🏆 Selected Honors
- NASA Group Achievement Award (2025). As a member of the DART Period Change Determination Team, for the first measurement of the change in an asteroid's orbital motion caused by a kinetic impact - part of NASA's Planetary Defense program.
- Third Place, Student Oral Competition - NASA Exploration Science Forum (2026). SSERVI's forum at NASA Ames Research Center; the only high-school student among the graduate and early-career researchers giving oral talks. For Project MOON, tracking the Artemis II mission through open science.
- Third Grand Award - Regeneron ISEF (2025). Among ~1,700 finalists from 60+ countries. For NEPTUNE: predicting unseen exoplanets from transit-timing variations.
- Second Prize - EU Contest for Young Scientists, EUCYS (2023), Brussels. The EU's flagship science contest (136 finalists from 36 countries); represented Canada. For algorithms determining asteroids' physical properties, applied to NASA's DART mission.
- Masason Scholarship (2024–ongoing). Full undergraduate scholarship, awarded for planetary-defence research.
- Foresight Fellow - Planetary Defense Fellowship (2025). A selective fellowship from the Foresight Institute.
- Best Project Award, Canada-Wide Science Fair (Youth Science Canada) - 2023 and 2022 (back-to-back). Top project prize at Canada’s national science fair.
- Young Astronomer & Excellence in Astronomy Awards - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. From Canada's national astronomy society (RASC).
- City of Toronto Open Data Award (2026). Second place, for the "Better My City" open-data civic project.
2026
Third Place, Student Oral Competition - NASA Exploration Science Forum (2026) - Awarded by SSERVI at NASA Ames Research Center for Project MOON, tracking the Artemis II mission through open science. The only high-school student among the graduate and early-career researchers giving oral talks.
City of Toronto Open Data Award - 2nd Place, Public Projects (2026) - Better My City: merging open data and AI to automate 311 reporting.
2025
NASA Group Achievement Award (2025). As a member of the DART Period-Change Determination Team, for the first measurement of the change in an asteroid's orbital motion caused by a kinetic impact - part of NASA's Planetary Defense program. - Third Grand Award - Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), Columbus, Ohio Project: NEPTUNE - Unseen Exoplanet Prediction Using TTV https://isef.net/project/phys055-neptune-unseen-exoplanet-prediction-using-ttv Press Release: https://youthscience.ca/team-canada-secures-three-prestigious-awards-at-regeneron-isef-2025-in-columbus-ohio/
Foresight Fellow - Planetary Defense (2025) https://foresight.org/fellowship/2025-fellow-arushi-nath/
Challenge Award (Aerospace) - Canada-Wide Science Fair (2025) https://partner.projectboard.world/ysc/project/neptune-n-body-exoplanet-prediction-using-ttvs-for-unseen-exoplanets
Gold Medal - Canada-Wide Science Fair (2025) https://partner.projectboard.world/ysc/project/neptune-n-body-exoplanet-prediction-using-ttvs-for-unseen-exoplanets
Excellence in Astronomy Award - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (2025) https://partner.projectboard.world/ysc/project/neptune-n-body-exoplanet-prediction-using-ttvs-for-unseen-exoplanets
Gold Medal - Toronto Science Fair (2025)
University of Toronto Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences Award (Physics) (2025)
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Award (2025)
2024
Masason Scholar (2024) Scholar Page: https://masason-foundation.org/en/scholars/ Press Release: https://masason-foundation.org/en/2024/06/26/126542/
Gold Medal - Toronto Science Fair (2024) https://isef.net/project/phys035-accelerated-asteroid-characterization-using-phast
University of Toronto - Earth Sciences Mathew Shawn McConville Award (2024)
Ingenious+ Youth Innovation Challenge - Regional Winner (2024) https://ingeniousplus.ca/celebrating-the-ingenious-2024-innovation-challenge-regional-winners/
2023
Second Prize - European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS), Brussels (2023) Winners List: https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2023-09/EUCYS2023_Winners_List.pdf Project: https://eucys2023.eu/physics-05/ Press Release: https://youthscience.ca/team-canada-eucys-2023-award-winners/
