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2025 ISEF Winners

38 winners across 19 states. Showing every district that named a winner.

Arizona (2)

Device for Rapidly Detecting Toxic Dusts

Siyaa Poddar
Regeneron Young Scientist Award ($75,000)

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Samarth Dunakhe
First Award ($6,000)

Australia (1)

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Timothy Wilson
First Award ($6,000)

Bulgaria (1)

Relationship Between a Boat's Speed and the Shape of its Wake

Aleksandra Petkova
H. Robert Horvitz Prize for Fundamental Research ($10,000)

California (3)

Mobile Indoor Formaldehyde Detector

XinYan Chen
Craig R. Barrett Award for Innovation ($10,000)

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Vrishank Chandrasekhar
Dudley R. Herschbach SIYSS Award

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Aiden Kwon
First Award ($6,000)

Georgia (1)

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Pragathi Kasani-Akula
Dudley R. Herschbach SIYSS Award

Indiana (1)

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Aryav Das
First Award ($6,000)

Louisiana (2)

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Abigail Qi
EU Contest for Young Scientists Award

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Maya Trutschl
First Award ($6,000)

Massachusetts (3)

Desktop Plastic Recycling System

Benjamin Davis
Regeneron Young Scientist Award ($75,000)

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Ethan Yan
EU Contest for Young Scientists Award

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Ram Sivaraman
First Award ($6,000)

Michigan (2)

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Arnav Sharma
First Award ($6,000)

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Miriam Haddad
First Award ($6,000)

New Hampshire (1)

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Ameya Kharade
First Award ($6,000)

New Jersey (2)

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Edward Kang
First Award ($6,000)

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Qianheng Xu
First Award ($6,000)

New York (3)

Relevance of Memory in the Prisoner's Dilemma

Cory Seelenfreund
Peggy Scripps Award for Science Communication ($10,000)

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Lilly Horowitz
First Award ($6,000)

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Chinmayi Goyal
First Award ($6,000)

New Zealand (1)

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Jesse Rumball-Smith
First Award ($6,000)

Pennsylvania (2)

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Matthew Lo
First Award ($6,000)

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Audrey Zheng
First Award ($6,000)

Slovakia (1)

New Way of Making the Investigational Antiviral Drug Galidesivir

Adam Kovalčík
George D. Yancopoulos Innovator Award ($100,000)

Texas (5)

Brain-Controlled Bionic Prosthetic Leg (Neuroflex)

Samuel Skotnikov
Gordon E. Moore Award for Positive Outcomes for Future Generations ($50,000)

Brain-Controlled Bionic Prosthetic Leg (Neuroflex)

Chanyoung Kim
Gordon E. Moore Award for Positive Outcomes for Future Generations ($50,000)

Brain-Controlled Bionic Prosthetic Leg (Neuroflex)

Eeshaan Prashanth
Gordon E. Moore Award for Positive Outcomes for Future Generations ($50,000)

Research on Regenerating Nerve Cells

Uma Sthanu
Mary Sue Coleman Award for Life Science Innovation & Impact ($10,000)

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Aarushi Pandey
Dudley R. Herschbach SIYSS Award

Thailand (3)

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Punnawit Ponnirun
First Award ($6,000)

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Sataporn Thanapanyakul
First Award ($6,000)

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Siwakorn Suwannahong
First Award ($6,000)

Virginia (3)

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Oliver Wang
First Award ($6,000)

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Bennett Huang
First Award ($6,000)

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Jason Pan
First Award ($6,000)

Washington (1)

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Lakshmi Agrawal
First Award ($6,000)