Grades 7-12: Register Now for MIT’s Summer Virtual HSSP, July 10-Aug 14

Students entering Grades 7-12 (plus those who just graduated) are invited to register for MIT’s Summer HSSP, which will run virtually on six Saturdays, 1PM-5PM, July 10 – August 14. Students can take 3-week classes or 6-week classes, or both. Register by June 25 with your preferences for classes to be entered in the lottery for class assignment. The total cost is $40, regardless of the number of classes taken, and generous need-based financial aid is available. The fee is paid after the lottery results are announced, during the period in which remaining seats may be reserved on a first-come/first-served basis. For more information, email summer-hssp@mit.edu. HSSP is run by MIT students, this year Zooming from far and wide to offer 41 courses (plus more to be added later), including these STEM-related ones:

  • Fun with Algorithms!
  • Programming Robot Arms to Move Objects
  • Introduction to Programming with R
  • Intro to Programming in Python
  • Sharing Secrets: An Introduction to Cryptography
  • Intro to Graph Theory
  • Type Theory and Formal Verification
  • Functions and Graphs made Easy
  • Demographic Dynamics in Human Populations
  • Women’s Health
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Nuclear Fusion: Infinite, Clean Energy?
  • Human Identification through DNA Typing
  • Intro to Electronics
  • Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Black Holes!
  • Great and Small: Crazy Electrons
  • Introduction to Epidemiology
  • The Science of Happiness
  • How the Brain Learns: Cognitive Study Skills
  • Intro to Microbial Genomics
  • Why Things Freeze/Boil (Spoiler: Gravity, Mostly)
  • How Neurons Talk
  • The (Not So) Many Faces of Biotech
  • STEM Lecture Series