Challenge Participants

Meet Laalitya. Laalitya hopes to revolutionize energy in developing countries by using vehicular motion to generate and harness clean and affordable energy.

Meet Anika. Anika hopes to find a natural sorbent which would be effective in replacing current environmentally damaging solutions to remedy oil spills, using pomegranate husk and orange peels.

Meet Jaya. Jaya engineered an Airflow Control Robot designed to help reduce energy consumption in the home by eliminating the use of heat in unoccupied rooms.

Meet Caroline. Caroline developed a sustainable method of public transportation that eliminates the need for a diesel engine or electric motor in trains.

Meet Austin. Austin hopes to improve the efficiency of renewable energy in developing nations using a unique low-cost solar tracker alternative.

Aidan is a member of Boy Scouts, Band, and Art Club. He also enjoys sailing, track, and golf.

Meet Rithvik. Rithvik's project deals with how specific plant components can be used to treat Alzheimer's disease.

Naren participates in Lego Robotics and Science Bowl. He is also learning to speak Mandarin and plays the piano, basketball and chess.

Brandon is a member of Science Olympiad, Science Club, and Math Club. He also plays the clarinet, piano, and the oboe.

Meet Yosef. Yosef developed a solution to mitigate earth’s rising temperatures by planting hydroponic trees in the ocean.

Meet Simone. Simone hopes to improve tennis skills all while keeping the public active and healthy by making tennis more accessible.

Carolyn is a member of school orchestra and chamber orchestra. She also enjoys playing soccer and tennis and unicycling.

Meet Reshma. Reshma created a predictive model using machine learning and neural networks to predict and prevent the instances of forest fires.

Meet Nishant. Nishant developed iCART, a new approach to carbon capture that extracts carbon dioxide from the air and recycles it into natural volcanic rock.

Meet Kathryn. Her innovation, Lawn Bot, aims to reduce the amount of fresh water wasted during home lawn care.

Chase is a member of 4H Club, Math Club, and Boy Scouts. He also enjoys competing in science fairs.

Gabriel enjoys playing the saxophone and soccer.

Meet Jordan. Jordan Prawira invented a wind turbine inspired by hurricane formation concepts to improve the performance and efficiency of current wind turbines.

Anin is a member of Science Olympiad and Math Club. He also enjoys playing the piano, basketball and tennis.

Meet Camellia. Camellia developed a water leakage detection system to identify underground water leakage and reduce the water lost annually through current distribution systems worldwide.

Patrick participates in Science Fairs and competes in basketball, hockey, baseball, golf, and track.

Meet Samu. Samu created a framework-based application that allows users to create custom-tailored forms of visual and verbal interaction between desktop and mobile devices.

Meet Samyak. Samyak designed a sensor-based system to track hand hygiene compliance in hospitals to reduce the fatality rate associated with nosocomial infections.

Anishaa is a member of Science Club, Math Club, and Science Olympiad. She also enjoys singing, dancing, Taekwondo, and tennis.

Meet Faraz. Faraz invented TalkMotion, a talking device for deaf and aphonic children, that turns a sign language gesture into verbal language, or verbal language into sign language gestures.

Meet Allie. Allie hopes to revolutionize the way people design medical equipment for children starting with the incentive spirometer.

Meet Devin. Devin hopes his innovation SLIDEMAP can act as the pathologists in third world countries while in developed countries it can aid pathologists and help them make more accurate diagnosis.