MIT’s Summer HSSP for Grades 7-12+ Registration Open Until June 19

MIT’s Summer HSSP is a weekend academic program (July 10-August 21) for students entering Grades 7-12 (plus those who just graduated high school).  Courses are run by volunteers on Sundays at various times between 11AM and 5PM.  Registration is now open until June 19 on a lottery basis, with equal consideration given to all applicants registering by that deadline.   The cost is $40 regardless of the number of courses taken, and generous financial aid is available.  For more information, email summer-hssp@mit.edu.  The course catalog contains these 26 STEM courses:

  • Introduction to Computation
  • Philosophy of AI
  • Making Games with Gameblox
  • Essentials of Information and Computer Security
  • Advanced Topics in Combinatorics
  • Fun with Probability
  • Numbers That Do Weird Things
  • How to Win Games
  • Knot Theory
  • Relational Databases Before There Were Such Things
  • Books I Wish I’d Read Before College
  • Electronics for Medical Device Design
  • Phenomenology of Superconductivity
  • Innovations in Cancer Biology
  • (Not So) Close Encounters of a Third Kind (That we haven’t found yet)
  • Introduction to Plasma Physics and Nuclear Fusion
  • Space: Exploring the Final Frontier
  • Natural History 101
  • Drug Discovery For Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Reading Climate Records
  • Laser Physics
  • Climate Change: Scientific, Political, and Economic Analysis
  • The Human Body
  • Economics Games
  • Slightly Advanced Card Games
  • Math & Science Lecture Series