SCIENCE SUMMER PROGRAMS
Brown Environmental Leadership Lab
http://www.brown.edu/academics/pre-college/bell/
The Brown Environmental Leadership Labs (BELL) provide high school students with unique opportunities to study the interactions between natural and social systems with Brown-affiliated educators and place-based experts. In addition to environmental studies and science curriculum, these programs include leadership curriculum with the overarching mission of developing socially responsible leaders. In each BELL program, we strive to help students develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to create positive change on environmental issues facing their local communities and the planet as a whole.
Location:Alaska, Rhode Island, Costa Rica, Hawaii, New Orleans
Deadline: Applications open Dec 1
Summer@Brown Courses
http://www.brown.edu/academics/pre-college/catalog/?p%5B%5D=1
Techniques in DNA-Based Biotechnology
Introduction to Medicine: Do You Want to Be a Doctor?
The Body: An Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology
Exploring Infectious Disease: Are We Safe?
Hands-On Medicine: A Week in the Life of a Medical Student
Understanding the Nation's Health
Scholar-Athlete: Sport Physiology
Research Techniques in Biomedical Fields
Bacteriology: The Good, the Bad, and the Deadly
Principles of Human Physiology - Part A
Principles of Human Physiology - Part B
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry: From DNA to Enzymes
Organic and Biochemistry: Key Pathways to Success for the Pre-Med Student
Laboratory Research in Biomedicine
Infectious and Epidemic Disease
Responding to Urgent Global Public Health Crisis: The Epidemiology and Prevention of HIV/AIDS
Forensic Science - CSI Providence
Using Pharmacology To Help Us Study The Nervous System
Drugs, Alcohol & Behavior
Drug Discovery: Treating Human Disease Through MedicineThe Great Diseases: Cancer, Heart Disease, Diabetes, and Infections
Cancer Biology: An Evolving Puzzle
Viruses: Ancient Machines in a Modern World
Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
The Immune System: Your Inner Warrior
Scholar-Athlete: Back From the Bench: Sports Injury Prevention & Rehabilitation
Viruses of Humans, Past, Present and Future
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science for Biomedicine and Health Care
From Molecular Aging to the Bicentennial Man: Why We Age and How Science Will Change Everything
Modeling Living Systems: The Principles of Life
Emerging Microbial Pathogens
Behind the Breakthroughs: Using Laboratory Organisms in Biomedical Research
Moral Medicine: Questions in Bioethics at the Cutting Edge
Doctor as Advocate: The Human Rights-Based Approach to Health
Brain Basics: From Biology to Behavior
Learning and Memory: From Brain to Behavior
Psychoactive Drugs: Brain, Body, Society
Neuroscience in Health and Disease
Computer Modeling of the Brain
Brain and Behavior: Biological Perspectives and Therapeutic Approaches to Mental Illness
Location: Rhode Island
Deadline: Applications open Dec 1
IceCube Immersive Summer Program for High School Students
http://icecube.physics.drexel.edu/summerprogram
Are you looking for an exciting scientific experience this summer? Come to Drexel for four weeks during the month of August and learn about the IceCube experiment at the South Pole during this free program! We will be working alongside particle physics researchers, touring University labs, going on field trips, creating our own outreach project, and gaining skills in professional communication and computer programming. No prior experience or coursework is needed to participate.
Location: Pennsylvania
Deadline: Website does not yet state deadline
Drexel Environmental Science Leadership Academy
Drexel's week-long Environmental Science Leadership Academy is one part adventure travel, one part leadership training, and two parts environmental science field experience. Students will habitat-hop from seaside to salt marsh to maritime forest all along the New Jersey coastline, gaining hands-on experience in a range of research areas, including beach, marsh, and Pine Barren ecology; botany; and paleontology. The tour guides on this adventure will be all-star Drexel professors from the Department of Biodiversity, Earth, and Environmental Science and expert scientists from the nation's oldest natural history museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Students will gain a broad understanding of what it means to be an environmental scientist and what it takes to be a leader in the field.
Location:Pennsylvania or New Jersey
Deadline: Not yet announced
The Summer Science program
http://www.summerscience.org/the-ssp-experience/what-is-ssp/
Each summer since 1959, highly gifted and motivated high school students have come to the Summer Science Program to immerse themselves in hands-on, experimental science, and to live and work with their intellectual peers for the first time. The experience changes their lives, and the benefits continue for life.
Topics taught typically include:
Astronomy: celestial coordinate systems, digital observational techniques and image reduction, astrometry, asteroids and planetary science, gravitation, stellar evolution, galaxies and cosmology
Physics: classical mechanics, celestial mechanics, introductions to electromagnetic theory, relativity, quantum mechanics
Mathematics: infinite series, interpolation, coordinate transformations, matrices, differential and integral calculus, vector calculus, numerical methods, differential equations
Other: computer programming in Python, error analysis, research interests of faculty
Location: New Mexico or Colorado
Deadline: Applications open Dec 15 and close on March 3
Boston Leadership Institute: Biological Research
http://bostonleadershipinstitute.com/summer-2016-updates.html
The flagship program of the Boston Leadership Institute, this program is a three-week course in the field of biological research. Activities include hands-on laboratory work, private tours and fields trips to various sites around Boston, and in-depth research papers and presentations. The course is taught by Whitney Hagins, an award-winning biology teacher at one of the top public high schools in the country. Students can choose to commute or stay in one of the residence halls at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Location: Massachusetts
Deadline: Not yet announced
Research Science Institute
https://www.cee.org/research-science-institute
The Research Science Institute (RSI) is an intensive summer program for outstanding high school students offered by the Center for Excellence in Education and hosted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Participants have the opportunity to experience the entire research cycle through coursework in scientific theory and hands-on practice in science and technology research, culminating in oral and written research reports. The program includes one week of classes and a five-week research internship where students conduct their individual research project. RSI is cost-free to students.
