Top High School Students Study Science at °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp
More than 40 top math and science high school students from the U.S. and foreign countries are arriving at °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp for the 54th (SSP) through Aug. 1. SSP students will learn astrophysics by day and observe near-Earth asteroids at night with °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp’s 24-inch Keck telescope.
SSP, which has been held in Ojai since 1959, moved to °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp three years ago. It is one of the nation’s oldest and most successful pre-college research programs. Since 2000, it’s the only one operated and funded by its own alumni.
SSP alumnus Richard Bowdon now directs the program. Fellow alumnus and °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp professor of physics facilitated the move from Thacher School in Ojai to °µÍø±¬ÁÏapp.
Other SSP alumni include: Ed Krupp, director of Griffith Observatory; Mitchell Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corp. and founding chair of Mozilla Foundation; and Edmund Bertschinger, chair of the physics department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.