NMJAS – Archives
State Competition Winners
2025
Senior Division
1st Place – Helena Welch, Los Alamos High School and Welch Home School
2nd Place – Tate Plohr, Los Alamos High School
3rd Place – Euiryeon Kim, La Cueva High School, Albuquerque
4th place – Sebastian Stoker, Albuquerque Institute for Mathematics and Science
Junior Division
1st Place – Oscar Groves, Jefferson Middle School, Albuquerque
2nd Place – Claire Power, Holy Ghost Catholic School, Albuquerque
3rd Place – Emma Munson, Los Alamito Middle School, Grants
4th Place – Lucas Rychener, St. Teresa of Avila Catholic, Grants
2024
Senior Division
1st place – George Privett, Rio Rancho High School, abstract
2nd place – Kyuryeon Kim, La Cueva High School
3rd place – Gene Huntley, V. Sue Cleveland High School
4th place – Jordyn Begay, Navajo Preparatory School
Junior Division
1st place – David Brooke, Albuquerque Institute of Math and Science
2nd place – Lucas Rychener, St. Teresa of Avilia Catholic School
3rd place – Linus Plohr, Los Alamos Middle School
4th place – Isabella Halley, NM Connections Academy
2023
Senior Division
1st place – Daniel Kim, Los Alamos High School, abstract
2nd place – Sebastian Stoker, Albuquerque Institute for Math and Science
3rd place – Marcus Nahalea, Navajo Preparatory, Farmington
4th place – Paul Melendres, Eldorado High School, Albuquerque
Junior Division
1st place – Andy Stoker, Albuquerque Institute for Math and Science
2nd place – Oliver Groves, Jefferson Middle School, Albuquerque
3rd place – Lucas Rychener, St. Teresa of Avilia Catholic School, Grants
4th place – David Brooke, Albuquerque Institute of Math and Science
2022
Senior Division
First Place: Daniel Kim & Andres Iturregui, Los Alamos HS, abstract
Second Place: Aditya Kousil, La Cueva HS
Third Place: McKenna Collins, San Juan College HS
Honorable Mention: Chloe Rychener, Grants HS
Junior Division
First Place: Tate Plohr, Los Alamos MS
Second Place: Anna Simakov & Liv Niklasson, Los Alamos MS
Third Place: Ahana K. Koushik, AIMS MS
2021
Senior division
First Place: Aditiya Koushik, La Cueva High School (Albuquerque)
Second Place: Karin Ebey, Los Alamos High School
Third Place: McKenna Collins, AIMS High School (Albuquerque)
Fourth Place: Gabriel Gurule, AIMS High School (Albuquerque)
For a complete list of State Competition NMJAS winners as well as AVS Science & Technology Society winners between 2003 and 2022 click here.
First Place Winners and their Abstracts
2024, George Privett
2023, Daniel Kim
2022, Daniel Kim & Andres Iturregui
2021, Aditiya Koushik
2020, Karin Ebey
2019, Rusty Ludwigsen
2018, Lillian Peterson
2017, Sanjiv Harikumar
2016, Rusty Ludwigsen
2015 Jovan Zhang
2014, Jeongmin Lee
2013, Amanda Mercer
2012, Nikita Bodganov
2011, Fiona McCrossin
2010, Laura B. Lane
2009, Ryan Erickson
2008, Megan Johnson
2007, Shandiin Copeland
2006, Anna Trugman
2005, Keely Goodgame
2004, Mahlet Woldemariam
2003, Nigel Reuel
2002 Naveen Sinha
2001, Tom Widland
2000, Naveen Sinha
Student published papers
State competition winners are eligible to be published in the New Mexico Journal of Science of that year. The following winners have had their paper published.
- 2023, Daniel Kim – Engineered Underwater Vehicle for Ocean Litter Mapping
- 2022, Daniel Kim and Andres Iturregui – Developing a Control Algorithm and Simulation for Thrust Vector Controlled Rockets
- 2021, Aditya Kiran Koushik – Cancer and Top Genes for Cancer Vaccine
- 2020, Karin Ebey – Climate Change on Crocodilians: Modeling the Effects of Variations in Rainfall on Crocodilians and their Ecosystem
- 2018, Karin Ebey, AnaMaria Perez, and Ksenia Sevostianov – 2018 NM Journal of Science
- 2017, Lea Godret-Miertschin and Sanjib Harikumar – 2017 NM Journal of Science
- 2016, Rusty Ludwigsen, Lillian Petersen, and Alex Silverhart – 2016 NM Journal of Science
Articles related to NMJAS
NMJAS – winning paper abstract
NMJAS – State winners
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