2023
Second Prize. European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS). Brussels. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project Developing algorithms to determine asteroid’s physical properties and success of deflection missions, Press Release.
Young Astronomers Award 2023. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her numerous space exploration-related projects.
Best Project Award (Innovation) at the Canada-Wide Science Fair 2023. Youth Science Canada and Gwyn Morgan & Patricia Trottier Foundation. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project: Developing Algorithms to Determine Asteroid’s Physical Properties and Success of Deflection Missions
Youth Can Innovate Award at the Canada-Wide Science Fair 2023. Gwyn Morgan & Patricia Trottier Foundation. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project: Developing Algorithms to Determine Asteroid’s Physical Properties and Success of Deflection Missions
Challenge Award - Curiosity and Ingenuity at the Canada-Wide Science Fair 2023. Youth Science Canada. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project: Developing Algorithms to Determine Asteroid’s Physical Properties and Success of Deflection Missions
Gold Medal at the Canada-Wide Science Fair 2023. Youth Science Canada. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project: Developing Algorithms to Determine Asteroid’s Physical Properties and Success of Deflection Missions
Excellence in Astronomy Award at the Canada-Wide Science Fair 2023. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project: Developing Algorithms to Determine Asteroid’s Physical Properties and Success of Deflection Missions
The Actuarial Foundation of Canada Award at the Canada-Wide Science Fair 2023. The Actuarial Foundation of Canada. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project: Developing Algorithms to Determine Asteroid’s Physical Properties and Success of Deflection Missions
Team Toronto Travel Award to Canada-Wide Science Fair. University of Toronto -Office of the Vice-Principal Research and Innovation Award. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project: Developing Algorithms to Determine the Physical Properties of Asteroids.
Gold Medal. 2023 Toronto Science Fair. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project: Developing Algorithms to Determine the Physical Properties of Asteroids.
University of Toronto Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences Award (Physics) Award. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project: Developing Algorithms to Determine the Physical Properties of Asteroids.
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Award. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project: Developing Algorithms to Determine the Physical Properties of Asteroids.
Young Astronomers Award 2023. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her numerous space exploration-related projects.
Best Project Award (Innovation) at the Canada-Wide Science Fair 2023. Youth Science Canada and Gwyn Morgan & Patricia Trottier Foundation. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project: Developing Algorithms to Determine Asteroid’s Physical Properties and Success of Deflection Missions
Youth Can Innovate Award at the Canada-Wide Science Fair 2023. Gwyn Morgan & Patricia Trottier Foundation. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project: Developing Algorithms to Determine Asteroid’s Physical Properties and Success of Deflection Missions
Challenge Award - Curiosity and Ingenuity at the Canada-Wide Science Fair 2023. Youth Science Canada. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project: Developing Algorithms to Determine Asteroid’s Physical Properties and Success of Deflection Missions
Gold Medal at the Canada-Wide Science Fair 2023. Youth Science Canada. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project: Developing Algorithms to Determine Asteroid’s Physical Properties and Success of Deflection Missions
Excellence in Astronomy Award at the Canada-Wide Science Fair 2023. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project: Developing Algorithms to Determine Asteroid’s Physical Properties and Success of Deflection Missions
The Actuarial Foundation of Canada Award at the Canada-Wide Science Fair 2023. The Actuarial Foundation of Canada. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project: Developing Algorithms to Determine Asteroid’s Physical Properties and Success of Deflection Missions
Team Toronto Travel Award to Canada-Wide Science Fair. University of Toronto -Office of the Vice-Principal Research and Innovation Award. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project: Developing Algorithms to Determine the Physical Properties of Asteroids.
Gold Medal. 2023 Toronto Science Fair. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project: Developing Algorithms to Determine the Physical Properties of Asteroids.
University of Toronto Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences Award (Physics) Award. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project: Developing Algorithms to Determine the Physical Properties of Asteroids.
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Award. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project: Developing Algorithms to Determine the Physical Properties of Asteroids.
2022
Best of the 2022 Canada Wide Science Fair Award (Innovation). 2022 Canada Wide Science Fair. Awarded to Arushi Nath for the project: Strengthening Planetary Defense: Detecting Unknown Asteroids using Open Data, Math, and Python. (Press Release by Youth Science Canada).
Gold Medal. 2022 Canada Wide Science Fair. Awarded to Arushi Nath for the project: Strengthening Planetary Defense: Detecting Unknown Asteroids using Open Data, Math, and Python.
Award for Excellence in Astronomy. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 2022. Awarded to Arushi Nath for the project: Strengthening Planetary Defense: Detecting Unknown Asteroids using Open Data, Math, and Python. Canada Wide Science Fair.
