Immersive Summer Interacting with Technology and Engineering (I-SITE) | NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Immersive Summer Interacting with Technology and Engineering (I-SITE)

K12 STEM Education
On Campus
Tuition-Based
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Description

This program is an interdisciplinary introduction to key STEM fields and skills drawn from Tandon courses and faculty research. It covers five weeks of coursework, labs, activities, workshops on scientific ethics, public speaking, and presentation training, culminating with a team challenge, prototyping, and demonstrating a solution to a societal problem. There are no specific prerequisites for this program other than academically strong students with a strong interest. No prior experience in programming or robotics is required.

The curriculum is designed to organically progress such that students can clearly see the connection from one concept to another. Students will use the state-of-the-art software tools currently used in machine learning (PyTorch). Conceptual learning is always paired with practical learning. The curriculum culminates into the final challenge, instructors reveal a themed project drawn from contemporary challenges such as climate change, cybersecurity, and other contemporary challenges posed by the twenty-first century. This challenge will be solved as a group to build an engineering solution based on the theory and practical knowledge they gained in the course.

Please note:

  • Students' team projects direct the degree of exposure students have in the respective program content and curriculum area.  
  • Students receive a take-home kit with components that they can use to further develop and build projects on their own. 
PROGRAM LENGTH Five-week summer program
Monday – Friday, 9 am – 4 pm
ELIGIBILITY Students entering 9th, 10th, or 11th grade in September 2025. Open to Domestic and International Students
TUITION Tuition Fee - $10350
More details

Your Tuition Fee includes the following:

  • Course Fees - $9600
  • Materials Fees - $350
  • University Programs Fees - $50
  • NYU Service Fee $100.00 
  • NYU Events Fee $250.00 ($50 per week)

Add-On Fees - NOTE: RATES MAY CHANGE FOR 2025

  • Optional Housing Fee $1,848.00 ($308 per week)*
  • Mandatory Meal plan with housing $306 ( 21 meals plus 30 DD)
  • For International Students - Please note there are additional fees associated with your visa process. Please refer to the Office of Global Services for details

Unfortunately, scholarships and financial aid are not available for this program at this time.

30% is due within 1 week of acceptance to hold your spot and the balance is due 1 week before your session start date. 

Tuition deposit is non-refundable.

*For Housing: Students must be 15 years old to stay in on-campus housing and 16 years old to use the on-campus gym.

Coursework

Physical Component of Curriculum (Physical Computing and Robotic)

  • Open-source software for embedded systems/microcontrollers: CircuitPython and Arduino
  • Circuit components (basic introduction to circuits)
  • Digital and analog data representations
  • Sensor integration (learn about a wide variety of sensors and also with the smart car kit)
  • Computer vision (with the PixyCam)
  • Control Theory
  • Direct and Inverse Kinematics

Computational Component of Curriculum  (Computer Science and Machine Learning)

  • Interactive Programming approach to teaching via Google Colab in Python
  • Algorithms
  • Machine learning curriculum taught through PyTorch
  • Data science concepts: model selection and regression
  • Classification, optimizers, and neural networks
  • Open data sets
  • Data visualization and cleaning

Course Schedule - ~28 lessons total

Important Dates

2025 Program Schedule:

  • January 1– Application Opens
  • May 16 – Applications due 
  • Orientation: June 13 (via Zoom 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST)
  • Program Starts: June 16 In-Person / Remote Assignments start June 2
  • Holiday: July 4
  • Program Ends/Expo/Final Presentation: July 18
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The teachers were so skilled in translating their knowledge to us and made each lesson very enjoyable. They made it easy to approach them for any questions, making the learning process easier."

 

Application

Coming soon

I/SITE’s Keywords: Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Algorithms, Electronics, Coding, Prototypes, Physical Computing, Machine Learning, Robotics, Microcontrollers, Sensors, Smart City, Integrated Systems, Wireless Communication, Computational Analytics, Tensorflow, jupyter

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