The Research Science Institute, sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education and MIT, is an innovative summer program that pairs high school students with Boston-area labs for intensive research internships. Joseph is an alumnus of RSI and taught at the program for many years. Multiple RSI students, including Teddy Katz (2014), Krithika Iyer (2016), Daniel Michael (2016), Michelle Yakubek (2017), and Sarah Chen (2020), have completed interdisciplinary projects with QCL.