6 opportunities found in Stanford

While Stanford is well known as a center of innovation and entrepreneurship, at its heart it remains a liberal arts institution dedicated to the cultivation of new knowledge. Ground-breaking undergraduate programs, such as Art Practice+CS Joint Major, push students to their creative and scientific limits by fusing the digital and visual world of technology and art. The Summer Arts Institute draws academically talented high school students grades 9 – 11 from around the world for an intensive three-week residential program focusing on a single interdisciplinary course that examines the intersections between art and other academic disciplines.

The Stanford Summer Humanities Institute brings together academically talented high school students grades 10 – 11 from around the world for a three-week residential program led by distinguished Stanford professors. While Stanford is well known as a center of innovation and entrepreneurship, at its heart it remains a liberal arts institution dedicated to the cultivation of new knowledge. Students who attend Stanford Summer Humanities Institute delve into the big issues at the heart of the humanities.

The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has opened its lab doors with a program aimed at girls who are in 9th grade at the time of applying. Founded by Olga Russakovsky and Fei-Fei Li, female leaders in Artificial Intelligence, the two-week, residential program provides both broad exposure to AI topics through faculty lectures and industry field trips, as well as an in-depth experience with a research area through hands-on projects. Mentoring and career/personal development sessions with faculty, researchers, and graduate students further enable personal growth and an opportunity to explore career interests in AI.

The Stanford Institutes of Medicine Summer Research Program (SIMR) is an eight-week program in which high school students from diverse backgrounds are invited to perform basic research with Stanford faculty, postdoctoral fellows, students and researchers on a medically-oriented project. The goals of the program include increasing interest in biological sciences and medicine in high school students, helping students to understand how scientific research is performed, and increasing diversity of students and researchers in the sciences.

SUMaC emphasizes challenging curriculum and strong community, and allows students to feed their mathematical appetite and make life-long friends. SUMaC invites applications from mathematically talented students who have a love for mathematics and a desire to be challenged. SUMaC is funded, in part, by a grant from the American Mathematical Society Epsilon Fund and also receives financial support from the Stanford Department of Mathematics.

High School Summer College gives qualified high school students the extra guidance they need to be self-reliant and master their college-level courses. Program participants enroll as visiting undergraduates in Stanford’s Summer Quarter and take the same courses, taught by the same Stanford faculty, as matriculated Stanford students. Students interact with peers from across the U.S. and around the world, and have ample opportunity to explore the unique recreational activities available on campus and in the culturally rich San Francisco Bay Area. By embracing a diversity of socioeconomic, cultural, and racial backgrounds, Summer College creates an inclusive community of learning where students are challenged to reach their fullest potential—while at Stanford and beyond.