Showcasing the Future:
Meet the Top 100 Emerging Innovators
The 2026 Honorees
Last year, hundreds of high school students from 29 countries and 25 U.S. states applied, each driving change in their communities and beyond. Here are the Top 100 Emerging Innovators of 2026. These students were honored at the Limitless World Summit in Wilmington, Delaware on April 23-24, 2026. They also moved on to the Semifinal round for a chance to be a Finalist and compete to be named Emerging Innovator of the Year.
2026 Emerging Innovator Awards Top 100
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
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
The 2025 Honorees
In 2025, hundreds of high school students from 34 countries and 25 U.S. states applied, each driving change in their communities and beyond. The Top 100 Emerging Innovators were honored at the Limitless World Summit in Wilmington, Delaware, showcasing the power of youth to shape a brighter future through leadership and innovation.
TOP 100 – 2025 Emerging Innovator Awards
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*