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LPS leadership and scientist volunteers had a blast participating in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Family Science Days in DC over President’s Day weekend! Every year, AAAS puts on a two-day free event for families to engage with and learn about science and take part in various fun activities. The event …
by Aliyah Weinstein 
It’s hard to believe that LPS has been operating for 8+ years and yet most members of our leadership team have never met in person due to our geographical spread. In one regard, we are proud to be a part of a cohesive team that is able to navigate complex planning, difficult conversations, and numerous …
by Aliyah Weinstein 
With the Letters to a Pre-Scientist network growing every year, it’s exciting to see where our pre-scientists and scientists are coming from! This year, we had nearly 2500 scientists sign up for the program, 1625 of whom completed scientist training and were eligible to be pen pals. We then matched 815 pre-scientists with scientist pen pals. The …
by Aliyah Weinstein 
by Lucy Madden, CEO Teams of middle school math, science, history, and language arts teachers all over the US are engaging in the best practice of discovering places where their subject matter content intersects, then collaborating to plan lessons and projects that intersect multiple subject areas. Why do teachers tackle this labor-intensive, time-consuming, challenging process …
by Aliyah Weinstein 
It’s hard to believe that another school year is coming to an end! For Letters to a Pre-Scientist, this was our biggest year yet. We reached over 700 pre-scientists in 9 classrooms across the U.S., and had nearly 1,000 scientists register to become pen pals! It really is amazing to see how much the program has …
by Aliyah Weinstein 
In a recent survey, less than 25% of scientist pen pals reported LPS increasing their awareness of the challenges of teaching and learning in low-income schools. In addition, many of our scientists asked for more information about our pre-scientist’s communities. This resource is designed to familiarize scientist pen pals and other stakeholders with the reason that Letters to …
by Aliyah Weinstein
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Thank you so much to everybody who contributed to our Fall in Love with Science fundraising campaign last month. All together, we were able to reach 46% of our fundraising goal by raising a total of $6,930 during the campaign. All of the funds will go towards growing the …
by Aliyah Weinstein 
For the first time this summer, Letters to a Pre-Scientist had more qualified teachers apply to host our program in their classroom than we could take on with the current structure of our organization. In addition, we have had hundreds of confirmed scientists on our wait list hoping to be matched with a pre-scientist over …
by Aliyah Weinstein 
Benjamin Nelson is an astronomy postdoc and data scientist at Northwestern University. He originally got involved with LPS as a letter writer in late 2015. He had fun with the experience and planned to renew until other academic responsibilities came up. Little did he know that in the next couple years he’d be working with LPS again …
by Aliyah Weinstein 
Welcome back to the start of another school year! We’re excited to introduce you to the teachers whose classrooms will be participating in LPS this year, so please click through the link to read their bios. For this 8th year of the program, we’ve expanded once again and are now running with 9 teachers and a …
by Aliyah Weinstein 
Louisa Savereide, one of our Classroom Coordinators, went above and beyond to give the pre-scientists in Bridget Heneghan’s classroom the opportunity to see science in action – and practice being scientists themselves! – through a field trip to Northwestern University. Last winter, on one of the coldest days in Chicago, I put on about 7 …
by Aliyah Weinstein 
It’s hard to believe that LPS is already moving into its eighth year of inspiring pre-scientists across the United States! To celebrate the occasion, we sat down with founders Macon Lowman and Anna Goldstein to discuss the inception of the program and their hopes for its future. How did you two originally meet? Macon: …
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