Location
Though it has convened at various locations (including two years, 1990 and 2004, when the program was held concurrently on both coasts - at UC San Diego and The George Washington University in 1989-1991, and Caltech and MIT in 2004), the Institute is most often linked to MIT, where it has been held every summer since 1992, for various reasons including availability of local mentorships (with Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT, and Harvard Medical School all within a few minutes of central campus) and convenience of facilities. The program participants were housed in East Campus through 2003. Since 2004 RSI participants have lived in Simmons Hall.
In the year 2006, a new program, RSI-Fudan, (Chinese name: 未来科学家夏令营) was held at Fudan University in Shanghai, China for Chinese students. Thirty five local students were selected from key high schools to participate in the program, and the staff was composed with previous rickoids and CEE/Fudan affiliates from both the U.S. and China.
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