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Special Awards

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

 

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