photo: Liz Kelly)","file":{"fid":"257728","name":"Summer-Engineering-Institute-GT-Motorsports-by-Liz-Kelly-0049-h.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/06\/25\/Summer-Engineering-Institute-GT-Motorsports-by-Liz-Kelly-0049-h.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/06\/25\/Summer-Engineering-Institute-GT-Motorsports-by-Liz-Kelly-0049-h.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2075684,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/06\/25\/Summer-Engineering-Institute-GT-Motorsports-by-Liz-Kelly-0049-h.jpg?itok=7AajQq0S"}}},"media_ids":["674237"],"groups":[{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"},{"id":"289141","name":"Women in Engineering (WIE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"167262","name":"Summer Camp"},{"id":"594","name":"college of engineering"},{"id":"1235","name":"women in engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ECollege of Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}