WISE Summer Engineering Camp for girls returns to SUNY New Paltz, July 31 – Aug. 4

NEW PALTZ – SUNY New Paltz’s student-run Women in Science & Engineering (WISE) chapter will host the second annual Summer Engineering Camp for girls age 13-17, July 31 – Aug. 4 at the New Paltz campus.

The WISE camp returns after a successful first year in 2016, this time with a curriculum that shifts from “STEM” to “STEAM” – that is, adding a creative Arts focus to traditional Science, Technology, Engineering and Math content.

This year’s WISE Summer Engineering Camp participants will be led by some of New Paltz’s finest engineering faculty and students, will have access to state of the art equipment at the newly-renovated Wooster Hall on campus, and will have opportunities to tour off-site facilities and meet with professional engineers in the Hudson Valley.

“If I can help just one of our campers develop an interest in a STEAM field that she might have otherwise considered to be out of her reach, I will consider this camp to a huge success,” said Alicia Scott ’17, a Mechanical Engineering major and WISE camp counselor. “We hope to empower as many girls as possible to go back to school in September motivated and excited about STEM/STEAM and eager to tackle as many challenges as they can.”

Registration for the WISE Summer Engineering Camp is $450. A limited number of scholarships are available. To learn more and register, please write to wisecamp@newpaltz.edu.