As a part of the CIRM SPARK program, our Outreach Program within the BOG-Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai hosted eight local high school students from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. The CIRM SPARK summer interns received eight weeks (~31 hours per week) of intensive hypothesis-based mentored research in one of fifteen labs, all focused on the use of stem cells for regenerative medicine. In addition they spent one day with the ALS clinic staff learning about the inner workings of organizing/ running a clinical trial, visited our ALS clinic to interact with patients, visited various core facilities (comparative medicine and imaging) to learn more about the research process and will receive lectures from various faculty. In addition to attending their own labs’ weekly journal clubs and lab meetings, the interns met weekly to learn about scientific reading, writing and presentations. They also participated in the larger Cedars-Sinai Intern program, going to “Knowledge Nosh” luncheons to listen to speakers and presented posters of their summer research at Research Intern Day. Their summer culminated in attending the workshop hosted by CIRM in Berkeley where they listened to speakers, gave podium and poster presentations. Our vision is that students will learn the power of Regenerative Medicine and gain experience that will propel them forward to a successful scientific career.