2022 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
The Hotchkiss School
University:
Claremont McKenna College
Pioneer Semester:
2022
Pioneer Research Topic:
China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Pakistan and Kenya: A Narrative Study
2022 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
African Leadership Academy
University:
Columbia University
Pioneer Semester:
2022
Pioneer Research Topic:
The Ultimate Sacrifice: The Symbolic Significance of Self-Immolation in Political Protest
2022 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Monta Vista High School
University:
Cornell University
Pioneer Semester:
2022
Pioneer Research Topic:
A Review of Autoencoders for Detecting SYN FLoods and Network Intrusion Attacks in IoT Devices
2022 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Technology High School
University:
Harvard University
Pioneer Semester:
2022
Pioneer Research Topic:
Inflammation as a Root Cause for Multiple Neuropathological Disorders: A Deeper Look into Glioblastoma-Multiforme, Dementia, Alzheimer’s & Vascular Disease
2022 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Donald M Payne Sr School of Technology
University:
Williams College
Pioneer Semester:
2022
Pioneer Research Topic:
Social Class, Isolation, and Proximity to Whiteness: An Examination of the Portrayals of Black Lesbians in the Media
2022 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Dunman High School
University:
Duke University
Pioneer Semester:
2022
Pioneer Research Topic:
Competing Pathways of Nationalism in the Chinese Civil War
2022 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Liger Leadership Academy
University:
Dartmouth College
Pioneer Semester:
2022
Pioneer Research Topic:
The Influence of Injunctive Social Norms Appeal on Behavioral Intention to Participate in Blood Donation
2022 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
St. Paul’s Co-educational College
University:
Cornell University
Pioneer Semester:
2022
Pioneer Research Topic:
Design of a q-switched semiconductor near-infrared pulsed laser based on photonic crystals
2022 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Cagaloglu Anatolian High School
University:
Harvard University
Pioneer Semester:
2022
Pioneer Research Topic:
Shifting Perspectives Towards Shared Security in France: From de Gaulle to Macron
2022 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
International School of Hyderabad
University:
Wesleyan University
Pioneer Semester:
2022
Pioneer Research Topic:
Identity Development and Social Support Through Queer Friendly Online Spaces for Queer Youth
2022 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Alexandria STEM School
University:
Pitzer College
Pioneer Semester:
2022
Pioneer Research Topic:
Exposure to Video Games and its Effect on Emotional Recognition Corresponding to the Effect of Literary Fiction on Emotional Recognition
2022 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Keystone Academy
University:
Brown University
Pioneer Semester:
2022
Pioneer Research Topic:
Chained to Knowledge? An Examination of Descartes’ View on Free Will in the Meditations
2022 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Westlake High School
University:
University of Virginia
Pioneer Semester:
2022
Pioneer Research Topic:
Scoping Review of the Effects of Chemodenervation on the Upper Extremity Post-Stroke
2022 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
United World College East Africa
University:
St. Lawrence University
Pioneer Semester:
2022
Pioneer Research Topic:
How successful are the current well-being measurements in terms of estimating human and animal welfare?
