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