"They develop mentor relationships [with the students]," she said.

Each student in the program is required to produce a final project related to the field they studied throughout the semester.

Chau, who worked with the Harvard Community Health Plan project, studied the new facility's floor plans and designed a space for the community center.

Leon, who studied the new Harvard Institute of Medicine facility, built a model and produced architectural drawings of the building.

"A member of the [Institute's building] committee saw the drawings and the model and said it was exceptional quality work for a high school students," Meyer said.

The high quality of the final projects won the students scholarships to the GSD summer Career Discovery Program.

Chau and Leon captured two of the 20 scholarships offered by the program, and have joined a group of 250 students for six weeks of instruction.

They will work in "studio groups" of 10 or 11 students, instructed by recent graduates of the GSD, according to Carol L. Varney, the spokesperson for the career