Research Internship for Science and Technology for High School Students

Introduction

      Early exposure to science is an important element of producing world class scientists, engineer, physicians, science teachers, business people, and policy makers. To achieve this goal, Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) and Pakistan Society of Computational Science/Biology (PSCS/PSCB) launched “Research Internship for Science and Technology (RIST)” project and requesting applications from interested faculty members and high school students. This summer Science Research internship will engage students early in their education where they will learn from their mentors how they perform cutting edge research, what inspires them and how to pursue science at college and University.

Joint Venture

Event

     In this event ACM SEECS chapter helped Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) and Pakistan Society of Computational Science/Biology (PSCS/PSCB) to convey their message to maximum amount of students and faculty members. ACM setup an event for that on social media and publicized this message to students. We also sent an official mail to different school/colleges, in order to convey our message to everyone. The time duration fro the promotion of this event was (9th-15th April, 2014).

        ACM put in so much effort in this as we truly support the purpose of RIST, i.e. is to promote science at school level and give high school students hands-on research experience by working on research projects with top class research scientists affiliated with public and private Universities in different parts of Pakistan. We hope that this experience will encourage our students for science and have positive impact on student interest in careers in science disciplines.

          This is the very spirit that ACM supports so we did our best effort to promote this event and we will try our best to do things like this in future as well.