Discuss your goals, values, and reasons for wanting to attend the Research Mentorship Program in UC Santa Barbara.

Discuss your goals, values, and reasons for wanting to attend the Research Mentorship Program in UC Santa Barbara. (500 words)

Program Introduction:
The Research Mentorship Program in UC Santa Barbara is a competitive summer program that engages qualified, high-achieving high school students from all over the world in interdisciplinary, hands-on, university-level research. Students will be paired up with a mentor (graduate student, postdoc, or faculty) and choose a research project from a large list of disciplines offered by the program each year.