UCSC Science Internship Program (SIP) for High-School Students: Summer 2013




SIP 2013: Projects, Mentors, Events, and Website (UPDATED 4/27/2013)

The assignment of SIP interns to projects is in the process of being finalized. IMPORTANT - Monday April 29 is the deadline for interns to accept our project offer by sending an email to sip2013@ucsc.edu.

HOUSING information and forms will be emailed to all SIP interns on Wednesday May 1.

A preliminary SIP events calendar is here (this will be updated from time to time).

Answers to frequently asked questions are here (a must-read for new SIP mentors).

A new SIP website will be launched soon (and there will be a link from this website to the new SIP website).



Click here for Dr. Adina Paytan's High School Summer Internship program covering the areas of Earth Sciences, Marine Sciences, Oceanography, Geology, etc.




Useful Links

Key events/deadlines and Discovery Lectures
Unix/Logging in/IDL (very basic step-by-step instructions)
IDL tutorial links: list of IDL routines (alphabetical order) and tutorial
Python tutorial links: LINK 1, LINK 2, link 3, link 4, link 5, link 6, and making plots
Astronomy journal reference links: NASA/ADS and arXiv
Housing and commuting
Orientation session topics (brief outline)


News Stories

Natalie Portman was an Intel STS Semifinalist!
Intel STS Finalists: UCSC News and Events (SIP 2010)
Castilleja School News Alert and video (SIP 2010)
Story in UCSC News and Events (SIP 2009)


Relevant Scholarships (not associated with SIP)

Proton Energy Scholarship
Davidson Fellowship




SIP 2012




SIP 2011




SIP 2010




SIP 2009




Group Projects / Camps

The COSMOS (The California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science) program at UCSC (various science and math topics) - applications are for the summer are open during the month of February
NASA's INSPIRE Program --- Research, Education and Careers in STEM Fields