Social Science Summer is a series of education programs launched by the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE) at Columbia University and ICProjects in 2014. By providing high school students with the opportunity to work closely with Columbia researchers and faculty to conduct social science research, Social Science Summer hopes to inspire the next generation of social scientists. During the past 7 years, our programs have successfully trained more than 700 high school students.

Our Summer Research program is an intensive two-week program held at Columbia University that provides high school students with an understanding of the principles and skills necessary to design and conduct social research. Students learn from faculty in daily seminars and conduct preliminary research in New York City for a research proposal they produce. Our remote learning Fall Fellows program builds upon the skills developed during the Summer Research program to execute a research design with the guidance of a Columbia University researcher. Our Spring Workshops are a three-day crash course in field experiments taught by Columbia University researchers during which students design, execute and present mini-field experiments.

Note: Due to continued limitations of the pandemic, this program has been placed on hiatus for the summer of 2022. We look forward to hopefully resuming the program in 2023.