Showcasing the Future:
Meet the Top 100 Emerging Innovators
The 2027 Honorees
This year, hundreds of high school students from 29 countries and 28 U.S. states applied, each driving change in their communities and beyond. Here are the Top 100 Emerging Innovators of 2027. These students will be honored at the Limitless World Summit in Wilmington, Delaware on April 29-30, 2027. They will also move on to the Semifinal round for a chance to be a Finalist and compete to be named Emerging Innovator of the Year.
2027 Top 100 Emerging Innovators
Aryan Atri
Jenna Bae
Julien Baltrusaitis
Sriyan Bodla
Michelle Budaya
Ceren Cannazik
Andrea Cervantes-Flores
Sanjana Chamarty
Tsz Tao Shobi Chan
Suri Charlu
Jeslyn Chhay
Naitik Choudhary
David Chung
Ariana Das
Harper Frank
Samarth Gioia
Tanay Goel
Daria Gorlovetskaia
Radhika Gosain
Tanishka Goyal
Aiden Green
Koustabh Gupta
Vishvak Gurram
Ridhi Gutta
Mustafa Hameed
Julian Huang
Aren Inan
Zhang Isabella
Sky Jacobson
Nitya Jayasankar
Sarah Ji
Avelyn Jing
Yongjun Jo
Kalani Jules Brown
Prem Kamasani
Austin Kantor
Darren Kapturski
Anhad Kashyap
Adithya Kattimani
Masouda Khan
Anvi Khattar
Aiden Kim
Danu Kim
Christopher Ko
Satya Kokonda
Deniz Korkmaz
Kavya Kumar
Vivaan Kuruganti
Xiaowu Lai
Medha Lalani
Lawrence Lin Lee
Bettina Lee
Jaeho Lee
Suryakanta Lenka
Danya Levin
Jingqi Li
Tallie Lin
Owen Liu
Aanya Mansani
Lily McManus
Siena McQueen
Anuki Mudalige
Kerem Muldur
John Nell
Johnny Ni
Elena Pappas
Taewoo Park
Sheyna Patel
Nivaan Patel
Sam Pechulis
Theerutch Phayungthanakorn
Alexander Poon
Dhruv Pratapagiri
Muhammad Ahmad Raza
Joelle Rice
Trissha Rupani
Emilio Saenz
Pelin Ecehanim Sen
Arush Shangari
Aiden Shankar
Aryan Sharma
Aaron Shen
Ayana Singh
Aditya Singhal
Melinda Song
Varshini Subramanian
Raj Sukumaran
Justin Tang
Kaitlyn Tay Rui Yi
Avani Thakur
Aashrith Sai Thoutham
Maxwell Tran
Yelda Naz Usal
Om Vegesna
Yuelin Wang
Jiayi Wang
Melora Wu
Dhruv Yadati
Skyler Yoo
Andy Zhang
Jane Zhang
Mayu Zuniga
Winner Spotlight
2026 EMERGING INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR
2026 Emerging Innovator Awards Finalists
April Surac
Florida
Ashmith Yaramada
Virginia
Lara Leon
California
Lauren Tyree
Pennsylvania
Olivia Sobolewski
New Jersey
Soneesh Kothagundla
Georgia
Explore previous year's honorees
2026 Top 100 Emerging Innovators
Aveeka Agrawal
Sudenaz Irem Ak
Rishab Anand
Aniruth Ananthanarayanan
Michael Anderson
Eve Ang
Preyahathai Aroonvanichporn
Jasnam Singh Arora
Bedirhan Atabay
Zahra Avdiu
Arshia Baid
Niva Bangaru
Krish Behera
Atiksh Bhan
Shaurya Bisht
Maria Brum
Ajsel Budlla
Arissa Cao
Parker Caruso
Ludmila Chagas
Sid Chalamalasetty
Sirinda Chalermthiralert
Li Yu Chen
Violet Chin
Alexis Cho
Zerya Cimen
Nina Cowen
Samih Daubney
Shiv Davay
Natalia Espinoza
Sophie Farnan
Ava Fell
Mahdi Bin Ferdaus
Jayithi Gavva
Isaiah Ghadban
Raga Gourineni
Katelynn Gramenz
Hermione Granger
Lavanya Gupta
Mrityunjay Gupta
Krishiv Gupta
Ridhi Gutta
Seoha Han
Keshav Harpavat
James Herron
Nate Huber
Alejandro Forner Ibanez
Kate Jarboe
Manas Jha
Jowemi Serrano Jr.
