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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is interested in trying to publish an article in a Science Journal.   She has no idea where to start.    Does anyone have any experience with this and wouldn't mind sharing.    Her father and I are not Stem savvy and have no knowledge in this area.   Thanks for your help.[/quote]

I knew people who did real research while they were in high school. I don’t know for sure if they got published while they were in high school. My impression. Is think this is how a high school kid makes that happen:

1. The kid is genuinely reads-dictionaries-and-almanacs-for-fun smart, and reads research papers in a chosen field online for fun. You’re not managing the kid’s education; the kid is a 40-year-old researchers in a kid’s body and already knows everything about college admissions. Given that this is the age of the Internet, kid is roughly as well-read, in terms of non-paywalled papers, as a burned-out professor in that field, and already corresponds with researchers on whatever forum the researchers use in place of Reddit. Or, through Reddit.

2. The kid goes to a college-level class or research program aimed at very bright high school students and ends up being a star worker in a great lab. Example: the University of Iowa used to have a program like that.

3. The professor in charge of the lab, who’s a big deal him or herself, notices the kid is very smart, is supportive, and helps the kid figure out the process of getting a paper published in a minor peer-reviewed journal.

I think the way to start is to look to see whether your daughter is reading research papers in a specific field for fun. If so, does she see any papers that were done by researchers at universities with summer research programs for high school students? If so, maybe she could see if any of those programs would be willing to try to place her in the lab of a researcher who’s doing papers she already reads for fun.

Or, maybe she could post queries on the research forums she’s on and see if anyone there can help. If she already looks like a grad student online, maybe someone she knows from a web forum will help her out.

If she’s a regular smart kid and doesn’t look like a grad student online, maybe she’s better off just going with the high school student summer research workshop flow.

For that, here’s a guide to start with:

[url]https://www.thoughtco.com/summer-science-programs-high-school-students-788422[/url]

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