It provides an opportunity for under-privileged high school aged students throughout to world succeed academically as well as in all other aspects of their lives.
[citation needed] The Program has three components: Students and research projects; seminars and training; and local, regional and national professional conferences and community science street fairs.
Family involvement and post-program follow-up provide students with support to plan their futures and mediate the transitions—academic, emotional, and social—to college and post-academic pursuits.
These students enter the program at the beginning of the summer with an orientation, and spend about eight 25-hour weeks starting their research and some receive training in lab techniques and safety.
During the academic year, a fraction of the participating students put in 12–24 hours each month at their internship sites and attend weekly seminars when made available.