This is the time to write the Westinghouse paper, the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium application, and the all important abstract. Now it is also time to prepare 35 millimeter slides and other presentation graphics. Finally, each senior is expected to attempt to publish his work. This year the student makes four time lines, one for each quarter. The student may elect to gain university credit for the junior-senior summer and for the senior year.
Students work on problems they identify and on hypotheses they develop.
The resourcefulness and imagination shown by students in the identification of practical research problems is truly impressive. Science Research students learn that scientific research often requires a great deal of tedious work, but that the end result can be glorious, namely, the acquisition of new knowledge for which they have shared responsibility. Students come to take enormous pride of ownership in their work. The teacher is the facilitator, and not the supervisor of research. The teacher also helps the student obtain research scientists as mentors, and helps the student identify resources that will be needed for the conduct of research.