Three dozen top math and science high school students from 14 states and five foreign countries are coming to Westmont June 27-Aug. 7 for the 52nd Summer Science Program (SSP). SSP students will learn astrophysics by day and observe near-earth asteroids at night with at the college's new observatory.
SSP, which has been held in Ojai since 1959, opened a sister program on the campus of New Mexico Institute of Technology in 2003. It is one of the nation鈥檚 oldest and most successful pre-college research programs. Since 2000, it鈥檚 the only one operated and funded by its own alumni.
facilitated the move. 鈥淚 remember fondly my own SSP summer, so I鈥檓 gratified I can do something to help future students have their own life-changing experience,鈥� he says.
Richard Bowdon, who attended two years before Rogers, now directs the program. 鈥淔or 51 years SSP has challenged students gifted in math and science to realize their amazing potential,鈥� he says. 鈥淭hese six weeks propel them to success in college and career.鈥�
Other SSP alumni include: Dr. Ed Krupp, director of Griffith Observatory; Mitchell Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corp. and founding chair of Mozilla Foundation; and Professor Edmund Bertschinger, chair of the physics department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The independent, non-profit program operates in cooperation with 蜜桃传媒, New Mexico Tech, Caltech and MIT. For more information, please visit .