Chemagination Winners 2025

23rd Annual Local Section Competition

Congratulations to ALL students from 6 local schools that undertook the Chemagination at Princeton challenge!

Finalists

Alternate Energy Sources

First place Team #AE3 Joshua Pastor, Dennis Yu 

The Future of Sewage Treatment and Alternative Energy: Microbial Fuel Cells

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

Second place Team #AE1 Theodore Golemanov, Devin Trobiano

Solar Energy in the Great Beyond

Wallington Jr/Sr High School

Third place Team #AE2 Ankit Sarukkai, James J Wang, 

Nanocharged: Reinventing Solar Cells to Power the Future

WWPHS-S 

Environment

First place Team #E2 Eric Ji, Divit Mehra, Erick Yan 

From Water to Renewable Energy: The Sustainable Extraction of Lithium from Seawater

WWPHS-S

Second place Team #E5 Jiya Joshi, Siyona Jain

Rescuing the Reefs: Exopolysaccharide-infused Algae Biofilm 

Hopewell Valley Regional School District

Third place Team #E6 Isabella Del Priore, Ananya Ajeeth, Harini Raghuraman

A Marble Makeover: Preserving History One Stone at a Time

Hillsborough High School

Medicine/Health

First place Team #M2 Suvanth Erranki, Aradhya Vijay, Arnav Chhajed

Arasuvnavin and Nanocarriers: Complete Eradication of Alzheimer’s Disease

WWPHS-S

Second place Team #M8 Maggie Rao, Asel Ailibekova

Tumors targeted with plant-based nanobots

Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science

Third place Team #M3 Joydeep Basu, Pratham Fnu, Harshith Yarava

Cardiac Synthetic Self-Healing Tissues: The Rise of Regenerative Chemistry

WWPHS-S

New Materials

First place Team #NM3 Anika Khedekar, Sobhika Sampath, Maliha Goel

FrankenStitch: ph-Powered Sutures for a Smarter Recovery

WWPHS-S

Second place Team #NM2 Andrew Yuan, Aarav Bhamre

Superconducting Superhero: NiTi Solid State Electrolytes 

WWPHS-S

Third place (tie) Team #NM4 Srishte Arvind, Arya Khare, Nikita Agarwal

Bugs vs. Bacteria: How Cicades Inspired the Newest Self-Cleaning Surfaces

Hopewell Valley Regional School District

Third place (tie) Team #NM6 Anya Verma, Anjali Shah, 

From Trash to Tank: Converting CO2 into Octane Using Novel Catalysts

Hillsborough High School

Proteins/Protein Chemistry

First place Team #P3 Nived Narendran, Aditya Saha

Introducing Amylyticor: A Breakthrough Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease

WWPHS-S

Second place Team #P1 Shreeya Patel, Prisha Patel, Maya Ashok 

RegenGel: Transforming Wound Care

Hillsborough High School

Third place Team #P2 Arjun Deshpande, Richard Hao 

Smart Shuttle AAVs: A Protein-engineered Viral System

WWPHS-S