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.
Community, mentoring, enrichment, acceleration, emotional growth, permission to experiment, are all among the advantages of online education as part of an advanced young learner’s total educational experience. Sam Robvogel and Rob Arena, two senior directors of Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth, reflect on how the increased awareness of online education in the post-COVID...Read More
The First Annual Pioneer Academics Co-Curricular Summit was held on September 30 and October 1, 2022, in celebration of Pioneer’s 10th anniversary as a provider of rigorous online research experiences for high school students from around the world. Currently there is no other forum for educators, parents, and students to engage with distinguished academic programs....Read More
“The quality of being unyielding or inflexible.” “A condition that makes life difficult or challenging or uncomfortable.” These are two definitions of “rigor” that Brian Cooper, Pioneer’s Director of Academic Research and Development, sees as far more positive when applied to academic research than they may appear at face value. “What do strictness and exactness...Read More
“The natural process for creating diamonds,” says Mark Kantrowitz, Director of the Research Science Institute, “starts with high quality raw materials, and applies pressure and heat.” In just the same way, he says, the intensity of the RSI program and the gathering together of so many excellent students is transformative for the participants, “turning them...Read More
Pioneer is proud to be in partnership with excellent organizations that also have youth access to educational opportunities as a key component of their driving missions. Representatives of three such organizations joined this panel discussion: Leslie Sullivan, senior director of higher education at QuestBridge Francisco Tezén, President and CEO of A Better Chance Gregory Manne,...Read More
What is your “beautiful question”? What is a “beautiful” question? These questions are the conclusion, and the point, of this discussion of the importance of questions by Warren Berger, who coined the term “questionologist” to describe his unique work. “The world has some pretty significant challenges ahead of us,” he began. “We’re going to need...Read More
To kick of this multidisciplinary professor panel, Pioneer founder and program director Matthew Jaskol introduced Pioneer founding advisors, Rit Fuller and Tim Elgren, who spoke about their experience as early adopters of the Pioneer Research Program. Mr. Fuller offered a historical perspective, sharing that “Pioneer made a commitment to doing the right thing first, from...Read More
An integral part of the research process is the phase that comes after the researcher has started, but before a researcher actually knows what it is they are researching. This is the focus of Dr. Mulaney’s talk: teaching students how to navigate the uncertainty of what he considers a crucial moment in the cycle of...Read More
To open the session, Michael Parkin, professor of politics and dean of the college of arts and sciences at Oberlin College & Conservatory, presented the following core question: What is the value of conducting rigorous research as a high school student? He then extended this question further, posing: Why would a young person decide to...Read More
“The high school and college years are a period of dramatic growth across all dimensions of the human experience, academically, socially and emotionally,” says Amanda Mitchell, Pioneer’s Associate Director of Community Engagement and Outreach. Pioneer’s goal is to use its cocurricular programs to provide a transformative, deep educational experience for young scholars. Director Matthew Jaskol,...Read More
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