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Young Scholars Program (YSP) @ FSU
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The Young Scholars Program is a fantastic six-week residential science and mathematics summer program for Florida high school students with significant potential for careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Scholars will take a rigorous math, computer science, and experimental science (physics or biology) course 3 days a week, conduct research under the guidance of a professor 2 days a week and have an awesome time 7 days of the week! It is FREE for all students accepted. Any Junior interested in the program and wanting more information may ask Sam Swanson.
Student Science Training Program (SSTP) @ UF
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The SSTP is a seven-week residential research program for selected rising juniors and seniors who are considering medicine, math, computer, science, or engineering careers. The program emphasis is research participation with a UF faculty research scientist and his or her research team. Students also attend a lecture series on current research topics, and participate in a UF honors seminar class. Spruce Creek students who participated last year include Shreya Singireddy, Kharina Guruvadoo, Nick Fichera, Katie Wiggins, Kristy Kim, Kristine Wong, and Thomas Dao.
Trying to decide between YSP and SSTP? Here is a blog you may find helpful:
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Engineering Scholars Program (ESPER) @ Embry-Riddle
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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will institute a seven-week summer scholars program for selected Volusia County high school students that is designed to focus the students on science, engineering, mathematics and physics coursework while in high school, to choose such a program as part of their college course of study, and to choose a career in those fields. Spruce Creek students who participated last year include Sophie Watret, Gavin Knopp, Shahrose Kasim, Anna Guidubaldi, and Ziad Suleiman.
Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) @ MIT
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The MIT Office of Engineering Outreach Programs (OEOP) in the School of Engineering offers three free-of-charge academic enrichment programs for rising high school seniors from across the country: MITES, a six-week residential program; Engineering Experience (E2), a one-week residential program (done by Kharina Guruvadoo last year); MIT Online Science, Technology and Engineering Community (MOSTEC), a six month online program culminating in a five-day conference at MIT.
Research in the Biological Sciences (RIBS) @ UChicago
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This four-week intensive training program is designed to expose students to a broad range of molecular, microbiological, and cellular biological techniques currently used in research laboratories. Within the session, students will be immersed in the research experience, giving them a taste of life at the bench. Using a project-based approach, the course progresses from a survey of basic lab techniques to the application of current molecular techniques in developmental biology and microbiology.
Summer Program in Applied Rationality and Cognition (SPARC) @ UC Berkeley
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PARC is a two-week-long residential summer program for high school students, held in August 2014.
How do computers play chess? How does your phone correctly detect faces in an image? Can we model human decision-making, and once we do that, can we make it better?
To bring it down to Earth, how do we choose how to spend our time in school? How do we have productive conversations instead of wasting our time on unproductive arguments?
These are all really hard, unsolved problems; we will need many perspectives to even start, which is why SPARC’s core curriculum consists equally of probability theory, computer science, and cognitive science. We also have enrichment classes that give students a preview of college-level science courses, while showing how that science can be applied in work and in life.
How do computers play chess? How does your phone correctly detect faces in an image? Can we model human decision-making, and once we do that, can we make it better?
To bring it down to Earth, how do we choose how to spend our time in school? How do we have productive conversations instead of wasting our time on unproductive arguments?
These are all really hard, unsolved problems; we will need many perspectives to even start, which is why SPARC’s core curriculum consists equally of probability theory, computer science, and cognitive science. We also have enrichment classes that give students a preview of college-level science courses, while showing how that science can be applied in work and in life.
Stanford Institutes of Medicine Summer Research Program (SIMR) @ Stanford
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The program is an eight-week program in which high school students from diverse backgrounds are invited to perform basic research with Stanford faculty, postdoctoral fellows, students and researchers on a medically-oriented project. The goals of the program include increasing interest in biological sciences and medicine in high school students, helping students to understand how scientific research is performed, and increasing diversity of students and researchers in the sciences.