High School Opportunities

The Davidson Fellows Scholarship awards $50,000, $25,000 and $10,000 scholarships to extraordinary young people, 18 and under, who have completed a significant piece of work.

For those wishing to obtain a little taste of the college experience, there may be no better choice of summer program than the one offered by Emory College. One of the best thing about Emory's program is the number of choices. How long, credit or no credit, specific subjects, or you can choose all of it. For example, students looking for a pre-college summer science program have such class options as Current Concepts in Sports Medicine, Infectious Diseases: Causes and Cures, Introduction to Neuroscience, and Cancer: The Biology Behind the Disease, to name but a few.

There are few topics as timely as environmental studies and fewer pre-college summer programs that focus entirely on this subject. One of the best, however, is the Environmental Studies and Sustainability Institute at Washington University in St. Louis. Over the course of the Institute's two weeks, students will learn about basic ecological principles and discover how environmental studies incorporates concepts from politics, economics, ethics, philosophy, and social sciences. Each day is packed with traditional class time, field trips, guest lectures, and hands-on activities before culminating in a final research project.

On behalf of Girls Inc. of the Pacific Northwest, we would like to invite you to apply for the Eureka!® Program and join us in sparking your daughter's interest in science, technology, engineering, & mathematics (STEM). The program is designed to encourage girls's excitement about STEM subjects through engaging them in enriching and fun year round learning opportunities.

Over the course of two weeks spent at Boston College, high school students will immerse themselves in all things forensic science. Students dive into pathology, serology, ballistics, physics, and biochemistry to learn about myriad diagnostic tests and methods used by professional forensic scientists. They are then able to use this knowledge to evaluate crime scenes both mock and real as they work to solve Virtual Crime Cases.

The Forensic Science Institute is a one-week pre-college summer program hosted by Georgetown University. As part of this exciting week, students will cover topics like blood spatter analysis, gang and terrorism investigations, geographic profiling, and much more through discussions and lectures with actual forensic scientists, visits to places like the Museum of Crime and Punishment, and hands-on activities led by detectives and agents from various government agencies.

Gaining hands-on experience in forensic science while earning six college credits may sound too good to be true, but that's exactly what students get in the Forensic Science Program at Syracuse University. Over the course of six weeks and two classes, students become a part of an actual forensic crime scene team that gathers forensic evidence from a simulated crime scene. Class lectures and various guest speakers provide basic background information, while a variety of hands-on lab activities provide an enhanced view of such topics as blood and hair analysis, DNA, forensic psychology, drug chemistry and toxicology, fingerprints, soil comparisons, arson investigations, and so much more.

PROMYS is a challenging program designed to encourage ambitious high school students to explore the creative world of mathematics. Each summer, approximately 85 high school students from around the country gather on the campus of Boston University for six weeks of rigorous mathematical activity.

In partnership with Vermont-based NGO, PH International, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow has launched a 6-week summer US and Russia exchange program called 'Space-Oriented Learning for Americans and Russians' (SOLAR Program). SOLAR program is open to all American students aged 15-17 who attend a high school.

The Geosciences Bridge Program is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). It is a 6-week paid ($500/week stipend + housing + meals) internships at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) The Program provides an opportunity for graduating High School seniors, particularly from underrepresented groups,who are US citizens or permanent residents, with at least a 2.7 GPA who have been accepted at an accredited college or university, to study and participate in hand-on activities this summer in marine geology, physical oceanography, atmospheric science, marine biology, marine chemistry, biogeochemistry, and remote sensing/GIS.