Planet Earth is faced with a set of Grand Challenges whose solutions are critical to humanity over the next decades. To be responsible stewards of the planet and to ensure human progress, we must find sustainable solutions for alternative energy, safeguarding our environment, improving healthcare, advancing knowledge, and creating the technologies that enhance the way we live. Five nominated individuals or teams will split a $15,000 prize. In addition, a professional video of each of the five winning projects, including new interviews and footage filmed during March and/or April, will be produced and featured at the April summit in Boston; and travel support will be provided to bring the winners to the Boston summit.
This organization allows students under the age of 20 to pursue innovative scientific and technical projects, learn entrepreneurship, and begin to build the technology companies of tomorrow. During their two-year tenure, each Fellow will receive $100,000 from the Thiel Foundation as well as mentorship from the Foundation’s network of tech entrepreneurs and innovators.
At least 40 American graduate students each year are awarded this two-year scholarship, which covers the cost of their education in the United Kingdom. Applicants must be United States citizens and have completed any four year undergraduate degree with at least a 3.7 GPA.
Parliament Tutors offers course help for every grade at every level. They provide private tutoring for over 100 different courses in mathematics, sciences, social studies, and more.
The National Science Foundation makes possible a number of opportunities for undergraduates to join research projects each summer. This allows students to experience first-hand how basic research is carried out, and to contribute consequentially. The principal support by NSF of such activities is through the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program. REU "Sites" are established in all fields of science, mathematics, and engineering. Each Site consists of a group of ten or so undergraduates, who work in the research programs of the host institution. Students are in general accepted from throughout the country. Each student is assigned to a specific research project, where he/she works closely with the faculty, post-docs, and graduate students. In addition, seminars, lunch meetings, and social functions are organized to facilitate interaction between the undergraduates. Students are granted stipends, and in some cases assistance with housing and travel.
The Profoundly Gifted Institute is a non-profit organization established to support and build programs on college campuses for children who work multiple years above age-level. We are a multi-age, intellectual peer learning environment that meets individual educational-challenges while fulfilling the social and emotional needs of children performing 5 or more years above age-level.
Free video courses from leading universities, such as Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, UCLA and Yale. Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal extending high quality academic opportunities to people around the globe.
This is a distance education program offering more than 500 university, high school, junior high school and personal enrichment courses to people throughout the world. BYU is accredited as an institution by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU). Courses can be taken through a paper/pencil version or an online version. The student studies the materials, submits lessons, takes a final exam with a proctor or at a testing center, and receives a course grade that can be transferred to the school of their choice.
Open and free courses through Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative offers free access to various courses no charge. However, users do not receive credit and Carnegie Mellon does not provide any certification or verification of completion. Use the self-guiding materials and activities to learn at your own pace! Find a course you are interested in and click on "Get Started". If you want to keep track of your progress, sign in or create a new account. Otherwise click on "Look inside".
The mission of the College of Creative Studies (CCS) is to recruit the most talented and imaginative undergraduates, and provide them with the intellectual environment and advice that allows them to undergo the transition quickly from consumers of knowledge to colleagues in the act of human creativity in the arts and sciences. A former student once described the CCS as "a graduate school for undergraduates."
This distance learning program offers the University of Colorado's catalog of online courses. More than 200 core curriculum, elective and professional development courses in a wide range of disciplines as well as several online degree programs and certificates are offered.
The Office of Undergraduate Scholars and Fellows was established in 1998 to provide a coordinated infrastructure for Duke University's premier undergraduate merit award programs. Scholars and fellows are selected from the top of the Duke undergraduate applicant pool; students do not apply directly for these particular merit awards. See specific programs for details.
Harvard Extension School offers 100 online courses and a unique blend of traditional liberal arts and professional studies programs. Classes are offered to students students with various backgrounds and academic experience. The course tuition is the “lowest in the Boston area.”
Matteo Ricci College (MRC) located at Seattle University (SU) in Washington, integrates high school and university-level curriculum, allowing students to complete high school and college in six or seven years, rather than the traditional eight years. The curriculum is designed jointly by the student's high school and MRC/SU and is a traditional interdisciplinary curriculum. Upon completion of the program, students receive a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities. This program is open to local high schools students.
Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn. All lectures were recorded in the Yale College classroom and are available in video, audio, and text transcript format. Registration is not required and no course credit is available.
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music is a private coeducational college located in San Francisco, California. As one of the most acclaimed programs in the nation for the study of music at the pre-college level, the Preparatory Division has provided the finest of musical training to generations of young people at every stage of development.
Juilliard's Pre-College Division offers a thorough and comprehensive program of music instruction for talented young people who show the potential to pursue a professional career in music. It meets on Saturdays for 30 weeks between September and May. Students accepted into the division have demonstrated their abilities at an early age, along with outstanding capabilities to work with focus and purpose. At the School, these young musicians enjoy an atmosphere where their artistic gifts and technical skills can grow and flourish.
Texas Tech University offers educational programs to K-12 and college students, professionals and those seeking lifelong learning opportunities. Texas Tech’s distance learning programs enable students to pursue educational goals while providing the flexibility needed to maintain professional and personal commitments.
