The 1995 Pennsylvania Governor's
School For The Sciences

The Mellon College of Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA


Dr. Peter Berget, Director

General Information

The Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences (PGSS) first opened at Carnegie Mellon University in the summer of 1982. This rigorous five-week summer program was established to provide talented Pennsylvania high school students with enrichment experiences in the sciences and mathematics and to encourage them to pursue careers in science and technology. Every year, hundreds of students from all over the Commonwealth apply for admission to the Governor's School. Of these, 90 students are chosen to attend. These students are top academic achievers at their schools, and many have attained combined SAT scores in excess of 1400. All students who are selected for admission to the PGSS receive a stipend from the Commonwealth which pays for their tuition, room, and board at Carnegie Mellon.

While attending the Governor's School, all students live on campus in a Carnegie Mellon dormitory and take specially designed lecture courses in biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, and physics. In addition, students are expected to participate in laboratory courses of their own choosing in biology, chemistry, physics, or computer science and to engage in team research projects in one of the five major discipline areas. Finally, they also have opportunities to take elective courses, go on field trips, attend guest lectures and participate in seminars on college selection.

This is the first year that the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences has published information about its programs and its students on the World Wide Web. Throughout the month of July, PGSS students will continually be adding new information about themselves and their research projects to the documents listed below. The students and staff of the Governor's School, encourage you to browse through our pages so that you can meet us and become acquainted with the exciting work we are doing!

PGSS Course Information

Please follow the links below to obtain detailed information about all of the courses offered at the 1995 Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences:

Other Important Information !

Explore the pages listed below to discover in-depth information about this summer's scholars and their research work at the PGSS !
This Home Page and all other "main documents" located on the PGSS Web Server were produced for the 1995 Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences by Captain Arachnid, Inc. .