Registration is open for You GO Girl!, the MIT Edgerton Center’s summer introduction to science and engineering for girls in the Greater Boston area who will be entering Grade 9.  Students may attend either July 18-21 or August 1-4, 8:30AM-2:30PM each day. A suggested donation of $100 for materials is requested. Apply by April 28. For more information, contact Amy Fitzgerald at 617-253-7931 or amyfitz@mit.edu.

IQ Learning will offer two one-week summer camps this summer:

• Northborough: STEAM: Building Sculptures, August 7-11, at Trinity Church in Northborough, for students entering Grades 3-6. Students will weave math and science into art by grappling, creating, observing, and applying their understanding to designing artistic challenges through hands-on experiences. 
• Brookline: STEM Mysteries: Breaking the Code, August 21-25, at United Parish in Brookline’s Coolidge Corner, for students entering Grades 4-7. Students will explore optical illusions, time travel, and breaking codes with the end goal of creating the camp’s own escape room.

IQ Learning and its summer STEM camp were started in Brookline last year by two certified, experienced, Harvard-trained teachers and math specialists, Cristina and Shephali, who met while working together in the Watertown Public Schools.

The aim of their STEM camps is to have kids engage in long-term STEM projects inspired by exciting themes and enable students to make connections to STEM concepts that they experience on interactive field-trips. For more information, email iqlearning314@gmail.com.

This year, Boston University Learning Resource Network (LERNet) will offer three in-person summer programs for young women living and attending school in Massachusetts.

AI4All is a three-week summer program focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI). It’s open to young women (and those who identify as such) currently in Grades 10-11 and living and attending school in Massachusetts. Participants explore topics such as robotics, computer vision, and natural language processing through team projects, industry field trips, and presentations from guest speakers. The program concludes with a small group research project and a presentation for friends and family. It runs July 24-August 11, Mondays-Fridays, 9:30AM-3:30PM. Apply by May 1.

The Artemis Project is a five-week summer program focused on computer science and led by BU undergraduates majoring in Computer Science or Engineering. It’s open to young women (and those who identify as such) currently in Grade 8 living and attending school in Massachusetts. Priority is given to students who live within 15 miles of Boston. Participants learn computer languages such as Scratch, AppInventor, HTML, CSS, and Python. They also are introduced to cryptography, artificial intelligence, robotics, and circuits. In addition, they learn how computer science is applied in the real world by hearing from guest speakers and visiting local industries. It runs July 10-August 11, Mondays-Fridays, 9:30AM-3:30PM. Apply by May 1.

GROW (Greater Boston Research Opportunities for Young Women) offers young women currently in Grade 11 the opportunity to perform research in a lab at Boston University for six weeks. Applicants must be 16 years old by July 1, live in Massachusetts, and attend school within 30 miles of Boston. Participants will have the opportunity to participate in cutting edge research in a collaborative setting. They will learn best research practices, hear from guest speakers, and develop communication skills by presenting their research at a culminating symposium. Participants who complete all program requirements will receive a stipend of $1500. Orientation is June 28-29, and the program runs July 5-August 11, Mondays-Fridays, 9:30AM-4:30PM. Apply by April 15.

Girls Who Code invites high school students who want to build computer-science skills, community, and a professional network to apply for Girls Who Code’s free Summer Programs, and the application deadline has been extended to March 20. Participants will find friends and opportunities with learning tracks like game design in the live Summer Immersion Program or data science in the Self-Paced Program. The programs are open to those with no experience as well as those who have participated in past summers. Girls Who Code encourages all girls and non-binary students in Grades 9-12 to apply.

Harvard Medical School’s MEDscience summer program for Grades 9-12 offers three one-week programs and one two-week program, following four different curricula:

• MEDscience@HMS (clinical): hands-on, active learning in realistic, dynamic, simulated medical emergencies, offered each week, June 12 through August 18.
• MEDscienceLAB (research based): hands-on lab and clinical experience in research and medical simulation, offered each of the weeks beginning June 10, 17, and August 7.
• MEDscienceLab Forensics (research based): research underlying investigations of simulated crime scenes, offered each of the weeks beginning June 12, 26, July 24, and August 14.
• MEDscience Moonshot (clinical): deep immersion into biomedical engineering, computer science and medicine at Harvard Medical School’s medical simulation labs and research lab, with design thinking through IDEO Cambridge, two weeks July 24-August 4.

All programs are in-person, non-residential, on the medical-school campus. Scholarships are available for Boston-area residents, awarded based on student essays and teacher assessments. Apply by March 25. For more information, email hmsmedscience@hms.harvard.edu or call 617-432-7047.

Girls Who Code invites high school students who want to build computer-science skills, community, and a professional network to apply for Girls Who Code’s free Summer Programs by March 24. They will find friends and opportunities with learning tracks like game design in the live Summer Immersion Program or data science in the Self-Paced Program. The programs are open to those with no experience as well as those who have participated in past summers. Girls Who Code encourages all girls and non-binary students in Grades 9-12 to apply.

IQ Learning will again offer its summer camp, STEM Mysteries: Breaking the Code, August 21-25, at United Parish in Brookline’s Coolidge Corner, for students entering Grades 4-7. Only 20 spots are available. IQ Learning and its summer STEM camp were started last year by two certified, experienced, Harvard-trained teachers and math specialists, Cristina and Shephali, who met while working together in the Watertown Public Schools.

The aim of their STEM camp is to have kids engage in long-term STEM projects inspired by exciting themes and enable students to make connections to STEM concepts that they experience on interactive field-trips. This year’s STEM program will explore optical illusions, time travel, and breaking codes with the end goal of creating the camp’s own escape room.  Sign up here. For more information, email iqlearning314@gmail.com.

Earthwatch is offering fully funded Girls in Science Fellowships to Massachusetts students who are currently in Grades 10-11 (ages 15-18) and identify as female or nonbinary. August 6-12, the Fellows will study the ecology and behavior of dolphins on the expedition Marine Mammal Bioacoustics and Conservation at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution expedition, in partnership with Woods Hole Sea Grant. Food and accommodations will be provided. Register here for an online information session on Tuesday, February 28 at 6PM. Apply by March 24. For more information, email gis@earthwatch.org.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory offers the Lincoln Laboratory Radar Introduction for Student Engineers (LLRISE), a two-week, residential, summer workshop for 18 rising high-school seniors to build small radar systems. It’s free and will be held July 9-22 on the MIT Campus with activities also at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington. Students from a wide range of underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. Apply online by 10PM on March 10, including uploading of essays, transcripts, standardized test scores, and math and science teacher recommendations. For more information, contact LLRISE@LL.mit.edu.