Award Winners

Celebrating the next generation of problem-solvers, the Modeling the Future Challenge recognizes outstanding student teams using mathematics, data analysis, and actuarial thinking to tackle real-world risks and societal challenges. Explore past years’ winning projects and discover the innovative ideas and research that distinguished these teams on the national stage.
 
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The winner papers here are for reference only and should not be used as a substitute for current rubric guidelines. Current and future teams should refer to their Project Phase Guide for the current year’s guidelines on Project Report formatting and content.

2025-2026 Champions

1st Place

Disciples of
Lhopital

Stevenson High School

Lincolnshire, IL

Atrey Iyer
Likhith Nimmanapalli
Hemanth Samayamantri

Coach: Paul Kim

2nd Place

Blue Leaf
Labs

Monta Vista High School

Cupertino, CA

Rohan Agarwal

Coach: Rishi Agarwal

3rd Place

Kolmogorov
Crew

Mission San Jose High School

Fremont, CA

Caleb Ma
Veer Mahajan
Aditya Ojha
Aditya Palit
Aashrith Yedavalli

Coach: Ai-Chen Liu

4th Place

DuPont Manual
Rams 1

DuPont Manual High School

Louisville, KY

Samuel Kingston
Sriram Achaththekoot
Edward Kim
Vishwaa Kannan
Aiden Gie

Coach: Jesudoss Kingston

2024-2025 Champions

1st Place

The Unit
Vector

Stevenson High School

Lincolnshire, IL

Shreyas Dandavate

Coach: Ken Heard

2nd Place

Pose
28

Alabama School of Fine Arts

Birmingham, AL

Dania Alzoubi
Harini Chakilam
Srihansi Sagi
Monisha Bommu
Prisha Sharma

Coach: Cecil Flournoy

3rd Place

DVS
1

Da Vinci Schools

El Segundo, CA

Zirak Engineer
Gabriel Chavez
Benjamin Chan
Calliope Chan

Coach: Justin Mitchell

4th Place

Da Two
Bananas

Ward Melville Senior High School

East Setauket, NY

Amanda Liang
Sarah Wu

Coach: Jie Yang

2023-2024 Champions

1st Place

Team
Calc

Stevenson High School

Lincolnshire, IL

Diana Tang
Qi Zhang

Coach: Qin Zhao

2nd Place

Team
JALA

Stevenson High School

Lincolnshire, IL

Lillian Wang
Jaden Chen
Audrey Hong
Aaroh Tak

Coach: Paul Kim

3rd Place

TOT
Nuclear

Newton North High School

Newton, MA

Karina Chung
Maya Figelman
Avnish Kumar
Davis Rattanavijai
Tsubasa Tamura

Coach: Michele MacDonald

4th Place

Risky
Business

Massachusetts Academy of Math & Science

Worcester, MA

Sophia Caramanica
Anthony DeRosa
Derek Desrosiers
Lindsey Paradise
Heidy Rodriguez

Coach: Kristen Burns

2022-2023 Champions

1st Place

Space
Junk

New Trier High School

Winnetka, IL

Julia Hudson

Coach: Hoyt Hudson

2nd Place

Memphis University School

Memphis Univ School

Memphis, TN

Amar Kanakamedala
Jeffrey Liu
Evan Wu
Henry Yu
Lou Zhou

Coach: Steve Gadbois

3rd Place

SC Data
Raider 3

Silver Creek HS

San Jose, CA

Abhinav Gorrepati
Shreyans Jain
Sarthak Jain
Vinay Singamsetty
Ryan Tabatabai

Coach: Imani Butler

4th Place

Team
11990

Stevenson HS

Lincolnshire, IL

Tyler Li
Alex Lin
Kevin Shen
Alexander Wang

Coach: Yi Yang

2021-2022 Champions

1st Place

The Supermodel-ers

Stevenson HS

Lincolnshire, IL

Jack Chen
Collin Fan
Aadit Juneja
Aayush Kashyap
Nathan Ma 

Coach: Paul Kim

2nd Place

Team
Voyager

Mission Hills HS

San Marcos, CA

Ashwin Bardhwaj

Coach: Suresh Bardhwaj

3rd Place

Monte Carlo
Jello

Montgomery Blair HS

Silver Spring, MD

Aditya Chattopadhyay
Philip Guo
Jihwan Kim
Jason Liu
Dhruv Pai

Coach: David Stein

4th Place

The
Alexandrians

Thomas Jefferson HS

Alexandria, VA

Anand Advani
Shyla Bisht
Alyssa Gorbaneva
Owen Rollins
Lillian Sun

Coach: Aneel Advani

2020-2021 Champions

1st Place

Walter Payton
Team 2

Walter Payton College Prep

Chicago, IL

Lizzie Kujawa
Kristen Si
Rose Thorstenson
Andre Nandi

Coach: Scott Galson

2nd Place

Team
Gators

Castilleja School

Palo Alto, CA

Anushka Srinivasan
Reva Tagare
Siona Tagare

Coach: Kyle Barriger

3rd Place

Team
Westlake

Westlake City Schools

Westlake, OH

Jacob Rintamaki

Coach: Tracy Sidloski

4th Place

Community
AI

DuPont Manual High

Louisville, KY

Shreyas Kar
Shraman Kar

Coach: Sudip Kar

2019-2020 Champions

1st Place

Team
Atoms

High Technology HS

Lincroft, NJ

Gustav Hansen
Emily Jiang
Jason Yan

Coach: Ellen Leblanc

2nd Place

Team
10% Rule

Monta Vista High School

Cupertino, CA

Parth Asawa
Brandon Guo
Richard Liu
Eric Zhang

Coach: Joe Kim

3rd Place

Team
SANA

Whitney High School

Cerritos, CA

Amrita Vinjamury
Anastacia Son
Shravani Khisti
Nafeesa Karim

Coach: Stephanie Machado

4th Place

Team
Math Modeling

Mountain View HS

Mountain View, CA

Tony Xin
Katherine Wang
Henry Wang
Arjun Patrawala

Coach: Jesse Hunt

2018-2019 Champions

1st Place

LAHS
Team A

Los Altos High School

Los Altos, CA

Rushil Arora
Karina Halevy
Joshua Hejna
Shawn Huang
Maxwell Liu

Coach: Scott Murray

2nd Place

MLWGS
Team 7

Maggie L. Walker GS

Richmond, VA

Henry Coates
Nikhil Brahmapuram
Russell Graviet
Shivani Kundalia
Madoc Kimball

Coach: Dickson Benesh

3rd Place

MLWGS
Team 6

Maggie L. Walker GS

Richmond, VA

Mary Caroline Heinen
Ryan Kaplan
Derek Chen
Thomas Blue
Nicolas Ferree

Coach: Dickson Benesh

4th Place

APEX
Team 3

Waukee APEX

Waukee, IA

Rebecca Heidt

Coach: Jesse Hunt

2017-2018 Champions

1st Place

Six Sigma
Modelers

NC Schl for Science & Math

Durham, NC

Sam Ferguson
Abhhijit Gupta
Julia Wang

Coach: Jennie Hu

2nd Place

Team
Gators

Castilleja School

Palo Alto, CA

Reese Ketsdever
Niav Layton

Coach: Kyle Barriger

3rd Place

Team
Wheatley

The Wheatley School

Old Westbury, NY

John Li
Vedant Signh
Brandon Zhu

Coach: Robert Teseo

4th Place

Team
Alpha

Waukee APEX

Waukee, IA

Quinn Schroeder
Skye Seo

Coach: Jesse Hunt

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