About The Future Scientists Center
The Maimonides Fund’s Future Scientists Center for the Advancement of Gifted and Outstanding Students offers unique programs for gifted, outstanding students, allowing students to integrate into the fascinating world of academia and research while still in high school via the Odyssey, Alpha, and Idea programs. The center also manages two important startup programs active in the seventh grade: Excellence in Science, for outstanding female science students, and Future for Science, for gifted Arabic-speaking students. In addition to these programs, the Future Scientists Center, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and academic institutions, operates the Israel Science Olympiad teams. Israel has five senior teams in which high school students participate, as well as the Young Israel Science Team for which students apply in the seventh grade. Students who have completed their path in one of the center's programs and the Israel Science Olympiad teams join the Ascola alumni network, which provides its members with a professional and social framework. The network aspires to develop its alumni as individuals who will stand at the forefront of science, technology, economics, and society, and who will constitute the future generation that will lead the State of Israel.
Our Programs
Jumpstart Programs
These programs offer learning and research opportunities within an academic environment, as well as meetings and collaborations with industry-leading researchers and academics, exposure to the rich world of scientific knowledge and diverse social activities.
In addition, the Center partners with the Ministry of Education’s Authority for Technological Education and other academic institutions to run Israel’s Science Teams in the fields of biology, chemistry, mathematics, computer science and physics, as well as Israel’s Junior Science Team.
In addition, the Center is home to an active network of graduates, the Ascola Alumni Network. The network helps graduates of the Future Scientists Center realize their potential as individuals and as a group, so that they can, one day, become science and technology leaders in the State of Israel.
The significant investment in these programs is aimed at strengthening excellence in academic and research excellence in Israel, and developing a community of groundbreaking scientists that will be at the forefront of Israeli society, in a variety of fields.