In this paper the authors share some experience from the seven years of offering Computer-Aided Design tutorials to selected top high school students in the scope of the UConn Mentor Connection program at the University of Connecticut. UConn Mentor Connection is a three-week, residential, summer enrichment program for young people entering the last two years of high school. The program has been designed to provide rising high school juniors and seniors with opportunities to participate in cutting-edge research investigations and creative projects under the supervision of university mentors. This paper describes "Design Site" activities. In the first part of these activities students have learned the method of solving conflicting problems with BTIPS (Brief Theory of Inventing Problem Solving). The method is used with IM (Invention Machine TM ) and TO (TechOptimazer TM ) software packages. Using these two packages the students have to solve three problems and learn Computer-Aided Report Generation. In the second part of activities the students solve design problems for future needs. These are problems connected with space travel, improvement of the Connecticut highway transportation and design of nano-machines. In the past the students have done conceptual designs of a space communication racket, flying cars, nanorobots and nano-motors. The students worked with the Engineering Computer and CAD Laboratories equipped with DELL PC's and SGI stations, as well as with Stereo3D Eyeviewer systems, and the SGI Inventor package.
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