Educational Outreach Program

During the school year, groups of students and their teachers can arrange to visit the Broad Institute. Visits can include: experiments, computer and paper-based activities that relate to current Broad research, tours of the building and facilities, interaction with Broad scientists, discussions of science careers, and visits to the new Broad Institute museum.

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Each summer, the Broad offers paid summer internships to a select group of students, who each work one-on-one with a scientific mentor on a project designed for the student and directly overseen by the mentor. Teachers and administrators from participating Boston/Cambridge area schools can nominate rising seniors, and selection will be based on an online application, transcript, letter of recommendation, and interview. The application process will begin in January each year, and the internships will occur in July and August.

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At announced times during the year, the Broad will host Teacher Forums, where teachers will learn about current research at the Broad, tour the facility, and learn more about opportunities for the students and teachers at their schools. These forums provide the teachers with the opportunity to arrange for subsequent visits for their schools’ teachers and students, and help to design the content of these visits in order to work best with the schools’ needs and curriculum.

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Each semester, a group of approximately fifteen high school students will be invited to the Broad Institute for eight Saturday sessions to work together on a semester-long research project. The students will isolate, characterize, and identify microbes using a combination of microbiology, molecular biology, and genomics techniques.

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