Location: Massechusetts
Deadline: Applications are now open
Research in the Biological Sciences
https://summer.uchicago.edu/high-school/ribs
The University of Chicago’s Biological Sciences Collegiate Division offers this rigorous summer program in biological research techniques for rising high school juniors and seniors. Participants learn about molecular, microbiological and cell biological techniques being used in modern laboratories through a project-based curriculum, learning basic practical lab techniques and applying them to independent group projects that are presented at the end of the course. Several students each year are also invited back the following year to work with a University of Chicago research scientist. The program runs for four weeks, and students live in university housing.
Location: Chicago
Deadline: Not yet announced
Rosetta Institute Molecular Biology of Cancer Workshop
http://www.rosettainstitute.org/#!cancer-neuroscience-workshops/crty
The Rosetta Institute of Biomedical Research sponsors three summer workshops for students aged 13-18 on the molecular biology of cancer at UC Berkeley, Yale University, and UCLA. Through lectures and laboratory experiments, campers explore basic concepts of molecular cell biology and how the development of cancer affects these structures and processes. Students put these theories into practice by creating their own research projects, which are presented at the end of the two-week session.
Location: California or Connecticut
Deadline: Applications are now open
COMPUTER SCIENCE SUMMER PROGRAMS
UCLA Tech camp
http://esc.seas.ucla.edu/tech-camp/
Campers will learn more about specific engineering disciplines, the interdisciplinary nature of engineering, and impact of research.
Participants will be exposed to a number of engineering concepts. Examples from past camps include circuit design, programming, AutoCAD, and soldering to name a few.
Learn more about current research at UCLA Engineering.
Applications open in December 2016.
Academic Talent Development Program at Berkeley
https://atdp.berkeley.edu/sd/catalog/
Offers the following courses in computer science:
Elements of Web Design 10 units (3 days/wk.)
Introduction to Programming 5 units (2 days/wk.)
Programming in Java 10 units (3 days/wk.)
Web Development 5 units (2 days/wk.)
Applications due Feb/March 2017
iD Tech camps
You’ll gain confidence, explore a unique college campus, and get a taste of the collegiate experience. This isn’t just camp. It’s a portal to a fulfilling future, in college and beyond. Kids camps and teen camps encompass courses in programming with Java, C++, Python, Scratch, and more, app development with iPhone and Android, Minecraft, modding, FPS and RPG game design, robotics engineering with VEX and LEGO, 3D modeling & animation, filmmaking, photography, and web design. Course offerings vary by site. View courses at this location. Beginner or advanced, you'll get inspired by energetic, tech-savvy instructors. Do something big this summer!
Offered in California and nationwide.
https://www.idtech.com/teens/tech-camps/
Emagination Computer Camps
Emagination’s core Computer Camp program blends technology learning with fun summer camp activities to create a well-rounded summer camp experience. Sessions are two weeks long so campers have time to become part of a community while learning new tech skills.
Located in Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
Early bird reservation - Dec 1
Regular deadline - Feb 28
Digital Media Academy
https://www.digitalmediaacademy.org/kid-adventure-camps/
Digital Media Academy operates out of 10 of the top colleges and universities in the U.S. (Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, Brown) and UBC in Canada, offering day and overnight programs for children ages 6 to 18. According to DMA, kids are taught by "award-winning filmmakers and artists, master teachers and certified Apple, Adobe and AutoDesk professionals." All of the camps are "project based meaning your son or daughter completes a real-world project under the guidance of one of our professionals." What's more, there are two sets of staff, one for technical instruction and another set for more traditional camp activities and the overnight program.
DMA, like other camps, offers an almost overwhelming number of programs broken up to match age and skill level. Programs include:
3D Modeling + Design
Game Design
Music Production
Film + Photography
Programming
Robotics + Engineering
Early bird registration - Nov 4
National Computer Camps
http://www.nccamp.com/index.html
Founded in 1977, National Computer Camp has four locations: New York, Atlanta, Connecticut and Ohio. While it looks like their website hasn't been updated in about 10 years, NCC claims to offer the same courses as its flashier competitors (2D and 3D game design, web design, Android app programming, video production, software apps), as well as offering A+ hardware, software and network+ certification, plus PSAT and SAT Math preparation classes, with a lower price tag to boot.
Like all tech camps, it seems there is time for active recreation as well as a sports and tech program with tennis, soccer and baseball during part of the day.
Application deadline - TBD