2023 Southwest Junior Science and Humanities Symposium Winners
First Place ~ National JSHS Oral Presenter, $2000 scholarship Eliana Juarez ~ V. Sue Cleveland High School (Rio Rancho, NM) Project Title: An Integrated Approach for Immediate and Long-Term Air Quality Regulation and Monitoring in Mexico
Second Place ~ National JSHS Oral Presenter, $1500 scholarship Aditya Koushik ~ La Cueva High School (Albuquerque, NM) Project Title: Deep Learning Prediction and In-vitro Validation of Novel Anti-cancer Peptides from Marine Taxa Database
Third Place ~ National JSHS Poster Presenter, $1000 scholarship Marissa Martinez ~ Monte Vista Senior High School (Monte Vista, CO) Project Title: The Efficacy of Abiotic/Biotic Factors and Trap Design for Effective Capture of Invasive American Bullfrog Tadpoles (Lithobates catesbeianus)
Fourth Place ~ National JSHS Poster Presenter Galilea Rodriguez ~ Harmony Science Academy (El Paso, TX) Project Title: Implementing Quantum-Classical Machine Learning Architectures to Optimize Convolutional Neural Networks
Fifth Place ~ National JSHS Poster Presenter Henry Tischler ~ Academy for Technology & the Classics (Santa Fe, NM) Project Title: Utilizing the Learned Latent Structure from Dimensionality Reduction Algorithms to Prevent the Effects of Catastrophic Forgetting in Neural Networks
Poster Session Winners ~ Life Sciences
1st Place ($250) ~ George Privett Rio Rancho High School
2nd Place ($150) ~ Diego Porras Harmony Science Academy
3rd Place ($100) ~ Cassie Sandoval School of Dreams Academy
Poster Session Winners ~ Physical Sciences
1st Place ($250) ~ Rodrigo Valdes Harmony Science Academy
2nd Place ($150) ~ Daniel Kim Los Alamos High School
3rd Place ($100) ~ Augustus Miller Monte Vista Senior High School
2022 Winners
First Place ~ Marissa Martinez
Second Place ~ Sherwin Thiyagarajan
Third Place ~ Carlos Ochoa-Marquez
Fourth Place ~ Gavin Rodriguez
Fifth Place ~ William Burris
Honorable Mention ~ Galilea Rodriguez
Honorable Mention ~ Augustus Miller
Honorable Mention ~ Chloe Hindes
Honorable Mention ~ Aditya Koushik
Honorable Mention ~ Dajun Yuan
2021 Winners
First Place ~ Eliana Juarez
Second Place ~ Milidu Jayaweera
Third Place ~ Marissa Martinez
Fourth Place ~ Gabriel Gurule
Fifth Place ~ Aditya Koushik
2020 Winners
1st Place - Lillian Petersen
2nd Place - Paulina Naydenkov
3rd Place - AnaMaria Perez
4th Place - Milidu Jayaweera
5th Place - Gianna Nilvo
2019 Winners
1st Place Rusty Ludwigsen
2nd Place Milidu Jayaweera
3rd Place Britney Hsu
4th Place Mustafa Muhyil
5th Place Charles Strauss
2019 Poster Session Winners
1st Place Camille Rawinski
2nd Place Robyn Evans
3rd Place Marley Ramon
2018 Winners
1st Place - Lillian Petersen (Los Alamos HS)
2nd Place - Rusty Ludwigsen (APS Early College Academy)
3rd Place - AnaMaria Perez (ABQ Academy)
4th Place - Lien Tang (Manzano HS)
5th Place - Jen Marie Pfifer (Los Lunas HS)
2017 Winners
1st Place - $2000 scholarship and all-expense paid trip to present at the National JSHS in San Diego, CA Lillian Petersen – Los Alamos High School
2nd Place - $1500 scholarship and all-expense paid trip to present at the National JSHS in San Diego, CA Akshay Jain – La Cueva High School
3rd Place - $1000 scholarship and all-expense paid trip to present at the National JSHS in San Diego, CA Ben Hammel – Albuquerque High School
4th Place - All-expense paid trip to present at the National JSHS in San Diego, CA Rusty Ludwigsen – Early College Academy
5th Place - All-expense paid trip to present at the National JSHS in San Diego, CA Lea Godret-Miertschin – Sandia High School