Create@State 2026 List of Awards
Creative Works
1st Place ($300) -- Christopher Sayers, Gabby Taunton, and Tyler Baugus; Piano Aid
2nd Place ($200) -- Claudia Santiago Ramos, Sarah Bullen, Seth Prunty, and Fletcher Pearson; American Society of Civil Engineers Sustainable Solutions
3rd Place ($100) -- Kayla Minick, and Jacob King; Through the Lense of the Camera Obscura
Observational
1st Place ($300) -- Kamana Kafle; Who will grow our food in the future? Factors Influencing A-State Agricultural Student's Intentions to Enter Production Agriculture
2nd Place ($200) -- Dorise Clark; The Rate of Burnout in Athletic Trainers; in Collegiate Settings
3rd Place ($100) -- Emily Long, Anna Claire Harris, Macey Lindsey, Jayna Harris, and Faith Ochoa; Treatment for Children with Hypertonicity using Hippotherapy: A Scoping Review
Basic or Experimental
1st Place ($300) -- Salma Abdel-Karim; Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Isoflavones from Pigeon Pea Hairy Root Cultures in RAW 264.7 Macrophages
2nd Place ($200) -- Carlos Balmaceda Cuenca, Megha Goyal, and Anubhav Pal; Producing Oral Medicines in Lettuce to Fight Chronic Diseases
3rd Place ($100) -- Cara Pirani; Functional Genomics of Streptococcus Mutans: Identifying Critical Genes for Oral Biofilm Formation
Quality Assessment
1st Place ($300) -- Rachel Gibbons, Wesley Johnson, and Rachel Cartillar; Enhancing Anesthesia Practice by Evaluating the Impact of Evidence-Based Education of the Utilization of Preoperative Gastric Ultrasound for Patients on GLP-1 Agonists
2nd Place ($200) -- 166: Breanne Phillips, Brayton Ragsdale, and Griffin McCowan; The Use of Intraoperative Lidocaine to Decrease the Incidence of Postoperative Pain in Surgical Patients: A Pre- and Post-Education Analysis
3rd Place ($100) -- Elizabeth Huffmaster; From Sequence to Skill: Building Argumentative Writers Through Structured Inquiry
Business Pitch
1st Place ($500) – Emilia Guadalupe Gomez Lopez
2nd Place ($250) – Anne-Lea Lavoie
3rd Place($100) – Lucas Lee Walling
Epicenter Venture Award ($250) – Emilia Guadalupe Gomez Lopez
InfoReady Endowed Award ($100) – Makayla Collum
Dr. Emily Devereux Student Research & Creativity Award ($400)
Julia Renee Pye and Taylor Fiedor
Best Overall Undergraduate ($500)
Zane Kenzik, Mason Kibble, and Logan Hayungs
Best Overall Graduate ($500)
Joshua Cook, Jared Barker, and Steven Shipp