# Regeneron Science Talent Search

The Regeneron Science Talent Search, known for its first 57 years as the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, and then as the Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS) from 1998 through 2016, is a research-based science competition in the United States for high school seniors. It has been referred to as "the nation's oldest and most prestigious" science competition. In his speech at the dinner honoring the 1991 Winners, President George H. W. Bush called the competition the "Super Bowl of science."

## History

The Society for Science began the competition in 1942 with Westinghouse Electric Corporation; for many years, the competition was known as the Westinghouse Science Talent Search. In 1998, Intel became the sponsor after it outbid several other companies. In May 2016, it was announced that Regeneron Pharmaceuticals would be the new title sponsor. Over the years, some 147,000 students have entered the competition. Over 22,000 have been named semifinalists and 2,920 have traveled to Washington, D.C., as contest finalists. Collectively, they have received millions of dollars in scholarships and gone on, in later years, to capture Nobel Prizes, Fields Medals, MacArthur Fellowships and numerous other accolades.
Thirteen alumni of the Science Talent Search went on to receive Nobel Prizes, two earned the Fields Medal, eleven have been awarded the National Medal of Science, twenty received MacArthur Fellowships; three have won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research; seven have won a Breakthrough Prize; and many have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.

## Competition

Entrants to the competition conduct original research—sometimes at home and sometimes by working with leading research teams at universities, hospitals and private laboratories. The selection process is highly competitive, and besides the research paper, letters of recommendation, essays, test scores, extracurricular activities, and high school transcripts may be factored in the selection of finalists and winners.
Awards (as of 2023) :
| Award | Prize |
| First place | $250,000 |
| Second place | $175,000 |
| Third place | $150,000 |
| Fourth place | $100,000 |
| Fifth place | $90,000 |
| Sixth place | $80,000 |
| Seventh place | $70,000 |
| Eighth place | $60,000 |
| Ninth place | $50,000 |
| Tenth place | $40,000 |
| 30 finalists | $25,000 |
| 300 semifinalists | $2,000 |
Each year, approximately 2,000 projects are submitted. The top 300 STS Scholars are announced in mid-January and each receive $2,000. In addition to the scholar award money, each scholar’s school receives an award of $2,000 from the title sponsor for each scholar named. In late January, the Top 40 Finalists (the award winners) are announced. In March, the Finalists are flown to Washington, D.C. for a week where they are interviewed by a judging panel about their projects, and to assess the breadth and depth of STEM knowledge, creativity and problem solving abilities. The judges have included Glenn T. Seaborg (Nobel Laureate with Edwin M. McMillan in Chemistry, 1951) and Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. (Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1993). The Top 40 Finalists receive awards of at least $25,000 and the winners are announced at an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C.

## Demography

The Science Talent Search is open to high school seniors living in the United States. Since the beginning of the competition, a large number of winners have come from New York, representing nearly one-third of the finalists in the years that Westinghouse sponsored the competition. New York has continued to lead the states in finalists in more recent years, more closely followed by California, and with significant numbers of finalists from Maryland, Texas, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Florida, Virginia, and Illinois.
Top states for finalists :
| State | Total finalists | Westinghouse (1942-1998) | Intel (1999–2016) | Regeneron (2017–2025) |
| New York | 1038 | 752 | 215 | 71 |
| California | 329 | 163 | 103 | 63 |
| Illinois | 174 | 149 | 24 | 1 |
| Pennsylvania | 131 | 101 | 18 | 12 |
| Maryland | 125 | 65 | 45 | 15 |
| New Jersey | 127 | 87 | 24 | 16 |
| Florida | 125 | 84 | 24 | 16 |
| Virginia | 120 | 82 | 16 | 22 |
| Massachusetts | 109 | 68 | 24 | 17 |
| Texas | 105 | 54 | 32 | 19 |
| Ohio | 93 | 78 | 10 | 5 |
| Wisconsin | 60 | 48 | 9 | 3 |
| Michigan | 59 | 37 | 15 | 7 |
| Oregon | 60 | 30 | 20 | 10 |
| Indiana | 56 | 43 | 9 | 4 |
| Connecticut | 56 | 30 | 18 | 8 |
Finalists by state (1942–2025) :
| State | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Oregon | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Pennsylvania | 2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Rhode Island | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| South Carolina | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Dakota | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tennessee | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Texas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Utah | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vermont | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Virginia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Washington | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| West Virginia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wisconsin | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wyoming | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Puerto Rico | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Guam | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Certain high schools have been particularly successful at placing semifinalists and finalists in the Science Talent Search. From the early years of the competition, two specialized high schools in New York City dominated the competition: Bronx High School of Science and Stuyvesant High School. Other New York schools have also had notable success in the competition, including Ward Melville High School in East Setauket, Byram Hills High School in Armonk, Jericho High School in Jericho, and Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School in Port Washington. In the 1980s and 1990s, other specialized STEM schools, including Virginia's Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology and Maryland's Montgomery Blair High School, began to produce large numbers of finalists to rival the New York schools. In the 21st century, a new group of specialized STEM schools have had growing success in the competition, including New Jersey's Bergen County Academies, and the private Harker School in California.

