Case Study: STEM Fellowship empowers early career researchers with Overleaf

STEM Fellowship empowers 30 million Overleaf users with collaborative research writing

The customer, STEM Fellowship, is a student-led organization that needed to provide an accessible and efficient scientific writing platform for high school and undergraduate participants in its Big Data Challenge and scholarly writing workshops. The challenge was to equip early-career researchers, often using LaTeX for the first time, with a tool that simplified collaborative writing and formatting. The vendor, Overleaf, provided its online LaTeX editor to address this need.

Overleaf implemented a custom web portal for STEM Fellowship, providing templates and easy sign-up for participants. The solution enabled teams to collaboratively write, edit, and submit their research reports with professional formatting. The results included a streamlined research process for students, with one winning team from Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School praising the tool's ease of use, version control, and collaboration features. Overleaf's involvement empowered participants by fundamentally improving how they documented their research.

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