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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This year's top 300 Broadcom MASTERS have many interests, accomplishments and hobbies.

Broadcom MASTERS by the numbers: Get to know this year’s Top 300

Portrait of Anaiah Thomas, who is an EMT and has assisted with CPR and delivering a baby/ Illustrated by Amy Wike

Five questions with Anaiah Thomas, 5th place winner of the 2020 Regeneron Science Talent Search

2020 Broadcom MASTERS Top 300

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

Ray Kurzweil, Cofounder and Chancellor of Singularity University, Director of Engineering at Google

Conversations with Maya: Ray Kurzweil

Jagdeep Bhatia

Five questions with 2nd place winner of the 2020 Regeneron Science Talent Search, Jagdeep Bhatia

As a Society Advocate in 2019-2020, Raj Rajnarayanan created a paid summer internship program.

How one Society Advocate created a summer research program

Seaborg Speaker, Helena Jiang- Virtual STS 2020

STS 2020 Seaborg Award Winner, Helena Jiang, Inspires

Advocate Debbie Morgan and her students in a lab.

Society for Science awards nearly $350,000 to 66 teachers mentoring students from underserved groups in science and engineering research at home

Mary Zhu, Society alum

Experiments in Social Distancing: Society alumna interns at Amazon and runs nonprofit, Develop for Good

Reny Mathew, a science teacher at Greyhills Academy High School in Tuba City, Arizona, has been a part of the Society’s Advocate Program for the past two years.

How one Society Advocate has nurtured American Indian students in science

With tech and accessories in tow, here's how some STS finalist setups looked. Pictured: Ankush Dhawan, Victoria Graf, Caitlin Kunchar and Brian Wu.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the first virtual Regeneron Science Talent Search 2020

Feng Zhang, Core Institute Member at the Broad Institute and Professor at MIT

CRISPR pioneer and STS alumnus on the “joy of doing science”

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