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The MIT Educational Studies Program (ESP) is a student-run organization known for operating educational programs for the community. The largest of these being Splash.

= History = The MIT Educational Studies Program was established in 1957; in that same year, it started running the Summer Studies Program (SSP), known as the High School Studies Program (HSSP) from 1967. SSP originally provided college freshman level classes in more traditionally academic subjects like math and science. By 1969, HSSP grew to attract over 1300 students and 130 instructors, with diverse topics like Iverson Language.

Their "largest annual teaching and learning extravaganza", Splash, first ran in 1988 with over 130 students, 22 teachers, and classes in topics like the biology of the AIDS virus and vector manipulation. By 2008, these numbers grew to over 2000 students, 300 teachers, and 400 classes.

In 2007, MIT ESP alumni founded Learning Unlimited, a nonprofit organization whose goal is to "make educational opportunities more readily available for all students." Since then, Learning Unlimited has supported the creation of Splash programs at other colleges like Yale, and Stanford.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, programs since Summer HSSP 2020 to Summer HSSP 2022 were moved to a virtual format, including Splash 2020. Their first fully in-person program was Splash 2022, running from November 19 to November 20, 2022

Retired Programs
Throughout its years of operation, ESP has launched several programs that are no longer active:


 * Junction was an intense non-residential summer program, with students going to the MIT Campus every weekend. Students would submit a proposal for an independent study project and they would be assigned mentors to guide them. It was last run on Summer 2017.


 * In 1994, ESP launched a new residential summer program, MESH, a summer program where high school students learned and taught a variety of AP-level courses. It was short-lived, only being ran until 1998.