COSMOS UCLA · Cluster 1: Brain-Inspired Computing: Learning in Biological and Artificial Neural Networks
University of California COSMOS (UCLA)
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.
COSMOS UCLA · Cluster 10: Smarter World: Where Data Science Powers IoT
University of California COSMOS (UCLA)
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.
COSMOS UCLA · Cluster 2: Ecosystem Responses to Climate from Plants to Planet
University of California COSMOS (UCLA)
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 plants and ecosystems shape carbon, water and climate, using plant physiology lab techniques, urban ecology methods and satellite data, with group projects ending in a poster, presentation and game. Possible field trips include the Huntington and a UC nature reserve.
COSMOS UCLA · Cluster 4: HIGH SUCCESS: Hydrogen, Carbon Capture and the Energy Transition
University of California COSMOS (UCLA)
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
Sustainability frameworks, carbon capture and hydrogen production, storage and safety, with hydrogen demonstrations, building small fuel-cell vehicles for a competition, and simulations; field trips to a hydrogen home and fueling stations.
COSMOS UCLA · Cluster 5: Self-balancing Mini Robot Cars to Rockets: Exploring Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California COSMOS (UCLA)
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
Mechatronics (electronics, microcontrollers, sensors and control) and rocket engineering, with team projects from LED blinkers to self-balancing robot cars, wind tunnel tests, motor thrust tests and building and launching rockets.
COSMOS UCLA · Cluster 6: From Medicine to Hollywood: Artificial Intelligence for Speech and Imagery
University of California COSMOS (UCLA)
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.
$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
General and organic chemistry with hands-on infrared spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, chromatography and NMR, plus synthesis techniques, ending in identifying an unknown compound. Possible field trips include Scripps Research and the Salk Institute.
COSMOS UCLA · Cluster 8: Bit by Bit: Mathematics and Technologies of the Information Age
University of California COSMOS (UCLA)
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 data is stored, protected, compressed and sent wirelessly, with daily Python labs and a final project transmitting an image across campus with software-defined radios. Field trips include Google, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and UCLA's original internet lab.
COSMOS UCLA · Cluster 9: Modern Computational Biology: From DNA to Protein Structure and Function
University of California COSMOS (UCLA)
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
Computational biology from gene prediction and protein sequence comparison to phylogenetic trees and AI protein structure prediction, using real datasets in afternoon labs and ending in a team poster and talk on specific genes and proteins.
Entering 9th grade (fall 2027) through college age (completed grades 8–12)
Format:
Residential
Six-day leadership and entrepreneurship program at UCLA for high school and college-aged students, with motivational speakers, entrepreneur panels, goal-setting and communication workshops, a mentor workshop with more than 100 professionals, and daily small groups of same-age participants.
Pre-Med & Life SciencesLeadership & GiftedFirst-Come
NYLF - Medicine & Health Care
Envision by WorldStrides
Dates:
2 sessions between Jun 26–Jul 22, 2027 (8 days options)
Length:
8 days
Cost:
$4,599
Location:
University of California, Los Angeles
Grades:
9-12
Format:
Residential
Credit:
1-2 college credits (residential: 2; commuter: 1) from George Mason University, as a non-degree high school guest student
An 8-day pre-college medical program (part of the National Youth Leadership Forum series, acquired by Envision in 2007) combining hands-on clinical-skills rotations (suturing, blood pressure, phlebotomy, neuro exams), two full simulation days (a Disaster Triage simulation and an Outdoor Emergency Medicine / wilderness-medicine simulation originally developed with Stanford School of Medicine faculty), a tour of a medical school or simulation center, guest speaker panels with practicing clinicians, and a final medical case-study presentation.
Musiker Discovery Programs Inc. (Summer Discovery)
Dates:
6 sessions between Jun 27–Jul 30, 2027 (2 weeks and 3 weeks options)
Length:
2 weeks–3 weeks
Cost:
$4,499–$9,999
Location:
Los Angeles, CA (UCLA campus)
Grades:
9-12
Format:
Commuter / Residential / Residential or Commuter
Pre-college program at UCLA. Students spend the session in morning and afternoon courses or in one all-day academy, as residential or commuter students.
