Learn more about the winners of this year's Intel Schools of Distinction awards honoring exemplary math and science programs.

The nation's most innovative math and science schools were celebrated on September 10 at a Washington D.C. awards ceremony -- with top honors going to a New York high school. Schools of Distinction winners provide a rich, rigorous science or mathematics curriculum and represent some of the most successful educational programs in the country.

Read about the schools that were selected as finalists for the 2012 Intel Schools of Distinction program.

On April 18, Intel Corporation named 18 U.S. schools as finalists in the 2012 Intel Schools of Distinction Awards. The finalists, to be honored in September at an awards reception in Washington, D.C., serve as outstanding examples of leaders in preparing tomorrow’s innovators.