Other Summer Opportunities
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SMYSP is proud to be featured in The Ultimate Guide to Summer Opportunities for Teens: 200 Programs That Prepare You for College Success, a book published by Prufrock press and available nationwide. This directory lists 200 exemplary domestic and international programs in the areas of academic enrichment, fine arts, leadership and service, math, science, computer science and technology. SMYSP is highlighted as an outstanding resource for students interested in college and health careers.
For more information about this publication or to place an order, visit Prufrock Press Inc.
Summer Programs for Students
Following is a list of summer opportunities for high school and college students that were brought to our attention. We cannot recommend or endorse any program in particular, as we're not familiar with every program. Please investigate eligibility and tuition requirements, if any, for each.
Programs: High School Students
Brown University, Providence, RI: Summer@Brown
https://www.brown.edu/Administration/Continuing_Studies/pc/index.php
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Disease Detective Camp (tuition-free;
non-residential; rising junior and seniors)
https://www.cdc.gov/gcc/exhibit/camp.htm
The Chicano Latino Youth Leadership Project
https://www.clylp.com/s/107/index.aspx?sid=107&gid=1&pgid=2000
Childrens Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, CA: Summer Research
Program
https://www.chori.org/Education/Summer_Internship_Program/summer_internship.html
Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA: Minority Biomedical Research Support
Program
https://www.mbrs.cau.edu/
Clark University, Worcester, MA: Summer Science Program (tuition-free)
https://www.clarku.edu/admissions/specialprograms/summerscienceprogram/index.cfm
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY: Telluride Association Summer Programs
for High School Students
https://www.tellurideassociation.org/default.html
Duke University, Durham, NC: Duke University Talent Identification Program (TIP) (programs from 4th to 12th grade; financial aid may be available)
https://www.tip.duke.edu/index.html
George Washington University, Washington, DC: Science & Engineering
Apprenticeship Program
https://www.usaeop.com/programs/SEAP/index.htm
Health Jobs Start Here, California: Internships & Volunteering (list of various medical internships and volunteer opportunities throughout California)
https://www.healthjobsstarthere.com/resources/experience/find
InnerSpark, Sacramento, CA: California State Summer School for the Arts
https://www.csssa.org/home.html
Interamerican College of Physicians and Surgeons, Washington, DC: National Hispanic Youth Initiative (stipend and program-related expenses paid)
https://www.icps.org/Default.aspx?tabid=2078
Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth, Baltimore, MD: Summer
Programs
https://cty.jhu.edu/summer/grades7above.html
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA: Minority Introduction
to Engineering and Science Program (MITES) (tuition-free; rising seniors)
https://web.mit.edu/mites/MITES_Home.html
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA: Research Science
Institute
https://www.cee.org/rsi/index.shtml
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA: Women’s
Technology Program
https://wtp.mit.edu/
Mentoring in Medicine and Science, Oakland, CA: Medical Immersion Summer Academy (non-residential, fee-based)
https://misahealth.org/misa/
Michigan Tech, Houghton, MI: Summer Youth Program
https://youthprograms.mtu.edu/
Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA: Coca-Cola Pre-College Leadership Program (residential;
male sophomore and junior students or seniors who are applying to Morehouse)
https://www.morehouse.edu/centers/leadershipcenter/ccleadership.html
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD: The National Space Club
Scholars Program (non-residential; sophomores only)
https://www.spaceclub.org/scholars.html
National Institute on Drug Abuse: 2008 Summer Research with NIDA (minority
high school and undergraduate students)
https://www.nida.nih.gov/PDF/SPOSummer.pdf
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease’s
(NIDDK): Short-term Education Program for Underrepresented Persons (STEP-UP) (sophomore,
junior and seniors)
https://stepup.niddk.nih.gov/index.htm
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC: The Garcia Center for Polymers
at Engineered Interfaces
https://polymer.matscieng.sunysb.edu/research_scholar.html
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ: Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA)
https://www.ledascholars.org/
QuestBridge College Prep Scholarship (providing scholarships to various summer
programs)
https://www.questbridge.org/access/collegepreptext/
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY: Biology & Biotechnology
Paid Co-op/Internships (NOTE: this contains a detailed list of many internship opportunities, including some for high school students)
https://people.rit.edu/gtfsbi/Symp/summer.htm
Smith College, Northampton, MA: Smith College Summer Science & Engineering
Program (for girls)
https://www.smith.edu/summerprograms/ssep/
Spelman College, Atlanta, GA: Howard Hughes Biomedical Summer Science
Program (for rising senior high school females)
https://www.spelman.edu/academics/programs/biology/howardhughes_summer.shtml
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center: Youth Opportunity Program (summer
internship employment)
https://www-public.slac.stanford.edu/hr/jobs/YopProgram.asp?catid=0200
Stanford University, Stanford, CA: Asian Liver Center Youth Leadership Conference
(YLC) on Asian and Pacific Islander Health (residential program)
https://liver.stanford.edu/YLC/
Stanford University, Stanford, CA: Office of Science Outreach (list of science-based outreach programs at Stanford University)
https://oso.stanford.edu/
Stanford University, Stanford, CA: Stanford Medical Youth Science Program (tuition-free residential program for low-income sophomore and junior high-school students)
https://smysp.stanford.edu/
Stanford University, Stanford, CA: Summer Math and Science Honors Academy (SMASH) (tuition-free residential program for high achieving, low-income high-school students of color)
https://www.lpfi.org/smash
Stanford University, Stanford, CA: Summer Residential Camps
https://www.stanford.edu/dept/hds/scs/youth/
Stanford University Center for Clinical Immunology (CCIS), Stanford, CA: Stanford
