ScienceSaves

When Jade was a baby, doctors detected a heart murmur and used scientific tools to understand what was happening before it became something worse. Today she's a high school senior sharing her story. #ScienceSaves

Ava calls her seizures "breakdancing." In our 2026 winning scholarship video, Elyssa shares how research helped make treatments for her cousin's epilepsy + why that matters beyond the lab. Sometimes science looks like a breakthrough. Sometimes it's a kid getting to be a kid.

How has science helped you? Hundreds of students answered that question for this year's ScienceSaves Video Scholarship Contest. Meet the 2026 winners and the stories behind them. Watch: https://sciencesaves.org/scholarship/2026-sciencesaves-video-scholarship-contest-winners/

A PET scan helped doctors find her father’s lymphoma fast. That meant answers, a plan, and more time. Science matters most when it stops being theoretical. Watch this year’s finalist videos and vote for the People’s Choice winner tonight: ScienceSaves.org/Vote

"Radiation didn’t just save my mom’s life. It saved mine too, because I still have her.” That’s an entire argument for science in two sentences. Vote for the ScienceSaves People’s Choice winner before voting closes TONIGHT at 11:59pm PT: ScienceSaves.org/Vote

A baby born in 1899 was put in a shoebox because survival seemed unlikely. A century later, blue light therapy saved another baby in the same family. Scientific progress can be as simple as getting to grow up. Vote for the People’s Choice finalist: ScienceSaves.org/Vote

One of our People’s Choice finalists shares how modern depression treatment helped change the course of their life. Science doesn’t always save lives dramatically. Sometimes it helps someone stay long enough to imagine a future. Vote: ScienceSaves.org/Vote

This finalist shares how treatments for GAD helped both of her parents and may one day help her too. Science doesn’t always saves lives loudly. Sometimes it's quiet, helping people feel okay enough to live them. Vote for the People’s Choice winner: ScienceSaves.org/Vote

Hundreds of students submitted videos about how science changed their lives or someone they love. Thank you to everyone who trusted us with their story this year. Some of these are going to stay with us for a long time. People’s Choice finalists announced soon.

This is your “screw it, I’m submitting” sign. A few hours left: ScienceSaves.org/Scholarship

Clock’s ticking. ScienceSaves Video Scholarship deadline ends tonight: ScienceSaves.org/Scholarship

Still one of our favorite ScienceSaves submissions. A few family videos, some text, and a whole life shaped by science. 3 days left to enter the ScienceSaves Video Scholarship Contest: ScienceSaves.org/Scholarship $10,000. 20–30 second video.

That’s the thing about scientific progress. A treatment exists long enough and it starts feeling normal instead of miraculous. 3 days left to enter the ScienceSaves Video Scholarship Contest: ScienceSaves.org/Scholarship 20–30 seconds. $10,000 top prize. Deadline: May 11.

Last year’s ScienceSaves scholarship winner shared how his research led to a low-cost prosthetic arm now being piloted in Ukraine. That’s what this contest is for: real stories about science changing lives. 4 days left. 20–30 seconds. $10K scholarship. #ScienceSaves

You do NOT need a perfect video to enter the ScienceSaves scholarship contest. You need: • a real story • a phone camera • like 30 seconds That’s genuinely it. 6 days left: ScienceSaves.org/Scholarship

7 days left. 30 seconds. If you're a high school senior, don't overthink this. Just a real story about how science changed something: ScienceSaves.org/Scholarship #VideoContest #Scholarship

30 seconds → $10K no essay no GPA just a real story about how science helped you apply: ScienceSaves.org/Scholarship

Diagnosed with leukemia at 4. Today, she gets to see this: after 25 years, scientists just created human blood stem cells in the lab. It's not ready yet. But it's real: https://ow.ly/GN0r50YTFbX

This is simpler than it sounds. Start with a moment. Show what changed. Say why it mattered. That’s the whole video. Enter now: ScienceSaves.org/Scholarship

It’s May. Seniors know the feeling. This one doesn’t need an essay. Just a 20–30 second story about a moment science mattered: ScienceSaves.org/Scholarship Deadline: May 11.

Start with a real moment. Something that actually happened. Then show what changed, and the science behind it. That’s what makes a story stick. Learn more and submit: ScienceSaves.org/Scholarship #Scholarship #STEM

Most of the biggest environmental wins don’t feel dramatic. You turn on the tap. You breathe the air. Food shows up where it’s supposed to. But that’s not luck. That’s decades of science quietly doing its job. #EarthDay

We’ve been reading your ideas + seeing the stories come in. So we’re giving you more time. May 11. If you’ve been overthinking it or waiting for it to be more "ready," this is your moment to just make it. science already changed something in your life. say it: ScienceSaves.org/Scholarship

The instinct is to make something polished. What actually resonates is simpler: a real story about how science changed something for you—or someone you care about. Start there. That’s enough.

Sometimes education looks like: → better questions → stronger reasoning → fewer easy answers That’s what Generation Skeptics workshops are doing. → Tampa (April 14) → Virtual (April 23) Students don’t need more noise. They need tools to think: https://generationskeptics.org/workshops/

She was 16. Stage IV Hodgkin’s lymphoma. A treatment first proven decades ago is why she’s still here. This is what progress looks like. Not abstract. Personal. #ScienceSaves #ScienceAppreciationDay

He used to be sick all the time. Plasma from thousands of donors. Immunoglobulins extracted. Infused back into his body. Now: “I basically replaced my broken immune system through science.” It sounds unreal until it’s your reality. What’s in your life because of science?

Science saved my life. What’s your story?

She made this. Same disease. Different treatment. Both are still here. #ScienceSaves

Delaware just joined. This keeps growing for a reason. A vaccine. A procedure. A diagnosis caught in time. A lot of us are here because science showed up at the right time. March 26. #ScienceSaves #ScienceAppreciationDay

"His valve was supposed to be 31 mm. It was 9.” A newer heart procedure saved Isabelle’s grandfather at 85. She may inherit the same condition. Scientific progress doesn’t just save lives. It carries forward. #ScienceSaves #ScienceAppreciationDay

Five days out, and this is already spreading. States are recognizing March 26 as National #ScienceAppreciationDay because a lot of us are alive thanks to it. If that’s your story (or someone you love), you’re part of this too.

Jessica was 4 years old when she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Treatments like chemotherapy, stem cell transplantation, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy gave her something many children once didn’t have: a future. What scientific breakthrough are you personally grateful for?

Suzanne has a friend who lost the use of one arm after getting polio as a child. In 1955, Suzanne’s school helped make sure she received the polio vaccine. Same generation. Two very different outcomes. That’s what scientific breakthroughs can do. #ScienceSaves #VaccinesWork

This is what progress looks like when it reaches a real person.

Kyleigh can identify a sassafras tree in bloom. Science taught her how to read forests, lead research, and bring that knowledge into classrooms. Climate change is a crisis. Youth are not passive observers. What did science teach you?

When Kathy was a kid, her neighborhood pool closed, because polio was spreading. Years later, she remembers lining up at school to get the Sabin vaccine, people cheering, a sense of relief. A future opening back up. This is what science changed.