VIEW THE RESULTS FROM The 2026 Academy of Science - St. Louis K-12 Regional ST. LOUIS SCIENCE FAIR!
Ribbon placements and Special Awards are below.
Congratulations!
All ribbon awardees and Special Award recipients will be recognized at the Science Fair Awards Ceremony, Saturday, April 25, 1 - 2:30 p.m. at the Winifred Moore Auditorium, Webster University Campus, 470 East Lockwood Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63119.

This list was last updated on 04/27 @ 11:52A. Ribbons are listed alpha by project
Blue Ribbon Award Winners
Red Ribbon Award Winners
White Ribbon Award Winners
Green Ribbon Award Winners
Secondary (6-12) Special Awards
Elementary (K-5) Special Awards
Honors Division Ribbons
Honors Division participants are receiving a Purple Honors Division Ribbon signifying the level of difficulty of their projects and the expertise which the students’ gained throughout the completion of their project.
Sky Jacobson, Rapid Norovirus Detection Using Magnetic Beads and RT-LAMP
Ayush Vasireddy, A Cost-Effective hb-NPG Sensor for Bisphenol F Detection
Aidan Antony, Visualizing events in DNA repair using single-molecule optic
Amol Bansal, A Generalized Algorithm for Stepwise Risk Correction
Romell Calhoun, STL Honors Science Fair SUSTAINING LIFE ON MARS: A SIMULATED
Kai Chen, Evaluating the Limits of MAML in Structural Damage Analysis
Vibhav Chinta, STL Honors Science Fair Computational Modeling of Ortho-Subs
Joe Crocker and Hayden Garmer, The Effects of Labadie Coal Pollutants on the Environment
Kevin Diao, 3D design and printed models on Genome Editing
Agastya Diwan, How do living organisms sense zinc deficiency?
Rohan Dixit, NeckWise: A Novel Wearable to Reduce Cervical Spine Strain
Audrey Edson, Temperature - Methylation Study
Annabel Gainey, An Evaluation of Aeronautical Recovery Systems
Ananya Goli, Aptamer candidate development by enriched ctDNA fragments.
Kevin He and Sophia Yuan, Functional Renewable Materials for Contaminant Remediation
Serena Huang, Quantifying & Mitigating Semantic Intent Drift in AI Agents
Ella Jackson, Evaluating the Impact of Recycled Glass on Plant Growth
Aydin Kafaie, Machine Learning Optimization of Wearable Sensor Configurati
Vidyuth Kamesh, A Statistical Analysis of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers
Azaliyah Ketchum, A Guide to Catfish Trapping in Little Creek Pond
Aiden Kim, Determining the Cause of Symptom Onset in Huntington's
Terry Lee, STL Honors Science Fair [Fermat-Torricelli Ratio]
Constanza Leon-Rossel, STUDY OF MOSS and CO2 Absorption in a Confined Space
Aston Liang, Local vs Long-Haul Lettuce: Decision Tool for School Meals
Aaron Lin, A Geometric Counting Formula for Braid Type Arrangements
Lucy Luetkemeyer, A New Form of Herbicide Resistance in US Weedy Rice
Izzy Mancini, The Effect of Temperature on the Health of a Saltwater Syste
Emma Martinez , Effects of Simulated Microgravity and Red Light on Duckweed
Jason Mathew, Contribution of Germline Mutations in prioritized ERBB funct
Deleena Mehrotra, 5-HTP and L-Theanine Behavioral Effects in Drosophila
Nischal Mohan, Dopamine Deficiency Alters Locomotion in Larval Zebrafish
Khare Radha, Effects of Milkweed Cardenolides on Monarch Preferences
Avyukth Raghuraman, Quantifying Work of Breathing in Biomass-COPD Patients
Elizabeth Saleeby, Computational Evaluation of Art Descriptions
Josephine Saleeby, Impact of Raised Crosswalks on Vehicle Speed in Schools
Satvik Seetharaman, Low-Light Classification of Recyclable Waste inside Bins
Steven Shaw, DNA N6 -adenine methylation in transposable elements
Prabhjas Singh, Integrative Causal Modeling & Treatment Recommendation LUAD
Sahana Solai, STL Honors Science Fair [Decoding Alzheimer’s Disease]
Tejaswini Sundaresan Venkatesan, Distinct Chemotherapeutic Agents Converge on a Putative Neuroimmune Axis to Suppress Motivation
Roger Tang, AI-Powered Compass: Navigating Early Autism Detection
Bodhi Torno, Leopard Gecko Substrate Testing: A Solution to Obesity
Luke Tung, Effects of Exercise Modalities on Adolescent Blood Pressure
Pranav Visveswaran, Cerebroscan: A Longitudinal fNIRS Neuro-Monitoring System0
Jessie Wang, Haptic Array Watch for Blind People's Navigation
Claire Xiao, Transcriptomic Signatures of Anti-PD-1 Response in Melanoma
Sophia Yuan, Functional Renewable Materials for Contaminant Remediation
Mark Yurkuns, Influence of Mars Seasons on Elemental Composition using XRF
HONORS FAIR – ISEF FINALISTS
WINNERS
Sky Jacobson, “Rapid Norovirus Detection Using Magnetic Beads and RT-LAMP”
Ayush Vasireddy, “A Cost-Effective hb-NPG Sensor for Bisphenol F Detection”
RUNNER UP
Satvik Seetharaman, “Low-Light Classification of Recyclable Waste inside Bins”


HONORS FAIR REGIONAL SPECIAL AWARDS
WINNERS
American Psychological Association Award –
Roger Tang, “AI-Powered Compass: Navigating Early Autism Detection”
Association of Women Geoscientists Award –
Ella Jackson, “Evaluating the Impact of Recycled Glass on Plant Growth”
NASA Earth Space System Science Project Award –
Emma Martinez, “Effects of Simulated Microgravity and Red Light on Duckweed”
Ricoh Sustainable Development Award –
Aston Liang, “Local vs Long-Haul Lettuce: Decision Tool for School Meals”
WEF/Stockholm Junior Water Prize –
Hayden Garmer and Joe Crocker, “The Effects of Labadie Coal Pollutants on the Environment”
Regeneron Biomedical Science Award –
Jessie Wang, “Haptic Array Watch for Blind People’s Navigation”
Outstanding Achievement in InVitro Biology Award –
Steven Shaw, “DNA N6 -adenine methylation in transposable elements”
Yale University Award for Outstanding STEM Research –
Pranav Visveswaran, “Cerebroscan: A Longitudinal fNIRS Neuro-Monitoring System”
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Thank You to the many Science Fair Judges and Judging Teams for providing important feedback and encouragement. You are helping to foster STEM literacy and competency in the next generation of STEM professionals and advocates, scientists, researchers, inventors, and engineers.
To our sponsors—Boeing, the Broadcom Foundation, Missouri MOST529, and the Saigh Foundation, you make it all possible!
Click HERE for a listing of Honors Division Finalists and Semifinalists from prior years!




