Women's Technology Program

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Summer 2015

WTP summer 2015 Admissions is now closed to new applicants.
Our deadline was January 1.

If you have not received a confirmation that your application is complete, please contact us by email. Applicants are not penalized if their Teacher Evaluations, transcripts, or test score verifications are sent late, but we need your application to be complete before the admissions committee can evaluate it.

To submit additional test scores you receive after your Guidance Counselor sends us the WTP Transcripts and Scores Form see this FAQ.

WTP 2015 will take place from June 27 to July 25.
Students must be able to attend for the full 4 weeks.

The MIT Women's Technology Program (WTP) is a rigorous four-week summer academic and residential experience where female high school students explore engineering through hands-on classes, labs, and team-based projects in the summer after 11th grade .

Students attend WTP in either:

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
or
Mechanical Engineering (ME).

Please explore our web site by clicking on the links to the left. The Application page has details about who should apply and how to apply. Calendar contains program dates and deadlines. Please check out our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page before contacting us by phone or email.

WTP is not a "summer camp" but an intense academic experience. Curriculum information is available on the WTP-EECS and WTP-ME sites--check these before applying to see if you have already covered our curriculum. WTP is designed for girls who have already demonstrated their ability to excel at math and science in their high school classes, but who have no prior background (or very little) in engineering or computer science. We accept students for whom our curriculum will be a new experience.

Students who have a background in computer programming (from classes or other summer programs) will not be considered for the EECS curriculum track, since the CS class is designed for students with no prior experience. (Students with CS experience may still apply to the ME curriculum track.)

Female MIT graduate students design and teach the classes, assisted by female MIT undergraduate students who also live in the dorm with the high school girls. The daily required schedule includes classes, labs, homework, and social time with other WTP students. WTP classes do not earn academic credit from MIT; WTP students are expected to work hard because they are excited about learning.

Sixty participants (40 for EECS and 20 for ME) are selected from a nationwide applicant pool of the top female 11th grade math and science students. For summer 2014 we received 367 complete applications. Students must reside in the U.S. (or be U.S. citizens if living outside the U.S. ). We are looking for students who are not yet certain about their future college majors, and who would like to explore engineering and computer science to determine whether these fields might be of interest.

You can also view some videos on MIT TechTV of projects created by WTP students in past years.