Students entering Grades 7-12 (plus those who just graduated) are invited to register for MIT’s Summer HSSP, which will run virtually this year on six Saturdays, Noon-5PM, July 11 – August 15. Register by June 25 with your preferences for classes to be entered in the lottery for class assignment. The total cost is $40, which is paid after the lottery results are announced. Generous need-based financial aid is available. For more information, email summer-hssp@mit.edu. HSSP is run by MIT students, this year Zooming from far and wide to offer 90 courses, including these STEM-related ones:

• Introduction to being a Code Ninja with Julia
• Intro to WebDev; Do you want to create a website to call your own while learning how to code?
• Introduction to Programming with R
• Game Design and Development with Minecraft and Java
• Bayes, Bays, and Bacteria: Bayesian Pattern Discovery in Biological Systems
• Elliptic Curves, Complex Tori, and Fermat’s Last Theorem
• A Construction of the Numbers
• Introduction to Linear Algebra
• Competition Math for Middle School
• Generalization Bounds in Machine Learning
• Models of Computation
• Discrete Math for Computer Science
• Intro to Intro to Abstract Algebra
• The Mathematics of Music
• Mathematical Models and How to Build One
• Mathematical Modeling of Diseases
• Mathematical First Days
• The Gadget Framework: Which types of changing mazes can simulate each other?
• A Cute Introduction to Group Theory
• Molecules in Motion: Intro to Biological Thermodynamics
• A History of Science (minus Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton)
• Do you want to be a Doctor?
• Introduction to Immunology
• Mechanisms of Disease
• Help Solve Climate Change!
• How to Make a Child: Developmental Psychology Crash Course
• Masters of Light
• Weird and useful microbial metabolism
• Biochemical Principles of Energy Metabolism
• Introduction to Thermal Sciences and How They Can Help Save the World!
• Virology, Epidemiology, and Wellness during COVID-19
• Thermodynamics with Applications
• Pathology naturewalk
• Intro to Synthetic Biology!
• Alchemy!
• Introduction to Economics
• Food Science – Cooking for Experimentalists
• Pandemics, Epidemics and Genomics
• SAT at home Physics
• Women’s Health
• Introduction to Genetics
• Introduction to Criminology
• Intro to Vaccines
• The Biological Basis of Neurological Disorders
• Physics- From Newton to Relativity, Black Holes, Inflation, the Universe and Beyond
• Quantum Computing!
• Fundamentals of the CRISPR-Cas9 World
• The Incredible Diversity of Microbial Life
• Pandemics Explained
• All About Immunology!
• Food Science 101
• How to Build Nuclear Weapons
• Searching for Minds, Empirically: Introduction to Neuroscience of Consciousness
• Searching for Minds, Metaphysically: Introduction to Philosophy of Consciousness
• Seedy Dealings: The Rise of Plants
• From Engineering Genes to Fish Glowing Green: the Basics of the Biology and Ethics of Gene Editing
• Cool Theories in Math and Physics by Caltech Students
• From Molecules to Machine Learning: Introduction to Neuroscience by Caltech Students
• The 6 Coolest Topics in Biotechnology!
• Great and Small: Crazy Electrons
• Stem Cells and Cardiology
• BRAINSSS – how do they work?
• Fusion Energy: MIT’s Pathway to Unlimited Clean Energy
• Geobiology and Astrobiology
• Sporetacular Origins: Intro to Mycology
• How the immune system works
• Technology in Forensic Science
• Introduction to Epidemiology
• Saving Lives: The Science Behind Public Health and COVID-19
• Science in the Kitchen: Edible Experiments
• Environmental Geoscience