The Aspiring Scientists Summer Internship Program (ASSIP) is a nationally recognized eight-week research internship offered by George Mason University for high school students ages 15 and older. Selected participants work one-on-one with faculty researchers at George Mason and collaborating institutions, gaining hands-on experience with state-of-the-art technology across diverse scientific disciplines. Students develop real scientific writing and communication skills while conducting meaningful research alongside professional scientists. With tuition waivers available for those with demonstrated financial need, ASSIP is an exceptional opportunity for any aspiring scientist to experience what a career in research truly looks like.
Designing studies, testing hypotheses, and drawing evidence-based conclusions.
Running experiments safely and accurately using real scientific equipment and procedures.
Writing code to build software, automate tasks, or bring an idea to life on a screen.
Using equations and formulas to represent and predict real-world situations.
Training computer models to recognize patterns and make predictions from data.
Evaluating information carefully before drawing a conclusion or making a decision.
Breaking down a challenge and working through it methodically to a solution.
Crafting original stories, poems, or scripts that express ideas and imagination.
Delivering ideas clearly and confidently in front of an audience.
Interns conduct original research using state-of-the-art equipment across disciplines including molecular medicine, drug discovery, and disease diagnostics.
Program focuses on computer science internships including computer modeling, machine learning, and software engineering research projects.
Research areas include environmental science, climate change, sustainable botany, coastal flooding, and urban hydrology.
Interns develop skills in data mining, data science for social good, and computational analysis across research projects.
Physics is explicitly listed as a scientific area of focus within the program's research opportunities.
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