The Herbarium hosted 20 students enrolled in the UMass Summer Pre-College Residential Program course Botanical Breakthroughs: Exploring Biochemical Properties of Plants, June 29-July 12, 2025. During this 2-week course, students explored how plant-based products are used to cure diseases. Students gained hands-on experience collecting, preserving, and identifying plants by collecting plants around the Campus Pond. In the herbarium, after drying their collections they then learned how to make museum quality herbarium voucher specimens. The vouchers were then included as part of their poster session presentation on the plants they were studying. In addition they learned how to seek and find specimens in the herbarium collection.