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The MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science program, commonly known as MITES, is a highly selective and academically rigorous…
The National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) is a U.S. Department of State program that provides American high school…
Yale Young Global Scholars (YYGS) is a two-week summer program at Yale University for high-achieving high school students from around…
The National Speech & Debate Association (NSDA) is the largest interscholastic organization in the United States dedicated to speech and…
The American Legion Boys’ Nation is a prestigious, week-long civic leadership program held annually in Washington, D.C., for 100 high…
MathILy is an intensive, five-week residential summer program held at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, designed for high school students…
The Stanford University Mathematics Camp (SUMaC) is a selective summer program for rising high school juniors and seniors passionate about…
The United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP) is a prestigious, week-long educational experience held annually in Washington, D.C., for outstanding…
The Summer Science Program is a renowned, five-week residential research immersion for rising high school seniors that has run since…
Stanford’s Summer Humanities Institute (SHI) is a three-week, residential enrichment program for rising high school juniors and seniors that immerses…
The Research Science Institute (RSI) at MIT is a six-week, fully residential program that brings together around 80 of the…
The Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program is a free, virtual summer program for high school girls and non-binary students…
The UPenn Management & Technology Summer Institute (M&TSI) is a rigorous three-week program for high school students interested in the…
The Carnegie Mellon Summer Academy for Math and Science (SAMS) is a six-week program that supports high school students from…
The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) offers advanced academic programs for gifted students in grades 2–12. Through summer…
The Clark Scholars Program at Texas Tech University is an intensive seven-week summer research program for highly accomplished high school…
The Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school…
The National Student Leadership Conference (NSLC) offers high school students immersive, career-focused summer programs at top universities across the U.S.…
The Harvard Pre-College Program is a two-week summer program designed for high school students to experience college-level academics and campus…
The National High School Ethics Bowl is an academic competition in which teams of students analyze and discuss complex ethical…
The Wharton Global Youth Program is a collection of academic programs designed for high school students to explore business, leadership,…
The MIT Women's Technology Program is a highly selective four week summer academic program designed to introduce high school students…
The Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists, commonly known as PROMYS, is a highly selective and rigorous six week summer…
The Stanford Math Tournament (SMT) is a highly selective, student-run mathematics competition hosted by Stanford University for high school students.…
The Stanford Institutes of Medicine Summer Research Program (SIMR) is a highly selective eight-week biomedical research program for high school…
The Stanford Young Investigators program is a competitive high school internship in environmental science and sustainability offered through the Stanford…
The Conrad Challenge is a global STEM innovation and entrepreneurship competition for students ages 13 to 18 that challenges teams…
The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards are a prestigious national competition that recognizes the creative achievements of students in grades…
The picoCTF competition is a free, online cybersecurity contest created by Carnegie Mellon University that introduces students to hacking concepts…
The UC Berkeley Business Academy for Youth, often called B-BAY, is a selective pre college business and entrepreneurship program hosted…
The Congressional Essay Contest, organized by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, is a national writing competition…
The Emory Summer Science Academy is a two week, non residential summer enrichment program for high school students, specifically those…
The Eugene and Ruth Roberts Summer Student Academy is a highly selective, research intensive summer program hosted by City of…
The United States Senate Page Program is a highly selective civic engagement program that allows high school students to work…
YoungArts is a highly prestigious national arts competition and talent development program for high school students ages 15 to 18…
The NYC Ladders for Leaders program is a competitive summer internship program run by the New York City Department of…
The Congressional Art Competition, also known as the Artistic Discovery Contest, is a nationwide visual arts competition for high school…
The Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Scholars program, often called CS Scholars, is a highly selective and fully funded four week…
Stanford AI4ALL is a highly selective two week summer program designed to introduce high school students, specifically current ninth graders,…
The Georgia Tech Summer Institute is a selective residential summer program hosted by the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics,…
The Cornell Precollege Studies Online Program is an academically rigorous virtual program that allows high school students to take real…
A rigorous, 6-unit residential conservatory program involving 28 hours of weekly studio training (e.g., Atlantic Acting School, Meisner, or Production…
Participate in a rigorous, five-week professional actor training intensive. Develop foundational skills in acting technique, scene study, Shakespeare, voice and…
Participate in high-intensity, project-based coding competitions within the global hacker community. These events involve rapid prototyping, software development, and technical…
Participate in industry-validated competitive events aligned with National Curriculum Standards. The program involves preparing for and competing in role-play scenarios,…
Participate in a free, experiential investment challenge that involves managing a $100,000 virtual cash portfolio. Teams develop a comprehensive investment…
A highly competitive pre-college program for young creatives. Includes core studio classes in digital art, painting, and sculpture, alongside weekly…
An immersive international exchange program focused on language proficiency, cultural competency, and subject-specific skills. Participants live abroad in one of…
A comprehensive academic immersion program where students either enroll in a local high school or follow U.S.-aligned coursework at a…
An immersive intercultural exchange program in one of 50+ destinations. Participants live with a host family and attend a local…
A competitive program that matches students with internships at innovative startups and companies founded by alumni from top-tier universities. Includes…
An immersive summer program for high school seniors and recent graduates focused on particle physics, quantum science, and artificial intelligence.…
A science enrichment program for students to work alongside astronomers and physicists. Participants engage in college-level math and science coursework,…
A research-driven internship where high school students collaborate with particle physicists on real-world projects. Participants analyze high-energy physics data, participate…
