Ingenuity Scholars Shine at Morgan State University Engineering and Science Fair
BALTIMORE – The Morgan State University Science-Mathematics-Engineering Fair was held on Saturday, March 16. 2024. Ingenuity’s middle and high school scholars were well represented among…
Ingenuity Students Awarded Fellowships by the Sandra Lee Heyman Foundation
Ingenuity Scholars Receive Fellowship PROGRAM SELECTS 41 MORE STUDENTS, EXPANDS TO BALTIMORE The fifth – and largest – class of high school students to participate…
Poly’s Chess Team Wins 5th Place at US Chess National Competition!
Ingenuity students powered Baltimore Polytechnic Institute's Chess Team to a Fifth Place showing at the National Chess Competition!
Ingenuity Math Scholars Compete in MathWorks Modeling Challenge: Competition Aims to Use Math to End Homelessness.
On March 4, 2024, five (5) students in Ms. No’s Ingenuity AP Calculus class worked on math equations for 14 hours to solve homelessness. The…
Poly Named a 5 Star School on Maryland Report Card
Baltimore Sun Quotes Mark SawyerPoly Named a 5 Star School on Maryland Report Card Mark T. Sawyer, Poly’s principal, said the school maintains high marks…
Morgan State University Science-Mathematics-Engineering Fair 2023
The Morgan State University Science-Mathematics-Engineering Fair took place on Saturday, March 11, 2023. Students from Ingenuity's middle and high schools participated and were well represented…
Board Member Recognition
Ariel Bowers In Honor of the last day of Black History Month Ingenuity proudly recognizes our Board Co-Chair Ariel Bowers. Ariel, holds the current position…
Ingenuity Students Holland Low and Kaif Ur Rehman recognized by Regeneron Science 2023 Talent Search
BALTIMORE, MD – Holland Low and Kaif Ur Rehman, seniors enrolled in The Ingenuity Project at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Poly), were selected as top 300…
Ingenuity is Awarded a STEM Grant from PhRMA
Baltimore, MD – The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) awarded a STEM Talent Pipeline educational grant to The Ingenuity Project. Senator Antonio Hayes visited…
Ingenuity Poly Students elected to ASCBC!
Congratulations to the Ingenuity Poly Students elected to ASCBC! 627 students cast their vote for their student representatives to Associated Student Congress of Baltimore…
Back to School News 2022-23
Teachers' rooms are spotless. Floors are shiny. Students are organizing school supplies. It must be close to the first day of school! The teachers…
Senior Spotlight: Meredith Nishiura
Meredith Nishiura (Ingenuity '22) Recognized in State and National Competitions for Research May, 2022 - Meredith was selected to give a presentation at the Maryland…
BD Process Management Expert and Associate Resource Group Leader Joins Ingenuity Project Board of Directors
NEWS RELEASE Jenny Lindvall to Support Mission to Inspire and Develop Diverse STEM Students in Baltimore City Public Schools Sparks, M.D. – BD (Becton, Dickinson and…
Stepping into STEM Leadership: HBCU Pathways to a Strong Future
On Saturday, November 13, 2021, The Ingenuity Project and the Baltimore Chapter of Jack & Jill of America co-hosted a panel event for Ingenuity students…
Board Member Jim West on NPR Short Wave Podcast
February 23, 2021 - Ingenuity Board Member Jim West was a featured guest on NPR's Short Wave podcast. In addition to talking about his career,…
Ingenuity Partners with LEAF to Engage Baltimore’s Latino Community
January 26, 2021 - Ingenuity is thrilled to partner with the Latino Education and Advancement Fund (LEAF) on its outreach to the Latino Community. LEAF…
Senior Research Spotlight – Juni Polansky
December 14, 2020 - Juni Polansky '21, Discovers Three Bacteriophages, Names One After Dr. Rosen Senior Juni Polansky discovered three bacteriophages and named one of…
Research Mentor Spotlights
Renee Johnson, PhD, MPH Two Ingenuity research students (both Research Practicum and Innovation Practicum students) will be working with Dr. Renee Johnson in the fall…
Trailblazers’ Tea Brings STEM Women Together for Networking and Inspiration
On March 4, 2020 we hosted our annual Trailblazer’s Tea at Brown Advisory’s beautiful waterfront location. This exciting event creates an opportunity for Ingenuity’s high…
3 Thoughts on Career Paths from Women STEM Leaders
An interest in fields like science, technology, engineering and math can open up opportunities. To figure out where to land, there’s plenty of help available…
3 Lessons on Making the Jump to College (or any New Life Phase) from STEM Leaders of Color
Role models offer living examples of pathways that otherwise might have seemed out of reach. Having been there before, they also have plenty of advice…
Maryland Perspectives Features Ingenuity
What Ingenuity is, how to apply, and how to get involved. Our Executive Director Lisette Morris explains it all on Maryland Perspectives with Amelia on…
Ingenuity Featured on WBAL 11 TV Hill
Lisette Morris and students talk about the Ingenuity experience. Watch the feature.
Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grade Baltimore Math Whiz? Doubtful, but Poly Mathopoly Game Day is Fun Anyway
Sponsored by the Ingenuity Project, the acclaimed science, technology, engineering and math program at Poly, the second annual Mathopoly was a brain challenge for the…
Ingenuity Project is Helping High School Students Dig into Local Tech Companies
In middle school, Chelsea Thompson and Stephanie Fishkin entered The Ingenuity Project, an advanced instructional program for Baltimore city students that aims to launch the next generation of STEM leaders.…
Going Beyond the Horizon
The US Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) wrote an article about Ingenuity Board Member Jim West as part of their series about inventors: "Jim West…
Poly Ranked Top STEM School in the Nation!
