Summer Research Program for Teachers/CERTS

Stanford’s Summer Research Program for Teachers (SRPT) offers eight-week research fellowships for teachers of middle school and high school who teach in the San Francisco Bay Area. Teachers work in a Stanford lab four days a week, and meet once a week as a group for science and engineering lectures by Stanford faculty, lab tours, and seminars on teaching. Participants earn a stipend of $7,200 for the summer and an additional $1,000 grant after developing and testing new lessons with their students.

Beginning in summer 2013, a subset of these teachers will be funded by the National Science Foundation in a complementary program called Computing and Engineering Research Experiences for Teachers (CERTS). The expectations and activities for CERTS and SRPT are identical.

Unpaid Internships for High School Students

In addition to formal internship programs for high school students, Stanford labs sometimes host high school interns on an informal basis, usually in unpaid internships. The Office of Science Outreach is not able to help individual students identify a host lab or project but if you click on the red title above, you will find some information and tips. Please do not call the Office of Science Outreach for advice or guidance. 

 

RISE Summer Internship Program

The RISE (Raising Interest in Science and Engineering) Summer Internship Program for HS Students is sponsored by the Office of Science Outreach. It’s an intensive 7-week summer program for local Bay Area students (living within 25-mile radius of campus) interested in science, engineering, math, and computer science. Students spend 30 hours a week on the Stanford campus, working in an active research lab under the guidance of a mentor from the lab (typically a graduate student), and attending weekly group sessions that include field trips, presentations, hands-on science activities, and lab tours.

RISE is designed for bright low income students and those who will be the first in their families to attend college. 

Applications are no longer being accepted for the RISE 2013 Program.

SMYSP Summer Residential Program

The SMYSP Summer Residential Program offers five weeks of intensive science and health training each summer for low income and under-represented high school students from northern and central California. Participants live together at Stanford, attend scientific lectures, complete anatomy laboratory practicums, intern at Stanford Hospital & Clinics and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System hospital, and learn about college entrance requirements, application procedures and financial aid. The program is tuition-free; selection is based on an application process.

Stanford Summer Teaching Institute

The Stanford Summer Teaching Institute is a collection of 4-, 5-, and 8-day courses focused on the development of effective instructional practices for a variety of content areas and grade levels.  

Outreach Programs for Stanford Students

Want to help K-12 students learn about math, science, & engineering? There are a number of different programs, many run by Stanford students, that interact with the local K-12 community. Become engaged in Boys & Girls Club programs, tutor kids, work with elementary schools on hands-on science projects, and have fun while inspiring kids about the wonders of science.

Stanford Summer Session

Stanford Summer Session offers visiting high school students, undergraduates, graduate students, and adults a full range of 8 - 10 week classes during the summer in the Humanities, Sciences, Math, Engineering and Athletics. Tuition is charged and credit earned by students may be eligible for transfer to another college or university.

Educational Studies Program/Splash!

The mission of the Stanford ESP community is to reach out, to enthuse young eager minds, and share our muses and sources of joy and inspiration with people around us, especially high school students.

We offer days on campus full of academic and non-academic classes taught by Stanford students. ESP invites students to attend classes that could vary from completely “non-academic” stuff like cookie baking and origami, to complicated and challenging classes on machine theory or quantum mechanics.

The next Splash! Days will be April 13 - 14, 2013

SMASH Academy on Stanford Campus

The Summer Math and Science Honors (SMASH) Academy is:

• A three-year 5-week summer math and science enrichment program;
• For high achieving, low-income high school students of color;
• Focused on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM);
• Successful in preparing scholars for college and achievement in higher education;
• Free of cost.

SMASH scholars spend five weeks each summer at a SMASH site on a college campus (currently at UC Berkeley or Stanford) immersed in rigorous STEM classes.  

SMASH scholars also receive year-round academic support including SAT prep, college counseling, financial aid workshops and other activities to ensure continued academic success.

Field Trips to a Haptics and Robotics in Medicine Lab

The Collaborative Haptics and Robotics in Medicine (CHARM) Lab creates robots and human-computer interfaces that use haptics in order to improve human health, safety, and quality of life. The word haptics refers to the sense of touch. Applications of our research include:

• Robot-assisted surgery
• Simulation and training
• Rehabilitation
• Prosthetics

We offer field trips and demos/presentations in classrooms to local K-12 schools.

Public Health Advocacy Workshops

Adapted from SMYSP's teacher-led Public Health Advocacy Curriculum, the student-run Public Health Advocacy Workshops is a three part workshop series that helps high school students teach each other about public health. As part of an after school club or elective period, students participate in activities to understand how social, political, and economic factors influence health in addition to individual behavior choices, and conduct a health-related volunteer activity at their school or in their local community.

 

 

Public Lectures and Events

Stanford offers many free lectures for the general public on science and engineering topics that are delivered by Stanford's top researchers in terms understandable to the lay public. Examples include the SLAC Lecture Series and the Summer Science Lecture Series. See the "Lectures & Public Events" page on this site for more information.

Tours of SLAC

SLAC offers free guided tours of its National Accelerator Laboratory on the third Friday of each month. Each tour lasts approximately 1.5 hours and includes a visit to the lab's 2-mile linear accelerator. Please see the Tours FAQ for more detail.

SLAC's tours are open to all visitors 12 years of age and above. Children under 18 years of age must be accompanied by an adult.

Student groups affiliated with an educational institution should visit our School Groups information page for specifics.

We hope to see you at SLAC soon!

Campus Tours

The Stanford Visitor's Center offers many public tours.

• Walking tours for the general public,
• Self-guided podcast tours,
• Special tours for high school students interested in attending Stanford,
• Tours designed exclusively for school, team, or community groups larger than 10 people

AHPCRC Summer Institute for Undergraduates

The 2013 Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) Summer Institute, an 8-week program for undergraduate students, is held at Stanford University. The Summer Institute provides training and hands-on experience in the use of computational techniques for science and engineering students with a curriculum of short courses in computational engineering methods concentrating on structural mechanics, fluid dynamics, and computer programming for parallel clusters. Students gain research experience working with one of the AHPCRC research groups at Stanford University.

Gateways to Science Careers

The Stanford REU: Gateways to Science and Mathematics Careers (G2SMC) program is a 3-year program that provides college students with training regarding graduate school and careers pathways in STEM education research. This is a collaborative effort between researchers across the nation concerned about the small number of minority students pursuing careers in science. In our pursuit of information regarding ways that African-American students can succeed in science and mathematics, we are training the next generation of science and mathematics researchers.

Youth Leadership Conference at Stanford's Asian Liver Center

The Youth Leadership Conference on Asian and Pacific Islander Health is a four day residential conference at Stanford University. High school students (including those entering high school Fall 2013 or those who just graduated Summer 2013) from across the country are invited to attend to gain leadership skills for effecting change in local communities. Conference participants will meet other students interested in making a difference in public health. Leading medical experts, professors, and policymakers will speak on issues of Asian and Pacific Islander health. Students will also have a chance to apply the skills they gain in an outreach planning simulation.

There is a $325 fee to participate (some financial aid available).