2024 Synopsys Championship application is now OPEN

Go to the Application Instructions page to get started. Online registration must be completed in one sitting, so gather all the information before you begin: project title and category, sponsor contact information, and student/parent info for each team member.

Reminder: SRC pre-approval is required for projects that involve hazardous chemicals, activities, and devices or regulated substances. It is also required for projects that will test a device or software app on human subjects or those that ask any questions of people invoked with a project (surveys, etc.). If you need SRC/IRB pre-approval you MUST get your application in before November 21, 2023.

Congratulations to Inika Adapala from Stratford Middle School, Sharanya Chudgar from Challenger School-Shawnee, Venice Parnell from The Harker School and Claire Xu from The Harker School who are among the Top 30 Thermo Fisher JIC finalists. See full press release. They are 4 of seventeen students from the Synopsys Championship who were among the Top 300 semi-finalists in the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge. More than 1800 middle school students from across the United States participated in the 2023 competition. Each one of these Top 30 students received a $500 award. The 30 Finalists will compete October 28- Nov 2 by participating in team challenges in addition to being judged on their science research projects.

A question and answer session will be held on Thursday Sept 28 from 4:30-6pm at Santa Clara High School’s FabLab. It is recommended that students, new teachers, as well as sponsors who will supervise a PSP (privately-sponsored project), attend to ask questions and get answers. The slides will give you an overview of how to get started, do’s and don’ts and timelines for the 2024 Synopsys Championship. It is strongly recommended that you review the slides BEFORE coming to the Q n A.

Santa Clara High School (3000 Benton St, Santa Clara, CA 95051)

Congratulations to the Top 300 Thermo Fisher Scientific JIC Semi-finalists. 17 students, 13 projects from the Synopsys Championship are among the Top 300 semi-finalists in the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge competition. More than 1800 middle school students from across the United States participated in the 2023 competition. The Top 30 students (to be announced on Sept 20th) will compete for more than $100,000 in awards and prizes. Finalists will compete virtually October 28 – Nov 2 by participating in team challenges in addition to being judged on their science research projects.

We are excited to introduce a new field for the competition for Grade 6 to 8 only – ‘Food Science/Engineering’. Projects in the new field must not use humans or vertebrate animals. A list of suggested research areas is found at https://science-fair.org/rules-and-registration/project-categories/”

Sign up at https://outreach-foundation.org/teachers/ to receive notices about applying to receive a Science Project Package of STEM items. All items are free of cost and available to teachers at nonprofit organizations, K-12 public schools, school districts, dependent charter schools, independent charter schools with 501(c)(3) public charity status and private non-profit schools with 501(c)(3) public charity status.

The Regeneron Science Talent Search 2023 application is open now until November 8th. In addition to the Intel ISEF and the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge programs, the Society for Science & the Public also owns and produces the Regeneron STS, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious competition for high school seniors.

ISEF, the International Science & Engineering Fair, returned this year with 1600 finalists participating in-person with the sponsorship of Regeneron. Finalists represented 49 states and 63 countries.  Congratulations to all the participants from the Synopsys Championship and to the award winners announced on May 18 (special awards) and May 19 (scientific category awards). ISEF winners from the Championship are listed here.

Special congratulations to Kaitlyn Wang for her ISEF top award, the George D. Yancopoulos Innovator Award, as the finalist who was selected on the basis of outstanding and innovative research, as well as on the potential impact of the work — in the field and on the world at large. Her project in Physics and Astronomy/Astronomy and Cosmology is Discovery of the Smallest Ever Ultra-Short-Period Planet Using Novel Phase Folding Detection System Parallelized on a Cheap GPU.

Open enrollment has begun for the Society’s Science News in High Schools program for the 2023-2024 school year! A free resource for any public school. Enroll your school in Science News

Regeneron and other sponsors are generously funding the participation of nearly 6,000 public high and middle schools in The Society’s Science News Learning program during the 2023 – 2024 school year. Fill out and submit this form to express interest in signing up your school.

Congratulations to our outstanding Santa Clara County students! 130 Synopsys Championship participants qualified to compete virtually at the California State Science & Engineering Fair on April 11th.  Winners were announced online and are posted on the CSEF web site.  SCVSEFA has a summary page of all 71 winning participants from the Synopsys Championship.

Special congratulations to Sharanya Chudgar who was awarded Project of the Year in the Junior Division!