STEM Opportunities
School Year Opportunities
The Office of Teens Programs at the New England Aquarium offers a variety of volunteer and paid opportunities for teens ages 13 through 19. Visit their website for more information.
Looking for something to do over school vacation weeks? Mass Audubon has fun outdoor activities to keep you busy all week long. Find a Mass Audubon program near you!
This year's lecture series has not yet been announced. Please check Whitehead website for updates. This special three-day program will include presentations from pioneering scientists, hands-on workshops in laboratories at Whitehead Institute, visits to local biotech companies and research organizations, and lunches with young Whitehead scientists.
Girls STEM Summit
The Girls' STEM Summit is being hosted by Jr. Tech. Jr.Tech’s mission is to engage 4–12 grade students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education to encourage and broaden students’ skills and awareness of career paths in STEM fields. The summit includes an inspirational keynote speech by a local female leader in a STEM field; opportunities to meet successful women working as experts in STEM fields and work directly with them in hands-on career-specific workshops; and workshops to expand knowledge of STEM industries and emerging career paths. The summit's goal is to inspire students to continue taking STEM high school courses applicable to STEM college programs.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Splash in an annual event for students in grades 9-12 that takes place on the weekend before Thanksgiving. Students have the opportunity to take a bunch of short classes "on a huge variety of cool topics.
MITRE Young Women in Engineering Workshop
Summer Opportunities
BSSP invites a small number of exceptional and mature high school students with a keen interest in science to spend six weeks at the Broad Institute, working side-by-side with scientists in the lab on cutting-edge research. Rising seniors who live within commuting distance to the Broad Institute are eligible to apply.
The MIT Women's Technology Program (WTP) is a rigorous four-week summer academic and residential experience where female high school students explore engineering through hands-on classes, labs, and team-based projects in the summer after 11th grade. Students choose either Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) or Mechanical Engineering (ME). For more information, visit: Women's Technology Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Biogen Community Lab, Cambridge, MA. Biogen offers week-long sessions for high school students, who must have completed at least 9th grade by this summer.
Draper’s High School Internship Program
Army Educational Outreach Program
Apprenticeships and Internships for HS students. For more information: Army Educational Outreach Program
UMass Amherst Pre-College Programs
MIT ESP-HSSP Summer 2023 (Registration by June 27th)
The MIT’s Summer HSSP is a weekend academic program (July 9-August 13) for students entering Grades 7-12 (plus those who just graduated high school). Courses are run virtually on Zoom by volunteers on Sundays at various times between 1PM and 4PM. Registration is now open until June 27 on a lottery basis, with equal consideration given to all applicants registering by that deadline. The cost is $50 regardless of the number of courses taken, and generous financial aid is available. For more information, email summer-hssp@mit.edu. The course catalog for this summer contains these 17 STEM courses:
StudentS’ STEM (S3) — an approach empowering students
How to Make a Dragon: Introduction to Synthetic Biology
Introduction to Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
DIY: Mini Magnetically-Levitated Trains
Circuits Analysis 101
Modeling Mechanics and Circuits via Differential Equations and JavaScript
Introduction to Computational Statistics
More Than One Variable? – An Introduction to Multivariable Calculus
Developmental Immunology
Cancer Warriors: Unleashing the Power of Your Immune System against Cancer
From Earth to Space: Introduction to Space Medicine
Electrifying Biochemistry
Saving the World with the Science of Sustainability!
Nuclear Reactors: Science and Operation
How the Earth Moves Below the Sea: An Intro to Conducting Marine Geophysical Research
Relativity and Black Holes
Everything they don’t tell you about Mathematics
New Opportunities Fall 2023
Northeastern Splash!, In-Person, Nov. 11
Each fall and spring, NEPTUN (a Northeastern University student group) hosts Splash!, a free program for students in Grades 8-12 to take fun and informative mini-classes led by Northeastern undergraduate students. This year, Splash! will again be held in-person at Ryder Hall (11 Leon St, Boston) on the Northeastern campus, on November 11, 8:30AM-6:40PM. The $0 cost includes free pizza and a T-shirt. Registration is now open and is first-come/first-served and requires setting up a free student account. For more information, see the FAQs or contact nu.neptun@gmail.com. Among the 26 in-person Splash! courses this year are these STEM offerings:
Electronics and Soldering Workshop
The eggscellent challenge
Will robots destroy the world?
The Entire Internet in an Hour!
Emoji: How They Work and Why They Break Everything
How to Preserve Dead Things
Real Life Sci-Fi: Gene Editing
Black Holes
From Atoms to Adam: Science’s Best Understanding of the History of Everything
Miraculous 3-Pound Jell-O
Homemade Gel Electrophoresis/Edible DNA!
Grades 9-12: Register by Oct. 29 for MIT Splash, Nov. 18-19
MIT’s Splash program runs for two days each year on the weekend before Thanksgiving — running in-person this year on November 18-19. Students in Grades 9-12 can take a wide range of mini-courses taught by MIT undergraduates and participate in drop-in activities. This year, Splash! is offering over 180 courses including many in Science, Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics. The cost is $40 regardless of the number of courses taken, and generous financial aid is available. The first phase of registration is now open, in which students will have until October 29 to register and specify their preferences for classes. Classes will then be filled by lottery, treating equally all those who register anytime in the first phase of registration. After the lottery results are announced, some classes may be available for those registering later, in a subsequent phase of registration. See the Program Details. For more information, email splash@mit.edu.
New England Sci-Tech: StratoScience 2024 engineering class
The New England Sci-Tech (NEST) STEM education center (16 Tech Circle, off Route 9 in Natick) will offer StratoScience 2024, an engineering class hosted by the New England Weather Balloon Society. Students will work both independently and together to design and build a scientific payload aboard a high altitude balloon that will fly to the edge of space. Students will participate in the planning, building, launching, tracking, recovery, and analysis of the mission. Register for the required Info Session, which is offered on two alternate dates: October 28 and November 4. Classes begin November 18 and will meet on most Saturdays, 1PM-2PM, until August 24.
Broad Discovery Series: New perspectives on diabetes: The many subtypes of type 2, Nov. 9
The next presentation in Broad Institute’s Broad Discovery Series of free, public lectures (formerly Science for All Seasons) will be on November 9, 6PM-7PM. Physician-geneticist Miriam Udler and computational and cellular biologist Melina Claussnitzer will discuss what genetics reveals about the subtypes of type 2 diabetes, and how researchers can use that understanding as a springboard for learning how this disease really works — and what to do about it. Register to attend — either in-person (415 Main Street, Cambridge) or virtually. In-person attendees are invited to a reception in the Broad Discovery Center following the talk.