A general problem of decrease in interest of high school students for science education in Slovakia is amplified by local-specific ‘phenotypes’ including culturally inherited preference of conformity and discrimination of originality and talent. In this context it is not surprising that Slovak universities are very passive towards talented high school students. This lack of an assertive attitude might eventually lead to a massive exodus of gifted young individuals and the Slovak universities will be left out with average and marginal importance. To avoid this pessimistic outcome, the implementation of a systematic search for talents, their recruitment and motivation, is a necessity. The specific aim of our project is to organize one-week workshops for 10-15 high-school students (15-16 years of age), where they are exposed to several topics of the contemporary genetics, molecular biology and biochemistry. The students are selected for the workshop based on (i) recommendations of their teachers, and (ii) letters of intends they are required to write in order to apply. The selected students are divided into 4 groups (2-3 students per group). The personnel involved in the project prepare four one-day laboratory courses, ranging from functional complementation test through DNA isolation, transformation to analysis of gene expression. Each student performs the experiment with an assistance of the assigned teacher. The students are obliged to write down notes into laboratory notebook and generate conclusions and hypotheses resulting from their experiments. We believe that the workshop represents a powerful tool for attracting young talents into the field of life sciences.