TL;DR
You’ll find 17 medical programs in Georgia below, each with its cost, dates, application deadline, location, and exactly who can apply. Most deadlines fall between January and May, so pick your group and get those dates down now. A camp or a summer in a hospital shows you what medicine looks like up close.Horizon gives you something to show for it. You’ll work with a professor or PhD mentor on one research question for a full term and finish with a research paper. It’s fully online, cohorts start three times a year, and where you live in Georgia doesn’t matter.
Medicine in high school isn’t one thing. You might spend a summer pipetting in a cancer lab at Emory, practicing sutures on a training pad at Georgia Tech, or walking the halls of Grady Memorial Hospital with a nurse. Some programs teach you clinical skills. Some put you on a research team. Others are about public health, where the patient is a whole city instead of one person.
What decides which one fits you usually isn’t quality. It’s eligibility. Your age, your grade, the county you live in, and whether you can get to Atlanta rule you in or out long before anyone reads your essay. A great program you can’t apply to doesn’t help you.
What kinds of medical programs can you do in high school in Georgia?
Georgia’s options fall into four types. Here’s what each one looks like day to day.
| Type | What you actually do | Typical length | Programs on this page |
| Research in a lab | Work with a scientist on a real project, then present what you found | 3 to 6 weeks, full time | Winship, Augusta University, Morehouse S.T.E.A.M. Academy |
| Hospital volunteering and shadowing | Shifts in a hospital department, watching and helping staff | 6 to 7 weeks, part-time | Grady TELP, SGMC Volunteen |
| Medical camps and summer courses | Clinical skills, dissections, simulations or a college-style class | 1 to 4 weeks | Emory Pre-Med Institute, Emory Pre-College, Summer Springboard, UGA, GSU, PCOM, Morehouse HCEP, Coastal Georgia, CDC Disease Detective Camp |
| Online | Live classes, mailed lab kits or a research project from home | 1 week to a full term | CDC Public Health Academy, Mercer, Horizon |
Not sure which kind of medicine you even like? That’s normal. Browsing medical research topics or disease research project ideas is a quick way to find out whether you lean toward the lab, the clinic, or public health.
Can you intern or shadow at a Georgia hospital in high school?
Yes, but it probably won’t look like the internship you’re picturing. Georgia has almost no paid medical internships for high school students, and only one program on this list pays you at all. That’s Winship’s Summer Scholars program at Emory, and it only takes rising seniors.
What hospitals do run is volunteer and shadowing programs. You won’t touch patients the way a nurse does. You will see how a hospital really works, from the emergency department to the imaging suite, and you’ll leave with documented service hours.
Which Georgia medical program is right for you?
| If you… | Start here |
| Want to work in a real research lab | Research in a lab |
| Want to spend your summer inside a hospital | Hospital volunteering and shadowing |
| Want clinical skills, dissections or a college-style class in one to four weeks | Medical camps and summer courses |
| Can’t get to Atlanta, Augusta or Athens | Online programs |
Looking beyond medicine? Georgia has its own lists of summer research programs, STEM research programs, lab opportunities, and biology programs.
Medical research programs in Georgia for high school students
These three put you on a research team with a scientist who does this for a living. They’re the most selective programs on the page and the closest thing Georgia has to a medical internship.
1. Winship Cancer Institute Summer Scholars Research Program
Location: A Winship lab at Emory University, Atlanta (in person). A separate virtual-only track also runs.
Cost: No fee listed. Scholars who finish all six weeks get a $2,400 stipend.
Dates: June 8 to July 17, 2026, full time, Monday to Friday. 2027 dates aren’t posted yet.
Application deadline: Not posted for 2027. Winship says to check back in fall 2026 for when applications open.
Eligibility: Rising or graduating high school seniors who are 16 by the start date. The in-person track requires US citizenship or permanent residency. The virtual track doesn’t.
Emory’s cancer center pairs you one-on-one with a researcher in a working lab for six weeks. It’s the only program on this page that pays you. Between lab days you’ll hear faculty lectures, sit in on roundtables with cancer survivors, and visit places like the Emory Proton Therapy Center. It ends with a symposium where you present your project.
Only 10 to 12 students get in. You’ll need two teacher recommendations (one from a STEM teacher) and a transcript, and Winship encourages applicants from Title I schools and first-generation students.
Who is it right for? A rising senior who wants paid cancer research and can commit to full-time days for six weeks.
