✅ = Registration open for Summer 2025
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BU offers summer camps and programs from a wide variety of disciplines for students K–12. Whether you’re looking to gain confidence in mathematics, expand your skills in journalism, hone your choreography abilities, or participate in pre-college programs, BU has an opportunity to help you meet your goals. If you’re in search of enriching experiences that will allow you to build connections and explore your interests, check out the opportunities listed below.
Pre-college programs
✅ Summer Preview | For students entering 8th–10th
Get a taste of college life for one exciting week this summer. Delve into fascinating subjects. Make new friends. Explore the fun, vibrant city of Boston. Our Summer Preview program offers students a choice of three different weeklong, noncredit seminars. It’s a great opportunity for you to dig into an area of academic interest or become familiar with an entirely new subject.
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☑️ Center for English Language & Orientation | For high school students
This 2-week residential program offers guidance on successfully applying to college for international students interested in applying to an undergraduate program at a U.S. college or university, meetings and presentations with BU Admissions, as well as an interactive student panel featuring current international students.
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✅ Upward Bound | For students entering 10th and 11th
The Upward Bound program is a free, federally-funded college preparatory program that serves low-income and first-generation Boston students. This program provides an academically intensive six-week residential summer program and an after-school program of tutoring and academic courses during the school year.
Application deadline for Summer 2025: April 15, 2025
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✅ Summer Challenge | For students entering 10th–12th
It’s called Summer Challenge because it pushes you in so many ways. You will explore your interests, discover new ones, test your academic boundaries, and immerse yourself in the college experience. Along the way, you will make new friends and get to know more about Boston University. Are you up to the challenge?
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✅ High School Honors | For students entering 11th or 12th
Ready to push your limits academically? Excited to get out of your comfort zone, explore new subjects, and earn college credit? If this sounds like you, High School Honors offers a Boston University pre-college experience that will challenge you and expand your horizons.
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✅ Academic Immersion (AIM) | For students entering 11th–12th
Picture this: three stimulating weeks on campus engaging in intensive study, with classmates who feel just as passionate about a single academic topic as you do. This year’s topics include Introduction to Experimental Psychology, Introduction to Medicine, Creative Writing, and Business.
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STEM
🔎 Artemis | For young women entering 9th
Artemis is a five-week summer program for rising 9th grade girls focused on computer science. Participants learn computer languages such as Scratch, AppInventor, HTML, CSS, and Python. They also are introduced to robotics, cryptography, artificial intelligence, and circuits.
Applications will open March 2024.
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✅ Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists | For students ages 14–18
PROMYS is a six-week summer program at Boston University designed to encourage strongly motivated high school students to explore in-depth the creative world of mathematics in a supportive community of peers, counselors, research mathematicians, and visiting scientists.
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🔎 GeMsGetMath@BU | For students entering 10th or 11th
Gender Minorities in Mathematics is a five-day non-residential mathematics program for high schools of any gender who live in the greater Boston area. The program builds young students’ confidence in math and science through computation and experimentation in an affirming environment. Participants will also have access to expert mathematical training and mentoring.
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🔎 AI4ALL | For young women entering 10th–11th
A three-week summer program focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for young women who are currently sophomores or juniors in high school. Participants explore topics in AI such as robotics, computer vision, and natural language processing through team projects, industry field trips, and presentations from guest speakers.
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🔎 GROW | For young women in 11th
(Greater Boston Research Opportunities for Young Women) is a six-week paid internship for young women in high school who are seriously interested in STEM careers. Participants will earn a stipend of $1500 working in a BU research lab. Students will be placed in a biology or chemistry lab and participate in cutting edge research in a collaborative group session.
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✅ RISE Internship/Practicum | For students in 11th
At the Research in Science & Engineering (RISE) program, you will spend six weeks at BU conducting university laboratory research with some of the nation’s brightest scientific minds while advancing your STEM knowledge and skills.
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✅ U-Design | For students entering grades 6-8
U-Design is a fun STEM program with a focus on engineering. It is designed for children who will be entering grades 6-9 in the fall of 2025. Each U-Design workshop offers a hands-on workshop experience to give young students the opportunity to learn about engineering and broader STEM concepts.
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✅ First Inspiration for Research in Engineering | For students entering 9-12
Participants will immerse themselves in the multifaceted world of engineering. Attendees will benefit from a curriculum that seamlessly integrates theoretical knowledge with practical application, thereby equipping young minds with the skills and insights necessary to navigate and contribute to the field of engineering effectively.
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Marketing and communications
🔎 Institute of Reading Development | For students K–12th
Help your child become a confident, enthusiastic reader in Summer Reading Skills Programs. These programs teach key reading skills for every grade, from phonics and sight words for younger children, to comprehension, textbook strategies and writing skills for older kids, and everything in between.
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✅ The Summer Journalism Academy | For high school students
The Summer Journalism Academy offers a hands-on experience for high school students interested in journalism, writing, or photography. Students will have the opportunity to expand their skills and prepare for college, either through a residential experience on campus or through remote instruction from home. Lessons are taught by working journalists and grounded in real-life experience.
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Sport and movement camps
✅ Camp Terrier at FitRec | For ages 5–15
With a variety of interest areas, your camper can choose how to spend their summer vacation. Each area has its own learning outcomes and goals.
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🔎 Reach Summer Dance Program | For students entering 8th–12th
Reach is a four-week program that trains teen apprentices in dance and choreography and helps them to develop essential skills in a structured, educational environment. Reach provides a quality art experience to thousands of urban youth when the participating teens and professionals take their work on tour. As an apprentice, you’ll get to meet and work with youth from around the greater Boston area and perform all over the city as part of Reach’s intergenerational company of students, college interns, and professionals.
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Music, theatre, and visual arts programs
✅ Wheelock Family Theatre | For students K–12th
Dive into creative expression by choosing from a wide variety of Wheelock Family Theatre summer class offerings. From musical theater, to acting, theater design, creative arts immersion and more—there is an opportunity for everyone to increase their knowledge and ignite their imagination.
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✅ BU Tanglewood Institute | For for ages 14–20
As a student at BUTI, you become part of the Tanglewood continuum—a rich and expanding family of artists. From your peer musicians in training to teachers who inspire, all the way through to the TMC Fellows, members of the BSO, and rock stars in the field, you can see yourself every step of the way. All it takes is one summer and you’ll forever be a part of this community of artists, educators, leaders, and advocates. You can expect a transformational summer of music making and growth. You’ll step outside your comfort zone to challenge yourself, broaden your perspective, and forge bonds that last a lifetime.
Application deadline: January 17
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✅ Visual Arts Summer Institute | For high school students
The Boston University School of Visual Arts’ Summer Institute offers high school students (ages 15–18) an intensive visual arts program designed to help them build exceptional portfolios and get a taste of the collegiate art school experience. Whether preparing portfolios for college admission or simply working to improve technical abilities, students are introduced to materials and methods used in professional artistic practice.
Application deadline: March 17
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To inquire about promoting a summer program on this page, please email alumni@bu.edu.
