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