Outbreak! is a free, online summer program offered by the Public Health Museum of Massachusetts to teach high-school students (Grades 10-12) about public health and related fields such as epidemiology, ethics, disease surveillance, nursing, and emergency preparedness. This year it will be held on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 9AM-1PM, August 2-13. Register by June 30. For more information, email outbreak@publichealthmuseum.org.

PluggedIn, based in Needham, is a unique, inclusive, nonprofit youth music program. This summer it’s offering a program in Digital Music Production & Technology for ages 6-19. PluggedIn is open to all students, regardless of ability to pay, ability to play, special needs, etc. Each week the program runs 10AM-Noon on Monday-Thursday and 10AM-2PM on Friday. Sign up for any or all of four weeks:

• Intro to Digital Audio Production:  June 28-July 2
• Intermediate Digital Audio Production:  July 6-9 
• Creating Virtual Instruments in Pure Data:  July 12-16
• Programming Audio Plugins:  July 19-23

Also, June 28-August 20, PluggedIn will offer Peace Tracks, a cross-cultural, digital music and video project for students in ages 14-18 in Massachusetts and Morocco to collaborate online in making a music video. It’s open to all skill levels. Register here for this and other programs, in-person and online.

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

Boston Tech Mom has a new post, STEM Events for Kids, Summer 2021, that’s a terrific catalogue of at-home activities, online resources, and several camps, classes, and events — mostly virtual but some in-person.