Third Grand Award · Regeneron ISEF (Columbus, 2025)
Second Prize · EU Contest for Young Scientists (Brussels, 2023)
Best Project Award · Canada-Wide Science Fair (2023)
🏆 Selected Honors
- 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.
- 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.
- Masason Scholarship (2024 - ongoing). Full undergraduate scholarship, awarded for planetary-defense research.
- Canada's Top Young Scientist, 2022 and 2023. National recognition from Youth Science Canada, won back-to-back.
- Foresight Fellow - Planetary Defense Fellowship (2025). A selective fellowship from the Foresight Institute.
- Best Project Award - Canada-Wide Science Fair (2023). Top project prize at Canada's national science fair (won 2022 and 2023).
- 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.
- Public Spaces Champion (2026). Named by City Councillor Ausma Malik (Ward 10, Toronto) for civic advocacy on safer, more accessible public spaces.
All Awards (Chronological)
2026
City of Toronto Open Data Award (2026)
2025
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/
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
Gold Medal - Toronto Science Fair (2022) 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/
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