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.
Students and parents may feel like having an article published in an academic journal is the ultimate badge of accomplishment after conducting research. This isn’t surprising; who doesn’t like to see their work in print? However, the truth is more complicated. Publishing in reputable journals is very difficult and not accessible for most high school...Read More
As a new Pioneer scholar conducting advanced research with a university professor, asking questions can be nerve-racking. It is hard to admit that you don’t understand something, and many students may fear looking foolish in front of faculty mentors or peers. This shouldn’t hold you back. Not only is it normal not to have all...Read More
One might assume that doing research with a Stanford professor as a high school student increases your chances of getting into Stanford. However, of the more than 30 Pioneer scholars admitted to Stanford in the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 admission cycles, not one worked with a Pioneer faculty mentor from Stanford in the program. How could...Read More
For most Pioneer scholars, the Pioneer research paper represents not only their first time doing authentic research but one of the most in-depth academic projects they have ever undertaken. Research at Pioneer will likely drive you out of your comfort zone––but that is a good thing. Professor Synder, a Pioneer faculty mentor in chemistry, explains,...Read More
“My goal with any type of project or problem solving I do is that it needs some sort of social impact and some form of human motivator to give me a reason to do this right.” Pioneer scholar Hung has liked to make things as long as he can remember. Hung was born in Vietnam,...Read More
The summer before college is an exciting time, although it can definitely be a nerve-wracking one – with new friends, new teachers, and a new home, there are a lot of changes! Pioneer scholar Aishwarya reflects on her summer before college in a blog for Oberlin College, where she is currently a sophomore, discussing what...Read More
Pioneer Academics announces the 27 original research papers that were selected for the 2020 Pioneer Research Journal, an international collection of undergraduate-level research. Published annually, the journal features the most outstanding scholarship generated by the young scholars enrolled in the Pioneer Research Program, the world’s only online research program providing U.S. college credit for exceptional...Read More
Students wishing to participate in an extracurricular academic program may be overwhelmed by choice. While many programs have excellent reputations, each has a different focus and addresses different academic goals. In order to choose which program is the right fit, students must carefully evaluate their own objectives and compare them against what the program offers....Read More
“What’s keeping me going now is that drive to want to know more, or be able to gain knowledge to then figure out what I want to do with that knowledge.” Dance, graphic arts, robotics and neuroscience may sound like an odd mix of interests, but Pioneer Scholar Journey is using them all to get...Read More
Four issues of the News-magazine of the Mathematical Association of America featured Pioneer Scholar’s AI-generated artwork on their covers! Pioneer Scholar Zora Zhang conducted her research on the Annealing Algorithm, a procedure for optimizing mathematical solutions. The artwork was generated by programming the approximation simulation as part of Pioneer’s interdisciplinary study, incorporating both math and...Read More
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