STEAMFEST RECAP & THANKS
Millburn Ed Foundation's annual STEAMFest event received amazing support from the community this year! With over 325 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, 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 our amazing 2024 Judges! Click the 2024 Judge Bio button to see all of our amazing judges and contest creators!
Thank you to the MEF STEAMFEST 2024 Committee: ROMINA PADHI, JEFF CASSIN, CATE SMITH, ANYA PARKER-LENTZ, NIKITA SHARMA, MIN YU & DEEPA KRISHNAN.
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Thank you to this year's Silver Sponsors – C2 EDUCATION, CHESS IN MILLBURN & MILLBURN SHORT HILLS DESI CLUB and our Bronze Sponsor, ONE RIVER MILLBURN.
FILMFEST
Winners
FILMS – GRADES 9-12
1st
Escape
(Aari Desai)
2nd
Election Day
(Henry Meiler)
3rd
Lefty Tennis Baseball: The Comeback
(Kyle Chase)
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FILMS – GRADES 5-8
1st
Hiding From the Cameras
(Devika Gupta, Arshia Mukherjee &
Ira Tyagi)
2nd
If Apps Were Humans
(Ria Swaroop, Aditi Swaroop &
Geet Singh)
3rd
Ready For It?
(Ria Swaroop, Aditi Swaroop)
VIRTUAL CHESS TOURNAMENT
Winners
NOVICE LEVEL
1st – Atharv Karamcheti
2nd – Gowri Raina
3rd – Renee Jha
4th – Varun Ravishankar
5th – Leo Wu
Honorable Mention:
Zeke Hollenhorst
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OPEN LEVEL
1st – Alex Guo
2nd – Jaden Wu
3rd – Aditya Singla
4th – Cameron Mui
5th – Anish Pathak
Honorable Mention:
Kei Letang
Math Contest
Winners
LEVEL 1 (Grades K-1)
1st – Allison Chen
2nd – Aekansh Mehrotra
3rd – Max Zhao
4th – Vyom Singh
5th – Nina Zhao
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LEVEL 2 (Grades 2-3)
1st – Aiden Liu
2nd – Elijah Adams
3rd – Vincent Song
4th – Roland Li
5th – Wenkai Lu
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LEVEL 3 (Grades 4-5)
1st – Ananya Rajan
2nd – David Zhou
3rd – Vincent Mo
4th – Cris Zhou
5th – Anish Pathak
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LEVEL 4 (Grades 6-8)
1st – Thomas Mu
2nd – Ahren Dixit
3rd – Tara Radoicic
4th – Adithya Balakumar
5th – Vishisht Agarwal
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LEVEL 5 (Grades 9-12)
1st – Ayan Dalmia
2nd – Krisha Chhabra
3rd – Lanzhen Cui
4th – Zili Chang
5th – Yuno Lee
CODING CHALLENGE
WinnerS
BEGINNER LEVEL
1st – Divyanshi Bansal
2nd – Joshua Burns
3rd – Ashwat Satish
4th – Team: Deerfield Bulldogs
(Arjun Narayan and Shiv Iyer)
5th – Renee Jha
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CODER LEVEL
1st – Jouho Park
2nd – Team: HealthHeros
(Adhvik Jain and Aaroh Mehta)
3rd – Leela Kalyanpur
4th – Nikola Dedic
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HACKER LEVEL
1st – Dhruv Gupta
2nd – Tanvi Telang
3rd – David Dedic
Environmental CHALLENGE Winners
LEVEL 1 – Grades K-4
1st – Torus Roberts
2nd – Ingrid Leung
3rd – Swara Haldar
4th – Warren Li
5th – Kaiden Roberts
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LEVEL 2 – Grades 5-8
1st – Veda Bindal
2nd – Sia Bagul
3rd – Asmi Haldar
4th – Team Pancakes
(Ria Swaroop & Aditi Swaroop)
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LEVEL 3 – Grades 9-12
1st – Team Biochar
(Vidya Bindal & Ishaan Bharadwaj)
2nd – Team Green Guardians
(Ayan Dalmia & Shrey Agarwal)
3rd – Suvid Bordia
4th – Eshan Akula
USCF-RATED
CHESS TOURNAMENT
WINNERS
UNRATED LEVEL
1st – Leo Ren
2nd – Andy Hu
3rd – Noah Adams
4th – Aum Gupta
5th – Isaac Karyat
Honorable Mention:
Elijah Adams
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U800 LEVEL
1st – Dylan Tsui
2nd – Aditya Singla
3rd – Cameron Mui
4th – Himansh Rathod
5th – Jaden Wu
Honorable Mention:
Arushi Bindal
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U1600 LEVEL
1st – Rishi Sambasivan
2nd – Arin Telang
3rd – Vishisht Agarwal
4th – Eshan Gogineni
5th – Xiaoman Lin
Honorable Mention:
Atharv Karamcheti
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