Empowering Mentors, Inspiring Innovators: Society for Science invests $228,000 to support 70 STEM educators mentoring the next generation

Washington D.C.– Society for Science (the Society) has selected 70 extraordinary educators for its 2025–2026 Advocate Program. This program provides…
2025 Advocate Grants announcement - teacher Karen Maninang with students at Harvest Preparatory Academy in Yuma, AZ
Harvest Preparatory Academy in Yuma, AZ

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A middle school student explains their research project during the Society for Science middle school STEM competition

Thermo Fisher Scientific to sponsor nation’s premier middle school STEM competition

Dan Gonzalez is pictured receiving awards for their work developing a video game that can help diagnose mental health issues.

The future of mental health diagnosis could include playing a video game

A Society for Science Advocate observes students doing research in a school lab.

Society for Science awards $274,000 to 84 teachers who will mentor and lead students to independent scientific research and STEM competitions

Elizabeth Proctor with her students

Nearly 4,000 students entered science research competitions, thanks to Advocate Program

Om Guin sits at a computer and turns to smile for the camera

Seventh grader receives Lemelson Early Inventor Award for lung-saving system

Science News Learning

Science News in High Schools is now Science News Learning

A middle schooler’s mission to clean up the world’s water

Image shows a grid of book covers including The Words That Made Us, Hellhound, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality, Paving, Losing the Nobel Prize and Braiding Sweetgrass.

Reading list: summer 2022 reads to spark your imagination

2022 STEM Action Grant recipients

Society for Science announces 45 winners of $176K in STEM Action Grants for their exemplary contributions to society, community and science

Cover and inside page view of Science News Explores, a magazine for kids ages 9 and up to learn about science.

Society for Science launches new magazine for young readers

Teachers collaborate during the Society for Science's Middle School Research Teachers Conference.

Society for Science to host peer-led conference for middle school educators

A street in Harare at dusk, with the blur of traffic passing in the foreground

Making up for lost time: a young innovator reimagines transit in Zimbabwe

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