Institutes of Medical Research (SIMR) Summer Internship Program
https://ccis.stanford.edu/
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX: Clark Summers Program
https://www.clarkscholars.ttu.edu/home.htm
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD: Meyerhoff Scholars Program (high school seniors interested in pursuing Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. degrees in STEM fields)
https://www.umbc.edu/meyerhoff/
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA: Summer Math and Science Honors Academy (SMASH) (free residential program for high achieving, low-income high-school students of color)
https://www.lpfi.org/smash
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA: Summer Sessions and
Special Programs
https://www.summer.ucla.edu/Institutes/GeneralInfo/highschool.htm
University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA: Summer Programs
https://summerprograms.ucsd.edu/
University of Houston, Houston, TX: Program for Mastery in Engineering Studies
(PROMES)
https://www.egr.uh.edu/promes/?e=camps
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL: GEMS – Girls Engaged in Math and
Science
https://gems.ncsa.uiuc.edu/index.html
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI: Telluride Association Summer Programs
for High School Students
https://www.tellurideassociation.org/default.html
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA: Summer & Special Programs
https://www.usc.edu/dept/admissions/programs/summer//
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada: Faculty of Medicine's Youth Summer Program (MED YSP)
https://www.ysp.utoronto.ca/medicine
University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY: Summer High School Institute
https://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/provost/hsi/
University of Southern Florida Area Health Education Center (USF AHEC), Tampa, FL: Health Professions Summer Academy (residential program for local junior and senior students; minority and underrepresented students highly encouraged to apply)
https://health.usf.edu/ahec/HighSchool/Students-summeracademy.htm
USDA Agricultural Research Service: Summer Internships and Research Apprenticeships
https://www.ars.usda.gov/Careers/Careers.htm?docid=5927&modecode=53-25-00-00&page=2
Programs: College Students (Undergraduate and graduate)
Childrens Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, CA: Summer Research
Program
https://www.chori.org/Education/Summer_Internship_Program/summer_internship.html
George Washington University, Washington, DC: Science & Engineering
Apprenticeship Program
https://www.usaeop.com/programs/SEAP/index.htm
Health Jobs Start Here, California: Internships & Volunteering (list of various medical internships and volunteer opportunities throughout California)
https://www.healthjobsstarthere.com/resources/experience/find
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation/Howard University, Washington, DC: Barbara
Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program (undergraduate seniors or recent graduates)
https://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/bjscholars/index.cfm
Institute for Responsible Citizenship (African American male sophomore)
https://www.i4rc.org/announcement.htm
Interamerican College of Physicians and Surgeons, Washington, DC: National Hispanic Youth Initiative (stipend and program-related expenses paid)
https://www.icps.org/Default.aspx?tabid=2078
The Latin American School of Medicine: Medical School Scholarship Program
https://www.ifconews.org/MedicalSchool/main.htm
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: Summer Fellowships (graduate)
https://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/2637.cfm
National Institute on Drug Abuse: Summer Research with NIDA (minority
high school and undergraduate students)
https://www.nida.nih.gov/PDF/SPOSummer.pdf
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease’s
(NIDDK): Short-term Education Program for Underrepresented Persons (STEP-UP) (sophomore, junior and seniors)
https://stepup.niddk.nih.gov/index.htm
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY: Biology & Biotechnology
Paid Co-op/Internships (NOTE: this contains a detailed list of many internship opportunities at colleges across the United States)
https://people.rit.edu/gtfsbi/Symp/summer.htm
Stanford University, Stanford, CA: Office of Science Outreach (list of science-based outreach programs at Stanford University)
https://oso.stanford.edu/
Stanford University, Stanford, CA: Stanford Summer Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP) (residential program for undergraduate students)
https://coe.stanford.edu/pre-med/sshcop.html
Stanford University, Stanford, CA: Stanford Summer Research Program/Amgen Scholars Program (SSRP) (residential program for undergraduate students)
https://ssrp.stanford.edu/
Stanford University, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Minority Medical Alliance (SUMMA) (pre-medical conference)
https://summa.stanford.edu/
Summer Medical and Dental Education Program (SMDEP) (at various colleges for
freshman and sophomore college students)
https://www.smdep.org/
Summer Opportunities for ALANA Undergraduate Students (African American, Latino/a,
Asian American and Native American undergraduates)
https://www.doorsofopportunity.org/
University of Maryland, College Park, MD: Women in Engineering Leadership
Enhancement, Application and Design (LEAD) Academies (females and males;
juniors and seniors)
https://www.wie.umd.edu/precollege/lead.html
University of Maryland, College Park, MD: Youth Scholars Program (rising
juniors and seniors)
https://oes.umd.edu/s/ysp/
University of Maryland College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, College
Park, MD: Summer Research Initiative (rising juniors and seniors)
https://www.bsos.umd.edu/dean/summer.html
University of Georgia Graduate School, Athens, GA: Summer Undergraduate Research
Program (under-represented undergraduate students)
https://www.grad.uga.edu/outreach&diversity/surp.html
USDA Agricultural Research Service: Summer Internships and Research Apprenticeships
https://www.ars.usda.gov/Careers/Careers.htm?docid=5927&modecode=53-25-00-00&page=2
Weill Cornell Medical College, the Rockefeller University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: Gateways to the Laboratory Summer Program (underrepresented minority and disadvantaged college students pursuing combined MD-PhD degree)
https://www.med.cornell.edu/mdphd/summerprogram/