MSU Detroit Early Honors Experience

MSU Detroit Early Honors Experience is an opportunity for rising eighth and ninth grade students to explore the community around them in a new, hands-on experience led by MSU faculty, staff, and students, as well as local experts.

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This program let me meet new people and talk to others I already knew, and taught me new things and view things in a different light.

GRAE, 2023 PARTICIPANT

The activities were really amazing and put together. The staff was lovely, and the program should be long term or even become an after-school program.

NAOMI, 2023 PARTICIPANT
This was a great experience. You’ll meet great mentors and fellow peers. You’ll have a fun time with all the interactions.

RAHI, 2023 PARTICIPANT

Benefits

The Detroit Early Honors Experience program helps rising eighth and ninth grade students:

  • Build college readiness
  • Become scholars
  • Connect with other talented DPSCD students
  • Meet MSU faculty, staff, and students
  • Explore their city in a new way

The Detroit Early Honors Experience program provides a different kind of pre-college program for a different kind of student with a hands-on exploration of arts, technology, and science.

Students will remain connected as Early Honors Scholars throughout high school and have opportunities to visit campus and participate in other MSU pre-college programs.

Field Experience Sites

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Each day of this four-day program begins with themed activities led by experts and conclude with a field experience to several sites:

  • The Apple Developer Academy
  • Charles H. Wright Museum
  • Detroit Opera House
  • MSU-Detroit Partnership for Food, Learning, and Innovation

Summer Program

  • When: August 5-8, 2025, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
  • Where: MSU Detroit Center, 3408 Woodward Ave.

Event Coverage

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2023

 

Please contact honors@msu.edu with any general questions. Reach out to Tonya Frisbey for donation opportunities.

 

Thank you to our partners:

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