As a part of the CIRM SPARK program, our Outreach Program within the Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai hosted eight local high school students from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds living within the Los Angeles county area. The CIRM SPARK summer interns received 7.5 weeks (~ 30 hours a week) of intensive, hypothesis-driven and mentored research in one of fifteen labs, all focused on the use of stem cells for regenerative medicine therapy and disease modeling. In addition, they spent one day with the ALS clinic staff learning about the inner workings of organizing/running a clinical trial and interacting with patients, visited the Blood Donor Program Facility and various core facilities (comparative medicine and imaging) to learn more about the research process. The students also received lectures from various faculty as an introduction to each tour and topic. Students were required to attend their own labs’ weekly lab meetings and journal clubs (if offered) and in addition the interns met weekly to learn about scientific reading, writing and presentations, as well as stem cell biology and career paths. The students also participated in the larger summer internship program hosted by Cedars-Sinai, where they attended “Knowledge Nosh” luncheons to listen to speakers regarding science/medicine subjects and they presented posters of their summer research at the Cedars-Sinai Research Intern Day, held at the end of summer. Their summer culminated in attending the workshop hosted by CIRM at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, where they had a tour of the campus, listened to speakers and presented their own research through 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, either in science or medicine.