This free program offers direct mentoring from Harvard Biostatistics graduate students and provides support for college applications and career counseling.
StatStart is a one-month intensive summer program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health designed to introduce high school students to the fields of biostatistics and computing. Participants engage in non-college credit classes focused on R programming and introductory statistics, aiming to develop statistical programming, computational thinking, and problem-solving skills. The curriculum includes four hours of instruction per day, four days a week (Monday-Thursday), incorporating both lectures and lab work. Students also undertake and present group research projects, receive direct mentoring from Biostatistics graduate students, and benefit from support and guidance with college applications and career counseling. The program emphasizes hands-on learning and culminates in a presentation of student research.
Students receive four hours of instruction, four days per week (Monday-Thursday), which includes both lectures and lab work.
The program is designed for rising high school juniors and seniors, particularly those who are first-generation or low-income students with an interest in STEM fields and data science.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
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