<p>Hi, I am very interested in a summer research opportunity or camp during this summer before my senior year. I just do not know where I can find more information about programs near me. I live on Long Island, New York, and would like to study somewhere near home. How could I find out information regarding programs or research opportunity I could take part in?</p>
<p>Use the “search” function.</p>
<p>However, you’ve asked kind of late and a lot of application deadlines have passed…</p>
<p>Simons and Garcia programs at Stony Brook University
Clarks Scholars
RSI
HSHSP</p>
<p>are the ones that come to mind. I think the deadlines for Clarks, RSI, and the SBU ones are done though.</p>
<p>You should try international travel programs - like People to People
Its such a great experience & it looks good on college apps.</p>
<p>^don’t you have to pay for it though…?</p>
<p>If you want to do research you can try to find a professor who may be willing to let you work in his or her lab, but you have to ask early. Isn’t Long Island big on research? The most meaningful research experiences are those where you are allowed to come up with your own research proposal, work on your own project, but you’ll have to start really early and may even have to pay the materials, like the solutions and antibodies and stuff, which can get unbelievably expensive. </p>
<p>Or, some kids at my school have come up with their own research projects that do not involve a lab or a research institution. One of my friends last year did an animal observation project that was simple in concept but really interesting at the same time. It got her into ISEF.</p>
<p>Summer programs:
PROMYS
SEAP
Clark University Summer Program
MITES
RSI
NIH
TASP
SSP
The Ross Program
MOSP
COSMOS
HSHSP
YSP
Cornell Nanobiotechnology Internship</p>
<p>Also there’s a page on the MIT website about summer programs that involve science and math, which is really helpful. There’s also a local one for kids in NY and NJ, but I can’t think of the name right now… It’s got to do with conservation and environmental science, if you’re interested. That one’s somewhere in upstate NY, so it’s fairly local.</p>