2022 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Ripon High School
University:
Stanford University
Pioneer Semester:
2022
Pioneer Research Topic:
The Extent to Which Climate Change Might Disrupt the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
2022 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Shanghai High School
University:
Carnegie Mellon University
Pioneer Semester:
2022
Pioneer Research Topic:
Hybrid DoS/DDoS Intrusion Detection System Using Machine Learning Frameworks
Summer 2021 Pioneer Scholar
University:
Dartmouth College
Pioneer Semester:
Summer 2021
Pioneer Research Topic:
Advancement during Crises in Developed Countries: A Comparative Analysis of Economic Growth in Germany and Italy
Spring 2021 Pioneer Scholar
University:
Cornell University
Pioneer Semester:
Spring 2021
Pioneer Research Topic:
The Politics of the Gig Economy: Entrepreneurship, Technological Innovation, and Politics
Summer 2021 Pioneer Scholar
University:
Barnard College
Pioneer Research Topic:
The Medieval Mediterranean: Confluence of Cultures
Summer 2021 Pioneer Scholar
University:
Franklin and Marshall College
Pioneer Research Topic:
Environmental Justice of Resource Conflicts
Spring 2021 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
African Leadership Academy
University:
Notre Dame University
Pioneer Research Topic:
Exploring Aluminium-Magnesium Properties to Reinforce Space Shuttles Against Micromdaroites
Summer 2021 Scholar
High School:
Los Altos High School
University:
Claremont McKenna College
Pioneer Research Topic:
Impacts of Project Financed by Export-Import Banks of China and the United States on Sub-Saharan African Institutional Development
Summer 2021 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Achievement First Brooklyn High School
University:
Middlebury College
Pioneer Research Topic:
Erase the System and Stop Continuing its History
Spring 2021 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Advanced Technologies Academy
University:
Princeton University
Pioneer Research Topic:
Mental Health Stigma in West Africa in Relation to Crime Against People with Mental Illnesses (with an emphasis on Gender-based/Sexual Violence): A Qualitative Study
Spring 2021 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Chengdu Foreign Languages School
University:
Stanford University
Pioneer Research Topic:
Violence, Religion, and Masculinities: The Persecution of LGBT Persons in Iraq and Syria during Armed Conflicts
Spring 2021 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Dhirubhai Ambani International School
University:
Columbia University
Pioneer Research Topic:
An Application of Swarm Robotics to the Exploration of Fireground Environment
Spring 2021 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Shanghai Pinghe School
University:
Washington University in St. Louis
Pioneer Research Topic:
Double Consciousness as Resistance in Native American Literature
Summer 2021 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Greengates School
University:
University of Chicago
Pioneer Research Topic:
Treatment of Arm Dysfunction After a Stroke
Spring-through-Summer 2020 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
African Leadership Academy
University:
Rice University
Pioneer Semester:
Spring-through-Summer 2020
Pioneer Research Topic:
Investigating the Effectiveness of Restorative Community-Based Justice Systems as a Method of Preventing Ethnic Violence
Summer 2020 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Hong Kong International School
University:
University of Pennsylvania
Pioneer Semester:
Summer 2020
Pioneer Research Topic:
Evaluating Olivine and Limestone Ocean Acidification Mitigation Methods for the Mediterranean Sea
Summer 2020 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
ASMSA (Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts)
University:
Yale University
Pioneer Semester:
Summer 2020
Pioneer Research Topic:
Application of EEG Signal Analysis and Machine Learning in Seizure Prediction
Summer 2020 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Pope John Paul II High School
University:
Cornell University
Pioneer Semester:
Summer 2020
Pioneer Research Topic:
Scapegoats or Pawns: An Analysis on the Progress of Anti-Chinese Sentiments and the Adoption of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Spring-through-Summer 2020 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
UWC Pearson College
University:
Tufts University
Pioneer Semester:
Spring-through-Summer 2020
Pioneer Research Topic:
The Influence of Gaullism in the Evolution of France’s Intergovernmental Response to the Breakup of Yugoslavia
Spring-through-Summer 2020 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University
University:
Yale University
Pioneer Semester:
Spring-through-Summer 2020
Pioneer Research Topic:
Not How Things Happened — Dreams and Flashbacks in the works of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch
Spring-through-Summer 20 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
RDFZ
College:
Swarthmore College
Pioneer Semester:
Spring-through-Summer 20
Pioneer Research Topic:
The use of mirror therapy for treatment of phantom limb pain and partial paralysis and brain plasticity
Spring-through-Summer 20 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy
University:
Stanford University
Pioneer Semester:
Spring-through-Summer 20
Pioneer Research Topic:
Rethinking Memes: Critique and Alternative to the Dawkinsian Meme Theory
Spring-through-Summer 2020 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Beijing National Day School
University:
Duke University
Pioneer Semester:
Spring-through-Summer 2020
Pioneer Research Topic:
An Introduction to Basic Graph Discharging
Spring-through-Summer 2020 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Beijing National Day School
University:
