Pioneer Academics 5th Annual Co-Curricular Summit
Saturday, September 19, 2026
9:00AM EST - Event Opens
10:30-11:30AM EST - Program Fair (LAJF tabling)
Visit their website for a full schedule
Free to Attend
LAJF is excited to be tabling a virtual booth at the Program Fair of the Pioneer Academics 5th Annual Co-Curricular Summit!
The Program Fair is from 10:30-11:30am EST, which is when you can visit our booth. The event itself opens at 9:00am, and there are other programs scheduled, so please check their website for more details. We hope to see you there and please share this with anyone in your network who may be interested!
Please see below for information about the event.
ABOUT THE EVENT
Each year, Pioneer Academics invites the most rigorous, values-driven academic organizations to connect with students and educators passionate about impactful learning, featuring webinar sessions with expert panels.
Driven by Pioneer’s social missions to transcend cultural, geographic and socioeconomic barriers to educational engagement; the Summit is a free event open to the public that assembles exceptional students, mentors, and academic leaders from premier institutions and rigorous educational programs worldwide.
The two chief goals of the summit are:
To disseminate value-based information to students about academic and college pursuits.
To offer the opportunity for underprivileged students in the US and abroad to access quality academic enhancement programs and colleges.
Last year, the Summit drew ~2,500 participants from 93 countries, with representatives from 21 distinguished programs, sharing valuable insights into admissions, academic life, and co-curricular opportunities.
This year’s Summit explores the theme “Cultivating Wisdom: Growing Integrity, Empathy and Maturity in Education.” True leadership demands not only emotional maturity and resilience, but also a deeper sense of integrity—the ability to navigate uncertainty with clarity, empathy, and ethical discernment.
We’re also pleased to announce the keynote speaker for this year’s event! Grounding our Summit’s discussion is Dr. Francis Collins, a physician and geneticist known for his landmark discoveries of disease genes, leading the Human Genome Project, and his 12 years as Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We look forward to hearing Dr. Collins’ insights, along with the learnings from the Summit’s panels.