## List of prominent individuals who were past winners

| Finalist | Year | Placed | High School | Notability |
| Evelyne Peace Tyner | 1942 | Finalist | | Environmentalist who conserved large areas of native prairie with a ecology centre named after her, awarded the LEED award. |
| Robert Kraichnan | 1944 | 2nd boy | | National Academy of Sciences |
| Ben Mottelson | 1944 | Finalist | Lyons Township High School | 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Andrew Sessler | 1945 | Finalist | Forest Hills High School | National Academy of Sciences |
| Gerald Edelman | 1946 | Semifinalist | John Adams High School | 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Leon Cooper | 1947 | Finalist | Bronx High School of Science | 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Martin Karplus | 1947 | Top Boy | Newton High School | 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Ronald Breslow | 1948 | Finalist | | 1991 National Medal of Science |
| R. Stephen Berry | 1948 | Finalist | East High School | 1983 MacArthur Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences |
| Walter Gilbert | 1949 | Finalist | Sidwell Friends School | 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Sheldon Glashow | 1950 | Finalist | Bronx High School of Science | 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Paul Cohen | 1950 | Finalist | Stuyvesant High School | 1966 Fields Medal |
| John L. Hall | 1952 | Semifinalist | South High School | 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics |
| David Mumford | 1953 | Finalist | Phillips Exeter Academy | 1974 Fields Medal |
| Joanna Russ | 1953 | Top Ten | William Howard Taft High School | Hugo and Nebula Awards, author of The Female Man |
| Marcian Hoff | 1954 | Top Ten | Churchville-Chili Senior High School | 2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation |
| Roald Hoffmann | 1955 | Finalist | Stuyvesant High School | 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Leroy Hood | 1956 | Finalist | Shelby High School | 2011 National Medal of Science |
| Donald Knuth | 1956 | Semifinalist | Milwaukee Lutheran High School | 1974 Turing Award, 1979 National Medal of Science |
| Kip Thorne | 1958 | Semifinalist | Logan High School | 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Charles H. Bennett | 1960 | 4th Place | Croton-Harmon High School | 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics |
| Robert Axelrod | 1961 | Finalist | Evanston Township High School | 2012 National Medal of Science |
| Gary A. Wegner | 1963 | Finalist | Bothell High School | Humboldt Prize |
| Paul L. Modrich | 1964 | Semifinalist | Raton High School | 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Ray Kurzweil | 1965 | Finalist | Martin Van Buren High School | 1999 National Medal of Technology and Innovation |
| Frank Wilczek | 1967 | Finalist | Martin Van Buren High School | 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Alvin Roth | 1968 | Semifinalist | Martin Van Buren High School | 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics |
| Roger Y. Tsien | 1968 | 1st Place | Livingston High School | 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Gordon J. Freeman | 1969 | Finalist | Arlington Heights High School | National Academy of Sciences |
| Thomas Felix Rosenbaum | 1973 | Finalist | Forest Hills High School | President, California Institute of Technology |
| Eric Lander | 1974 | 1st Place | Stuyvesant High School | 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences |
| F. Thomson Leighton | 1974 | 2nd Place | Stuyvesant High School | National Academy of Sciences, Akamai Technologies co-founder and CEO |
| Paul Zeitz | 1975 | 1st Place | Stuyvesant High School | 1974 USAMO Winner |
| George Yancopoulos | 1976 | Top Ten | Bronx High School of Science | National Academy of Sciences, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals co-founder and CSO |
| Richard H. Ebright | 1977 | Finalist | Muhlenberg High School | American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Ron Unz | 1979 | 1st Place | North Hollywood High School | Wall Street Analytics founder; political activist |
| Lisa Randall | 1980 | 1st Place | Stuyvesant High School | National Academy of Sciences |
| Brian Greene | 1980 | Finalist | Stuyvesant High School | The Elegant Universe author |
| Noam Elkies | 1982 | Finalist | Stuyvesant High School | 2004 Levi L. Conant Prize |
| Wendy Chung | 1986 | 1st Place | Miami Killian High School | American Academy of Pediatrics Young Investigator Award |
| Jordan Ellenberg | 1989 | 2nd Place | Winston Churchill High School | American Mathematical Society Fellow |
| Matthew Headrick | 1990 | 1st Place | University of Chicago Laboratory Schools | High h-index/highly cited physicist |
| David R. Liu | 1990 | 2nd Place | Riverside Poly High School | National Academy of Sciences |
| Maneesh Agrawala | 1990 | Finalist | Montgomery Blair High School | 2009 MacArthur Fellowship |
| Christopher Bouton | 1992 | Finalist | Saint Ann's School (Brooklyn) | Entagen founder and CEO |
| Wei-Hwa Huang | 1993 | 6th Place | Montgomery Blair High School | World Puzzle Champion 1995, 1997-1999 |
| Robert Sarvis | 1994 | 4th Place | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Libertarian politician |
| Daniel Biss | 1995 | Finalist | Bloomington North High School | Mayor of Evanston, Illinois |
| Jacob Lurie | 1996 | 1st Place | Montgomery Blair High School | 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics |
| Bill Thies | 1997 | Finalist | State College Area High School | 2016 MacArthur Fellowship |
| Natalie Portman | 1999 | Semifinalist | Syosset High School | Academy Award and Golden Globe Award winning Actor |
| Keith Winstein | 1999 | 4th Place | Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy | 2014 SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award |
| Feng Zhang | 2000 | 3rd Place | Theodore Roosevelt High School | National Academy of Sciences |
| Mariangela Lisanti | 2001 | 1st Place | Staples High School | 2013 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists |
| Tianhui Michael Li | 2003 | 2nd Place | Oregon Episcopal School | Marshall Scholar, Hertz Foundation Fellow, data scientist, founder and CEO of The Data Incubator |
| Lester Mackey | 2003 | 6th Place | Half Hollow Hills High School West | 2023 MacArthur Fellowship |