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.
Watch the other 2026 winning videos:
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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://t.co/H8Ehi6q25C
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:
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"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:
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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:
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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: https://t.co/VtFjygU6RF
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:
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A burst appendix once meant you probably weren’t coming home.
2026’s ScienceSaves People’s Choice finalist shares how modern surgery + antibiotics changed that outcome and saved his life.
Watch the video + vote for the winner:
https://t.co/VtFjygU6RF
Voting closes Thursday.
Hundreds of student submissions, only one People’s Choice winner.
These videos tell real stories about how science changes lives, from cancer treatment to mental health care to emergency medicine.
Watch the finalists + vote:
https://t.co/VtFjygU6RF
Voting closes May 21.
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.
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:
https://t.co/9aKSMcpxdr
$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:
https://t.co/9aKSMcpxdr
20–30 seconds. $10,000 top prize.
Deadline: May 11.
2023's ScienceSaves scholarship winner shared how his research led to a low-cost prosthetic arm now being piloted in Ukraine.
This contest is for real stories about science changing lives:
https://t.co/9aKSMcpxdr
4 days left.
20–30 seconds.
$10K scholarship.
“Science saved my gay friends.”
Antiviral HIV treatments changed millions of lives. PrEP helped prevent countless infections before they could happen.
One of the clearest examples of what scientific progress actually means is people getting to keep living their lives.
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:
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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:
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