<p>A lot of the summer programs are excellent, but are there any summer programs that are decent and are no-cost (but competitive) or programs that provide full financial aid for those who are scholastically qualified?</p>
<p>I can think of three right off the top of my head, TASS, MITES, and RSI. Oh, not to mention American Legion Boys State, but what else? How are student selected?</p>
<p>NASA SHARP <a href="http://www.mtsibase.com/sharp/%5B/url%5D">http://www.mtsibase.com/sharp/</a>
TASP (Telluride) <a href="http://www.tellurideassociation.org/tasp1.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.tellurideassociation.org/tasp1.html</a>
Clay Research Academy <a href="http://www.claymath.org/programs/outreach/academy/%5B/url%5D">http://www.claymath.org/programs/outreach/academy/</a></p>
<p>STRAW <a href="http://www.rockefeller.edu/outreach/%5B/url%5D">http://www.rockefeller.edu/outreach/</a>
Materials Camp <a href="http://www.asminternational.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ASMFoundation/Materials_Camp/StudentsMaterialsCamp/2005_Camp_Information/2005_Camp_Information.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.asminternational.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ASMFoundation/Materials_Camp/StudentsMaterialsCamp/2005_Camp_Information/2005_Camp_Information.htm</a>
<a href="http://www.hillsdale.edu/academics/sciencecamps.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.hillsdale.edu/academics/sciencecamps.asp</a> Hillsdale College
<a href="http://www.lrsm.upenn.edu/outreach/#summer%5B/url%5D">http://www.lrsm.upenn.edu/outreach/#summer</a> Upenn Materials Science
<a href="http://youthprograms.mtu.edu/programs.html%5B/url%5D">http://youthprograms.mtu.edu/programs.html</a> Michigan Tech Youth Programs </p>
<p>Governer's Schools in some states
Olympiad training camps</p>
<p>Well, we are California, so we do not have the Governor's School.</p>
<p>Telluride programs...competitive, and if you are accepted, free.</p>
<p>Marmat, thanks for the information. You have an AWESOME collection of bookmarks.</p>
<p>Earlham Explore-A-College. Aid is needbased. Half of cost is applied toward tuition if you end up going there, and credits given.</p>
<p>Jackson Laboratory Summer Internship for 11th and 12th graders is at a research institution located on the coast of Maine (Bar Harbor). Each student will receive room & board, plus a stipend of $2,500.
<a href="http://www.jax.org/education/ssp.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.jax.org/education/ssp.html</a></p>
<p>In California , UC Davis YSP program (science research) gives scholarships. must have application in in Feb.</p>
<p>Youth Theological Initiative at Emory is free for all participants. It's a four week program for rising seniors. The only cost the student has to pay is travel back and forth to Atlanta. My daughter is there right now and is having a great time.</p>
<p>Center for Clinical Immunology at Stanford summer research internship.</p>
<p>If anyone knows of any programs for potential transfers, I'd be interested in those. I've already found Vassar's and Smith's, but there must be more.</p>
<p>Are any of the programs listed above open to international students (specifically Canada)?</p>
<p>In the DC/Metro Area:
SEAP-Navy
SEAP-Army
NIH</p>
<p>There are programs in Wash DC at the Walter Reed Army medical Center as well. i don't know exactly how manny programs they have but they all are related to science. i attended one a couple years back.</p>
<p>Nasa High School Aersospace Scholars: <a href="http://aerospacescholars.jsc.nasa.gov/HAS/index.cfm%5B/url%5D">http://aerospacescholars.jsc.nasa.gov/HAS/index.cfm</a></p>
<p>Only for people who live in texas, Fla, Cali, and the other states with NASA bases. Its pretty competitive.</p>
<p>Sozo: Walter Reed is through the SEAP-Army. SEAP was a program created like 20 years ago by the Department of Defense, but it got split in two recently. Basically, its an 8-week internship at a Navy or Army research facility where you do meaningful work(some more than others). </p>
<p>The two major facilities are NRL(Naval Research Lab) and the Army based Walter Reed. There are a bunch of smaller facilities like Naval Warfare, Army Research, Sea Systems and a list of like 15 more that only take a couple kids.</p>
<p>I think NIH's high school apprenticeship is the hardest to get into, with NRL being number two. NIH is biomedical oriented(genetics,biochem,medicine, etc.) where as NRL is more generic oriented. I think NRL is bigger(2000 researchers, full campus) but both have a lot of accomplishments. NIH brags about Genome Project, NRL brags about inventing radar.</p>
<p>Anyways theres lots of opportunities in the DC Metro area to do research and there are a lot of great labs.</p>
<p>Navy SEAP: <a href="http://armanagement.org/seap/default.htm%5B/url%5D">http://armanagement.org/seap/default.htm</a>
Army SEAP: <a href="http://gwseap.net/%5B/url%5D">http://gwseap.net/</a></p>
<p>OH, thx for clearing that up! :)</p>
<p>Oh and you get a stipend($1500).</p>
<p>I'll just comment---we sent my son to a summer program at U of Penn last year (in archeology). It really wasn't that informative, challenging or even all that interesting. It was for middle school kids, and the stuff was pretty elementary (e.g. digging in a sand pit for "fossils" the staff had placed there..). They also spent a lot of time playging ball games in the courtyard.</p>
<p>Not sure if this is the same program which was listed on the links above.</p>
<p>Drexel Engineering School has a great summer program, however (1 week). Drexel is a good school in Philadelphia.</p>