Extracurricula Activities for International students with financial aid
1. Pioneer Academics Research Program
🗓 Deadline: their will be coming deadline, search
🔗 https://pioneeracademics.com/
2. Pioneer Academics Global Problem Solving Institute
🔗 https://pioneeracademics.com/the-global-problem-solving-institute/admission/
3. Lumiere Education Research Program
🔗 https://www.lumiere-education.com/
4. Ladder Internships (Founded by Stephen Turban)
🔗 https://www.ladderinternships.com/
5. Veritas AI Research Program (for AI enthusiasts)
🔗 https://www.veritasai.com/about-us
6. Harvard Venture & Technology Summer Program 2026
—-It has application fee, but if u could pay this is good program
🔗 https://www.vtsp.com/
7. Horizon 1-to-1 Research Program
🔗 https://horizoninspires.com/
8. Science Mentorship Institute (Sci-MI)
🗓 Deadline: Varies by program
🔗 https://www.sci-mi.org/index.html
9. Young Founders Lab (Startup Bootcamp)
🔗 https://www.youngfounderslab.org/
10. StandOut Connect (Internships with innovative companies)
🔗 https://www.standoutconnect.org/
11. Leaders of Africa Institute – Research Methods Program
🔗 https://www.institute.leadersofafrica.org/program/research-methods-program
12, Aspiring Scholars Directed Research Program
Deadline- August 15, 2026, it is open now, so you all should apply
🔗https://www.asdrp.org/apply
13,The New york academy of science
Dealine: explore that
🔗https://www.nyas.org/learning/high-school-research-programs/the-junior-academy/
14,Yale Young Global Scholars
Dealine: early, around mid october, regular, around early january
🔗https://globalscholars.yale.edu/about
15, Yale Young African Scholar
Dealine: check this but mostly it is the same with YYGS
🔗https://africanscholars.yale.edu/about-us
16, Telluride Association Summer Seminar (TASS)
Deadline: u can check on the lin, so good program
🔗https://tellurideassociation.org/
17,Summer Science Program (SSP), residential
Deadline: u can check on the website, and because it has different program with different location Check that carefully
🔗https://ssp.org/
18, The Global Youth Excellence and Leadership Program (GYEL)
🔗https://gyel.org/
19, Student Research Institute (SRI)/ Harvard Undergraduate OpenBio Laboratory’s Research Institute
🔗https://soco.college.harvard.edu/00003/openbio-home/
20, Teen In health
🔗https://teensinhealth.org/ The Research Fellowship Deadline is August 31, 2026 11:59 PM PST
21, The Climatebase Fellowship
🔗https://climatebase.org/fellowship?utm_source=weekly_newsletter&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=cbf10&utm_content=cbf10-617blast
Apply to Cohort 10 of the Climatebase Fellowship by August 24.
22, Summit Education / Empowering the Next Generation of Leaders in STEM
-It is divided in to two A, Summit STEM Fellowship (SSF)
B, Summit Research Scholars (SRS).
🔗https://www.summiteducation.org/
23, Addiscoder
🔗https://www.addiscoder.com/
24, Seaside Sustainability Internship Program and Has other programs
🔗https://www.seasidesustainability.org/internships
🔗https://www.seasidesustainability.org/home
25, Leaf's online programmes
🔗https://leaf.courses/
26, Indigo Research program( Their is a program that they give full financial aid) try to find that
🔗https://www.indigoresearch.org/
27, Research Science Institute (RSI)
This one is INSANELY competitive, but it is one of the best programs on the list.
RSI is a six-week STEM program at MIT involving:
Intensive STEM coursework
Original research
Research mentorship
Final research presentation
And importantly, it is free. The CEE describes RSI as bringing together U.S. and international students for a cost-free program
🔗https://www.cee.org/programs/research-science-institute
🔗https://www.cee.org/
