| Award Title | Name | Project Title | School Name | School City | Prize Name |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Elizabeth Kinsey | Hurricanes vs. Beaches | Edwin Anderson Elem | Wilmington | Elementary Exemplary Project |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Savannah Branch | Warning! Killer Potatoes: Do Sweet Potatoes Slow Down the Germination of Plant Seeds? | Union Elementary | Shallotte | Elementary Exemplary Project |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Ashleigh Nicoll | Bouncy Ball vs The Moon | Holly Ridge Elementary | Holly Springs | Elementary Exemplary Project |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | James Burcham | Decaffeinated? | C B Eller Elementary | Elkin | Elementary Exemplary Project |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Nicholas Thompson | The Effect of Pitching Technique on Pitch Speed | Triangle Lake Montessori Elem | High Point | Elementary Exemplary Project |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Noah Couch | The Trash You Throw Away Today Could Clean the Ocean Tomorrow | Meadowlark Elementary | Winston-Salem | Elementary Exemplary Project |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Daniel Gerblick | When will you "Tip" over? | Sherwood Forest Elementary | Winston Salem | Elementary Exemplary Project |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Bedaprakash Ray | Does Shape Matter? | Barringer Academic Center | Charlotte | Elementary Exemplary Project |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Jack Grace | Going Bananas | Barringer Academic Center | Charlotte | Elementary Exemplary Project |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Grace Vo | How Does Temperature Change Affect the Tuning of the Violin? | Asheville Catholic School | Elementary Exemplary Project | |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Garrett Bell | How Hard Are Your Hardwoods? | Carolina Forest Elem | Jacksonville | Elementary Exemplary Project |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Arushi Bhatia | Water Turbine and Hydroelectricity | Salem Elementary | Apex | Elementary Exemplary Project |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Hannah Greer | Tidal Effects on the Cape Fear River Salinity | Southport Elementary | Southport | Elementary Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Christopher McDuffie | Can I Attract You? | Bolivia Elementary | Bolivia | Elementary Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Dylan Lawson | Green with the Wind | Edgewood Elementary | Whiteville | Elementary Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | David Meyers | Perception of Time: Does Time Fly When You're Having Fun? | Combs Elementary | Raleigh | Elementary Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Sebastian Green | The Puck Stops Here: How Does Temperature Affect Friction With a Hockey Puck on Ice? | Garrett Elementary | Mebane | Elementary Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Zachary Froning | Calibrating Trebuchets | Salem Elementary | Apex | Elementary Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Tulla Asokan | Frosty's Secret | General Greene Elementary | Greensboro | Elementary Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Daniel Bright Ryan Sturgill |
What Effect Does Substrate Have on the Respiration of Yeast? | Piney Creek Elementary | Piney Creek | Elementary Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Elementary Awards |
Marshall Billings, Harrison Wall, Alec Wall |
Sticky Water | Mountain View Elementary | Hays | Elementary Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Clark Axtell | Killer Cars: Macroinvertebrate Crushers? | Pisgah Forest Elementary | Brevard | Elementary Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Anna Kuzma | Grass Types and Erosion | West Pine Elementary | West End | Elementary Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Andrew Hernasy, Ellie Stout | The Tell Tale Paw | Little Mountain Academy | Elementary Honorable Mention | |
| Divisional Elementary Awards | Ellie Stout, Andrew Hernasy | The Tell Tale Paw | Little Mountain Academy | Elementary Honorable Mention | |
| Divisional Junior - Biological Science A | Dylan King | Factors Affecting the Photosynthetic Rate | Southeastern Stokes Middle | Walnut Cove | Junior Biological Science A 2nd Place |
| Divisional Junior - Biological Science A | Connor Winfield | A Moth Night | Camden Middle | Camden | Junior Biological Science A 3rd Place |