Solv[ED] Micro-grant Award. MIT. Awarded to Arushi Nath for the project: Measuring Tree Density of Urban Parks.
Youth Can Innovate Award. The Gwyn Morgan and Patricia Trottier Foundation. Awarded to Arushi Nath for the project: Strengthening Planetary Defense: Detecting Unknown Asteroids using Open Data, Math, and Python.
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Award 2022. Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project: Strengthening Planetary Defense: Detecting Unknown Asteroids using Open Data, Math, and Python. Toronto Science Fair.
Gold Medal. 2022 Toronto Science Fair. Awarded to Arushi Nath for the project: Strengthening Planetary Defense: Detecting Unknown Asteroids using Open Data, Math, and Python.
Gold Medal. 2022 Toronto Science Fair. Awarded to Artash Nath for the project: The Silence of Global Oceans: Acoustic Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown.
2021
Best Hardware Award. ElleHacks 2021 Hackathon: Awarded to Arushi Nath for her project Drones for Green City Zones. https://tinyurl.com/2scphejg
2020
Honorable Mention for TRAPPIST-1: Light and Sound Model. The Art of Planetary Science 2020. A Virtual Exhibition of Space and Planetary Themed Art, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. University of Arizona, USA. https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/art/2020
Judges Favourite Coolest Project Challenge: The Masked Scales, The Sonification of the Impact of Covid19 Lockdown Into a Lockdown Musical. Organised by Raspberry Pi Foundation. https://online.coolestprojects.org/projects/677
NASA SpaceApps 2020 COVID19 Challenge Global Winners: Arushi became global winner for the project “The Masked Scales” from 1422 projects from 150 countries. https://covid19.spaceappschallenge.org/awards
BMT-Global Home STEM Challenge Global Winner 2020: Awarded to Arushi Nath for her Dragonfly DroNeS project by BMT as the winner of their Global Home STEM Challenge. https://www.bmt.org/news/2020/announcing-winner-stem-home-challenge
North America Runners Up. Micro:Bit Do Your Bit Global Challenge 2020. Awarded to Arushi Nath by Micro:bit Educational Foundation. https://microbit.org/projects/do-your-bit/winners/2020/
BMT-Global Home STEM Challenge Global Winner 2020: Awarded to Arushi Nath for her Dragonfly DroNeS project by BMT as the winner of their Global Home STEM Challenge. https://www.bmt.org/news/2020/announcing-winner-stem-home-challenge
North America Runners Up. Micro:Bit Do Your Bit Global Challenge 2020. Awarded to Arushi Nath by Micro:bit Educational Foundation. https://microbit.org/projects/do-your-bit/winners/2020/
2019
Imagining the Skies RASC 150 Winner 2019. Awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada for our TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanetary Light and Sound model project. https://rasc.ca/imagining-skies-winners
NASA Space Apps Toronto Winner 2019 and Global Nominee. Awarded to Arushi Nath for the project: Schools and NASA Aiding Climate Action by Kids (S.N.A.C.K). https://hotpoprobot.com/2020/01/04/my-satellite-data-and-climate-change-project-wins-spaceapps-toronto-2019-and-is-a-global-nominee/
Canada’ Favourite Science Blog. People’s Choice Award. 2019 Finalist. Awarded by Science Writers and Communicators of Canada and Science Borealis. https://sciencewriters.ca/peopleschoice
Finalist, Canadian Space Agency, NSERC, 2019 Little Inventors Challenge, Canada. https://www.littleinventors.org/makers/arushi-nath/
2018
Jesse Ketchum Award 2018, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto. Presented to members who have done considerable work in the construction and/or application of equipment suitable for astronomical observation.
NASA Space Apps Toronto Winner 2018 Awarded the Global Nominee and People’s Choice Award for our project “Deep Space Musical”- the musical of our universe.
2018 Emerald Code Grand Prize Winners Awarded for our project “Trappist 1 Exoplanetary Model: Sound and Light Show”. Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy-UG42noXw
2018 Science Odyssey First Prize Winners Awarded for science outreach during Science Rendezvous at the University of Toronto.
2017
Canadian Space Agency SpaceApps Winner 2017 Awarded for transforming images from the Canadian Satellite RadarSat-2 into the #Canada 150 logo. https://hotpoprobot.com/2017/08/02/visit-to-the-canadian-space-agency-2/
2016
Climathon 2016 First Prize Winners and Climate Hero Award Won it for our “Fix the Six” project to reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector by 5% by planting more trees and improving tree density alongside streets and community parks.
