Boston College High School Rowing

Great way to kick off the season 💪🏻

Congratulations, Kieran!

Last year, Kieran Dunn ‘22 earned first place at the Massachusetts State Science and Engineering Fair. This year he was one of only 81 students worldwide to be named a Research Science Institute (RSI) Scholar at The Center for Excellence in Education (CEE)!

In its 38th year, RSI is an intensive, six-week program sponsored in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that gives students the opportunity to conduct original, cutting-edge science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research.

RSI scholars learn about the careers, achievements, and challenges of STEM through presentations and dialogue in RSI’s Distinguished Guest Lecture Series.

RSI is offered cost-free by CEE to competitively selected top achieving students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Students are selected by CEE’s committee of professional educators and RSI alumni based on high school records, personal essays, standardized test scores, teacher recommendations, research experience, potential for leadership, and honors and awards in math and science. To date, nearly 3,000 high school students - representing every U.S. state and more than 56 nations - have experienced RSI.

The RSI annual summer program consists of one week of theoretical classroom work, followed by four-and-a-half weeks of cutting-edge research under the mentorship of leading scientists, engineers, and researchers in the students’ respective areas of interest. In their final week, students demonstrate their research work through written academic papers and oral presentations to their peers and a panel of judges.