Get Into High School Research?

For those of you that have done research, how did you get into it?

I am interested in Political Science research, and I have found the credentials of a couple of professors that do research I find interesting, but I am not sure what is the best way to go about doing it. I have never written a formal proposal. I am not sure if it would be better to talk to my counselor/ history teacher ( closest thing I have to a political science teacher)?

In my school there was already a research program. Idk how you do it w/o one.