![]() “When I started this program three years ago, I could not believe that this program even existed,” said Bolingbrook senior Annabeth Yeung. “It’s the sort of thing I didn’t expect to be able to do while in high school. However, she largely lets her students solve challenges on their own without them needing her assistance, and she is proud of their accomplishments. “It’s hard to remember that these students are just kids, because they’re talking like real STEM professionals,” she said. “With the ESRP, they’re working together to come up with their own STEM questions and experiments, and it’s inspiring.” So one of the valuable things that ESRP teaches is that science can be, and usually is, a team activity.”īolingbrook High School teacher Lois Emde has facilitated Bolingbrook’s participation in the ESRP for the past three years since the school first joined the program. “One of the most critical components of STEM research is teamwork, and we want to help students understand its importance in science,” said Argonne’s Learning Center instructor Kelly Sturner. “Often, when we ask students how they picture scientists and engineers, they imagine them working alone, but that’s not really how it works. For one of these educational programs, the Exemplary Student Research Participation Program (ESRP), Bolingbrook High School has actively participated and created long-lasting partnerships between students, their teacher and the lab’s STEM research community. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is a place where great collaboration happens each day - not only between different areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research, but also with the numerous students involved in the lab’s educational programs. ![]() Editor's note: this article was originally published on Argonne National Laboratory's website. ![]()
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