Field trips—including a visit to Saphire Energy and the Body Worlds exhibit at the San Diego Natural History Museum—and weekly lunchtime seminars supplemented the lab experience.
Financial support for the 2009 California high school and teacher internship programs was provided by ACS SEED/Beckman Coulter, Biogen Idec Foundation, Diekman Fellowship, Ellen Browning Scripps Foundation, Hearst Foundation, Legler Benbough Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and Shapiro Fellowship. In addition, Scripps Research and its Board of Trustees, as well as the Scripps Research Paulson, Wilson, and Zorrilla labs provided funding.