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LPS leadership and scientist volunteers had a blast participating in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Family Science Days in DC over President’s Day weekend! Every year, …
by Aliyah Weinstein 
It’s hard to believe that LPS has been operating for 8+ years and yet most members of our leadership team have never met in person due to our geographical spread. …
by Aliyah Weinstein 
With the Letters to a Pre-Scientist network growing every year, it’s exciting to see where our pre-scientists and scientists are coming from! This year, we had nearly 2500 scientists sign …
by Aliyah Weinstein 
by Lucy Madden, CEO Teams of middle school math, science, history, and language arts teachers all over the US are engaging in the best practice of discovering places where their …
by Aliyah Weinstein 
It’s hard to believe that another school year is coming to an end! For Letters to a Pre-Scientist, this was our biggest year yet. We reached over 700 pre-scientists in 9 …
by Aliyah Weinstein 
In a recent survey, less than 25% of scientist pen pals reported LPS increasing their awareness of the challenges of teaching and learning in low-income schools. In addition, many of our scientists …
by Aliyah Weinstein
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Thank you so much to everybody who contributed to our Fall in Love with Science fundraising campaign last month. All together, we were able …
by Aliyah Weinstein 
For the first time this summer, Letters to a Pre-Scientist had more qualified teachers apply to host our program in their classroom than we could take on with the current …
by Aliyah Weinstein 
Benjamin Nelson is an astronomy postdoc and data scientist at Northwestern University. He originally got involved with LPS as a letter writer in late 2015. He had fun with the experience …
by Aliyah Weinstein 
Welcome back to the start of another school year! We’re excited to introduce you to the teachers whose classrooms will be participating in LPS this year, so please click through the …
by Aliyah Weinstein 
Louisa Savereide, one of our Classroom Coordinators, went above and beyond to give the pre-scientists in Bridget Heneghan’s classroom the opportunity to see science in action – and practice being …
by Aliyah Weinstein 
It’s hard to believe that LPS is already moving into its eighth year of inspiring pre-scientists across the United States! To celebrate the occasion, we sat down with founders Macon …
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