Materials-SPIRE 2025
Materials Summer Program to Inspire, Recruit and Enrich (M-SPIRE) is an annual 2-week summer program for high school and community college students. UCI MRSEC members lead team- and project-based activities and mentor students via a hierarchical mentoring model. M-SPIRE interns get hands-on experience in the fundamentals of materials research – design, synthesis, and characterization – on grand challenge topics studied in the CCAM. M-SPIRE research will inspire and prepare students to pursue four-year programs in materials related disciplines.
Program Dates and Deadlines
Date: July 21 – August 1, 2025
Application Deadline: March 14, 2025, at 11:59:00 PM
Application Requirements
- Complete the application form
- Short Responses: Prompts you will respond to AFTER completing the application form:
- Required: Discuss why you are interested in being a scientist or engineer. What have you done, both in and out of the classroom, that demonstrates your motivation and interest in science? Give specific, recent examples.
- Optional: We acknowledge that every student has had unique life experiences that may not be captured in the above questions. The selection committee is interested in learning more about extenuating circumstances you have encountered throughout your journey.
- Unofficial transcripts, including any unofficial college transcripts if you took college courses in high school (PDF).
- One recommendation (you may have up to two submitted, but only one is required): On this form, you will provide the name(s) and email(s) of the people you have asked to submit a recommendation for you. When you submit your application, emails will be automatically sent to your recommenders to request a recommendation for you, so please be sure to provide accurate contact information.
Note: Limited on-campus housing is available for students who meet the criteria.
For more information, please contact Analia Rao at aerao@uci.edu.