Research Opportunities Database for High School Students

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This is a three-week mentored program designed to increase the exposure of high school students (15 to 18 years of age) to research methods. The instructor is a member of the UCI School of Medicine faculty with coaches selected from UCI undergraduates or postgraduates majoring in areas related to biomedical research. All the activities will be held online, and the schedule is flexible to allow students work on assignments at their own pace. The students will get instruction via email, zoom meetings and/or podcast on how to complete the projects. The student, if accepted, can submit an abstract to a national meeting where the student’s name will be listed as a co-author .

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Biodiversity loss due to human induced changes to the environment is having a significant impact on ecosystems and ecosystem services that humans rely on. In addition, over the past few hundred years, humans have increased species extinction rates by as much as 1,000 times rates that were typical over Earth’s history.

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What if people could harness innovation and communities to improve the environment? In this course, you become a citizen scientist, equipped to do research and communicate your findings in a way that helps foster change. Learn climate change on a global scale and how this impacts your community. Discover your households’ carbon footprint and what you can do to lessen its impact. Understand the history of the environmental movement, the Paris Agreement and America’s role in climate science.

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"The Future Scholar Programme is an online 2-5 student research-focused programme taught by current teaching faculty members at the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and select Ivy League universities. This Summer we will be offering 70+ unique research courses in STEM, Business, Social Sciences, and the Humanities."

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This is designed to prepare students for careers and advanced education in business innovation, entrepreneurship, and management with a solid grounding in fundamentals. While learning about topics of business innovation, design, venture financing, and growth strategy, students will gain the knowledge necessary to build an innovative business proposal and gain economic acumen.

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This co-ed program is open to U.S. and International students entering grades 10th-12th in Fall 2023 and recent graduates. Residential type. Intended for rising high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors seriously considering engineering as their career choice, this residential program is designed to give in-depth experiences in engineering majors. Each day students will learn about a significant and spend time with an engineering faculty member, a graduate student. An undergraduate student engaged in a short lecture, demonstrations, hands-on activities, team-based problem-solving, and tours.

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Our curriculum is designed to challenge you to participate and interact with your fellow students and the historical sites we visit. The experiential curriculum is built around four components: (1) Case Method Institute history cases; (2) parliamentary debates; (3) a speaker series and (4) visits to the defining sites of American history. four-week residential summer program.

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This program offers a distinct blend of a coding boot camp, lab tours, and UCLA coursework tailored for high school students interested in computer science and related fields. Students will be taught how to utilize computers as instruments for creative problem-solving and exploration by designing and implementing computer programs. The curriculum covers fundamental concepts such as data types (integers, strings, and lists), control structures (including conditionals and loops), and functional decomposition.

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At Gettysburg College's summer camp, high school students can expect to be fully immersed in a learning environment that is both welcoming and historic. Each program is overseen by subject-matter experts, including Gettysburg College faculty, staff, and students, and topics for the 2023 programs include psychology, creative writing, civic engagement, 3D printing, and Civil War studies.

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The Applications of Nanoscience Summer Institute is designed for high school students with a background in chemistry and a desire to learn the basics of pursuing a viable, scientifically-sound technology and bringing it to market. During this two-week program, students have the unique opportunity to explore questions similar to those currently investigated by the scientific community. The program involves the combination of vigorous scientific methodologies and techniques with business projects that are both fun and exciting. At the end of this course, students will demonstrate their newfound knowledge by working on a team project to experience the process of team research and pitching a business and a product to technology investors.