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(L to R) Mary Hoang,
Maplewood-Richmond Heights High School,
Mark Hwang, Parkway North High School, Kaiming Wu,
John Burroughs School and David Yan, Parkway South High School
Six young Chinese students participated in the STARS (Students and Teachers As Research Scientist) Program, and on July 26 received high honors on closing ceremony of the summer research program jointly sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Solutia. In which 30 bright students and nine teachers selected from high schools from all around St. Louis each was given the title of "National Science Foundations Young Scholar" or "National Science Foundations Teaching Scholar".
The National Science Foundations STARS research program is program that provides opportunity for 10th and 11th grade students to pursue scientific research at actually laboratories of Washington University, St. Louis University and University of Missouri at St. Louis for 6 weeks during the summer. There they will accomplish a topic in research of their interest, under the guidance of professors from these three universities. Students who participates in this program are recommended by the teachers from their high schools, and then produces a essay of their individual interest for the board of admission, and finally approved after review by the admission board. Among them are six young Chinese students: Nancy Chang, Mark Hwang from Parkway North High School, Mary Hoang of Maplewood-Richmond Heights High School, Joan Mao from Parkway Central High School, Kaiming Wu from John Burroughs School, and from Parkway South High School, David Yan. Their research topics ranged from Biology, Molecular Biology, Bio-Chemistry and Medicine, etc.
STARS program held, on the afternoon of July 26th, its awarding ceremony in the University of Missouri - St. Louis. Participating in the ceremony are the students and teachers who received the honorary title, research program facilitators, program Mentors/ Professors, parents and family members, around 200 people in all. On the ceremony, each student was awarded the symbolic Lab coat and the STARS pin, along with the NSF & STARS Certificate. Show during the ceremony, was a slide show created by the above mentioned young scholars David Yan, Joan Mao, Kaiming Wu and Nancy Hoang, illustrating the work and experiment in the research labs and organized social events. A presentation of their research project and their findings was also given that day by each student before their peers and teachers.
The STARS program up to today, have been enhancing young minds for the past five years, and numerous bright young students from the St. Louis Chinese Community have participated in it. For example, Lily Peng from Parkway South (2000 STARS, Accepted and attending University of Stanford) and Parkway West's Nancy Ni (2001 STARS, Accepted by Hartford), etc.
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