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2023 Special Awards

2023 Special Award Winners

2023 Society for Science Community Innovation Award

Health of the Laguna Madre Watershed Year Three: A Focus on Native Aquatic Plants And Their Role in Carbon Recapture, Microplastics and Water Quality


Nuclear Power Institute Award

Senior Division:

Engineered Phototropism: Improving the Energy Efficiency of Residential-Use Solar Tracking Using Soft-Bodied Thermal Expansion

Junior Division

Piezoelectric Power Generation From Automotive Tires


Port of Corpus Christi Authority

  • Go The Speed Of Solar
  • How does air quality change the further it gets from the ocean?
  • Burning Biofuels
  • Goo Be Gone
  • Effect of Saline Environment on Seeds Growth

Texas Master Naturalist

Senior Division:

Finding an Accessible, Environmentally Friendly Solution to Water Purification: Testing the Effectiveness of Aloidendron barberae and Bambusa dolichomerithalla as Natural Coagulants

Junior Division

Effects of Urbanization on the San Antonio River Water Quality


The Lemelson Early Inventor Prize

A VIABLE, cost-effective, and SUSTAINABLE solution to CO2 pollution


Regeneron Biomedical Science Award

The Influence and Time Endurance of Different Disinfectant Solutions on ATP


SpaceX

Senior Division:

Improving Airplane Wings through the Study of Aerial-Capable Animals

Junior Division

Who Nose Rockets


State of Texas Health Physics Society

Mitigating the Harmful Effects of Radiation Therapy with the Synergistic Effects of Curcumin Bioavailability and Piperine on Dugesia dorotocephala


Deere Family Special Award

Solar Heat Updraft Tower with Wind Augmentation (Year II)

A Novel Approach of Using Electroencephalogram (EEG) & Machine Learning to Predict Implicit Bias Towards Cancer Patients with Chemotherapy Induced Alopecia


Garver Special Award

Health of the Laguna Madre Watershed Year Three: A Focus on Native Aquatic Plants And Their Role in Carbon Recapture, Microplastics and Water Quality


Broadcom Foundation

Bionic Eye


Taking the Pulse of the Planet Award (NOAA) 

Predicting hurricane trajectories using a Boosting Regression model using past storms to analyze the extent to which climatic and positionalfactors influence hurricane trajectory

 

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