Continuing Education & Workforce Development - NMU Events and Announcements

Continuing Education & Workforce Development

High school freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors during the 2025-26 academic school year are invited to join us to explore cybersecurity in a series of hands-on labs and challenges!

Imagine a week where you're not just learning about technology -- you're controlling it.

At our residential summer camp, you'll hack (legally!), code, and connect everyday objects to the internet in ways that will genuinely surprise you. Want to build a smart device from scratch? Lock and unlock a door with code you wrote yourself? Discover the hidden vulnerabilities in the networks around us — and learn how to defend them? This is the place. 

Surrounded by students who geek out over the same things you do, guided by instructors who work in the real world of cybersecurity and tech, you'll spend five days diving into the skills that are shaping the future — artificial intelligence, IoT, ethical hacking, and beyond. No experience required. Just curiosity, ambition, and the willingness to break things (on purpose) and build them back better. The only question is: are you in?  

Apply Now - application deadline is May 23, 2026, at 5pm

Continuing Education & Workforce Development

Join us for YooperCON, where High School Students and teachers will explore exciting cybersecurity career opportunities with multiple hands-on activities and career information sessions throughout the day!

2026 Lineup

Ask AI Right
Career Q&A
Cyber Bingo
Metadata Mayhem
Gamer's Challenge
Network Topo
Digital Vapor Trails
Teachable Machines
Hack A House
KC-7

Session Descriptions can be found HERE

Cost:  Free  |  Lunch and t-shirts will be provided.

This event is sponsored by the NMU Upper Peninsula Cybersecurity Institute (UPCI), Marshall Plan for Talent Grant, NMU Seaborg Center for Math and Science, and the MiSTEM Network. 

For more information, contact:  Michael Sauer, UPCI Director
Email: msauer@nmu.edu  |  Phone: 906-227-1358

Continuing Education & Workforce Development

Please join Northern Michigan University Instructor, Carol W. Johnson, for this 3 - 4 hour Excel training that will focus on Beginner Plus Excel topics.

WHO: This event is open to everyone!

WHERE: NMU Jacobetti Complex, Room 506, 2296 Sugar Loaf Ave., Marquette, MI 49855.

WHEN: Wednesday, January 28, 2026 from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm.

Cost: Registration cost is $70.00 - Bring your own laptop or for an additional fee we can provide one for you. 

Please contact the Continuing Education and Workforce Development Department  at (906) 227-2103 to register or complete this form and submit to conteduc@nmu.edu. 

Continuing Education & Workforce Development

Back by popular demand! 

Whether you are a beginner or intermediate or have simply ever had any interest in learning welding, this is the class for you! This course is meant to show you the basics including safety, power sources, equipment set-up, general usage of oxygen acetylene cutting torches, arc welding, and mig or wire feed welding. There will also be plenty of time for practice, questions and answers. 

Course Information: 

• Dates: Class starts February 3, 2024, and will meet every Saturday for 6 weeks 
• Time: 9 am to noon every week
• Location: NMU's Jacobetti Complex in their brand-new welding lab. 
• Cost: $475- includes instruction, equipment, and all materials. 

Online Registration

For more information or to register over the phone, please call (906)-227-2103 or email us at conteduc@nmu.edu

Continuing Education & Workforce Development

Welding as a Hobby is back for a second session! 

Whether you are a beginner or intermediate, this class is for you.

Welding as a hobby is a fun activity and a great way to tackle some of those DIY projects! This beginning/intermediate course is meant to show you the basics including safety, power sources, equipment set-up, general usage of oxygen acetylene cutting torches, arc welding and mig or wire feed welding along with plenty of time for practice, questions & answers. This class will start March 18, 2023 and meet every Saturday from 9 AM
until Noon for 6 weeks at NMU’s Jacobetti Complex.

The cost is $475 and includes instruction, equipment and all materials. Register today! Must meet an 8-person minimum. If you have your own welding hood, jacket, safety glasses or gloves, bring them with you. If you don't have these items, we will provide them for your use.

Call 906-227-2103 to register or complete this Registration form and email it to CEWD.  

Continuing Education & Workforce Development

Welding as a Hobby is back! 

Whether you are a beginner or intermediate, this class is for you.

Welding as a hobby is a fun activity and a great way to tackle some of those DIY projects! This beginning/intermediate course is meant to show you the basics including safety, power sources, equipment set-up, general usage of oxygen acetylene cutting torches, arc welding and mig or wire feed welding along with plenty of time for practice, questions & answers. This class will start January 14, 2023 and meet every Saturday from 9 AM
until Noon for 6 weeks at NMU’s Jacobetti Complex.

The cost is $475 and includes instruction, equipment and all materials. Register today! Must meet an 8-person minimum. If you have your own welding hood, jacket, safety glasses or gloves, bring them with you. If you don't have these items, we will provide them for your use.

Call 906-227-2103 to register or complete this Registration form and email it to CEWD.  

Continuing Education & Workforce Development

The Grief Support Specialist Program is an 8 week, non-credit certificate program through Continuing Education and Workforce Development at NMU. Starting March 13, 2023 through May 1, 2023. The course will be held each Monday via zoom from 6:00pm-9:00pm EST. 

Participants will learn the principles and many practical tools and techniques to enhance their professional and personal life related to grief.  Topics include: grief counseling theories and strategies, assessments, COVID and grief, recovery tools and intervention, attachment styles and grief, children and youth coping with grief, different age coping skills, grief groups for children, Vicarious Grief, Disenfranchised Grief, Complicated Grief coping with dying, legal issues & end of life decisions, spiritual, ethical, and culture issues, group therapy, self-care and career enhancement. 

"Grief is an experience we all have to carry with us. Our task is to figure out how to carry that grief as survivors rather than as victims. The goal of this course is to help all of us (and those who look to us for assistance) become such survivors. We will never cure that terrible wound of grief, but we can find some healing in the midst of it, and that is what makes us survivors." - Douglas C. Smith M.Div., MA, MS | Lead Instructor

Continuing Education & Workforce Development

Please join Northern Michigan University Instructor, Carol W. Johnson, for this 3 hour Excel training that will focus on beginner Excel topics. This will be the first in a series.

WHO: This event is open to everyone!

WHERE: NMU Jacobetti Complex, Room 224, Marquette, MI 49855.

WHEN: Tuesday, November 22, 2022 from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm.  Registration cost is $60.00 - Bring your own laptop or for an additional $20 use ours. 

Please contact the Continuing Education and Workforce Development Department  at (906) 227-2103 to register or complete this form and submit to conteduc@nmu.edu. 

We look forward to seeing you!