Register for MIT’s Summer Virtual HSSP, Grades 7-12

Summer, Virtual/Online

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