Duke University
Pioneer Semester:
Spring-through-Summer 2020
Pioneer Research Topic:
An Introduction to Basic Graph Discharging
Summer 2020 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Smoky Hill High School
College:
Creighton University
Pioneer Semester:
Summer 2020
Pioneer Research Topic:
Discourse Ethics and Its Practical Applications in Politics
Summer 2020 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Navkar Public School
College:
University of Pennsylvania
Pioneer Semester:
Summer 2020 Pioneer Scholar
Pioneer Research Topic:
A Study in the Growth of Nations: India and Germany Identifying Divergence in these Converging Countries through the Solow Growth Model
Summer 2020 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Athens College
College:
Columbia University
Pioneer Semester:
Summer 2020
Pioneer Research Topic:
The European Union During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Germany’s and Portugal’s Responses
Summer 2019 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Western Academy of Beijing
University:
Imperial College of London
Pioneer Research Topic:
Untitled
Spring 2019 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Bahcesehir High School for Science and Technology
University:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Pioneer Research Topic:
The Key Exchange Problem in Classical and Quantum Computing
Summer 2019 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Pine View School
University:
Northwestern University
Pioneer Research Topic:
Investigating Hyperactive and Oncogenic Ras Inhibition
Summer 2019 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Greenwood High International School
University:
Brown University
Pioneer Research Topic:
An Exploration of Strategies in Walker-Breaker Games
Summer 2019 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
African Leadership Academy
University:
Oberlin College
Pioneer Research Topic:
Marxism Restructured in Marxist Revolutions: Why did Marxist revolutionary regimes decide to diverge from Marxism?
Summer 2019 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Hanoi – Amsterdam High School for the Gifted
University:
Unknown
Pioneer Research Topic:
Career Orientation Efforts For High School Students In The United States And Their Implication For Vietnamese Education
Spring 2019 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
The Latin School of Chicago
University:
Harvard University
Pioneer Research Topic:
Polarizer, Catalyst: Why You Should Care about Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi Education
Summer 2019 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
School for the Talented and Gifted
University:
Rice University
Pioneer Research Topic:
The Invisible Culture of Pain and the Opioid Crisis
Summer 2019 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
United World College of India
University:
Barnard College at Columbia University
Pioneer Research Topic:
How was ethnic identity constructed in the Balkans during the Yugoslav wars in Former Yugoslavia
Summer 2019 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
East Mountain High School
University:
Columbia University
Pioneer Research Topic:
Tilings of 2 × n Rectangular Strips Using Dominos and L-shaped Trominos
Spring 2019 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Charlotte Country Day School
University:
Yale University
Pioneer Research Topic:
An Investigation of Male Dominance in Professional and Casual Environments
Summer 2019 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies
University:
University of Pennsylvania
Pioneer Research Topic:
Social Media Strategy and its Effect on Sustained Virality: Differential Audience Response to Five Crafting Channels
Summer 2019 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies
University:
University of Pennsylvania
Pioneer Research Topic:
Social Media Strategy and its Effect on Sustained Virality: Differential Audience Response to Five Crafting Channels
Spring 2019 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China
University:
University of Oxford
Pioneer Research Topic:
Political Governance and Economic Performance: A Comparison of Two Special Economic Zones in Africa
Summer 2019 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Lakeland High School
University:
Washington and Lee University
Pioneer Research Topic:
Young American Activists: Why American Youth Have Become Politicized
Summer 2019 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Northside College Preparatory High School
University:
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Pioneer Research Topic:
Analysis of XANES Data to Arrive at the Composition of an Unknown Sample
Spring 2018 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Homo Educandus Agogi
University:
National Technical University of Athens
Pioneer Research Topic:
Analysis of solar radiation time series
Summer 2018 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Lusher Charter School
University:
Stanford University
Pioneer Research Topic:
The Consequences of Global Warming for Aqueous Concentrations of DDT in the Arctic and Bio Concentrations in Marine Life
2017 Summer Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Beijing No. 2 Middle School, China
Pioneer Research Paper:
The Brother as an Other: Redefining Otherness through Examining the Similar
Attending institution:
Stanford University
Spring 2018 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Seoul Foreign School
University:
Johns Hopkins University
Pioneer Research Topic:
Current Antidotes and Future Possible Substances against Chemical Nerve Agents
Spring 2018 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Jayshree Periwal International School
University:
University of Pennsylvania
Pioneer Research Topic:
Will Advances in Quantum Computing Render Present Cryptosystems Obsolete?
