The Young Scholars Senior Summit (YSSS) program is a three-week residential program from July 7 to July 28, 2019 for a group of highly talented, motivated, diverse high school seniors from around the country. Supported by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the YSSS program engages students in high-level learning in areas of their interest. The goal is for students to work on authentic research projects with mentors who are experts in their disciplines.
We are seeking UConn faculty and/or graduate students who would be willing to host YSSS participants in their labs and studios, and work with them on projects in shared areas of interest. The YSSS participants will spend 6-7 hours per day at the mentorship site and may complete additional work in the evenings or on the weekends. Students’ time at the site would be a balance of developing background knowledge and engaging in inquiry and experiments around new questions.
Participants can assist in running trials of ongoing experiments, recording data, developing interpretations and questions, and engaging in other activities relevant to their particular sites. All students are expected to participate in an end-of-program conference, at which they will give presentations on their work and the expertise they have gained by participating in the program.
Stipends of $700.00 per participating YSSS student placed at each site will be provided to mentors or mentorship sites.
For additional information, please contact Lisa Muller at lisa.muller@uconn.edu.
For more information, contact: Lisa Muller at lisa.muller@uconn.edu