No ordinary summer job … the Summer Science Program is a unique opportunity to teach and mentor some of the most promising STEM students of their cohort in the world.
To work at SSP is to join a team of eight, leading 36 amazing young people through an intense and fully immersive university-level research project for six weeks. Living and working together on a university campus, you will dive into hands-on science in a supportive and close-knit community. It’s an experience that can’t be thoroughly captured in a written job description. It’s gratifying and fulfilling, but as with other unusually rewarding experiences in life, also challenging … and sometimes exhausting.
Compensation includes salary and all meals. For faculty not local to the assigned campus, we also provide housing and travel. (While we try to accommodate family members and pets, our ability to do so is limited.)
Site Directors – high school teachers with 5+ years of experience
Teaching Assistants/Residential Mentors
Dates and locations for the 2025 programs will be announced here soon.
In 2024, SSP operated 12 programs on 8 campuses.
Since 1959, hundreds of scientists have been associated with SSP as a student, faculty, or both, including George Abell (UCLA), Edmund Bertschinger (MIT), Ronald Irving (Univ. of Washington), Ed Krupp (Griffith Observatory), Jerry Nelson (UC Santa Cruz), Douglas Richstone (Univ. of Michigan), Thomas Steiman-Cameron (Indiana Univ.), Elizabeth Simmons (UC San Diego), Nicholas Suntzeff (Texas A&M), Robert Tarjan (Princeton), Alma Zook (Pomona), and many more.
SSP International is a nonprofit offering inspiring science immersion experiences. Founded in 1959, its mission is to provide opportunities to accelerate learning, doing and belonging in science. SSP International’s flagship program is Summer Science Program, a leading education experience for exceptional high school students in astrophysics, biochemistry, genomics and more.