The American Junior Academy of Science (AJAS) is STEM's Fountain of Youth. The AJAS mission is to enable our nation's best high school science research students to be honored in the presence of and interact with the scientific community whose career paths they wish to follow. The spirit of AJAS is to develop lasting national and global networks of friendships with other similarly motivated future young scientists, as well as with the many scientists and leaders they meet. AJAS encourages inquiry-based science that a DIMISHING number of master science teachers are promoting in the America's education systems.