2. Augusta University Georgia Cancer Center Summer Research Experience
Location: M. Bert Storey Research Building, Augusta University Health Sciences Campus, Augusta (in person).
Cost: No fees listed. No stipend and no housing.
Dates: June 2 to July 14, 2027 (six weeks).
Application deadline: Applications open October 15, 2026 and close January 15, 2027.
Eligibility: High school students. You must be 16 by the start date for lab bench projects. Under 16, you can apply for bioinformatics or community-based research. Priority goes to students from Richmond, Columbia and Aiken counties.
You’ll be mentored one-on-one in a cancer research lab, in areas like cell and molecular biology, cancer immunology, clinical outcomes, bioinformatics and population health. It’s one of the few Georgia research programs that has a track for students under 16. Expect seminars and skills sessions along the way and an oral presentation at the end.
No research experience is needed. You’ll send a transcript, a personal statement of up to 250 words, and two recommendations, with at least one from a teacher or counselor. Mentor matches depend on which faculty are free that summer.
Who is it right for? A student in the Augusta area, including younger students, who wants real cancer research without paying for it.
3. Morehouse School of Medicine S.T.E.A.M. Academy
Location: Morehouse School of Medicine, 720 Westview Drive SW, Atlanta (in person).
Cost: $1,000 for the three-week STEAM Exploration. $1,500 for the six-week Authentic Research Experience. No stipend. These are 2026 prices.
Dates: June 1 to 19, 2026 (three-week track) and June 2 to July 10, 2026 (six-week track), 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Application deadline: Applications ran January 26 to March 25, 2026, with rolling review. 2027 dates aren’t posted yet.
Eligibility: A 3.0 GPA for both tracks. Rising 9th to 12th graders can apply to the three-week track, and rising 10th to 12th graders to the six-week track.
There are two ways in. The three-week track covers healthcare app design, anatomy, lab skills and college prep. The six-week track pairs you with a Morehouse research mentor for a structured biomedical project, working alongside faculty and grad students. You’ll also get training in skills like phlebotomy and microscopy.
For the six-week track you’ll need a report card, two recommendation letters (one from a science teacher) and an essay about your research interest. Some applicants get an interview.
Who is it right for? An Atlanta student who wants a first real research project at a medical school, or a 9th grader who wants to start with the shorter track.
Hospital volunteer and shadowing programs in Georgia
Want to know what a hospital feels like on a Tuesday afternoon? These two put you inside one. Neither pays, but both are free and both take students as young as 14.
4. Grady Teen Experience and Leadership Program (TELP)
Location: Grady Memorial Hospital, 80 Jesse Hill Jr Drive SE, Atlanta (in person, plus 20 hours of virtual learning labs).
Cost: Free. It’s unpaid, but Grady documents your service hours.
Dates: May 26 to July 14, 2026 (seven weeks).
Application deadline: Applications ran January 16 to February 20, 2026. The 2027 timeline isn’t posted yet.
Eligibility: Ages 14 to 19 who have finished 9th grade. Once accepted, you’ll need a TB test and immunization records.
TELP rotates you through clinical and non-clinical departments. You get mentorship, workshops and interactive labs, plus the option to run a health outcomes research project and present it at Grady’s research showcase. The program also includes a career assessment to help you figure out which health jobs fit you.
Watch the calendar on this one. The 2026 window opened about a month earlier than in 2025 and was only five weeks long.
Who is it right for? A 14- or 15-year-old in metro Atlanta who wants to see how a big hospital runs.
5. SGMC Health Volunteen Summer Program
Location: SGMC Health, Valdosta (in person, placed in a hospital department).
Cost: No fee listed. It’s an unpaid volunteer program.
Dates: June 7 to July 23, 2027, two four-hour shifts a week. Orientation is June 1, 2027.
Application deadline: Applications open March 1 and close April 26, 2027. Screening interviews follow in early May, and a parent has to attend.
Eligibility: Rising 9th to 12th graders with a B average or higher. You’ll also need a teacher reference letter, a flu vaccine and a TB screening.
Volunteens work alongside SGMC staff, helping out and talking with patients and visitors. In 2026, 71 students were placed across clinical units, imaging services and administrative departments. The program is overseen by a physician advisor for student engagement.
SGMC also runs a separate Student Shadowing Program for high school and college students who want to follow a physician, nurse or technician. It doesn’t publish dates or a minimum age, so contact the student engagement office before you apply.
