Create@State 2026 List of Awards

  

 Creative Works 

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

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

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

   

 Observational 

 1 st 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 nd Place ($200) -- Dorise Clark; The Rate of Burnout in Athletic Trainers; in Collegiate Settings 

 3 rd 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 

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

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

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

   

 Quality Assessment 

 1 st 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 nd 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 rd Place ($100) -- Elizabeth Huffmaster; From Sequence to Skill: Building Argumentative Writers Through Structured Inquiry 

   

 Business Pitch 

 1 st Place ($500) – Emilia Guadalupe Gomez Lopez 

 2 nd Place ($250) – Anne-Lea Lavoie 

 3 rd 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