National Beta Club is one of the largest and most prestigious academic honor organizations in the United States, recognizing high-achieving…
The High School Fed Challenge is a prestigious economics competition organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in…
Girls Learn International is a free, student-led organization that empowers middle and high school students to advocate for gender equity…
DoSomething is a free, year-round civic engagement platform that connects high school students to campaigns focused on causes like climate…
The Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge is a prestigious nationwide science competition for middle school students in grades 6–8,…
The EngineerGirl Writing Contest, run by the National Academy of Engineering, is an annual competition where students in grades 6–12…
The National Ocean Sciences Bowl is a prestigious academic competition that challenges teams of high school students to master topics…
The Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS) is a prestigious national program that challenges high school students to conduct original…
Samsung Solve for Tomorrow is a free annual STEM competition open to public school students in grades 6–12 that challenges…
Shell Eco-marathon is an international competition organized by Shell that challenges student teams to design, build, and race the most…
The American Rocketry Challenge is the world's largest student rocket competition, organized by the Aerospace Industries Association, where teams design,…
TEAMS (Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science) is an annual, theme-based STEM competition administered by the Technology Student Association…
The Rube Goldberg Machine Contest (RGMC) is an annual STEM competition hosted by the Rube Goldberg Institute where teams of…
The Solar Car Challenge is an international STEM competition where high school teams design, build, and race fully roadworthy solar-powered…
ExploraVision is a national K-12 science competition co-sponsored by Toshiba and the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) that challenges student…
The Davidson Fellows Scholarship is a highly prestigious annual scholarship program that recognizes exceptional students ages 18 and under who…
The High School Bridge Building Contest is an annual engineering competition hosted by the International Bridge Building Committee at Illinois…
The National High School Mock Trial Championship is a prestigious annual competition where student teams take on the roles of…
Quiz Bowl is a competitive academic team game organized by the National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT) in which students buzz…
The National History Bee is a prestigious individual quiz competition for high school students that tests knowledge of history spanning…
The International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) is a prestigious annual competition that brings together the most talented high school chemists from…
The Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest is an annual writing competition organized by the Ayn Rand Institute that invites…
The Blank Theatre Young Playwrights Festival is a free national playwriting competition open to writers aged 19 and younger who…
The Norm Strung Student Writing Contest, sponsored by the Outdoor Writers Association of America, is an annual competition that invites…
The John Locke Global Essay Competition, organized by the John Locke Institute, is a prestigious international competition open to students…
The Jane Austen Society of North America Essay Contest is a free annual writing competition open to high school students…
The Ayn Rand Anthem Essay Contest is an annual writing competition sponsored by the Ayn Rand Institute that invites high…
The Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest, sponsored by Hollins University, is a free annual competition open to sophomore and junior high…
The Fountainhead Essay Contest, run by the Ayn Rand Institute, is an annual writing competition open to 11th and 12th…
The Lewis Center Ten-Minute Play Contest is a prestigious annual playwriting competition hosted by Princeton University's Lewis Center for the…
The SPJ/JEA High School Essay Contest is an annual writing competition organized by the Society of Professional Journalists Foundation and…
National History Day is an annual academic competition that challenges students in grades 6 through 12 to conduct in-depth historical…
The National Latin Exam is an annual standardized competition administered through the University of Mary Washington in partnership with the…
Technovation Girls is a global technology program that empowers young women in grades 6 through 12 to solve real-world problems…
The Plant the Moon Challenge is a NASA-connected space exploration program where high school students tackle hands-on challenges inspired by…
Science Olympiad is a national STEM competition where teams of 15 students compete in 23 events spanning disciplines like genetics,…
The Scholastic Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) is a national community dedicated…
The Technology Student Association (TSA) National Conference is a five-day annual gathering that brings together high school students from across…
SkillsUSA National Championships is one of the largest hands-on workforce development events in the world, bringing together more than 7,000…
The USA Computing Olympiad (USACO) is a prestigious national competition and training program where high school students develop advanced skills…
The USA Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO) is an invite-only, proof-based mathematics competition organized by the Mathematical Association of America for high…
The USA Chemistry Olympiad (USNCO) is a prestigious national chemistry competition organized by the American Chemical Society that challenges high…
The International History Olympiad is a prestigious biennial competition organized by International Academic Competitions that brings together top history students…
The USA Biolympiad (USABO) is the premier biology competition for high school students in the United States, engaging nearly 12,000…
The National Economics Challenge is America's premier economics competition for high school students, organized by the Council for Economic Education.…
The International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) is an annual international competition where secondary school students analyze the grammar, structure, culture, and…
The International Biology Olympiad (IBO) is the premier worldwide biology competition, bringing together the most gifted high school students from…
The U.S. Physics Team is a national competition sponsored by the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) and the American…
The International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) is the most prestigious international physics competition for secondary school students, bringing together national teams…
Learning to Be Heard is a free, global virtual public speaking competition for high school students aged 14 to 18,…
Destination Imagination is a national STEAM competition where teams of students in grades 3 through 12 collaborate to solve open-ended…
The Diamond Challenge is an annual global entrepreneurship competition hosted by the University of Delaware that invites high school students…
The American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) is a highly selective national math competition administered by the Mathematical Association of America,…
