Middle School, High School, and College Students
CSCR provides middle school and high school students with authentic, real world learning and research experiences that are unique to our region, and sparsely available to students throughout our nation.
College students also have a unique opportunity to work with us as Cohasset Wharf Interns.
3 Pathways for Academic Recognition
- Team Research Portfolio
- State of the Harbor public presentation
- STREAM to Sanctuary Certificate of Watershed Stewardship
Team Research Portfolio
In 2022, CSCR and 6 area high schools began exploring ways to provide students with school credit for community-based summer research. Many area high schools now offer various pathways for students to earn high school academic recognition (students should check with their school principal for details).
While each are school may have unique requirements, CSCR has built a basic guideline that individual students and student teams can use to assemble a portfolio of learning for sharing with the appropriate high school academic leaders.
Typically, CSCR and partner schools ask students to meet 50 hours of dedicated research time. (Fifty hours is the time equivalent of one class during one term, or one quarter of the year in a typical block schedule.) Click to access the guide.
State of the Harbor
The State of the Harbor is CSCR’s Signature Community Outreach and Education Event — where our students shine and the community learns. Essentially, it’s a public presentation of the team’s version of the research portfolio.
Each spring, student research teams present their findings to the community and stakeholders.
Our 2024 research was presented on March 27, 2025 at Willcutt Commons (Senior Center) in Cohasset.
In a change of pace, our 2025 research will be presented in the fall of 2025.
Registration for this year’s event can be found here.
If you are not on our mailing list and want information about this year’s event, please contact either Susan Bryant or Jack Buckley: sbryant@ccscr.org; jbuckley@ccscr.org.
2024 State of the Harbor Recording and 2023 Slides of Student Research.
You can read about our 2022 State of the Harbor event in this Patriot Ledger article.
Watch our recorded 2021 State of the Harbor Event and our 2020 State of the Harbor Event.
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Recognition
Click here to jump to our STREAM to Sanctuary program page.