Chemagination Winners 2023

Chemagination at Princeton 21st Annual Local Section Competition

Finalists

Alternate Energy Sources

First place (tie) Team #AE2 Akshath Sarukkai and Anton Misirpashayev 

Plasma Catalysis in Ammonia Synthesis

West Windsor-Plainsboro High School-South (WWPHS-S)

First place (tie) Team #AE7 Richard Aerath, Rishi Bajaj and Nishant Ganesan 

The Revolutionary Capabilities of Hydrogen Fuel Cells

WWPHS-S

Second place Team #AE3 Matthew Canales, Tyler Cimler and Aprameya Kannan

Energy Evolution: Solid-State Batteries

Hightstown High School

Third place Team #AE4 Jagan Rajeev and Manan Patel

The Secret Behind the Sparkle

Hillsborough HS

Environment

First place Team #E3 Paul Li and Leo Li 

Mineral “Magic:” Revolutionizing Carbon Sequestration

WWPHS-S

Second place Team #E2 Nabeeha Anis and Anjali Ravikanti 

Converting Fertilizer Runoff into Eco-friendly Products

WWPHS-S

Third place Team #E5 Adhithi Rajesh and Victor Ma   

Ocean Acidification: Neutralizing the Effects of Carbon Emissions

Hillsborough HS

Medicine/Health

First place Team #M3 Princie Shah and Arishtha Dey 

One Print Away: The Future of Osteoarthritis

WWPHS-S

Second place Team #M6 Nivedha Sundarrajan and Roshne Nagrajan 

Neurotoxic Peptides: Are They Really That Toxic?

Hillsborough HS

Third place Team #M2 Nandita Dandamudi and Ishaan Nittukandi

Revolutionary Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease Using Enzymes and Coral

WWPHS-S

New Materials

First place Team #NM2 Brayden Lee and Revin Aloysius

TaCo2Te2 – Spinning into a New Solution in Memory

WWPHS-S

Second place Team #NM6 Anna Fenchenko and Kevin Zhang

Construction of Space Elevators Using Carbon Nanotubes and Self-healing Materials

Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science

Third place Team #NM3 Pratham Satti, Shirish Naidu and Krrish Madavarapu

The Next Generation Prosthetic Materials

 WWPHS-S

Proteins/Protein Chemistry

First place Team #P6 Tisha Jasani, Jana Mehanna and Prisha Agrawal 

Managing Diabetic Dementia

WWPHS-S

Second place Team #P3 Vishnu Bharadwaaj and Kyle Colipano

"Save"-ry Sugars: Glycoprotein Therapeutics

Hillsborough High School

Third place Team #P2 Audrey Fu, Leeann Shaw and Locke Cai 

Photosynthesis 2.0

WWPHS-S

Honorable mention Team #AE1 Kamila Zuba, Kaylee Gusciora

Bioleaf Energy Resolution

Wallington Junior/Senior High School