Broadcom Foundation and Society for Science today announced that Akilan Sankaran, 14, from Albuquerque, New Mexico, won the coveted $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize, the top award in the Broadcom MASTERS®, the nation’s premier science and engineering competition for middle school students. Akilan is the first student with a math project in the competition’s 11-year history to take home the Samueli Foundation Prize.

This year’s Broadcom MASTERS finalists aren’t just STEM whiz kids, they’re also musicians, hikers, knitters and innovators.

For the first time in ISEFs history due to the Covid-19 pandemic the Society for Science honored the more than 1,300 finalists of the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2020 by coming together virtually to celebrate science.

Congratulations to the 2020 Regeneron STS Winners!

The 2021 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair was held virtually due to Covid-19 restrictions. Links to all of the video sessions and ceremonies.

Society for Science and Broadcom Foundation are proud to announce the 30 finalists in the 2020 Broadcom MASTERS® — the nation’s premier STEM competition for middle school students. The finalists competed in the first ever Virtual Broadcom MASTERS from October 16-21, participated in team challenges in addition to being judged on their science research projects.

Enjoy this compilation of articles sure to inspire pursuits in science, engineering and invention! Science News for Students, an award-winning online publication of the Society for Science, produced this special edition thanks to a generous grant from The Lemelson Foundation.

The Top 300 MASTERS are listed in order by Fair ID.