Upcoming Events:

International Brain Bee - Bay Area competition 2/4/12!

The Bay Area Brain Bee contest for high school students will be held at California State East Bay on February 4, 2012.  Pre-registration is required. This contest tests the ability to answer questions regarding the brain and nervous system in a spelling-bee like format.  

• Organizer's website: http://www.tremoraction.org/awareness.php (scroll down to find details on event)
• Brain Bee website: http://www.internationalbrainbee.com/
• HS Student info

Please email kwelker@tremoraction.org  if you need further assistance with the registration process.

Extracurricular

• Nano-High at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: 2009-2010 flyer here
• Bay Area Science - Portal for all things science in the bay area, especially those education-related.
• Science Cafes - Find other free Bay Area science seminars.
• Science at Cal: UC-Berkeley events, activities, news, research and the East Bay Science Cafe.
• Physics for Future Presidents

Astronomy

• Andrew Fraknoi's Astronomy Resources
• Bay Area Astronomy Connection
• Robert Ferguson Observatory - near Santa Rosa
• NASA AMES Research Center: Education | Visit
• Sky and Telescope Magazine
• The Planetary Society
• UC Berkeley Astronomy Dept.

Biology

• Harvard Biological Sciences Multimedia Lab presents: Biovisions: The Inner Life of the Cell
• Dissect a frog online
• The Virtual Cell

Chemistry

• The Periodic Table (interactive)

Summer 2012 Programs for High School students in California and throughout the U.S.

Restricted Application Programs (by deadline date)

• For Women & Minority/Hardship Juniors: Deadline is Feb. 1! UCSF Biomedical and Health Sciences Internship for Underrepresented High School Students URL:   In San Francisco, sponsored by the Dept. of Pediatrics. No cost. http://bhsi.ucsf.edu/index.php/about/bhsi/
• For Low-income Students and Ethnic Minority Sophomores & Juniors: Deadline is Feb. 15! Stanford School of Medicine Summer Residential Program -"Promoting the representation of ethnic minority and low-income groups in the health professions." At Stanford, , 8 weeks, No cost. http://smysp.stanford.edu/
• For Juniors Doing well in Pre-Calc or Calculus: Deadline Feb. 28! The Summer Science Program in Celestial Mechanics - CalTech-sponsored program for motivated/gifted high school students with Santa Barbara and New Mexico campuses, 5 weeks. Financial aid available. http://www.summerscience.org/home/index.php
• For Students ages 16 + (including seniors and college students) Deadline March 1 NIH Summer Internship in Biomedical Research Around the U.S. (not in CA) No cost, may include a stipend. https://www.training.nih.gov/programs/sip
• For High-performing Math & Science High School Students: Application period: 2/1 – 3/15 COSMOS: California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science Campuses include UC Davis, Santa Cruz, Irvine, San Diego, 4 weeks. Financial aid available. http://www.ucop.edu/cosmos/
• For High School Students Seriously into Math: Deadline is March 17thStanford University Mathematics Camp,  At Stanford 7/10 – 8/6.  Financial aid available. http://math.stanford.edu/sumac/
• For Sophomore, Junior (& Senior) Students with a 3.0 GPA or higher and Seniors: Deadline is May 16 or later UC Berkeley Pre-Collegiate Program In Berkeley (and/or online), a variety of sessions & classes. Seniors may enroll as visiting students. No financial aid. http://summer.berkeley.edu/pre-collegiate

For All High School Students

• College of Marin 2011 Summer Session: 6/20 – 7/29 Check website regularly for calendar updates.  http://www.marin.edu/admissions/admiss.htm#HighSchool
• Santa Rosa Junior College Summer Session: Catalog online by 2/20, online registration open 5/9, starts 6/13. Requires application.  https://www.santarosa.edu/app/admissions/concurrent-enrollment.shtml
• Stanford EPGY Summer programs in a variety of science-related fields. Rolling admissions starting with apps received by Feb. 9. Applicants must submit supporting materials, but no actual standards for admission are given. Limited need and merit-based scholarships available. At Stanford, 3&4 week sessions http://epgy.stanford.edu/summer/highschoolprogram.html
• USC Summer Program –Financial aid recipient deadline is April 1, all others May 6.  Includes introductory architecture, engineering, pre-med and other 4-week science courses.  http://summer.usc.edu/4week/ 
• UCLA Summer Institutes – Rolling admissions.  Limited merit&need -based scholarships available. http://www.summer.ucla.edu/institutes/GeneralInfo/generalinfo.htm
• National Student Leadership Conference Scholarship deadline March 22, otherwise rolling admissions. Engineering, medicine & healthcare programs at UC Berkeley, other campuses.  http://www.nslcleaders.org/