If you are a New Jersey resident, currently in your junior year of high school, and love engineering/computers/math/science, you should consider applying to the Governor's School of Engineering and Technology. Please look through the description of the academic program and research projects on this site before you apply and see if the program sounds like something you'd love to do. If so, we hope you'll consider applying!

     Applications for our Summer 2009 program are available HERE. Our application is this document; please also read the memo to nominating committees. Note that your application must be submitted to your county superintendent by November 21st, 2008.

     The Governor's School of Engineering and Technology is offered free of charge for participants. The cost of the program is covered by generous donations from sponsors each summer. The final dates (and length) of this coming summer's program will be announced in January once we have a better sense of how this year's fundraising cycle has gone. As stated in the aforementioned memo to nominating committees, we expect that "the program will accept up to 90 scholars and run from two to four weeks depending on our fundraising success." The program will begin on June 28, 2009 (and thus conclude no later than July 25th). For reference, our 2007 program invited 90 scholars for 4 weeks. Our 2008 program invited 80 scholars for 3 weeks.

     All applicants must be nominated by their high schools. (High schools can nominate one applicant for every 325 members of their junior class. i.e. a school with 100 juniors may nominate 1 student; a school with 400 juniors may nominate 2 students; a school with 645 juniors may nominate 2 students).

     Admission to the program is very competitive. Following a competitive process at each high school in which dozens of students may express interest in attending the program, we generally receive between 300 and 400 applications from these nominees. Of the nominees, who are the best and brightest students at their respective schools, fewer than 25% generally receive offers of admission.