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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach college in a non-STEM discipline.  Even my undergraduates are not helpful in a research context.  We teach them and prepare them as best we can, but the real research training happens in graduate school.  It's just the nature of my field.[/quote]

The professor that mentored my HS kid was amazing.  Hard science prof and DC had difficult tasks.  It was great and the prof used DCs work in a paper and invited DC back to do more work.[/quote]

how did your kid get this position?[/quote]

See if your HS runs a science research programs and enroll.  Ours did projects on their own first 2 years.  Sophomore year they try to arrange a summer project with a mentor.  The science research teacher has some connections but none were in the field of interest for DC.  DC wrote to dozens and dozens of possible mentors and just one responded positively.   Was a wonderful contact for DC and ready appreciated DCs contribution which was data analysis using R.  DC had to learn this program and learn how to manipulate and analyze some data.[/quote]

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