Grades 9-12: Sign Up by Friday for Harvard Splash!, Apr. 27

The deadline for high-school students to register for Harvard Splash! has been extended until noon on Friday, April 19. Harvard Splash! is a day for high-school students to learn from undergraduates in a wide range of short courses.  It will be held on April 27, 9AM-5PM on the Harvard campus. Cost is $20 ($30 at the door). Students may sign up for up to six sessions from the course catalog, which has these STEM-related courses:

  • The Art of Proof: Ancient Ideals and Modern Mathematics
  • Hacking. A Modern History, and Hacks You Can Do Too!
  • Intro to Market Design: Matching and Auctions
  • Evolution, Politics, and Climate Change: How Game Theory Explains it All
  • Geometry of Numbers
  • Introduction to Programming in Python: Getting computers to do your homework for you.
  • How Hard is Multiplication?: Complexity Bounds and Karatsuba’s Algorithm
  • Inside a Harvard Research Lab: Studying Avian Cognition
  • Making a Molecule from Scratch
  • How Experiences Shape Brain Development
  • The Critical Importance of Nurture
  • Intro to Data Science
  • The State of the Universe
  • Climate Change Part 1: Making History
  • The Amazing Brain
  • Advances in Super-Resolution and Fluorescence Microscopy
  • Bioethics and Human Life
  • Is Life Just One Big Hallucination?
  • Love the Earth — The Hard Truth, Issues, and How to Help
  • Molecular Eating: Introduction to Food Chemisty
  • Bluffs, Threats, and Promises; a Study of Game Theory