High school innovators from the U.S. and the Chinese mainland stole the spotlight at yesterday's 2025 S.-T. Yau High School Science Awards ceremony at Tsinghua University. 🎉 The competition crowned 62 young geniuses across six STEM+ fields, proving Gen Z is rewriting the rules of scientific discovery.
New York's Michael Iofin became the talk of the event, snagging both the Mathematics Gold Medal and the prestigious Science Grand Award for his work blending AI with quantum computing concepts. 🤯 Meanwhile, Shenzhen's Wang Ziwen wowed judges with her groundbreaking topology research, earning the Noether Mathematics Prize Gold Medal.
'These projects could literally change how we approach climate modeling,' said competition judge Dr. Li Wei during the awards ceremony. The event highlighted growing U.S.-China youth collaboration in STEM, with 40% of this year's winners involving cross-border mentorship. 💡
With categories spanning from bioengineering to economic modeling, the awards showcase how teens are tackling real-world issues like renewable energy and pandemic prediction. Tsinghua University announced plans to fund prototype development for top projects starting January 2026. 🚀
