Start exploring Tech & AI summer programs for high schoolers

Dates:

Not confirmed for 2027

Length:

1 week (Mon–Fri)

Cost:

$2,000

Location:

MIT campus, Cambridge, MA

Grades:

Rising 10th–12th graders (incoming sophomores, juniors, and seniors) (completed grades 9–11)

Format:

Commuter

Deadline:

Early Action Nov 1, 2026 · Regular Feb 22, 2027 · 10 days left

One-week in-person bootcamp at MIT introducing high school students to AI and machine learning in healthcare, with daily courses in machine learning for health, Python (beginner and advanced), clinical AI, and AI drug discovery, and team projects ending in a final presentation.

Dates:

Jun 13–18, 2027

Length:

6 days

Cost:

$0

Location:

University of Texas at Austin (Gates Dell Complex), Austin, TX

Grades:

Entering 11th–12th grade (fall 2027), U.S.-based (completed grades 10–11)

Format:

Residential

Deadline:

Dec 20, 2026

Free one-week residential machine learning academy at UT Austin Computer Science where students learn Python, train their own machine learning model, and explore the social impacts of AI; all skill levels welcome.

Dates:

Jul 10–21, 2027

Length:

10-day seminar (12 days on campus)

Cost:

$0

Location:

Notre Dame, IN (University of Notre Dame)

Grades:

Completed 11th grade

Format:

Residential

Deadline:

Jan 20, 2027

Credit:

1 transferable Notre Dame credit (on satisfactory completion)

Students live in Notre Dame residence halls and spend the session in one seminar taught by Notre Dame faculty, with activities outside class.

Dates:

2 sessions between Jun 16–Jul 28, 2027 (3 weeks options)

Length:

3 weeks

Cost:

$8,000

Location:

London, England

Grades:

Current grades 9-12

Format:

Group Housing

Deadline:

Jan 20, 2027

Partners with a local organization to build an AI-powered prototype. Overnight excursion to Milton Keynes (Bletchley Park, The National Museum of Computing) and a day trip to Cambridge (AI Animal Chat exhibit, punting on the River Cam).

Dates:

2 sessions between Jun 16–Jul 28, 2027 (3 weeks options)

Length:

3 weeks

Cost:

$7,000

Location:

Shanghai, China

Grades:

Current grades 9-12

Format:

Residential (Homestay)

Deadline:

Jan 20, 2027

Students partner with a local organization to design an AI-powered prototype addressing a real challenge (e.g., access to urban green spaces, product enhancements for a local startup). Includes a visit to a smart community center, table tennis with a club founded by Olympic champion Xu Xin, and an overnight excursion to Wuxi.

Dates:

2 sessions between Jun 16–Jul 28, 2027 (3 weeks options)

Length:

3 weeks

Cost:

$7,000

Location:

Singapore, Singapore

Grades:

Current grades 9-12

Format:

Group Housing

Deadline:

Jan 20, 2027

Students partner with a local organization to research a real challenge (e.g., access to urban green spaces, product enhancement for a local startup) and develop an AI-powered prototype solution. Includes a rope-course adventure at Forest Adventure and a Chinese tea-culture visit in Chinatown; overnight excursion to Melaka, Malaysia.

Dates:

2 sessions between Jun 16–Jul 28, 2027 (3 weeks options)

Length:

3 weeks

Cost:

$6,000

Location:

Tallinn, Estonia

Grades:

Current grades 9-12

Format:

Residential (Homestay)

Deadline:

Jan 20, 2027

Partners with a local organization to build an AI-powered prototype. Includes an Old Town/Digital Society walking tour tracing Estonia's rise as a tech hub (Skype, Bolt), a visit to Telliskivi Creative City, and a traditional Estonian cooking class.

Dates:

2 sessions between Jun 16–Jul 28, 2027 (3 weeks options)

Length:

3 weeks

Cost:

$7,200

Location:

Osaka, Japan

Grades:

Current grades 10-12

Format:

Group Housing

Deadline:

Jan 20, 2027

Hands-on Python coding and robotics classes; students build and present their own prototype. Explores Dotonbori and Namba, local food specialties (takoyaki, okonomiyaki), and Osaka Castle.

