Registration is open for You GO Girl!, the MIT Edgerton Center’s summer introduction to science and engineering for girls entering Grade 9.  It’s a non-residential program for 24 girls in the greater Boston area and will be held 8:30AM-2:30PM on August 5-8.  A suggested donation of $50 for materials is requested. Applications may be mailed or scanned, and acceptance decisions will be made by May 15. For more information, contact Amy Fitzgerald at 617-253-7931 or amyfitz@mit.edu.

Newton Community Farm will again host 20 to 30 high-school interns this summer. These are unpaid positions to learn about organic and community farming in either Farm Operations (Field Crew) or the Education Department. No prior experience is required. Minimum commitments are for two weeks for the Field Crew and four weeks for the Education Department. Applications are open and will be processed on a rolling basis until June 15. Apply for any or all of three sessions: July 1-26 8AM-12:30PM, July 1 – August 23 8AM-12:30PM, and July 1 – August 23 Noon-4:30PM. For more information, email education@newtoncommunityfarm.org.

Newton Community Education has launched NCE Tech, a series of week-long summer STEM classes for high-school students. Click the links to learn more and register. Other STEM classes are described starting on pages 11-17 of NCE’s Summer Kids Catalog.

• 3-D Game Development with Java – July 8-12, 9AM-4PM at Newton North High School
• Minecraft Modding – July 15-19, 9AM-4PM at Newton North High School
• Python Game Development – July 22-26, 9AM-4PM at Newton South High School
• Robotics Engineering with Arduino – July 29-August 2, 9AM-4PM at Newton South High School

With 20+ years of experience, iD Tech offers week-long summer computer tech camps for boys and girls ages 7-17 in an upbeat, collaborative environment in over 150 locations, including these in Massachusetts: Lasell College (Newton), Olin College of Engineering (Needham), Bentley University (Waltham), Harvard Law School, Curry College (Milton), St. Mark’s School (Southborough), Endicott College (Beverly), UMass Lowell, and Amherst College. Classes average 8 students (maximum 10) per instructor. Besides top-of-the-line technology and instruction from proven curricula, these summer camps offer fun camp activities such as dress-up days, outdoor events, gaming tournaments, and music-video parodies. Summer courses can be integrated with iD Tech’s year-round Online Private Lessons in a long-term skills development program, iD Tech Pathway.

To receive a $75 discount, use code NEWTONSTEM19 when you register before August 22. Courses fill up quickly. Changes are permitted without additional fees any time until three weeks prior to your course. id Tech also offers all-girls camps, Tech Academies for ages 13-18, and an advanced capstone program. For personal course recommendations, call 888-709-8324.

Tech Savvy is a one-week summer STEM program for girls entering Grades 7-8 next fall.  It’s run July 22-26, 9AM-4PM, by the Boston Girls STEM Collaborative.  Each day starts and ends at BU’s Photonics Center and includes activities at a different university:  Northeastern, BU, UMass Boston, or Harvard.  Typical activities include learning how how to use a 3D printer, developing a phone app, using circuits to build a dance pad, creating an animation for telling a story or an interactive game, and building robots and bridges. The cost ($250, or $50 for those with demonstrated financial need) covers all activities, transportation, and lunch.  Online registration is open until May 15.  Those who are accepted will be asked to submit signed waivers and payment.  For more information, email techsavvy@bostongirlsstem.org.

Design the Future is an immersive, six-day summer program in STEM and design thinking for high-school students. It’s held on the campuses of six universities, including Boston University, where it will be held June 24-29. Teams of high-school students work with a university design coach and a person possessing a physical disability to create solutions to real problems faced by individuals such physical disabilities. See this video and detailed information about the BU sessions. To attend an information session about the program at BU on March 28 at 7PM, RSVP to designthefuture@dcdesignltd.com.

For the third year,NuVu Studios in Cambridge offers summer programs in three sessions (July 8-19, July 22-August 2, August 5-16):

• Summer 2019 “Bioinfinity” (Ages 11-13, Grades 6-8)
• NuVu at MIT Design Studios “On The Brink” (Ages 14-18, Grades 9-12, Post-High School)
• NuVu at MIT Design Studios Residential (Ages 14-18, Grades 9-12, Post-High School)

Students may choose among 24 two-week studios, including Soft Robotics, Fantastical Droids, Musical Prosthetics, AI Neural Networks, Bio Design: Synthetic Biology, Beyond Earth, Future Augmented Reality Games, Food Fabrication Lab, and Digital Street Couture.

The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center is facilitating and funding summer internships for Massachusetts high-school students who are at least 16 years old and currently in Grades 10-12. The Summer Apprenticeship Challenge program connects these students with employers throughout the state and subsidizes intern stipends for six weeks) so that life sciences companies and academic researchers can hire interns. Employers do the interviewing and selection, then provide a mentor and a hands-on learning experience. Employers sign up here and students sign up here. For more information, email internship@masslifesciences.com.