Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Pre-Collegiate Outreach program is offering these summer programs virtually:

Launch: For students entering Grades 9-10. June 27- July 2 and August 8-13. Monday-Friday, either 9AM-noon or 1PM-4PM, with time split evenly between instruction and self-guided project work. Register here. Courses include:

• Architectural Design
• Biology: Changing the Living World
• Computational Biology: Simulating Virus Spread
• Computer Science: Innovative Applications
• Crime Scene Chemistry
• Cybersecurity: World-Wide Phenomena
• Data Science
• Digital Imaging and Computer Arts
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Explore the World with MATLAB
• Interactive Media & Game Development
• Physics
• Programming with Python: For Beginners
• Robotics Engineering
• Video Game Design

Frontiers: For students entering Grades 11-12.  July 11-23 and/or July 25-August 6. Register here. Courses include:

Session I:
Major Courses

• Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
• Computer Modeling: Exploration of Engineering Software
• Computer Science: Possibilities in Programming
• Mathematics: Applications in the Real-World
• Physics: Journey into Modern Physics

Minor Courses

• Digital Imaging & Computer Arts

Session II:
Major Courses

• Critical Insights from Learning Science
• Cybersecurity:World-Wide Phenomena
• Data Science: Extracting Knowledge & Insights
• Electrical & Computer Engineering
• Engineering Exploration
• Materials Science & Engineering
• Neuroscience: Unpacking the Mysteries of the Brain
• Psychology: Villains, Heroes & COVID
• Robotics Engineering

Minor Courses

• Ethics of Robots and Artificial Intelligence
• Financial Literacy
• Hip-hop and You Don’t Stop
• Introduction to Electronic Composition

Both Sessions I and II:
Major Courses

• Biomedical Engineering: Impacts on Global Health
• Interactive Media & Game Development

Minor Courses

• Business: Dream of Being Your Own Boss?
• Elements of Writing: The Application Essay
• Legal Storytelling: Race, Gender, and the Law
• Me, Myself and Music: Discovering the Connection
• Psychology
• Science of Art
• STEM Teaching Workshop

Tuft’s Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) will offer students in Grades 8-12 a virtual workshop, Online Arduino for Absolute Beginners, July 12-16, 12PM-3PM. The workshop requires no prior experience but requires the purchase of an Arduino Starter Kit from here or here.

Tuft’s Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) will offer online LEGO clubs for Grades 2-6, 9AM-11AM daily, in two sessions: July 5-9 and August 2-6.

UMass Amherst is offering online summer courses for high-school students, including these STEM-related courses:

• Creative Coding and Data Visualization, July 12-30
• Equine Science Intensive: Horse Pregnancy & Foaling, July 12-16
• Foundations of Data Science, July 26-August 6
• Kinesiology: Pathway to the Medical Professions, July 12-23
• Modern Astronomy, July 12-30
• Pre-Veterinary Medicine (FULL), July 29-July 2 or July 12-16
• Programming for Aspiring Scientists: Python with Applications to Physics, June 28 – July 9
• Research Intensive in Psychology (several different labs), June 29 – July 30
• Veterinary Technology, July 12-16 or July 19-23

Registration is now open for the virtual AP Summer Bridge Program offered free by Mass Insight Education and Research to all students in Massachusetts public and charter schools to help prepare for AP courses next year. Students can register at the following links for up to two courses (one 8:30AM-11:15AM and one 12:15PM-3PM) in each of two separate weeks:  July 26-30 and August 2-6. STEM-related courses include introductions to these AP courses:

• July 26-30:  Morning: Biology, Computer Science A, Statistics.  Afternoon: Environmental Science, as well as Science Study Skills.
• August 2-6:  Morning: Calculus, Chemistry. Afternoon: Computer Science Principals, Physics 1, as well as AP Study Skills for All.

iCode (73 Central Street in Wellesley) is offering both on-campus and virtual STEAM summer camps in gaming, coding, engineering, robotics, and more. Activities are diverse, and the on-campus programs take place both indoors and outdoors. Select from 80 on-campus sessions and 76 virtual sessions by age, date, and topic. Register online or by contacting iCode at 781-291-3131 or wellesley@icodeschool.com.

Harvard Museums of Science and Culture will offer several weeks of online STEM engagement for students entering Grades 1-4 next fall. In these Summer Science Weeks,  students meet for one hour per day for a week (Grades 1-2 at 9:30AM-10:30AM, Grades 3-4 at 11AM-Noon). Register at the links below:

• Spineless Wonders: June 28–July 2, August 2–6
• Earth Explorers: July 12–16, July 26–30
• All Together Now — Exploring Ecology: July 19-23
• Awesome Archeology: August 9-13