Women's Technology Program (WTP)

WTP is a 4-week academic summer program in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science for forty female high school students at the end of their junior year. The goal of this program is to introduce high school girls to fundamental topics in electrical engineering and computer science, and the emerging role of these fields in the life sciences. The WTP curriculum consists of hands-on projects, guest speakers, and lab tours and includes systems biology-related activities. We believe that the biology/engineering interface is an effective way of engaging talented female students in quantitative thinking and showing them their potential for success in engineering-related disciplines. Participants are selected from a pool of several hundred applicants. Of the forty girls that participated in the 2004 program, several applied to MIT.

In 2004 and 2005, the CDP Center provided scholarship funds for twelve students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds to attend the program.