Who is it right for? A student in South Georgia who wants a full summer of hospital hours close to home.
Medical camps and summer courses in Georgia
This is the biggest group, and the most varied. Some of these are a week of dissections, some are two weeks of college-level classes, and one is a month-long pipeline program. If you’re also weighing camps outside the state, our national list of medical camps for high school students has more.
6. Emory Pre-Med Institute: From Science to Medicine
Location: Emory University, Atlanta (live on campus or commute).
Cost: $8,264 residential or $5,874 commuter for 2026, plus a $70 application fee and a $350 deposit, both non-refundable. Some courses add a $25 to $75 lab fee, and books run up to $50.
Dates: June 28 to July 18, 2026 (three weeks). 2027 dates haven’t been announced.
Application deadline: May 1, 2026. Emory says 2027 applications open late this fall.
Eligibility: Current 10th or 11th graders who are 15 by the start date, with at least a 3.0 GPA. You need biology and chemistry, and taking them now counts.
Emory physicians teach college-level biology, chemistry and anatomy, and you’ll visit clinical sites like Emory clinics, Grady, and simulation and imaging labs. You work through trauma and diagnostic cases, and the program opens with a White Coat Ceremony. You leave with a certificate, a personal recommendation letter and a medical school tool kit.
Financial aid covers part of tuition, never all of it, and it’s only open to US citizens and permanent residents.
Who is it right for? A sophomore or junior who’s fairly sure about medicine and has the budget for a three-week residential program.
7. Emory Pre-College Program (medicine courses)
Location: Emory University, Atlanta (residential or commuter). These noncredit courses don’t run online.
Cost: $5,510 residential or $3,925 commuter for 2026, plus a $70 application fee and a $350 deposit.
Dates: Two-week sessions, June 14 to 27, June 28 to July 11, and July 12 to 25, 2026.
Application deadline: May 1, 2026, with rolling admission until seats fill. 2027 applications open late this fall.
Eligibility: Current 10th or 11th graders who are 15 by the start date, with at least a 3.0 GPA.
Instead of a full pre-med program, you pick one two-week course. The 2026 medicine options included Biological Foundations of Medicine, Human Physiology, The Science of Disease, Medical Microbiology, Health Care Challenges in the 21st Century, and The Fundamentals of Cancer Biology. Classes average just 14 students, so you’ll actually get to know the instructor.
Course lists change every year, so check the 2027 catalog before you set your heart on one. Emory’s partial need-based aid applies here too.
Who is it right for? A student who wants a college-style taste of one medical subject for less than the Pre-Med Institute costs. Our list of pre-college programs in Georgia has other options.
8. Summer Springboard Emergency Medicine at Georgia Tech
Location: Georgia Tech campus, Atlanta (residential or commuter). Summer Springboard runs it, not Georgia Tech.
Cost: $5,798 residential or $3,298 commuter for 2027, plus a mandatory $250 fee for the Emergency Medicine course and a $600 deposit. The application fee starts at $99 and rises in later waves. Tuition goes up on December 1, 2026.
Dates: June 13 to 25, 2027 (two weeks).
Application deadline: Rolling, with decisions in 7 to 10 business days. The early decision discount ends December 30, 2026, and the final deadline is May 16, 2027.
Eligibility: Students who’ve finished 8th grade by the start date, through graduating seniors, with at least a 3.0 GPA.
This is the most skills-heavy option on the list. You’ll practice suturing, splinting, stopping bleeding, taking vital signs and CPR, then put it all together in a mass casualty simulation. There’s also a wilderness medicine unit. Residential tuition covers meals, a dorm room and excursions.
If you’d rather build devices than treat patients, Summer Springboard runs a Biomedical Engineering course on the same campus and dates, where you design a prototype like a prosthetic hand.
Who is it right for? A student who wants to learn emergency skills by doing them and wouldn’t mind two weeks of dorm life.
9. UGA Mini-Medical School
Location: UGA Center for Continuing Education & Hotel, Athens. One session runs at UGA’s Tifton Campus.
Cost: $530 for the day program or $1,265 with the overnight option in 2026. The Tifton session is $575, day only. Parking is $40 extra.
Dates: One-week sessions in 2026: June 15 to 19, June 22 to 26, July 6 to 10 and July 13 to 17 in Athens, and July 20 to 24 in Tifton.
Application deadline: Enrollment for 2027 opens December 1, 2026, with a priority sign-up period through November 30. Sessions fill.
