The Innovation Institute is offering an additional online summer program, Making Sense of Information: The How-To’s of Scientific Reasoning, July 20-31 (Mondays-Wednesdays-Fridays). Ages 11-3 will meet 9AM-10:30AM, and ages 14-16 will meet 11AM-12:30PM. The program will be collaborative, building confidence and skills in quantitative reasoning and experimental design through discussions of modern controversies in science, polling data, and the ‘logic’ of advertisements. Enroll by July 8.

In lieu of its canceled in-person summer camps at Lasell College, Einstein’s Workshop is offering virtual classes online in two-week sessions from June 29 through August 31 for students entering Grades 1-9. See the grade-specific schedules. Each virtual class will be held two days a week (either Monday-Tuesday or Wednesday-Thursday) for about an hour each time, with a “games and activities” session on Friday.

Building upon their successful Awesome Mentoring Project during the shutdown this spring, Newton’s high-school robotics team, the LigerBots, will offer a free, virtual summer camp for students entering Grades 1-6 in the fall. Kids will be grouped by Grades 1&2, 3&4, and 5&6. Classes will include programming, dance, astrology, and much more. The camp will be run over Zoom, with Slack for communicating with parents. It’s free, and materials will be provided. Sessions will run every weekday, 9AM-12:30PM, for multiple two-week sessions:  July 6-17, July 20-31, August 3-14, and August 17-28. You may sign up for multiple sessions, though capacity is limited. Sign up by June 22.

STEAM Workshops, based in Newton, is offering live, online STEAM workshops this summer for middle- and high-school students. Enrollment is limited to 10-15 students per workshop. Workshops include: Zoom into STEAM (Grades 1-5), Math Circle (Grades 2-7), SAT II Biology Tutoring, Innovations in BioTech (Grades 8-12), and Translational Medicine and Research (Grades 8-12). Program dates are flexible. For more information, email info.steamworkshops@gmail.com.

Students entering Grades 7-12 (plus those who just graduated) are invited to register for MIT’s Summer HSSP, which will run virtually this year on six Saturdays, Noon-5PM, July 11 – August 15. Register by June 25 with your preferences for classes to be entered in the lottery for class assignment. The total cost is $40, which is paid after the lottery results are announced. Generous need-based financial aid is available. For more information, email summer-hssp@mit.edu. HSSP is run by MIT students, this year Zooming from far and wide to offer 90 courses, including these STEM-related ones:

• Introduction to being a Code Ninja with Julia
• Intro to WebDev; Do you want to create a website to call your own while learning how to code?
• Introduction to Programming with R
• Game Design and Development with Minecraft and Java
• Bayes, Bays, and Bacteria: Bayesian Pattern Discovery in Biological Systems
• Elliptic Curves, Complex Tori, and Fermat’s Last Theorem
• A Construction of the Numbers
• Introduction to Linear Algebra
• Competition Math for Middle School
• Generalization Bounds in Machine Learning
• Models of Computation
• Discrete Math for Computer Science
• Intro to Intro to Abstract Algebra
• The Mathematics of Music
• Mathematical Models and How to Build One
• Mathematical Modeling of Diseases
• Mathematical First Days
• The Gadget Framework: Which types of changing mazes can simulate each other?
• A Cute Introduction to Group Theory
• Molecules in Motion: Intro to Biological Thermodynamics
• A History of Science (minus Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton)
• Do you want to be a Doctor?
• Introduction to Immunology
• Mechanisms of Disease
• Help Solve Climate Change!
• How to Make a Child: Developmental Psychology Crash Course
• Masters of Light
• Weird and useful microbial metabolism
• Biochemical Principles of Energy Metabolism
• Introduction to Thermal Sciences and How They Can Help Save the World!
• Virology, Epidemiology, and Wellness during COVID-19
• Thermodynamics with Applications
• Pathology naturewalk
• Intro to Synthetic Biology!
• Alchemy!
• Introduction to Economics
• Food Science – Cooking for Experimentalists
• Pandemics, Epidemics and Genomics
• SAT at home Physics
• Women’s Health
• Introduction to Genetics
• Introduction to Criminology
• Intro to Vaccines
• The Biological Basis of Neurological Disorders
• Physics- From Newton to Relativity, Black Holes, Inflation, the Universe and Beyond
• Quantum Computing!
• Fundamentals of the CRISPR-Cas9 World
• The Incredible Diversity of Microbial Life
• Pandemics Explained
• All About Immunology!
• Food Science 101
• How to Build Nuclear Weapons
• Searching for Minds, Empirically: Introduction to Neuroscience of Consciousness
• Searching for Minds, Metaphysically: Introduction to Philosophy of Consciousness
• Seedy Dealings: The Rise of Plants
• From Engineering Genes to Fish Glowing Green: the Basics of the Biology and Ethics of Gene Editing
• Cool Theories in Math and Physics by Caltech Students
• From Molecules to Machine Learning: Introduction to Neuroscience by Caltech Students
• The 6 Coolest Topics in Biotechnology!
• Great and Small: Crazy Electrons
• Stem Cells and Cardiology
• BRAINSSS – how do they work?
• Fusion Energy: MIT’s Pathway to Unlimited Clean Energy
• Geobiology and Astrobiology
• Sporetacular Origins: Intro to Mycology
• How the immune system works
• Technology in Forensic Science
• Introduction to Epidemiology
• Saving Lives: The Science Behind Public Health and COVID-19
• Science in the Kitchen: Edible Experiments
• Environmental Geoscience