The semifinalists won $1,000 prizes. Their public schools will receive matching awards to support excellence in science, math, and/or engineering education.

This year’s semifinalists from SSMV attend two public high schools — Hume-Fogg and Martin Luther King Jr. academic magnet schools. The students, their Vanderbilt faculty mentors and their departments are listed below.

SSMV is supported in part by a National Institutes of Health NCRR Science Education Partnership Award (grant R25 RR032182), by Vanderbilt University Medical Center and by Metro Nashville Public Schools.