[4eyes] FW: Summer Research Opportunity

[Matthew Turk]

If any graduate students will be around this summer and would like to mentor a bright high school student for six weeks (June 28 – August 1), please contact Sean Kerr below.

 

                Matthew

 

From: Sean Kerr [mailto:s.kerr at summer.ucsb.edu] 
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2017 10:37 AM
To: Matthew Turk <mturk at cs.ucsb.edu>
Subject: Summer Research Opportunity

 

Dear Dr. Turk:

 

My name is Sean Kerr, Student Advisor for Pre-College Programs at UCSB. We have a very competitive six-week summer program – Research Mentorship Program – that engages high-achieving high school students from all over the world in interdisciplinary, hands-on, university-level research. This year’s acceptance rate is 6.7%, the average GPA of the incoming class is 4.41, and the cohort also includes National AP Scholars.

 

Based on our students’ research interests in Computer Science, the work that your group conducts is ideal for the experience that we are seeking for them. Our goal is to expose these students to a realistic research experience and inspire them to push boundaries in their areas of interest. Our application process is rigorous; we interview each student to ensure that they possess the maturity, academic qualifications, and required skill sets to succeed in a challenging environment. Some of our students have already been exposed to academic research and have strong lab/programming experience (e.g., C/C++, Python, MATLAB, etc.). Based on feedback from previous mentors, our students are very eager, intelligent, and in some cases, perform at an advanced undergraduate level. 

 

We are currently seeking 3 projects from your department. Would you have a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow who would be interested and willing to serve as a mentor for one or two of our students? If so, could you direct them to our website ( <http://www.summer.ucsb.edu/rmp/mentors> www.summer.ucsb.edu/rmp/mentors) and forward my information? We provide a $950 stipend for each student they mentor, as well as a small research supply budget.

 

If you have any questions regarding the qualifications and preparedness of our students, please let me know. If you or your students want to discuss possible projects, I would be happy to forward your information to the program director. Thank you for your time and consideration.

 

Sincerely,

Sean Kerr 

 

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Sean Kerr, M.S.   

Student Advisor, Pre-College Programs

Office of Summer Sessions

University of California 

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-2010

(805) 893 - 7053

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