Eligibility: Ages 14 to 17. No experience needed.
Medical students from the Augusta University/UGA Medical Partnership run this one, so you’re learning from people only a few years ahead of you. You’ll dissect mammal organs to see how the nervous, heart and digestive systems work. There are also short lectures on what pre-med actually requires.
Make sure you sign up for Mini-Medical School 2. The version numbered 1 is for ages 11 to 13. UGA says most of its youth programs don’t offer financial aid.
Who is it right for? A 9th or 10th grader who wants a cheap, low-pressure first look at medicine, dissections included.
10. Georgia State University Neuroscience School
Location: Georgia State University, Atlanta (in person), plus two online courses.
Cost: $275 to $350 per course in 2026. Students in free or reduced lunch programs can get fee assistance.
Dates: One-week courses between June 1 and July 23, 2026.
Application deadline: Registration stays open until classes fill. Courses that don’t hit minimum enrollment by June 1 get cancelled.
Eligibility: Students who’ve finished 9th grade or higher. In-person courses require you to be 16 by the first day.
Each course is its own short week, taught by GSU neuroscience and psychology professors. The 2026 lineup was a Neuroscience Boot Camp, an Advanced Topics course on neurological disorders, two lab weeks modeling Alzheimer’s and stress in fruit flies, an online boot camp and an online course on human brain imaging. At $275 to $350 a week, you could stack two courses for less than one week at most camps.
Who is it right for? A student drawn to the brain side of medicine who wants real lab work on a small budget. For more, see our list of neuroscience summer programs.
11. PCOM Georgia Opportunities Academy
Location: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) Georgia, Suwanee (in person).
Cost: Free.
Dates: One week in June. Exact dates aren’t published.
Application deadline: April of each year. The exact date isn’t published.
Eligibility: High school students in grades 9 to 12 from the Gwinnett County area.
PCOM Georgia opens its medical school to high schoolers for a week of CPR training, clinical simulations and anatomy labs on the heart and brain. You’ll meet physicians, physician assistants and pharmacists, and get college application help and mock interviews. The 2026 cohort had 75 students, picked from 188 applicants at 25 high schools across five metro Atlanta counties.
So “Gwinnett County area” is a bit looser than it sounds. If you’re nearby but outside Gwinnett, it’s worth asking.
Who is it right for? A metro Atlanta student, especially in Gwinnett, who wants a free week inside a medical school.
12. Morehouse School of Medicine Health Careers Exposure Program (HCEP) Academy
Location: Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta. The format isn’t stated.
Cost: $1,000, listed under program requirements. No stipend for the high school track.
Dates: Four weeks in the summer. Exact dates aren’t published.
Application deadline: March 27, 2026 (applications opened February 1). 2027 dates aren’t posted yet.
Eligibility: Rising juniors with at least a 2.85 GPA and an interest in a health career. An interview is required, along with teacher recommendations.
About 20 juniors a year spend a month working with Morehouse faculty, clinicians and medical students. It mixes anatomy and health science labs, simulations and job shadowing with SAT and ACT prep, which no other program here offers. There are also medical ethics sessions, lunch talks with faculty and a community health project. The program recruits students from economically and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds across metro Atlanta.
You might see it under its old name, the HCOP Academy High School Ambassadors Program.
Who is it right for? A rising junior in metro Atlanta who wants a month of shadowing, labs and test prep in one program.
13. College of Coastal Georgia Nursing and Healthcare Professionals Camp
Location: College of Coastal Georgia and Southeast Georgia Health System Brunswick Campus, Brunswick (in person, with optional dorm stay).
Cost: $550 overnight, including housing and meals, or $250 for day campers. These are 2026 prices.
Dates: June 22 to 26, 2026, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Overnight campers arrive June 21.
Application deadline: April 30, 2026.
Eligibility: Rising 11th and 12th graders in good academic standing. You’ll submit an application and an essay.
This is the only nursing-focused camp on the list. You’ll run clinical simulations, shadow hospital staff and learn to take vital signs and do basic health assessments. There’s also a tour of the lab and the morgue, which is either a highlight or a test, depending on you.
Who is it right for? A junior or senior leaning toward nursing, especially in coastal Georgia. Our list of nursing camps for high school students covers options in other states.
14. CDC Museum Disease Detective Camp
Location: CDC headquarters, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta (day camp, in person). It’s run by CDC Museum staff, and you’ll need a government photo ID to get through security each day.
