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ARC Appalachian STEM Academy at Oak Ridge - High School

Target Audience: 9th-12th Grade Students

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ARC Appalachian STEM Academy at Oak Ridge is a two-week, residential, hands-on institute sponsored by the Appalachian Regional Commission and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Students conduct short-term research projects under the guidance or ORNL and ORAU mentor scientists. The culmination of this experience is a poster session where the groups present their research posters and answer questions from federal and state ARC dignitaries, ORNL and ORAU dignitaries, parents, and friends.

Students attend from a dozen states within the Appalachian region. Team members generally do not know each other initially, but friendships are established over the two-week research experience.

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Impact Areas

Projects

During the 2023 academy, one research team gained hands-on experience in programming microcontrollers to monitor experimental parameters and to control these parameters using feedback loops. Students devised their own unique applications for these approaches and create working devices based on their ideas.

Read more about all 2023 projects

A male high school student participates in a research project during the Appalachian STEM Academy

Contact us

For additional information or if you have questions about the ARC Appalachian STEM Academy at Oak Ridge - High School, please contact ARC-HS@orau.org.