The American Regions Mathematics League (ARML) is a prestigious national mathematics competition that brings together over 1,800 high school students…
The United States Academic Decathlon (USAD) is a prestigious team-based academic competition for high school students in grades 9 to…
The Aspiring Scientists Summer Internship Program (ASSIP) is a nationally recognized eight-week research internship offered by George Mason University for…
The WPI Frontiers Program is a pre-collegiate STEM initiative hosted by Worcester Polytechnic Institute that gives middle and high school…
The WPI Launch Program is a pre-collegiate summer residential STEM program hosted by Worcester Polytechnic Institute, one of the nation's…
Tufts Summer Study is a pre-college program offered by Tufts University that gives ambitious high school students the chance to…
Putney Pre-College Summer Programs is an educational travel organization that has been sending students in grades 6 through 12 on…
The National Youth Science Camp is a prestigious four-week residential program held in the mountains of West Virginia that brings…
The Experience Christendom Summer Program, commonly known as The Best Week Ever, is a highly selective pre-college program offered by…
Earthwatch Institute Teen Expeditions is a research-based travel program that pairs high school students with environmental scientists to conduct real…
The Early College Program Online Summer Institute is a two-week virtual art and design program offered by the School of…
Concordia Language Villages is an immersive summer language program where high school students can earn accredited credit in 14 languages,…
Summer at Columbia is an intensive four-week pre-college program offered by Columbia College Chicago for high school students ages 15…
Boston Leadership Institute is an award-winning summer STEM program that offers high school students immersive educational experiences in science, engineering,…
The U.S. Advanced Cyber Academy is a six-day residential STEM program hosted by the U.S. Space & Rocket Center for…
The Experiment in International Living is a highly respected summer exchange program run by World Learning that has connected high…
Putney Student Travel is a leading educational travel organization that has offered immersive summer programs for students in grades 6…
Leadership in the Business World (LBW) is an intensive summer program offered by the Wharton Global Youth Program, designed exclusively…
The National Institutes of Health Summer Internship Program is a prestigious, fully funded research opportunity where high school seniors and…
The Michigan State University High School Honors Science/Engineering/Mathematics Program (HSHSP) is a seven-week intensive summer research program at Michigan State…
Canada/USA Mathcamp is a prestigious five-week residential summer program for mathematically talented students ages 13 to 18 from around the…
The NYU High School Academy is a college and career readiness program offered by New York University's School of Professional…
Penn SAS High School Programs are accelerated summer offerings at the University of Pennsylvania designed for talented high school students…
The American Computer Science League (ACSL) is a national competitive programming organization that challenges high school students with rigorous coding…
Future City is a national STEM competition organized by DiscoverE that challenges students in grades 6 through 12 to design…
The Canadian Computing Competition (CCC) is an annual programming competition organized by the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing…
MIT PRIMES (Program for Research in Mathematics, Engineering and Science for High School Students) is a free, year-long research program…
The Purple Comet! Math Meet is an annual team-based mathematics competition open to students in grades 6 through 12, with…
BetterMind Labs SPARK HACK is a competitive hackathon program that challenges students to develop innovative solutions to real-world problems in…
Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institutes is a two-week online summer enrichment program offered by Stanford University for students in grades 8…
The Day of AI Festival is a free annual celebration of student creativity and innovation in artificial intelligence, held each…
The Boston University Summer Challenge is a two-week residential or commuter summer program at Boston University for students in grades…
Summer@Brown is a pre-college program offered by Brown University that allows high school students in grades 9 through 12 to…
Arete: An Introduction to the Classics is a program offered by the University of Dallas that immerses high school students…
The Schieffer Summer Journalism Camp is an intensive one-week program hosted by Texas Christian University for high school students interested…
The Aerospace and Aviation Academy, offered by Envision by WorldStrides in partnership with Rice University, is an immersive summer program…
The Research Program for High School Students at the University of Texas at Dallas is an intensive 8-week summer initiative…
Camp SOAR (Summer Opportunities in Aerospace Research) is a six-day summer program hosted by Texas A&M University's Department of Aerospace…
The Healthcare Experience in Research and Oncology (HERO) is a free summer program hosted by the University of Texas at…
Sphinx Performance Academy (SPA) is a fully funded two-week intensive summer program for string musicians (violin, viola, cello, and bass)…
The Lighthouse High School Summer Writing Intensive is a one-week program offered by Lighthouse Writers Workshop for students ages 14…
CU Science Discovery's Aerospace program is a week-long summer camp at the University of Colorado Boulder for students in grades…
The SciVet Summer Program is an immersive five-day residential experience at Colorado State University for high school students passionate about…
The ENvision Summer Program is a hands-on STEM experience hosted by Colorado State University's Department of Mechanical Engineering for high…
The Lorenzo de Zavala (LDZ) Youth Legislative Session is the most recognized program of the National Hispanic Institute, designed for…
The Denver Writing Project Young Writers Camps are week-long summer writing programs serving students in grades 3 through 12 at…
Access ASU Summer Programs are enrichment offerings hosted by Arizona State University for high school students in grades 9 through…
The Summer Mines Engineering and Training (SUMMET) Program is a free, one-week residential experience hosted by Colorado School of Mines…
The Columbia Pre-College Program, offered by Columbia University's School of Professional Studies, allows high school students to take rigorous college-level…
Stanford Summer College is an eight-week residential program at Stanford University where high-achieving high school students take rigorous college-level courses…
The Summer Engineering Awareness Program is a hands-on initiative offered by Manhattan University's School of Engineering for students currently in…
The Bella Abzug Leadership Institute (BALI) Journey to Leadership Program is a six-week summer leadership program for female-identifying and gender…
The Manhattan District Attorney's High School Internship Program is a rigorous, paid five-week summer program open to juniors and seniors…
The Biorocket Research Internship Program, offered by Genspace, is a six-month science research internship for New York City public and…
Voyage Seaward is a 5-day maritime education program offered by Camp SEA Lab for students ages 13 to 16, where…
All Star Code Summer Intensive is a tuition-free, six-week virtual program designed for high school-aged male-identifying students from underrepresented backgrounds…
