# Create@State 2026 List of Awards

**Creative Works**

1<sup>st</sup> Place ($300) -- Christopher Sayers, Gabby Taunton, and Tyler Baugus; Piano Aid

2<sup>nd</sup> Place ($200) -- Claudia Santiago Ramos, Sarah Bullen, Seth Prunty, and Fletcher Pearson; American Society of Civil Engineers Sustainable Solutions

3<sup>rd</sup> Place ($100) -- Kayla Minick, and Jacob King; Through the Lense of the Camera Obscura

**Observational**

1<sup>st</sup> Place ($300) -- Kamana Kafle; Who will grow our food in the future? Factors Influencing A-State Agricultural Student's Intentions to Enter Production Agriculture

2<sup>nd</sup> Place ($200) -- Dorise Clark; The Rate of Burnout in Athletic Trainers; in Collegiate Settings

3<sup>rd</sup> Place ($100) -- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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**

1<sup>st</sup> Place ($300) -- Salma Abdel-Karim; Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Isoflavones from Pigeon Pea Hairy Root Cultures in RAW 264.7 Macrophages

2<sup>nd</sup> Place ($200) -- Carlos Balmaceda Cuenca, Megha Goyal, and Anubhav Pal; Producing Oral Medicines in Lettuce to Fight Chronic Diseases

3<sup>rd</sup> Place ($100) -- Cara Pirani; Functional Genomics of Streptococcus Mutans: Identifying Critical Genes for Oral Biofilm Formation

**Quality Assessment**

1<sup>st</sup> 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

2<sup>nd</sup> 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

3<sup>rd</sup> Place ($100) -- Elizabeth Huffmaster; From Sequence to Skill: Building Argumentative Writers Through Structured Inquiry

**Business Pitch**

1<sup>st</sup> Place ($500) – Emilia Guadalupe Gomez Lopez

2<sup>nd</sup> Place ($250) – Anne-Lea Lavoie

3<sup>rd</sup> Place($100) – Lucas Lee Walling

Epicenter Venture Award ($250) – Emilia Guadalupe Gomez Lopez

InfoReady Endowed Award ($100) – Makayla Collum

**Dr. Emily Devereux Student Research &amp; 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