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Dive into our collection of STEM opportunities including after-school classes, camps, attractions, and internships. We've organized everything to help you easily find the right fit that ignites curiosity and cultivates a lifelong love of learning.

STEM goes beyond the classroom — it's about curiosity, problem-solving, and developing skills for the future. Whether your child is just beginning to explore or ready to dive into hands-on, real-world challenges, we're here to help you find the programs that will inspire their journey.

A NOTE FROM THE CURATOR

A note on what you'll find here — and what you won't.

You may notice a familiar program is missing. Maybe one a friend recommended, or a name you've heard mentioned often. Its absence isn't an oversight. Gotham STEM is curated, which means every listing has been evaluated for the things that actually matter: how instructors teach, how kids are challenged, and whether the program builds real thinking or just leans on the STEM label. If there's a program you love and want me to take a closer look at, send it my way. Fresh recommendations are how this directory keeps getting better.

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Project Euler

Project Euler
Project Euler isn't a traditional contest. It's an archive of nearly 1,000 mathematical and programming problems and a global community of more than a million members working through them at their own pace, in any of 100+ programming languages. The problems demand more than math insight alone; solving them takes both mathematical reasoning and working code. There are no deadlines and no entry fees, just the problems, an active worldwide leaderboard, and how far a curious mind wants to go.
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Purple Comet! Math Meet

Purple Comet! Math Meet
Most math contests ask kids to compete alone. Purple Comet! Math Meet does the opposite. Groups of one to six middle or high schoolers work through a problem set together — splitting up questions, comparing approaches, and arguing through the hard ones. The contest runs online once a year, takes 60 or 90 minutes depending on level, and is free to enter. Teams pick their start time inside a ten-day window and compete from anywhere they can get to a computer.
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Sir Isaac Newton (SIN) Exam

Sir Isaac Newton (Sin) Exam
Spend two hours wrestling with physics problems that lean on classical mechanics, free-body diagrams, and a healthy sense of humor. The Sir Isaac Newton (SIN) Exam, run by the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Waterloo, invites high school students from Canada, the U.S., and across the world to test their problem-solving against questions as hard as first-year college physics.
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Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics

Hampshire College Summer Studies In Mathematics
Widely considered one of the most prestigious mathematics programs for high school students in the country, HCSSiM is a demanding six-week residential program on the Hampshire College campus in western Massachusetts. Talented teens spend four hours of morning classes plus evening problem sessions doing actual mathematics with university faculty — not learning results, but working the way mathematicians work.
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Mashomack's Environmental Explorers — Nature Conservancy Camp

Shelter Island, NY

Mashomack's Environmental Explorers — Nature Conservancy Camp
Spend four days deep inside a 2,350-acre Nature Conservancy preserve on Shelter Island, exploring the outdoors the way naturalists actually do. Kids hike, paddle, and wade through Mashomack's tidal creeks, oak woodlands, and salt marshes — observing fish, studying caterpillars, identifying birds along 11 miles of coastline, and creating short conservation videos. One of the longest-running youth programs on the East End, on one of the richest habitats in the Northeast.
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