Summer Research Opportunities for HS Students

2boysima
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:17:56 +0000

One list of places offering research opportunities for HS students is here:
[Science Training Programs](http://www.societyforscience.org/stp/)

The other option is to look for a mentor on your own. In the Boston area there should be lots of people you could contact. Go on the Physics dept websites for BC, BU, Tufts, Brandeis etc. Look up each of the faculty members. Many of them will have their own web pages where they will list paper’s they’ve written and will describe their current research.

(It would probably be more difficult to get a position at Harvard and MIT, since they both have “formal” programs for HS students, but, you could still try making a connection with a prof. at one of those schools if they’re working on something you’re really interested in.)
Here’s how one Intel finalist from a couple of years ago did it:
[Adam Solomon: A Young Astrophysicist Studies Old Dwarfs: Scientific American](http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=dwarfs-solomon-intel)