PMI/EnvironMentors Summer Research Program for High School Students	2000 Program 1999 Program including access to the group web sites Article in Equad News Fall 1999

Overview PMI and NJ EnvironMentors conducted four-week Materials Science Programs for 20 students selected from the fifty who participate in the NJ EnvironMentors program.  They were highly motivated students from Trenton, Princeton, Lawrence, and Hopewell Valley High Schools. The program was held at PMI and directed by David Reibstein, former PMI Outreach Director.
Staff for  2000:	Lead teacher: Mary Clark, Lower Cape May Regional high School Maureen Quinn, Director, NJ EnvironMentors Four Undergraduate Mentors

Structure of the Program

The students work in four teams of four or five.  Each team is led by an Undergraduate Mentor.

Also guiding each team is a Faculty Advisor, who chooses the topic, helps prepare the Mentor, meets with the team once a week, and responds to students' questions submitted via e-mail.

The program has two major components:

• Investigating a topic in depth  Each team investigates in depth a topic related to the research of a PMI faculty member.  They do this through library and internet research, seminars with the Mentor and the Faculty Consultant, and independent reading.
• Laboratory research  Each team conducts two extended Materials Science inquiry-based laboratory projects, using modules created by Materials World Modules at Northwestern University.

The program culminates with a Symposium in which the teams present both their laboratory research as a poster session and their in-depth topic research orally.

Faculty Advisors

Click here to see The Topics and Faculty.  These are the original topic descriptions; each team narrows their topic to one part of this broad area, and chooses a particular application on which to focus.

Research Projects

Biosensors

The High School Students

The students are selected from the more than fifty who have participated in NJ EnvironMentors. The NJ chapter of this national program matches motivated students from Trenton and Princeton High Schools with adult mentors. Together, they choose a subject with environmental applications, research it over eight months, and exhibit their results at a symposium each Spring.

Last updated November 16, 2000

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