Authentic Research Partners
Help people take part in serious scientific work, from a first spark in middle school to professional research. Support research opportunities, science education, and tools that make research more transparent and trustworthy.
What your support makes possible
Bring deep science education and authentic research within reach of students who could not otherwise take part.
Give teenagers and adults a way to contribute to serious scientific work outside traditional academic pipelines.
Support transparency, reproducibility, and open access to trusted records of how research happens.
From middle school to professional R&D
ARP is a for-profit company, and SoTS is its for-profit education operation. The designated nonprofit initiatives below operate under fiscal sponsorship through NOPI. Select a stage to highlight the programs that serve it.
Explore every stage, or select one to see where it connects.
Middle school
Bring conceptually rigorous physics into public schools through in-school and after-school programs taught by expert physicists. Support helps students access deep physics education that would otherwise be out of reach.
Middle school and high school
Help admitted students with financial need take part in SoTS physics courses and research labs. Assistance depends on available donated funds and is separate from admission and the SoTS Merit Scholarship.
College
A free, multi-university U.S. team for undergraduate and master's students in physics, engineering, computing, mathematics, and related fields. The current team is formed and investigates open-ended physics problems for the International Physicists' Tournament. You can express interest for next year; expressions of interest are not being reviewed yet.
College and beyond
A free, online, six-month residency for adults who enjoy doing science. University students, working professionals, and retirees contribute to professional scientific research part-time. Participation is by invitation only.
Educators and institutions
Help schools, community colleges, public universities, and nonprofit education organizations build serious research programs. Support includes research-methodology consulting, Research Guide training, program design, and responsible use of AI in science education.
The approach behind the work
Every stage of research
Build free, open, or public-interest tools that help researchers document progress, review methodology, verify claims, and preserve transparent records of scientific work.
Timestamped research records that preserve progress, pivots, and contributions alongside results.
Locally run methodology checks for scientific Python, including data leakage and cross-validation errors.
Fiscal sponsorship and use of funds
Authentic Research Partners LLC and its SoTS education operation are for-profit. Fiscal sponsorship through NOPI INC applies only to the designated nonprofit initiatives on this page. Donations and nonprofit program revenue support participation, instructors and Research Guides, educational programming, materials, and public-interest research infrastructure.
Explore ARP's research, tools, and publicationsAuthentic Research Partners is fiscally sponsored by the Nonprofit Organization for Philanthropic Initiatives, a program of NOPI INC, a Massachusetts nonprofit corporation and 501(c)(3) organization, EIN 81-5089505. Learn more at https://thenopi.org.