Announcing our 2022 semifinalists!

This year, Genes in Space honors 30 semifinalists who contributed outstanding proposals to our 2022 competition. These semifinalists have been issued a challenge: pitch your idea to a lay audience in a 60-second video.

Our reviewers will use these videos, in tandem with the semifinalists' written proposals, to select 10 Honorable Mentions and the 5 Finalists who will compete to launch their projects to space. Honorable Mentions and Finalists will be announced on Monday, May 16.

We proudly recognize the following semifinalists:

• Etash Bhat (16) & Shreya Nair (17) from Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, Denton, TX
• Theresa Boney (17), Ashley Morgan (16) & Kaegan Hill (18) from Newton College and Career Academy, Covington, GA
• Aayush Chahal (15) from Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
• Benjamin Chen (17) & Leanne Auyeung (17) from The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY
• Tanay Dakarapu (17), Aadit Jain (17) & Diya Ramesh (17) from miRcore, Ann Arbor, MI
• Sanjana Duttagupta (16) from Northville High School, Northville, MI
• Zoë Feigelson (15) from Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
• Ayaka Fujita (16) & Arya Khokhar (17) from Homestead High School, Cupertino, CA
• Madeline Goodwin (15) & Abel Bellows (14) from Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
• Alexander Gore (13) from BASIS Shavano, San Antonio, TX
• Tamara Gruslova (17) from BASIS Shavano, San Antonio, TX
• Madhav Gulati (17) & Vineeth Sendilraj (15) from Lambert High School, Suwanee, GA
• Isabel Jiang (16) & Angelina Choy (17) from Crystal Springs Uplands School, Hillsborough, CA
• Vedant Karalkar (17) from Eastside High School, Gainesville, FL
• Emilie Lin (16), Joanna Zhu (15) & Thasina Tabassum (15) from The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY
• Linh Luu (17), Edita Cosovic (16), Kanae Funabiki (17) & Katelin Wu (16) from The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY
• Dhyana Magesh (15) & Krithi Iyer (15) from Redmond High School, Redmond, WA
• Benjamin Manoj (17), Jai Trivedi (17) & Tanay Shrivastava (16) from Lambert High School, Suwanee, GA
• Annika Marschner (17), Nikol Miojevic (16) & Benjamin Armstead (17) from Ithaca High School, Ithaca, NY
• Nandika Nambiar (16) from Mission San Jose High School, Fremont, CA
• Pristine Onuoha (17) from East Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, NC
• Srishti Rajeev (17), Ira Vaidya (16), Owen Donsker (17) & Ira Puranik (17) from Paradise Valley High School CREST, Phoenix, AZ
• Sarah Su (16) from Los Altos High School, Los Altos, CA
• Janhavi Tonge (16) & Katherina Mandia (16) from Troy High School, Troy, MI
• Claire Tsai (15) from Leland High School, San Jose, CA
• Brandon Tung (14) from Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
• Andrew Van Dusen (16) from West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South, Princeton Junction, NJ
• Xina Wang (17), Rohit Suresh (16) & Harsha Rajkumar (17) from Amador Valley High School, Pleasanton, CA
• Rick Zhao (17), Sahil Sood (17), Srirag Tatavarti (17) & Aryan Singh (17) from Lambert High School, Suwanee, GA
• Catherine Zhou (16) from Lynbrook High School, San Jose, CA

The Genes in Space team warmly congratulates all the deserving awardees. We wish you all the best as you undertake your next challenge!