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What strong projects actually look like — the question they asked, the design that survived review, and the one decision that made the difference.

Archive entries are summaries compiled for study. Read them for how a project was structured, argued, and defended — not as a template to reproduce. Copying someone else's project is the one thing that will end yours.

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Temperley-Lieb Diagrams for Quantum Systems

Rachel Chen

Third place · Regeneron STS 2026

A diagrammatic representation of interacting quantum particle systems, using point-and-line diagrams to make the influence of magnetic fields visible in the structure itself.

  • quantum-mechanics
  • diagrammatic-algebra
  • temperley-lieb
  • +1
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Bacterial transplants to improve sterile male mosquito survival

Logan Lee

Third place · Regeneron STS 2025

Bacterial transplants used to raise the survival rate of sterile male mosquitoes, addressing the weak point of the sterile insect technique: released males that die before they can compete for mates.

  • vector-control
  • mosquitoes
  • microbiome
  • +2
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