2023 AAASE Summer Academy DDL Best Presentation Awards

The AAASE Summer Academy DDL Best Presentation Award is the highest award of the summer academy this year to honor three student teams that made outstanding presentations with impactful and creative ideas for team research projects at the AAASE summer academy. The awards were sponsored by Delaware Diagnostic Labs (DDL) with $2000, $1500, and $1000, respectively, for the first, second, and third places.

First Place Winners



AI for Alzheimer’s: A Novel Approach



Jerry Gu

West Lafayette Jr./Sr. High School, IN

Jack Jiang  

Stuyvesant High School, NY

Charles Tao 

Charter school of Wilmington, DE

Young Xu

Guilderland High School, NY

Daniel Zhang 

Farragut High School, KN

Second Place Winners


Unlocking the Potential Within: Tapping into the Surprising Power of Wastewater for a Greener Tomorrow


Thomas Li

Weston High School, MA

Amy Lin 

Princeton High School, NJ

Aniu Meng

Hanover High School, NH

Kevin Ren 

Princeton High School, NJ

Meiya Xiong

Princeton High School, NJ

Third Place Winners



Dad, we’re drowning aboard Data!



Raymond Huang

Union County Magnet High School, NJ

Jophy Lin  

Manalapan High School, NJ

Ivory Qi, 

Unionville High School, PA

Claire Wang, 

Phillips Academy, Andover, NJ

Allen Yu, 

Beachwood High School, OH

Congratulations!