Table 1.

Summer Programs for High School Students.

Institution	Program
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center	The Case CCC Youth Enjoy Science program engages middle and high school students and high school teachers from the Cleveland Metropolitan and surrounding school districts. The program has three major components: 1) Learn to Beat Cancer engaging middle school students and their families; 2) Research to Beat Cancer engaging high school and undergraduate students and; 3) Teach to Beat Cancer focused on enhancing STEM teaching capacity of high school teachers (Qua, Papp, et al., 2020). This program was supplemented with a near peer mentoring program in which Medical Student Training Program (MSTP) students met weekly with small groups of high school students who were participating in an intensive summer biomedical research immersion program (Qua, Pinkard, et al., 2020).
Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center	The Young Empowered Scientists for Continued Research Engagement program introduces Massachusetts high school and college students from underrepresented populations to cancer research by immersing them in scientific and nursing research environments for 8–12 weeks (Michel et al., 2021).
Diné College and Northern Arizona University	The Navajo Native American Research Center for Health Partnership created the Indigenous Summer Enhancement Program, a 1-week summer training program providing exposure to health careers and mentorship in pursuing public health careers for Native American high school students (Dreifuss et al., 2022).
Huntsman Cancer Institute/University of Utah Health	PathMaker is a residential summer program that nurtures high school or undergraduate trainees from historically underrepresented backgrounds towards a career in cancer research (Lopez et al., 2021).
Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, Indiana University	The Future Scientist Program (FSP), focusing on high school juniors in the Indianapolis Public School district, contains a high percentage of disadvantaged students, provides first-hand research experience in cancer, and allows students to develop long-term professional relationships with faculty mentors (Corson et al., 2021).
Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences	The Rutgers Youth Enjoy Science Program (RUYES) engages high school and undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds in hands-on, mentored cancer research and professional career development activities (Chaudhary, 2022). RUYES also provides curriculum development support to high school science teachers.
University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center	The Chicago EYES (Educators and Youth Enjoy Science) program engages high school and undergraduate youth with established interest in science but perhaps only vague notions of career opportunities in biomedicine and limited access to pertinent guidance and support (Mekinda et al., 2022).
University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center	The Appalachian Career Training in Oncology (ACTION) Program recruits early-career undergraduate and high school students from underrepresented, socioeconomically distressed areas of Appalachian Kentucky for opportunities to participate in cancer research, clinical shadowing, education and career development, and community outreach and engagement activities (Gaines et al., 2021; Parsons et al., 2021). The goal of ACTION is to prepare the next generation of Appalachian Kentucky health care providers, researchers, and education specialists and, through community engagement, increase cancer awareness and literacy levels in the region (Hanley et al., 2022).
University of Maryland Baltimore	This paper highlights the robust pipeline of training supported by University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB) which span middle school through post-graduate education and includes integral summer components (Carey et al., 2022). This report focuses on programs that were implemented exclusively during the summer in conjunction with full-time training programs. The modification of existing training components and creation of novel research and education modules to accommodate an online platform are described.
University of Nebraska Medical Center	The UNMC YES Program is focused on enhancing the diversity of the biomedical workforce by offering hands-on, cancer-related educational activities and opportunities for Native American high school students (Herek et al., 2019).
University of Pittsburgh Medical School Hillman Cancer Center	The UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Summer Academy provides an 8-week cutting edge research and career preparatory experiences to a diverse group of highly motivated high school students (primarily rising juniors and seniors) who are pursuing higher education and careers in STEM fields, especially research and medicine (Dutta-Moscato et al., 2014).