June 21-July 31, 2010
Science Leadership Institute
The Science Leadership Institute is a three-week, academically rigorous summer program for San Diego high school students in the San Diego Unified and Sweetwater Union school districts. It is funded primarily by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and is created and facilitated by the Hughes Scholars and ScienceBridge programs at UC San Diego.
The summer of 2010 focuses on environmental topics, and will include an integrated lab and lecture covering topics such as global warming, ocean acidification, water conservation policy, and San Diego native ecology. The leadership and project courses will focus on leadership skills the students can take back to their school to help teach others about a series of microbiology labs developed by ScienceBridge for the high school classroom.
High School Students engaged in fun engineering activities such as building rubber band powered planes, dropping eggs, tours of real engineering research and design laboratories, the "CAVE" - a 3D model of a protein that you can stand inside, and a much much more!
As part of the preparation for Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ Science Festival Booth, three scientists at Vertex have adopted Montgomery High School through the “Scientist in Residence” program. Dina Nagib, Katie Golson, and Krista Bellman will further develop Vertex’s booth from last year’s Science Festival EXPO to include a student component. The students from Montgomery High School’s Hughes Scholars Science Club will work alongside the Vertex scientists to educate the public about drug development!