The embARC Summer Design Academy is a four-week college-level program hosted by UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design for high…
AstroCamp's 2-Week Summer Camp is a residential sleepaway program in the San Jacinto Mountains of Southern California where students ages…
The Eve and Gene Black Summer Medical Career Program is a prestigious mentorship initiative founded in 1969 by the Los…
The UCLA Summer College Immersion Program (SCIP) is a prestigious summer program that allows exceptional high school students to study…
College-Ready Writing: Personal and Academic, Both! is a two-week summer writing workshop offered by UCLA Center X for students in…
Writers' Week is a one-week pre-college summer program at Sarah Lawrence College that immerses high school students in creative writing…
The AFSF Summer Design Institute is a three-week intensive summer program offered by the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco for…
The Sea Education Association (SEA) offers summer programs in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, giving high school students the opportunity to explore…
The Appalachian STEM Academy is a fully funded, two-week residential summer program hosted at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a U.S.…
Sea|mester is a college-accredited study abroad and gap year program that takes high school graduates and older students on voyages…
The Exemplary Student Research Program (ESRP) is a year-long initiative offered by Argonne National Laboratory that pairs high school students…
Semester at Sea is a transformative study abroad program run by the Institute for Shipboard Education, where students earn a…
The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) is a premier global science competition where high school students present original…
SHAD Canada is the country's longest-running STEAM and entrepreneurship program for high school students, founded in 1981 and delivered through…
Interlochen's Animation Summer Program is a three-week residential experience at one of the nation's most celebrated arts institutions, where high…
The National Art Honor Society (NAHS) is a prestigious recognition program organized by the National Art Education Association that celebrates…
Summer Discovery is a pre-college summer program that places students in immersive academic environments at 15+ world-renowned universities, including Ivy…
Oxford Summer Courses is an award-winning summer academic program that brings students aged 9 to 24 to the historic campuses…
The Iowa Young Writers' Studio Summer Residential Program is a two-week immersive creative writing experience hosted by the University of…
The Simons Summer Research Program at Stony Brook University is a highly selective six-week research experience where high school students…
The Ross Mathematics Program is a six-week intensive summer program that immerses motivated pre-college students in deep mathematical thinking and…
Hk Maker Lab is a free, five-week summer engineering design program for rising high school juniors and seniors from low-resource…
The Broad Summer Scholars Program is a free, six-week summer research experience hosted by the Broad Institute, one of the…
The Pomona College Academy for Youth Success (PAYS) is a selective three-year college preparation program hosted by Pomona College for…
Notre Dame Summer Scholars is a prestigious two-week pre-college program hosted on the campus of the University of Notre Dame,…
The Science Internship Program (SIP) is an eight-week summer research experience hosted by the University of California, Santa Cruz, where…
ALA Girls State is a competitive, week-long civic education program sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary for high school juniors…
The UC Berkeley Pre-College Scholars Program is a prestigious summer initiative that allows high school students to take college-level courses…
Washington University in St. Louis offers a range of summer programs that give high school students a taste of college…
USC Summer Programs is a prestigious pre-college initiative at the University of Southern California that invites outstanding high school students…
The Davidson Young Scholars Program is a free, year-round initiative run by the Davidson Institute for profoundly gifted students ages…
The ESU National Shakespeare Competition is a prestigious national program where high school students in grades 9 to 12 memorize,…
The Brown Leadership Institute is a pre-college summer program offered by Brown University that equips high school students in grades…
Marist Summer Pre-College: Business is a pre-college program offered by Marist University that gives high school students a firsthand look…
The NextGen Leadership Institute is a three-week pre-college summer program offered by Barnard College that combines rigorous academics with leadership…
The Georgetown University Entrepreneurship Academy is a two-week summer program hosted by Georgetown University where high school students receive comprehensive…
Caminos al Futuro is a free, three-week residential pre-college program hosted by the Cisneros Institute at George Washington University, open…
Career Insight: Business and Entrepreneurship is a two-week residential summer program hosted by the University of Chicago for students in…
The Data Science Academy is a 3-week faculty-led summer program offered by the Wharton Global Youth Program at the University…
Wall Street 101 is a competitive experiential learning program hosted by Bentley University for rising high school juniors and seniors…
Essentials of Finance is a selective two-week residential summer program offered by the Wharton Global Youth Program for high school…
The California High School Speech Association (CHSSA) is the governing body for competitive speech and debate in California, overseeing individual…
Essentials of Entrepreneurship is an intensive two-week residential summer program offered by the Wharton Global Youth Program at the University…
The Product Design Academy is a three-week intensive program offered by the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Global Youth Program that…
Harvard Model Congress (HMC) is a premier government simulation conference organized and staffed entirely by Harvard undergraduates, offering high school…
Youth Service America (YSA) is a national organization that empowers young people ages 5 to 25 to take action in…
The La Brea Tar Pits Volunteer Program offers high school students the opportunity to contribute to one of the most…
Meaningful Gardens is a community engagement program organized by Meaningful Engagement that teaches high school students hands-on agricultural skills to…
Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Volunteer Programs offer high school students the opportunity to contribute to marine education and ocean conservation at…
Meaningful Teens is a free, year-round online tutoring program that connects volunteer tutors from around the world with under-resourced students…
The Engineering Summer Academy Program (ESAP) is a three-week pre-college program hosted by the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering…
Research in the Biological Sciences (RIBS) is a four-week intensive summer program at the University of Chicago where high school…
The Aspiring Scholars Directed Research Program (ASDRP), run by the Olive Children Foundation, is a nonprofit pre-collegiate research institution based…
The Coolidge Scholarship is a fully funded, four-year presidential scholarship sponsored by the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Fund that covers tuition,…
The Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) is a nonprofit organization that offers some of the most rigorous and prestigious…
The Steppenwolf Young Adult Council (YAC) is a year-round teen program organized by the renowned Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago…
The Next Narrative Monologue Competition (NNMC) is True Colors Theatre Company's signature program for high school students in grades 9…
The Startup UCLA Summer Institute is a pre-college entrepreneurship program hosted by UCLA that immerses high school students in grades…
The Barkley Forum for High Schools is a prestigious competitive debate program hosted by Emory University, one of the nation's…
The National Forensic League Honor Society, operated by the National Speech and Debate Association, is one of the oldest and…
The American Legion National High School Oratorical Contest is an annual public speaking competition where students demonstrate their knowledge of…
The UK Youth Parliament is a nationwide civic engagement program where young people aged 11 to 18 are elected as…
The American Debate League is a nonprofit organization that trains students in competitive Public Forum debate, building critical thinking, communication,…
The Great Debate is a national public-speaking competition organized by The Historical Association for secondary school students in years 10…
The World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championships (WIDPSC) is an annual international competition where high school students from around…
NSS Global Space Debates is an international debate competition run by the National Space Society that challenges high school students…
Mayo Clinic CARES (Career Advancement, Research, and Education Summer Program) is a competitive summer program hosted by Mayo Clinic's Arizona…
Barrett Summer Scholars is a four-day residential program at Arizona State University that gives high school students in grades 9…
The RISE Summer Leadership Institute is a four-day residential program at Arizona State University's Tempe campus designed for rising juniors…
The KEYS Research Internship, offered by the BIO5 Institute at the University of Arizona, is a prestigious seven-week summer program…
The Global Innovation Challenge 2026 is an online competition organized by InventFuture that invites high school students to develop and…
The International Brain Bee is a prestigious neuroscience competition for high school students that challenges participants to master complex topics…
The Stockholm Junior Water Prize is an international competition where students aged 15 to 20 develop and submit original research…
The Carnegie Mellon Informatics and Mathematics Competition (CMIMC) is an annual mathematics competition hosted by Carnegie Mellon University that invites…
The Modeling the Future Challenge is a free national research competition organized by The Actuarial Foundation that invites high school…
The Avogadro Chemistry Exam is an annual online competition administered by the University of Waterloo's Department of Chemistry, open to…
HackMIT is an annual 24-hour hackathon hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where high school and college students come…
The BioGENEius Challenge is a prestigious national competition organized by the Biotechnology Institute that recognizes high school students for outstanding…
Blueprint is a hackathon organized by HackMIT at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, bringing together high school students for an…
The National Science Bowl is a prestigious nationwide academic competition created by the U.S. Department of Energy in 1991 to…
SeaPerch is an underwater robotics program run by RoboNation that challenges students to design, build, and operate a remotely operated…
The North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition (NACLO) is an annual linguistic problem-solving contest open to high school students, with…
The Presidential AI Challenge is a national competition established by Executive Order 14277 and organized by the Oak Ridge Institute…
Pioneer Research Institute is a highly selective, fully accredited online research program offered through Pioneer Academics, giving high school students…
HMMT (Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament) is one of the largest and most prestigious high school mathematics competitions in the world, drawing…
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is the world's most prestigious mathematics competition for high school students, bringing together the most…
The Teen Research and Education in Environmental Science (TREES) Program is an educational initiative through Penn State's College of Health…
Harvard Medical School Project Success is a prestigious high school program offered by Harvard Medical School's Office for Culture and…
The Clinical Neuroscience Immersion Experience (CNI-X) is a prestigious program offered by Stanford University's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences…
The Young Scholars Internship Program (YSP) is a paid five-week summer internship offered by the University of Georgia College of…
The USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future and Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability High School Summer Internship Program…
The Lincoln Park Zoo Malott Family Zoo Intern Program is a prestigious internship opportunity for high school students passionate about…
The Fred Hutch Summer High School Internship Program is a prestigious research opportunity hosted by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, one…
The King Conservation Science Scholars Program is a year-round extracurricular initiative offered by Brookfield Zoo Chicago for students in grades…
The Careers in Science (CiS) Intern Program at the California Academy of Sciences is a multi-year, paid internship and youth…
The Memorial Sloan Kettering Summer Student Program is a prestigious 8-week research internship at one of the world's leading cancer…
Carnegie Mellon Summer Opportunities for Access and Inclusion is a pre-college program coordinated by Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Student…
University of New Hampshire Upward Bound is a free federal TRIO program funded by the U.S. Department of Education that…
Inspiring Girls Expeditions is an international organization that leads tuition-free summer expeditions for high school students, combining science, art, and…
Teach Me Wall Street Summer Camp is a live, virtual finance and investing program for high school students in grades…
Rex Academy Online Summer STEM Camps is a computer science and STEM education program offered by Rex K-12 for students…
Norwich University of the Arts offers a free six-week summer workshop series open to students aged 14 and older, running…
iD Tech Virtual Tech Camps is an online summer program offered by iD Tech that provides technology and coding education…
K12 Online Summer School Programs and Courses is a flexible online learning option for students in grades K-12, offering a…
Cottonwood Gulch Expeditions is a nonprofit outdoor adventure organization founded in 1926 that offers multi-week summer and school year programs…
The Husson University Early College Access Program (ECAP) is a tuition-free dual enrollment opportunity that allows high school juniors and…
The Summer Academic Enrichment Program (SAEP) at California State University, Northridge is a four-week summer program that brings students in…
Project Belonging is a student-driven leadership program hosted by Teachers College, Columbia University, open to students in grades 6 through…
The FIRE Free Speech Leadership Summit is an advocacy program organized by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)…
