Check out our new video, “Behind the Scenes: A Tour of Penn’s Institute for RNA Innovation.” Get a firsthand look at the Weissman lab with Dr. Edward “Ted” Kreider and learn about this technology directly from a scientist working in this lab.

Learn about scientific discoveries or inventions that were not the original goal or expected outcome of the scientific effort at the time. As students learn about how science works, they can be engaged by examples of how science can take researchers down a completely different path than originally intended.

During the past several years of holding this essay contest, we have witnessed how educators have leveraged the contest to meet some of these goals. So, as a new school year begins, we wanted to share what we have seen and heard from teachers like you.

Human activity, for better or worse, has had a massive effect on the world around us.

There are people who love science, and others who struggle with it – perhaps they don’t enjoy memorizing facts or doing lab work. But, for some, the struggles are different. Sometimes the struggle is related to individual disabilities.