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

Young innovators awarded more than $100,000 for research on dementia-related proteins, alternatives to agricultural plastics and wildfire prevention Key Takeaways:…
2026: The top five Thermo Fisher JIC winners pose onstage with their awards.
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The Top 3 Grand Award Winners ISEF 2026, Phoenix: (L-R) Nikola Veselinov, 17, of Sofia, Bulgaria, Hikaru Kuribayashi, 17, of Sapporo, Japan, and Lakshmi Agrawal, 18, of Bellevue, Washington

Next generation of scientific leaders awarded more than $7 Million at the 2026 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair

ISEF 2025: Cory Seelenfreund, 17, of New Rochelle, New York, received the $10,000 Peggy Scripps Award for Science Communication for his study of the relevance of memory in the Prisoner’s Dilemma.

Five Questions with Cory Seelenfreund, winner of the 2025 Peggy Scripps Award for Science Communication

Host Barb Baker on stage with ISEF finalists, Regeneron ISEF 2026 during the Opening Ceremony, Phoenix

Regeneron ISEF is heating up in Phoenix!

2026 Regeneron Pin Exchange in Phoenix, Arizona.

Let’s put a pin in this! Regeneron ISEF finalists at the annual Pin Exchange Ceremony

ISEF Sponsors 2026

Meet the Regeneron ISEF 2026 sponsors

ISEF 2025: Benjamin Davis, $75,000 Regeneron Young Scientist Award

Five Questions with Benjamin Davis, winner of the $75,000 Regeneron Young Scientist Award at Regeneron ISEF 2025

2026 Regeneron STS finalists at Janelia Research Campus during finals week.

Holding a piece of the moon: Regeneron STS finalists explore D.C.’s scientific institutions

A group of Regeneron STS finalists sit side by side, singing karaoke

Finalists’ favorite moments from Regeneron STS 2026

ISEF 2025: Adam Kovalčík, first place $100,000 George D. Yancopoulos Innovator Award

Five Questions with Adam Kovalčík, the top winner of Regeneron ISEF 2025

2026 Earth Day Blog Post featuring our STEM Action Grantees. In the image, Friends of Ballona Wetlands with students using binoculars to look at landscape.

Protecting our planet: Organizations showing up for Earth Day, every day

The 2026 STEM Research Grants

Educators across the U.S. receive $110,000 in STEM Research Grants to bring DNA analysis, solar engineering and environmental research to classrooms

Top winner of the Thermo Fisher JIC 2025, Miles Wu

Five Questions with Miles Wu, the top winner of the 2025 Thermo Fisher JIC

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