High School Programs

This nine‐week program from June 5 to August 6, 2012 offers a chance to learn, explore, and gain hands‐on experience in a Children’s Hospital Medical Center research laboratory environment for up to 5 minority students each summer. Each BRIMS intern will be paired with a research mentor to pursue a 9-week full time basic science, or clinical biomedical research project during the summer. All interns will give a 5-minute Powerpoint presentation of their research project to the group and will be encouraged to present a poster at the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Capstone poster competition at the end of the program.

In addition to participating in SURF activities, BRIMS interns participate in weekly networking luncheons and shadowing opportunities with minority faculty in several areas of the hospital from surgery to administration. This program is open to high achieving graduating high school seniors and college freshmen from the Cincinnati tri-state area only. Participants may earn up to $2,880 ($8/hr) based on the number of hours they work in the laboratory. The BRIMS program is sponsored by the Charlotte R Schmidlapp Center for Career Development and the Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

The BRIMS program is highly competitive. Students must be an identified minority underrepresented in biomedical science careers: African American, Hispanic, Pacific Islander or American Indian.

This program targets high achieving students as they graduate from high school or finish the first year of college and have taken multiple science courses (rising Freshmen or Sophomores). A formula using high school class rank, GPA, ACT or SAT scores (if available), number of science classes taken, leadership in extracurricular activities and recommendations is used to narrow the applications to 8-10 finalists. From those, the top five will be matched with mentors based on their personal essays and interviews. All applicants must submit a one-page personal essay describing their career goals and what kind of research they are interested in doing at Children’s Hospital Medical Center.