Special Training to Raise Interest and Prepare for Entry into the Sciences (STRIPES)
The Mission:
To actively involve high potential minority students in science and math learning activities as well as to further extend the pipeline to medical and health science careers.

Leaning Objectives and Curriculum:
STRIPES consist of a four-week summer enrichment session in which students are exposed to an intense abridged math- and science-based curriculum with hands-on activities while increasing their knowledge of healthcare professions, minority health disparities.

The objective of this summer session is to allow students to develop basic health career awareness and to become better prepared academically for high school.
  • Actively involve high potential minority students in science and math learning activities
  • Increase student knowledge of the variety of careers in health care
  • Enhance the students' academic preparation for secondary education
  • Extend the pipeline to health careers

Eligibility:
  • Must be an ethnic/racial minority
  • Mattie T. Blount, John L. LeFlore, C. F. Vigor, Ben C. Rain, and Williamson High Schools rising freshman and rising sophomore students
  • 3.0 grade point average
  • 1 math course
  • 1 science course
  • Plans to attend College
  • Curious about science and health