Science Research Seminar
Congratulations to all the Science Research Symposium Participants! The 2020 Virtual Symposium was a great success.
Click here to see Awards by Category
If you missed the symposium or would like to see other students' presentations, you can check them out HERE
We'd like to give a special shout out to:
- The SRS teachers: Al, Eliza, Kate, Kathy, Paul, Rob, Ryan,
- The amazing Mentors of our SRS Students
- The generous Judges who donated their time
- Ozo Coffee who would have donated delicious coffee
- Moe’s Bagels who would have donated awesome bagels
- And our generous sponsor Wong Orthodontics
If you have any questions about the program, please feel free to email your questions to...
Kate Hoffman, SRS COORDINATOR, LEARNING SERVICES
Boulder Valley School District
6500 Arapahoe, Boulder, 80303
What is SRS?
Program Description, Purpose, and Details:
Boulder Valley’s seven high schools offer this amazing class for students interested in any type of science. The purpose of this class is to provide an opportunity for students to fully participate in research projects in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.
Students either experience several months of working in a lab or science facility with science or technology mentors who provide guidance and supervision as the student pursues his/her research or will choose to work in the high school laboratory closely monitored by the high school teacher.
All students have a regular high school classroom teacher, who maintains communication with the mentors of his or her students.
Professors, undergraduate, graduate students, and post-docs can serve as mentors. This program does not need to take a lot of a mentor's time, as many students can do their own research at their prospective high schools, only contacting mentors for advice in procedure design and analysis of data.
Expectations:
The students prepare a research project poster for the District Science Fair in February, create a powerpoint/google slides presentation which is presented orally at the Boulder Valley Science Symposium in April, and write a scientific abstract and paper.
Typically, students spend 6-10 hours/week working on their research. The amount of time that the mentors spend with the student varies depending on the nature of the project.
During the initial interview, the student, mentor and classroom teacher clearly define what each person is able to contribute during the year. The classroom teacher is expected to make contact with the student weekly, to assure that the student is keeping up with the course work, and meeting the expectations defined during the initial interview.
Science Research Symposium
Science Research Symposium is a PowerPoint presentation competition for students in SRS and affiliated classes. Students prepare a ~10min presentation which they present to a panel of judges as well as members of the community. Students win awards for their performance in their category.
When: April 25, 2020 9am-12pm
Where: New Vista High School, 700 20th St. Boulder, CO. Parking is free in the school lot.
Who: SRS students will be presenting. Mentors, parents, siblings, friends and community members are welcome to attend as well.
Registration:
SRS Paperwork
Parent Acknowledgement/Agreement Form
CU's Minor in Lab Consent Form
Interested in getting your research published? Check out Harvard's "Journal of Emerging Investigators"
Proposal and Presentation Examples
Proposal Examples
Presentation Examples
- Animal and Plant Sciences
- Microbiology
- Behavioral and Social Sciences
- Computer Science/Mathematics
- Environmental Sciences
- Chemistry
- Enginnering
- Physics
- Atmospheric and Space Sciences
- Medicine and Health
- Energy and Transportation
Animal and Plant Sciences
Microbiology
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Computer Science/Mathematics
Environmental Sciences
Chemistry
Enginnering
Parameterizing Meandering Trace Bend Sensor Designs
Design and Fabrication of an Alternative Cooling Solution for High Performance Computing
Artificially Feathered Airfoils and Control Surfaces on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Continued Development of a Perfusion Bioreactor for Cardiac Tissue Engineering
Creating Origami Using Shape-Memory Polymers
ProBoT (Proactive Bundle of Things)
Use of Poly-Aromatic Thiol-Enriched Self-Assembled Monolayers in Selective Catalysis over Platinum
Desirable Abstraction Level of 3D Printed Tactile Picture Books for Children with Visual Impairments
Physics
Atmospheric and Space Sciences
Medicine and Health
Breast milk content and infant health, analyzed as a function of the bilateral seasonality of Gambia
Amph-1 knockdown Aggravates Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s Disease in Caenorhabditis elegans
Developing a Predictive Biomarker for the Progression of Bronchial Dysplasia into Lung Cancer
Effect of shoe mass on athletic performance
LPS-Induced Memory Impairments Following Acute Consumption of a High-Fat Diet
Energy and Transportation
Mentoring
- Are you a scientist interested in mentoring? Please fill out this form to let students know about your research so they can contact you.
- Not available to mentor this year? Complete The "Mentors Unavailable" Form - students, if you contact someone who is not available, please update this form as well.
Students, as you begin your research, please make sure you do the following:
- If you have found a mentor, please fill out this Student-Mentor Placement Form. Also, please make sure you read the Mentoring Welcome Letter and share it with your mentor.
- If you are still looking for a mentor, don't worry, we're here to help.
- Places to find mentors:
- CU Boulder Academic Departments
- LASP
- Space Science Institute
- NCAR
- NIST
- NOAH
- BEFORE CONTACTING MENTORS, please make sure that they are not on any of these lists:
- If you contact someone and they are not available, please let other students know by completing the: Mentors Unavailable" so we don't contact them unnecessarily.