Summer Adventure Research Training

The MIE Project, in coordination with the Department of Science, Technology and Health at UMET, has been developing the Summer Adventure Research Training (SART) since the summer of 1997. It is an intensive summer program, which for four or five weeks trains students from the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades from public and private high schools in short-duration research projects. This program, directed by research professors, has the students as the protagonists of a real adventure in the world of scientific research. Students use the UMET laboratories and learn the basics of the most modern scientific technologies in different fields such as: Biology, Environmental Science, Chemistry, Applied Mathematics, Applied Physics, and Computer Science.

At the end of the period, the students who conducted research participate in a research symposium. Each group presents the results of its project in oral or poster form in this activity. A number of judges composed of research scientists from UMET and other institutions evaluate the quality of the presentations. The students also have the opportunity to evaluate the performance of their mentors during this period.

Many students who have already participated in the Saturday Academy (another of our pre-college programs) have an excellent opportunity to develop their abilities and knowledge already acquired in the area of science and are able to consolidate their dominion of research techniques, analysis of results, and preparation of reports and/or scientific presentations