High School Students

Stanford University's OFFICE OF SCIENCE OUTREACH (OSO) encourages and assists Stanford faculty to engage in science outreach — organized activities targeted at our nation's youth, school teachers, and general public, that will increase their interest, understanding, and involvement in math, science, and engineering.

The OSO serves faculty throughout the University by assisting them in creating outreach project ideas and proposals, identifying potential partners for them (both within Stanford as well as K-14 schools, science museums, etc), and facilitating information and resource sharing among all of the University's science outreach programs.

In addition, the OSO directs several programs in which Stanford faculty and their students can participate. These include:

• An 8-week summer research program for science students — Stanford Institutes of Medicine Summer Research Program
• A 7-week summer internship program for high school students
• Various science & engineering lecture series for the local public
• Events and programs for undergraduates from other colleges to learn about research in Stanford labs
• Visits to the Stanford campus for K-14 student groups

This summer intern program recruits an ethnically diverse group of 25 high school students from Santa Clara County, CA, and pairs them with scientists and 30 to 35 graduate students and fellows for eight weeks to conduct research in Stanford’s clinical immunology laboratories.

For more information about participating in this program, please see Stanford Institutes of Medicine Summer Research Program.

This innovative biomedical pipeline program recruits 24 low-income high school students from Northern California each summer for a five-week, University-based residential program led by 10 Stanford undergraduate students.

The scientific inquiry-based curriculum includes anatomy practicums (taught by medical students), hospital internships, group research projects, faculty lectures, and college/career guidance.

SMYSP began in 1988 and has strong evaluation outcomes — 99% of its graduates have been admitted to college, and of these, 78% of African American, 81% of Latino, and 82% of Native American participants have earned a 4-year college degree.

For more information, see the Stanford Medical Youth Science Program.

CIRM Creativity Awards: California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Summer Internship

• Multi-week summer stem cell research program at Stanford and the University of California campuses in San Francisco, Davis and Santa Barbara
• Students intern in university labs and work on projects combining stem cell research and other disciplines, such as engineering, chemistry, social sciences and ethics
• The summer internship program admits 18 high school students

Every March, Stanford invites 150 Bay Area high-schoolers to be medical students for a day. At Med School 101, a day-long program held on campus, teens attend sessions — taught by faculty members or graduate students — on a wide variety of medical and scientific topics, such as sleep medicine, genetic testing, medical innovation, and stem cell science.

For more information, contact the Office of Communication & Public Affairs at Stanford University School of Medicine.