STEAMFEST RECAP & THANKS
Millburn Ed Foundation's annual STEAMFest event received amazing support from the community this year! With over 300 registrants participating, the Millburn community came together to celebrate and support STEAM education by competing in various STEAM Challenges: Virtual Chess Tournament, Math Contest, In-Person USCF-Rated Chess Tournament, Coding and Environmental Challenges. And we can't wait to see what this spring's FilmFest has in store!
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Our club and sponsor booths, along with showcases at the MILL and Studio 462 made for a fun Sunday afternoon of STEAM activities for all ages! And we introduced the STEAMFest Showcase this year, with inspiring stories from our Storytellers and invaluable insight from our STEAM career panel.
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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 our amazing 2025 Judges and Challenge Leads! CLICK HERE to see the list of Judges & Challenge Leads.
Thank you to the MEF STEAMFEST 2025 Committee: ROMINA PADHI, JEFF CASSIN, JOANNA PARKER-LENTZ, LAURA EGE, JOE SMITH & DEEPA KRISHNAN.
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Thank you to this year's Gold Sponsor – CHESS IN MILLBURN
and our Silver Sponsors, AoPS ACADEMY, MILLBURN SHORT HILLS DESI CLUB and JEFFREY K. CASSIN, ESQ.
USCF-RATED
CHESS TOURNAMENT
WINNERS
UNRATED LEVEL
1st – Luke Bennett
2nd – Aran Iynkaran
3rd – Eduardo Belo
4th – Manveer Kainth
5th – Mehreen Kainth​
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U800 LEVEL
1st – Tanishka Shah
2nd – Aditya Singla
3rd – Shirya Hardikar
4th – Arushi Bindal
5th – Raghav Sambasivan
U1600 LEVEL
1st – Amogh Banagere
2nd – Ayansh Ahluwalia
3rd – Himansh Rathod
4th – Juefie Liu
5th – Hannah Kuo
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Math Contest
Winners
LEVEL 1 (Grades K-1)
1st - Edward Zhang
2nd - Elijah Woode
3rd (tie) - Vincent Xu
3rd (tie) - Riyom Dhamija
4th - Max Tamaroff
5th - Jayden Xu
LEVEL 2 (Grades 2-3)
1st – Asher Yu
2nd – Max Liu
3rd – Christine Gan
4th – Felix Tang
5th – Allison Chen
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LEVEL 3 (Grades 4-5)
1st – Vihaan Shah
2nd – Vincent Song
3rd (tie) – Landon Tsai
3rd (tie) - Sheehan De
3rd (tie) – Justin Boonsiriphant
4th – Aiden Liu
5th – Ananya Rajan
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LEVEL 4 (Grades 6-8)
1st – Ayansh Ahluwalia
2nd – Senhan Wang
3rd – Attie Ouyang
4th – Anvith Paladugu
5th – Thomas Mu
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LEVEL 5 (Grades 9-12)
1st – Yeonjae Kim
2nd – Sim Ertekin
3rd – Rishi Raina
4th – Sakeena Asim
VIRTUAL CHESS TOURNAMENT
Winners
1st – Krish Gupta
2nd – Jaden Wu
3rd –​ Rishaan Gorde
4th – Sam Wang
5th – John Liontakis
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CODING CHALLENGE
WinnerS
DEVELOPER LEVEL
1st – Felix Tang & Joshua Burns Jr
2nd – Arjun Raj Narayan
3rd – Arjun Mahajan
4th – Marcus Chen
5th – Arjun Sharma
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CODER LEVEL
1st – Leela Kalyanpur
2nd – Pranav Giridhar
3rd – Nikola Dedic​​
4th – Sam Wang
5th – Ansh Saxena & Arhan Pasupuleti
Environmental CHALLENGE Winners
LEVEL 1 – Grades K-4
1st – Adyant & Ayansh Swaminathan
2nd – Swara Haldar
3rd – Daanish Singh
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LEVEL 2 – Grades 5-8
1st – Ria Swaroop
2nd – Veda Bindal
3rd – Charvi and Arnav Kandula
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LEVEL 3 – Grades 9-12
1st – Vidya Bindal
2nd – Arjun Jain
3rd – Krisha Aima and Audrey (Yaomei) Lei
4th – Anvi Anand and Shriya Iyer
FILMFEST
Winners
FILMS – PROFESSIONAL
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2nd
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3rd
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FILMS – CASUAL
1st
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2nd
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3rd
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2025 STEAMFest Sponsors
GOLD SPONSORS
SILVER SPONSORS
Jeffrey K. Cassin, Esq.
2025 STEAMFest Judges & Challenge Leads
Thank You!
We couldn't host all of this year's STEAMFest challenges without the help and support of volunteers who participated as this year's contest judges and challenge leads. ​
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​Stela Anguoleva, New Jersey Enrichment Academy
Nikita Sharma
Rados Radoicic
Archana Dalmia
Maduri Asokan
Divya Nagaraj
Vanita Gangwal
Dorothy Kelly
Kyle Jacobs
Holly J Lehren
Cynthia Longley