Congratulations YPSE 2025 conference participants, we hope to see you all back next year!
We would like to thank everyone who attended and presented at the 2025 AIAA Region 1, Mid-Atlantic Section Young Professionals, Students, and Educators conference!!
Thank you to all of the presenters who were willing to share and celebrate their work. Thank you to all of the attendees who engaged with our aerospace community. Thank you to all of the speakers who graciously took the time out of their busy lives to talk with us. Thank you to the volunteers who served as session chairs and as judges for the technical sessions. Everyone’s support helped ensure we had a successful conference.
Congratulations to our 2025 Top Presentations!
We would like to recognize and congratulate the following individuals and groups who earned top honors at the conference.
High School:
Winner: "Increasing Surface Flashover Voltage Using a Nonlinear Resistive Polymer Nanocomposite for High Altitude Power Systems in Aircraft" by Sidh Jaddu
Runner Up: "Mars Dust Mitigation (MDM): AREOUS" by Ethan Johnson and Medhansh Garadala
Undergraduate:
Winner: "Automating Near-Earth Object Pre-Discovery" by Amelia Skeers
Runner Up: "Martian Life Support Mass Effects on Astronauts" by Meredith Embrey
Graduate:
Winner: "Investigation of Lift/Drag Augmentation Using Pulsed Combustion" by Jacob Mayonado
Runner Up: "Kinematics and Control of the BioBot Rover System" by Ishan Dutta, Jonah Malcolm, Romeo Perlstein, Srujana Theerthala, Anthony Zverev
Young Professional:
Winner: "Preparing for Flight: The Integration and Test Campaign that Led to IMAP’s Successful Launch" by Abby Gatesman
Runner Up: "Design and Testing of a Deployable 2.5-Meter Magnetometer Boom for NASA’s IMAP Spacecraft" by John Schellhase