Programs

A five-day immersion, led by current cadets, into the academic, military and social life of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for rising high school seniors.

• Grade 11
• Fee: $495 USD

A week-long American Legion Auxiliary civics and leadership program in which Virginia high-school juniors run a mock state government — campaigning, holding elections, writing bills and running cities and counties.

• Grade 11
• Cost not published

A $10,000 award for young people ages 8–18 in the U.S. and Canada who have organized and led an extraordinary service project helping people or the planet.

• Grades 9–12
• Cost not published

Barnard's only credit-bearing pre-college program: rising juniors and seniors take a six-week, three-credit undergraduate course with Barnard faculty alongside undergraduates in New York City (commuter only).

• Grades 11–12
• Fee: $7,806 USD

A five-day immersion, led by current cadets, into the academic, military and social life of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for rising high school seniors.

• Grade 11
• Fee: $495 USD

A five-day immersion, led by current cadets, into the academic, military and social life of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for rising high school seniors.

• Grade 11
• Fee: $495 USD

An in-person residential pre-college summer program on Emory's historic Oxford campus for rising 10th–12th graders.

• Grades 9–11
• Fee charged, amount not published

WSOS funding and support for Washington students pursuing eligible high-demand certificates, apprenticeships or associate degrees in trades, STEM and health care.

• Up to grade 12
• No fee

Virginia's state contest of National History Day (NHD), run by the Virginia Museum of History & Culture: middle- and high-school students present history research projects on the 2027 theme "Innovation in History: Impact, Influence, Change" and the top entries advance to the national contest.

• Grades 9–12
• Cost not published

University of Waterloo’s online chemistry contest for grade 12 students in their second chemistry course, registered by teachers at accredited high schools.

• Grades 11–12
• Fee: $8 CAD

An annual University of Washington prize for a local high-school junior with exceptional promise in science and mathematics: a cash award and an eight-week summer research-assistant position at Friday Harbor Laboratories.

• Grade 11
• No fee

Write a story, poem, essay, script or other piece on the theme 'Acts of Courage' for the Orwell Foundation's writing prize for secondary school and college students.

• Year 10–13 / S3–S6
• No fee