2023 Special Award Winners
2023 Society for Science Community Innovation Award
Sofia Cornejo & Christian Pena | 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:
Ricardo Victorio | Engineered Phototropism: Improving the Energy Efficiency of Residential-Use Solar Tracking Using Soft-Bodied Thermal Expansion
Junior Division
Asvini Thivakaran | Piezoelectric Power Generation From Automotive Tires
Port of Corpus Christi Authority
- Kyle Herndon & Nicholas Ryan | Go The Speed Of Solar
- Alayna McLendon & Olivia Parker | How does air quality change the further it gets from the ocean?
- Michael Udoh | Burning Biofuels
- Ayden Castillo, Rafael Profrio, & Matthew Escalona | Goo Be Gone
- Vihaan Rajput | Effect of Saline Environment on Seeds Growth
Texas Master Naturalist
Senior Division:
Katherine Lee | Finding an Accessible, Environmentally Friendly Solution to Water Purification: Testing the Effectiveness of Aloidendron barberae and Bambusa dolichomerithalla as Natural Coagulants
Junior Division
Aditi Pinnenti | Effects of Urbanization on the San Antonio River Water Quality
The Lemelson Early Inventor Prize
Soaham Kumar | A VIABLE, cost-effective, and SUSTAINABLE solution to CO2 pollution
Regeneron Biomedical Science Award
Aubree Marquez | The Influence and Time Endurance of Different Disinfectant Solutions on ATP
SpaceX
Senior Division:
Nicholas Ng & Catherine Nguyen | Improving Airplane Wings through the Study of Aerial-Capable Animals
Junior Division
Tyler George | Who Nose Rockets
State of Texas Health Physics Society
Aliza Tharani | Mitigating the Harmful Effects of Radiation Therapy with the Synergistic Effects of Curcumin Bioavailability and Piperine on Dugesia dorotocephala
Deere Family Special Award
Allison Barnes | Solar Heat Updraft Tower with Wind Augmentation (Year II)
Vicky Nguyen | A Novel Approach of Using Electroencephalogram (EEG) & Machine Learning to Predict Implicit Bias Towards Cancer Patients with Chemotherapy Induced Alopecia
Garver Special Award
Sofia Cornejo & Christian Pena | 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
Carter Ponce, Christian Rosas & Jose Alejandro | Bionic Eye
Taking the Pulse of the Planet Award (NOAA)
Samuel Li | Predicting hurricane trajectories using a Boosting Regression model using past storms to analyze the extent to which climatic and positionalfactors influence hurricane trajectory
