Summit STEM Fellowship Virtual Summer Program

The Summit STEM Fellowship is for rising 9th-12th grade students around the world. As a Summit STEM Fellow, students learn from top mentors at Harvard, Stanford, and MIT and explore diverse opportunities and career pathways in STEM. The fellowship is a 10-15 hour weekly commitment, allowing students to virtually participate alongside summer activities. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and students are encouraged to apply as early as possible. Deadline is April 15. Financial aid is available. To learn more and apply, please visit www.summitstemfellowship.org. For any questions, please email info@summitstemfellowship.org. 

Congratulations to Minghao Zou, from Santa Clara, CA for winning 8th Place. Forty finalists, including six (6) students from California, participated in the finals week competition of Regeneron STS March 6 – 12, 2025. Regeneron STS is the nation’s oldest science and mathematics competition for high school seniors. The competition was in-person this year, culminating ina public Exhibition of projects on March 9th and a formal awards ceremony on March 12th.

Congratulations to all the students who participated in the 2025 Synopsys Championship! A special thank you to our sponsors, teachers, and amazing volunteers for making the event a success. Stay tuned for the winners’ list!

Be sure you bring the following Forms on March 12th Check-In Day:

• Project abstract (1 copy)
• Compliance-Checklist
• Project Notebook (optional for Middle School); hard copy, printed, or digital.
• Form 1B from your application
• Signed Assistance Disclosure Form
• Signed Ethics Statement
• Form 3 Risk Assessment Form (if your project requires it)
• Form 1C Regulated Research Institutional / Industrial Setting Form (if your project requires it)
• Form 7 Continuation Projects Form (if your project requires it)
• Form 4 Human Participants Form from your application (if your project requires it)
• Signed Human Informed Consent Forms (if your project requires them) (Fair Check-In Day ONLY) 
• Forms 6A and 6B from your application (if your project requires it)
• DO NOT BRING Forms 1, 1A, 2, 5A, 5B and Research Plan. They are NOT required at Check-In on March 12th.

Students should do a final check of their Judging Folders before judges start to review them. (1) Don’t use subfolders, don’t use Shortcuts; (2) Use PDF documents and eliminate duplicates in other formats. (3) The Project Abstract should include your project code, title, name(s) and the link (those don’t count against the 250-word limit). (4) File names should include the project code. (5) Form 1C for RRI projects and Form 7 for Continuation projects should be included, but no other forms should be copied over from your Forms Folder.

The Assistance Disclosure Form must be signed and turned in on Fair Check-In Day, Wednesday, March 12th. Both the student and parent must review and sign. It is included in our Checklist of Printed Materials for Fair Check-In Day.

If the form is not signed by both the student and parent and turned in on Day 1 (March 12th) along with all the other required forms, the student badge, which is necessary for entry to the competition on March 13, will not be given to the student (or teacher).

This must be completed prior to check in (Group Check-In teachers are required to bring this completed form for each individual student). This form can be downloaded by clicking the link above or by visiting our website. 

Upload your project abstract to your Judging Folder, by 11:59pm tonight! Projects without an abstract will be withdrawn from the Championship. You must also upload Form 1C if you have an RRI project and Form 7 if you have a continuation project. No other forms belong in your Judging Folder. You will continue to have access to your Judging Folder to revise your abstract until March 6th, 11:59 PM.  Don’t use subfolders, don’t use Shortcuts. Use PDF documents only and eliminate duplicates in other formats.

Upload your project abstract to your Judging Folder (not your Forms Folder), by 11:59pm on March 3rd. Projects with no abstract will be withdrawn from the Championship. You must also upload Form 1C if you have an RRI project and Form 7 if you have a continuation project. No other forms belong in your Judging Folder. You will continue to have access to your Judging Folder to revise your abstract until March 6th, 11:59 PM.  Don’t use subfolders, don’t use Shortcuts. Use PDF documents only and eliminate duplicates in other formats.

Students now have access to their Judging Folders. Check your email! Contact the Fair Administrators to request access if you can not access the folder via your Project Page; please include your project code. You may use the link on your Project Page and follow the newly posted Step 7 through Step 10 for instructions.  Links were sent to the email address you used when you registered. Deadline to upload your Abstract is March 3 at 11:59pm. Projects without abstracts will be withdrawn. We highly encourage students to upload their Abstracts (interactive PDF here) sooner rather than later.

Individual Judging Folders will be made available – via everyone’s individual Project Page –around Feb 24th. Then you may use the links on your Project Page and follow the newly posted Step 7 through Step 10 for instructions. Links will be sent to the address you used when you registered. 

Students may need to request Editor access to their Judging Folders in order to upload new or revised project materials after March 6th. Contact the Fair Administrators to request access; please include your project code.  

Every Judging Folder needs at least the Project Abstract, some projects require additional forms: 

• Project abstract (interactive PDF or Word document). Download, complete and save as a PDF. 
• Form 1C: Regulated Research Institutional / Industrial Setting Form. High School students with a professional mentor (RRI projects) must upload Form 1C, which is completed after the research is done.
• Form 7: Continuation Projects Form.