Research programs

A free six-week summer research internship in a VCU School of Medicine lab for Greater Richmond high-school students, ending with a poster and slideshow presentation.

• Grades 10–12
• No fee

A free one-week residential program at NCSSM-Morganton where North Carolina rising 11th and 12th graders do a mentored inquiry or research experience in STEM.

• Grades 11–12
• No fee

A five-week, non-residential lab research program in UT Austin College of Natural Sciences research groups, with UT extension credit and a closing poster symposium.

• Grades 10–12
• Fee: $4,500 USD

High-school seniors spend September through March doing original research with a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientist mentor, at least 10 hours a week.

• Grade 11
• Cost not published

IUCAA's yearly open day in Pune around National Science Day, with popular science lectures, demonstrations, a quiz, film screenings and essay-writing and drawing competitions for school students.

• Grades 9–12
• Cost not published

A rolling-admission research program placing high-school students ages 16+ in Moffitt wet or dry labs under faculty mentorship.

• Grades 10–12
• Cost not published

The sister programme of NTU's NRP for Year 3 and 4 students in selected secondary and IP schools, who research in pairs under NTU supervisors with a teacher mentor.

• Sec 3 – Sec 4
• Cost not published

A free poster session held at the Botanical Society of Japan's annual meeting where high school students present research on plants, fungi or microorganisms to researchers and receive awards for outstanding work. The 2027 (91st meeting) call has not been published yet.

• Grades 10–12
• No fee

Government-funded program that selects about 60 middle and high school science clubs, gives each KRW 2 million for a research project with expert mentoring, and invites them to present at the national youth science inquiry contest.

• Grades 9–12
• Cost not published

National student research olympiad for junior secondary teams, where pairs of students carry out and present a research project in Natural Science, Social Science or Applied Science.

• Grades not published
• Cost not published

A free, year-long Tohoku University program in which about 100 high school students attend university-level science lectures, labs and English salons, with selected students moving on to lab research.

• Grades 10–11
• No fee

A monthly problem-sheet programme with one-to-one support from a volunteer mentor, with nine levels from KS3 to A level. Applications for 2027-28 are expected to open around June 2027.

• Year 10–13 / S3–S6
• No fee