Imagine the “Impossible”

The Sci | Art NanoLab is a highly competitive summer program for high school students interested in collaborating with diverse and notable minds to challenge traditional, polarized perspectives of the arts and sciences. This program is open to high school students that are graduating seniors or will be juniors and seniors in the fall. Throughout the 2-week intensive program, students will make connections between cutting edge scientific research, popular culture and contemporary arts. Lab visits, workshops, hands-on experiments, and meetings with world renowned scientists will be balanced with visits to museums, daily movie screenings and meetings with famous contemporary artists who collaborate with scientists. A team of science and art graduate students will lead participants.

Throughout the two weeks, students will be developing presentations of group research projects in which they  imagine the ”impossible”.

Sponsored by UCLA's ART|SCI Center, Department of Design | Media Arts and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) , the Sci|Art Nanolab focuses on multi-disciplinary collaborations exploring the possibilities and implications of scientific and technological innovation.  Running in parallel with the NanoSystems Chemistry and Engineering Research (NanoCER) program at CNSI and the Design | Media Arts Institute  at the Broad Arts Center,  Sci | Art NanoLab students will benefit from  exposure and collaboration with art and science faculty and students participating in this program's team-based interdisciplinary nanoscience research.

Admission to the program is by instructor consent . As part of the application process, applicants will be asked to submit a 500-word essay. Click here to view essay topics. This program is almost full, please apply early to secure a spot, registration will remain open until filled. Although not required, we strongly encourage students to submit a Letter of Recommendation from a teacher or counselor. Recommenders may submit their comments via email to: sciart@cnsi.ucla.edu

Please note, due to the intensity of this program all students are required to stay in campus housing throughout the two week institute.

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