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