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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Organizations that will have booths at the STEM Experiential Hall.
This year's top 300 Broadcom MASTERS have many interests, accomplishments and hobbies.
Portrait of Anaiah Thomas, who is an EMT and has assisted with CPR and delivering a baby/ Illustrated by Amy Wike
2020 Broadcom MASTERS Top 300
Ray Kurzweil, Cofounder and Chancellor of Singularity University, Director of Engineering at Google
Jagdeep Bhatia
As a Society Advocate in 2019-2020, Raj Rajnarayanan created a paid summer internship program.
Seaborg Speaker, Helena Jiang- Virtual STS 2020
Advocate Debbie Morgan and her students in a lab.
Mary Zhu, Society alum
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.
With tech and accessories in tow, here's how some STS finalist setups looked. Pictured: Ankush Dhawan, Victoria Graf, Caitlin Kunchar and Brian Wu.