Young Astronomers Award - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (2023) https://rasc.ca/young-astronomers-award
Best Project Award (Innovation) - Canada-Wide Science Fair (2023) https://projectboard.world/ysc/project/developing-algorithms-to-determine-asteroids-physical-properties-and-success-of-deflection-missions-zbdjwn
Youth Can Innovate Award - Gwyn Morgan & Patricia Trottier Foundation (2023) https://youthcaninnovate.ca/winners/
Challenge Award - Curiosity & Ingenuity - Canada-Wide Science Fair (2023)
Gold Medal - Canada-Wide Science Fair (2023)
Excellence in Astronomy Award - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (2023)
Actuarial Foundation of Canada Award (2023)
Team Toronto Travel Award - University of Toronto (VPRI) (2023) https://www.torontosciencefair.ca/about-us/cwsf-2023-team-toronto
Gold Medal - Toronto Science Fair (2023) https://www.torontosciencefair.ca/about-us/2023-gold-medal-recipients
University of Toronto - Physics Award (2023) https://www.torontosciencefair.ca/about-us/2023-special-award-recipients
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Award (2023) https://www.torontosciencefair.ca/about-us/2023-special-award-recipients
Mentee of the Year - Tundra STEM (2023) https://tundratechnical-stem.com/arushi-nath/
Ontario Volunteer Service Award - Government of Ontario (2023) For science outreach and communication
2022
Best of the Canada-Wide Science Fair (Innovation) (2022) https://youthscience.ca/plankton-wars-and-planetary-defense-take-best-project-awards-at-this-years-cwsf/
Gold Medal - Canada-Wide Science Fair (2022) https://youthscience.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/CWSF-2022-Award-Scholarship-Results-EN.pdf
Excellence in Astronomy Award - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (2022) https://youthscience.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/CWSF-2022-Award-Scholarship-Results-EN.pdf
Andrew Elvins Award - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (2022) https://rascto.ca/news/congratulations-member-awards-recipients-2022
MIT Solve - Solv[ED] Micro-Grant (2022) https://solve.mit.edu/solv-ed
Youth Can Innovate Award - Gwyn Morgan & Patricia Trottier Foundation (2022) https://youthcaninnovate.ca/winners/
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Award - Toronto Science Fair (2022) https://www.torontosciencefair.ca/about-us/2022-special-award-recipients
Gold Medal - Toronto Science Fair (2022) https://www.torontosciencefair.ca/about-us/2022-gold-medal-recipients
https://www.torontosciencefair.ca/about-us/2022-gold-medal-recipients
2021
- Best Hardware Award - ElleHacks (2021) https://tinyurl.com/2scphejg
2020
NASA Space Apps Global Winner - COVID-19 Challenge (2020) https://covid19.spaceappschallenge.org/awards
Judges’ Favourite - Raspberry Pi Coolest Projects (2020) https://online.coolestprojects.org/projects/677
BMT Global Home STEM Challenge - Global Winner (2020) https://www.bmt.org/news/2020/announcing-winner-stem-home-challenge/
Micro:Bit Do Your Bit Global Challenge - North America Runner-Up (2020) https://microbit.org/projects/do-your-bit/winners/2020/
Honorable Mention - The Art of Planetary Science (University of Arizona LPL) (2020) https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/art/2020
2019
Imagining the Skies - RASC 150 Winner (2019) https://rasc.ca/imagining-skies-winners
NASA Space Apps Toronto Winner + Global Nominee (2019) https://hotpoprobot.com/2020/01/04/my-satellite-data-and-climate-change-project-wins-spaceapps-toronto-2019-and-is-a-global-nominee/
Canada’s Favourite Science Blog - People’s Choice Finalist (2019) https://sciencewriters.ca/peopleschoice
Finalist - Canadian Space Agency / NSERC Little Inventors Challenge (2019) https://www.littleinventors.org/makers/arushi-nath/
2018
Jesse Ketchum Award - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (2018) https://hotpoprobot.com/2018/07/11/jesse-ketchum-award-of-royal-astronomical-society-of-canada-toronto/
NASA Space Apps Toronto Winner + People’s Choice + Global Nominee (2018) https://hotpoprobot.com/2018/10/23/deep-space-musical-using-images-from-hubble-space-telescope-wins-nasa-spaceapps-2018-toronto/
Emerald Code - Grand Prize Winner (2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy-UG42noXw
Science Odyssey - First Prize (2018) http://www.owlkids.com/2018-science-odyssey-contest-winners/