| Divisional Junior - Biological Science A | Jacob Berry | Eat Less, Live Longer: What Are the Effects of Caloric Intake on Lifespan Using Drosophila melanogaster Fruit Flies? | Heritage Middle | Valdese | Junior Biological Science A Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Junior - Biological Science A | Brianna de la Houssaye | Can a gender-based color-coded breed of chickens be developed from chickens of mixed genetics | Silk Hope Elementary | Siler City | Junior-Biological Science A 1st Place |
| Divisional Junior - Earth/Environmental Science | Jonathan Rieco | MUD POWER | Flat Rock Middle | Winston-Salem | Junior Earth/Environmental Science 1st Place |
| Divisional Junior - Earth/Environmental Science | Chris Karras | Could Our Addiction to Fossil Fuels Be Killing Our Coral Reefs? | Wilmington Christian Academy | Wilmington | Junior Earth/Environmental Science 2nd Place |
| Divisional Junior - Earth/Environmental Science | Cody Kaplan | Too Much of a Good Thing? Effects of Fertilizers on ALgae Growth | East Hoke Middle | Raeford | Junior Earth/Environmental Science 3rd Place |
| Divisional Junior - Earth/Environmental Science | Kathryn Taylor | The Disappearing Sun Chip Bag | Holly Ridge Middle | Holly Springs | Junior Earth/Environmental Science Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Junior - Physics | Megan Miller | Don't Be a Drag: Improving the Aerodynamics of Tractor-trailer Trucks | Western Middle | Elon | Junior Physics 1st Place |
| Divisional Junior - Physics | Austin Morris | Rocket Racecar | Asheville Catholic School | Junior Physics 2nd Place | |
| Divisional Junior - Physics | William Song | Energy Generation Using Faraday's Law Of Induction | Carnage Middle | Raleigh | Junior Physics 3rd Place |
| Divisional Junior - Physics | Ian Green | How Do You Slide | St. Mark Catholic School | Wilmington | Junior Physics Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Junior - Technology/Engineering | Emma Christensen | Bugs For Brunch | Stone Circle Academy | Greenville | Junior Technology/Engineering 1st Prize |
| Divisional Junior - Technology/Engineering | Will Jordan | Analyzing Lift to Drag Ratios to Evaluate the Efficiency of Biplane Wings to a Monoplane | Avery Middle | Newland | Junior Technology/Engineering 2nd Prize |
| Divisional Junior - Technology/Engineering | Lillian Reppert | Preventing Esophageal Burning Caused by Button Batteries | Arete Academy | Greensboro | Junior Technology/Engineering 3rd Prize |
| Divisional Junior - Technology/Engineering | Garrett Fagundus, Zara Mehta | The Golden Arch | C M Eppes Middle | Greenville | Junior Technology/Engineering Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Junior-Biological Science B | Sofia Pauca | Autism in Flies Year 2: Testing a Medication for Autism - Effects of MPEP on Repetitive Grooming Behaviors of 2 copy and stubby 1 copy Dfmr1 Mutants in Drosophila Melanogaster | Hanes Middle | Winston Salem | Junior Biological Science B 1st Place |
| Divisional Junior-Biological Science B | Daniel Meyers | Food for the Future of Venus Flytraps | Holly Ridge Middle | Holly Springs | Junior Biological Science B 2nd Place |
| Divisional Junior-Biological Science B | Daniel Beale | How does ocean water affect terrestrial plant growth? | Asheville Catholic School | Junior Biological Science B 3rd Place | |
| Divisional Junior-Biological Science B | Kevin Kareis | Musical Fish: The Effect of Music on Fish Movements | Greensboro Academy | Greensboro | Junior Biological Science B Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Junior-Chemistry | Chase Lewis | Nitrocellulose: Speedy as a Flash | Lewis School | Chapel Hill | Junior Chemistry 1st Place |
| Divisional Junior-Chemistry | Alice Liu | Levels of protein and carbohydrates in different types of milk | Metrolina Reg Scholars Academy | Charlotte | Junior Chemistry 2nd Place |
| Divisional Junior-Chemistry | Jake Houser, Ty Spanbauer | Ethanol: Productive or Destructive | Lincoln Charter | Denver | Junior Chemistry 3rd Place |
| Divisional Junior-Chemistry | Andrew Brush | Temperature and Chemiluminescence | Salem Middle | Apex | Junior Chemistry Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Senior - Biological Science A | Sarah Johnson | Anti-Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Bacterial Symbionts on Aneides aeneus Epidermal Tissue | Brevard High | Brevard | Senior Biological Science A 1st Place |
| Divisional Senior - Biological Science A | Mark Kirollos | The effect of ammonia signaling on the colony morphology of S. cerevisiae through dextrose starvation | NCSSM | Durham | Senior Biological Science A 2nd Place |
| Divisional Senior - Biological Science A | Timothy Woodard | The Optimization of Anticoagulant Aptamers and DNA Tile-Weave Complex as a Novel Anticoagulant Therapy (A Two-Year Study) | Dudley High | Greensboro | Senior Biological Science A 3rd Place |
