Editing Summer Science Program (section)

==Overview==
Each Summer Science Program campus hosts 36 participants and 7 faculty for 39 days. Faculty have integrated academic and residential roles. The participant experience is designed to be similar at all campuses. For the research, participants are organized into teams of three. The schedule includes classroom time, lab time, field trips (scientific and recreational) and guest lectures from working scientists and other professionals.<ref name=SkyTel>{{cite web |url=http://www.summerscience.org/downloads/SkyTel.pdf |publisher=Sky & Telescope |last=Furutani |first=Tracy |title=Asteroids, Teenagers, and Real Science |date=March 2001 |access-date=December 24, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617120910/http://www.summerscience.org/downloads/SkyTel.pdf |archive-date=June 17, 2011 }}</ref> Past guest speakers have included [[Maarten Schmidt]], who has done pioneering work in quasars; [[Richard Feynman]], a Nobel laureate in physics; [[James Randi]], magician and debunker of pseudoscience; [[Mitch Kapor]], founder of [[Lotus Development]]; [[Paul MacCready]], creator of the [[Gossamer Condor]] and [[Gossamer Albatross]]; and [[Eric Allin Cornell]], a Nobel laureate in physics.

The application process and admission criteria are similar to that of selective colleges. Primarily juniors (rising seniors) are admitted, with a few sophomores each year. There is a program fee, inclusive of tuition, room & board, and supplies. Need-based financial aid grants are available to cover part or all of the fee, with SSP guaranteeing to meet all demonstrated need. Donations to the nonprofit fund financial aid.

In 1991, the National Academies' Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications observed that "All participants go on to college. About 37 percent of the pre-1985 graduates are now working in science and medicine, and 34 percent in engineering, mathematics, and computer science (including the [[Mitch Kapor|founder]] of [[Lotus Development Corporation]])."<ref name="CPS">{{cite book
|publisher=[[National Academies]]' Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Application
|title=Benefits to the Nation from Astronomy and Astrophysics
|url=http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=1635&page=303
|year=1991
|page=303
|doi=10.17226/1635
|isbn=978-0-309-04383-0
}}</ref>

The program is co-sponsored by the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] and the [[California Institute of Technology]] which are affiliate universities, and by [[Harvey Mudd College]], which is an academic partner to the program.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://summerscience.org/about/affiliates/|title=Affiliated Universities|last=Summer Science Program|date=24 November 2015|website=Summer Science Program|access-date=1 Jul 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mitadmissions.org/apply/prepare/summer|title=Prepare for MIT: Summer Programs|last=MIT Admissions Office|date=|website=Massachusetts Institute of Technology|access-date=1 Jul 2018}}</ref><ref>"While the Summer Science Program (SSP) is not on campus, MIT does co-sponsor this residential program, and many MIT students are among the program's alumni/ae." - [[MIT]] Admissions Office. [http://mitadmissions.org/apply/prepare/summer <nowiki>[5]</nowiki>]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.admissions.caltech.edu/content/information-counselors|title=Information for counselors: Summer programs that many of our admitted students have attended|last=Caltech Admissions Office|date=29 November 2017|website=Caltech Admissions|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171129180547/http://www.admissions.caltech.edu/content/information-counselors|archive-date=29 November 2017|url-status=dead|access-date=1 July 2018}}</ref>