<p>Getting research as a high school student would indeed be tough, but not impossible. There are 2 ways to approach it.</p>
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<li><p>Going at it by yourself, with perhaps a mentor. A mentor could be one of your high school teachers. Ultimately you come up with your own ‘science project’ (human behavior is a category) and then perform some tests, and then run it through the science fair and/or other competitions. This has the benefit of showing initiative as well as having some real swell payback if you do well. Had I had the time to prepare for the CA state science fair, I could have easily done better than 4th and possibly gotten up to 10 grand. (incomplete submission >_>) There is also intel and other things.</p></li>
<li><p>Find a researcher who would not mind a helping hand. You could contact somebody from a local college, or even a well known one. Many colleges offer summer stipends for people who work in labs over the summer; all you have to do is find a sponsor, which can be done via emails. You could possibly do this out of state. (“I flew 1500 miles to do research at UCLA, for money,” sounds nice doesnt it). There are many programs out there also with this as a theme and it just takes some googling to find. </p></li>
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<p>I just found:
<a href=“Summer Engineering Academy”>http://www.seas.upenn.edu/saast/Tech_dem.html</a></p>
<p>its humanities with a mudd kick to it.</p>
<p>Application Deadline: Thursday, March 29th, 2007. btw</p>