Newsweek magazine and STEM.org has ranked the school's STEM program No. 36 in the nation, making Poly the highest-ranked Maryland school, public or private, on…
Senior Research Spotlight – Isaiah Roberts
Isaiah Roberts '20- Ingenuity student since 9th grade Middle School: KIPP Baltimore Research Area: Earth and Planetary Sciences Research Topic: Reanalysis of possible shorelines in…
A Strong Start at Ingenuity’s Newest Middle School, James McHenry
THE INGENUITY PROJECT DEBUTS IN SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE With eager students and an excited community, the school year is off to a great start at James…
Senior Research Spotlight – Raekwon Williams
Raekwon Williams '20 - Ingenuity student since 9th grade Middle School: KIPP Baltimore Research Area: Medicine and Health Research Topic: Targeting Glutamine Metabolism in M2…
Senior Research Spotlight – Donaysia Torbit
Donaysia Torbit ’20 – Ingenuity student since 6th grade Middle School: Mount Royal Elementary/Middle Research Area: Medicine and Health Research Topic: The Underlying Factors that Influence…
Senior Research Spotlight – Marie Badiola
Marie Badiola ’20 - Ingenuity student since 9th grade Middle School: Margaret Brent Elementary/Middle Research Area: Medicine and Health Research Topic: Detecting Tr-DNA: The Effects…
July 2019
Ingenuity junior Presley Smith is now ranked number one in the United States in badminton for boys doubles and mixed doubles under 17. Presley won Gold…
Successful math and science nonprofit expands to West Baltimore school — once one of the state’s worst
By Talia Richman January 11, 2019 Lisette Morris froze when she saw a map showing where special academic programs for city schoolchildren were located. Wide swaths of West…
January 2019
Michelle Mokaya has been named a top 300 scholar in the 78th Regeneron Science Talent Search—the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and mathematics competition for high…
November 2017
Ingenuity Seniors Claire Wayner and Mercedes Thompson were recent recipients of the Brower Youth Award for their work to make Maryland a plastic-free state. Claire…
Nurturing High School Scholars
Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology - Sep 2017
“THIS REALLY GIVES THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE HOW SCIENCE IS DONE AND HOW DEDICATED ONE NEEDS TO BE IN ORDER TO BE…
June 2017
Rebecca Brody was invited to San Diego, CA, to compete in the International BioGENEius Challenge. Ingenuity junior was one of 15 finalists to compete in the competition.…
From Ingenuity Project to Engineer
JULY 12, 2017 Duncan Parke has been spending his summer vacations working. The Baltimore Polytechnic High School senior has been busy with a…
Each student at UMBC graduation has a wonderful story
Da'Kuawn Johnson of Baltimore hugs his chemistry professor Tara Carpenter. He was among 1,300 students who graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County…
May 2017
We extend our best wishes to Dr. Goldenberg, Ingenuity Mathematics Department Head, on his twentieth anniversary of service. Throughout the years, hundreds of Ingenuity students have…
April 2017
At the Baltimore Science Fair, junior Claire Wayner won the U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize Regional Award. She submitted her paper to the State level and…
March 2017
Ingenuity senior Aishwarya Shettigar won 2nd place at the Maryland Junior Science and Humanities Symposium(JSHS) with her project Studying Toxigenic C. Difficile as a Potential…
January 2017
Amy Zhang, Ingenuity senior at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, was selected as a national scholar in the 2017 Regeneron Science Talent Search. Amy’s research involved the modification of…
November 2016
Six Ingenuity students were invited to participate in Part II of the University of Maryland College Park High School Math Competition: seniors Andrew Frock, Yoav…
October 2016
Ingenuity senior Stephen Grabowski has been awarded 3rd place prize at the North American Marine Environment Protection Association (NAMEPA) and the American Salvage Association (ASA)…
May 2016
Martin Orellana-Guzman has been recognized as a 2016-2017 National Hispanic Scholar. Each year, the National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP) honors more than 5,000 academically outstanding…
Ingenuity senior semifinalist in national science competition
Kathy Le, a senior at Poly, is a semifinalist in the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search, a national science competition January 13, 2016…
Masters of Invention
How the ambitious Ingenuity Project is elevating the Baltimore City public school option By Christine Grillo TUESDAY , JANUARY 12 2016 Got math? How about…
STEM students designing solutions to city runoff
The Star - Jan 2016
January 3, 2016 By SCOTT EGLSEDER The holidays have come and gone, and we are starting a new year full of good intentions and expectations.…
Featuring a guest appearance by the Ingenuity Project’s Executive Director Lisette Morris
Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Advancing Educational Excellence. - Nov 2015
The fandom edition Michael J. Petrilli Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. Clara Allen Audrey Kim November 18, 2015 Why reformers ought to check their halos at…
Ingenuity at Poly alumnus, Duane Dennis, Class of 2010 and recent MIT graduate, shares his experience as a black entrepreneur
Tech Crunch - Sep 2015
Posted Sep 14, 2015 by Duane Dennis Duane Dennis is the founder of Miramix. Entrepreneurship is the New American Dream, and millennials are hearing its call loud and clear. The corporate world has ceased…