Spring 2018 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
High School Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University
University:
Dartmouth College
Pioneer Research Topic:
Language Attitudes, Identity, and Accent Practice: A Study of Chinese Students’ English Accent Acquisition
Summer 2018 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Lynbrook High School
University:
Princeton University
Pioneer Research Topic:
Sustainable Cooling System for Stadiums Using Indirect Evaporation
Summer 2018 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School
University:
Harvard College
Pioneer Research Topic:
How does Perturbation-Based Interventions Improve Reactive Balance Control in Stroke Survivors?
Spring 2018 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
The Affiliated High School of South China Normal University
University:
Stanford University
Pioneer Research Topic:
Love Thy Neighbor: A Comparative Analysis of Public Discourse about Chinese Rural Migrant
Summer 2018 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Robert College
University:
Yale University
Pioneer Research Topic:
Populist Usage of Religion: A Comparative Study of Hungary and Turkey
Spring 2018 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
African Leadership Academy
University:
Babson College
Pioneer Research Topic:
Congestion Control in Content Centric Networks
Spring 2018 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
American Embassy School
University:
Columbia University
Pioneer Research Topic:
Stakeholder Analysis: An Explanation of the Botswana Paradox
Spring 2018 Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Milton Academy
University:
Dartmouth College
Pioneer Research Topic:
Man versus Nature: Public Opinion and Ecological Research as They Relate to Environmental Policy
2017 Summer Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Choate Rosemary Hall, US
Pioneer Research Paper:
Comparative Inquiry Into Western Liberal Democratic Values
Attending institution:
Yale University
2017 Summer Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Monte Vista High School, US
Pioneer Research Paper:
Trophic Cascades Caused by Overfishing Analysis and Prevention
Attending institution:
Boston University
2017 Spring Pioneer Scholar
High School:
High Technology High School, US
Pioneer Research Paper:
Sustainable Urban Development
Attending institution:
Harvard University
2016 Summer Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Seoul International School, South Korea
Pioneer Research Paper:
The Study of Biology: How Biology Gives Rise to Sexism
Attending institution:
Cornell University
2017 Summer Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Achievement First Brooklyn High School, US
Pioneer Research Paper:
Social Justice and Activism in African American communities
Attending institution:
Stanford University
2016 Spring Pioneer Scholar
High School:
International Department of the Affiliated High School of South China Normal University, China
Pioneer Research Paper:
Chinese Tracking: An Unexploited Hotspot with Underlying Benefits
Attending institution:
Stanford University
2017 Summer Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Scholars’ Academy, US
Pioneer Research Paper:
The Relationship between the Molecular Structure of Insecticides and their Biological and Environmental Implications
Attending institution:
Stanford University
2017 Spring Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Beijing National Day School, China
Pioneer Research Paper:
The Development of Folk Music in Modern China
Attending institution:
Brown University
2016 Summer Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Carondelet High School, US
Pioneer Research Paper:
Research into Human Genetics and Precision Medicine
Attending institution:
Brown University
2017 Spring Pioneer Scholar
High School:
International Department of the Affiliated High School of South China Normal University, China
Pioneer Research Paper:
Ethical Considerations of State Responsibility toward Refugees: Analyzing China’s Refugee Capacity from a Socio-Economic
Attending institution:
TBD
2017 Summer Pioneer Scholar
High School:
Midlothian High School, US
Pioneer Research Paper:
Astor Piazzolla’s Libertango: Musical analysis of a Contemporary Epitome of Tango
Attending institution:
Stanford University