Argonne established the Mini Semester program to increase the number of STEM-interested students from underrepresented groups in Argonne's internship programs. "We want to give students the opportunity to connect with the lab's world-class STEM research professionals and see how different STEM areas apply to real-world careers through our internship programs," said Argonne's University Student Program Coordinator Rob Schuch. "The goal of Mini Semester is to help students craft their internship applications and build skills in computational science, so they can hit the ground running in a STEM internship." In December 2020, Ogonor participated in the lab's first Mini Semester program: Computing Across the Sciences. The four-day virtual experience featured sessions with mentors, science computation workshops and internship application seminars. "The computational sciences are cool because you can have a really complex system and find really satisfying answers," he explained.