Finalists, Mentors and Judges
The 2025 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.
2025 Honorable Mention
Aaisha Asif
Hydrolizer
2025 Honorable Mention
Albert Liu
Hy-Shield: The Affordable Nano-Coating Solution That Protects Steel Pipelines from Hydrogen Embrittlement—Saving Time, Money, and Powering a Greener, More Sustainable Tomorrow
2025 Honorable Mention
Gagan Girish
Micro Impurities Cleaning Robot
2025 Honorable Mention
Sayan Anand
AI-Powered Wildlife Detection: Automating Elephant and Tiger Monitoring to Reduce Human Effort
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
Varini Kadakia
Reducing Air Quality Index
Varini developed a potential solution for reducing the air quality index
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