Society for Science selects 100 educators for the 2026–2027 Advocate Program, investing $326,000 to expand student access to scientific research and science competitions

Key takeaways: Society for Science selected 100 educators for the 2026–2027 Advocate Program. In total, the Advocates will receive $326,000…
Students of 2026–2027 Advocate Alyson Saunders, Dexter Regional High School (Dexter, Maine), receiving instruction on how to make observations using their senses to enrich Pasco sensor data collection in a glacially influenced coastal environment. Diamond Beach, Iceland.
Students of 2026–2027 Advocate Alyson Saunders, Dexter Regional High School (Dexter, Maine), receiving instruction on how to make observations using their senses to enrich Pasco sensor data collection in a glacially influenced coastal environment. Diamond Beach, Iceland. Erin Towns Photography

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Students of 2026–2027 Advocate Alyson Saunders, Dexter Regional High School (Dexter, Maine), receiving instruction on how to make observations using their senses to enrich Pasco sensor data collection in a glacially influenced coastal environment. Diamond Beach, Iceland.

Society for Science selects 100 educators for the 2026–2027 Advocate Program, investing $326,000 to expand student access to scientific research and science competitions

Ronald Brillantes, 2025-2026 Advocate

The ripple effect of investing in STEM educators

From left: Aruna Balasubramanian, Sydney Barta, Vivian Chinoda, Julie Sieg and Sophia Wang are five Society for Science alumni named 2026 Rhodes Scholars

Five Society alumni headed to Oxford this fall as 2026 Rhodes Scholars

Regeneron STS 2026 finalist and alum holding a baby pashmina goat in Ladakh, India.

One Last Summer: How Regeneron STS 2026 finalists are spending the weeks before college

2026 STEM Action Grants - Magic of Science

Society for Science awards $295,000 to 61 organizations bringing STEM to communities across the nation

2026 Intel® Education Outreach Day Feature Image

Arizona students ignite STEM interests at Intel® Education Outreach Day

Connor Hill presents his research

How one student’s math research connects to modern science

Shantanu Guar and Maya Ajmera

How Shantanu Gaur is rethinking obesity treatment with a swallowable balloon

International Moon Day Blog featuring NASA Artemis II Lunar Flyby Image of the Moon

Reaching for the moon: Regeneron ISEF 2026 projects inspired by lunar exploration

Group photo of the 2025-26 Lemelson Invention Education Ambassadors

Meet the 2025–26 Lemelson Invention Education Ambassadors

ISEF 2026 Phoenix - Excellence in Science and Technology Panel

What three leading scientists told the next generation at Regeneron ISEF 2026

Arya Hirsave - Public Day for the finalists of the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge

Society for Science and Thermo Fisher Scientific extend partnership to support premier U.S. middle school STEM research competition

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