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High school students from Saratoga experience college life |
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Gone are the days when summer vacation meant lounging around on the couch, at the beach or at the mall. Three teens from Saratoga have just returned from six weeks of university-level research, where they got an early taste of college life and confirmed for themselves that science is where they need to be.
Ashley Chou, Divya Gopinath and Shannon Nguyen were participants at the UC-Davis Young Scholars Program, where motivated high school students work alongside graduate students and professors to conduct research. The appeal of the program, the three girls say, was the chance to pursue a topic in an in-depth manner. The program attracted hundreds from around California, but only 40 high school students were accepted. Students ranked their interests and were assigned projects based on their rankings. For the students, a definite highlight of their Davis experience was living in the dorms. While lab took up eight hours of the day, there was always someone to hang out with in the evenings. In addition, there were weekend field trips to locations such as Bodega Bay and Lake Tahoe.
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