Fulton Summer Academy 

Barrett Summer Scholars

Dates: May 31st – June 3rd, 2026 

Location: ASU Tempe Campus – Residential

Applicants: High School, rising 9-10 grade

Cost: $800.00

Barrett Summer Scholars (BSS) is a summer residential program that gives motivated high school students the opportunity to experience college life while strengthening academic and leadership skills. Participants explore challenging topics, build college-ready habits, and learn what it’s like to study on a university campus. Designed for students across multiple grade levels, BSS helps participants feel more prepared, confident, and excited about their transition to higher education.

The BSS program provides an immersive academic experience that prepares students for success in college and beyond, with a focus on:

• Academic Enrichment: Engaging, high-level learning opportunities across various subjects.
• Career Exploration (Engineering): Explore the Fulton Schools of Engineering undergraduate programs, learn the engineering design process, and build confidence in taking the next steps towards your future career. 

Transportation Extravaganza

Dates: June 1st – June 5th, 2026 (day camp)

Location: ASU Tempe Campus

Applicants: High School, rising 11-12 grade

Cost: $150.00

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.

STEAM Machines™ in Motion: Kinetic Sculptures Camp

Dates: June 1st – June 5th, 2026 

Times: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Location: ASU Chandler Innovation Center – 249 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ 85225

Ages: 15-18

Cost: $125.00

Step into a kinetic sculpture adventure at the STEAM Machines™ in Motion Camp at ASU Chandler Innovation Center, where creativity, engineering, and storytelling collide. In this immersive, week-long day camp for ages 15 – 18, you will be designing and building eye-catching kinetic sculptures that bring a story to life. Along the way, you’ll explore gears, gadgets, and gizmos as you learn the engineering design process and apply real STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) concepts to create your own steampunk automata. Guided by expert instructors, you’ll dive into hands-on problem-solving with mechanical movement design, electric circuits, programming, computational thinking, and various artistic aesthetics, using tools like 3D printers, laser cutters, Arduino microcontrollers, and even artificial intelligence as part of the design process. Through teamwork, brainstorming, rapid prototyping, and creative experimentation, you’ll turn bold ideas into working machines—then showcase your finished project in a final exposition and take it home. Running daily from 9 AM to 5 PM, this camp is the perfect way to power up your summer, spark your imagination, and unleash your inner inventor.

MicroMaker: Microchips to Collaborative Robotics Camp

Session 1: June 1st – June 5th, 2026

Session 2: June 15th – June 19th, 2026 

Times: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Location: Gary K. Herberger Young Scholars Academy – 4825 University Way N., Phoenix, AZ 85051

Ages: 15-18

Cost: $125.00

Step into the world of modern engineering at the MicroMaker: Microchips to Collaborative Robotics summer camp for ages 15 – 18, where students explore how technology evolves from microchips to real-world robotic systems. Participants will learn directly from an Arizona State University faculty member, gaining insight into the same tools and techniques used in college labs and industry. The experience begins with embedded systems, where students program the ESP32-S3 using MicroPython and work with sensors and peripherals to build interactive devices. In the second phase, they transition to collaborative robotics, programming a six-axis robot arm to perform motion control, set coordinate frames, and complete tasks. By connecting coding, electronics, and robotics, MicroMaker gives students practical experience in modern automation—and a clear view of what engineering looks like in action.

ASU Underwater Robotics Camp

Dates: June 2nd – June 7th, 2026 (day camp)

Location: ASU Polytechnic campus

Applicants: High School, rising 11-12 grade

Cost: $500.00

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.

Barrett Summer Scholars

Dates: June 7th – June 10th, 2026 

Location: ASU Tempe Campus – Residential 

Applicants: High School, rising 11-12 grade

Cost: $800.00

Barrett Summer Scholars (BSS) is a summer residential program that gives motivated high school students the opportunity to experience college life while strengthening academic and leadership skills. Participants explore challenging topics, build college-ready habits, and learn what it’s like to study on a university campus. Designed for students across multiple grade levels, BSS helps participants feel more prepared, confident, and excited about their transition to higher education.

The BSS program provides an immersive academic experience that prepares students for success in college and beyond, with a focus on:

• Academic Enrichment: Engaging, high-level learning opportunities across various subjects.
• Career Exploration (Engineering): Explore the Fulton Schools of Engineering undergraduate programs, learn the engineering design process, and build confidence in taking the next steps towards your future career. 

Integrated Engineering Design Camp

Dates: June 8th – June 12th, 2026 

Times: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Location: Gary K. Herberger Young Scholars Academy – 4825 University Way N., Phoenix, AZ 85051

Ages: 11-14

Cost: $125.00

This camp engages students aged 11 – 14 in hands-on activities that introduce integrated engineering—a multidisciplinary approach that combines mechanical, electrical, software, and design thinking skills to solve real-world problems. Through a series of interactive design challenges, students will work in teams to brainstorm, prototype, test, and refine their ideas. Along the way, they will design, build, and improve their projects while developing problem-solving, teamwork, and creative thinking skills. The week concludes with a final showcase, where students present their solutions to family and friends and reflect on how engineers collaborate to tackle real-world challenges. This camp runs from 9 AM – 5 PM each day at ASU’s West Valley Campus in Glendale. Campers must bring their own lunches.

Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) Summer Program

Dates:

Week 1: June 8th – 12th, 2026 (day camp)

Week 2: June 22nd – 26th, 2026 (day camp)

Location: ASU Tempe campus 

Applicants: High School, rising 11-12 grade

Cost: $500.00

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.

STEAM Machines™ Maker Camp 

Dates: June 8th – 12th, 2026

Times: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Location: ASU Chandler Innovation Center – 249 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ 85225

Ages: 11-14

Cost: $200.00

Get ready for an exciting, hands-on adventure at STEAM Machines™ Maker Camp at the ASU Chandler Innovation Center! Designed especially for ages 11–14, this action-packed day camp lets students explore science, technology, engineering, arts, and math through fun, creative challenges. Campers will build simple machines, design electric circuits, learn basic programming, and work as a team to create an epic, larger-than-life chain reaction machine. Using cool tools like 3D printers, laser cutters, Arduino microcontrollers, and even artificial intelligence, students will turn big ideas into real projects while brainstorming, prototyping, and problem-solving together. Running from 9 AM to 5 PM each day, this unforgettable STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) adventure is all about creativity, collaboration, and fun.

WithKIP Robotics Camp

Dates: June 22nd – June 26th, 2026

Times: 9:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Location: Gary K. Herberger Young Scholars Academy – 4825 University Way N., Phoenix, AZ 85051

Grades: 11 – 14

Cost: $175.00

Step into the role of an engineer this summer with the WithKiP Robotics Camp! Students aged 11 – 14 will design and 3D print custom robot components, wire electrical systems to power movement, and use coding to program their own KiP robot to complete challenges – no previous experience necessary.

Campers will collaborate to design a camp-wide obstacle course and create custom attachments for their robots, testing and refining their designs through hands-on challenges. Each day builds towards more complex topics, encouraging students to think critically, iterate on their ideas, and take ownership of their designs. 

The camp culminates in a final showcase, where students run their robots through the obstacle course they designed, putting their work to the test.

Throughout the camp, participants explore mechanical design, circuits, and computer programming while solving real-world engineering problems. By the end of the program, students will have built and programmed a robot while developing the creativity and confidence that define great engineers.