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WHAM-TV reports that more than 1,000 students from more than 70 countries and 30 states gathered at RIT for the Genius Olympiad.

RIT’s partnership with Rochester Prep High School celebrated its 10-year anniversary.

WROC-TV reports that all 100 students in Rochester Prep's graduating class will attend college, with some graduates heading to RIT.

RIT is working with the U.S. Department of Defense to get high school students interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

The RIT-Rochester Prep High School Partnership gives high school seniors college-level research experience with faculty mentors.

In his role for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, Clayton Turner oversees executive leadership, strategic planning, and overall management of all technology maturation and demonstration programs for critical space-focused technologies.

Two high school STEP scholars, Calvin Davis and Alexia Savage, worked together on a research project that they showcased at various Junior Science and Humanities Symposium competitions. They first presented at the Central/Western New York Subregional JSHS competition, held in January at RIT. They placed first, which punched their ticket to the two-day regional event in Albany.

RIT’s summer day camp—Camp Tiger—offers four weeks of hands-on-learning in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. New this year is a partnership with Rochester City Ballet that brings dance programs to RIT’s new creative center, the SHED.

AEOP replaces "apprenticeships" with "internships" in new title and messaging efforts with a rebranding that aims to provide more clarity to the community within the Army Educational Outreach Program.

This year’s RIT-RPHS capstone program allowed small groups of students from the Rochester-based charter school to work with faculty in one of five subject areas. On Feb. 13, final presentations were made at Ingle Auditorium to an audience of their families, peers and teachers; leadership from the K-12 University Center; and distinguished guests such as RIT President David Munson, who made a welcoming address.

With complementary research experiences to help bolster Maya Rigor's passion of mechanical engineering, the honors student from the University of Delaware joined the Army Educational Outreach Program last year, having completed a project with university faculty. AEOP Internships and Fellowships is administered by RIT's K-12 University Center on behalf of the U.S. Army to provide high school through postdoctoral individuals from across the country with paid, interactive STEM experiences at Army labs and university partner sites.