Free Research Programs for High School Students
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60 published catalog entries match this page; the 30 most relevant are featured below; 6 can be done online.
Catalog entries
Browse 30 catalog programs:
- NIH Summer Internship Program (SIP) — High School Senior Eligibility — Catalog organization: National Institutes of Health Office of Intramural Training & Education — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS) — Catalog organization: National Science Teaching Association; sponsored by the U.S. Department of War STEM components — Cost: Free
- The School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt — Catalog organization: Vanderbilt University & Metro Nashville Public Schools — Cost: Free
- Ted R. Lilley CURE Program — Catalog organization: OHSU Knight Cancer Institute — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- Molecular Medicine in Action — Catalog organization: Indiana University School of Medicine — Cost: Free · Deadline: November 6, 2026
- IASC Asteroid Search Campaigns — Catalog organization: International Astronomical Search Collaboration — Cost: Free
- PathMaker Scholars — Catalog organization: Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- MIT PRIMES/AoPS CrowdMath — Catalog organization: MIT PRIMES and Art of Problem Solving — Cost: Free
- Youth Engaged in Science (YES) — Catalog organization: Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- Boyce Thompson Institute High School Research Experience — Catalog organization: Boyce Thompson Institute — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- UGA Young Dawgs Program — Catalog organization: University of Georgia — Cost: Free · Deadline: Rolling applications
- Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Internships — Catalog organization: Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage — Cost: Free · paid stipend · Deadline: Rolling applications
- Fermilab Program for Research, Innovation, and STEM Mentorship (PRISM) — Catalog organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- High School Internship Program — Catalog organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education — Catalog organization: Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation — Cost: Free · paid stipend · Deadline: January 29, 2027
- North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Summer Ventures — Catalog organization: NCSSM — Cost: Free
- AEOP High School Internships — Catalog organization: Army Educational Outreach Program — Cost: Free · paid stipend · Deadline: Rolling applications
- Broad Summer Scholars Program — Catalog organization: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard — Cost: Free · paid stipend · Deadline: January 19, 2027
- Summer Program Advancing Research Knowledge, Education and Development (SPARKED) — Catalog organization: Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- ETH Student Summer Research Fellowship — Catalog organization: ETH Zurich Department of Computer Science — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- Mayo Clinic RISE for Youth Program — Catalog organization: Mayo Clinic and NAACP Rochester Branch — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- MCSC Climate & Sustainability Scholars Program — Catalog organization: MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- MIT PRIMES-USA — Catalog organization: MIT Department of Mathematics — Cost: Free
- Experiences in Research (EinR) — Catalog organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- CERN Beamline for Schools (BL4S) — Catalog organization: CERN, with DESY and the University of Bonn ELSA accelerator — Cost: Free
- Fermilab TARGET Summer Research Program — Catalog organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory — Cost: Free · paid stipend
- Yale Pathways to Science Summer Scholars — Catalog organization: Yale University Office of New Haven Affairs — Cost: Free
- UT Southwestern STARS Summer Research Program for Students — Catalog organization: UT Southwestern Medical Center — Cost: Free · paid stipend · Deadline: January 21, 2027
- Horizon Academic Essay Prize — Catalog organization: Horizon Academic — Cost: Free
- Scripps Research REACH High School Summer Internship — Catalog organization: Scripps Research — Cost: Free · paid stipend
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