Senior Division (Grades 10, 11, 12)
Congratulations to the 2013 DuPont Challenge Senior Division top winners!
Grand Prize:
Hugo Yen
Troy High School
Fullerton, CA
Sponsoring Teacher: Nga Ngo
Essay: Flavonoids: The Avengers of Rice Bacterial Blight
First Runner-Up:
Laura Herman
Pine Crest School
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Sponsoring Teacher: Jennifer Gordinier
Essay: Why Q is Purple: Synesthetic Association Patterns
Finalist:
Ardavan Farahvash
Monta Vista High School
Cupertino, CA
Sponsoring Teacher: Kavita Gupta
Essay: Graphene Ultracapacitors: Faster, Smaller, Better
Finalist:
Nikhil Bhattasali
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Alexandria, VA
Sponsoring Teacher: Michael Walker
Essay: Grain by Grain: Raising Output in Rice Farming
Brian Brew
Herricks High School
New Hyde Park, NY
Sponsoring Teacher: Renee Barcia
Essay: Exploring Potential New Food Sources
Alex Cagle
New Tech Academy at Wayne High School
Fort Wayne, IN
Sponsoring Teacher: Marci Oberlin
Essay: Nanotechnology: A Cure for CP?
Jacob Farr
Dublin Coffman High School
Dublin, OH
Sponsoring Teacher: Donna Parker
Essay: Heroic Hydrogen
Alexander Frenkel
Ward Melville High School
East Setauket, NY
Sponsoring Teacher: Jennifer Visconti
Essay: We Are, Therefore We Think?
Amy Hao
Townsend Harris High School
Flushing, NY
Sponsoring Teacher: Phillip Jones
Essay: Seeing the Light
Gordon Hart
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Alexandria, VA
Sponsoring Teacher: Jennifer Seavey
Essay: Using 3-Dimensional Printing Technology in Tissue
Hanna Carolina Hatanpaa
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Alexandria, VA
Sponsoring Teacher: Hadan Kauffman
Essay: Have a Heart: Printing Organs from Scratch
Cheyenne Hua
Hunter College High School
New York, NY
Sponsoring Teacher: Eliza Kuberska
Essay: Oceans: Our Last Resort
Tara Iyer
Evergreen Valley High School
San Jose, CA
Sponsoring Teacher: Gary Hubbs
Essay: Autistic Children: Singing Their Way to Speech
Noelle LaDue
Monroe-Woodbury High School
Central Valley, NY
Sponsoring Teacher: Nancy Flanagan
Essay: Fuel for Thought
Elisa Lau
Milliken Mills High School
Unionville, Ontario
Sponsoring Teacher: Kamla Reid
Essay: Looking to the Sun
Alison Lewis
Sanford School
Hockessin, DE
Sponsoring Teacher: Andre Dagenais
Essay: Aurora Borealis
Emily Lynch
Dublin Coffman High School
Dublin, OH
Sponsoring Teacher: Donna Parker
Essay: Microalgae's Giant-Sized Potential
Emily McCormick
Los Angeles County High School for the Arts
Los Angeles, CA
Sponsoring Teacher: Annabel Adriatico
Essay: Taking Flight: Butterfly Wings and Solar Paneling
Aishwarya Nene
Lynbrook High School
San Jose, CA
Sponsoring Teacher: Jon Penner
Essay: The Race Towards Specificity in Drug Design
Esther Park
Little Rock Central High
Little Rock, AR
Sponsoring Teacher: Gary Earleywine
Essay: Lasers and Literary Traditions
Jisu Park
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Alexandria, VA
Sponsoring Teacher: Kerry Hamblin
Essay: The Patch to the Future
Ksenia Pinski
Eric Hamber Secondary
Vancouver, British Columbia
Sponsoring Teacher: Adam Wightman
Essay: Energy for Change
Emily Powell
Paradise Valley High School
Phoenix, AZ
Sponsoring Teacher: Andrew Bernier
Essay: Saving the Heroes of Our Harvest
Sacha Servan-Schreiber
Homeschool
New York, NY
Sponsoring Teacher: Olga Servan-Schreiber
Essay: The Jellyfish--Simply Inspirational
Simran Soni
Green Hope High School
Cary, NC
Sponsoring Teacher: Kevin Jordan
Essay: Feeding the World, One Pot at a Time
Steven Vue
South Cobb High School
Austell, GA
Sponsoring Teacher: Paula Lawrence
Essay: Graphene and Nanotechnology
Nathan Wong
Herricks High School
New Hyde Park, NY
Sponsoring Teacher: Renee Barcia
Essay: Starfire
Rebecca Wong
Highlands Ranch High School
Highlands Ranch, CO
Sponsoring Teacher: David Wexler
Essay: Treasure from Behind
Summer Wu
Illinois Math and Science Academy
Aurora, IL
Sponsoring Teacher: Branson Lawrence
Essay: Nano-Manpower
See the full list of Junior Division winners.
