DEPARTMENT OF Civil Engineering Summer Engineering Exploration Kamp SEEK

One week of exploring Civil Engineering
Hands-on learning opportunities, guest speakers from engineering companies, and field trips!

College student for a week
Stay in the dorms, eat in the dining hall, and be mentored by civil engineering college students!

The University of Kentucky Department of Civil Engineering is hosting two one-week residential Kentucky camps (i.e., kamps!) for rising high school seniors. The Summer Engineering Exploration Kamp (SEEK) will feature hands-on learning opportunities, guest speakers from engineering companies, and field trips to active project sites. Students will stay in dorms on UK’s campus along with civil engineering college students who will serve as mentors for the kampers. Throughout the week, kampers will engage in activities to learn the fundamentals of civil engineering by participating in hands-on experiential learning activities. The kamp’s emphasis is learning by doing!

However, a true highlight of the kamp will be a visit to Kentucky Kingdom, an amusement park, where Kampers will learn how civil engineering made the park possible and now makes the park go! The students will hear about the engineering necessary to construct the park, to develop and test the rides, to handle all the trash and waste, and to move people in and around the park. After hearing about the civil engineering concepts that support and sustain the park, the students will get to explore the park and experience the rides themselves!