Three LACES Juniors, Cuauhtemoc Rodriguez, David Rodriguez and Chiazom Ezenekwe, have been admitted to UCLA Dept. of Engineering and Applied Science's SMARTS Research Apprentice Program (summer paid internship). UCLA admits about a dozen high school students to their paid internship through the SMARTS program. Congratulations to these fine LACES students!
SMARTS participants engage in a number of activities, including math courses (Introduction to Statistics and AP Calculus Readiness), SAT preparation, research, and college and career planning workshops. A hallmark of SMARTS is the Research Apprentice Program (RAP). Through this unique opportunity, approximately 10 - 15 students are able to add research assistant to their portfolio, as they successfully complete six weeks of research in UCLA labs. Research projects, mentored by graduate students, are conducted in frontier engineering, science and computing areas which range from Nanotechnology to Molecular Genetics. The six-week experience is culminated with a closing ceremony where Research Apprentices formally present their projects to an audience of faculty, staff, parents and their peers.
http://www.ceed.ucla.edu/programs/k-12/smarts/smarts