Chemagination Winners 2026
24th Annual Local Section Competition
Congratulations to ALL students from our local schools.
Here are the 2026 Chemagination competition finalists.
Alternate Energy Sources
First place Team #AE6 Yani Patel, Pari Patel, Jay Nemallikanti
Resotile Converting Sound to Energy
Hillsborough High School
Second place Team #AE4 Freya Miller, Adithi Ramasagaram
QSSBs: The Future of Rechargeable Batteries
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School-South
Third place Team #AE2 Kritin Lakkavajhala, Ethan Xie, Paul Chen
VoltaSkin
Hillsborough High School
Environment
First place Team #E7 Veera Suryavamsh, Advika Vispute, Karen Du
Light the Way - Streetlights Revealing the Air We Breathe
Hillsborough High School
Second place Team #E5 Rohan Revuru, Aarav Rohatgi
e-Waste Remediation Through New Generation Designer Solvents
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School-South
Third place (tie) Team #E8 Matthew Zhang, Aaron Li
Stacking the Sun
Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science
Third place (tie) Team #E4 Julia Gonzalez, Bella Moss
Turning the Tide on PFAS
Hopewell Valley Regional School District
Medicine/Health
First place Team #M3 Ronav Desai, David Mathew, Krish Shah
Smarticles
Hillsborough High School
Second place Team #M5 Madhura Joshi, Hector Mendez
FerroBlock: Neutralizing Ferroptosis After Traumatic Brain Injury
Hillsborough High School
Third place Team #M2 Aashna Agrawal, Laura Wu, Sachi Gore
Theranostic Nanoparticles: "Clicking" into Cancer Treatment
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School-South
New Materials
First place Team #NM4 Darius Workman, Samuel Zhang
Metal in Motion: Construction Chemistry
Hillsborough High School
Second place Team #NM2 Aaradhya Jain, Tina Peng
CryoForge: AI-engineered High-entropy Superalloys
Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science
Third place Team #NM1 Dhruv Naidu, Darsh Srivastav, Ewan Tian
The Nanomaterial Fighting the Global Water Crisis
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School-South
Proteins/Protein Chemistry
First place Team #P4 Aishani Mukherjee, Saahil Patel, Shlok Desai
The CLEAR (Clean Liquid Environment Actualization Reagent) Capsule
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School-South
Second place Team #P1 Harini Raghuraman, Harshitha Rajesh Chockalingsm, Saanvi Gutta
Beat the Heat: The Rise of Refrigerator-free Insulin
Hillsborough High School
Third place Team #P2 Jasper Lu, Imran Comoe
Hybrid Protein: The Best of Both Worlds
Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science