2026 National Champions -
U.S. Edition.
DANIEL (Alabama) | Turning Methane Pollution into Useful Fuel
ANGEL (Alaska) | Saving Sacred Trees with Drones & 3D Technology
ALANA (American Samoa) | Cracking the Code on Coconut Water
ENIAH (Arizona) | How Wildfires Open the Door for Invasive Weeds
AIDEN (Arkansas) | A Solar-Powered Vertical Farm That Grows Food Anywhere, in Any Climate
HARITAA (California) | VeinViewer: A Low-Cost Device That Makes Veins Visible
SHRIPRIYA (California) | Unlocking the Genetic Code Behind ALS — and a Possible Path to Treatment
ANIRUDH (Colorado) | Mirai: The Water-Powered Sensor That Could Change the World
LULA (Connecticut) | A Smarter Way to Fight Pancreatic Cancer
SATYA (Delaware) | Teaching AI to Design Better Carbon Capture Materials
DARREN (Florida) | AR Glasses That Track Brain Tumors in Real Time
AASRITH (Georgia) | The AI Navigation System That Guides the Visually Impaired in Real Time
VINICIA (Guam) | Which Corals Can Survive a Warming Ocean?
LUKE (Hawaii) | A Fast, Cheap Test for Deadly Bacteria in Hawaii's Waterways
MALIAAYU (Hawaii) | How Too Much Salt Destroys Kidney Cells
ISSA (Illinois) | Virus-Powered Bandages That Kill Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
VALERIE (Indiana) | A Fairer Way to Measure What Works in Clinical Trials
AMAL (Iowa) | An AI Tool That Makes CRISPR Gene Editing More Precise
ANTARIKSHA (Iowa) | Detecting Alzheimer's from a Teardrop
SAVANNAH (Kansas) | What Happens to the Female Body in Space?
WANDA (Kentucky) | A Pocket-Sized Test for Forever Chemicals in Drinking Water
MAYA (Louisiana) | A $130 Device That Predicts and Prevents Deadly Pressure Wounds
SATHVIK (Maryland) | A $150 Drone That Maps Air Pollution in Real Time
JASON (Massachusetts) | A $25 Gravity-Powered Solar Tracker That Needs No Motor or Electricity
NICHELLE (Massachusetts) | A Snake Robot That Saves Lives in the First Hours After a Disaster
DIYA (Michigan) | A Mixed Reality App That Guides Surgeons Through Pancreatic Cancer Surgery
EVAN (Minnesota) | A Low-Cost Platform to Fine-Tune Brain Stimulation Therapy
MICHELLE (Mississippi) | An AI System That Teaches Kids with Autism to Recognize Emotions in Speech
ELLE (Missouri) | The Backpack That Could Save a Child's Life
TANNER (Montana) | Reading Animal Tracks Like a Science Book
HANEESHA (Nebraska) | A Kombucha-Grown Capsule That Purifies Drinking Water
KRISH (Nevada) | A Smartphone App That Screens for Pneumonia and Finds You Care
VEDHSAI (New Hampshire) | An App That Teaches Teens to Spot Deadly Fake Pills
REANNA (New Jersey) | Turning Waste Heat into Clean Energy
SYLVIA (New Mexico) | Using AI to Predict When the Rio Grande Will Run Dry
ARYANA (New York) | A New Drug Combination That Could Treat Food Allergies at Their Root
AVIVA (North Carolina) | A Skin-Safe Patch That Generates Electricity from Your Movements
GAYATRI (North Dakota) | The Mental Wellness App Built by a Teen for Teens
LYA (Northern Mariana Islands) | Using Magnets to Grow Food in Space
ANUKI (Ohio) | A $25 Wearable That Alerts Deaf and Deafblind Users to Danger
EMMA (Oklahoma) | Cracking the Gene Code Behind Autism and ALS
ALBERT (Oregon) | A Nano-Coating That Makes Steel Pipes Safe for Clean Hydrogen Fuel
TUSHAR (Pennsylvania) | An AI That Catches Lung Cancer Earlier and Explains Why
LORENA (Puerto Rico) | Could a Tropical Fruit Hold the Key to Brain Disease Treatment?
ARJUN (South Carolina) | How the Media Really Talks About AI — and How ChatGPT Changed Everything
SHOURYA (South Dakota) | The Hunt for the World's Most Accurate Clock
LEVI (Tennessee) | A $2,000 Machine That Lets Any Community Recycle Its Own Plastic
ARYA (Texas) | A Lab-Grown Leaf That Turns Sunlight into Fuel
OLIVIA (Utah) | A Smarter Way to Detect Deadly Lung Scarring Before It's Too Late
ANI (Virginia) | Smart Glasses That Detect Disease Before You Feel Sick
AADYA (Washington) | An AI Platform That Brings Mental Health Care to Anyone Who Needs It
PAVAN (West Virginia) | Using AI to Fast-Forward the Science of How Molecules Move
NIKAYLA (Wisconsin) | A Water Monitoring System to Stop Invasive Mussels Before They Spread
SAANVI (Wisconsin) | An AI That Predicts Whether Breast Cancer Will Come Back
JOEY (Wyoming) | Do Brain Supplements Actually Work? A Student Put Them to the Test