Local Students Brittany and Melanie Blazar attend Summer Youth Programs at Michigan Tech

HOUGHTON, MI (08/13/2013)(readMedia)-- Brittany and Melanie Blazar, of Golden Valley, recently attended Michigan Technological University's Summer Youth Programs (SYP). While at Michigan Tech, the Blazar sisters participated in multiple weeklong, on-campus explorations, including mobile robotics, crime scene investigation, and medical physiology. They were also featured in a Michigan Tech news story (tinyurl.com/sypsummer2013).

SYP touts a host of hands-on career explorations and educational summer camps for students in middle and high school. Popular explorations this year included wolf/moose ecology and backpacking on Isle Royale, video game programming, sports science and computer and electrical engineering.

More than 1,000 students attended an SYP program this summer. During SYP, participants get a taste of college life by living on campus, eating in the dining halls, attending classes and explorations during the day and exploring the local area with SYP staff in the evenings.

Michigan Technological University is a leading public research university developing new technologies and preparing students to create the future for a prosperous and sustainable world. Michigan Tech offers more than 130 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering; forest resources; computing; technology; business; economics; natural, physical and environmental sciences; arts; humanities; and social sciences.