K-12 Families
“As a parent, I truly appreciate everything you and the team did to create such a welcoming, engaging, and inspiring environment for the students. The impact goes far beyond one week of camp, and I can already see how meaningful the experience has been for both of my children.”
– WISE GISE Parent of Two Campers,
Summer 2026
WISE CAMP
WISE GISE
WISE GISE is a summer day camp for rising 7th, 8th, and 9th grade students for a hands-on STEM experience that is both fun and challenging. Although designed to support girls’ interest in STEM, WISE GISE is open to all students regardless of sex, gender, or gender identity.
Enjoy a week in some of the most advanced labs in the world learning from our world-class students and faculty. Campers choose a “major” to focus on in the mornings and spend afternoons exploring other disciplines. Campers will have lots of fun exploring the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor!
Applications open on February 15 and close on May 15.
OTHER U-M PROGRAMS
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. To find additional opportunities for pre-college students at the University of Michigan, please visit YouthHub, a searchable database of all U-M outreach opportunities aimed at pre-college students.
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.
Run by U-M’s School of Music, Theater & Dance (SMTD) with support from U-M WISE Program.
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 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. The camp 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.