The NIDA Summer Internship Program is a prestigious research opportunity offered by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, one of…
The High School Fellowship in Biomedical Research is a four-week summer internship offered by The Wistar Institute, one of the…
NYU Democracy Scholars is a free three-week residential summer program at New York University for rising high school seniors in…
Global Glimpse is a nonprofit international travel program that takes high school juniors on 11-day summer experiences to Costa Rica,…
The Moth High School StorySLAM is a free, multi-week workshop series offered by The Moth that teaches students in grades…
The Global Youth Impact Summit 2026 is an international leadership conference hosted by CGAD in Porto, Portugal, bringing together 100…
The Sabancı University PURE Summer Program is a prestigious research experience hosted by Sabancı University that immerses students in rigorous,…
Nexus Youth Exchange 2026 is a four-day international program organized by the Nexus Public Policy Institute, bringing together young leaders…
TechGirls is a competitive summer exchange program run by the U.S. Department of State that brings together young women ages…
School Year Abroad (SYA) is a prestigious study abroad program that places high school students in France, Italy, or Spain…
Spanish Immersion through Arcos Journeys Abroad is an award-winning summer language program that places high school students ages 13 to…
The Joint Science Education Project (JSEP) is an international STEM program run by Dartmouth College in collaboration with Greenland, the…
The Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Abroad program is a competitive, merit-based initiative from the U.S. Department of State…
The Robotics for Good Youth Challenge is a UN-based global robotics competition launched by the International Telecommunication Union that challenges…
RoboCap League is a global robotics skills framework and competition open to students ages 8 to 16, offering a unique…
World Robot Olympiad is a global robotics competition organized by the independent non-profit World Robot Olympiad Association, open to students…
The National Robotics Challenge is an open-platform robotics competition founded in 1986 that welcomes students from 6th grade through graduate…
Botball is a national team-based robotics competition organized by the KISS Institute for Practical Robotics, open to students in grades…
The Stock Market Game is a free online simulation of global capital markets developed by the SIFMA Foundation for students…
The ASTA Certificate Advancement Program (ASTACAP) is an examination-based program offered by the American String Teachers Association, a professional organization…
The National Young Composers Challenge is an annual composition competition for students ages 14 to 18, inviting participants to write…
The Brain Awareness Video Contest is an annual international competition organized by BrainFacts and the Society for Neuroscience that challenges…
The National Personal Finance Challenge (NPFC) is a nationwide competition organized by the Council for Economic Education that tests high…
The Citizen Archivist program, administered by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, invites high school students to contribute to…
Translators Without Borders Community is a free, year-round volunteer program organized by CLEAR Global that connects language enthusiasts with meaningful…
Bookshare is a volunteer program run by Benetech that expands access to books and educational materials for people who are…
The International Public Policy Forum (IPPF) is a global debate competition founded in 2001 and jointly administered by the Brewer…
The Yale Invitational is a prestigious national-circuit debate and speech tournament hosted by the Yale Debate Association, drawing top competitors…
The World Schools Debating Championships (WSDC) is an international competition that brings together high school debate teams from countries around…
Debating Matters is a prestigious UK sixth-form debating competition that prioritizes the quality of argumentation and research over rhetorical flair,…
The Emma Bowen Foundation Summer Internship is a highly competitive fellowship program that has supported nearly 2,000 aspiring media, entertainment,…
UTHealth Pathway Programs is a suite of career exploration initiatives offered by UTHealth Houston that introduces high school students to…
The Rio Grande Valley Summer Science Internship (RGVSSI) is a six-week summer research program offered by UTHealth Houston's School of…
The Carl B. & Florence E. King Foundation High School Summer Program in Biomedical Sciences is a highly selective 10-week…
City Limits CLARIFY is a paid journalism training program for high school and college-aged students in the Bronx who want…
CBA Law Camp is a week-long day camp hosted by the Connecticut Bar Association at UConn School of Law in…
The CDC Museum Disease Detective Camp is a prestigious summer day camp hosted at CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, where…
Open City Accelerate is a free, year-long built environment education program for students aged 16 to 18 from underrepresented backgrounds,…
Project TRUE (Teens Researching Urban Ecology) is a competitive research and youth development program offered by the Wildlife Conservation Society…
The STEM Research Academy (STEM RA) is a free program run by the City University of New York that gives…
The Summer Student Research Program at the University of California, San Francisco is a seven-week summer research experience that places…
The Sustainable Futures Academy is a free, one-week enrichment program hosted by Rice University's Center for STEM Engagement for students…
The ESTEEM/SER-Quest Summer Program is an intensive four-week research experience hosted by the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School…
WIE RISE! An Introduction to Engineering Research is a virtual summer program offered by the Women in Engineering Program at…
The Governor's Foreign Language Academies is a prestigious program offered by the Virginia Department of Education that selects eligible students…
California Boys & Girls State is a prestigious leadership and civic education program sponsored by the American Legion Department of…
Aspire: Five-Week Music Performance Intensive is a summer program offered by Berklee College of Music that brings together musicians from…
RISD Pre-College is an immersive five to six week summer program offered by Rhode Island School of Design, one of…
The Hilton Head International Piano Competition (HHIPC) is a prestigious annual event that showcases the talents of young classical pianists…
National Portfolio Day is a free annual event hosted by the National Portfolio Day Association that connects high school students…
The Music International Grand Prix is an annual international music competition founded in 2000 that welcomes musicians from around the…
The Thomas and Evon Cooper International Competition is a prestigious annual music competition hosted by Oberlin College and Conservatory, open…
The JS Bach Competition is a prestigious annual competition for string players ages 16 to 30 who perform works by…
The MTNA Competitions are annual music performance and composition contests organized by the Music Teachers National Association, a professional organization…
The Georgetown University Law Academy is a one-week summer program offered through Georgetown University where high school students explore the…
The Georgetown University Medical Immersion Academy is a three-week residential summer program hosted by Georgetown University School of Medicine for…
