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2025-2026 Davidson Explore application now available

Designed to be different than other online courses, Explore offers rigorous, advanced, full-year middle school courses that are modeled off of expectations at middle school courses at Davidson Academy Online. Students will be expected to work…

Explore applications available

Davidson Fellows Increasing Scholarship Amounts

The 2025 Davidson Fellows application is now available, with big changes for this year! We are increasing scholarship amounts to $100,000, $50,000, and $25,000! How to Apply > This is the first increase in…

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2025 Davidson Fellows Application Now Available

The 2025 Fellows Scholarship application is now available online. Young people 18 and younger have the opportunity to earn a $100,000, $50,000 or $25,000 scholarship in recognition of a significant piece of work in…

Challenging Summer Math Program

Application season has begun for Epsilon Camp, a two-week summer residential camp for young students who show exceptional promise in mathematics. Epsilon connects profoundly gifted children (ages 7-12) with professional mathematicians and fosters a supportive community among peers…

2025 Davidson Fellows Scholarship Information Session

Update – view the video here:  The Davidson Fellows Scholarship is dedicated to honoring young people for their work in the STEM and Humanities fields, as well as Outside the Box.  Recognized by Forbes as “one…

2024 Davidson Fellow Roark Petermann Featured in Wallkill Valley Times

2024 Davidson Fellow Roark Petermann was featured in the Wallkill Valley Times for his project “Centripetal Agonies.” “With a historical approach spanning centuries, Centripetal Agonies investigates the interconnectedness of suffering between living things by detailing some…

2024 Davidson Fellow Oliver Wang Featured in Falls Church News-Press

2024 Davidson Fellow Oliver Wang was featured in the Falls Church News-Press for his project “NanoDiffusion: An Ultra-Precision, Compact Powder Optimization System for Advancing Nanoparticle Cancer Treatment and Battery Applications.” Oliver’s research on electrode…

2024 Davidson Fellow Aadita Roy Featured in Pelham Examiner

2024 Davidson Fellow Aadita Roy was featured in the Pelham Examiner for her project “Pro-Inflammatory Macrophages Induce Pyroptotic Death of β-cells; Modeling Macrophage-Mediated Pancreatic Endocrine β-Cell Damage Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Vascularized Macrophage-Islet…