About Ignite Achievers

Ignite Achievers was founded to give ambitious high school students access to the kind of research mentorship usually reserved for university students. We connect students directly with research-active university professors who guide them, step by step, through developing an original research paper.

We believe every student is unique, so we offer flexible formats — group, one-on-one, hybrid, or an immersive summer research experience — tailored to each student's schedule and goals. Working remotely, our students get hands-on, faculty-guided research experience that stands out in competitive college admissions.

Collectively, before joining Ignite Achievers, our mentors had already worked with hundreds of high school researchers, including students later admitted to MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, UIUC, Michigan, Imperial College London, Georgia Tech, Brown, NYU, Penn, Cambridge, Georgetown, Chicago, Northwestern, UCLA, Duke, and 15+ other universities. That expertise is now applied directly to the 20 students of Ignite's first scholarship cohort in 2025.