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The Engineering Projects in Community Service program, known as EPICS, is a national award -winning social entrepreneurship program. Students design, build, and deploy systems to solve engineering-based problems for charities, schools, and other not-for-profit organizations. During this program, students will be introduced to engineering design, rapid prototyping (laser cutting, CAD, Arduino, 3D printing), and prototype testing through a hands-on, application-based summer camp. Members from the community will introduce a problem encountered by their non-profit, and students will spend the week designing, building, and testing a possible solution to meet their user needs. EPICS projects range from solar panel battery systems, engagement toys for animals at the Phoenix Zoo, 3D printed prosthetics, and tools for training service dogs.

Transportation Extravaganza is a new summer day camp hosted at ASU for rising 11th and 12th-grade students who are curious about the world of transportation—from walking and biking to trains, cars, airplanes, and everything in between. Over five action-packed days, students will explore ASU labs, participate in hands-on transportation-related challenges, and take field trips to local transportation hubs and infrastructure sites, such as airports, traffic management centers, or engineering facilities. The program blends interactive workshops, team-building activities, and real-world experiences to help students discover the wide range of careers that keep people and goods moving—while also giving them a taste of college life and engineering innovation.

ASU Fleischer Scholars is idea for high school juniors. Dive into the college experience and earn college credit as you learn how to think like an entrepreneur, applying a mental road map to assist you with setting and achieving goals, becoming a master adaptive learner and succeeding as a community and business leader.

• Explore new academic and career opportunities
• Access keys to academic and professional success
• Discover scholarships, financial aid, and admission resources
• Transform your mindset to become a master adaptive learner
• Connect with the W. P. Carey and ASU community
• Lead change with other motivated peers

Ready to see how engineering can change the world – and have some serious fun doing it?

Dive headfirst into the high-impact world of robotics alongside other driven high school students. This isn’t a lecture, it’s a build, test, compete experience. You’ll use your design skills to enhance an underwater robot and put it to the test at the National Underwater Robotics Competition, tackling a high-stakes mission unlike anything you’ve done before.

Your challenge: respond to a maritime disaster in the Pacific and deploy your underwater robot to recover scattered rubber duckies, remove hazardous materials, and document damage to fragile marine ecosystems in a simulated deep-sea environment. Along the way, you’ll gain real engineering skills – buoyancy, electrical systems, controls, and autonomy – all through hands-on problem solving.

You’ll also meet and learn from Desert WAVE, the #1-ranked underwater robotics team in the U.S., and see what it takes to compete at the highest level.

No experience required – just curiosity, creativity, and the drive to build something extraordinary.

Each year, ASU's Walter Cronktie School of Journalism and Mass Communication hosts a summer enrichment media camp, Camp Cronkite, so high school students can dive head-first into media. By day, Cronkite faculty, staff, and student guides lead campers in hands-on learning in our state-of-the-art building on ASU's Downtown Phoenix campus; then, campers enjoy scheduled evening programming and end the day retreating across the street to Gordon Commons, our residential hall, for supervised R&R. 

Students attend core sessions on writing, interviewing, visual storytelling and personal branding, and choose their own Camp Cronkite adventure by selecting elective sessions from topics such as producing, videography, podcasting, weather, social media and more.

This summer, we'll offer two session weeks and students can choose one in the application that works best for their availability: 

• Session 1: Sunday, June 7-Friday, June 12
• Session 2: Sunday, June 21-Friday, June 26

Bring characters to life by creating your own animation shorts! In the style of stop motion major feature films such as “Coraline” or “Kubo and the Two Strings”, students are tasked with taking pictures frame by frame and putting it together to form movement. Merging both artistic talents and hands on engineering, students will expressively tell their own stories which will culminate in a final showcase.

Dates: June 18th and 19th from 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Location: ASU Chandler Innovation Center
Participant Requirement: Middle School (6th-8th grade)
Registration Fee: $60
Website: https://na.eventscloud.com/website/88075/

The Rising Leaders Program provides an exciting opportunity for high school students to earn college credit while living and learning at one of the nation’s best business schools. Step into your future at ASU’s W. P. Carey School of Business — exploring how businesses operate, engaging with top faculty across each of our disciplines, and experiencing university life firsthand. You’ll spend a week on campus, connect with like-minded peers, and create a foundation for your college career.