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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

Edge on Science: Safe, In-Person Summer STEM Programs

Summer

Edge on Science will offer safe, in-person, week-long summer STEM programs at Lasell University in Newton. Choose among eight tracks: Super Science Sampler, Drone & Code, Summer Rocket Blast Off, Catapult Engineering, Bridge Building, the Hydraulics Makerspace, Galileo’s Astronomy and Microscope Adventures. Under its COVID-19 rules and guidelines, enrollment is limited to 8 students per program and programs are designed to allow students to remain 2 meters apart. High-school students may apply to be Counselors-in-Training (see FAQ #6). For more information, call 315-773-5673.

Harvard Museums of Science and Culture: Summer Science Weeks

Summer

The Harvard Museums of Science and Culture will offer week-long virtual Summer Science Week programs with live Zoom programs followed by at-home activities for children entering Grades 1-6. With each Zoom session about 40-50 minutes, the programs will take a total of one to two hours per day, depending on your child’s level of interest. Programs are limited to 10 students each. Cost is $65 ($58 for HMSC members). Registration for each program closes one week beforehand. For more information, email reservations@hmsc.harvard.edu.

Grades 1-2 at 9:30AM and Grades 3-4 at 10:30AM:

  • Spineless Wonders: June 22-26 or August 3–7
  • Space!: June 29–July 3 or August 10–14
  • Earth Explorers: July 13–17 or July 20–24

Grades 4-6 at 9:30AM:

  • The Ins and Outs of Skeletons:  July 27–31 or August 17–21

Jane Street’s 8th Annual ‘Women in STEM’ Program, July 27-28

Events, Virtual/Online

Jane Street Capital — a quantitative trading firm in New York City — will host its eighth annual Women in STEM event virtually over two days, July 27-28, inviting selected women graduating from high school in 2020 to learn about the firm and how it uses math, computer science, and probability in its business. Apply by July 5. For more information, email womeninstem@janestreet.com.

Apply to Join TiE’s Young Entrepreneur’s Program, 2020-21

After School

The TiE Young Entrepreneurs is a rigorous, six-month extracurricular program for students in Grades 9-12 to foster skills in building a startup. It uses a proven curriculum in entrepreneurship and business acceleration, taught by experts in the field, to help students tackle real-world problems. Along the way, it helps students identify and develop pathways to reach personal and professional goals. This year, TYE will offer a fully immersive, virtual program. Space is limited, and applications are due August 15. TYE will host a free informational webinar, 11AM to Noon on June 13 (registration required).

Science Club for Girls: Free Online Shows

Resources, Virtual/Online

Science Club for Girls has broadcast six online sessions of its weekly science show, SCFG Live!: Spring Into STEM, with hands-on activities, videos, podcasts, and virtual tours. Recordings of these shows are available on SCFG’s Facebook page, YouTube channel, the SCFG website, and the public-access television stations of Somerville, Cambridge, Lawrence, Lowell, Boston, and Brookline. New live shows will start the week of June 12.

Museum of Science #MOSatHome Schedule, June 1-5

Events, Virtual/Online

Boston’s Museum of Science offers free live online sessions with museum educators the week of June 1-5, with similar events scheduled at the same times in future weeks. Register via the link above for these:

  • Coolest Science Stories: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 12PM.
  • Science in Action: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 1PM, including Water is Weird, and Playing with Polymers.
  • Virtual Planetarium: Tuesday at 1PM, Friday at 2PM, including Exploring Space and The Sky Tonight.
  • STEM Beyond School:  Monday through Thursday at 2PM: At-home engineering activities, including Exploring Computers and a Weekly STEM Challenge, using the Museum’s EiE curriculum.
  • Ask a Scientist: Monday through Friday at 3PM and Tuesday at 12PM:  Q&A panels on topics such as marvelous mammals, human evolution, lightning, and space exploration.
  • Live Animals: Thursday at 1PM, What’s That Smell?