Extracurriculars That Build Research Methods
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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…
MathILy is an intensive, five-week residential summer program held at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, designed for high school students…
Stanford’s Summer Humanities Institute (SHI) is a three-week, residential enrichment program for rising high school juniors and seniors that immerses…
The Summer Science Academy at Emory University is an immersive, two-week day program designed for rising 9th and 10th graders…
The Clark Scholars Program at Texas Tech University is an intensive seven-week summer research program for highly accomplished high school…
Model United Nations (MUN) conferences are academic simulations where students role-play as delegates representing countries in the United Nations. Participants…
The Harvard Pre-College Program is a two-week summer program designed for high school students to experience college-level academics and campus…
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 SUNY Biological Field Station Internships, offered by the State University of New York at Oneonta, are immersive summer research…
The picoCTF competition is a free, online cybersecurity contest created by Carnegie Mellon University that introduces students to hacking concepts…
The Congressional Essay Contest, organized by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, is a national writing competition…
The Eugene and Ruth Roberts Summer Student Academy is a highly selective, research intensive summer program hosted by City of…
The INSIGHT High School Program at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center is a selective summer program designed to…
The Cornell Precollege Studies Online Program is an academically rigorous virtual program that allows high school students to take real…
Participate in a free, experiential investment challenge that involves managing a $100,000 virtual cash portfolio. Teams develop a comprehensive investment…
The High School Fed Challenge is a prestigious economics competition organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in…
Amnesty International USA is a globally recognized human rights organization that empowers student activists to advocate for justice, dignity, and…
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 EngineerGirl Writing Contest, run by the National Academy of Engineering, is an annual competition where students in grades 6–12…
The Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS) is a prestigious national program that challenges high school students to conduct original…
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 Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest is an annual writing competition organized by the Ayn Rand Institute that invites…
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 Bennington College Young Writers Awards is an annual international writing competition open to students in grades 9–12, recognizing outstanding…
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 SPJ/JEA High School Essay Contest is an annual writing competition organized by the Society of Professional Journalists Foundation and…
The AFSA High School Essay Contest is an annual writing competition organized by the American Foreign Service Association that invites…
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…
The Scholastic Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) is a national community dedicated…
The USA Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO) is an invite-only, proof-based mathematics competition organized by the Mathematical Association of America for high…
The International History Olympiad is a prestigious biennial competition organized by International Academic Competitions that brings together top history students…
The International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) is an annual international competition where secondary school students analyze the grammar, structure, culture, and…
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…
The United States Academic Decathlon (USAD) is a prestigious team-based academic competition for high school students in grades 9 to…
SHTEM is an eight-week summer research internship program at Stanford University, open to high school juniors and seniors with a…
Tufts Summer Study is a pre-college program offered by Tufts University that gives ambitious high school students the chance to…
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 Michigan State University High School Honors Science/Engineering/Mathematics Program (HSHSP) is a seven-week intensive summer research program at Michigan State…
Penn SAS High School Programs are accelerated summer offerings at the University of Pennsylvania designed for talented high school students…
MIT PRIMES (Program for Research in Mathematics, Engineering and Science for High School Students) is a free, year-long research program…
Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institutes is a two-week online summer enrichment program offered by Stanford University for students in grades 8…
Summer@Brown is a pre-college program offered by Brown University that allows high school students in grades 9 through 12 to…
From the Ground Up is a selective five-week pre-college architecture program presented by Wonderworks in partnership with the Gerald D.…
Arete: An Introduction to the Classics is a program offered by the University of Dallas that immerses high school students…
Story Lines is a competitive, reading-intensive summer program presented by Wonderworks for high school students of special promise and ability,…
The Schieffer Summer Journalism Camp is an intensive one-week program hosted by Texas Christian University for high school students interested…
The STEM Research Experience is a selective seven-week summer program offered by CU Science Discovery at the University of Colorado…
The Columbia Pre-College Program, offered by Columbia University's School of Professional Studies, allows high school students to take rigorous college-level…
The Science and Engineering Apprentice Program (SEAP) is a selective eight-week summer internship offered by the Office of Naval Research…
The Manhattan District Attorney's High School Internship Program is a rigorous, paid five-week summer program open to juniors and seniors…
Applied Research Innovations in Science and Engineering (ARISE) is a free 10-week summer program offered by NYU K12 STEM Education…
The Eve and Gene Black Summer Medical Career Program is a prestigious mentorship initiative founded in 1969 by the Los…
UC Santa Barbara's Summer Research Academies is a four-week pre-college program that places high school students directly into university-level research…
The UCLA Summer College Immersion Program (SCIP) is a prestigious summer program that allows exceptional high school students to study…
The Pediatrics Internship Program at Stanford (PIPS) is a free, 7-week research internship offered by Stanford Medicine's Department of Pediatrics…
Semester at Sea is a transformative study abroad program run by the Institute for Shipboard Education, where students earn a…
Letters About Literature is a national reading and writing contest administered by the Library of Congress that invites students in…
Oxford Summer Courses is an award-winning summer academic program that brings students aged 9 to 24 to the historic campuses…
The Ross Mathematics Program is a six-week intensive summer program that immerses motivated pre-college students in deep mathematical thinking and…
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…
The Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics (HCSSiM) is an intensive six-week residential program at Hampshire College in Massachusetts for…
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 Lumiere Research Scholar Program is a rigorous summer research initiative founded by Harvard and Oxford researchers that pairs high…
Caminos al Futuro is a free, three-week residential pre-college program hosted by the Cisneros Institute at George Washington University, open…
Essentials of Finance is a selective two-week residential summer program offered by the Wharton Global Youth Program for high school…
Harvard Model Congress (HMC) is a premier government simulation conference organized and staffed entirely by Harvard undergraduates, offering high school…
The Harvard National Speech and Debate Tournament is one of the most prestigious invitational tournaments in the country, drawing high…
MDI Biomedical Bootcamp is a one-week summer program hosted by MDI Biological Laboratory that gives rising juniors, seniors, and recent…
The Secondary Student Training Program (SSTP) at the University of Iowa is a highly selective 5.5-week residential summer research experience…
Research in the Biological Sciences (RIBS) is a four-week intensive summer program at the University of Chicago where high school…
The Coolidge Scholarship is a fully funded, four-year presidential scholarship sponsored by the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Fund that covers tuition,…
The Cal Invitational is a prestigious annual speech and debate tournament hosted by UC Berkeley, open to high school students…
The Great Debate is a national public-speaking competition organized by The Historical Association for secondary school students in years 10…
NSS Global Space Debates is an international debate competition run by the National Space Society that challenges high school students…
The Modeling the Future Challenge is a free national research competition organized by The Actuarial Foundation that invites high school…
The North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition (NACLO) is an annual linguistic problem-solving contest open to high school students, with…
Pioneer Research Institute is a highly selective, fully accredited online research program offered through Pioneer Academics, giving high school students…
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…
The USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future and Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability High School Summer Internship Program…
Far Horizons Teens is a high school research program at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago where students in grades 9…
Teach Me Wall Street Summer Camp is a live, virtual finance and investing program for high school students in grades…
K12 Online Summer School Programs and Courses is a flexible online learning option for students in grades K-12, offering a…
The Husson University Early College Access Program (ECAP) is a tuition-free dual enrollment opportunity that allows high school juniors and…
The High School Fellowship in Biomedical Research is a four-week summer internship offered by The Wistar Institute, one of the…
The Sabancı University PURE Summer Program is a prestigious research experience hosted by Sabancı University that immerses students in rigorous,…