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High School Students Join SU Labs as Summer Research Interns

Monday, July 31, 2017, By Alex Dunbar
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For six weeks, Lucy Lagenberg wasn’t just a rising senior at Fayetteville-Manlius high school—she was a research assistant in Professor Charles Driscoll’s environmental engineering lab in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, using advanced equipment to analyze mercury levels in biological samples collected from Adirondack lakes.

Myles Cherebin

Myles Cherebin from Syracuse’s Nottingham High School programs data extraction tools as a summer intern for the College of Engineering and Computer Science.

“I feel like this is what it is really like to be working. I mean, I am working with people who are doing real research in a laboratory and I am going to be doing some of that on my own,” says Lagenberg.

This summer, Lagenberg and eight other Syracuse-area high school students are working with College of Engineering and Computer Science professors as research interns.

Myles Cherebin from Nottingham High School in Syracuse has been programming data extraction tools and studying privacy on social network sites. He says the opportunity has made him even more confident about studying computer science when he goes to college

“Before I had no coding experience and this is all coding so the exposure is good,” says Cherebin

Professor Reza Zafarani says Myles and fellow intern Somil Aggarwal from Jamesville-DeWitt high school quickly showed they were ready for advanced research concepts.

“They have done excellent things. Things that are not even at the level of undergrad in the first two years, says Zafarani. “They are going so fast, we have updated the program a couple of times. So basically by the time they end this, they have done  research grad students usually do.”

Haley Morgan from Jamesville-DeWitt high school knows she wants to study engineering in college, possibly chemical engineering. This summer she will present her research on chemical reactions involving different metals—based on her work in Professor Jesse Bond’s lab

“I really like getting to design my own experiments and be able to create new ideas. To come here and see what you are doing and to realize—I really do like this and want to do this later in life,” says Morgan.

The summer research internship program for high school students was created thanks to a gift from Syracuse University alumni Tom McCausland ’64 and his wife, Linda, ’65.

Haley Morgan

Haley Morgan from Jamesville-DeWitt High School works in Prof. Jesse Bond’s lab.

In addition to lab work and presenting their research, interns have also had the opportunity to tour the Carrier Dome and get a behind-the-scenes look at the engineering skill required to keep the air-supported roof inflated.

Lagenberg believes the internship has prepared her to step into a higher education research environment—no matter which program she decides to major in.

“I feel like the people here are making a difference in science,” says Lagenberg. “I am getting experience I wouldn’t get elsewhere. I have thought about going into engineering and researching, and it is really cool to get a glimpse of that.”

For information on how you can support the High School Research Internship Program at the College of Engineering and Computer Science, click here.

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