TechXpo 2026: List of Award Recipients

One-Semester Projects:

Infrastructure – Group A

Interstate 90 Pavement Section Design Proposal

Rachel Hollingsworth, Hannah Anderson, Joe Gasvoda, Barrett Beckley

Infrastructure – Group B

Billings LAASF SWPPP

Kincaid Teske, Chase Anderson, Weston Sternad

Infrastructure – Group C

Leaflet Mapping Prototype Implementation and Evaluation for the One Stop Shop for Rural Traveler Information

James Brady

Natural Resources

Wildfire Smoke Dispersion Modeling

Kellan Beller, Sneha Sudhakar

Health/Medical

Genome Annotation of Mycobacteriophage MollyToe            

Cora Pesanti

Two-Semester Projects:

Interdisciplinary, Infrastructure

Third Generation Laboratory Pyrolysis System            

Ryan Schultze, Seth Leitheiser, Andrew Daigle, Natalka Rolfson, Jaden Lewis, Adrian Tittle, Derek Schultz, Aiden Scott

Interdisciplinary, Natural Resources

Fluid Mixing Controls Organic Acid Geochemistry in Hydrothermal Springs

Nathan Rayburn

Single Disciplinary, Infrastructure – Group A

Hi-Fi Loudspeaker

Michael King, Seager Nentwig, Braeden Guse

Single Disciplinary, Infrastructure – Group B

Prototype Road Weather Alert System

Hayden Pride, Quinten Cox, Nicholas Steilman

Single Disciplinary, Natural Resources

Examination of Limiting Factors in Chalcopyrite Depression using Orfom® D8             

Payton Ramey, Nathan Dutzi

Single Disciplinary, Health/Medical

Microplastic Uptake Dynamics in THP-1 Macrophages:  Effects of Dose and Exposure Time

Jessica Price

Graduate Projects:

Infrastructure

Mobile Power Generation through Hydrogen Combustion

Evan Guengerich

Natural Resources – Group A

An Integrated Strategy and Process for Recovery of Germanium from Metallurgical By-products and Waste Streams

Caden Ingraham

Natural Resources – Group B

Phytomining Potential of Native Rocky Mountain Plants

Halle Cogley

Natural Resources – Group C

Collector Blends for the Flotation of Rare Earth Silicates

Padmore Amankwah

Health/Medical

Physiological Flow Model for Electrospun Cardiac Cell Scaffold

Harold Pearson-Nadal

Chancellor Award – Undergraduate

Baja SAE Vehicle

Francis Rogers, Dakota James, Colby Lalone, Zachary Worring, Stephen McAfee

Chancellor Award – Graduate

Hydrogen Engine for a Continuous Biochar Reactor

Andrew Woods

Best-in-Show Award

The Effect of Superficial Biochar Layer on Soil Radon Exhalation:  A Preliminary Investigation into a Passive Residential Radon Mitigation Strategy

Nick Nelson