Social Engineering Project Inc

TSEP Overnight Camping Conference is a weekend-long conference for high school students of color throughout Northern California designed to motivate and inspire them to go to college, pursue a STEM major and related career, learn about work/life balance through hiking, mindfulness and yoga, entrepreneurship, personal branding, and how to network effectively. TSEP takes over 100, 9th-12th low-income, marginalized, underrepresented high school students of color camping via buses from San Jose, Oakland, and Sacramento to the wilderness. The students are free of the typical technological distractions there is no cellular signal, no internet connectivity, no texting or WiFi and become one with nature.

Career Mentorship Symposium: Its purpose is to equip high school and college students of color with the necessary tools to get summer internships. Students learn resume writing, interviewing tips, personal branding/messaging, using social media to find jobs/secure interviews and the power of networking. Last year, GoPro ran this program and two students will be selected to receive paid summer internships.

Family Science Days/Nights: Our goal is to provide free Family Science Days ?FSD? throughout the school year to reinforce some of the scientific principles that we expose our students to and create a support group within families to continue to foster a love for math, science, technology, and engineering. Many of our students have siblings that do not attend our other programs, so we provide family-friendly science activities for our students and their relatives. FSNs are typically hosted at a tech company's headquarters and they teach our students something about their products or services. Moreover, TSEP provides resources for parents separately so that they can best support their children to pursue STEM-related careers throughout their academic life. This past year, Google hosted us at its headquarters.

Asset Management Data Science Camp: Thanks to Wells Fargo, Comerica Bank, and Silicon Valley Bank, high school students of color from across the country learned basic asset management concepts, their connection to STEM, and how they are used in environmental, social and governance factors ESG investing. This two-week camp included homework, exposure to data analysis, and reinforced presentation skills. Finally, students learned to implore these tools to follow and support companies that were environmentally conscious, socially responsible and socially just.