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Society for Science Recognizes Top 300 Middle School Innovators in Nation’s Premier STEM Competition
A new generation of STEM stars—tackling topics from sustainability and artificial intelligence to disease detection—has been named to the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Top 300WASHINGTON, Sept. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Society for Science is proud to announce the Top 300 Junior Innovators in the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (Thermo Fisher JIC)—the nation’s premier science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competition for middle school
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