Picking the right college can be a difficult task. These websites are here to make it easier for you. Check them out, you’ll be surprised with all the things you can learn from them.

College Prep Resource Guide
This resource gives students help navigating everything from SAT/ACT Prep, how to get into the college of your dream, and even resources on how to pick your major.

Guide to Online Schools
Resource for looking up different schools if you’re thinking about getting your degree online. You can find schools base on your study of interest and even publishes average saleries for each program.

College Prep 101
This great resource tells you a lot about the college experience and how you can get ready for it. This site walks you through everything, starting with a college planning checklist, and even helps you get ready to go to college with a “what to bring” checklist. If you’re in the process of searching for a college or getting ready to leave for college, give this site a try.

College Affordability Guide

The College Affordability Guide team analyzed government-collected data on 5,000+ colleges and universities in the US to find those that are both financially accessible and have strong records of positive student outcomes.

Career Center (UC Berkeley)
Puzzled about your future? Give this website a try. It will help you learn about yourself, and in the process, the best major for your personality

Syracuse University (Online Program)
Engage in an advanced, integrated, online curriculum from a top-ranked institution, and learn from a distinguished faculty of engineers and researchers without interrupting your career. Engage in the power of Syracuse University.

Figuring out what you want to do with the rest of your life can be very difficult. Check out some of the links below, they might just help you finalize your decisions for your future.

Discovering Engineering
Resources for anyone thinking about becoming an engineer. Interesting facts that I bet you never knew!

Find Your STEM Passion: STEMStudy
Uncover your passion for stem through a STEM Quiz, learn more about different STEM career paths, and uncover educational opportunities to help you reach your STEM potential.

American Math Society – How Mathematics Can Help You Build Your Career
Resources for anyone wondering why to study math and what it can do for you in your STEM career.

Marine Careers
Looking at a career in marine science? Come visit this page for some great resources!

The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
Really cool resource to figure out what scientist and engineers actually do in the workforce. Very useful even if you know what you want to be when you grow up!

Science Jobs
Science Career resources from the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Genomic Careers: Find Your Future
Discover your future in the world of Genomics… 14 videos included

Do you want hands-on experiences to put down on your college applications? There are several STEM competitions that you can get involved with at your local elementary, middle, and high school.

Future City
The Future City Competition is a national, project-based learning experience where students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade imagine, design, and build cities of the future.

MATHCOUNTS Competition Program
The MATHCOUNTS Competition Program provides the extra incentive and the perfect atmosphere for students to push themselves to achieve more in mathematics. Consisting of fun and creative problems that promote critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, the MATHCOUNTS competitions have written and oral rounds, as well as individual and team components.

Science Olympiad
The Science Olympiad offers annual competitions (Regional, State, and National) for Middle and High School students who have the opportunity to collaborate on a number of project based/real world challenges.

FIRST Robotics Competition
The FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition in Science and Technology) is a world-wide program for students as young as elementary, to as old as high school. Elementary students will solve real-world problems with Legos (Jr. FLL), middle school students will build Lego robots to do a specific challenge (FLL), middle school students also have the option to build VEX robots (FTC), high school students get to build larger (six feet tall, 120 lbs) robots (FTC).

BEST Robotics
The BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology) competition is similar to the FIRST FRC (high school) competition, where high school students build a large robot designed to do a specific time, working alongside professional engineers as mentors.

National Science Bowl
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Bowl® is a nationwide academic competition that tests students’ knowledge in all areas of science. High school and middle school students are quizzed in a fast paced question-and-answer format similar to Jeopardy. Competing teams from diverse backgrounds are comprised of four students, one alternate, and a teacher who serves as an advisor and coach.

NASA Student Competitions
A list of NASA student competitions

National Ocean Science Bowl
The National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB®) is one program that prepares the next generation of marine scientists, policy makers, teachers, explorers, researchers, technicians, environmental advocates, and informed citizens to accept this challenge.

