Boston Children’s Hospital offers SCOOP — Student Career Opportunities Outreach Program — a six-week summer internship for rising Sophomore, Junior, and Senior high-school students to explore careers in patient care.  Students work 22 hours a week alongside mentors in patient services and develop a project to be presented at the end of the program.  Applicants must submit this Excel spreadsheet application and a 500-word essay — and arrange to have two letters of recommendation submitted — to staffdevelopment@childrens.harvard.edu no earlier than December 31 and no later than March 6.  For more information, contact the SCOOP Program Coordinator, Eva Gómez at the same email address.

The Women’s Technology Program at MIT is a rigorous summer residential program (June 27 to July 25) for female high school students who are completing Grade 11, who love and excel in math and science, who have little or no experience in engineering or computer science, who are not yet certain about their plans for college majors, and who want to explore engineering.  Through hands-on activities, problem solving, and collaborative learning, students explore either of two fields: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science or Mechanical Engineering.  Female MIT graduate students design and teach the courses, assisted by female MIT undergraduates.  Applications will be available November 25.  From a nationwide pool, 40 will be selected for Electrical Engineering/Computer Science and 20 will be selected for Mechanical Engineering.

Tufts University’s School of Veterinary Medicine offers a two-week summer program to introduce high-school students to the veterinary profession.  It’s an intensive program for students with a passion for animals, health, and science.  The residential program, which favors students from outside the Boston area, is for June 28-July 10 for Grades 11-12 or July 19-31 for Grades 10-11.  The day program, which is designed primarily for students in the local area, is August 3-13 for Grades 9-12.  Admission is competitive based on grade transcripts, two letters of evaluation, extracurricular activities, and an essay.

Lottery registration — during which all applications are considered equally — ends today, June 18 for MIT’s Summer HSSP.  Summer HSSP is a seven-week academic program that runs on Sunday afternoons, July 6-August 17.  Classes — both academic and non-academic — are offered in 3 timeblocks between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., with a one-hour lunch break.  It’s open to students who in the fall will be 7th Graders through college freshmen.  View the catalog and register online.  Rank up to three choices per block.  Classes will be assigned by lottery and published on June 23.  You can add or drop classes until June 27l  The cost for 7 weeks is $40, regardless of the number of courses taken, and generous financial aid is available.  For information, email summer-hssp@mit.edu.

Rolling admissions are still open for MIT’s Junction, a summer, non-residential series of evening courses taught at the undergraduate level.  Junction teachers design their own classes, so most Junction subjects do not conform to any standard high school or college curriculum. They are intense, exciting, experimental, and reliant on students’ work outside of class.   Core classes this year that are still open include Cryptographic Security, Advanced Classical Physics, and Chemical Biology and Evolutionary Medicine.  Courses meet 5-9PM, Monday through Thursday, July 7-August 14.  Each evening includes a core class, dinner, and a seminar class (single- or multi-session classes of great variety, not requiring outside work).  The cost is $600, including tuition, dinners, and supplies.  Generous, need-based financial aid is available.  Apply online.

The Innovation Institute in Newtonville has added new courses for this Fall:

• Microworlds:  Microorganisms, Cell Biology, and Molecules (Grades 3-4)
• Chemistry of Human Body Systems (Grades 4-5)
• Engineering Immersion:  Practices and Design (Grades 5-6 and 6-7)
• At the Biomedical Frontiers (Grades 8-12)
• Introduction to Computer Programming for Science & Engineering (Grades 6-8)

See the fall schedule and register online.  For information or requests about new classes, contact welcome@theinnovationinstitute.org or 617 340-9907.

There’s still room in some one-week mini-courses for this summer.  Check the schedule and register online for:

• Architects of the Future: Using Recycled Materials to Create a ‘Greener’ City (Grades K-2)
• Engineering: A Design Challenge  (Grades 1-2)
• Luminescence and Fluorescence: Investigations in the Natural and Built Worlds  (Grades 2-4)
• Under the Microscope: Exploring Microorganisms (Grades 3-5)
• Engineering Design Challenge: Robotic Arm  (Grades 4-6)

MIT’s Edgerton Center and the National Defense Education Program sponsor SeaGlide, a two-week, intensive design workshop for rising Grade 9-12 students in the greater Boston area.  Students of all experience levels are encouraged to apply to learn how to design, build, and operate an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle.  The workshop runs in MIT’s Building N51 from July 28 through August 8, from 9AM to 4PM.  It’s free (except for lunch), but a $250 refundable deposit is required.  Apply online.  For more information, contact K-12 project coordinator Robert Vieth (email).