Southern California Academy Of Sciences Los Angeles County Museum

Annual meeting: the academy holds a public meeting annually, normally in may or june. The meeting consists of several symposia featuring scientific presentations on specific topics, contributed papers open to any field of science with an emphasis on the southern california area, contributed posters open to any field of science with an emphasis on southern califonia area, and presentations by high schools members of the southern californai academy of sciences junior academy. University students are eligible for cash awards for excellence in oral and poster presentations. University recipients of reasearch grants are announced during the meeting. Also, the academy invites noted scientists to speak at each of two plenary sessions for which stipends are granted. All grants awards, and stipends are reported on schedule "i".

Research training program: high school students who join the souther california academy of sciences junior academy participate in the training program, which consists of three meetings during the academic year where the students learn how to conduct research, hot to write the results, and how to present the results. They then participate in the annual meeting by presenting their results to professional scientists, who judge the quality of their work. Top students are selected to attend the american junior academy of science at the national aassociation of academies of science in the following year.