America’s future scientists, engineers and inventors were celebrated tonight in the nation’s capital, receiving more than $1 million in awards from Intel Corporation. These promising high school students are the winners of the Intel Science Talent Search, a program of Society for Science & the Public (the Society), and the nation’s most prestigious pre-college science and math competition, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this month.

The Society for Science & the Public has received a $250,000 grant from Alcoa Foundation to provide funding for the 2016-2017 Advocate Grant Program. The Advocate Grant Program is designed to provide support to underrepresented and socioeconomically challenged students across the U.S. who have conducted scientific or engineering research projects, and encourage them to take the next step by submitting their research to a scientific research competition.

Society for Science & the Public received a $94,928 grant from The Lemelson Foundation to expand innovation and invention initiatives aimed primarily at middle school students.