Cost: Free. You arrange your own housing and transportation.
Dates: June 22 to 26 and July 20 to 24, 2026 (five days each).
Application deadline: Not published. The CDC says 2027 information will be posted in January 2027.
Eligibility: Rising juniors or seniors who are 16 by the first day of camp. Non-US citizens can apply with a valid passport.
For five days you’ll learn how public health experts track outbreaks, from epidemiology to lab work. It’s free, it’s at the CDC itself, and it’s very hard to get into: in 2024, 702 students applied for about 54 spots. Each session takes 27 students.
One heads-up. The CDC Museum building has been listed as temporarily closed since December 2025, though the camp pages still show 2026 sessions. Check the camp page in January before you plan around it.
Who is it right for? A rising junior or senior who loves the detective side of medicine. If public health is your thing, see our list of public health summer programs.
Online medical programs for Georgia students
Live in Columbus, Dalton, or anywhere far from Atlanta? These three don’t care where you are.
15. CDC Museum Public Health Academy
Location: Online, with live sessions from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. ET plus self-paced work.
Cost: Free. You just need a computer and an internet connection.
Dates: June 8 to 12, 2026. Expect four to six hours of work a day.
Application deadline: Not published. The CDC says 2027 information will be posted in January 2027.
Eligibility: Rising juniors or seniors who are 16 by the first day. Non-US citizens can apply.
The online cousin of the Disease Detective Camp covers public health interventions, global health, infectious and chronic disease, epidemiology, outbreak investigation and public health law. It takes 75 students, which makes it a lot less crowded than the in-person camp. It’s also a full week of real work, not a webinar.
Who is it right for? A student anywhere in Georgia who wants the CDC experience without the commute.
16. Mercer Virtual Med Camp
Location: Online over Zoom, 10 a.m. to noon each day for one week.
Cost: Free. Supplies, an agenda and a camp t-shirt are mailed to you.
Dates: One week in the summer. Exact dates aren’t published.
Application deadline: Not published. The page currently says registration is full and to check back next year.
Eligibility: Middle and high school students in rural Georgia.
The Georgia Rural Health Innovation Center and Mercer University School of Medicine run this camp under a “Become a Medical Detective” theme. Each day pairs a short lesson with an activity using the kit you get in the mail, led by Mercer faculty, scientists and medical students. It’s capped at 100 students and fills up, so check the page early.
Mercer also lists in-person Med Camps in Randolph and Berrien counties, though it doesn’t publish dates for those either.
Who is it right for? A student in rural Georgia, including middle schoolers, who wants a free, easy first step into medicine.
17. Horizon Academic Research Program
Location: Online.
Cost: $6,950 per course. Need-based financial aid is available for families earning under $75,000 a year.
Dates: Fall and spring terms run 15 weeks, and summer runs 10. Labs last 12 to 16 weeks and Seminars 10 to 12 weeks.
Application deadline: Each cohort has its own deadline. Cohorts start three times a year, so check the programs page for the next one.
Eligibility: High school students with at least a 3.67 unweighted GPA. Horizon accepted 26% of 6,539 applicants.
Horizon pairs you with a professor or PhD mentor to research one question for a full term, then write it up as a paper of about 5,000 words. Instead of a week of many activities, you go deep on one project and finish with work that’s yours to submit to journals or competitions. In a Lab, you get 15 sessions with your instructor plus four with a writing coach and four with a publication specialist. Seminars average four students and never go above six.
To be clear about fit, Horizon doesn’t run a clinical medicine course, so you won’t practice sutures or shadow doctors. The closest courses are in Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Gene Editing and CRISPR, Protein Biophysics, and Environmental Health and Engineering. Plan on 8 to 10 hours a week, and treat publication as an opportunity, not a promise.
Who is it right for? A student anywhere in Georgia who wants their own research question and a finished paper, not a certificate.
Frequently Asked Questions
When are the deadlines for Georgia medical programs?
