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2024 NASA Biennial Conference Competition Winners
Mark your calendars now to join us Thursday-Sunday, March 12-15, 2026 for the NASA 2026 NASA Conference at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
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Seek and Discover
We are excited to unveil the winners of our Biennial Competition. A special thanks to our judges for their expertise, the teachers for their unwavering support, and all participants for their exceptional talent and dedication. Congratulations to the winners listed below!!
Collegiate Solo
1st — Maria Torres Melgares
2nd — Austin Shilling
3rd — Uday Singh
Judges — Nate Bogert, Chien-Kwan Lin, Debra Richtmeyer
High School Solo
1st — Aayan Patel
2nd — Luke McCartney
3rd — Caden Helmer
Judges — Kendra Wheeler Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, Nathan Mertens
Quartet
1st — Cadeaux Quartet
Philip Kleutgens, Yun Qu Tan, Brian Kachur, Natalia Warthen
2nd — Cypher Quartet
Matthew Hrinda, Sam Au-Yeung, Ian Briffa, Dykeem Cervantes
3rd — LOTUS
GianCarlo Lay, Johnathan Lee, Keegan Ewan, Jerick Meagher
Judges — Bob Eason, Shawn Seguin, Idit Shner
FLEX
1st — Aenea Reed Quintet
Gabbie Wong, Daniel Kim, Dan Dauber, Stephen White, Ben Kearns
2nd — Tryptich
Ethan Roberts, Caleb Dodson, Tatiana Stratenco
3rd — Duo Ferula
Blake Adams, Kelli Ray
Judges — Jeremy Koch, Andrew Parker, Leo Saguiguit
HS Jazz
1st — Isaac Hanson
2nd — Kristian Greene
3rd — Andrew Wittmer
College Jazz
1st — Samuel Vaughn
2nd — Stefan Bello
3rd — Pablo Duque
Jazz Honorable Mention
AJ Huang
Jazz Judges: Alex Graham, Matt Olsen, Jordan VanHemert, Michael Shults, Vincent Norman, Jonathan Nichol, Evan Cobb, Jacob Rodriguez, Aaron Hill