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Hk Maker Lab
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Hk Maker Lab is a free, five-week summer engineering design program for rising high school juniors and seniors from low-resource backgrounds in New York City. Run in collaboration with Columbia Engineering's SHAPE program, participants complete a 3-week engineering course followed by a 2-week Hackathon for Health Equity focused on developing solutions to health disparities. Program graduates also become eligible to enroll in the NY Bioforce paid internship program the following year.
- Deadline unconfirmed
- Jul 6, 2026 – Aug 7, 2026
- Grades 10–11
- Columbia University, New York, NY
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Must be currently in 10th or 11th grade attending a NYC public or charter high school, and demonstrate educational or economic disadvantage (attending a school with an Economic Need Index of 80%+ or qualifying for Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, or public housing).