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🌟 This Giving Tuesday, support the future of Kentucky’s scientific community! 🌟

Your donation this Giving Tuesday will provide travel, accommodations, and registration for our 11 Kentucky High Schoolers selected to present their research at the American Junior Academy of Science (AJAS) conference in Boston, MA this February.

Every gift, big or small, helps us support the scientific leaders of tomorrow and ensure that Kentucky continues to be a hub for innovation and discovery. 🌍 

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Congratulations! The Kentucky Junior Academy of Science has selected these students to represent Kentucky at the 2025 American Junior Academy of Science

Donate here to help send these students to Boston in February 2025
(Dec 3 is #GivingTuesday but you can donate here any time!)

KY District 1
Varshith Kotagiri, Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science, "Developing a novel fluorescent sensor for detecting analytes in an aqueous medium"
Savannah Isaacs, Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science, "Enhancing Photon Detection for Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering at the Electron-Ion Collider"

KY District 2
Aanyaa Arora, Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science, "Investigating the Regulation of Cell Cycle and Shape by the Polarity Proteins and the Mitotic Exit Network in Yeast"
Asa Ashley, Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science, "Relativistic Fermion Dynamics in Noncommutative Space Time: The Fuzzy Dirac Equation"

KY District 3
Arjun Sharma, DuPont Manual High School, "Unveiling anti-inflammatory effects of Neem leaf bioactives: a novel breakthrough for sustainable disease treatment"
Aishwarya Ramasamy, DuPont Manual High School, "Novel, Low-Cost, and Wearable Device for Monitoring Neurological Disorders using Multi-Modal Sensing Technologies"

KY District 4
No 2025 delegates

KY District 5
Ava Blackledge, Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science, "Functional Characterization of a Bacteriophage Gene Product That is Toxic to Mycobacterium smegmatis"
Daniel Thelen, Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science, "Quantitative Analysis of Geochemistry and Flow Dynamics in the Great Onyx Groundwater Basin, Mammoth Cave National Park"



KY District 6
Youngwoo Kim, Model Laboratory School, "The role of K2P channels in cellular membrane potential: the Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz equation approach"

Jaxson Brewer, Craft Academy, "Visualizing Artifact and Structural Distributions across Mayapan's Urban Core"

Sydney Putnam, Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science, "V-type ATPase's role in Drosophila melanogaster air sac primordium development"

Donate here to help send these students to Boston in February 2025

Looking for PAID Undergraduates Summer Research Opportunities ?

Start your search at the KAS website

In Kentucky, you'll find opportunities in biomedical research, ecology, physics, astronomy, or engineering. Broaden your search to find just about any topic. There are even research opportunities for first and second-year students!
Deadlines are approaching in early 2025, so start your research now to find your dream research experience!

We know you give a HOOT about science, so  join your fellow scientists on one of our Committees.
Our Education & Engagement team helps make connections with K-12 Teachers and in the broader community
E&E meets on the 4th Monday  at 10am ET

Our Science Policy team tracks current policy processes at the state level and brings science to decisionmakers, related to issues to like PFAS, public education, nuclear energy, public health, and more.
The Science Policy team meets on the 2nd Wednesday at 12:30pm

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