Invention Challenge
The JPL Annual Invention Challenge is a friendly, yet challenging competition open to JPL employees and contractors, their family members, and students from local middle and high schools. Each year, a different engineering challenge is selected. The goal of the Invention Challenge is to show students that math, science, and engineering can be fun.

Get a step above everyone else by having a summer internship. You might think you are too young, but all of these internships are for high school students. Some of them pay pretty well too!

Unfortunately there are too many internships out there to list on this page. Some great places to start are listed below, and there are internship links for high school and college students.

Department of Energy SULI Program
The Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program encourages undergraduate students to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers by providing research experiences at the Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories. Selected students participate as interns appointed at one of 17 participating DOE laboratories/facilities. They perform research, under the guidance of laboratory staff scientists or engineers, on projects supporting the DOE mission.

NOAA
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration offers high school students several different internships around the country.

List of Internships
This website provides a bunch of different internships specific to different states and universities (that your high school student can intern at).

Every student needs money for school. Check out some of these great scholarships to help pay for the rising cost of college.

Nitro Scholarship Database
Nitro has a great database of scholarships in one easy to use place. Scroll down to the last section from the link above to the “Engineering Scholarship” section and see what they have that you can apply for. You can sort by specility, award amount, or need-based aid.

Guaranteed Scholarships
A resource of colleges that have guaranteed scholarships based on requirements. Guaranteed scholarships are those which are unlimited in number, and require no interview, essay, portfolio, audition, competition or other “secondary” requirement. Just meet the criteria listed, adhere to the application deadlines set by the individual colleges and universities, gain admission, enroll, and receive your scholarship or scholarships.

College Scholarships
Awesome scholarship resource that lists over 50 free scholarship search sites listing thousands of scholarships and financial aid awards worth billions of dollars. Other valuable resources on this website includes an instant GPA calculator, contact information for every college in the United States, a list of colleges which offer comprehensive programs for students with learning disabilities, lists of Christian, Catholic, and woman’s colleges, a list of historically black and colleges and universities (HBCU’s), and links to more than 2,500 career schools and colleges.

Andrew Rock Foundation
Offering students studying in the field of technology and computational mathematics financial support throughout their undergraduate career (annual application is required), with support increasing by 50% each consecutive year of qualification. First year students receive $5,000. Applications open in the middle of January.

Scholarship Info for Students of Color

A list of scholarships for students of color

College Board Scholarship Search
College Board has a lot of resources including tons of different scholarships

Scholarships for Women
A list of scholarships for women

Engineering Scholarships
A list of engineering scholarships

Aerospace Engineering Scholarships
A list of Aerospace Engineering scholarships

Chemical Engineering Scholarships
A list of Chemical Engineering scholarships

Materials Science Scholarships
A list of Materials Science scholarships

Ultimate Scholarship Resource
A list of scholarships for every category including scholarships for international students, married students, military students, minority students, study abroad students, transfer students, and women.

Women: STEM Scholarships for Graduate School
Guide dedicated to helping women interested in graduate degrees in the STEM disciplines, Guide includes STEM scholarships for grad school, tips on how to obtain these scholarships and the most influential organization involved in STEM for women.

Scholarship Writing Guides

Scholarship Essay Guide

Scholarship writing guide that everyone sholud read before starting a scholarship essay

How to Write a Winning Scholarship Essay
A how-to guide on how to write a scholarship essay

Are you struggling in one of your classes? Take a look at the resources below to become more motivate, and get help with your homework, separated by the STEM disciplines. Any of the STEM disciplines are not easy, so get all the help you can.

Science

Good Caluclators
This website provides a variety of online calculators, such as math and statistics, financial, engineering and conversion calculators.

Discovery Education
From the Discovery Channel, here comes help with your sciences!

Homework Spot (middle school)
Help with science for middle school level!

Homework Spot (high school)
Help with science for high school level!

The Science Page
This may not be specific help, but you can learn a lot from this website. If you’re struggling anywhere, you should be able to find examples on this website

Technology

Discovery Education
From the Discovery Channel, here comes help with your technology classes!