| Divisional Senior - Biological Science A | Taylor Adair | Inhibitors of Bordetella Biofilms as a New Therapeutic Approach to Pertussis | William G Enloe High | Raleigh | Senior Biological Science A Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Senior - Chemistry | Landon Carter | The Effect of Ascorbic Acid on the Thermal Decomposition of Polyethylene | NC School of Science and Mathematics | Durham | Senior Chemistry 1st Prize |
| Divisional Senior - Chemistry | Jin Yoon | Effects of photocatalytic activities of ZnO and TiO2 on methyl blue | NCSSM | Durham | Senior Chemistry 2nd Prize |
| Divisional Senior - Chemistry | Kaylen Cutler | The Development of Peptide Based Prochelators For Use in Tumor Angiogenesis Inhibition | Whiteville High | Whiteville | Senior Chemistry 3rd Prize |
| Divisional Senior - Chemistry | Mariah Reese | The Development of Selective Receptors for the Various Methylation States of Arginine and Lysine | Hillside High | Durham | Senior Chemistry Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Senior - Earth/Environmental Science | Andrea Cuevas, Kelly Roddick, Lauren Huffstetler | Water Purification through Mirror Distillation | Ashbrook High | Gastonia | Senior Earth/Environmental Science 1st Place |
| Divisional Senior - Earth/Environmental Science | Natalia von Windheim | Use of lipophilic fertilizers and surfactants to enhance oil degradation by B. cereus | NCSSM | Durham | Senior Earth/Environmental Science 2nd Place |
| Divisional Senior - Earth/Environmental Science | Sam Christensen | Effects of Impervious Surface Runoff During Storm Events on Stream Chemistry | Stone Circle Academy | Senior Earth/Environmental Science 3rd Place | |
| Divisional Senior - Earth/Environmental Science | Bryan Sumner | Characterization of Cellulose Production by Acetobacter xylinum as a Result of Genetic Modifications | Knightdale High | Knightdale | Senior Earth/Environmental Science Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Senior - Physics | Kevin Frink | Carbon Nanostructures Via Dry Ice Exposed To High Temperature | Isaac M Bear High | Wilmington | Senior Physics 1st Prize |
| Divisional Senior - Physics | Arjun Raghavan | Stellar Evolution of a Pulsating subdwarf B Star CS 1246 - Is the Helium core burning out? | Chapel Hill High | Chapel Hill | Senior Physics 2nd Prize |
| Divisional Senior - Physics | Coleman Bailey, III, Jordan Lancaster | Getting More Energy From the Wood Pile: Determining the Length of Time to Age Wood Prior to Burning to Achieve Maximum Energy Output | Avery County High | Newland | Senior Physics 3rd Prize |
| Divisional Senior - Physics | Brittany Williams | Stealth Technology: Hiding in Plain Sight? | Emsley A Laney High | Wilmington | Senior Physics Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Senior - Technology/Engineering | Mithi de los Reyes | Use of Spray Adhesives for the Manufacture of 3-D Capillary Origami Microstructures | NCSSM | Durham | Senior Technology/Engineering 1st Prize |
| Divisional Senior - Technology/Engineering | Robert Gourley, Jaehyeong Lee | Quantum Efficiency of a Silicon Solar Cell Measured Using an LED Spectrophotometer | NC School of Science and Mathematics | Durham | Senior Technology/Engineering 2nd Prize |
| Divisional Senior - Technology/Engineering | Jarrod Dunne | Eat My Dust: The Effectiveness of Robotic Vacuum Algorithms | Franklin Academy | Wake Forest | Senior Technology/Engineering 3rd Prize |
| Divisional Senior - Technology/Engineering | Daniel Nelli | Micro-Hydro Power 2 | Ashbrook High | Gastonia | Senior Technology/Engineering Honorable Mention |
| Divisional Senior-Biological Science B | Edgar Ferrer-Lorenzo | Human mutations associated with heart failure and pancreatic disease cause adipogenesis defects in mice and in a cell culture model. | East Chapel Hill High | Chapel Hill | Senior Biological Science B 1st Place |
| Divisional Senior-Biological Science B | Kris Petterson, Meredith Tooley, Erica Williams | Isolation, identification and characterization of endophytes from Cherokee medicinal plants: Xanthorhiza simplicissima, Goodyera pubescens, and Lobelia inflata | Brevard High | Brevard | Senior Biological Science B 2nd Place |
| Divisional Senior-Biological Science B | Hun Wong | Prions as a novel mechanism of yeast stress response through yeast colony morphology | NCSSM | Durham | Senior Biological Science B 3rd Place |
| Divisional Senior-Biological Science B | Michaelangelo Lucas | The Effects of Various Stresses on The Growth Rate of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Kluyveromyces lactis | Johnston Co Middle College | Smithfield | Senior Biological Science B Honorable Mention |
