Yale Young Global Scholars is a summer academic enrichment and leadership program bringing students worldwide to attend lectures and seminars and also work in capstone project groups on global problems, conducting rigorous background research and proposing solutions. The program offers ten interdisciplinary sessions:  three sessions in each of three two-week blocks on the Yale campus and one session in Beijing. Need-based financial aid is available and students from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply by February 6.

The Research Science Institute hosts 80 accomplished high-school students in a rigorous summer STEM research program at MIT, June 23 to August 3, combining on-campus coursework in scientific theory and off-campus work in STEM research.  Students first participate in a week of intensive STEM classes, then conduct five-week individual research projects with mentors, and finally prepare written and oral presentations of their results. The program is designed for students entering senior year in the fall, but exceptions for younger students will be considered. Except for a $65 application fee (which may be waived upon request), the program is free to students.  Applications are due January 15.  For more information, email RSI.

MIT’s Women’s Technology Program is an intensive, four-week summer residential academic program for girls currently in Grade 11 to explore engineering through classes, labs, and projects.  Separate programs are available for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (40 students) and Mechanical Engineering (20 students).  Applicants must have strong curiosity about one of these fields (but no direct experience in it yet) and also excel in math and science.  Applications are now available online and are due January 15.  There is no fee to apply.  The cost for attendees is $3,500, and financial aid is available.  For more information, first check the program’s FAQ and then email wtp@mit.edu.

The Broad Institute in Cambridge offers the Broad Summer Scholars Program (BSSP) invites highly motivated, Boston-area, high-school juniors with a strong interest in science to spend six weeks with Broad scientists to conduct original research projects in areas such as cancer biology, psychiatric disease, chemical biology, computational biology, and infectious disease. Students will also explore scientific careers, attend scientific talks, present their research to the Broad community in a scientific poster session, attend a college fair; participate in social events, and meet other students with similar interests. No previous research experience is required. There is no cost to apply or attend, and compensation is available for students demonstrating a financial need. Applications are due January 25. Students who apply may also have their application considered for a new April vacation week program, Broadie for a Week. For more information, see the FAQ page or email Rachel Gesserman at rgesser@broadinstitute.org.

Registration is now open for summer programs at NuVu Studios in Cambridge, which are each offered 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. There’s an early-bird discount for registrations before December 31.

MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute (BWSI) is a free, four-week, rigorous STEM program for talented students entering senior year of high-school. In its third summer, it has grown to 8 projects with about 200 students from 105 schools across the U.S. plus teams operating remotely in Canada and Mexico. This summer’s program concluded last week in a final, all-day event of races of autonomous cars and air vehicles, as well as demonstrations of student projects such as satellite designs, Alexa-like cognitive assistants, and machine learning to detect cyberbullying on Twitter. See videos of the programs from 2018, 2017, and 2016, along with this 2017 blog post.

BWSI starts each year by enrolling teachers and students in December for online courses that begin in January. Students showing significant progress in the online course may apply in mid-March for the Summer Institute, which runs from early July into early August.

BWSI is organized by the MIT LL Beaver Works educational research collaboration between Lincoln Laboratory and the MIT campus. Beaver Works seeks to expand BWSI in future years to involve more schools in BWSI and also to make the BWSI curriculum available to other schools for developing local STEM programs. For information about how to incorporate BWSI into your own school curriculum, email bwsi-admin@mit.edu.

Edge on Science will offer a one-week program, Drone and Code, August 27-31, for Grades 6-12 at the Spellman Museum of Stamps at Regis College in Weston. Learn the basics of drone flight and how drones have been used. Learn how to code instructions and fly a drone. No previous coding experience is required.