Research Experience in High School

Hello

Certain programs that I wish to apply to strongly recommend at least some research experience in high school. Due to the fact that I am only in high school and have no experience/background knowledge, I am not having any luck finding a research opportunity. To those who have been able to find some sort of lab position, how? And what, exactly, do you do in the lab if you have little to no background knowledge? Do you simply observe?

Thank you

@neophite has some pretty good advice about this.