Young Innovators

Young Innovators

Students around the world are giving young people a home for peer-reviewed science

ByMelanie Ehrenkranz

“A scientist can be anyone of any age with any background.”

Young Innovators

Meet the “most powerful” team in Science Olympiad

ByMaddie Bender

The Troy Science Olympiad team has won 13 national championships, and they’re not stopping anytime soon.

Young Innovators

These Stanford undergrads revived campus life in a completely virtual world

ByMelanie Ehrenkranz

“This has taught us the importance of how much people want to interact.”

Young Innovators

Meet the science fair kids making sunscreen environmentally friendly

BySofia Quaglia

Just lather it on.

Young Innovators

These teens want to solve plastic pollution through gene-editing

ByMaddie Bender

Owen Plourde and Raphaela De Marchi Padovani come up with ideas for a better future.

Young Innovators

Michelle Kunimoto boldly discovers where no one has before

ByMaddie Bender

The 26-year-old has found over 20 exoplanets, and wants others to try their hands at it, too.

young innovators

An EEG for Black people: It came to Arnelle Etienne in a dream

ByMaddie Bender

The young innovator is expanding neuroscience to include people like her.

Young Innovators

Masaki Takeuchi is using A.I. to give a voice to the voiceless

ByMaddie Bender

People who have been robbed of their voice due to cancer can not only speak again, but speak with their own voice, not a robot's.

Science

Young Innovators

ByInverse Staff

Meet the next generation's leading voices in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Innovation

How Kevin Glunt Went From Struggling Student to Sending an A.I. Computer to the ISS

ByMike Brown

"After it launched, I literally threw my phone cheering."

Culture

Jamie Margolin: Teen Activist Is a Leading Voice in the Climate Crisis

BySarah Sloat

Jamie Margolin isn't a future leader. She's leading now.

Science

How a 14-Year-Old Is Building a Yelp for Accessibility in Major Cities

ByEmma Betuel

Alex Knoll's concept app could make getting around easier for people living with a disability.

Science

A Long Island Teen Is Forging a Path to Mars, One Homemade Rocket at a Time

BySarah Sloat

"No one wanted to give me any advice in case I blew up and they were involved."

Science

Madeleine Yang: Detroit Teen Takes Home $100,000 for Work on Flu Vaccine

ByPeter Hess

"My own community in Detroit was particularly hard hit."

Science

An Alabama Teen 3D-Printed a Foot So That a Wounded Marine Could Snowboard

ByDanny Paez

An unlikely duo makes waves.

Innovation

Atlanta Teens Behind Mental Health "Panic Button" Take on Georgia Legislature

ByYasmin Tayag

"Now I'm not just living for more than myself. Now I have to keep on living."