Carnegie Mellon University Pre-College Summer Session: Computational Biology

Empowering diverse young minds to apply computation to solve research-inspired questions in modern biology. The Pre-College Program in Computational Biology offers comprehensive training in both state-of-the-art laboratory techniques for generating biological data and the computational methods necessary to analyze it. The program is designed to highlight the synergy between experimentation and computational analysis in modern biology. Each day, students will spend half their time in a hackathon-style setting, working in small groups to develop code that solves computational problems, with guidance from instructors and teaching assistants. The other half of the day will be dedicated to laboratory work, where students will generate large datasets to be analyzed using their own code.