Youth Engagement through Science (YES!)

Here's an interesting summer opportunity for underrepresented HS students in the DC metro area: http://www.mnh.si.edu/education/yes/index.html

Youth Engagement through Science (YES!), since its inception in 2010, has connected local youth with Smithsonian collections, experts, and training to inspire them to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers. This internship experience provides youth from communities traditionally underrepresented in science careers with the resources needed to help them to achieve their ultimate goal of attending college. During six weeks in the summer, students who participate in YES! work side-by-side with Smithsonian researchers and educators behind the scenes and away from the public areas of the museum. Interns are given the unique opportunity to work in the Museum’s vast research collections – seeing rare objects and specimens including meteorites, mummies and mammoth skulls.

Visit: http://www.mnh.si.edu/education/yes/index.html