Do you have the desire to tackle problems through design? Do you enjoy learning how and why things work? At the National Student Leadership Conference Engineering Intensive, you’ll explore various fields in engineering and decide if engineering is the career for you!
During this 18-day program, you will learn from top engineering experts and meet with successful researchers and professors. Learning from their experiences, you will take away valuable lessons and insight that will help guide you as you pursue a career in engineering.
College Credit is Available for This Program
The National Student Leadership Conference has a unique partnership with American University to offer college credit for our high school summer programs across all campuses. The American University is distinguished as a premier global university and known for turning “ideas into action and action into service.” As a result of this NSLC/AU alliance, students attending the NSLC’s summer programs for high school students have the opportunity to take an online college credit course taught by American University faculty. The course is completed after returning home at hours that suit your schedule, enabling you to enhance your education without interrupting NSLC activities.
Read more about earning college credit through your NSLC program.
Program Highlights
Engineering Design Challenges
Compete in different challenges from various fields of engineering including mechanical, civil, biomedical and electrical.
Robotics Simulation
Your main simulation will be an air, land and water robotics challenge. You will design and build an underwater ROV, an RC car and a drone throughout the 18-day program.
Meet Engineering Professionals
Throughout the program, you’ll meet leaders in the engineering field during exclusive trips and tours. Go behind-the-scenes during visits to top companies, labs and research institutions.
Dates & Locations
University of California, Berkeley
Hands-on Simulations
At the NSLC you and your peers will engage in intensive, hands-on simulations and workshops. Through building an underwater robot and competing in a variety of design challenges and workshops, you will explore engineering and all that it has to offer. Through a research project and presentation, you will tackle issues facing professional engineers today.
Meet Engineering Professionals
While at the NSLC’s high school summer engineering intensive, you will meet with and learn from leaders in the fields of engineering.
Examples of past guest speakers include:
Dr. Ken Goldberg
Professor of Industrial Engineering, UC-Berkeley
Mrs. Tiffany Reardon
Admissions Officer, UC-Berkeley College of Engineering
Ms. Lina Scroggins
Program Manager, Corporate Engineering at Google, Inc.
Mr. Pallav Agrawal
Lead Data Scientist, Levi Strauss & Co
Mr. Terry Johnson
Associate Teaching Professor for Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
Mr. Bill Nott
Retired Mechanical Engineer, Lockheed Martin
Behind-the-Scenes Tours
An important part of the NSLC high school engineering intensive is seeing the sites around some of our nation’s greatest cities. These trips are designed as both sightseeing tours and exclusive educational trips specifically tailored to the area of engineering. These trips may include:
- Intel Museum
- Levi’s Stadium
- Autodesk Gallery
- UC Berkeley College of Engineering
- US Army Corps of Engineer Bay Model Visitor Center
- Hiller Aviation Museum
- The Tech Museum of Innovation
- Pier 39
- Fisherman’s Wharf
Leadership Training
At the heart of each of our youth leadership programs is a curriculum designed to build concrete leadership skills that will help you succeed. From the beginning of your program you will learn to work as a team during an exciting Ropes Challenge Course. Interactive lectures and small-group workshops will give you an opportunity to build upon your strengths and minimize your weaknesses.
Leadership topics tailored to the Engineering Intensive program include:
- Personality Styles and Group Dynamics
- Conflict Resolution
- Public Speaking
- Stress and Time Management
Your NSLC tuition is all-inclusive. Your tuition covers course materials, housing, on-campus meals, social events and transportation throughout your program.
We offer a comprehensive scholarship program to assist qualified students with the cost of NSLC tuition, based on financial need, academic merit and extracurriculars.
Fundraising is a great way to raise funds to contribute toward your NSLC program tuition while also forging relationships with leaders in your community.