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Rutgers University-New Brunswick
College-level summer courses for high-school students taught by Rutgers faculty and doctoral students, with the chance to earn Rutgers-New Brunswick college credit.
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Pre-college program for students in New Brunswick, Perth Amboy and Plainfield public schools. Includes a Saturday Academy from September through May with workshops, lab activities and test prep, plus a six-week summer institute on the Rutgers-New Brunswick campuses.
Hearst Foundations / U.S. Senate
Leadership program for high-school juniors and seniors that culminates in a week-long Washington Week with senators and educational sessions; delegates are selected through state education departments.
Interlochen Center for the Arts
Residential summer arts camp on a 1,200-acre campus in Michigan with programs in music, theatre, visual arts, creative writing, dance, film and new media, and interdisciplinary arts.
National YoungArts Foundation
National program championing artists across all art forms, offering award winners creative and professional development opportunities across classical music, dance, design, film, jazz, photography, theater, visual arts, voice, and writing.
Annual global science video competition for high-school students with a $250,000 post-secondary scholarship, a $50,000 prize for the winner's teacher, and a $100,000 Breakthrough Science Lab.
One of the largest and most prestigious high-school math competitions in the world, with about 1,000 students testing problem-solving at two tournaments each year.
Advantage Testing Foundation
The largest math competition for girls in the world, held at MIT with about 250 participants and $100,000 in prizes, including $50,000 for first place.
Council for Economic Education
Team economics competition in which about 10,000 high-school students a year compete through state rounds, a national first round, and national semi-finals for cash prizes and recognition; Adam Smith and David Ricardo divisions.
Free online training resources and four online programming contests each year across bronze, silver, gold, and platinum divisions, plus a proctored US Open and a path to the U.S. team for the International Olympiad in Informatics.
Wharton Global Youth Program
Free global competition where teams of high-school students use an online simulator to manage portfolios and compete at a Global Finale in Philadelphia.
University of Delaware Horn Entrepreneurship
Global high-school competition where teams build solutions to problems they care about and pitch business and social-innovation ideas for more than $100,000 in cash and prizes.
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Unpaid, intensive on-site internship where high-school juniors and seniors explore STEM careers with staff mentors before choosing a college major; acceptance rate is under 10%.
American Fisheries Society
Eight-week paid summer internship pairing high-school students with fisheries professionals in federal and state agencies, universities, and private companies to stimulate interest in fisheries science and support diversity in the field.
Paid summer internship placing eligible students alongside researchers and health professionals, with exposure to clinical and biomedical research.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Seven-week, unpaid educational internship where high-school students work on research projects with NIST scientists in labs on the Boulder, CO, or Gaithersburg, MD, campus.
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Paid summer internship where high-school students work with museum departments on science and non-science projects while building research, communication, and workplace skills.
Skills training, mentoring, and paid internships of up to 500 hours for high-school seniors, keeping them connected to school and the workforce.
Hackensack Meridian Health
Program that matches a rising high-school senior with a coach in their preferred health care area for a senior-year experience that ends with a project presentation and certificate ceremony.
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Unpaid job shadowing (observership) for current high-school students in outpatient clinics and office settings, and some inpatient areas for ages 16 and up.
American Museum of Natural History
Year-long mentored science research for New York City high-school students, with a four-week August summer institute (including Black Rock Forest fieldwork), twice-weekly after-school mentor meetings, and monthly workshops.
Intensive seven-week summer research program for twelve highly qualified rising seniors and recent high-school graduates, working with Texas Tech faculty.
Center for Excellence in Education
Free summer program where about 100 of the most accomplished high-school students gather at MIT for one week of STEM classes followed by a five-week research internship and written and oral presentations.
Six-week program giving academically talented juniors hands-on research experience in science, math, or engineering with Stony Brook faculty mentors.