Pathways Summer Scholars 2022

 

Application Now Closed
Join us this summer for 2 weeks of STEM learning
on campus with Yale Faculty & Graduate Students!

Pathways Summer Scholars is a free two-week summer science program exclusively for 100 Yale Pathways high school students. Students take multiple 5-day workshops on topics like:  Exploring the (Simulated) Universe , How to (Not) Kill a Plant, The Physics of Light, The Microbes On and Around Me, Mechanics in Biology, and much more!  The program will be on campus for Summer 2022.  See below for more information about our most popular program for Pathways students! Rising Pathways seniors are also eligible to apply to the residential program, living in the Yale student dormitories and taking part in college preparatory programming in addition to attending STEM workshops during the day. 

PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY 

  • Must be a Yale Pathways to Science student currently in grade 9, 10, or 11.
  • Must apply by Monday, March 11 Thursday, February 17.
  • Only rising seniors are eligible to apply to the residential component of the summer program.
  • Note: If you are applying to a Yale lab internship, you may still be able to do this program.

PROGRAM APPLICATION

*Review application questions and essay prompts before submitting here: onha.yale.edu/AppQuestions *

Send following link to one Math teacher and one Science teacher to be completed by 3/11 2/17: onha.yale.edu/teacher2022

Complete Student Application: onha.yale.edu/scholar2022
(Make sure your parent or guardian is available to complete the permission slips at the end of the survey)
 

PROGRAM DATES
July 11-July 22 

Date Breakdown:
July 10:  Student Orientation
July 11-15:  Week 1 Workshops*
July 18-22:  Week 2 Workshops

*Residential program students return home for weekend of July 16-17

EXAMPLE DAILY SCHEDULE

Time Day Program
9am-4pm
(All Grades)		 Residential Program
Overnight
(Rising Seniors Only)
8:30am – 9:00
n/a
Breakfast in Yale Dining Halls
9:00-9:30
Group Meeting
Breakfast in Yale Dining Halls
9:30 – 11:00 Workshop: The Microbes On and Around Me Workshop: Build a Brain
11:15am – 12:15pm Enrichment: Cosmic Archaeology Enrichment: Drosophila and their Natural Enemies
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch in Yale Dining Halls Lunch in Yale Dining Halls
1:45 – 3:15 Workshop: Radio Astronomy Workshop: College Essay Writing
(Rising Seniors Only) 
3:30 – 4:00 Feedback, Dismissal, and Pick-Ups “Doing College Right” College Prep
4:00 - 5:00 n/a “Doing College Right” College Prep
5:30 – 6:30 n/a Dinner in Yale Dining Halls
7:00 – 10:00 n/a Activity Time
11:00 n/a Lights Out/Sleep

WORKSHOP OPTIONS FOR SUMMER 2022

Be Your Own Biologist, Build Your Own Microscope (name TBD)
Build a Brain
Chemistry on Canvas: The Science of Colorants in Paintings
Consciousness - Self, Science, and Society
Creating a Small Video Game Using Construct 3
Exploring the (Simulated) Universe
ForAGirl
Galaxies and Black Holes in Many Colors
How to (Not) Kill a Plant
Living Forces: Mechanics in Biology
Model Organisms in Biology: The Mighty Worm  
Musical Acoustics & Instrument Design: When Engineering Meets Music
Peanuts to Plasma Cells: Exploring Allergy and Immunology
Perfect Plants: Overcoming the Environment One Organ at a Time
Radio Astronomy - Measuring the Galaxy
Sensory Physiology Club
STEM Meets Storytelling: Using Data Science to Tell Stories about Our Communities
The Mathematics of Symmetry
The Microbes On and Around Me
The Physics of Light
The Power of Electrochemistry
Through the Clouds
What’s Inside the Proton? Smash It to Find Out!

The College Essay (rising seniors only)