Virtual & Online Summer Programs Programs for High School Students

These summer programs programs are fully online, so students in any town — not just near a major university — can participate.

Online summer programs removes geography from the equation; selectivity and follow-through are all that separate you from applicants in Boston or the Bay Area.

34 verified programs match this page; 7 of the featured listings are completely free.

Featured programs

Browse 30+ curated programs for high school students:

• College Greenlight Free and Low Cost Pre-College Programs — Apply College Greenlight: Curated directory of free and low-cost pre-college programs for high school students seeking affordable summer opportunities.
• AIMI Summer Health AI Bootcamp — Stanford Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging (AIMI): Two-week fully virtual bootcamp from Stanford's AIMI center introducing US high schoolers to machine learning in healthcare, with live lectures, codin
• Wake Forest University Pre-College Program — Wake Forest University: Pre-college online immersion program at Wake Forest University for students ages 13 and up.
• University of Toledo Cosmetic Science Summer Camp — University of Toledo: Virtual cosmetic and science formulation summer camp at the University of Toledo for rising sophomores through seniors.
• Pioneer Academics Research Program — Pioneer Academics: Online research program with one-on-one professor mentorship for high school students earning college credit.
• Stevens Summer Pre-College Programs — Stevens Institute of Technology: STEM pre-college programs at Stevens Institute of Technology covering cybersecurity, VR, and engineering.
• Writopia Lab Summer Writing Workshops — Writopia Lab: Writopia Lab's summer workshops pair young writers with published authors in groups of up to eight; half-day online Zoom sections meet Monday-Friday,
• Wolfram Middle School Summer Camp — Wolfram Research: One-week, fully online summer camp from Wolfram Research that teaches girls ages 11-14 programming and computational thinking in Wolfram Language. Tui
• Wharton Future of the Business World — Wharton Global Youth Program: Wharton Global Youth's two-week live online summer program where students in grades 9-12 study innovation and global business - about three hours of l
• UT Dallas Research Program for High School Students — University of Texas at Dallas CS K-12 Outreach: Eight-week summer research labs and CS/AI workshops run by UT Dallas computer science faculty (June 8-July 31, 2026) with a virtual attendance mode; v
• Terp Young Scholars — University of Maryland: University of Maryland's three-week summer pre-college program (July 13-31, 2026): rising 10th-12th graders earn three UMD credits in courses from bus
• TCR History Camp — The Concord Review: The Concord Review's intensive online history-writing camp: two-week summer sessions plus fall and winter online sessions, where high schoolers learn
• Summer Linguistic Institute for Youth Scholars — Ohio State University Department of Linguistics: A one-week online institute run by Ohio State's linguistics faculty that teaches high schoolers phonetics, morphology, syntax and language fieldwork,
• Living Latin Online High School — The Paideia Institute: The Paideia Institute's two-week intensive online summer Latin course for high schoolers: two hours of live, small-group spoken-Latin instruction each
• Living Greek Online High School — The Paideia Institute: The Paideia Institute's live online summer Ancient Greek intensive for high school students - the online sibling of its Living Greek in Greece program
• Lighthouse Writers Workshop Online Summer Camps — Lighthouse Writers Workshop: Denver's Lighthouse Writers Workshop runs live online summer writing camps over Zoom for young writers ages 7-18 - like Rebel Fiction for ages 14-18 (
• Great Books Summer Program Online — Great Books Summer Program: Live online sessions of the Great Books Summer Program: week-long college-style literature seminars for rising 6th-8th and 9th-12th graders, taught by
• DNA Learning Center On-Demand Virtual Camps — Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory DNA Learning Center: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's DNA Learning Center ships lab kits to students in grades 6-12 for self-paced virtual versions of its five-day DNA scie
• DigiPen Academy Pre-College Programs — DigiPen Institute of Technology: Four-week online summer intensives from game-dev pioneer DigiPen in Game Programming, Game Design, Art & Animation, and Music & Sound Design, for stud
• Black Girls Code Summer Camp — Black Girls Code: Black Girls Code's 2026 summer camps serve girls ages 10-17 in ten cities plus two fully virtual three-day sessions in game design and AI, including a
• AlphaStar Academy Summer Camps — AlphaStar Academy: Three-week online-live summer camps in competition math, computer science, AI, and physics for grades 4-12. Half-day online courses run $1,150-$1,325
• AFS Global You Adventurer — AFS Intercultural Programs: AFS's five-week virtual exchange for teens 14-17: self-paced global competence modules, worldwide peer forums, and four live facilitated sessions, wit
• UMass Amherst Online Pre-College Programs — University of Massachusetts Amherst: Live online pre-college programs from UMass Amherst (June 29-July 31, 2026) in business, Python for physics, design, sport management, and more, with
• Quantitative Finance: 4-Week Virtual Summer Research Experience — Stevens Institute of Technology School of Business: Four-week live virtual quant-finance program from Stevens School of Business (July 6-31, 2026, $2,500): rising juniors and seniors earn Bloomberg Mark
• Schoolhouse Summer Camp — Schoolhouse.world: Free virtual summer camp on Schoolhouse.world, the peer-tutoring nonprofit founded by Sal Khan. Teens 13+ join live, student-led sessions from July 1
• Qubit by Qubit Quantum Computing Summer Camp — The Coding School (Qubit by Qubit): Virtual quantum computing summer camp from nonprofit The Coding School: build quantum circuits in Python/Qiskit and run code on real quantum hardware.
• Non-Trivial Research Fellowship — Non-Trivial: Free, fully online 8-week summer research fellowship for pre-university students ages 14-20 worldwide. Fellows research a pressing global problem with
• Explore Engineering Innovation (Online) — Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering: Johns Hopkins' flagship pre-college engineering course in a fully online summer section (June 24-July 26, 2026): hands-on labs with shipped kits, coll
• IDEA MATH Summer Online Programs — IDEA MATH: Live online summer math intensives from IDEA MATH (June 28-August 11, 2026): the Online Math Challenges and Online Advanced Studies tracks each delive
• Gotham Writers Workshop Teen Summer Classes — Gotham Writers Workshop: Six-week online and Zoom creative writing classes for teens (ages 13-17) from New York's Gotham Writers Workshop, running through the summer term. $33

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