HOUGHTON -- Each year Michigan Tech's Summer Youth Programs help hundreds of kids explore different technological interests.
Before the main session gets started, Tech is hosting a special week geared towards women in engineering.
Dozens of girls are getting hands on experience in the lab and hearing from female leaders in the field. All of the participants get to choose their afternoon projects, which include blacksmithing and audio experiments.
"We're learning how to make 3D casts. Yesterday they printed our names on a nameplate, and right now we're putting them in a sand cast so we can fill them with metal and we'll paint them later," said senior Morgan Erickson.
The Women in Engineering week is one of three scholarship programs offered through the Summer Youth Programs.
The regular session allows students to stay for multiple weeks at a time and study many more fields.
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