This year, La Sierra University has decided to expand their traditional Research Emphasis Week to include a High School Humanities Division.  By opening up a category in the competition to include high school students, La Sierra University hopes to encourage and support academic rigor in secondary education while also providing high school students with a space in which to share the results of their hard work.

Students who submit their paper along with all the applicable documentation will be entered into the High School Division competition.  The committee will not score them against the undergraduate students; rather, they will be competing among other high school students’ submissions.