MIT’s Summer HSSP is a weekend academic program (July 7-August 18) for students entering Grades 7-12 (plus those who just graduated high school). Courses are run on the MIT campus by volunteers on Sundays at various times between 10:30AM and 3PM. Registration is now open until June 26 on a lottery basis, with equal consideration given to all applicants registering by that deadline. The cost is $40 regardless of the number of courses taken, and generous financial aid is available. For more information, email summer-hssp@mit.edu. The course catalogcontains these 36 STEM courses:
- Python By Example
- Quantum Information and Quantum Computation
- Hack all teh things
- Introduction To Machine Learning
- Trends in Software Engineering
- Random topic(s) in Engineering
- Inferential Statistics: How We Learn to Make Decisions
- Probability
- Elliptic Curves
- How to factor sin x?
- Linear Algebra
- The Computational Complexity of Games and Puzzles
- Advanced Topics in Combinatorics
- Mycology: Biology, Behavior, and an Introduction to Fungi
- Intro to Thermodynamics!
- The Chemistry of Food
- The Transition (Metals) of Life
- A Deep Dive into Drugs, Diseases and Development (and more!)
- Introduction to Biochemistry
- Intro to Synthetic Biology!
- Photobiochemistry
- The chemistry of colors and nuclear energy
- From Earth to Mars: An Introduction to Rocketry
- The Physics of Life
- Introduction to Epidemiology
- Climate change, climate action
- The Biological Basis of Neurological Disorders
- Epidemiology: The Science of Disease
- Pandemics, Epidemics and Genomics
- Intro to Organic Chemistry
- A Mirror Into the Mind: An Introduction to Neuroscience
- The Wonderful Science of Baking
- Sensational Neuroscience: How Your Brain Understands the World
- Blast Off: Intro to Airplanes and Rocketry!
- Rationality: How to model our world, seek truth, and strive for good decisions
- Lithographic Patterning: Photons, Electrons and Ions
