What happens when you invite a bunch of high school students and a bunch of college students to do research over the summer in a bunch of biology labs AND you help them blog about the experience? You get amazing stories and great insights collected at Howard Hughes Precollege Program Summer 2007 and Student Research at Duke. Spend some time on both sites and look around. It is really amazing and eye-opening.
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