The Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS) Program has been an annual event since 1958. JSHS annually reaches about 10,000 high school students and teachers at regional and national symposiums. Forty-eight regional symposiums are held throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and in cooperation with the Department of Defense Schools of Europe and the Pacific. The annual National symposium brings together 240 high school students, their teachers, university faculty and other educators and scientists. The Academy of Applied Science, a non-profit educational organization in Concord, New Hampshire, administers the National JSHS Program. The National Association of Secondary School Principals has placed this program on the NASSP National Advisory List of Contest and Activities.

Program Objectives

• To promote research and experimentation in the sciences, mathematics, and engineering at the high school level.
• To recognize the significance of research in human affairs, and the importance of humane and ethical principles in the application of research results.
• To search out talented youth and their teachers, recognize their accomplishments at symposiums, and encourage their continued interest and participation in the sciences, mathematics, and engineering.
• To expand the horizons of research-oriented students by exposing them to opportunities in the academic, industrial, and governmental communities.
• To increase the number of future adults capable of conducting research and development.