Summer Science Opportunities 2012 Awesome websites: List of life science internships (paid and volunteer) for high school students, courtesy of Tom Frederick, professor of Microbiology at Rochester Institute of Technology: http://people.rit.edu/~gtfsbi/ scroll down to “Opportunities for High School Students� Health Jobs Start Here, California: Internships & Volunteering (list of various medical internships and volunteer opportunities throughout California) http://www.healthjobsstarthere.com/resources/experience/find
Specific Programs: COSMOS: California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science Web site: http://www.ucop.edu/cosmos/ March 1, 2012 deadline Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Berkeley Lab Internships for Precollegiate Scholars(BLIPS) http://csee.lbl.gov/Programs/BLIPS February 3, 2012 deadline Extremely competitive CHORI Summer Student Research Program http://www.chori.org/Education/Downloadables/2012DorisDukeApp.pdf (priority to underrepresented minorities, students with disabilities, and those who are the first in their families to go to college) February 2, 2012 UC Davis Young Scholars Program http://ysp.ucdavis.edu/app.html March 31, 2012 deadline Summer Science Program (Ojai, CA or New Mexico) www.ssp.org March 2, 2012 deadline MIT Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science Program (MITES) (tuition-free; rising seniors) http://web.mit.edu/mites/MITES_Home.html February 3, 2012 deadline
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MIT Research Science Institute/Center for Excellence in Education www.cee.org/programs/rsi Jan. 6, 2012 deadline (all materials must be received by then) Extremely competitive; free MIT Women in Technology http://wtp.mit.edu/2010_WTP_Flyer.pdf January 1, 2012 deadline Boston University Research Internships in Science and Engineering http://www.bu.edu/summer/high-school-programs/research-internship/ April 2, 2012 deadline University of Iowa Secondary Student Training Program http://www.education.uiowa.edu/html/belinblank/old/summer/programs/911/sstp/curriculum.asp March 1, 2012 deadline Carleton Summer Science Institute (CSSI) http://apps.carleton.edu/summer/science April 25, 2012 deadline National Institute on Drug Abuse: 2012 Summer Research with NIDA (minority high school and undergraduate students) http://www.nida.nih.gov/PDF/SPOSummer.pdf January 17, 2012 deadline The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease’s (NIDDK): Short-term Education Program for Underrepresented Persons (STEP-UP) http://stepup.niddk.nih.gov/index/htm February 15, 2012 deadline The Garcia Center for Polymers at Engineered Interfaces SUNY Stony Brook (chemical engineering and materials science) http://polymer.matscieng.sunysb.edu/srprog.html February 15, 2012 deadline Smith College, Northampton, MA: Smith College Summer Science & Engineering Program (for girls) http://www.smith.edu/summerprograms/ssep/ March 1, 2012 (early) and May 1, 2012 (regular) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Youth Opportunity Program (summer internship employment) http://www-public.slac.stanford.edu/hr/jobs/YopProgram.asp?catid=0200 deadline not available Head-Royce College Counseling Office, 2012
Stanford Asian Liver Center Youth Leadership Conference (YLC) on Asian and Pacific Islander Health (residential program) http://liver.stanford.edu/YLC/ application not yet available Summer Math and Science Honors Academy (SMASH) (tuition-free residential program for high achieving, low-income high-school students of color) http://www.lpfi.org/smash February 23, 2012 deadline; open only to current 9th graders Clark Scholar Program at Texas Tech University http://www.clarkscholars.ttu.edu/home.htm February 3, 2012 deadline Michigan State University High School Honors Science/Mathematics/Engineering Program (HSHSP) http://education.msu.edu/hshsp/ April 1, 2012 deadline UCLA: Summer Sessions and Special Programs http://www.summer.ucla.edu/Institutes/GeneralInfo/highschool.htm Nanoscience Lab, Stem Cell Science program, and Sci/Art Nanolab (interdisciplinary program on science, art and popular culture) Rolling deadline University of Houston, Houston, TX: Program for Mastery in Engineering Studies (PROMES) http://www.egr.uh.edu/promes/?e=camps Rolling admissions University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine's Youth Summer Program (MED YSP) http://www.ysp.utoronto.ca/medicine Rolling, but apply by March 1, 2012 University of Pennsylvania Summer Academy in Applied Science & Technology www.seas.upenn.edu/saast May 25, 2012 deadline (very expensive) NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences Weather Camp http://ncas.howard.edu/outreach/WeatherCamp/index.html April 13, 2012 deadline
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Stanford Earth Sciences High School Internship Program http://pangea.stanford.edu/academics/outreach-programs/k12-programs/high-schoolinternships March 23, 2012 deadline
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