Most fall between January and May. Only three programs have posted 2027 dates so far, so the table shows the most recent cycle for the rest.
| Program | Latest posted deadline | 2027 status |
| Augusta University Cancer Center | January 15, 2027 (opens October 15, 2026) | Posted |
| Summer Springboard at Georgia Tech | May 16, 2027, rolling (early discount ends December 30, 2026) | Posted |
| SGMC Volunteen | April 26, 2027 (opens March 1) | Posted |
| UGA Mini-Medical School | Enrollment opens December 1, 2026, until sessions fill | Opening date posted |
| Grady TELP | February 20, 2026 | Not posted |
| Morehouse S.T.E.A.M. Academy | March 25, 2026 | Not posted |
| Morehouse HCEP Academy | March 27, 2026 | Not posted |
| PCOM Georgia | April each year (exact date not published) | Not posted |
| Coastal Georgia nursing camp | April 30, 2026 | Not posted |
| Emory Pre-Med Institute and Pre-College | May 1, 2026 | Applications open late fall 2026 |
| Winship Summer Scholars | Not published | Check back fall 2026 |
| CDC Disease Detective Camp and Public Health Academy | Not published | Details due January 2027 |
| GSU Neuroscience School | Open until courses fill | Not posted |
| Mercer Virtual Med Camp | Not published | Not posted |
Barely. Winship Summer Scholars is the only program on this list that pays, with a $2,400 stipend for rising seniors. Everything else is free or costs money. If pay matters to you, our lists of summer internships in Georgia and medical summer programs and internships include paid roles outside medicine and outside the state.
More than you’d expect. Grady TELP takes 14-year-olds who’ve finished 9th grade, SGMC Volunteen takes rising 9th graders, and UGA Mini-Medical School starts at 14. PCOM Georgia, Summer Springboard and Morehouse’s three-week S.T.E.A.M. track are open to 9th graders too. If you’re near Augusta, the Cancer Center’s bioinformatics and community-based tracks don’t have the age 16 rule. And our list of research programs for complete beginners doesn’t assume you’ve done anything yet.
Yes, three on this page: the CDC Public Health Academy, Mercer Virtual Med Camp for rural students, and Horizon. GSU also runs two online neuroscience courses. For more, see our lists of online medical research opportunities and free online research programs.
If you can travel, sure. The national lists cover dozens of programs in other states, many of them residential. Start with our guides to medical research programs and health science summer programs, or a state page like medical summer programs in Massachusetts. Just remember that many out-of-state programs give priority to local students, the same way Augusta does.
It depends on the type. Camps like Summer Springboard and UGA teach clinical skills: CPR, vital signs, suturing on practice pads, organ dissection. Hospital programs teach you how a hospital works and how to act around patients. Research programs teach the skill that’s hardest to get anywhere else, which is taking a question from idea to result and presenting it. If that’s what you’re after, our guides on getting research opportunities in high school and finding a research lab are good next reads.
Two that used to appear on lists like this one. Emory School of Medicine’s Summer Science Academy, for rising 9th and 10th graders, took a hiatus in summer 2026 and plans to return in 2027. The Medical College of Georgia’s SEEP program hasn’t posted a cycle since 2025. Both are worth checking again in the new year.
Most programs here give you a week or a summer of exposure: skills, shadowing, a lab placement someone else designed. Horizon gives you your own research question, a professor or PhD mentor, and a finished paper of about 5,000 words. It’s online, so where you live doesn’t matter, and cohorts start in fall, spring and summer. It costs $6,950, with need-based aid for families earning under $75,000. It doesn’t teach clinical skills, so it pairs well with a hospital program or camp from this list rather than replacing one.
Resources
More programs in Georgia
- Summer programs in Atlanta
- Psychology summer programs in Georgia
- Chemistry programs in Georgia
- Environmental science programs in Georgia
Medical programs beyond Georgia
Starting your own research
- Biology research topics
- Genetics research programs
- How to publish research in high school
- Research journals for high school students
- Research competitions for high school students
- What you can do with a high school research paper
Mentorship and funding
- Free research mentorship programs
- Online research mentorship programs
- Summer research mentorship programs
- Grants for high school research
- The most competitive research programs
- University summer programs
Want to do medical research from anywhere in Georgia?
Worried the programs on this list are too competitive, too far from home, or already closed for the year? Most of them are at least one of those things for most students. Winship takes 10 to 12 students. The CDC camp takes 27 per session. And a lot of the free options only work if you live in the right county.
Horizon works no matter where in Georgia you live. You’ll research a question you care about with a professor or PhD mentor, in courses like Neurodegenerative Diseases, Neuroscience or Gene Editing and CRISPR, and finish with a paper you can submit to journals or competitions. See Horizon’s programs and apply.
And if you’re wondering how this plays with colleges, a finished paper gives admissions officers something concrete to read. Here’s our take on whether summer research actually helps.
Image source: Emory University