2020 Submissions

Below are all of the full two-minute versions of our 2020 Texas Student Research Showdown submissions. 

During a reception and celebration on March 10, 2020, the winners of the Texas Student Research Showdown were announced.

Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Category

Honorable mentions

Ely German

Life Through Line

Austin Ali

Michael Sanchez, Anastasiya Byelousova, Parth Gupta, and Lyndsey Wang

Perinatal Regionalization

Second place, $750

Naseem Shafaei

Do you know how I feel? Investigating communication attitudes in children who stutter

First place, $2000

Mariel Calara, Sophia Luongo, Collin Ma, and Julia McNulty

The Roman Waste Crisis: An Ethnographic Study of Retake Roma and Community-Driven Solutions

Science, Technology, and Engineering Category

Honorable mentions

Jiayin Li

Hannah McChesne

Native Pollinators Research

Abby Rex and Tien Nguyen

Thomas Quintero

Second place, $750

Philip Tan

Blood Pressure E-Tattoo: It's Ultra-Soft!

First place, $2000

Maxx Wilson and Seong Hyo Ahn

Minimally Invasive Surgery using Soft Robots with Variable Stiffness

Audience Award

Robbie Hutton, Amanda Macfarlane, Heny Patel, Mamadou Balde, Andrea Gonzalez, and Iann Karamali

Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Science, Technology, and Engineering