Round up your high school student and bring her or him to discover Stanford Engineering on the Next Generation Tour, affectionally known as "NexGen". November is "College Tour Month" so we hope that your child's school will allow an afternoon off to explore Stanford's engineering labs. We think that it should be worth extra credit!
Parents and high-schoolers will be divided into groups of parent/student pairs. Each group will have its own Stanford student tour leader. While describing undergraduate life at Stanford, hopefully in glorious detail, each tour leader will take his or her group to view different labs. The same labs will be visited by each group in rotation, giving each group an eye-opening glimpse into the wonders researched by our engineering grad students.
Exactly which labs may be subject to change. However, it is impossible to poke one's nose into any engineering lab and not find interdisciplinery research inspired by genius. In these labs you will meet graduate students who will describe their research projects. We expect the Stanford students to be the "stars" of this event, but professors may find it hard to stay away where research is being discussed.
After the lab tours everyone, tour leaders, graduate students, participants will meet for hot chocolate, hot cider, and cookies in Room 203 of MERL. This will allow the high-schoolers and their parents to ask further questions of the Stanford students.