SEEK Provides Free Summer Engineering Program in 16 Cities


The National Society of Black Engineers has announced the dates and locations for its 2015 Summer Engineering Experience for Kids program, or SEEK. Founded in 2007, SEEK is the nation’s largest summer engineering program geared toward African American pre-college students.

SEEK participants engage in team-based, competitive engineering design activities and learn science, technology, engineering and math concepts under the guidance of SEEK mentors: NSBE college student members from across the U.S. The ultimate goal of the program is to increase the number of college engineering students and engineering professionals among African Americans, a community starkly underrepresented in this field.

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Neville Green, NSBE’s national chair, said in a release that “Increasing the STEM proficiency of black students in grades 4 through 8 is a must for NSBE to achieve its primary goal, which is to produce 10,000 black engineers annually in the U.S. by 2025.” Green is a chemical engineering senior at the City University of New York. “Expansion of SEEK is a major part of our plan to reach that number.”

The program is expanding into four new cities: Birmingham, Alabama; Boston; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and Los Angeles.

The summer 2015 SEEK program has been announced as follows:

Current Cities Start Date End Date
Atlanta, Ga. June 8 June 26
Birmingham, Ala. June 15 July 3
Boston, Mass. July 13 July 31
Chicago, Ill. July 6 July 24
Denver, Colo. (Site 1) July 13 July 31
Denver, Colo. (Site 2) June 15 July 3
Detroit, Mich. July 20 August 7
Harrisburg, Pa June 8 June 26
Houston, Texas June 8 June 26
Jackson, Miss. June 8 June 26
Los Angeles, Calif. July 13 July 31
New Orleans, La. June 8 June 26
Oakland, Calif. June 22 July 10
Philadelphia, Pa. July 20 August 7
San Diego, Calif. June 29 July 17
Thibodaux, La. July 13 July 31
Washington, D.C. July 13 July 31

More information about SEEK is available at www.nsbe.org/seek. To learn more about NSBE, visit www.nsbe.org.


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