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24th Annual Wolfram Summer Research Institute

Bentley University, Waltham, MA June 28–July 18, 2026

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Educational Innovation

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Bring foundational thinking into the classroom. Learn Wolfram’s approach to foundational thinking and its deployment in computational language, and develop your own way to bring these ideas into the classroom. Create educational material, build curricula or develop computationally powered educational technology.

This track is a good fit for participants interested in bringing computational thinking into classrooms or learning environments through student-centered projects or tools. Applicants to the Educational Innovation track should be prepared to consider educational practices through the lens of computational thinking. This track emphasizes discussion, collaboration and hands-on exploration over formal lectures, although students will have the chance to develop their Wolfram Language skills throughout the program in order to create educational materials, curricula or technology that help others learn computational thinking.

Schedule Outline

Week 0: Before Summer School:

Week 1: exact dates to be confirmed

  • Basics of implementing projects with the Wolfram Language (lectures)
  • Personal case studies in educational innovation (lectures)
  • Live innovation and coding sessions
  • Mentor pairing and project selection with Stephen Wolfram

Week 2: exact dates to be confirmed

  • Hands-on, in-depth training on Wolfram Language technology development
  • Lectures and discussions on computational thinking and current strategies
  • Guided and solo project time
  • Special-topic lectures (previous topics have included science-based careers, how to pick a research project, how to write a paper and how to start a technology company, as well as outlines of physics, aspects of scientific history and much more)

Week 3: exact dates to be confirmed

  • Guided and solo project time
  • Presentation and Wolfram Community post preparation
  • Final student presentation