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The AMS presented the Karl Menger Awards at the 2023 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (Regeneron ISEF) on May 17th. The winners are high school students who earned the right to compete at the Regeneron ISEF by winning a top prize at a local, regional, state, or national science fair. The first place award of $2,000 was awarded to Nicholas Hagedorn of Princeton High School in Princeton, New Jersey for Strict Inequalities for the n-Crossing Number.

The Menger Award Committee also presented the following awards:

Second award of $1,000: Nikola Gyulev, Model High School of Mathematics "Akademik Kiril Popov", Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Proof of the Complete Presence of a Modulo 4 Bias for the Semiprimes, and Jeffrey Xu, Montgomery High School, Skillman, New Jersey, Extending the Vieta-Newton Theorem

Third award of $500: Stefan Gaydarov, Model High School of Mathematics "Akademik Kiril Popov," The Shape of Polynomial Map x ?Üí kx^n Mod P, Joseph Vulakh, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, Lexington, Kentucky, Hereditary Atomicity and ACCP in Monoids and Integral Domains, Meryl Zhang, R. C. Clark High School, Plano, Texas, The Easiest Hard Problem: A Heuristic Solution to the Two-Way Partitioning Problem Using Probabilistic Algorithms, and Sophie Zhu, Williamsville East High School, Williamsville, New York, Pointed Fusion Categories Over Non-Algebraically Closed Fields, and

Certificates of Honorable Mention: Joseph Crachiola, Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy, Saginaw, Michigan, Creating and Assessing a Tool to Organize Graphs Using Hooke's Law, Camille Duma, Vanguard High School, Ocala, Florida, Application of Michaelis-Menten Rational Function Models, Parametric Calculations, and Differential Equations to Determine the Most Influential Factor on Histamine Levels, Yunjia Quan, Charlotte Country Day School, Charlotte, North Carolina, Improving Bitcoin's Post-Quantum Transaction Efficiency With a Novel Lattice-Based Aggregate Signature Scheme Based on CRYSTALS-Dilithium and a STARK Protocol, and Rich Wang, William P. Clements High School, Sugar Land, Texas, Ending States of a Special Variant of the Chip-Firing Algorithm, and Andrew Zhang, Wayzata High School, Plymouth, Minnesota, Extremal Problems on the Steiner k-Distance and the Steiner k-Wiener Index

Award announcement as seen in the news release.

The AMS presented the Karl Menger Awards at the 2022 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (Regeneron ISEF) on May 12. The first-place award of $2,000 was given to Sarth Chavan of Aditya English Medium School in Pune, India, for On Ramanujan?s Identity for Odd Zeta Values and Its Generalization. The Menger Award Committee also presented awards to: Daniel Salkinder, Half Hollow Hills High School East, Dix Hills, New York, Nxnxn Rubik?s Cube and God?s Number (Second Award); Sophie Zhu, Williamsville East High School, East Amherst, New York, Factorizations in Evaluation Monoids of Laurent Semirings (Second Award), Edward Garth, Redeemer Baptist School, North Park, Australia, Validating a Predictive Mathematical Modelling Paradigm for Travelling from Point A to Point B (Third Award); Morgan Holien, Monarch High School, Louisville, Colorado, Attempting to Define Tetration of Non-Integer Heights (Third Award); Donald Liveoak, Allen Park High School, Allen Park, Michigan, Schrodinger Bridges on Discrete Domains (Third Award); Shirley Xu, The Bishop's School, La Jolla, California, A Heuristic Solution to the Closest String Problem Using Wave Function Collapse Techniques (Third Award), Dongin Kim, Sihyeong Yang, and Seokyoung Yoon, Korea Science Academy of KAIST, Busan, South Korea, Study on the Solution Set of Knot Colorings (Honorable Mention); Jiahui Li, Emma Willard School, Troy, New York, From the Manhattan Project to Statistics of Zeros in L-Functions (Honorable Mention); and Akilan Sankaran, Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Modifying the ABCs of Number Theory (Honorable Mention).

Award announcement as seen in the news release.

The 2021 Menger Awards went to (1st place) Jessica Zhang; (2nd place) Haruki Sato, Hyungwon Han, Hyunjun Cho, and Dohyeon Kim; (3rd place) Tzu-Hsuan Chiu, Andrei Mandelshtam, Chloe Zhan, and Alexander Zhang; (honorable mention) Dev Chheda, Oleg Chistov, Nathan Krause, William Li, Chau Le, and Khoa Huynh.

Award announcement as seen in the news release.

The 2019 Menger Awards went to (1st place) Ruslan Magdiev; (2nd place) Zong-Hong Cheng and Andrei Mandelshtam; (3rd place) Geidar Mamedov, Aayush Karan, Seo Yeong Kwag, Taeyang Park, Pin-Hsien Yang, and Wei-Lun Chang; (honorable mention) Aleksei Krivovichev, Daniil Kudriavtsev, John Tadeusz Piwinski,  Stepan Akinshin, James Matthew Baker, and AnaMaria Perez.

Award announcement as seen in the news release.

The 2018 Menger Awards went to (1st place) Ryusei Sakai, Sota Kojima, and Yuta Yokohama; (2nd place) Gopal Krishna Goel, and Rachana Madhukara; (3rd place) Chavdar Tsvetanov Lalov, Gianfranco Cortes-Arroyo, Muhammad Ugur Oglu Abdulla, Boris Borisovich Baranov, and Savelii Novikov; (Honorable Mention) Dmitrii Mikhailovskii, Chi-Lung Chiang, Kai Wang, Kayson Taka Hansen, Gustavo Xavier Santiago-Reyes, Omar Alejandro Santiago-Reyes, and Karthik Yegnesh.

Award announcement as seen in the news release.

The 2017 Menger Awards went to (1st place) Griffin Macris; (2nd place) Matthew Hase-Liu, Savelii Novikov; (3rd place) Arjun Ramani, Yuan-Jung Juang, Dmitrii Mikhailovskii, Egor Morozov; (Honorable Mention) Dona-Maria Ivanova, Shilun Li, Alec Leng, Max Land, Gonen Zimmerman.

Award announcement as seen in Notices of the AMS and in the news release.

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Award announcement as seen in Notices of the AMS.