Science Page (Science and Technology Resources)
Resources for various disciplines in technology

Engineering

Cramster (Mechanical Engineering)
Tons of resources, and a discussion board for Mechanical Engineering questions

Cramster (Civil Engineering)
Tons of resources, and a discussion board for Civil Engineering questions

Cramster (Electrical Engineering)
Tons of resources, and a discussion board for Electrical Engineering questions

Mathematics

Learn About Money
This website gives you a lot of practical uses for math when it comes to finances. There are games that you can play to help you get excited about math and learn how math integrates into every day finances!

Math Calculators
Math Calculators. Just about every calculator you could possibly want! Including science, weather, time, money, cooking, health, and so many more calculators. Great resource to get anyone excited about math and how it can be useful in everyday life.

The A+ Student’s Guide to Math
Some students don’t enjoy math, but the reality is that math is used in every day life. Check out this link if you want to learn to love math!

Discovery Education
From the Discovery Channel, here comes help with your math!

WolfRamAlpha
This is seriously (in my opinion) one of the best online math solvers. Type in anything, and WolfRamAlpha will check with it’s thousands of databases to solve your problem

Web Math
Learn about virtually any subject from this website. Just pick your subject and learn!

Don’t be discouraged if you are a woman wanting to pursue a STEM field. There are a lot of successful STEM women, and this world needs more of them!

Sarah Rugheimer’s Reasearch Repository
A repository of peer-reviewed research and resources discussing the challenges facing white women and men and women of color in science

Women in Cryptocurence and Block Chain
Whether you are a woman—at any stage in your career—trying to break into cryptocurrency, or perhaps you are writing a grant to obtain support for women in crypto-related pursuits, this directory contains a comprehensive set of resources.

Guide to Online Schools
Guide to Online Schools has an entire page dedicated to Schools they recommend for women in STEM. Check it out!

Lifting the Barriers
This paper discusses 600 developed strategies to promote STEM with girls.

Nerd Girls Are Cool Too
This website encourages girls to get involved in STEM. It is a network where girls encourage each other in STEM by doing STEM projects, while embracing their feminine power.

Women and Computers
This website provides a history of women and computers, recognizing the achievement of women in the world of computers, and links learners to associations, resources and projects to further their own STEM learning and careers.

Videos To Encourage Women In STEM

Girls and Math – No gender gap in math
This video Suggests that there is no gender gap between women and men.

Engineering Games and Projects from Titlemax
This website has a list of a bunch of different games and projects broken out by engineering discipline.

Maryville University Business and Math Games
Mayrville University has a great resource with a bunch of business and math games on it. The games are for all ages, you’ll never have a better time learning while you’re playing.

Home School Math Games Resource
One of the ways you can get interested in math at home is with educational games. These may be played online or on your living room floor. Take some time to check out this list of math games and resources. Some are online games, while others are instructions for creating math activities at home.

STEM Premier
Create a STEM profile to see how you rank among the top STEM talent in the nation. It will give you the ability to evaluate personal performance, earn recognition and access exclusive STEM scholarships.

Launch into Aerospace
Start exploring the opportunities that await you in the aerospace industry – opportunities to be part of a team that makes a tremendous contribution to our nation’s economy, ensures that the borders of our nation remain secure, and provides our men and women in uniform with the equipment they need.

Explore Mars
Mars images, info, data and more.

Are you someone that wants to go out and learn on their own? Here are a list of resources that you can go to to learn and take classes

Khan Academy
Khan Academy offers classes in pretty much anything that you can think of. It’s completely free and a great place to learn!

Udacity
Structured classes that have live webinars for you to take a class and ask questions during the class. Complete with homework and quizzes to make sure you are on the right track. Some colleges will even give you credit for these classes at a price that is pennies (some classes cost money) compared to what a university would charge.

Excel Easy
Learn how to use Microsoft Excel. Everything from the basics to advanced programming using VBA (Visual Basic for Applications).

Microsoft Excel Training
Another great Excel training website with lots of great tutorials.