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Learn@sfi

learn@sfi: Inspiring 21st Century Scientists and Citizens to Explore a Complex World

Learn@sfi is a coherent series of schools, fellowships, content material and other outreach activities aimed at educating the next generation of scientists and citizens. Since 1984, SFI’s leadership role in multidisciplinary research has provided the foundation for educational and outreach programs that challenge the next generation’s brightest scholars and inspire the broader population to think critically about the complex problems facing science and society today.

Learn@sfi empowers students, educators and citizens to understand the complex, interacting systems that make up the world around us. Programs for students of all ages and backgrounds prepare today’s scientists, inspire new communities, improve pedagogical methods, and build the foundation for systemic, long-term change in science education.

Schools

Interactive, fast-paced schools annually draw hundreds of today’s brightest scholars eager to explore how a complex systems approach can be used to solve pressing research or business problems.

Fellowships

Students from throughout the US spend time at SFI where--working alongside world-renown senior scientists--they actively contribute to the multigenerational research teams.

Internships & Mentorships

The study of complex systems through a multidisciplinary approach offers a powerful framework for educating our youngest generation of scientists, born into a networked world and comfortable with thinking across disciplinary boundaries.

Community Outreach

Science education is not just for scientists; an understanding of complex systems is an important foundation for all citizens.



"The core problem is that our education and training systems were built for another era. We can get where we must go only by changing the system itself."
— National Center on Education and the Economy 2007, Tough Choices for Tough Times

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