Meet the winners of the 2025 Gordon E. Moore Award for Positive Outcomes for Future Generations
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Samuel Skotnikov, 17, of Highland Village, Texas, and Chanyoung Kim and Eeshaan Prashanth, both 16, of Flower Mound, Texas, received the $50,000 Gordon E. Moore Award for Positive Outcomes for Future Generations at the 2025 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair for creating a brain-controlled bionic prosthetic leg. Current robotic limbs are expensive and can make movements feel unnatural. The team started by measuring the walking motion of their classmate, Aiden, with his usual prosthetic leg. They saw that the prosthetic’s stiffness forced the remaining part of his amputated leg to work much harder than his other leg. They designed their prosthetic leg, Neuroflex, to read the wearer’s brain signals through an EEG headband. The signals tell Neuroflex how the wearer wants to move, and Neuroflex uses its motors to support that movement. They also designed an ankle with more realistic joints. When the team tested their prototype on Aiden, it guessed the right movement 98% of the time. Their adaptable model could also relieve some of the cost burden of prosthetic limbs.
Regeneron ISEF is the world’s largest pre-college science and engineering competition. Learn more: https://www.societyforscience.org/isef/
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