Research at Home: Inspiring Stories from the Society Blog

If you’re looking for project inspiration, delve into this collection of the Society’s blogs featuring Research at Home. Here you will find stories of research projects running free in nature, helping the community, and using everyday materials to build incredible masterpieces.

Dani Prince and her project, a sari cloth water filter for coliform. PHOTO COURTESY OF DANI PRINCE

Student Projects Done at Home

Picture of washing hands

An Invention for Cleaner Hands

The Robot Gardener of the Future

One Middle Schooler’s Invention to Help the Visually Impaired

“Clean Water Matters”: Using Sari Cloth as a Filter

Acai Berries Could transform this wasteland

Threats to Alabama’s Mobile Bay Jubilee: One Student takes a Closer Look
Gabrielle Liu created an algorithm that can be used by AI assistants to detect the risk for verbal and emotional abuse, by studying language.

Preventing Domestic Violence with Smart Technology

Bringing Sustainable Electricity to Africa using Biodegradable Resources

This Woman in STEM Shows Children That Anyone Can be an Inventor

Project Inspiration

It’s Bird-Watching Season: Students have their Binoculars Ready

There’s an App for That: These 4 Alumni are Blazing New Trails with their Amazing Apps

From Sea to Shining Sea: Introducing Black Girls to the World of Marine Science and Diving

For Educators

Linda sent her students all the materials they needed to make the best fried rice at home.

Teacher Notes: Continuing Science Outside the Classroom with Fried Rice
Bill Wallace and Tina Gibson spoke about how to conduct life sciences research at home.

At Virtual Regeneron ISEF, Educators Shared Top Tips for Researching at Home

Scientists at Home

Alum, Demetri Maxim's Stanford commencement was cancelled due to COVID-19.

Experiments in Social Distancing: Lab may be Closed, but One Alum Improvises so he can Continue with Research Plans