We have compiled a list of opportunities for pre-college students operated by other units within the University of Michigan, many with support from WISE.
Girls in Music and Technology (GiMaT)
The Department of Performing Arts Technology offers a 2 week commuter summer camp on the cutting edge of music technology. Campers use state-of-the-art labs to teach students to make, edit, program, and record their own music.
- Age: 9th-12th grade
- Application: Apply on their website.
- Need-based funding is available through the GiMaT program.
- Learn more on their website
Run by U-M’s School of Music, Theater & Dance (SMTD) with support from U-M WISE Program.
miRcore
miRcore summer camps are available for academically motivated high school students (including incoming freshmen). Their camps offer intensive, cutting edge experience in Computational Biology, teaching coveted skills like coding for research, advanced lab techniques, and gene sequencing. Their programs are perfect for a student interested in the future of genomics, medicine, and finding cures for incurable conditions.
miRcore will have a huge variety of camps offered virtually, in Ann Arbor, and around the country including their new offering this year where campers will sequence their own genome! Learn more on their website.
GirlsGetMath @Dearborn
GirlsGetMath @Dearborn is a summer mathematics program at the University of Michigan – Dearborn that is open to rising 10th to 12th grade students who live in the Metro Detroit area. GirlsGetMath @Dearborn invites high school students to explore topics in applied mathematics such as image processing, graph theory, mathematics of voting, recommendation systems, and cryptography.
- The program is free for all admitted participants.
- Students must live in Southeast Michigan.
- Students must be entering 10th, 11th or 12th grade in the upcoming academic year.
- Students are expected to attend the whole program.
YouthHub
To find additional opportunities for pre-college students at the University of Michigan, please visit YouthHub.
The UM Center for Educational Outreach created YouthHub in 2018 as a searchable database of all UM outreach opportunities aimed at pre-college students.