Summer Science Program
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| Founded | 1959 |
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| Founder | Thacher School and Caltech |
| Type | 501(c)(3) Educational Charity |
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| Focus | Astronomy education |
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Area served
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World |
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Members
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c. 2,000 |
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Employees
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1 year-round, about 15 for six weeks |
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Volunteers
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c. 50 |
| Slogan | "The Educational Experience of a Lifetime"... since 1959 |
| Mission | To operate a non-credit, research-based enrichment program for academically gifted high school students, designed to accelerate the intellectual and social development of tomorrow’s leaders, inspiring them to realize their individual potentials in the sciences and other professions. |
| Website | http://www.summerscience.org/ |
The Summer Science Program (SSP) is an academic summer program where high school students experience college-level education and do research in celestial mechanics by studying the orbits of asteroids. The program was established in 1959 at The Thacher School in Ojai, California, and now takes place at two locations: New Mexico Tech in Socorro, New Mexico, and University of Colorado, Boulder in Boulder, Colorado.
The Summer Science Program is a residential course with students staying at either the campus of University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado or the campus of New Mexico Tech in Socorro, New Mexico. The program at each campus serves 36 students with 8 staff. The curriculum is very similar at the two campuses, but the individual academic directors can vary the curriculum at each campus somewhat. The program also includes many extracurricular activities, field trips (scientific and recreational), and guest lectures from working scientists and other professionals. 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; and Paul MacCready, creator of the Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross.
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