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A young boy is smiling at the camera while sitting at green steps.

Making a house a home with energy all year round

A boy with brown hair poses in front of his project board.

Middle schooler offers concrete solutions to limit concrete use, a potential path to lower carbon emissions

Adyant Bhavsar won the 2023 $10,000 Lemelson Award for Invention

Five Questions with Adyant Bhavsar, winner of the $10,000 Lemelson Award for Invention

Image contains headshots of all four invention education ambassadors.

Meet the Society’s Invention Education Ambassadors 

Meredith stands with her project poster at a science fair

This middle schooler is taming the wind with science

Homemade yogurt is scooped from a jar.

This sixth grader is using electrical engineering to crack the code on fermentation

Lehansa poses with her computer and notebook as she works on improving 911 response times using AI.

One eighth grader is using AI to improve 911 response times

Akhil stands in front of his board at a science fair.

A friend’s experience with asthma inspired this eighth grader to create a wearable inhaler for emergency relief on-the-go

Alvaro Villafuerte poses with his TempWatch, a wearable device which can detect risks of heat-related illnesses for its wearer.

Amid rising temperatures, this eighth-grader is taking on the dangers of heat-related illnesses

Middle schooler devises tool to measure non-ionizing radiation from household appliances

Society for Science has named Yolanda Payne, a career educator, as its first Invention Education Fellow, a position created in partnership with The Lemelson Foundation to increase access and awareness of Invention Education and research resources for K-12 audiences.

Society for Science names first Invention Education Fellow

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Five Questions with Jeanelle Dao, winner of the $10,000 Lemelson Award for Invention