14-year-old combines origami and physics to engineer foldable structures for disaster relief shelters; Wins $25,000 top award at Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge

Young innovators recognized with $100K for STEM research advancing science and tackling global challenges Thermo Fisher Scientific and Society for…
The winners of the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge
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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

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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.

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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

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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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Virtual Regeneron Science Talent Search 2020 top award winners

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