Women's Technology Program

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Summer 2014: We are not accepting any new applications. We closed admissions to new applicants on January 1, 2014.

Decisions for students who applied for summer 2014: We plan to email decisions out by 11:59 PM EDT on April 24. If you do not see our email in your inbox by April 25, check your spam file. It may help if you set your email now to accept messages from the @mit.edu domain.

As of April 17: it is now too late to include any additional materials in your application. Please do not send us new test scores at this point or any other update information.

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. 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. Please check out our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page before contacting us by phone or email.

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 very little or no prior background in engineering or computer science.

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 11 th grade math and science students. 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.