Dates:

2 sessions between Jun 16–Jul 28, 2027 (3 weeks options)

Length:

3 weeks

Cost:

$7,200

Location:

Tokyo, Japan

Grades:

Current grades 10-12

Format:

Group Housing

Deadline:

Jan 20, 2027

Hands-on Python coding and robotics classes covering electrical components, circuits, chips, and microcontrollers; students build and present their own robot car. Visits to the Avatar Robot Cafe and Miraikan (National Museum of Emerging Science). Weekend excursion to Yokohama.

Dates:

Jul 11–31, 2027

Length:

3 weeks

Cost:

$10,599

Location:

Philadelphia, PA (University of Pennsylvania)

Grades:

Rising juniors and seniors (completed grades 10–11)

Format:

Residential

Deadline:

Priority Jan 27, 2027 · Final Mar 17, 2027

A rigorous data science course covering data visualization, data wrangling and modern machine learning, comparable to an intermediate Wharton undergraduate course.

Dates:

Jun 28 – Aug 6, 2027

Length:

6 weeks

Cost:

$0

Location:

Stony Brook, NY (Stony Brook University)

Grades:

Current high school juniors (rising seniors), age 16+, nominated by their school

Format:

Commuter / Residential

Deadline:

School nomination Jan 29, 2027 · Application Feb 5, 2027 · Recommendations Feb 12, 2027

Fellows join a Stony Brook faculty research group in science, math or engineering for six weeks, running experiments, analyzing data and pursuing a question of their own, and present a research poster at the end.

Dates:

Jun 20–26, 2027

Length:

1 week

Cost:

$3,095–$3,725

Location:

Washington, DC (Georgetown University campus)

Grades:

Rising 9th graders through graduating seniors (completed grades 8–12)

Format:

Commuter / Residential

Deadline:

Early bird Jan 31, 2027 · Final May 15, 2027

A week on the science of AI and its ethical, regulatory and geopolitical implications, combining lectures and guest speakers with hands-on exercises that test simple AI models, interactive simulations and real-world use cases.

Dates:

Jun 26–Jul 24, 2027

Length:

4 weeks

Cost:

$0

Location:

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Grades:

Rising 12th graders (in 11th grade when applying), age 16 by June 26, 2027; U.S. citizens or permanent residents

Format:

Residential

Deadline:

Feb 1, 2027

Fully funded, merit-based four-week residential program at Carnegie Mellon for rising seniors exploring artificial intelligence through classroom instruction, research projects, faculty lectures, and industry experiences.

Dates:

Jun 26–Jul 24, 2027

Length:

4 weeks

Cost:

Contact program for pricing

Location:

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Grades:

Rising 11th or 12th graders (between 10th–11th or 11th–12th grade in summer 2027), age 16 by June 26, 2027

Format:

Commuter / Residential

Deadline:

Scholarship Feb 1, 2027 · Final Mar 1, 2027

Four-week Carnegie Mellon program on designing human-centered technology and AI systems, exploring why systems succeed or frustrate people and how to make them useful and usable.

Dates:

Jun 26–Aug 7, 2027

Length:

6 weeks

Cost:

$7,409–$14,688

Location:

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Grades:

Rising 11th or 12th graders (between 10th–11th or 11th–12th grade in summer 2027), age 16 by June 26, 2027

Format:

Commuter / Residential

Deadline:

Scholarship Feb 1, 2027 · Final Mar 1, 2027

Credit:

Yes

Six-week program where high school students take Carnegie Mellon summer courses for college credit, choosing from about thirty courses across science, humanities, social science, engineering, computer science, and arts technology.

Dates:

Jul 5–31, 2027

Length:

4 weeks

Cost:

$5,518 (2026 pricing; housing, meals and field trips)

Location:

Davis, CA (UC Davis campus)

Grades:

Rising 9th–12th graders attending high school in California (completed grades 8–11)

Format:

Residential

Deadline:

Due Feb 5, 2027

Machine learning basics through lectures and coding projects: data exploration, supervised and unsupervised learning, model evaluation and deep learning, with hands-on labs building Python models on real data.