Bridges to Social Justice Academy is a three-week summer program offered by Georgetown University for high school students ages 15…
Global Scholar is a summer leadership accelerator program offered by AMP Global Youth for students in grades 8 through 12,…
The Georgetown University Creative Writing Academy is a one-week intensive program hosted by Georgetown University for high school students looking…
ResearcHStart is a free, eight-week summer cancer research training program run by UChicago Medicine and open to high school juniors…
The Neubauer Phoenix STEM Summer Scholars program is a selective, one-week residential experience at the University of Chicago designed for…
Between the Lines is a two-week residential creative writing and cultural exchange program hosted by the University of Iowa's International…
The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR) High School Summer Program is a one-week summer immersion at UC Berkeley, hosted…
The Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellowship is a prestigious U.S. Department of State exchange program hosted at Purdue University, bringing together…
The Garcia Research Scholars Program is a prestigious summer research program at Stony Brook University that immerses high school students…
The HOPP Summer Student Program is an 8-week biomedical research internship hosted by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, one of…
The Cold Spring Harbor DNA Learning Center Summer Research program is a prestigious hands-on science experience offered by one of…
The Harvard-MIT Chemistry Olympiad (HMChO) is an international chemistry competition for high school students in grades 9 to 12, founded…
The Caribou Mathematics Competition (also known as the Caribou Cup) is an international online math contest held six times per…
The U.S. National Innovator Challenge (NIC) is an annual K-12 innovation competition organized by Hewitt Learning that invites students across…
The U.S. National Innovator Challenge (NIC) is an annual K-12 innovation competition organized by Hewitt Learning that invites students across…
Invention Convention Worldwide is a K-12 invention education program operated by The Henry Ford that challenges students to identify real-world…
The Economics for Leaders program, offered by the Foundation for Teaching Economics, is a selective summer program designed to help…
The INSIGHT High School Program at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center is a selective summer program designed to…
The AIMI Summer Health AI Bootcamp is a selective two week virtual summer program for high school students offered by…
Physics Bowl is an international high school physics competition organized by the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) that challenges…
The Ocean Awareness Contest is an annual international competition organized by Bow Seat that invites students in grades 5–12 to…
River of Words is a free international youth poetry and art competition hosted by Saint Mary's College of California that…
The Adroit Prizes for Poetry & Prose is an annual literary competition organized by The Adroit Journal that recognizes exceptional…
The Bennington College Young Writers Awards is an annual international writing competition open to students in grades 9–12, recognizing outstanding…
The AFSA High School Essay Contest is an annual writing competition organized by the American Foreign Service Association that invites…
The Worldwide Plays Festival Competition is an annual playwriting competition organized by Writopia Lab for students in grades 3–12, challenging…
GENIUS Olympiad is an international high school project competition organized by Terra Science and Education that challenges students to develop…
The Horizon Academic Essay Prize is an annual international essay competition organized by Horizon Inspires for students in grades 9…
The Singularity: AI Essay Contest, organized by Veritas AI, is a free global competition open to high school students in…
CyberPatriot is a national cyber defense competition created by the Air and Space Forces Association to inspire students in grades…
SHTEM is an eight-week summer research internship program at Stanford University, open to high school juniors and seniors with a…
Immerse Education is a global academic organization that offers undergraduate-level summer programs for high school students aged 13 to 18…
The Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop is a selective creative writing program for high school students hosted by the prestigious…
The Kelley Women's Leadership Institute (KWLI) is a selective, free pre-college program offered by the Kelley School of Business at…
Genes in Space is an annual competition that challenges high school students to design original experiments exploring genetics and biology…
From the Ground Up is a selective five-week pre-college architecture program presented by Wonderworks in partnership with the Gerald D.…
Story Lines is a competitive, reading-intensive summer program presented by Wonderworks for high school students of special promise and ability,…
Camp ARCH is a six-day summer immersion program hosted by the Texas A&M University College of Architecture for high-achieving students…
The High School Research Academy (HSRA) is a five-week summer research program at the University of Texas at Austin where…
The Academy for Machine Learning is a one-week residential summer program hosted by the Department of Computer Science at the…
The STEM Research Experience is a selective seven-week summer program offered by CU Science Discovery at the University of Colorado…
Yunasa West is a specialized 8-day summer sleep-away camp for gifted youth ages 10 to 15, hosted by the Institute…
Black Issues Forum is a free five-day residential summer program hosted by Colorado State University for rising high school seniors…
The Medical Student Experience is a five-day immersive program offered by CU Science Discovery for high school students in grades…
The Academy Introduction Mission (AIM) is a one-week summer program offered by the US Coast Guard Academy exclusively for high…
The US Air Force Academy Summer Seminar is a highly selective five-day residential program for high school juniors, accepting approximately…
The Construction Management Summer Academy for Young Women is a fully-funded residential summer camp hosted by Auburn University's McWhorter School…
The Science and Engineering Apprentice Program (SEAP) is a selective eight-week summer internship offered by the Office of Naval Research…
The Sadie Nash Summer Institute is an award-winning six-week program run by the Sadie Nash Leadership Project for high school…
The Santa Clara University Summer Engineering Seminar (SES) is a free, five-day residential pre-college program for high school sophomores and…
NYU Computer Science for Cyber Security (CS4CS) is a free, fully-funded four-week summer program offered by NYU Tandon School of…
Applied Research Innovations in Science and Engineering (ARISE) is a free 10-week summer program offered by NYU K12 STEM Education…
UC Santa Barbara's Summer Research Academies is a four-week pre-college program that places high school students directly into university-level research…
Engineering Possibilities in College (EPIC) is a one-week summer camp hosted by California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly San Luis…
COSMOS (California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science) is a highly selective, four-week residential STEM program hosted by the…
SAGE Camp at SLAC is a free, one-week residential program hosted by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in partnership with Stanford…
