This years Butwin Elias Science and Technology Award was held despite students being out of school due to the global pandemic. Despite the challenging conditions we received 9 projects and awarded $2,900. The winners of this years award are below:

First Place ($1,600): Lazarus Arm

The first place winner of the 2019-2020 BEST award was Chase Leach with his cardboard Lazarus Arm. This is the fourth year in a row that Chase has won first place in the BEST award. This is an amazing achievement and it is unlikely to ever be repeated! The instructable that details his winning project can be found here.  

Second Place ($900): Raspberry Pi weather station

Tio Marello and Michael Andrews won second place with their Raspberry Pi Weather Station. The instructable that they wrote to document their project can be found here. 

Third Place (Prize Split with 2nd): Divide Them Away

Tio Marello’s video game Divide Them Away won 3rd place based on the judges votes but since he was part of the 2nd place team we combined the winnings for 2nd and 3rd place and split them between Tio and Michael. The instructable that he wrote documenting his video game can be found here. 

Fourth Place ($200): Using Photogrammetry

Samuel Conklin won fourth place with his instructable that documented how to build photogrammetric reconstructions of real life objects in VR. The instructable he wrote can be found here. 

Fifth Place ($100): Laser Communicator

Will Block won fifth place with his instructable that documented the build of a laser communicator system. The instructable he wrote can be found here. 

Participation Awards ($25): 

Katrina Concepcion and Adil Qaiser won a participation award for their smart mirror project, Twittany Van and Samaria Brown won a participation award for their MicroZapper project, Milea Osmanski won a participation award for her video on Quantum Superposition and Brooke Chapple won a participation award for her app design ThinkIt.

Video Of the Virtual Awards Ceremony: 

Meyers held a virtual awards ceremony this year and a recording of the awards ceremony is embedded above.