Applications are open for the 2022 Summer Science Program in Astrophysics, Biochemistry, or Genomics. Should you apply? Now is the perfect time to find out.
SSP is a unique immersion into hands-on experimental science. You and two teammates will perform real research, collecting your own data and doing your own analysis. (How? We'll teach you.) Guest lectures and field trips round out the jam-packed schedule, for what could be the best summer of your life. That's not hype ... it's how most participants describe SSP.
Visit summerscience.org for videos, FAQs, application instructions, comments from recent alumni and their parents ... everything you need to "imagine yourself" at SSP next summer. Check it out!
What is SSP?
A 39-day residential program in which participants, working in teams of three, do hands-on research at a university in either:
· Astrophysics : near-earth asteroid imaging / orbit determination,
· Biochemistry: molecular modeling of fungal enzymes / drug discovery, or
· Genomics: antibiotic resistance / directed evolution
Who: High school juniors (rising seniors) from around the U.S.. and the world, talented and motivated in science
Why: Accelerate your intellectual and personal development in an intense and challenging yet supportive college setting
Where: New Mexico Tech, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, or Univ. of North Carolina Chapel Hill (Astrophysics); Indiana University (Biochemistry);or Purdue University (Biochemistry and Genomics);
How: Apply by February 25th (note: deadline for non-U.S. citizens, and U.S. citizens attending school outside the U.S. is January 28). Complete instructions at summerscience.org.
Alumni comments [more online]: · "SSP has changed my life. There is no way I'll return home and look at my life in the same way I did before." –Irene Toro Martinez
· "I never imagined meeting such a diversity of peers." –Ota Amaize
· "SSP was the most amazing social experience I have been privileged to have. It’s a model for the way learning should be pursued." –Camilo Brokaw
· "I thought I would grow tremendously intellectually at SSP - and I did, but the priceless part was being with my SSP family and growing the most socially and as an individual, which was unexpected." –Fakhra Khalid
· "Here one can understand not just the equations of science, but the life of a scientist." –Jacob Shenker
· "You don't have to worry about fitting in; at SSP, even if you don't try to, you get sucked into the community instantly." –Michael Murphy
"It's the most amazing thing that ever happened to me.”
SSP is operated by an independent non-profit, governed by its own alumni, in cooperation with host campuses New Mexico Inst. of Technology, Purdue Univ., Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Univ. of Indiana Bloomington, and Univ. of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and affiliates Caltech, Harvey Mudd College, and MIT.
