The Rivers Science Department enhances students’ passion for innovative thinking, while training them to seek unbiased evidence, ask questions about the natural world, and apply scientific problem-solving to diverse challenges. We equip every Rivers graduate with a core base of scientific knowledge that can inform their decisions on personal, social, and political issues while preparing them for future academic endeavors. Students use technology and analytical tools to work through challenging problems, collaborate in an open minded manner, and design their own laboratory investigations. As our students relate what they learn to current events, they move beyond the confines of the science classroom and into local laboratories, hospitals, businesses, and the natural world. Modern society produces exponential quantities of information with decreasing reliability, demanding students to successfully sort fact from fiction. By teaching students to think critically about what is presented to them, they graduate better prepared to confront our world’s most pressing issues in technology, the environment, medicine, and society as a whole.