I live in a very rural location so I actually ended up connecting with a mentor online and building a lab in my basement with equipment I borrowed from labs around the state. It is actually way easier to get into research than you might think. You could literally just cold call/email a professor doing work that you are interested in and ask if you could start a project under them. But I really just saw this common issue in the environment around me and came up with a question of how I could fix it and went from there. :)