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.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory offers LLCipher, a free, one-week workshop in theoretical cryptography, July 31-August 4, for high-school students in Grades 9-12 interested in math and cyber security. It will be held in-person at MIT Beaverworks (300 Technology Square, Cambridge). Students from underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. Applications (including transcripts and math teacher recommendation) are due April 28 by 10PM. For more information, email STEM@ll.mit.edu, mentioning LLCipher.

MassBay Community College will offer iCREAT — a free, two-week, non-residential, 3-credit course in coding, robotics, engineering, and technology — for selected students currently in Grades 10-12 who are first in their family to go to college and/or are receiving support for food, housing or health care. It will run July 10-23, 9AM-3PM Mondays-Thursdays, on the MassBay campus (40 Oakland Street, Wellesley Hills). Apply online.