PG&E Powering Scholars Program
An in-person day program at PG&E's Oakland headquarters where up to 40 students in grades 10-11 from Bay Area counties spend two weeks in hands-on energy explorations, field trips to local energy sites, and networking with PG&E professionals, earning a $500 stipend and an iPad upon completion.
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Santa Clara University Summer Engineering Seminar (SES)
A free, five-day residential program at Santa Clara University's School of Engineering for current high school sophomores and juniors, with priority for first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students, featuring workshops in bioengineering, civil/sustainable/environmental engineering, computer engineering, electrical and computer engineering, and mechanical engineering.
SMUD High School Internship Program
A paid six-week summer internship with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District for juniors and seniors (2.5+ GPA) attending schools in SMUD's rotating service-area districts, offering placements including engineering alongside IT, vehicle mechanics, and other utility career tracks at 36 hours per week.
GetSET (SWE Santa Clara Valley)
A four-year outreach program of the Santa Clara Valley Society of Women Engineers in which 25 incoming high school freshmen are selected annually to attend an intensive week-long summer program with over 50 hands-on engineering and science workshops led by volunteer women engineers, returning each summer through senior year.
California MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement)
A year-round college and career prep program, headquartered in Oakland since its 1970 founding at Oakland Technical High School, that serves over 350 middle and high schools statewide with engineering-focused enrichment activities that feed into MESA's community college and university tracks and the National Engineering Design Competition.
Summer Springboard: Fundamentals of Engineering at UC Berkeley
A two-week immersive pre-college program held on the UC Berkeley campus where high schoolers tackle hands-on mechanical, structural, civil, and biomedical engineering design challenges, including building a prosthetic limb and a scale-model building to code and budget, plus tours of Tesla Fremont Factory and Google HQ.
COSMOS UC Davis - Cluster: Introduction to Engineering Mechanics
A residential four-week COSMOS cluster at UC Davis (5:1 student-to-faculty ratio) that introduces students to engineering mechanics through hands-on labs, field activities, and lectures taught by UC faculty researchers.