From middle schoolers to graduate students, more than 300 were introduced this year to real-world science, technology, engineering and math.

Physicist Tor Raubenheimer explores the world by climbing rocks and designing particle accelerators.

Both are professors at Stanford and SLAC, where Martinez is an investigator with the Stanford PULSE Institute.

Tais Gorkhover, Michael Kagan, Kazuhiro Terao and Joshua Turner will each receive $2.5 million for research that studies fundamental particles, nanoscale objects, quantum materials and machine learning.