Where are the … Living pioneers? Hidden inventors? Burgeoning innovators?
Where are the … Living pioneers? Hidden inventors? Burgeoning innovators?
The Hidden Prodigy Project (HiPP) is a groundbreaking science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) mentorship and competition designed to empower the next generation of scientific minds.
Our focus is to break barriers and build brilliance for STEM-minded students.
The HiPP program is a STEM talent supporter for middle and high school students passionate about science from disadvantaged backgrounds and underserved, underestimated, and underrepresented communities.
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Access to Hardware and Tech
We provide access to any necessary technology; laptops, calculators and lab equipment
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Mentoring
One-on-one mentoring with leading educators and scientists
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Virtual Lab Time
Work with experts in your field of study
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Events and Fairs
Attend regional and national science fairs with your completed project
Finding the Next Generation of Genius
The Hidden Prodigy Project aims to find and nurture science talent previously excluded. We encourage young women and other burgeoning scientists experiencing cultural and/or socio-economic barriers to join us.
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HiPP, a groundbreaking science mentorship and competition powered by iResearch Foundation and supported by National Geographic, empowers promising young scientists from underserved communities through mentorship, research methods curriculum, and national recognition.
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Innovation in the US would quadruple… ff women, minorities, and children from low-income families became inventors at the same rate as white males from high-income families.
- Rebecca Linke, MIT Sloan School of Management
The lack of representation from lower and middle-income, underrepresented, and underprivileged communities in STEM stymies innovation and scientific exploration. (Abdullah, M., Majid, R. A., Bais, B., Bahri, N. S., & Asillam, M. F., 2018)
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• Educators of promising science students who lack the support and resources to reach their potential
• Educators nominate bright, motivated science scholars who need additional support to participate in completing a research project and to compete in science research competitions
• HiPP nominated students should be in Grades 8 - 11 while working within the HiPP program (HiPP is only accepting U.S. participants at this time)
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• HiPP Applications open July 2024
• HiPP Applications are rolling for 2024-25
• HiPP Acceptance notifications are rolling for 2024-25
“Genuine education equity will be achieved only when schools serving low-income children mirror in number, variety, and access to the options that affluent parents have come to expect for their children.”
— Robert Pondiscio, Author of “How the Other Half Learns”