Bhavik Kanumuri
Ava Karinattu
Ellis Kim
Ahyoung Kim
Nikolas Klein
Georgia Kolettis
Soneesh Kothagundla
Ayca Naz Kurt
Lara Leon
Hannah Li
Brendan Li
Suri Li
Calixte de Belloy de Saint Lienard
Rory Magnay
JohnCarlo Mandara
Ananya Manikandan
Tejasvi Manoj
Alexa Marino
Michela Maxera
Nora Michaelis
Hrach Mnatsakanyan
Teagan Moyer
Anuki Mudalige
Oorja Munot
Elene Ninoshvili
Chloe Oh
Bilan Ramadan Omar
Ramakrishnan Panchacharam
Shivang Parmar
Hansen Peng
Rudra Prajapati
Parik Puranam
Ryan Qi
Vallabh Ramesh
Rami Rifi
Prem Shah
Martha Shalamberidze
Deshna Sharma
Viva Shrivastava
Mehai Singh
Olivia Sobolewski
Hannah Steele
Alexa Straker
April Surac
Gopalaniket Tadinada
Nathan Tan
Naravid Tejavanija
Shivum Telang
Kate Tessler
Berra Eylül Toprak
Lauren Tyree
Vivaan Vasudeva
Berra Vatansever
Dwij Verma
Sabrina Welch
Jetson Wilk
Stella Yao
Ashmith Yaramada
2025 Top 100 Emerging Innovators
Nita Adebo
Meghana Aduri
Aarav Agrawal
Whitney Akinyi
Hassan Akuete
Stella Ameduite
Preyahathai Aroonvanichporn
Krishna Arun*
Rayya Babar
Arshia Baid
Ayana Banks
Meghna Borah
Sebastien Burkhardt
Anastasia Carpenter
Aveer Chadha
Carmen Chen
Jamie Cheng
Ashish Chettimada
Jaylyn Chong
Daniel Chukwujekwu
Tejas Dahiya
Liam Dao
Barrett Deng
Mason Dwek
Coleene Elias
Sofia Escalante
Andrea Fajardo
Kylie Ford
Jewels Freedman
Mehak Gadh
Shubh Gangrade
Issa Geisendorfer
Abigail Goddard*
Aashi Goyal
Yu Han Guo
Siya Gupta
Yudaant Gupta
Arya Gurumukhi
Carolyn He
Lusine Hovsepyan
Md Twashin Ilahi
Ananya Iyer
Sami Jalloud
Nolan Johnson
Anastasia Joseph
Dante Kanterezhi-Gatto
Chase Kantor
Eliza Keller
Devesh Khilnani
Aarav Khullar
Georgia Kolettis
Anamitra Kugapalan
Eleanor Kukes
Adarsh Kumar
Lucia Lecour
Daniel Lee
Cindy Lei
Raeanne Li
Zihan Li
Larry Li
Kenneth Lin
Maggie Liu
Megana Madhurakavi*
Julia Maksimowicz
Mark Makyan
Michela Lia Maxera Vizcardo
Caroline Miller
Raajaditya Mohan
Lila Mokhtari
Caroline Nagayumi
Chimaobim Okafor
Favour Okoli
Benyapa Ongphiphadhanakul
Arden Pala
Andrew Passalacqua
Ariyan Patel
Gabriele Peltin
Vihaan Pol
Anshul Ponugoti
Ethan Poon
Athithi Prakash
Xinyuan Qi
Chris Qin
Toby Qin
Sagar Raghavan
Aliyah Redding
Nicolas Richter
Brandyn Ross
Shikahr Saxena
Henry Scolnick
Keyaan Shah*
Siddharth Shankar*
Prisha Shroff
Yi Tao Shu
Angel Song
Sahana Srikanth
Vedant Srinivasan
Aarush Sudamalla
Poomkarn Taedullayasatit
Shreya Talwar
Eric Tang
Sofiia Tarasiuk
JueFei Wang
Gengshuo Wang
Apple Wang
Cindy Wang
Joshua Wang
Thanabodee Withunchettanan
Katherine Wu
Branden Wu
Kavita Yadav
Tony Yao
Terry Yu
Yerassyl Zhumakadyr
Joseph Zogheib
*indicates finalist*