We want to develop student leaders, build up a strong student membership for crystallography, work on growing and solving crystals for structure-based therapeutics, and share the importance of structural biology and therapeutic drug design with all students.

​

Our strategy:

• Operate in schools and universities where there are students interested in science and where there is basic scientific equipment so that there are people and materials available for operation

​

• Host open events for fellow students, such as workshops and skills-building events, which can be useful to students for their lab and communication skills development, and which can be useful to STARS to attract more students into the club as members

​

• Invite faculty and professors to attend workshops, give lectures, and attend lunches to build and maintain connections for future research or STARS collaborations and to foster student-faculty networks

​

• Host club meetings to share with STARS members the importance of crystallography research and provide them with opportunities to learn and practice related research skills

​

• Develop student leaders who organize outreach events and other initiatives to sustain and pass down the chain of strong leadership for STARS branches

​

• Obtain small pockets of donations to both support the nonprofit and the local branch’s initiatives and spread the word about STARS

​

• Encourage STARS members who were involved in outreach events, club projects, and/or club research directions to attend and present at the annual American Crystallographic Association (ACA) conference so that they can see the full realm of crystallography and become even more inspired and impassioned for crystallography and bring that invigorating energy back to local STARS branches to drive STARS programs in the subsequent school year.

​

• Host annual STARS meetings where all STARS branches come together and share with each other the outreach and research projects they have been working on for the unified effort to share with all students the importance of structural biology and therapeutic drug design.