MOE's Science Mentorship Programmes (SMP) place Secondary 3 and 4 students with mentors at 13 partner programmes to do scientific research. Partners include NUS, NTU and its National Institute of Education, SUTD, DSTA and DSO, I2R, A*STAR's NanoBio Lab, Science Centre Singapore and Nanyang, Republic and Singapore Polytechnics. Students meet their mentor for a 3-hour session each week from February to September, spend two full-time weeks at the partner in the mid-year school holidays, and prepare a scientific paper and poster.