Opportunities After BWSI

We hope that you were transformed by BWSI this year - here's an opportunity for you to thank the Instructors, TA's and Staff for putting together this terrific program.

Please go to this form and we will share them out, you may have emailed or posted on slack or discord, but add something here too- its great to hear from you and its really appreciated.

For registered students:

Before: FAQ During: BWSI Student Dashboard After BWSI

College Recommendations!

Many of our alum request recommendations for college which we are happy to provide but as we get hundreds of requests, we have to streamline the process. When you apply to a college you must use bwsi-rec@mit.edu as the email address for recommendations and fill out this Recommendation Request Form. This is the email address for that sites such as Common App and MIT recommendations uses. If you do not use this email address we will not be able to submit. For MIT recommendations: do not use “educator” for our role. Please use “other” or “supplemental”. Educator asks for questions that we cannot answer. We ask in the Request form to include your resume and a document describing where you are applying, and what your interests are for college, so that we can help improve your rec letter. We do not provide recommendations directly to students.	Some Instructors prefer to the point of contact for a college recommendation YOU DO NOT NEED TO FILL OUT FOR A COLLEGE RECOMMENDATION FOR THE COURSES BELOW. Please email the appropriate Instructor with the links to the sites to submit YOUR RECOMMENDATION. We do not provide recommendations direct to students.
CogWorks Embedded Security Microelectronics RACECAR Grand Prix Remote Sensing for Disaster Response Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge Cyber Operations Back to bASICs	Serious Games: Rob Seater Quantum Software: Melvin Lin UAS-SAR: Ben Marcotte Medlytics: Christian Cardozo Build a CubeSat: Mary Dahl

Many of our alum request recommendations for college which we are happy to provide but as we get hundreds of requests, we have to streamline the process.

When you apply to a college you must use bwsi-rec@mit.edu as the email address for recommendations and fill out this Recommendation Request Form.

This is the email address for that sites such as Common App and MIT recommendations uses.

If you do not use this email address we will not be able to submit.

For MIT recommendations: do not use “educator” for our role. Please use “other” or “supplemental”. Educator asks for questions that we cannot answer.

We ask in the Request form to include your resume and a document describing where you are applying, and what your interests are for college, so that we can help improve your rec letter.

We do not provide recommendations directly to students.

Some Instructors prefer to the point of contact for a college recommendation

YOU DO NOT NEED TO FILL OUT FOR A COLLEGE RECOMMENDATION FOR THE COURSES BELOW.

Please email the appropriate Instructor with the links to the sites to submit YOUR RECOMMENDATION.

We do not provide recommendations direct to students.

CogWorks

Embedded Security

Microelectronics

RACECAR Grand Prix

Remote Sensing for Disaster Response

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge

Cyber Operations

Back to bASICs

Serious Games: Rob Seater

Quantum Software: Melvin Lin

UAS-SAR: Ben Marcotte

Medlytics: Christian Cardozo

Build a CubeSat: Mary Dahl

Opportunities for students after BWSI

We are all so proud of everything that you have accomplished during BWSI and know that you are going on to do great things!

BWSI is really a unique opportunity that you and your family should be proud of the effort, the time, and all the energy that you put in your course, projects, and capstones.

We encourage you to share your story and success with your local paper and school, we're proud of you!

Additional Education Opportunities on our resources page!

Internship Opportunities

Our sponsors understand that the best and brightest are coming here for courses and offer internships to selected students attending BWSI for the following summer.

Name	Application Link	Due Date	Job Location
Lincoln Laboratory Internships! Now includes High School Students	Teaching at BWSI and Research at LL! More information	see specific job listing High School Internships at Lincoln Laboratory!	Lexington MA

Raytheon RTX	Internship at BBN	August 21, 2023. Downloadable Job Description	Cambridge, MA

Draper Laboratory	Draper Student Employment opportunities	check website	Multiple

BAE Systems	jobs.baesystems.com	search for Tech Intern - High School	Burlington MA

MITRE	Summer Internships	check website	multiple

DoD STEM	See Presentation(2022)	check websites	multiple

American Association for Cancer Research Largely focused on Medical Research	Scholarships and Internships	Check website	multiple

John Deere	Internships for College Students	Check website	Multiple

We hope that we challenged you to learn new skills and technologies this year and want to continue to challenge you to take your hard won skills to new projects to find innovative solutions!

To that end, here is a list of Science and Invention related awards, grants, and contests that we encourage you to apply your skills and make the world a better place (and make sure you let us know when you win! )

Student Competitions (and Opportunities) to show off your skills!
Competition	Link	Due date	Comments
SOLVE(ED)	https://solve.mit.edu/solv-ed	check webiste	multiple opportunities

NASA TechRise Challenge	https://www.futureengineers.org/nasatechrise	November	Its NASA- what else do we need to say?

