High School Research Opportunities

NorthernMom61
Wed, 06 May 2015 10:29:17 +0000

If you live close to a college or university, sometimes it is a matter of seeking out a researcher in a field that you are interested in and asking about the possibility of doing some type of volunteer internship. Also, if your high school has some type of career practicum opportunities, you might even be able to do this type of activity for high school credit. As far as some of the bigger science competitions, explore whether or not your school has information about the different programs. We learned late in my daughter’s junior year that her school had a JSHS sponsor, and she started a project in the fall of her senior year, and did well in the competition. If she had learned about it earlier in high school she would have been able to do a more in depth project. There are ways to do these types of things, but sometimes you have to be creative, and it is time consuming.