2026 MTSEF Winners Announced

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 Middle Tennessee Science and Engineering Fair!

Winner's List

The five grand prize projects representing MTSEF at the 2026 Regeneron Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, Arizona, are:

Evalyn - Rutherford County Virtual School - HIGH-BEHA-001 -Detecting and Analyzing Compositional Influence Patterns in Digital Interfaces: A Multi-Modal Behavioral Framework

Jessica - John Overton High School - HIGH-BCHM-003 -Does chronic nicotine usage and withdrawal in Dugesia affect spatial localization and associative learning in Y and T mazes?

Parker - John Overton High School - HIGH-BMED-003 -Regulation of the PPARy Pathway using Antagonists and Inverse Agonists Across 2D and 3D Lung Cancer Models

Jason and Ishan - Rossview High School - HIGH-EGSD-002 -Thick or Thin? Investigating How Electrolyte Viscosity Affects DSSC Efficiency and Stability

Kevin Li,Brash Cook - Montgomery Bell Academy - HIGH-ROBO-003 -Alternative Distillation Methods on Policies for Sim2Real Transfer & Simulation

Please visit our STEM Wizard site for a complete list of winners.

We are thankful for the judges, volunteers, teachers, and board members who made this year's fair possible!