'Hell Week' for U.S. Teen Scientists
Some of the best and brightest U.S. high school students spend summers preparing to tackle science's biggest challenges
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Last week was "Hell Week" for 14-year-old high school junior Sujay Tyle. "I've gotten 10 hours of sleep over the last 100," he says.
Tyle is studying biophysics at the Research Science Institute, a summer program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where 80 talented high schoolers do cutting-edge research with top scientists in the Boston (Mass.) area. In the last week of the program, the students work nonstop to write comprehensive research reports that cap off the research they have done over the previous five weeks.