Washington University in St. Louis is committed to helping talented students who show exceptional academic performance and outstanding promise. The Academic Scholarship and Fellowship Programs offer financial assistance based solely on academic achievement. Scholarships and fellowships are awarded through special competitions. Recipients generally score in the top ranges on the SAT I’s or ACT’s. Most are in the top 10 percent of their high school classes and have followed an extremely rigorous curriculum.
eIMACS, the distance learning division of the Institute for Mathematics & Computer Science (IMACS), is dedicated to delivering the highest quality interactive math and computer science classes for gifted and talented secondary school and undergraduate students. Online courses include Advanced Mathematical Logic, University Computer Science, AP Computer Science, and Test Prep for the AP Computer Science and AP Calculus exams. eIMACS is based in Plantation, Florida, and serves students from across the US and around the world, including homeschoolers, students without access to AP Computer Science, and students who want to study advanced math and computer science at their own pace.
Global Student Experience (GSE) offers summer, quarter, semester, and year-long study abroad programs in Europe, Australia, and South America. Students expand their college education by studying in Barcelona, Granada, Madrid, Paris, Florence, Rome, London, Sydney, Guadalajara, and Buenos Aires.
SCI-Arc is a center of innovation and one of the nation's few independent architecture schools, offering undergraduate and graduate programs. The school is dedicated to educating architects who will imagine and shape the future.
The Science, Mathematics And Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program has been established by the Department of Defense (DoD) to support undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The program aims to increase the number of civilian scientists and engineers working at DoD laboratories.
Broadreach is a world leader in educational adventure travel camps for teenagers with more than 35 trips to more than 30 countries. The programs inspire leadership development, skill building, personal growth and global awareness. The camps include Carribean - dive, sail, explore; marine biology; outdoor skills and leadership; community service; and, academic adventures.
Arthink/Funthink is a methodology/curriculum that applies fundamentals of the arts for original thinking and clear communication of ideas. Projects are designed to engage students in challenge scenarios that lead them through the creative problem solving (CPS) process while applying twelve creativity tools used by artists, inventors and designers in their development of works of art, inventions and new product concepts. Students work at their personal level of artistic competency where original thinking and ides communication is what matters. Clear objectives involve the student in the idea generation process by using simple sketching techniques and everyday materials.
Millennium Tutors is the nation's premier private tutoring service, offering the most highly individualized tutoring programs for all standardized exams and academic subjects.
Becomeopedia.com is a website dedicated to providing the most up to date and accurate information about How to Become Anything to assist with career planning. This site contains articles about pursuing careers in various fields.
Brain Track's Career Guide helps visitors evaluate career options and find schools through its extensive resources. The guide offers data on hundreds of careers that typically require higher education for entry or advancement and features links to original profile pages for thousands of schools.
A website created to help new college students find in-depth and unbiased information about picking the right Civil Engineering degree to fit their needs. The website provides information about various schools, and aims to help new students find the best program based on their interests.
This website is dedicated to helping aspiring students and education oriented professionals make better, more informed choices by providing them with relevant, reliable and up-to-date information about colleges and higher education opportunities.
Since 2000, the Center has served as a national clearinghouse on postsecondary education for individuals with disabilities, managed by The George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development. The Center provides everything a student, parent, educator or counselor would need to know about students with disabilities in college – their rights, responsibilities, etc. The HEATH Resource Center gathers, develops and disseminates information in the form of resource papers, fact sheets, website directories, newsletters, and resource materials.
InfoTrac College Edition, an Online Research and Learning Center, offers over 20 million full-text articles from nearly 6,000 scholarly and popular periodicals. Articles cover a broad spectrum of disciplines and topics- ideal for every type of researcher. Professors and students can gain access to the online database 24/7 on any computer with Internet access.
Masters Degree is the only website dedicated to providing students with a complete list of their school options for obtaining a masters degree. Currently there are more than 480 U.S campus-based schools in their database.
OnlineColleges.org is a nonprofit resource for students considering an online college for their associates, bachelors, masters or doctorate level degree. Created by an online college graduate who also worked for two years as a professor in the math department of a prominent online school, Carrie Oakley, and fellow online college graduate Chase Gugenheim, the site tries to give students an honest and unbiased view of online colleges.
This website comprehensively engages many of the issues revolving around higher-level education. Whether looking to honestly asses whether one should take the graduate-level route, to finding ways of making it affordable, students can find a wide array of articles to suit their particular needs. Also looking at additional issues such as diversity in post-baccalaureate education and distribution of tuition funds, this collection of resources allows students to come away with an understanding of the whole picture of graduate education and how they can achieve an optimal experience.
This website is designed to provide impartial information about obtaining a master's degree online, offering information about programs based on topic and location.
This website offers free searches for college scholarships.
Every semester, University of California at Berkeley webcasts select courses and events for on-demand viewing via the Internet. webcast.berkeley course lectures are provided as a study resource for students and are not sanctioned as a substitute for going to the course lectures.
Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing.
The mission of Currclick is to make homeschooling more convenient and more affordable to homeschoolers all over the world by offering a stress-free shopping experience, a marketplace that rewards authors and publishers who create good quality education materials, and excellent customer service.
HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge. HippoCampus content has been developed by some of the finest colleges and universities in the world and contributed to the National Repository of Online Courses (NROC), another MITE project.