Group photo of the 2025-26 Lemelson Invention Education Ambassadors

Meet the 2025–26 Lemelson Invention Education Ambassadors

A wise man once said, “Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple.”…
https://www.societyforscience.org/blog/lemelson-ambassadors-2025-26/
ISEF 2026 Phoenix - Excellence in Science and Technology Panel

What three leading scientists told the next generation at Regeneron ISEF 2026

At Regeneron ISEF 2026, the Excellence in Science and Technology Panel, presented by Aramco, brought together three leading scientists and…
https://www.societyforscience.org/blog/estp-isef-2026/
Arya Hirsave - Public Day for the finalists of the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge

Society for Science and Thermo Fisher Scientific extend partnership to support premier U.S. middle school STEM research competition

Continuation of the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge will help more students discover STEM and inspire the next generation…
https://www.societyforscience.org/blog/society-for-science-and-thermo-fisher-scientific-extend-partnership/

Finding voice, truth and belonging: A conversation with Stefan Merrill Block

In a candid and personal conversation with the Society for Science community, novelist Stefan Merrill Block, an alum of the…
https://www.societyforscience.org/blog/2026-stefan-merrill-block-conversation/
2026 STS Fireside chat with Ed Thorp.

A man for all markets returns to the Regeneron Science Talent Search

Seventy-five years after receiving a telegram that would change his life, Edward Thorp (STS 1949) returned to the Science Talent…
https://www.societyforscience.org/blog/ed-thorp-sts-2026-conversation/
Finalists from the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge

Five Questions with Peter Fernández Dulay, winner of the 2025 $10,000 DoW STEM Talent Award

At the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (Thermo Fisher JIC), teen scientist, Peter Fernández Dulay of Jacksonville, Florida,…
https://www.societyforscience.org/blog/five-questions-peter-fernandez-dulay-dow-stem-talent-award-jic2025/
Camila Isabel Gonzalez-Thompson, 2025 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award for Health Advancement Award Winner at Thermo Fisher JIC.

Five Questions with Camila González-Thompson, winner of the $10,000 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award for Health Advancement

At the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (Thermo Fisher JIC), the then 14-year-old Camila Isabel González-Thompson of Ponce,…
https://www.societyforscience.org/blog/five-questions-with-camila-gonzalez-thompson-winner-of-the-10000-robert-wood-johnson-foundation-award-for-health-advancement/
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Hope for the future: 2026 Regeneron ISEF finalists research solutions for the mental health crisis

Note: This blog includes references to depression and anxiety, which some readers may find difficult. May is Mental Health Awareness…
https://www.societyforscience.org/blog/2026-mental-health-awareness-month/
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

Hikaru Kuribayashi, 17, receives $100,000 Top Award for his creation of a simulation program to understand complex folding at the…
https://www.societyforscience.org/blog/regeneron-isef-2026-grand-awards/
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

For Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair 2025 top winner, Cory Seelenfreund, understanding how people cooperate isn’t just an abstract…
https://www.societyforscience.org/blog/five-questions-with-cory-seelenfreund-winner-of-the-10000-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!

Phoenix temperatures may be soaring into the triple digits, but so is the excitement as more than 1,700 finalists from…
https://www.societyforscience.org/blog/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

The 76th Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair kicked off this week with a wonderful tradition: the annual pin exchange…
https://www.societyforscience.org/blog/2026-regeneron-isef-annual-pin-exchange-ceremony/