Chemagination Winners 2024

22nd Annual Local Section Competition

Congratulations to ALL students from 7 local schools that undertook the Chemagination at Princeton challenge!

Finalists

Alternate Energy Sources

First place Team #AE3 Ved Shenoy and Shravan Pradeep 

Zeolites and Frustrated Lewis Pairs: Revolutionizing Hydrogen Storage for Conservation 

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

Second place Team #AE5 Neethigna Takkella, Anish Reemala and Sravya Marella

Important Innovations through the Centuries: Quantum Batteries

Hillsborough High School

Third place Team #AE2 Darby Ko and Vyshakh Thejaswi

A Nuclear Fuel: Clean and Accessible Fusion-Fission Energy 

WWPHS-S 

Environment

First place Team #E2 Zoya Gupta and Deethya Reddy Yelamkonda 

A Step Toward a Circular Economy: Nutrient Recovery Using Microbial Recycling Cells

WWPHS-S

Second place Team #E1 Saugandh Vidyadharani, Anushka Gaidhani, Shrika Venkateshwaran 

Redox Desalination: The Idea that Changed the World 

WWPHS-S

Third place Team #E7 Lisa Goliyad and Kaylee Gordon

Using Nitrtoplasts to Solve the Fertilizer Crisis

Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science

Medicine/Health

First place Team #M1 Michelle Yau and Arjun Chetty 

HemoHero: The Future of Trauma Care

WWPHS-S

Second place Team #M2 Lina Lin and Katie Shan 

Alginate Beads: Steering into a New Era of Cancer Therapy 

WWPHS-S

Third place Team #M4 Natalia Poweska, Grace Kucharek and Jennifer Grebowiec

The VEGA Lead

Wallington Junior/Senior High School

New Materials

First place Team #NM5 Nithila Sengottuvelan, April Lu and Rakshitha Kannan

Combatting Corrosion

Hillsborough High School

Second place Team #NM1 Anika Nair and Surabhi Ponna

Semi-Conductor Nanocrystals: A Revolutionary Cancer Detection Innovation

WWPHS-S

Third place Team #NM3 Om Rane, Vikram Karamsetty and Nikhil Sethuraman

Super-Qubit: The Evolution of Quantum Computers with TiBaCaCuO 

WWPHS-S

Proteins/Protein Chemistry

First place Team #P2 Vaishnavi Kogenaru and Shruthi Loganathan 

Novel AI-Drive Ultra-small CRISPR/CasPico System: Towards New Generation Genetic Medicine

WWPHS-S

Second place Team #P1 Sophia Kim and Dhairya Mathur 

A New Fronter: Enzyme Inhibition in DKA

WWPHS-S

Third place Team #P6 Isabell He, Bridget Smith and Alexa Gibson 

How Salamanders Changed Medicine

Hillsborough High School

Recognition, New School Team #P4 Ava Sacarin and Sidra Syed

Molecular Mailmen: The Autonomous Nano-Courier Revolutionizing Cancer Therapy

Deer Park  High School