Finalists, Mentors and Judges

The 2024 3M Young Scientist Challenge Finalists and State Merit Winners have been announced! Use the tabs below to check out their big ideas and explore all finalists, winners, and 3M Scientist mentors!

Today’s Innovators

Get to know the diverse personalities of students, 3M Mentors, and others who have contributed their unique talents to the 3M Young Scientist Challenge. Use the tabs below to explore exciting ideas and inspirations from previous years’ challenges.

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2024 Honorable Mention

Anika Jha

Fire Drones

2024 Honorable Mention

Brody Jaworski

Chemically Transforming Dead Leaves Into Adhesives

2024 Honorable Mention

Daryn Do

Harvesting Energy From Rain Using Triboelectric Nanogenerators in Rain Gear or Hiking and Camping Equipments

2024 Honorable Mention

Varun Panchagnula

Turbo Topper

2023 Honorable Mention

Audrey Kim

BeeHappy and BeeSion: A Raspberry Pi-based Artificial Intelligence Live-Streaming Camera Detector and a Portable Prototype with a Mobile App for Monitoring and Alerting about the Condition of Beehive

2023 Honorable Mention

Bhargav Mandakolathur

Green AC

2023 Honorable Mention

Kavin Puri

Detection of Medical Issues using Facial Recognition and AI Machine learning

2023 Honorable Mention

Ryanne Bethly

Unpolluter

2022 Honorable Mention

Austin Ewing

The Automated Car Garden

Austin developed The Automated Car Garden

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2022 Honorable Mention

Delisha Manuel

Piezoelectric Roads

Delisha developed Piezoelectric Roads

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2022 Honorable Mention

Isha Joshi

Tracking Parkinson’s Symptoms and Stages with HandPD Dataset in a Mobile App

Isha developed Tracking Parkinson’s Symptoms and Stages with HandPD Dataset in a Mobile App

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2022 Honorable Mention

Pratyush Sathish Kumar

Low carbon mat comprises packaging waste materials

Pratyush developed a concept for Low carbon mat comprises packaging waste materials

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2021 Honorable Mention

Anika Pallapothu

Predict using AI

Anika developed a system to Predict using AI.

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2021 Honorable Mention

Ella Reeves

BioBottles

Ella developed a recyclable system called BioBottles.

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2021 Honorable Mention

Srinija Chukkapalli

Hygieia

Srinija developed Hygieia.

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2021 Honorable Mention

Varini Kadakia

Reducing Air Quality Index

Varini developed a potential solution for reducing the air quality index

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