Welcome to Region IV

The 2026 Region IV Fair took place on Saturday, March 14, 2026 at Tufts University!

Congratulations to all our 2026 award winners! Click here to see all 2026 prize winners and to see a list of students who advanced to MSEF.

Click here for the Awards Ceremony slides and more photos!

Congratulations to Kevin Sun, our 2026 Sanofi Specialty Care Grand Prize Winner and ISEF Representative for Region IV!

Kevin Sun, Andover High School, "Printing 2D MXene-Based Chipless Radio Frequency Identification Tags to Enable Plastic Waste Sorting for Recycling"

Congratulations to our Top Award Winners! Listed in alphabetical order by first name.

David Guo, Buckingham Browne Nichols School

DermaSpectra DeepVision: A Multispectral Imaging System for Enhanced Dermatologic Diagnosis Powered by a Novel CNN–Transformer–LLM Framework

Alnylam Bioscience Excellence (Top Biology Project)

Ethan Yan, Groton School

An Accessible AI-Powered At-Home Blood Smear Preparation and Screening Platform for Hematologic Disease Detection

1st Place

Jacob Lazar & Samhitha Shreesha Pai, Chelmsford High School

Chemical Analysis of Stagnation in Pipelines on Water Quality and Effectiveness of Subsequent Treatment with Crassostrea virginica

Chemistry Excellence (Top Chemistry Project)

Jason Lu, Phillips Academy

Analysis of Water Level Behavior and Residual Surge During Extreme Flooding Events

Natural Science Excellence

Rajarshi Mandal, Lexington High School

Malaria Transmission Dynamics Modeling for Optimized Insecticide-Treated Net Allocation

Mathematics and Computing Excellence

Sophie Barriault, Billerica Memorial High School

Electric Eel-Inspired Batteries For Implantable Medical Devices

AMD Engineering Excellence

Yaejoon Jung, Phillips Academy

SmartBlink: Real-Time AI-Driven Adaptive Pedestrian Traffic System for Enhancing Perceived Pedestrian Safety and Traffic Efficiency

Behavioral & Social Science Excellence

Vineeth Godavarti, Westford Academy

Physics-Informed Compositional Transformers for Predicting Viscosity of Protein Formulations from Amino Acid Sequences

1st Place

Zijia Li, Concord Academy

SRPK1 Modulates Survival Signaling Pathways in Parkinson’s Disease: Evidence from Integrative Transcriptomics and Cellular Validation

1st Place

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The six Regional Science Fairs serve as qualifying competitions for the Regeneron International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF) and the Massachusetts Science & Engineering Fair (MSEF). At the Region IV Competition, the top project is nominated for ISEF, and the top 40 projects advance to MSEF where the awards total over $500,000.