There’s no limit to what you’ll learn when the world is your classroom. Enjoy unrivaled opportunities to pursue your passion, follow your curiosity, and make your mark on the world.
Launch a startup, vie for prizes in our business plan competition, volunteer at a local school, conduct research at JHU’s School of Medicine, build a vehicle for off-road competitions, and more.
“Not only do we get to do what we love, we’re also helping individuals and their families. It’s making us better engineers, students, and people. ”

The Hopkins Engineering Experience
Testing a Hot-Fired Rocket - After building a hybrid engine-powered rocket, the AstroJays Rocketry team hot-fire tested it at JHU’s Applied Physics Lab.

A Bridge Too Farfalle - High school students in the summer Engineering Innovation program at Johns Hopkins use their noodles to build bridge structures out of spaghetti and epoxy to test their engineering know-how

Learning Through Research, Internships, and More - When Mary Joseph first heard about the RISE@APL program, she was told that if she could imagine it, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory was working on it.