Extracurriculars That Build Programming
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Boston University’s Research in Science & Engineering (RISE) program is a selective six-week summer experience for rising high school seniors…
The Congressional App Challenge is a nationwide competition that encourages middle and high school students to develop original software applications.…
The Summer Program for Automation, Robotics, and Coding (SPARC) is a two-week, full-day residential program hosted by NYU Tandon School…
The Naval Academy Summer STEM Program is a week-long, residential experience held at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland,…
The Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program is a free, virtual summer program for high school girls and non-binary students…
The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an international high school robotics program that combines engineering, teamwork, and competition. Each year,…
The MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute is a rigorous and highly immersive STEM program designed for high school students, particularly…
The BlueStamp Engineering Summer Program is a hands on STEM program designed for high school students to develop practical engineering…
The picoCTF competition is a free, online cybersecurity contest created by Carnegie Mellon University that introduces students to hacking concepts…
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 AIMI Summer Health AI Bootcamp is a selective two week virtual summer program for high school students offered by…
The Georgia Tech Research Institute High School Summer Internship, often called STEM@GTRI, is a highly selective paid summer research program…
Participate in a three-week immersive program focused on artificial intelligence, data science, and product innovation. Engage in technical tracks such…
The RECF is a global nonprofit that sparks interest in STEM through hands-on robotics competitions. They provide sustainable curriculum-based programs,…
Participate in high-intensity, project-based coding competitions within the global hacker community. These events involve rapid prototyping, software development, and technical…
Participate in a global three-stage quantitative finance competition centered on developing and back-testing predictive mathematical models (alphas). The program involves…
An immersive summer program for high school seniors and recent graduates focused on particle physics, quantum science, and artificial intelligence.…
An immersive research program where students are paired with data science mentors to work on applied, interdisciplinary research projects. Mentorship…
The iGEM Competition is an international synthetic biology competition where student teams design and build original biological systems using standardized…
Technovation is a global technology and entrepreneurship program where students work in teams to identify real-world community problems and build…
Technovation Girls is a global technology program that empowers young women in grades 6 through 12 to solve real-world problems…
The USA Computing Olympiad (USACO) is a prestigious national competition and training program where high school students develop advanced skills…
GENIUS Olympiad is an international high school project competition organized by Terra Science and Education that challenges students to develop…
BEST Robotics Competition is an annual STEM competition organized by BEST Robotics, Inc., where student teams design, build, and compete…
The Aspiring Scientists Summer Internship Program (ASSIP) is a nationally recognized eight-week research internship offered by George Mason University for…
The Student Research Internship Program at the Scripps Research Translational Institute is a competitive 10-week summer program for high school,…
The SEES High School Summer Intern Program is a nationally competitive STEM internship hosted by the University of Texas Center…
UConn Pre-College Summer is a week-long college preparation program offered by the University of Connecticut at its Storrs and Hartford…
The U.S. Advanced Cyber Academy is a six-day residential STEM program hosted by the U.S. Space & Rocket Center for…
RoboRave is an international robotics competition and education program open to students ages 8 and up, where teams of 2…
The American Computer Science League (ACSL) is a national competitive programming organization that challenges high school students with rigorous coding…
Imagine Cup is Microsoft's annual global startup competition where student teams develop innovative technology solutions to real-world problems using AI…
The Canadian Computing Competition (CCC) is an annual programming competition organized by the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing…
BetterMind Labs SPARK HACK is a competitive hackathon program that challenges students to develop innovative solutions to real-world problems in…
The National High School Game Academy (NHSGA) is a selective six-week summer program hosted by Carnegie Mellon University that teaches…
Genes in Space is an annual competition that challenges high school students to design original experiments exploring genetics and biology…
Rice ELITE Tech Camp is a premier pre-college engineering summer program at Rice University in Houston, Texas, created and managed…
The Research Program for High School Students at the University of Texas at Dallas is an intensive 8-week summer initiative…
Academy for All is a free, week-long residential summer program hosted by the University of Texas at Austin's Department of…
The Academy for Machine Learning is a one-week residential summer program hosted by the Department of Computer Science at the…
The Summer Mines Engineering and Training (SUMMET) Program is a free, one-week residential experience hosted by Colorado School of Mines…
Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and the Science of Smart Cities (ieSoSC) is a free, full-time summer program offered by NYU Tandon School…
NYU Computer Science for Cyber Security (CS4CS) is a free, fully-funded four-week summer program offered by NYU Tandon School of…
All Star Code Summer Intensive is a tuition-free, six-week virtual program designed for high school-aged male-identifying students from underrepresented backgrounds…
Meta Summer Academy is a selective summer program organized by Meta (formerly Facebook) that offers high school students an immersive…
UC San Diego FUTURES Programs are career pathway programs offered by UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies that give…
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…
SDSU Training Astronomy Research Scholars (STARS) is a four-week summer research program hosted by San Diego State University for high…
Voice of Calling is a registered nonprofit organization that provides high school students with free opportunities to engage in coding,…
The Engineering Summer Academy Program (ESAP) is a three-week pre-college program hosted by the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering…
The Aspiring Scholars Directed Research Program (ASDRP), run by the Olive Children Foundation, is a nonprofit pre-collegiate research institution based…
Robotics Camp is a two-week summer program offered by Arizona State University's School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence for students…
Barrett Summer Scholars is a four-day residential program at Arizona State University that gives high school students in grades 9…
The Joaquin Bustoz Math-Science Honors Program (JBMSHP) is a selective six-week residential summer program hosted by Arizona State University for…
The Native American Science and Engineering Program (NASEP) is a University of Arizona initiative designed specifically for Native American, Alaska…
RoboBoat is an international robotics competition organized by RoboNation in which student teams design, build, and test fully autonomous surface…
The Carnegie Mellon Informatics and Mathematics Competition (CMIMC) is an annual mathematics competition hosted by Carnegie Mellon University that invites…
HackMIT is an annual 24-hour hackathon hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where high school and college students come…
Blueprint is a hackathon organized by HackMIT at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, bringing together high school students for an…
The Presidential AI Challenge is a national competition established by Executive Order 14277 and organized by the Oak Ridge Institute…
Kaggle Data Science Competitions is a free, year-round platform that hosts real-world data science and machine learning challenges open to…
Experiences in Research (EinR) is a paid summer internship program offered by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for high school students…
The Young Scholars Summer STEMM Research Program is a fully funded six-week research experience hosted by the University of Illinois…
The Memorial Sloan Kettering Summer Student Program is a prestigious 8-week research internship at one of the world's leading cancer…
Rex Academy Online Summer STEM Camps is a computer science and STEM education program offered by Rex K-12 for students…
iD Tech Virtual Tech Camps is an online summer program offered by iD Tech that provides technology and coding education…
The Octavia Project Summer Institute is a free, five-week summer program in Brooklyn for young women and trans, nonbinary, and…
Camp Integem is a hands-on summer STEM program where students ages 6 to 18 explore cutting-edge fields including artificial intelligence,…
The InspiritAI AI Scholars Program is a global online artificial intelligence program for high school students in grades 9 to…
The Frontier AI Security Residency is a fully funded, eight-week in-person research and engineering program held in Cambridge, UK, organized…
TechGirls is a competitive summer exchange program run by the U.S. Department of State that brings together young women ages…