16 opportunities found in California

Participating schools may submit a total of three entries (one entry per student) in any combination of the following categories: art, film, poetry, or prose. Description as of the 22nd Annual Contest in 2021: Students will be eligible to win a first prize award of $400 in each category. Educators and schools will also be eligible to win a first prize of $200 each. First-place student winners in the United States, their parent/guardian, and teacher will be invited to participate in an expense-paid study trip June 20–24, 2021, to visit the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, the Museum of Tolerance, the Japanese American National Museum, and other sites in Los Angeles, well as to meet with members of The 1939 Society, a community of Holocaust survivors, descendants, and friends. Funding permitting, this invitation will also be extended to first-place students living outside of the United States. In addition, first-place student entries will be posted on Chapman...

Adventures in Nature is moving online, and we invite you to join us to explore exciting Museum topics— from dinosaurs to dire wolves, and alligator lizards to the creatures off our coast! Enroll your children in interactive virtual classes and they will learn about fascinating subjects that spark children's natural curiosity and creativity. Registration now open, see links below.  We are excited to offer 4 sessions from July 6-30th. Each week, we will focus on a different theme:  July 6–9  |  Dinosaurs! Dino Discoveries- Join us to imagine life for these giants of the past!  (Registration Closes June 24) July 12–16  |  Wild L.A. City Safari- Explore the wildlife that calls Los Angeles “home”!  (Registration Closes June 24) July 19–23  |  La Brea Tar Pits: Treasures of the Tar Pits- Explore the Ice Age by learning about fossils found at La Brea Tar Pits!  (Registration...

A partnership of the AFI Conservatory and the Will & Jada Smith Family Foundation (WJSFF), the Young Women in Film Intensive is an eight-week filmmaking training program held on the AFI Campus for promising female high school students from Los Angeles.

embARC is a four week summer design intensive at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design that brings together high school students from diverse backgrounds to explore architecture, urban design and sustainable city planning through three components: an Architecture + Urban Design Studio, a Sustainable City Planning Workshop and a Design-Build project.

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.

Great ideas are everywhere. Yet, great businesses built on top of great ideas are far more rare. B-BAY, a proven business program for youth, lets you experience the powerful combination of great ideas and great business sense by developing a business idea and creating your team's business plan–all in just two weeks.

Precollege Summer Institutes are designed for advanced high school students who wish to gain academically challenging college-level experience.

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.