Workshop #1 · Bay Area
A free one-day research workshop for high school students.
In five hours you will pick a research topic, design a study, and present it to a panel of judges. No experience needed.
- Date
- Sunday, Dec 6, 2026
- Time
- 12:30 – 5:30 PM
- Place
- Bay Area
- Cost
- Free
Who should come
This workshop is designed to kickstart high school students with little to no research experience. Our goal is to take you from zero to a full research topic and design.
- No experience
- Don't know how to start
- Looking to solidfy your foundation
- Looking for research partners
Awards
The day ends with 90-second pitches. A panel picks outstanding presenters to recieve additonal awards/prizes. Expect awards for:
- Best Research DirectionThe most specific, feasible question.
- Strongest 90-Second PitchThe clearest explanation.
- Best OverallJudged as the most promising project as a whole.
Sponsor-backed awards may include research tools, credits, and/or cool prizes.
The five hours
- WelcomeExamples of student research that worked.
- Choosing a topicWhat makes one work, a literature search, then pick yours.
- Designing the studyBaselines, variables, metrics, reproducibility.
- Getting publishedPeer review, preprints, conferences, and what arXiv is.
- ToolsScholar, Zotero, LaTeX, GitHub, datasets, free compute.
- Pitches and awardsWork time to develop research plan, then 90-second pitches.