The Academy of Science - St. Louis is pleased to announce the results from the Finalists Round of the 2025 regional Honors Division Competition for high school students. Congratulations to this year's Finalists and Semifinalists!

See alpha list of results (Finalists and Semifinalists) below.

Finalists from the Honors Division's Round One competition competed in Round Two's in-person project presentation Finalists Round on Saturday, February 22, at Webster University's College of Science and Health. First and second place Finalists Round students go on to represent The Academy of Science at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Columbus, OH, May 10-16, 2025. First through third place Finalists are invited to the Academy's 27th annual Outstanding St. Louis Scientists Awards Dinner and Celebration at the Missouri Botanical Garden's Bayer Center on April 3, 2025.

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ALL Honors Division finalists and semi-finalists are automatically entered as top honors level projects in The Academy of Science - St. Louis regional K-12 Science Fair in April and are eligible for special awards and scholarships. These awards are announced here, on the homepage of the Science Fair website on May 6.

View photos from the 2025 Honors Division Finalist Competition on Flickr.

Thank you to the many MD's, PhD's, and STEM professionals with exceptional knowledge and expertise in their fields who generously served as Honors Division Rounds One and Two Project Judges. Judges hailed from the following organizations, corporations, and institutions of higher learning:

Bayer Crop Science, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Indian Institute of Management Indore, Maryville University, MEMC LLC, Misericordia University - Pennsylvania, The LINUS Group, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Thompson Coburn LLP, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Public Health and Social Justice, University of Missouri - Columbia, University of Missouri - St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine