Team members from Cooper Middle School Team 1 pose after winning the 2025 Virginia Regional Middle School Science Bowl Competition held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Saturday, March 1, 2025. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

The Department of Energy’s National Science Bowl® is a nationwide academic competition that tests students’ knowledge in all areas of science and mathematics. Middle and high school student teams are comprised of four students, one alternate, and a teacher who serves as an advisor and coach. Teams face-off in a fast-paced question-and-answer format, being tested on a range of science disciplines including biology, chemistry, Earth science, physics, energy, and math.

Attendees mingle during a coffee break during day one of the Jefferson Lab User Organization (JLUO) Annual Meeting on Monday, June 26, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

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High-speed data transfer fabric used for collecting raw experimental data at Jefferson Lab’s Data Center in Newport News, Va., on Monday, March 26, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

By combining engineering and operations domain expertise and creative integration of advanced hardware and software, JLab delivers advanced computational solutions that address complex data and analytic challenges.

Working in multidisciplinary teams, JLab connects research to engineering to operations, providing the tools necessary to innovate quickly and field results faster.

Members of Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin's Policy Office tour the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

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TARDEC Warren, Michigan. photographs of new technology, scientists and engineers.

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TARDEC - Warren, Michigan

Prototype supersonic interceptor. A project of Lockheed's famous "Skunk Works", its main claim to fame is as the predecessor of the much more famous SR-71 "Blackbird".

Prof. Judy Raper, Stephen Jones, Sharon Bird and Dianne Murray.

Contractor Jason Cofield works to survey the campus at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

TARDEC Warren, Michigan. photographs of new technology, scientists and engineers.

TARDEC Warren, Michigan. photographs of new technology, scientists and engineers.

TARDEC Warren, Michigan. photographs of new technology, scientists and engineers.

Jefferson Lab RADCON employees survey a magnet to determine if it’s radioactive. This magnet is from a set of magnet girders—which came from Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source (APS) and will be repurposed for Brookhaven National Laboratory—in Newport News, Va., on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:

www.gao.gov/products/GAO-24-107332

Artificial Intelligence: Agencies Are Implementing Management and Personnel Requirements

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Scenes from the poster session during the Jefferson Lab User Organization (JLUO) Annual Meeting on Monday, Jun 26, 2023. (Lorelei Carlson | Jefferson Lab)

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The first jet propelled combat aircraft in US military service (P-59A variant; the original P-59 was a piston engined "pusher" design which was never built). Owing to its lackluster performance and continuing operational difficulties, the P-59A/B had a short production run (only 20 aircraft of the A series and 30 of the B series saw service); primarily the P-59A/B was used to "work the bugs out" of subsequent US turbojet combat aircraft and to acquaint USAF pilots with jet aircraft operations.

From left: FEL Instrumentation Engineer and student mentor Kevin Jordan and undergraduate student user Alexander Kerr pose for a photo inside the Low Energy Recirculator Facility (LERF) at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

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Unmanned technology demonstrator for advanced missile technologies. Ultimately developed into the US Air Force's SM-64 "Navajo" cruise missile.

SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Friday, June 7, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Radiation Control Technician Shantelle Brown holds a micro REM dose rate meter to survey magnets inside a storage building at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

These magnets came from Argonne National Laboratory, which shipped the 30-year-old Advanced Photon Source (APS) magnets to Brookhaven and Jefferson Lab, where they will be re-purposed for use as part of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a state-of-the-art particle collider being led by those other two labs and that will be built at Brookhaven.

TARDEC Warren, Michigan. photographs of new technology, scientists and engineers.

TARDEC Warren, Michigan. photographs of new technology, scientists and engineers.

TARDEC Warren, Michigan. photographs of new technology, scientists and engineers.

Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Director Stuart Henderson, left, shakes the hand of Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin's Policy Office Chief of Staff Jeff Goettman, right, after a tour of the facility on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

TARDEC Warren, Michigan. photographs of new technology, scientists and engineers.

TARDEC Warren, Michigan. photographs of new technology, scientists and engineers.

autonomous underwater vehicle competition

Components are displayed in the main clean room inside the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Friday, June 7, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

From left: Undergraduate student users Lourdes Leung and Jai Peris, work alongside Senior SRF Accelerator Physicist Haipeng Wang inside the Low Energy Recirculator Facility (LERF) at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

TARDEC Warren, Michigan. photographs of new technology, scientists and engineers.

TARDEC Warren, Michigan. photographs of new technology, scientists and engineers.

Members of the Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program (OSELP) visit and tour the Machine Control Center at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Biomedical Research & Innovation Center (BRIC) press announcement event held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Friday, Mar. 24, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Director Stuart Henderson, left, chats with Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s Chief of Staff Jeff Goettman, right, before a tour of the facility on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

TARDEC Warren, Michigan. photographs of new technology, scientists and engineers.