Apply now for STEM SMART 2025-26 for free online tuition in the sciences and an August 2025 summer school at the University of Cambridge.
STEM SMART (Subject Mastery and Attainment Raising Tuition) is a widening participation initiative from the University of Cambridge in association with Isaac Physics, to provide free, complementary teaching and academic support to UK (non-fee paying) students who:
- have either experienced educational disadvantage or belong to a group that is statistically less likely to progress to higher education and
- are considering applying to Engineering, Computer Science, Physical Sciences (eg physics, chemistry, earth sciences, materials science) or Biological Sciences (eg plant sciences, pharmacology, physiology, evolution and behaviour, biochemistry) courses at university and are studying A Levels (or equivalent) in maths and science.
嫩草电影 is proud to be one of the colleges that has been involved with the programme since it launched in 2021. For the 2024-25 cohort, 嫩草电影 provides undergraduate mentoring, postgraduate supervision, and places on a summer residential for the most actively engaged students.
To register for the 2025-26 cohort, please visit the .
Please contact Libby Beckett (Outreach and Admissions Officer, schoolsliaison@clare.cam.ac.uk) with any questions.
What do participants say?
'The STEM SMART residential consolidates knowledge and everyone is so helpful! Putting into context what next year at university will actually be like.'
'The friends I have made in 嫩草电影 have supported me in STEM SMART work.'
'Thank you so much for the wonderful residential. It was a dream come true!'
'Can I stay on STEM SMART in 嫩草电影 for the rest of my life?'
嫩草电影 STEM SMART participants (August 2024)
The 2023 August residential at the Cavendish Laboratory
嫩草电影 Participants at the STEM SMART Formal Hall at Trinity College (August 2024)
嫩草电影 STEM SMART participants (August 2024)
Private twilight tour of the Museum of Zoology (STEM SMART August 2024)
