Other Summer Opportunities
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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
http://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)
http://www.cdc.gov/gcc/exhibit/camp.htm
The Chicano Latino Youth Leadership Project
http://www.clylp.com/s/107/index.aspx?sid=107&gid=1&pgid=2000
Childrens Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, CA: Summer Research
Program
http://www.chori.org/Education/Summer_Internship_Program/summer_internship.html
Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA: Minority Biomedical Research Support
Program
http://www.mbrs.cau.edu/
Clark University, Worcester, MA: Summer Science Program (tuition-free)
http://www.clarku.edu/admissions/specialprograms/summerscienceprogram/index.cfm
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY: Telluride Association Summer Programs
for High School Students
http://www.tellurideassociation.org/default.html
George Washington University, Washington, DC: Science & Engineering
Apprenticeship Program
http://www.usaeop.com/programs/SEAP/index.htm
InnerSpark, Sacramento, CA: California State Summer School for the Arts
http://www.csssa.org/home.html
Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth, Baltimore, MD: Summer
Programs
http://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)
http://web.mit.edu/mites/MITES_Home.html
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA: Research Science
Institute
http://www.cee.org/rsi/index.shtml
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA: Women’s
Technology Program
http://wtp.mit.edu/
Michigan Tech, Houghton, MI: Summer Youth Program
http://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)
http://www.morehouse.edu/centers/leadershipcenter/ccleadership.html
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD: The National Space Club
Scholars Program (non-residential; sophomores only)
http://www.spaceclub.org/scholars.html
National Institute on Drug Abuse: 2008 Summer Research with NIDA (minority
high school and undergraduate students)
http://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)
http://stepup.niddk.nih.gov/index.htm
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC: The Garcia Center for Polymers
at Engineered Interfaces
http://polymer.matscieng.sunysb.edu/research_scholar.html
QuestBridge College Prep Scholarship (providing scholarships to various summer
programs)
http://www.questbridge.org/access/collegepreptext/
Smith College, Northampton, MA: Smith College Summer Science & Engineering
Program (for girls)
http://www.smith.edu/summerprograms/ssep/
Spelman College, Atlanta, GA: Howard Hughes Biomedical Summer Science
Program (for rising senior high school females)
http://www.spelman.edu/academics/programs/biology/howardhughes_summer.shtml
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center: Youth Opportunity Program (summer
internship employment)
http://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)
http://liver.stanford.edu./YLC/YLC2009.html
Stanford University, Stanford, CA: Stanford Medical Youth Science Program
http://smysp.stanford.edu/
Stanford University, Stanford, CA: Student Clinical Opportunities for Premedical
Experience (SCOPE)
http://scope.beagooddoctor.org/index.html
Stanford University, Stanford, CA: Summer Residential Camps
http://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
http://ccis.stanford.edu/
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX: Clark Summers Program
http://www.clarkscholars.ttu.edu/home.htm
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA: Summer Sessions and
Special Programs
http://www.summer.ucla.edu/highschool/hsgeneral.htm
University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA: Summer Programs
http://summerprograms.ucsd.edu/
http://meded.ucsd.edu/sdexport/
University of Houston, Houston, TX: Program for Mastery in Engineering Studies
(PROMES)
http://www.egr.uh.edu/promes/?e=camps
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI: Telluride Association Summer Programs
for High School Students
http://www.tellurideassociation.org/default.html
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL: GEMS – Girls Engaged in Math and
Science
http://gems.ncsa.uiuc.edu/index.html
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA: Summer & Special Programs
http://www.usc.edu/dept/admissions/programs/summer//
University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY: Summer High School Institute
http://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)
http://health.usf.edu/ahec/HighSchool/Students-summeracademy.htm
USDA Agricultural Research Service: Summer Internships and Research Apprenticeships
http://www.ars.usda.gov/Careers/Careers.htm?docid=5927&modecode=53-25-00-00&page=2
Programs: College Students
Childrens Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, CA: Summer Research
Program
http://www.chori.org/Education/Summer_Internship_Program/summer_internship.html
George Washington University, Washington, DC: Science & Engineering
Apprenticeship Program
http://www.usaeop.com/programs/SEAP/index.htm
Institute for Responsible Citizenship (African American male sophomore)
http://www.i4rc.org/announcement.htm
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation/Howard University, Washington, DC: Barbara
Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program (undergraduate seniors or recent graduates)
http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/bjscholars/index.cfm
The Latin American School of Medicine: Medical School Scholarship Program
http://www.ifconews.org/MedicalSchool/main.htm
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: Summer Fellowships (graduate)
http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/2637.cfm
National Institute on Drug Abuse: Summer Research with NIDA (minority
high school and undergraduate students)
http://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)
http://stepup.niddk.nih.gov/index.htm
Stanford University, Stanford, CA: Student Clinical Opportunities for Premedical
Experience (SCOPE)
http://scope.beagooddoctor.org/index.html
Stanford University, Stanford, CA: Stanford Premedical Student Program (SPSP)
http://coe.stanford.edu/summer/
Summer Medical and Dental Education Program (SMDEP) (at various colleges for
freshman and sophomore college students)
http://www.smdep.org/
Summer Opportunities for ALANA Undergraduate Students (African American, Latino/a,
Asian American and Native American undergraduates)
http://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)
http://www.wie.umd.edu/precollege/lead.html
University of Maryland, College Park, MD: Youth Scholars Program (rising
juniors and seniors)
http://oes.umd.edu/s/ysp/
University of Maryland College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, College
Park, MD: Summer Research Initiative (rising juniors and seniors)
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/dean/summer.html
University of Georgia Graduate School, Athens, GA: Summer Undergraduate Research
Program (under-represented undergraduate students)
http://www.grad.uga.edu/outreach&diversity/surp.html
USDA Agricultural Research Service: Summer Internships and Research Apprenticeships
http://www.ars.usda.gov/Careers/Careers.htm?docid=5927&modecode=53-25-00-00&page=2


