MIT’s Summer HSSP for High-School Students — Registration Open Until June 17

Opportunities, Summer

MIT’s Summer HSSP is a weekend academic program (July 12-August 16) 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 17 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 29 STEM courses:

Computer Science

  • C9494: Making Games with Gameblox (Rising 8-10th graders)
  • C9525: Computer Architecture (Rising 7-11th graders)
  • C9486: Make a Website (Rising 7-10th graders)
  • C9504: A Tad of CAD (Rising 7th to graduating 12th graders)
  • C9493: Introduction to Digital Electronics (Rising 7th to graduating 12th graders)
  • C9511: Python Programming (literally) (Rising 9-12th graders)

Mathematics

  • M9487: Discrete Geometry (Rising 9th to graduating 12th graders)
  • M9503: Understanding Number Theory (Rising 7th to graduating 12th graders)
  • M9506: How life hides big insight using little surprises (Rising 7-9th graders)
  • M9540: The Fourier Transform (Rising 9th to graduating 12th graders)
  • M9539: Intro to Elliptic Curves (Rising 10th to graduating 12th graders)
  • M9544: Lecture Series – Math (Rising 7-9th graders)
  • M9474: Real Analysis (Rising 10th to graduating 12th graders)
  • M9529: Numbers and Patterns (Rising 7-9th graders)
  • M9471: Introduction to Calculus! (Rising 10th to graduating 12th graders)
  • M9542: How life hides big insight using little surprises (Rising 10th to graduating 12th graders)

Science

  • S9523: Relational Databases Before There Were Such Things (Rising 7th to graduating 12th graders)
  • S9528: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (Rising 10th to graduating 12th graders)
  • S9491: The Science of Snow (Rising 7-10th graders)
  • S9495: Organic Chemistry I (Rising 9-12th graders)
  • S9507: Laser Physics (Rising 9th to graduating 12th graders)
  • S9543: Lecture Series – Research (Rising 7-9th graders)
  • S9482: How to physics without a calculus (Rising 7th to graduating 12th graders)
  • S9484: The Science of Science Fiction (Rising 7th to graduating 12th graders)
  • S9501: Heliocentrism Sounds So Passé: An Introduction to Cosmology (Rising 9th to graduating 12th graders)
  • S9485: Thermodynamics and Statistical mechanics (Rising 10th to graduating 12th graders)
  • S9490: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Rising 10th to graduating 12th graders)
  • S9499: 3D Modeling through 3D Printing (Rising 9th to graduating 12th graders)
  • S9514: Introduction to Physical Science (Rising 10th to graduating 12th graders)