SUU BZI Youth Engineering Academy (YEA) offers hands-on summer STEM camps and experiences at SUU and Southwest Tech for students ages 6–18. Through engaging activities and real-world challenges, students explore engineering, technology, problem-solving, and creative design while building skills for the future.
2027 summer camp classes will be announced, and registration will open in January. Check back for class offerings and registration details!
The SUU Youth Engineering Academy (SUU YEA), a K-12 outreach program sponsored by BZI and organized within the SUU College of Engineering and Computational Sciences, introduces students from kindergarten to 12th grade to engineering and computational sciences through hands-on, interactive experiences. SUU YEA actively breaks down barriers related to gender, race, and income, empowering all students to recognize their potential for pursuing careers in engineering fields.
SUU YEA has four main goals for all attendees:
Our camps are taught by trained teachers or upperclassmen who have extensive experience working with children. The teachers will have SUU students as teaching assistants to help them in the classroom and maintain an overall ratio of 1:8 for teachers to students. All teachers and teaching assistants undergo training in classroom management and the specific topics they are teaching, are provided formalized curriculum, and will have passed background checks.
SUU YEA will run on campus at SUU, so the attendees will be exposed to life as a college student. The camps will be in classrooms and lab spaces used by college classes. They will walk around campus to see the different buildings and learn about other majors at the university.
