 Main activities of SSH are academic studies in highschool and meetings where students present them to other highschools students, teachers, and professors.There are many other activities such as field work, visit to laboratories or museum, and correlation with highschool in other countries as well.A budget for SSH was about 700 million yen (≒7 million dollars) in 2002, but it has been increasing and it was 2.4 billion yen (≒24 million dollars) in 2011.