This summer high school students from around the Bay Area are interning at labs and departments across Stanford. A recent Stanford Report story highlights the type of projects students are working on and how the internships provide them with valuable work experience and the opportunity to discover their passion. From the article:
Palo Alto High School student Catherine Yu [pictured to the right], for example, is interning at the Stanford Blood Center in the immunology and pathology lab. She described her task as gathering data to help her supervisor's research project.
"Every intern is assigned to a supervisor who is working on an experiment, which will hopefully be turned into a paper submitted for a journal," said Yu, who will be a senior in September. "My work consists of separating blood into T cells, monocytes, dendritic cells, and then culturing them together; it's very neat."
Yu said being the only high school student in her lab presents her with a series of challenges.
"It's definitely a different dynamic where they expect you to learn a lot of information at a very fast pace," Yu said. "I have to stay on my toes so I don't fall behind."
Previously: Internships expose local high-schoolers to STEM careers and academic life, Residential learning program offers undergrads a new approach to scientific inquiry, The “transformative experience” of working in a Stanford stem-cell lab and Stanford’s RISE program gives high-schoolers a scientific boost
Photo by L.A. Cicero
