MIT’s Summer HSSP is a weekend academic program (July 9-August 13) for students entering Grades 7-12 (plus those who just graduated high school). Courses are run by volunteers on Sundays at various times between 12PM and 4PM. 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 23 STEM courses:
- Arithmetic with Shapes and Other Things
- Making Games with Gameblox
- Practical Calculus: A Crash Course
- Reasoning Through Games of Chance
- Intro to Real and Complex Analysis
- Relational Databases Before There Were Such Things
- Topics in the History of Mathematics
- Introduction to probability and inference: AP Statistics and MORE
- Fun With Paradoxes
- Introduction to Organic Chemistry
- Introduction to Modern Physics
- Introduction to Molecular Biology, Genetic Engineering, and Laboratory Techniques
- Quantitative Biology
- Mind Control and Other Cool Topics in Neuroscience
- Fundamentals of Chemistry without All the Cr*p: The Structure of Matter
- Human Anatomy and Physiology: How the Body Works
- Earth’s Systems and Society
- Secrets of the Adaptive Immune System
- Quantitative Chemistry and Regenerative Biology
- Applied Chemical Thermodynamics
- Drugs and the Brain
- History of Physics
- Animal Behavior: Evolution and Genetics