2025 High School Bioinformatics Summer Camp

Class of 2025

Below is a summary of the High School Bioinformatics Summer Camp:

• 4 weeks in length, starts July 7th and ends August 1st 

• After being selected to the program, students will receive a welcome email with information, including some pre-course work and administrative paperwork, by the end of May

• The pre-course work develops basic programming skills, and these short online courses should be completed prior to the start date of July 7th 

• Participants are expected to be available for lectures, small group sessions, and seminars (all virtual)

• The camp will teach the basic skills of R coding, high performance computing via the command line, and RNA sequencing data interpretation and visualization as a project-based program analyzing various neurodegenerative disease datasets (such as Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1, ALS, Parkinson's disease, & more)

• All participants will present their completed bioinformatics research project on August 1

• Participants are invited to present their final project in-person as a research poster at the annual RNA Institute RNA Day on August 1

• Participants unable to present their final project on RNA Day will submit a virtual poster presentation on August 1

• Official Certificate of Completion and Introduction to Bioinformatics Skills digital badge will be awarded based on the successful completion of the program

• Early Application Deadline: February 1, 2025 (for reduced price)

• Application Deadline: March 31, 2025 (for full price)

• No prior experience needed!
• High school academic level only
• Must have GPA above 3.0
• Time commitment of 15-20 hours per week for four weeks
  • Includes daily lectures, daily small group sessions, weekly seminars, & independent work
• At least one-year high school biology credit
• Access to consistent high speed internet

• Accepted trainees who apply prior to the Early Application Deadline of February 1, 2025:
  • Price: $1,100.00
• Accepted trainees who apply after Early Application but prior to the final deadline of March 31, 2025:
  • Price: $1,200.00
• Important note: payment waivers may be available based on financial need (details in application form)
• Payments will be required after confirming acceptance into the High School Bioinformatics Summer Camp

Note: This is an example provided to give potential applicants an appreciation of the possible camp schedule. The actual schedule will be posted here closer to the program start date and also directly provided to accepted trainees. All times are listed in Eastern Standard Time or EST.

Groups, group leaders, and trainees will be assigned and posted here closer to the program start date.