SEEDS: Links > K-12 Research Opportunities

• American Chemical Society Project SEED Program
  Project SEED is designed to encourage economically disadvantaged high school students to pursue career opportunities in the chemical sciences During the summer, students work in the laboratory doing hands-on research guided by a scientist-mentor. Project SEED is for the student from an economically disadvantaged background with an annual family income below $32,000 or does not exceed 200% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines for family size. Exceptions can be made for incomes of up to $44,000, depending on family size and circumstances. Students who have not graduated from high school are eligible for the Summer I program, and those returning for a second summer of research may participate in the Summer II program. Application deadline is February 1.
• Center for Environmental Studies
  CES is an interdisciplinary, environmental research group at Arizona State University. CES focuses on arid land urban growth studies, with the goal of sparking collaborations among a wide spectrum of researchers. The center links the University to the larger community by working with over 30 partners from governmental agencies, industry, the nonprofit sector, and K-12 students and teachers. CES coordinated a large research project called the CAP LTER, houses a nonprofit organization called SCENE, and assists in applied environmental research undertaken by SCERP.
• Ecology Explorer Program
  We have developed and implemented a schoolyard ecology program where students collect data (arthropods, plants, and birds) similar to CAP LTER data, enter results into our database, share data with other schools, and develop hypotheses and experiments to explain their findings. Ecology Explorers encourages teachers and students to learn about their urban environment through engaging in scientific inquiry and linking with the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER) project at ASU’s Center for Environmental Studies.
• New Mexico Student Internship Program
  The Precollege Internship Program at Sandia National Laboratories has a wide variety of challenging and rewarding learning experiences for our nation’s future engineers, scientists, technologists, and business leaders. This program will provide you with the unique opportunity to work with people who are global leaders in their fields. You will receive: a competitive rate of pay, mentoring, professional development opportunities and social events. Apply now.
• Student Career Experience Program (SCEP)
  SCEP is a program that provides experience that is directly related to the student's educational program and career goals. The definition of a student is an individual who is enrolled or accepted for enrollment as a degree (diploma, certificate, etc.) seeking student and is taking at least a half-time academic, vocational, or technical course load in an accredited high school, technical or vocational school, 2 year or 4 year college or university, graduate or professional school.
• Student Conservation Association (SCA) Diversity Internships
  SCA provides high school and college students with meaningful conservation service internships and volunteer opportunities in our National Parks, Forests and other public lands. An SCA Conservation Crew is a tuition-free, month long, co-educational outdoor experience where members complete essential conservation projects as a team in some of the most scenic locations imaginable. Crews consist of six-to-10 high school student interns, and are directed by two highly trained and experienced adult crew leaders. SCA high school crews participate in projects such as trail building and maintenance; the construction of shelters, rock walls, and bridges; habitat and riparian restoration; and invasive species removal. These projects may take place deep in the backcountry, in more accessible parklands, or within well-populated communities.
• Student Educational Employment Program
  The U.S. Office of Personnel Management has consolidated programs into the new Student Educational Employment Program. It's an opportunity to earn money and continue your education, to train with people who manage the day-to-day business of the national Government, and to combine your academic study with on-the-job experience. The Student Educational Employment Program has two components; student temporary employment and student career experience. It is available to all levels of students: high school, vocational and technical, associate degree, baccalaureate degree, graduate degree, and professional degree students. Application deadlines vary.
• Student Intern Program at Casey Trees
  At Casey Trees, paid student internships are offered each summer for high school students. Most work is outdoors caring for young trees, conducting inventories of existing trees, and communicating with residents about the importance of trees to our city, our neighborhoods, and to each one of us. High school interns, all residents of Washington, DC, work in teams led by college students with backgrounds in forestry, landscape architecture, community organizing, or related fields. The students work hard weeding, mulching, and watering trees and must be willing to endure full days of outdoor work, sometimes in rain or high heat. Twelve high school internships are being offered with stipends of $1500 for the 6-week program.
• Student Temporary Employment Program (STEP)
  The Student Educational Employment Program provides Federal employment opportunities to students who are enrolled or accepted for enrollment as degree seeking students taking at least a half-time academic, technical, or vocational course load in an accredited high school, technical, vocational, 2 or 4 year college or university, graduate or professional school.
• The Minority Youth Environmental Training Institute
  The National Hispanic Environmental Council is accepting applications from teens, aged 13-18, to attend its upcoming “Minority Youth Environmental Training Institute”. The institute is an exciting, in-depth, motivational, and highly educational 10 day program to be held in Northern New Mexico in August. Using classroom and outdoor settings, the institute is designed to help create the environment of leaders of tomorrow by introducing, educating, and inspiring youth, especially Hispanics and other minorities, to a range of environmental and natural resource topics. Be sure to apply as soon as possible.