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Winning projects

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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Capturable Carbon Dioxide to Save Our Bees

Aakash Manaswi

Third place · Regeneron ISEF 2026

Reported mite elimination as effective as pesticide treatment, without pesticide residues, alongside improved hive health measures.

  • beekeeping
  • varroa
  • pest-management
  • +1
BiologyAnimal Sciences
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MXene-Based RFID Tags for Plastic Waste Sorting

Kevin Sun

Third place · Regeneron ISEF 2026

Radio-frequency identification tags printed from conductive MXene material that identify a plastic's type during sorting and then dissolve during standard recycling instead of contaminating the output stream.

  • recycling
  • mxene
  • rfid
  • +2
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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