Senior Division (Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12) Winners
Congratulations to The 2016 DuPont Challenge Senior Division top winners!
First Place:
Fudong Fan
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Alexandria, VA
Sponsoring Teacher: Jennifer Seavey
Essay: Out with the Old, Silicon, in with the New, Graphene
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Second Place:
Brendan Cheng
Gilmour Academy
Gates Mills, OH
Sponsoring Teacher: Paul Appelbaum
Essay: Star Wars: The Biomedical Engineer Awakens
Third Place (TIE)
Caroline Levine
Blind Brook High School
Rye Brook, NY
Sponsoring Teacher: Michele Sugantino
Essay: Using Fingers to Do the Hearing
Third Place (TIE)
Chase Krug
Linn-Mar High School
Marion, IA
Sponsoring Teacher: Barbara Lemmer
Essay: Domesticating New Crop Species
Karan Amin
The Wheatley School
Old Westbury, NY
Sponsoring Teacher: Mary Alexis Blondrage
Essay: Defining the Future of Sports Medicine: How Meditation and Achieving the State of Flow is Creating Success for Athletes Worldwide
Jessica Anthony
Alsion Montesorri
Fremont, CA
Sponsoring Teacher: Jennifer Schriber
Essay: Removing the Chicken Poop from the Chicken Coop
Nadav Bendavid
Walter Panas High School
Cortlandt Manor, NY
Sponsoring Teacher: Frank Tamweber
Essay: Coffee Power
Beighley Berger
Bergen County Academies
Hackensack, NJ
Sponsoring Teacher: Judith Pinto
Essay: Mother Earth Knows Best: A Technological Revolution Inspired by Nature
Mallori Bidondo
Meadowdale High School
Lynnwood, WA
Sponsoring Teacher: Dianne Thompson
Essay: Mitochondrial Diseases: Let’s Leave Them in the Past
Thomas Chen
Jericho High School
Jericho, NY
Sponsoring Teacher: Theone Rinaudo
Essay: Test Before You Ingest!
Trevor Cruz
Walter Panas High School
Cortlandt Manor, NY
Sponsoring Teacher: Frank Tamweber
Essay: Underwater Breathing
Cosette Davis
Queens High School for the Sciences at York College
Jamaica, NY
Sponsoring Teacher: Shanaz Baksh
Essay: Slimy Seaweed: Key to Water Quality?
Vivian Fang
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Alexandria, VA
Sponsoring Teacher: Jennifer Seavey
Essay: This App Could Save Your Life
Roberto Fedrigo
Claremont Secondary
Victoria, British Columbia
Sponsoring Teacher: Jennifer Loukes
Essay: The Role of Immunotherapy in Modern Cancer Treatment
Veronica Galban
Joel Barlow High School
Redding, CT
Sponsoring Teacher: Katherine Nuzzo
Essay: The Chargers of Tomorrow
Eugene Han
Lick-Wilmerding High School
San Francisco, CA
Sponsoring Teacher: Andrew Kleindolph
Essay: Making Last Mile Deliveries Emission Free
Claire Hao
Troy High School
Troy, MI
Sponsoring Teacher: Jeff Moore
Essay: Waiter, There’s a Fly in My Soup!
Alyssa Henriquez
Spencerville Adventist Academy
Spencerville, MD
Sponsoring Teacher: Nathan Hess
Essay: The Simple Science of a Seed
Lisa He-Wu
Central High School
Philadelphia, PA
Sponsoring Teacher: Galeet Cohen
Essay: Feeding the World: Food Security Will Be Balanced, Not Challenged
Grace Huang
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Alexandria, VA
Sponsoring Teacher: Jennifer Seavey
Essay: The Unseen Key to Our Health
Princeton Huang
Plainview Old-Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School
Plainview, NY
Sponsoring Teacher: Mary Lou O’Donnell
Essay: Microphotosynthetic Power Cells: The Source Awakens
Anchal Kanojia
Walter Panas High School
Cortlandt Manor, NY
Sponsoring Teacher: Frank Tamweber
Essay: Shrimp On the Barbie: The Use of Shrimp to Solve Our Plastic Problem
Alina Kim
Woodson High School
Fairfax, VA
Sponsoring Teacher: Jongsup Kim
Essay: Apps Are the New Paper
James Kim
Bergen County Academies
Hackensack, NJ
Sponsoring Teacher: Eric Zhang
Essay: Plastic: Pathetic and Poor for People and the Environment
Joanna Lau
Herricks High School
New Hyde Park, NY
Sponsoring Teacher: Renee Barcia
Essay: Fractal Geometry as a Method for More Effective Lung Cancer Screening
Nadia LBahy
Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science
Worcester, MA
Sponsoring Teacher: Maria Borowski
Essay: Elimination of Environmentally Detrimental Meat Production
Jae Joon Lee
Bergen County Academies
Hackensack, NJ
Sponsoring Teacher: Eric Zhang
Essay: Encapsulation Is the Explanation
Maiya Mao
Bergen County Academies
Hackensack, NJ
Sponsoring Teacher: Eric Zhang
Essay: In Honor of the Poorly Portrayed Jellyfish in Finding Nemo
Anna Martino
Archmere Academy
Claymont, DE
Sponsoring Teacher: Glenn Hartman
Essay: The Silver Lining: The Solution to Food Spoilage
Katherine McLaughlan
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Alexandria, VA
Sponsoring Teacher: Jennifer Seavey
Essay: Detecting the Disorder
Jesus Medina
Bergen County Academies
Hackensack, NJ
Sponsoring Teacher: Judith Pinto
Essay: Climate Change: A Study of the Signs of a Desolate Future
Anthony Murphy-Neilson
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Alexandria, VA
Sponsoring Teacher: Omar Acio
Essay: From Banana Peels to Electricity: Biomass Gasification as a Renewable Resource
Hannah Noh
Bergen County Academies
Hackensack, NJ
Sponsoring Teacher: Eric Zhang
Essay: Save Food, Save Lives
Shreyas Parab
Archmere Academy
Claymont, DE
Sponsoring Teacher: Glenn Hartman
Essay: Game-Changing Gum
Isabella Perez
Bergen County Academies
Hackensack, NJ
Sponsoring Teacher: Eric Zhang
Essay: RNA Inter(feed)ing
Amelia Proudfoot
Ironwood Ridge High School
Oro Valley, AZ
Sponsoring Teacher: Bryan Sobehrad
Essay: Cochlear Implants Versus a Life with Hearing Aids
Odeya Rosenband
Ward Melville Senior High School
East Setauket, NY
Sponsoring Teacher: Jennifer Visconti
Essay: Coffee: 5 Calories with a Side of a Few Extra Years
Nuha Syed
Teaneck High School
Teaneck, NJ
Sponsoring Teacher: Maurice Rosales
Essay: Ants on Emission
Summer-Solstice Thomas
Santa Cruz High School
Santa Cruz, CA
Sponsoring Teacher: Hamutahl Cohen
Essay: The Secret World of Yellow Taxi Cabs
Claudia Vestal
Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts
Hot Springs, AR
Sponsoring Teacher: Brian Isbell
Essay: The Golden Grain
See the full list of Junior Division winners.