15-year-old Designs Low-Cost Device to Monitor Airborne Bacteria in the Environment; Wins $25,000 Top Award at the 2026 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge

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Broadcom MASTERS announces the Top 300 middle school innovators in national STEM competition

Designing ventilators and gamifying vaccines, this ISEF alum is pushing back against COVID-19 in Brazil

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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

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

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

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

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Science News in High Schools is now Science News Learning

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

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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

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