Smith College Admission Academics Student Life About Smith Offices
What's Next for Smith
Make a Gift
The Smith Fund
Planned Giving
Corporations and Foundations
Volunteer
Alumnae Association
Contact
Alumnae
What's Next for Smith

CHANGING THE FACE OF SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

Summer Science

Each summer, promising, highly-motivated high school girls from all over the world flock to Smith for a four-week intensive course in science and engineering.

Summer ScienceSmith's Summer Science and Engineering Program (SSEP) has a mission: to encourage teenage girls with a bent for science to shine.

Since this innovative program was initiated in 1990, more than a thousand high school girls from across America and abroad have participated. After the program, participants return to high school better prepared to tackle tough science courses and better informed about what to expect in college.

The program has received an Editor's Choice Award for "Best Quality" in Early College Programming.

Learn more about Smith's Summer Science and Engineering Program

Link will open in a new window.

Changing the Face
of Science &
Engineering

A New Center

Picker Engineering
Program

Designing for
Sustainability

Summer Science

Expanding Student-Faculty Research

Securing & Retaining
Talented Faculty

Extending Learning Beyond the Classroom

Attracting the Best Students

Preserving Smith's
Great Collections

Home Search Campus Directory Calendar Campus Map Virtual Tour Contact Smith