Founded in 2012, Pioneer is dedicated to empowering future leaders through intriguing and challenging learning opportunities. Pioneer’s social mission is to transcend cultural, geographic and socioeconomic barriers to educational engagement.
Widely respected, the Pioneer Academics Research Program is the ONLY online research program officially recommended by many of the most prestigious gifted programs in the U.S.
Pioneer has set the highest standards for high school student research and continues to push them higher, holding all admitted scholars accountable for developing original research topics.
Pioneer’s rigor begins with its thorough admission process. Committed to reviewing every single application from a pool of several thousand applicants, the Pioneer admission process takes 6 ~ 8 weeks.
Pioneer Academics’ Research Journal is not about getting students’ work published. It is a showcase of some of the best research conducted across multiple disciplines. Approximately 2% of works are selected through a double-blind review by a multi-disciplinary panel of over 40 faculty.
Pioneer Academics announces the 30 original research papers that were selected for the 2023 Pioneer Research Journal, Volume 10, an international collection of certified undergraduate-level research. Published annually, the journal features the most outstanding scholarship generated by the global scholars enrolled in the Pioneer Research Program, the world’s only fully-accredited online research program providing U.S....Read More
Pioneer Academics has Trailblazed a New Academic Standard Pioneer Academics and Oberlin College & Conservatory jointly announced that, after a comprehensive evaluation conducted by Oberlin’s Education Plans and Policies Committee, the Pioneer Research Program’s credit value will be doubled from two to four college credits. This new level of credit awarded will be valid for...Read More
Pioneer Academics is proud to announce that 131 papers authored by scholars from the 2023 academic year have been nominated for publication in The Pioneer Research Journal, an annual publication showcasing the most outstanding undergraduate-level research and writing generated by the high school students from around the world who participated in this year’s program. ...Read More
Pioneer Academics announces the publication of Volume Nine of The Pioneer Research Journal! This multidisciplinary collection of undergraduate-level research by outstanding high school students from around the world features studies in a wide range of academic disciplines in STEM, the humanities, and the social sciences. We are proud to share the work of these young...Read More
Pioneer Academics gives high school students the chance to conduct original, authentic research with top university professors. This is made possible through Pioneer’s unique academic system. The Pioneer Writing Center is an essential piece of this academic system, as it allows Pioneer scholars to grow as writers and produce a high-caliber final paper. While Pioneer...Read More
Pioneer Academics announces the 28 original research papers that were selected for the 2022 Pioneer Research Journal, Volume 9, an international collection of certified undergraduate-level research. Published annually, the journal features the most outstanding scholarship generated by the young global scholars enrolled in the Pioneer Research Program, the world’s only fully-accredited online research program providing...Read More
In traditional systems of education, students learn established information from textbooks and are assessed on their mastery of this content through exams, essays, and reports. Hands-on experimentation and project-based learning, when it exists, serve only to illustrate foundational concepts in pre-existing knowledge. Authentic research—that is, the creation of new knowledge through the scientific method—is typically...Read More
We are proud of all our Pioneer alumni who will matriculate in university in fall 2023. Their commitment to meeting Pioneer’s rigorous standards for excellence, originality, authenticity, and academic integrity positions them well to succeed not just in university admissions, but also through all their future academic and professional endeavors. Each year, we share the...Read More
Pioneer scholars are often met with new ways of learning as they embark on their research experience. The main learning format, and the one that forms part of the backbone of the Pioneer Academic System, is an approach that emphasizes the asking of questions rather than the seeking of answers. This is often referred to...Read More
When Anxing (China, psychology, 2020), began her research paper on the occupational burnout of long-haul truck drivers in her native country, she could not find any data that was relevant to her paper. So she decided to conduct her own survey that not only gave her first-hand information but also a glimpse of what her...Read More
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