Outreach
Inaugural UMSL Engineering Camp helps high school students build excitement about the field
Jun 30, 2025
More than 30 high school students from grades 9-12, representing more than 20 area high schools, attended the weeklong camp. Professor Xin Wang, along with Dean Nnanna, Senior Director Carla Jordan, and Iriah Wilkerson, engaged other members of the UMSL faculty as well as practitioners from area firms such as HTE Technologies, Parsons Corporation, Terracon Inc., and the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Center in St. Louis to help showcase the range of applications for and career paths in engineering.