MIT Lemelson InvenTeams	https://lemelson.mit.edu/inventeams	See Website	different programs for age groups

AFCEA	EPIC’s annual competition previously focused exclusively on the development of software applications to address specific and relatively narrow national security technology challenges. With the increasing severity, complexity, and frequency of state and non-state cyberattacks to steal, malignly influence, and damage public and private sector targets, the EPIC Challenge has broadened the aperture of acceptable solutions to include not only custom software applications, but also demonstrations of security techniques and digital forensics as described below. Winners will be announced during the in-person Intelligence and National Security Summit, which begins at 10:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday, September 15.	Check Website	Cyber Challenge
Women in Data Science	https://www.widsconference.org/datathon.html	See website	Check site for worldwide conference too!
MITRE eCTF	MITRE Cyber Academy	TBD	Embedded Capture the Flag competition open to students Cybersecurity and Embedded Systems
Regeneron Science for Society and the Public	International Science & Engineering Fair Application!	This is a HUGE competition with cash prizes! Open thru Nov 9 See website for details	Grades 9-12
Mass Science and Engineering Fair (MSEF)	https://scifair.com/	See website for details	Grades 6-12
Samsung	Solve for Tomorrow	See website	High School, Teachers submit student project ideas
Junior Science and Humanities Symposia (JSHS) Program	https://www.jshs.org/	See website for details	Grades 9-12; scholarship awards, and teacher awards too
NCSSS Student Symposium	NCSSS	See website	Grades 10-12, Open to students in NCSSS affiliates (like many Math and Science Academies)
2022 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference	URTC Website	see website	Submission dates start in July! Conference is Sept 30 to Oct 2, 2022
Hack MIT Competition	HackMIT	See Website FAQ	13yrs old and up, teams encouraged
Blueprint	Request for Info Form	see website Event is in February	Blueprint is a weekend-long learnathon and hackathon for local high school students held on MIT's campus. Learn from MIT students, make new friends, and make something cool!
for Cubesat-ers! CTE Mission: CubeSat	Info on program	Prep for 2022 Mission application	for high school teams and teachers
Big list of science competitions	IDTech Website	multiple, see individual links	varies by competition
Space4Youth Competition	Info page	Check Website	Sponsored by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

If you still need ideas- check out this document from the United Nations: The Worlds Hardest Problems

Looking forward to your solutions!

BWSI staff

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Opportunities After BWSI

We hope that you were transformed by BWSI this year - here's an opportunity for you to thank the Instructors, TA's and Staff for putting together this terrific program.

For registered students:

Before: FAQ During: BWSI Student Dashboard After BWSI

College Recommendations!

Many of our alum request recommendations for college which we are happy to provide but as we get hundreds of requests, we have to streamline the process.

When you apply to a college you must use bwsi-rec@mit.edu as the email address for recommendations and fill out this Recommendation Request Form.

This is the email address for that sites such as Common App and MIT recommendations uses.

If you do not use this email address we will not be able to submit.

We ask in the Request form to include your resume and a document describing where you are applying, and what your interests are for college, so that we can help improve your rec letter.

We do not provide recommendations directly to students.

Some Instructors prefer to the point of contact for a college recommendation

YOU DO NOT NEED TO FILL OUT FOR A COLLEGE RECOMMENDATION FOR THE COURSES BELOW.

Please email the appropriate Instructor with the links to the sites to submit YOUR RECOMMENDATION.

We do not provide recommendations direct to students.

Opportunities for students after BWSI

We are all so proud of everything that you have accomplished during BWSI and know that you are going on to do great things!

BWSI is really a unique opportunity that you and your family should be proud of the effort, the time, and all the energy that you put in your course, projects, and capstones.

We encourage you to share your story and success with your local paper and school, we're proud of you!

Additional Education Opportunities on our resources page!

Internship Opportunities

Our sponsors understand that the best and brightest are coming here for courses and offer internships to selected students attending BWSI for the following summer.

Name

Application Link

Due Date

Job Location

see specific job listing

Lexington MA

Raytheon RTX

August 21, 2023.

Cambridge, MA

Draper Laboratory

check website

Multiple

BAE Systems

Burlington MA

MITRE

check website

multiple

DoD STEM

See Presentation(2022)

check websites

multiple

American Association for Cancer Research

Check website

multiple

We hope that we challenged you to learn new skills and technologies this year and want to continue to challenge you to take your hard won skills to new projects to find innovative solutions!

To that end, here is a list of Science and Invention related awards, grants, and contests that we encourage you to apply your skills and make the world a better place (and make sure you let us know when you win! )

Student Competitions (and Opportunities) to show off your skills!

Competition

Link

Due date

Comments

SOLVE(ED)

multiple opportunities

NASA

TechRise Challenge

November

Its NASA- what else do we need to say?

MIT Lemelson InvenTeams

See Website

different programs for age groups

Check Website

Cyber Challenge

Women in Data Science

See website

Check site for worldwide conference too!

MITRE eCTF

TBD

Embedded Capture the Flag competition open to students

Regeneron

Science for Society and the Public

This is a HUGE competition with cash prizes!

Open thru Nov 9

See website for details

Grades 9-12

Mass Science and Engineering Fair (MSEF)

See website for details