PITTSBURG, Kan. — Isabella Earp is a student at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Overland Park, but two days a week she makes the four-hour round trip to Pittsburg for a unique educational opportunity that offers a chance to help find new clean and renewable energy sources. Along with seven other high school students, she is part of an internship program at the Kansas Polymer Research Center at Pittsburg State University funded by grants through PSU's Polymer Chemistry program, as well as a NASA Kansas Space Grant and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. “I’m in an environmental club in high school and am excited about anything STEM and the ability to continue learning that here,” she said.