<p>Whenever i ask peopel this, eveyrone tells me to email a local professor or medical expert at a college or hospital and ask if i can tag along. But this seems AMAZINGLY awkward to me. Should i just say "hi can i tag along? I'm only a high school sophmore with a 3.5 but i'm sure i can help with your uber advanced phD thesis". Other people i know who do research actually have connections from parents and stuff. </p>
<p>I really want to do research but don't know where to begin...</p>
<p>maybe this will help:</p>
<p>http://*************.com/research/</p>
<p>Does your high school have a research program? If so, you can speak to the advisor who may know of a mentor available, or a program you could apply for.</p>
<p>If not, I would suggest googling to your hearts content. Many universities offer programs for high school students interested in research. Some offer stipends while others want a fee. I would suggest looking into this ASAP since many of the programs have deadlines coming up if they have not passed already.</p>
<p>Additionally, look into local universities near you, and perhaps find a professor there willling to work with you on a project. A lot of researching professors will help students looking to apply to INTEL or Siemens or any other big science e fair.</p>
<p>I've been in research throughout high school, so I hope I've been able to help you some. Feel free to ask any other questions!</p>
<p>the ones with aterisk should be replaced by "scholar holler" with no spaces between them.
This link talk all bout research and even gives you instructions on how to write a such email and everything. I would do this if i were going to contact prof, but i don't have to do it because I've been accepted into a summer reearch program.</p>
<p>well what i would do is identify about 15-20 professors from a local university (since most are likely to say no anyway, lol) and send them an email...like try to take a look at what they are doing and write a couple sentences about your background about the subject (although i completely made up what i said about experience with microbial antibiotic resistance). then attach a resume of some sort, with any science accomplishments highlighyed, and maybe a rec letter from a science/research teacher at your school. odds are, at least 1-2 will say yes out of 10-15 professors, but don't expect or ask for any money...haha</p>