This conference provides numerous unique opportunities for 7-12th grade students to participate in innovative activities involving experiential learning. They include:

An opportunity to creatively solve several hands-on projects requiring the design, construction and subsequent testing of a device. These projects are offered concurrently and each student attendee has the opportunity to participate.

An opportunity for collaboration with students from other schools to solve engineering problems.

An opportunity to attend an informal question-and-answer session presented by Honor Society students studying engineering. These graduating seniors typically provide motivational remarks on study skills, the rationale for the educational process in schools, and life on a large university campus.

An opportunity for 7-12th grade students to interact with, learn from, evaluate and then assign a grade to teams of engineering students in the ME 371 course. These teams design and build machines and mechanisms to perform various functions such as shredding vegetables or autonomously cooking and flipping a pancake! The winning ME 371 team is awarded the Sparty Plaque and the first three teams receive a cash award.

An opportunity to attend professional sessions where graduating engineering students deliver formal presentations to a corporate audience of engineers from our industrial partners, parents and other guests.

An opportunity to spend a morning on campus learning many new concepts that are difficult to impart in the confines of a traditional school classroom.

An opportunity to meet the MSU mascot Sparty.

An opportunity to indulge in a delicious, free luncheon of pop, subs, pizza and cookies!