WPI institutes and the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) participated in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2017 Annual Meeting in Boston, U.S.A. and held a collaborative booth to introduce the WPI program and the institutes' activities including their approaches for internationalization.

AAAS, the publisher of Science, is the biggest international non-profit organization in the world, and its mission is to "advance science and serve society". The AAAS Annual Meeting assembles diverse participants, including scientists, families, science policymakers, and the media etc., offering symposia, lectures, seminars, poster presentations and exhibitions on a variety of scientific topics. The theme of the AAAS 2016 Annual Meeting is "Serving society through science policy".