A unique opportunity to fuel your intellectual curiosity by diving deep into your chosen field, accelerating your computational thinking and collaborating with the next generation of innovators, researchers and explorers.
Need-based financial aid is available.
Overview
The Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program (WELP) is designed to extend and elevate learning for students who successfully completed either the Wolfram High School Summer Research Program or the Wolfram Summer Research Institute. The program is remote, project based and centered on research and development.
Students enjoy close contact with Wolfram Research employees, meeting with innovators at the company to learn more about the advances Wolfram is making across multiple fields.
For high-school students, the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program: High School (WELP:HS) provides a challenging, nurturing environment where students are encouraged to "fail fast, fail hard, iterate," completing outstanding projects in teams that complement each other's interests.
For undergraduates, the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program: Undergraduate (WELP:U) launches students into independent project work supported by a research group comprised of passionate and energetic peers.
WELP provides the opportunity for students to dive deep into their chosen fields, learn research skills, gain exposure to innovative ideas and technology, and expand their ideas well beyond their school environments.
Faculty
Stephen Wolfram
Chief Project Advisor
Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and Wolfram Language; the author of A New Kind of Science; the originator of the Wolfram Physics Project; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Over the course of more than four decades, he has been a pioneer in the development and application of computational thinking—and has been responsible for many discoveries, inventions and innovations in science, technology and business.
Rory Foulger
Program Director
Rory Foulger is the Precollege Education Programs Manager at Wolfram Research, working mostly with education programs aimed at middle-school, high-school and early college students. Rory serves as the Director of the Wolfram Middle School Summer Camp, the Wolfram High School Summer Research Program and the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program. He has been using Wolfram Language to design educational resources since 2018, creating fun, hands-on guided projects and lesson plans for students.
In addition to his role at Wolfram, Rory is the Director of Barefoot Technology Academy, a project-based high school for gifted and twice-exceptional students. Rory is passionate about designing active learning and project-based learning experiences and aims to inspire young people from all backgrounds to find their feet in STEM.
Eryn Gillam
Academic Director
Eryn joined Wolfram in 2021 as the Technical Team Lead for Public Relations and is now a part of the Precollege Education Programs team. They graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in materials science and engineering, focusing on computational modeling in Wolfram Language. Before becoming a director in 2023, Eryn was a mentor at the Wolfram High School Summer Research Program for four years and has been designing educational opportunities for nearly a decade.
