Where the work leads.
Our students don't complete projects for an application. They pursue questions that matter to them, and many are still pursuing them years later. Here are a few of their stories.
A library across an ocean
She learned that orphanages in Japan had almost no English-language books. So she built a project to change that: organizing collection drives, managing international shipping, and working with partners on both sides of the Pacific.
The work won the Princeton University Prize in Race Relations. She was admitted to Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania, chose Penn, and now studies political science.
From the lab bench to the mentor's chair: Nicole Pereira
Nicole began laboratory research with Dr. Feit in high school, and her experiments won awards. She went on to a bachelor's in neurobiology at the University of Wisconsin and a master's in molecular and integrative physiology at the University of Michigan, working as a research assistant along the way.
Today she mentors ILP students as they design laboratory and community science projects, completing a circle that began with her own first experiment.
From freshman ambition to the national stage
As a high school freshman, this student wanted to be President. Since then, the path has run through a degree from NYU, a visit to the Oval Office, a commercial made with President Obama, and a place among the most-followed political voices of Gen Z online.
Changing who gets to do science
She noticed that women were underrepresented in science, and she decided to do something about it. At Harvard, she started Women in Science, which grew into a global organization of women in the sciences.
Thirty-five years later
Some of Dr. Feit's former students are now in their fifties. Recently, several of them came back to tell her that the work they did together as teenagers changed the direction of their lives.
Former students stay connected through the ILP Alumni Community.
Where our students have gone
Harvard, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Dartmouth, the University of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Georgia Tech, the University of Michigan, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Florida, WPI, the University of Wisconsin, and many more.
Every one of these stories began with a conversation.