PREFACE Summer Program - 2009
PREFACE
The Rensselaer PREFACE Program is a two-week residential summer experience for talented high school sophomores and juniors, who will enter 11th or 12th grade in the fall of the coming year and who have expressed a strong, early interest in pursuing a career in the engineering and technological professions. It is for high school students from groups that have been historically and traditionally underrepresented or underserved in science, engineering, and technological fields.
In 2008, Rensselaer accepted 42 students to participate in the two, two-week sessions in July, from over 200 applicants from around the nation. They are exceptional young men and women from 18 states as far away as California, New Mexico, Tennessee and Virginia, as well as Puerto Rico.
Participation in the PREFACE Summer Program provides the student participants with an extraordinary opportunities:
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PREFACE provides experiences using an engineering process approach to resolve a problem (e.g., design, troubleshoot, innovate, model, revise, and assess outcomes);
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Activities, classes and workshops create opportunities to develop leadership and team-building skills;
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Students explore career opportunities available in the engineering professions as a means to develop a deeper understanding of the role and expectations of an engineering education;
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The PREFACE Program presents a snapshot of college life and its academic, social, cultural, and environmental experiences.