As a part of the CIRM SPARK program, our Outreach Program within the Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai hosted eleven high school students from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds living within the Los Angeles county area. The CIRM SPARK summer interns received 7 weeks (40 hours a week) of intensive, hypothesis-driven and mentored research in one of twenty laboratories, all focused on the use of stem cells for regenerative medicine therapy and disease modeling. In addition, they visited the Blood Donor Program Facility, Biomanufacturing 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 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 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 state conference hosted by CIRM and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where they listened to several invited 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.