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In the sciences, research experience is critical to getting into graduate school. The SMART program helps level the playing field for underserved students who have not had the opportunity to participate in authentic research.

With the help of pocket-sized microcontrollers, the Girls on Fire camp is designed to make programming fun and easy for middle school girls.

More than 40 high school students with strong ties to Colorado's Latino/Chicano communities participated in Aquetza, a CU Engage summer youth education and leadership training program.

CU Boulder's Upward Bound program works with high school students from eight different reservations across the country to prepare them for the college experience.

A number of professionals are part of a collaborative institute on campus that helps participants improve telephone, television, radio and internet services in developing nations.

This week, CU Boulder will welcome 55 Denver high school students for hands-on engineering design experience and the chance for a $2,500 scholarship.

Middle and high school students from Byers, Elizabeth, Kiowa, Hugo, Limon, Burlington, and other regions spent three days at CU Boulder this week as part of a program aimed at giving talented and gifted youth from rural districts a preview of possibilities to come.

The university's Colorado Shakespeare Festival has been awarded $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to perform the works of William Shakespeare for middle- and high-school students.

CU Contemporary Dance Works has strengthened its outreach efforts by establishing residencies and developing long-term plans for partnership in communities underserved by the arts.

Colorado Creative Industries, a government division that encourages economic growth through the arts, has tapped CU Boulder experts to help analyze the program's impact.