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Your gift supports free workshops, student competitions, and affordable research experiences.

Why it matters

Help keep opportunity within reach.

Our workshops cost students nothing. Our competitions award certificates and cash prizes rather than charging for them. The Summer Research Academy costs $70 for five full days, with donations helping us keep that fee affordable.

That only works if the funding comes from somewhere else. This is that somewhere else.

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FutureVitals students and mentors together at a 2026 Richmond session
The 2026 Richmond cohort. Your gift helps keep research experiences like this affordable.
Where it goes

What a gift actually pays for.

We are a student-run organization with no paid staff, so giving funds programs rather than salaries.

Camp

A seat at the Summer Research Academy

Five days, 9 AM to 4 PM, idea to finished paper, closing with a live symposium. The 2026 Richmond cohort welcomed 60+ students, with tuition of $70 for the full week.

Workshops

Materials for a hands-on session

Cabbage pH indicators, origami virus models, gel electrophoresis, trifold boards. The consumables are what make a session hands-on rather than a lecture.

Competitions

Prizes and certificates

Our medicine olympiad and national biolympiad award cash prizes and certificates to participants, semifinalists, honorable mentions, and finalists.

Chapters

A new chapter's first year

Eighteen chapters are defined across thirteen countries. A new one needs a playbook, materials, and something to run in its first term.