2024 Summer Computing Academy for female students (junior high and high school)

We will offer two programs this Summer in June:
  1. Two Week Camp: from Monday June 10 to Friday June 21
  2. One Week Camp: from Monday June 24 to Friday June 28

The main goal of this program is to teach computer programming using python in an intense hands-on program to be held on the University of Minnesota campus.
The program will include lectures on fundamental programming concepts and on the python programming language together with extensive hands-on experience in a computer lab.
Instruction will be done by graduate students and professors. Participants will have ample time to work in a computer lab to develop programs for small robots, image processing, and other applications under close supervision of teaching assistants. In addition, there will be a variety of career planning and discovery activities. The afternoon of the last day we will invite parents and friends to see presentations of the projects the students have done during the program.

The program will run every weekday, Monday to Friday, from 9:00am to 4:30pm in Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE, Minneapolis.
Students will need their own transportation to campus. A light rail station of the green line is on Washington Avenue almost in front of the building. Click for a map and directions to Keller Hall.

For the two-week program we will meet in room Keller 2-260. The room is on the second floor, down one flight below street level. Enter Keller Hall from the plaza at the corner of Union St and Washington Ave. Take the elevator or stairs down one floor. When you get to the second floor, take the corridor to the left, go around the corner. The room 2-260 is the first room on the right. We will post signs to help find the place. We will post signs to help find the place. We will open the room at 8:30 and stay until 5:00 pm or until everyone is gone.

For the one-week program we will meet in room Keller 4-192, which is on the fourth floor.

We will provide food (snacks and lunch). Each student will get a computer account. The computer lab we will use is in Keller Hall 1-250.

The last afternoon of the program, parents and friends are invited from 3:00 to 4:30 in room Keller 3-180 to share the projects done by the students.

We will offer two programs:

  1. the one-week program is for students with no computer experience and finishing grade 6 or above. We can admit younger students as long as they have academic maturity and independence.
  2. the two-week program is for students with some familiarity with using computers and finishing grade 8 or above. We can admit younger students as long as they have computing experience. We do not require knowledge of any specific programming languages.
You can see previous years by clicking on the menu on the left.

Cost: Thanks to the generosity of donors we can offer the Summer Computing Academy for a low enrollment fee. Scholarships available upon request.
The cost of attending the two-week program is $125.00.
The cost of attending the one-week program is $75.00.
It includes lunch every day, snacks, access to computers, and auxiliary activities.

Application: The two programs are almost full.
If you applied and have not been contacted, please send email.
If you have not applied but are interested in attending, send email. There can be last minute drops.

For additional information email to:

Professor Maria Gini email: gini@umn.edu
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota
4-192 Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455

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