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Aviation Week Network has searched the globe for undergraduate or master’s degree students working to solve challenges within the aviation, aerospace, and defense industries. A judging panel composed of hiring managers and engineers evaluated and scored nominees based on academic performance, civic contribution, personal challenges, and the value of each student’s research or design project.
Aviation Week Network has discovered 20 students who embody these traits and are on a course to change the future of aviation, aerospace, and defense. Nominated by their universities, the honorees were selected from an international field of highly qualified students. The class of 2024 was top ranked in academics, has articulated the value of their research and design projects, already dealt with personal struggles, and has an established record of giving back to their communities.
The 20 Twenties program is expanding and gaining traction among colleges and universities with aviation, aerospace & defense, and STEM programs, and this year’s program has delivered the greatest number of qualified nominations to date: 100 nominees from 48 different colleges and universities representing thirteen countrieswith an equal number of women to men with highly diverse cultural and demographic backgrounds. Everyone represented the future of aviation, aerospace, and defense.
Ahmed Ashry,
University of Maryland
Kruti Bhingradiya,
University of Maryland
Gabriela Gavilánez Gallardo,
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Sydney Giannuzzi,
University of Central Florida
Grace Kim,
Harvard University
George Lewis Lamb,
Technical University of Munich
Connor Lazzaro,
Purdue University
Mallika Misra,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Suraiya Nawaz,
Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology
Sophia Papp,
University of Michigan
Maria Reitz,
University of Michigan
Madelyne Rossmann,
University of Maryland
Amrita Singh,
University of Colorado Boulder
Nick Tran,
University of Michigan
David Dezell Turner,
University of Colorado Boulder
Eszter Anna Varga,
Virginia Tech
José Luiz Vargas de Mendonça,
University of Michigan
Lucy Waite,
Virginia Tech
Matthew Werneken,
Columbia University
Joseph Westermeyer,
University of Alabama