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STEAMFest

A Celebration of STEAM Events, Activities & Challenges

Winner's Section

STEAMFEST RECAP & THANKS

Millburn Ed Foundation's annual STEAMFest event received amazing support from the community this year!  With over 500 registrants participating, the Millburn community came together to celebrate and support STEAM education by competing in various STEAM Challenges: FilmFest Contest, Virtual Chess Tournament, Math Contest, In-Person USCF-Rated Chess Tournament and Coding and Environmental Challenges. We can't wait until next year!

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Special thanks to all of the wonderful volunteers and supporters who made this event possible. We'd also like to give a shout out to a few special contributors: 

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DONNA DAVIS, MOLLY EISERT, MOLLY KOHL, ZEV MARINOFF, MICHELLE SAN FILLIPO & CARI STRASSBERG for judging all of this year's FilmFest submissions.

 

DAVID LAZARUS, chess coach for donating his time to MEF to run the Virtual Chess Tournament.

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BEN YANG and YUMENG CHEN, for designing the Math Contests this year.

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ANA SEPETOVSKA, Software Engineer at Microsoft and ANYA PARKER-LENTZ, CEO at Landau Agency for creating and judging the Coding Challenge.

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MILLBURN CLIMATE ACTION GROUP for creating the Environmental Challenge.

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DR. PREETI ARYA and RADHIKA SHRINIVAS for judging the Environmental Challenge.

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GENSAY & BILGEN SACZI of CHESS IN MILLBURN for sponsoring and hosting the in-person USCF-rated chess tournament.

 

Thank you to the MEF STEAMFEST 2023 Committee: SUBADHRA SRIDHARAN, JING WEN, CATE SMITH, ANYA PARKER-LENTZ, ROMINA PADHI, ABBY SPELTZ, DEEPA KRISHNAN and KIM WALLS.

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Thank you to this year's sponsors – CHESS IN MILLBURN and SUE ADLER REAL ESTATE TEAM.

FILMFEST
Winners

SHORT FILMS (Grades 9-12)

1st – Daniella Jacob

1st – Samora Meertins-George

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SHORT FILMS (Grades 5-8)

1st – Aari Desai

2nd – Arya Samdani

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MINI SHORT FILMS (Grades 9-12)

1st – Carli Platt

2nd – Kyle Chase

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MINI SHORT FILMS (Grades 5-8)

1st – Devika Gupta

2nd – Ryan Zhou

VIRTUAL CHESS TOURNAMENT
Winners

NOVICE LEVEL

1st –  Raffi Dovdavany

2nd – Aryan Singla

3rd – Matthew Kurias

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OPEN LEVEL

1st – Zav Wolf

2nd – Alex Guo

3rd – Eshan Gogineni

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Math Contest
Winners

ELEMENTARY LEVEL (Grades K-2)

1st – Vincent Song

2nd – Aiden Liu

3rd (Tie) – Elijah Adams & Arjun Balakumar

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ELEMENTARY LEVEL (Grades 3-5)

1st (Tie) – Andrew Zheng & Ayansh Ahluwalia

3rd – Avyukt Tony

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MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVEL (Grades 6-8)

1st – Tara Radoicic

2nd – Suvid Bordia

3rd – Bobby Qian

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HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL (Grades 9-12)

1st – Arav Ahluwalia

2nd – Ayan Dalmia

3rd – David Dedic

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HONORABLE MENTION:

K-2: Caroline Zhou & Nandini Rathod

3-5Eshan Gogineni & Isabelle Chen
6-8: Anakin Dasgupta & Timothy Xie

9-12: Alex Guo & Alexander Beloreshki

CODING CHALLENGE
WinnerS

BEGINNER LEVEL

1st – Vincent Mo

2nd – Renee Jha

3rd – Ethan Zuo

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CODER LEVEL

1st – James Hou

2nd – Keisha Shankarnarayan

3rd – Tanvi Telang

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HACKER LEVEL

1st – Rohan Dubey

2nd – David Dedic

3rd – Ansh Vats

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HONORABLE MENTION:

Coder Level:

Team Earthquake

(Alex DeLorenzo & Ayati Jend)

Environmental CHALLENGE Winners

LEVEL 1 – Grades K-4

1st (Tie) – Ria Swaroop 

1st (Tie) – Team Pineapple 

(Owen Liu & YiLing Zou)

3rd – Swara Haldar

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LEVEL 2 – Grades 5-8

1st – Team Emblems of the Earth

(Anvi Anand & Shriya Iyer)

2nd (Tie) – Asmi Haldar

2nd (Tie) – Veda Bindal

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LEVEL 3 – Grades 9-12

1st – Team Environmental Enforcers (Alex Guo, Aaryan Jain & Eshan Akula)

2nd – Neel Ahuja

3rd – Vidya Bindal

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ENVIRONMENTAL BEES HONORABLE MENTION

Nithilam Arivuchelvan, Ishaan Bharadwaj, Suvid Bordia, Mehreen Kainth, Adele Li, Ethan Li, Rusheel Mishra, Emma Sun

USCF-RATED
CHESS TOURNAMENT
WINNERS

UNRATED LEVEL

1st – Marcello Jose Navas

2nd – Zav Wolf

3rd – Renee Jha

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U800 LEVEL

1st – Lei Shan

2nd – Atharv Karamcheti

3rd – Aditya Singla

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U1600 LEVEL

1st – Ethan Pu

2nd – Vishisht Agarwal

3rd – Eshan Gogineni

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HONORABLE MENTION:

Unrated: Ethan Chun, Max Greenspan & KrishVardhan Arya

U800: Ayansh Ahluwalia, William Zhao & Amy Lin

U1600: Naman Mehta, Sam Wang & Arin Telang

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2023 STEAMFest Sponsors

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