2025 Top Innovators & Awards
Top Innovators 2025
Kindergarten
- The Book Spy: The bookmark that helps you read – Laurel Smith
Grades 1-4
- iTrash – Benjamin Chen & Raj Grover
- Anti-Frost Socks – Avinash Hari Kurapati
- Mariculture Farming Site Assessment and Selection Tool (MaFaSA) – Nirbhuy Arun
Grades 5-6
- **INTELLI Trash Bot – Vidita Vatsa
- **Shower Warm-up Water Saver – Raymond Jin
- **Open Angle Glaucoma Detection Using Virtual Reality Technology and Machine Learning – Howell Jian
- **SnowSnout – Dash Buffam
Grades 7-12
- **Tech Tips – Celia Stamps
- **The Hobby Hand – Devin Jani
- **Wearable Assessment for Tracking Cardiac Health – Srivibhu Piratla
- **RecyclAI: The AI-Powered App That Knows What Goes – Aarav Rao
- **NeuroTrace: Unraveling Parkinson’s Clues – Diya Shah
- **Super Sniffer: FAA Compliant Open Drone ID Broadcast Reception, Parsing, and Integration – Charles Pochet & Paul Cook
- **Revolve Justice – Mariya Tinch
- **LYVE-GBM – Nivrith Ananth Iyer
- **Dexterra Grip – Tanisha Srinivasan, Anika Kanagala, Joana Shinners
- **TRACE App: Recreating Memory for Dementia Patients – Kevin Shen & Evan Wang
** These innovators were invited to the Global Innovation Challenge in October 2025.
NAI nominees
- LYVE-GBM – Nivrith Ananth Iyer
- Dexterra Grip – Tanisha Srinivasan, Anika Kanagala, Joana Shinners
- NeuroTrace: Unraveling Parkinson’s Clues – Diya Shah
- Turtle Crossing – Lily Yager
- BiliSpectro – A Novel Noninvasive Biosensor for Jaundice Detection – Shrila Maity & Jacob Wu
- Using Piezo Transducers to Break Uric Acid Crystals in Gout – Jolina Jian
- Robo Therapy – Nuoyi Cao, Chenhao Fu, & Enze Zhang
- Open Angle Glaucoma Detection Using Virtual Reality Technology and Machine Learning – Howell Jian
- TRACE App: Recreating Memory for Dementia Patients – Kevin Shen & Evan Wang
Mariculture Farming Site Assessment and Selection Tool (MaFaSA) – Nirbhuy Arun
