Building Robots and Leaders
Located in the heart of Midtown Detroit, the Michigan Engineering Zone is a place for middle and high school students in Southeast Michigan to learn, grow, and lead. As part of the University of Michigan College of Engineering, the MEZ provides world-class STEM resources, instruction, and counseling to students who will become the next generation of Victors. Click below to visit the official website of each program.
Since 2010, the MEZ has been connecting professional engineers, University of Michigan engineering students, and other volunteers with students from over 20 Detroit-area high schools to create a community of learning through FIRST Robotics. Students learn industry-standard techniques to design, build, test and compete with robots against other high schools from around the world.
NAF Future Ready Scholars at U-M is a college and career prep program in partnership with NAF Academies, a national educational non-profit that has established 20 career academies within Michigan high schools. Through a 2-week residential summer camp and monthly Saturday sessions, the Future Ready Scholars Program aims to prepare students from Southeast Michigan who are traditionally under-represented in STEM fields for success in their chosen colleges & careers.
The Qualcomm® ThinkabitTM Lab at the University of Michigan is a multi-year collaboration between Qualcomm and Michigan Engineering, serving youth in the Detroit and Southeast Michigan area. Through a hands-on experience, students experience the Engineering Design Process by identifying and solving a problem with their own invention, built with Arduino computer kits they learn to program themselves.
