| Additional eligibility | Residency: Kent Place and non-Kent Place students; no citizenship or geographic-residency restriction was stated for Summer 2026; Requirement: Be a rising ninth-, tenth-, eleventh-, or twelfth-grade student in the program summer; Requirement: Be prepared to attend in person for the entire five-day 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. course and field trip; Requirement: Participate respectfully in discussion of sensitive medical, ethical, religious, legal, family, disability, identity, life-and-death, and public-policy questions; Requirement: Complete the live registration, payment, guardian permission, health, emergency, dietary, field-trip, media, conduct, accessibility, and pickup/drop-off forms; Requirement: Read and analyze cases, identify stakeholders, apply ethical principles, listen to competing views, and support claims with reasons and evidence; Exclusion: The public one-week course is not limited to Kent Place students and is coed; Exclusion: It is separate from the grades 10-12 selective yearlong Bioethics Project and its mandatory summer component; Exclusion: Registration does not confer Bioethics Scholar status, Georgetown Kennedy Institute mentoring, a research topic, publication, or symposium presentation; Exclusion: The course is educational and does not authorize medical, legal, clinical-ethics, religious, or public-policy practice; Exclusion: Participation does not guarantee academic credit, a grade, certificate, recommendation, internship, research authorship, college admission benefit, or future Kent Place enrollment; Exclusion: Exact 2027 eligibility and sensitive-content, accessibility, health, supervision, and field-trip policies are not announced | Requirement: Be entering grade 9, 10, 11, or 12 in the applicable summer; Requirement: Choose a published in-person, remote, or approved custom schedule and be available for its required live blocks; Requirement: Show motivation, self-direction, and willingness to solve open-ended engineering problems independently; Requirement: Submit an accurate application with requested short responses and references; Requirement: Attend the admissions interview; a parent or guardian participates in part of it; Requirement: Select an approved project with BlueStamp before the program and follow its budget, parts, tool, safety, and documentation rules; Requirement: For remote participation, have a feasible delivery address, workspace, internet connection, live-session availability, adult support where required, and lawful/safe tool access; Requirement: For in-person participation, arrange daily transportation and meals and comply with site pickup, conduct, safety, and minor-protection rules; Exclusion: Using the middle-school tuition, dates, priority rules, or hours for a high-school application; Exclusion: Assuming a live application form means 2027 dates, tuition, seats, or aid are announced; Exclusion: Expecting BlueStamp-provided in-person housing or daily lunch; Exclusion: Treating the project as a guaranteed invention, patent, publication, recommendation, internship, academic credit, award, or admission advantage; Exclusion: Missing required live time or attempting unsafe, unapproved, unlawful, or infeasible projects; Exclusion: Assuming a custom schedule, financial-aid award, fee reduction, project choice, replacement parts, international shipping, or refund is automatic |
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| Selection and application | Selection: The 2026 page offered public registration for eligible rising high-school students and did not publish an application rubric, GPA threshold, recommendations, interview, applicant count, acceptance rate, or cohort size. Capacity and 2027 enrollment method remain unknown. | Selection: Application and interview review occur in receipt order while seats remain. BlueStamp does not publish applicant counts, acceptance rates, aid rates, cohort size for the next cycle, or a guaranteed decision. Application materials: Admissions interview, including parent or guardian participation for the designated portion |
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