High School Opportunities

The CURIE Academy is a one-week summer residential program for high school girls who excel in math and science and want to learn more about careers in engineering. Cornell University's world-renowned faculty and graduate students will lead CURIE participants in classes, lab sessions, and project research. Social events, panel discussions, and other out-of-classroom activities will provide participants with opportunities to network informally with Cornell faculty, staff, and students. This summer, spend a week making new friends; experience life on a university campus; and explore the many exciting possibilities awaiting you in engineering. Apply to the CURIE Academy today!

2 week to 8 week residential programs in a variety of science topics!

Since 2014, U.S. students have participated in annual JASE expeditions in conjunction with the Chilean Antarctic Institute's Expedición Antártica Escolar (EAE), a program that has been running for over 10 years to promote awareness and appreciation of Antarctica in young Chileans.

Budding Einsteins and would-be Dr. Sheldon Coopers will find both valuable instruction and inspiration at the Perimeter Institute's International Summer School for Young Physicists. Students will hear from some of Perimeter's top researchers on such timely topics as superstring theory, quantum computing, and dark matter before taking part in hands-on labs and mini-courses. Participants will even have the chance to tour various research facilities and work with leading international theoretical physicists.

Students intent on attending medical school will love this three-week Pre-Medical Institute at Washington University in St. Louis. The program is designed to build off students' already strong foundation in the sciences, and exposes them to such medical topics as forensic psychology, nutrition, trauma surgery, pediatric medicine, emergency medicine, and physical and occupational therapy, among others.

Mathematics is an integral part of science, and Boston University's Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists is the perfect summer program for aspiring and motivated students to hone their math skills. They'sll team up with other students, research mathematicians, counselors, and visiting scientists for a typical day of number theory lectures, seminars, independent and group work and research, hands-on experiments, and plenty of fun activities.

The College Match offers full four-year scholarships covering tuition and room and board for high-achieving low-income students. All College Match scholarships cover 100% of demonstrated financial need and are loan-free.

The Intramural Research Program(IRP) is the in-house research program of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH) and is located on the Johns Hopkins Bayview Campus, Baltimore, Maryland. For nearly 60 years, NIDA has been the primary source of scientific knowledge concerning addiction and has served as a training facility for researchers with an interest in drug abuse research. The Recruitment & Training Program for Under-represented Populations is an intramural program that provides training opportunities for students who are interested in the scientific basis of drug abuse. A limited number of positions are available each summer. Selection is very competitive.

While dozens of great programs exist for those students looking for an introduction or intermediate-level course in biology, not very many exist for those who are serious and ambitious when it comes to research science. Enter: the Research Apprenticeship in Biological Sciences at Cornell University. Known as RABS, this unique program allows serious, research-oriented students to work with some of Cornell's leading professors and post-doctoral fellows on an investigative project. The program is intensive, as students may often spend 40 or more hours per week on a research team. At the end of the six-week course, students prepare both an oral presentation and a written report suitable for publication.

Vanderbilt University is one of the most prestigious research universities in the country, and come summer, high school students can join the fun with the Research Experience for High School Students (REHSS) pre-college program. This intense six-week program immerses students into the life of a research lab. Though students attend weekly breakout sessions with faculty or graduate students, most of the time is spent working on an independent research project under the mentorship of a Vanderbilt faculty member.