Current high school sophomores and juniors attending school in Massachusetts can apply for the August 8-15th fully funded, residential, competitive program in Woods Hole.

Woods Hole Sea Grant (WHSG) and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) are excited to once again collaborate with Earthwatch Institute on the Girls in Science Program, a competitive, week-long, fully funded, residential fellowship in Woods Hole for 10 young women from Massachusetts currently in their sophomore or junior year of high school.  This year's program will take place from August 8-15, 2020.

Fellows are housed on the beautiful Sea Education Association campus with easy access to the nearby WHOI facilities.  During their week, fellows work with WHOI Research Specialist Laela Sayigh, WHSG Education Specialist Grace Simpkins and others to investigate marine mammal bioacoustics (sounds) while also meeting other female Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) professionals and learning from their collective expertise. The immersive experience includes building and testing their own underwater microphone (or hydrophone), analyzing data of dolphin vocalizations from Wellfleet to contribute to a study on whether a mass stranding predictive model can be developed, and capturing the underwater sounds of whales and dolphins vocalizing during a whale watching expedition.  During the evenings, Earthwatch facilitators help the student fellows integrate arts and science to tell their "Story of Science."