miRcore Research Camps for High School Students

Having successfully run online summer camps during the pandemic, miRcore will hold Summer 2024 camps to pursue the best of both virtual and in-person camps. Our online format will allow nationwide reach and participation. Our in-person camps will provide students opportunities to perform experiments and build friendships with other regional students.

Our camps are available for academically motivated high school students (including incoming freshmen). We emphasize discussion in small groups of five or six campers, each group supported by its own teaching assistant throughout the camp. A unique feature of our camps is that students will be eligible to continue their learning experience with the miRcore Volunteer Program, which meets throughout the school year online and in person (optional). MVP students continue learning about computational biology research, programming, teamwork, community outreach, and leadership (including founding/leading GIDAS club).

Churchill Scholar Karthik R.

I cannot stress enough how much you and miRcore have changed my life, not just by helping me get into UM or into the Koschman lab or this scholarship, but also for exposing me to the field of biological research and personalized medicine. Deciding to take the computational biology camp in 8th grade has been one of the best decisions. Without miRcore or the summer camp, I most definitely would not be in this position today.

Karthik profile

● MVP member 4 years in high school (Vice President of Research, 2 years)
● Helped miRcore programs as a University of Michigan undergraduate
● Helped miRcore programs while in master’s at Cambridge University, UK
● Supporting miRcore while as a medical student at Stanford