The Pediatrics Internship Program at Stanford (PIPS) is a free, 7-week research internship offered by Stanford Medicine's Department of Pediatrics…
Introduction to Architecture Online is a five-week summer program offered by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The…
Juniper Young Writers Online is an intensive one-week virtual creative writing program offered by the University of Massachusetts Amherst for…
The Boston Architectural College's Summer Academy – Global is a four-week online pre-college design program for students ages 14 and…
Google Science Fair is a free, annual online science competition organized by Google in partnership with CERN, the LEGO Group,…
Letters About Literature is a national reading and writing contest administered by the Library of Congress that invites students in…
The Jackson Laboratory Summer Student Program is a 10-week residential research experience for graduating high school seniors and undergraduate students…
The Annenberg Youth Academy for Media and Civic Engagement is a three-week summer intensive program hosted by the USC Annenberg…
Neurocamp is a free, eight-day summer program hosted by the UCLA Brain Research Institute that immerses 30 selected high school…
The Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics (HCSSiM) is an intensive six-week residential program at Hampshire College in Massachusetts for…
The Telluride Association Summer Seminar (TASS) is a free, highly selective five-week summer program for high school sophomores and juniors…
The Lumiere Research Scholar Program is a rigorous summer research initiative founded by Harvard and Oxford researchers that pairs high…
SDSU Training Astronomy Research Scholars (STARS) is a four-week summer research program hosted by San Diego State University for high…
The University of Minnesota College Invitational is an annual policy debate tournament hosted by the University of Minnesota that welcomes…
The Harvard National Speech and Debate Tournament is one of the most prestigious invitational tournaments in the country, drawing high…
The University of Florida Student Science Training Program (UF SSTP) is a highly selective, seven-week residential research program for rising…
The Secondary Student Training Program (SSTP) at the University of Iowa is a highly selective 5.5-week residential summer research experience…
The Penn Medicine Summer Program is a four-week residential experience hosted by the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine,…
ENOUGH! Plays to End Gun Violence is a national initiative that invites teen writers and playwrights ages 13 to 19…
Summer Venture in Business (SVB) is a six-day pre-college summer academy hosted by the University of Kansas School of Business…
The NAIOP-Drexel Summer Real Estate Program is a 10-day residential summer experience at Drexel University in Philadelphia, designed for rising…
Howard University's School of Business Summer Enrichment Program is a two-week residential experience that immerses high school students in college-level…
The Cal Invitational is a prestigious annual speech and debate tournament hosted by UC Berkeley, open to high school students…
The Burton Family Foundation Summer Health Institute is a free, week-long residential program at Arizona State University's Downtown Phoenix campus,…
The Joaquin Bustoz Math-Science Honors Program (JBMSHP) is a selective six-week residential summer program hosted by Arizona State University for…
Summer Scrubs is a health career exploration program offered by the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix that…
Med-Start Health Careers Program is a six-week residential summer program offered by the University of Arizona that prepares high school…
The National High School Design Challenge is an annual competition hosted by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum that invites students…
The AAPT High School Physics Photo Contest is an international competition hosted by the American Association of Physics Teachers that…
The Breakthrough Junior Challenge is a global science video competition open to high school students worldwide, where participants create short,…
The CURE Research Internship Program is a free, 8-week summer internship offered by the University of California San Francisco for…
The American Anthropological Association Virtual High School Internship is a four-week summer program where students explore the field of anthropology…
Far Horizons Teens is a high school research program at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago where students in grades 9…
The Octavia Project Summer Institute is a free, five-week summer program in Brooklyn for young women and trans, nonbinary, and…
The USC Bovard Scholars Program is a highly selective, free summer initiative hosted by the University of Southern California for…
The Frontier AI Security Residency is a fully funded, eight-week in-person research and engineering program held in Cambridge, UK, organized…
The UPG Sustainability Leadership Program is a competitive, application-based initiative run by United People Global that recruits and develops the…
The University of Notre Dame Study Abroad Pre-College Programs offer high school students immersive international experiences across four global destinations:…
The Annual DNA Day Essay Contest, organized by the American Society of Human Genetics, is a worldwide competition open to…
Stevens Trading Day is a two-part stock market competition hosted by the School of Business at Stevens Institute of Technology,…
The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers is an annual poetry competition hosted by The Kenyon Review that recognizes…
The Minds Underground Psychology Essay Competition is an annual academic writing competition that invites Year 12 students and aspiring psychology…
The International Psychology Olympiad (IPsyO) is a prestigious global competition that identifies and empowers high school students with a passion…
The Build Up High School Internship is a paid, 8-week summer program offered by DPR Construction that gives students hands-on…
The Student Historian Internship Program at the New York Historical Society is a paid internship opportunity for high school students…
The High School Emerging Researcher Experience is a selective 10-week summer internship offered by Houston Methodist that places academically outstanding…
Brookes Engage is a free year-long outreach program from Oxford Brookes University designed to help Year 12 students navigate the…
Summer Physics Camp is a free, two-week residential and commuter STEM program hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory in partnership…
The Summer Neuroscience Program (SNP) is a free two-week intensive course at Rockefeller University that introduces New York City public…
The Thurgood Marshall Summer Law Internship Program (TMSLIP) is a prestigious free summer internship operated by the NYC Bar Office…
The Summer Academic Research Experience (SARE) is an eight-week intensive summer program at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine designed for…
The Summer Academy of Actuarial and Mathematical Sciences (SAAMS) Program is a free, four-week academic enrichment program offered by Morgan…
The Holiday Carol Commission Competition is an annual composition contest hosted by the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir that invites composers age…
The Horizon Academic Research Program (HARP) is a highly selective summer research program for high school students, founded in 2016…
The Oxford Institute for Interdisciplinary Research is a selective, Oxford-based program where high school students aged 13 to 18 complete…