Michigan Affiliate

Announcements

Join the AiC Community: If you are currently in 9th—12th grade and are a woman, genderqueer, or non-binary student interested in computing and technology, you are invited to join the AiC Community. Collegiate students in a technical major or minor are also invited to join.

The 2026 High School applications open on September 1, 2025. Most past AiC award winners were explicitly encouraged to apply by an adult they admire. Do you know a high school or college student who aspires to create technology to improve the world? Encourage them to apply by filling this simple form today!

2025 Michigan Affiliate NCWIT AIC Award Ceremony: We were thrilled to honor 53 outstanding high school students from Michigan with MI AiC awards this year, along with Cameron Beatty of Royal Oak High School, winner of the 2025 NCWIT Michigan Affiliate Education Award. Mr. Beatty was recognized for bringing robotics and computer science education to hundreds of students from high schools across Detroit.The award ceremony took place on the Michigan State University campus on Saturday, April 12. Approximately 100 award winners, teachers, friends, and supporters were in attendance. Find a short writeup about the event here.

About Michigan AiC

What we do: We empower youth in Michigan to pursue their dreams of effecting change by harnessing the power of computing and tech. In doing so, we are helping grow a larger, more resilient, and more diverse pool of technical talent in the State. An affiliate of the NCWIT, we advance the NCWIT mission of widening highly qualified participation in the technology ecosystem through innovative programs and research through the Michigan Aspirations in Computing (AiC) Program.

Through AiC, we implement three initiatives, which increase learners’ persistence in computing by inspiring, encouraging, and advancing them at pivotal stages of their educational and professional development:

Impact Award — sparks early interest in computing by supporting K-12 computational-education programs
AiC Awards — recognize and celebrate high school and collegiate students’ technical aspirations and abilities and the educators who support them, at both the national and local levels
AiC Community — creates a sense of belonging and endless networking and leadership development opportunities for students

How you can help: Please consider if you or an organization you represent can help in any of the following ways:

Spreading the word about AiC to communities and schools throughout Michigan, encouraging more applications, and broadcasting our successes.
Rating applications and selecting winners for the Michigan AiC Awards.
Planning the annual AiC Award Ceremony
Providing in-kind donations (e.g. printing services) or SWAG for the Ceremony.
Hosting or facilitating K-12 educational programs (e.g., coding workshop, company tour).
Offering job shadowing and internship experiences.
Becoming a financial sponsor.

Let us know your interest by sending mail to [email protected].

Michigan AiC is revolutionizing tech in Michigan—we hope you will join us!