Apply for a paid undegraduate research experience and come work with faculty at George Mason University in Summer 2018.
The primary goal of this inter-disciplinary REU Site program is to expose ten high quality undergraduate students to advanced topics in analytics, data mining, and visualization techniques as applied to data from the education domain. Students will participate in projects with the central theme of improving instructional technology design, enhancing academic curricula and modeling learning experiences.
More details here: https://cs.gmu.edu/~reu/ (Deadline is Feb 15, 2018)