BCT - Boston College Tour

BCT is a new STEM talent pipeline initiative for high school students that provides curated summer campus tours of Harvard, MIT, Boston University, and Northeastern universities.

BCT 2025 will solely occur on Friday, July 11 & Saturday, July 12, 2025 and will coincide with the 12th annual Boston JerkFest food and music festival held at the Harvard University athletic fields adjacent to Harvard Business School and Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

The tours are free but have limited capacity and require online pre-registration. Registration links for each university will be posted below when tour details are finalized. Subscribe to our mailing list by scrolling to the bottom of the home page to be automatically notified. For each tour, all members in your party need to individually register with a parent/guardian registering first.

For those solely interested in a day trip on Friday, July 11 from the NYC area, please consider purchasing coach bus service at $70 per person from our online Store. Email rjones@roboticsturkey.org with any questions.

MIT Tour, Friday July 11, 2025, 9am-12:15pm

MIT Welcome Center, 292 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142

MIT’s mission is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

The MIT tour for high school students and their parents features a 30-minute information session followed by a 1-hour campus tour. For the remaining 90 minutes, students are engaged in a hands-on activity at the Maker Lodge (rising high school 12th grade students) or Edgerton Center (rising high school 9th, 10th or 11th grade students). Meanwhile, parents leisurely tour the MIT Museum with waived admission fees.

From 12:30pm to 1:15pm there will be an optional lunch & talk opportunity for tour participants to informally mingle with and ask questions of MIT alumni and current students. Tour participants can purchase bag lunches from nearby recommended restaurants and then gather at the outdoor area adjacent to the MIT Welcome Center for the lunch & talk.

REGISTRATION LINK FOR MIT TOUR ==> https://forms.gle/qEwpbn9rV4dEJfRRA All members in your party need to individually register with a parent/guardian registering first.

Harvard College Tour, Friday July 11, 2025, 2pm-4pm

Harvard College Admissions Visitor Center at 5 James Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, in the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz House.

Harvard College’s mission is to educate the citizens and citizen-leaders for our society. We do this through our commitment to the transformative power of a liberal arts and sciences education.

For the 45-minute information session, an admissions staff member will be joined by two students concentrating in STEM disciplines at Harvard College. They will cover STEM-specific information on Harvard’s resources, including Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the information session will close with a walk through admissions and financial aid.

The 1-hour campus tour will lead from the Radcliffe Institute to locations in Harvard Yard, and from there to the Science Center Plaza (1 Oxford Street, Cambridge), where guides will speak on specific information on the academic experience and resources available according to their program and the interests of the group.

From 4:30pm to 5:15 pm there will be an optional sip & talk opportunity for tour participants to informally mingle with and ask questions of Harvard alumni and current students. The sip and talk will occur at the Science & Engineering Complex (SEC) at 150 Western Ave, Boston, MA 02134.

REGISTRATION LINK FOR HARVARD COLLEGE TOUR ==> https://forms.gle/QEGL3QuVVp553FZ78 All members in your party need to individually register with a parent/guardian registering first.