Highly select high school students joining SAES for summer program

The Agricultural Research Program will be hosting a highly select group of high school students from June 29 until July 24: the 20 high school juniors and seniors selected for the 2009 Research Apprentice Program (RAP). Sixteen of the 20 students selected for the 2009 RAP come from North Carolina. Two students from Maryland and one each from Alabama, Virginia and South Carolina fill out the geographic mix. This summer’s RAP students will go home with a taste of college life and a month of scientific guidance that they will receive from working one-on-one with a member of the SAES research faculty. The entire SAES faculty and staff is invited to attend the grand finale for the 2009 RAP on Friday, July 24, when the research apprentices will present overviews of their projects from 9 a.m. to noon at Webb Hall. The RAP students will be making poster presentations and discussing what they learned while working with their SAES mentor scientists.