Through SIR, IMSA provides a mechanism that engages students in personalized learning to pursue solutions to problems and issues that challenge our global community. Partnerships with distinguished professionals at colleges and universities, research institutions, businesses, and museums allow our students to gain experience in real-world problem solving, collaboration, and scholarship. The ability to work with professionals is life-changing for our students. Many of our students have already, in high school, published and presented at local, national, and international venues. Evidence of our students’ excellence, in all fields, can be found here. These students exemplify a tradition of excellence. We set high expectations for our students, and you will find that IMSA students far exceed these expectations for accomplishments and contributions to society. They are well-prepared to solve the challenges that we will face in the future.

"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."
- Zora Neale Hurston, in Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942