Announcing our 2024 Semifinalists!

The Genes in Space team has selected 28 talented student groups to continue as Semifinalists for their impressive proposals. The students are now tasked with a new challenge: crafting a 60-second video to explain their research to a general audience.

These videos, along with their written proposals, will be reviewed to determine the 10 Honorable Mentions and the 5 Finalists. The lucky finalists will vie for the ultimate prize: launching their experiment into space! Stay tuned for the announcement of our Junior Scientist Awardees tomorrow, and the Finalists and Honorable Mentions on Monday, May 20th!

_{We proudly present the 2024 Genes in Space Semifinalists:}

• Joyce Kwack (16) from Rancho Bernardo High School in San Diego, CA
• Shria Lakshmikumar (17) from Centennial High School in Frisco, TX
• Caleb Agyare (16) from Morris County School of Technology in Denville, NJ
• Ananya Agrawal (15) and Abigail Wyrick (17) from Blue Valley West High School in Overland Park, KS
• Mahir Hossain (17) from Stuyvesant High School in New York, NY
• Luna Joo (16) and Kim Huynh (16) from Fairmont Preparatory Academy in Anaheim (CA)
• Seonwoo Im (16) from Lambert High School in Suwanee, GA
• Daniel Syed (15) and Minjun Kim (17) from International Academy Central in Bloomfield Hills, MI
• Andrew Goodell (16) from Morris County School of Technology in Denville, NJ
• Aarush Tutiki (16) and Dhruv Grandhe (17) from Albuquerque Academy in Albuquerque, NM
• Elliana Mathews (16) and Raphael Aca (17) from Cherokee High School in Canton, GA
• Elizabeth Ben (14) from The Pierrepont School in Westport, CT
• Jared Lee (16) from Stuyvesant High School in New York, NY
• Sean Lee (15) and Vedant Mehta (16) from Lambert High School in Suwanee, GA
• Amy Sooraj (17) and Eva Russo (16) from The Bronx High School of Science in Bronx, NY
• Carolina Grandía Soler (16) from Armand Hammer United World College of the American West in Montezuma, NM
• Blake Brown (18) and Anisha Pandey (16) from Fort Worth Country Day School in Fort Worth, Texas
• Sneha Goswami (17) from Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School in Sudbury, MA
• Naveen Talla (16) and Priyanka Talla (14) from Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, NY
• Tanvi Gawande (16) from Eastside High School in Gainesville, FL
• Mark Ionis (16) from Stuyvesant High School in New York, NY
• Logan Borneman (17) from Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology in Lawrenceville, GA
• Megan Chiu (16) from Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, MD
• Jiya Rai (17) from Solon High School in Solon, OH
• Yajur Chandar (16) from The Davidson Academy in Reno, NV
• Fiona Samson (18) and Janhavi Tonge (18) from Troy High School in Troy, MI
• Tsz Hang Ko (16) and Ronald Chen (17) from Stuyvesant High School in New York, NY
• Isabelle Chuang (16) and Julia Gross (17) from The Nightingale-Bamford School in New York, NY

Congratulations! We are so excited to see these students' videos and hear them share their inspiring ideas in their own voices. Best of luck!