Residency restriction: CA residents

Dates:

Jul 5–31, 2027

Length:

4 weeks

Cost:

$5,518 (2026 pricing; housing, meals and field trips)

Location:

Irvine, CA (UC Irvine campus)

Grades:

Rising 9th–12th graders attending high school in California (completed grades 8–11)

Format:

Residential

Deadline:

Due Feb 5, 2027

A tour of modern physics, including condensed matter, particle, biological and plasma physics and astronomy, in which students build devices, collect real data and analyze it with Python and machine learning.

Residency restriction: CA residents

Dates:

Jul 5–31, 2027

Length:

4 weeks

Cost:

$5,518 (2026 pricing; housing, meals and field trips)

Location:

Merced, CA (UC Merced campus)

Grades:

Rising 9th–12th graders attending high school in California (completed grades 8–11)

Format:

Residential

Deadline:

Due Feb 5, 2027

Where high-performance computing meets AI: small teams build projects such as a script-writing assistant, a game character that learns from players and an image-to-poster generator, learning to speed up model training and ending in a capstone competition.

Residency restriction: CA residents

Dates:

Jul 5–31, 2027

Length:

4 weeks

Cost:

$5,518 (2026 pricing; housing, meals and field trips)

Location:

La Jolla, CA (UC San Diego campus)

Grades:

Rising 9th–12th graders attending high school in California (completed grades 8–11)

Format:

Residential

Deadline:

Due Feb 5, 2027

How algorithms learn from data, starting with a Python refresher and moving to hands-on projects applying machine learning to areas such as conservation and social science.

Residency restriction: CA residents

Dates:

Jul 5–31, 2027

Length:

4 weeks

Cost:

$5,518 (2026 pricing; housing, meals and field trips)

Location:

Santa Cruz, CA (UC Santa Cruz campus)

Grades:

Rising 9th–12th graders attending high school in California (completed grades 8–11)

Format:

Residential

Deadline:

Due Feb 5, 2027

Machine learning applied to robotics and feedback control: models of robots, control algorithms and implementing and validating a robotic system in simulation.

Residency restriction: CA residents

Dates:

Jul 5–31, 2027

Length:

4 weeks

Cost:

$5,518 (2026 pricing; housing, meals and field trips)

Location:

Los Angeles, CA (UCLA campus)

Grades:

Rising 9th–12th graders attending high school in California (completed grades 8–11)

Format:

Residential

Deadline:

Due Feb 5, 2027

How brains and artificial neural networks learn, from memory and sleep to machine consciousness: morning lectures link neuroscience and machine learning, and afternoon Python labs build networks that model brain circuits or recognize images.

Residency restriction: CA residents

Dates:

Jul 5–31, 2027

Length:

4 weeks

Cost:

$5,518 (2026 pricing; housing, meals and field trips)

Location:

Los Angeles, CA (UCLA campus)

Grades:

Rising 9th–12th graders attending high school in California (completed grades 8–11)

Format:

Residential

Deadline:

Due Feb 5, 2027

How Internet of Things sensors and data science work together, from collecting and cleaning sensor data to cloud-based predictive models over WiFi, Bluetooth, LoRa and RFID, ending in a capstone ESP32 system that analyzes real-world data.

Residency restriction: CA residents

Dates:

Jul 5–31, 2027

Length:

4 weeks

Cost:

$5,518 (2026 pricing; housing, meals and field trips)

Location:

Los Angeles, CA (UCLA campus)

Grades:

Rising 9th–12th graders attending high school in California (completed grades 8–11)

Format:

Residential

Deadline:

Due Feb 5, 2027

How machines produce and recognize speech and images, two weeks on each, with students building their own AI algorithms on real medical and entertainment data. Field trips include UCLA Hospital and a Hollywood studio that uses AI.

Residency restriction: CA residents

Dates:

Jul 11–30, 2027

Length:

3 weeks (20 days)

Cost:

$9,250

Location:

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Grades:

Rising 10th–12th graders (completed grades 9-11), 15 years old or older by program start; minimum 3.0 GPA

Format:

Residential

Deadline:

Feb 17, 2027

Credit:

Yes (0.5 Penn credit units, about 1.5 semester credits)

Three-week residential college-credit course at the University of Pennsylvania where students learn the machine learning algorithms behind generative AI, apply them to biological design in Python, and complete group projects shared on platforms used by AI researchers.