| Grand Genius Olympiad | Coleman Bailey, III, Jordan Lancaster | Getting More Energy From the Wood Pile: Determining the Length of Time to Age Wood Prior to Burning to Achieve Maximum Energy Output | Avery County High | Newland | Certificate |
| Grand Genius Olympiad | Daniel Nelli | Micro-Hydro Power 2 | Ashbrook High | Gastonia | Certificate |
| Grand INTEL ISEF Senior Grand Award | Timothy Woodard | The Optimization of Anticoagulant Aptamers and DNA Tile-Weave Complex as a Novel Anticoagulant Therapy (A Two-Year Study) | Dudley High | Greensboro | Alternate for ISEF Award |
| Grand INTEL ISEF Senior Grand Award | Andrea Cuevas, Lauren Huffstetler, Kelly Roddick | Water Purification through Mirror Distillation | Ashbrook High | Gastonia | ISEF Award |
| Grand INTEL ISEF Senior Grand Award | Mark Kirollos | The effect of ammonia signaling on the colony morphology of S. cerevisiae through dextrose starvation | NCSSM | Durham | ISEF Award |
| Grand INTEL ISEF Senior Grand Award | Kris Petterson, Meredith Tooley, Erika Williams | Isolation, identification and characterization of endophytes from Cherokee medicinal plants: Xanthorhiza simplicissima, Goodyera pubescens, and Lobelia inflata | Brevard High | Brevard | ISEF Award |
| Grand INTEL ISEF Senior Grand Award | Edgar Ferrer-Lorenzo | Human mutations associated with heart failure and pancreatic disease cause adipogenesis defects in mice and in a cell culture model. | East Chapel Hill High | Chapel Hill | ISEF Award |
| Grand INTEL ISEF Senior Grand Award | Arjun Raghavan | Stellar Evolution of a Pulsating subdwarf B Star CS 1246 - Is the Helium core burning out? | Chapel Hill High | Chapel Hill | ISEF Award |
| Grand INTEL ISEF Senior Grand Award | Sarah Johnson | Anti-Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Bacterial Symbionts on Aneides aeneus Epidermal Tissue | Brevard High | Brevard | ISEF Award |
| Grand INTEL ISEF Senior Grand Award | Kevin Frink | Carbon Nanostructures Via Dry Ice Exposed To High Temperature | Isaac M Bear High | Wilmington | ISEF Award |
| Grand INTEL ISEF Senior Grand Award | Mithi de los Reyes | Use of Spray Adhesives for the Manufacture of 3-D Capillary Origami Microstructures | NCSSM | Durham | ISEF Award |
| Grand ISWEEEP Senior Grand Awards | Sam Christensen | Effects of Impervious Surface Runoff During Storm Events on Stream Chemistry | Stone Circle Academy | ISWEEEP Alternate | |
| Grand ISWEEEP Senior Grand Awards | Robert Gourley, Jaehyeong Lee | Quantum Efficiency of a Silicon Solar Cell Measured Using an LED Spectrophotometer | NC School of Science and Mathematics | Durham | ISWEEEP Grand Award - Senior |
| Grand ISWEEEP Senior Grand Awards | Natalia von Windheim | Use of lipophilic fertilizers and surfactants to enhance oil degradation by B. cereus | NCSSM | Durham | ISWEEEP Grand Award - Senior |
| Special American Meteorological Society Award | Matthew Stanbury, Christine Chow | Slip-Stream Cyclone: Designing Hurricane Resistant Buildings | Isaac M Bear High | Wilmington | Certificate |
| Special American Meteorological Society Award | Rachael Purvis | UV got to RAYS your Awareness | Ashbrook High | Gastonia | Certificate |
| Special American Psychological Association Award | Samantha Armistead | Short-Term Memory Loss? | Sherwood Githens Middle | Durham | Certificate |
| Special ASM Materials Education Foundation Award | Callum Funk | Clean Water Saves Lives | Northwoods Park Mid | Jacksonville | Certificate |
| Special Association of Women Geoscientists Award | Janet Snow | The Effect of Water Erosion | Surry Early College HS Design | Dobson | Certificate |
| Special Broadcom Masters | Chris Karras | Could Our Addiction to Fossil Fuels Be Killing Our Coral Reefs? | Wilmington Christian Academy | Wilmington | Certificate |
| Special Broadcom Masters | Dylan King | Factors Affecting the Photosynthetic Rate | Southeastern Stokes Middle | Walnut Cove | Certificate |
| Special Broadcom Masters | Brianna de la Houssaye | Can a gender-based color-coded breed of chickens be developed from chickens of mixed genetics | Silk Hope Elementary | Siler City | Certificate |
| Special Broadcom Masters | Sofia Pauca | Autism in Flies Year 2: Testing a Medication for Autism - Effects of MPEP on Repetitive Grooming Behaviors of 2 copy and stubby 1 copy Dfmr1 Mutants in Drosophila Melanogaster | Hanes Middle | Winston Salem | Certificate |
| Special Broadcom Masters | Chase Lewis | Nitrocellulose: Speedy as a Flash | Lewis School | Chapel Hill | Certificate |
| Special Broadcom Masters | Jonathan Rieco | MUD POWER | Flat Rock Middle | Winston-Salem | Certificate |
| Special Broadcom Masters | Austin Morris | Rocket Racecar | Asheville Catholic School | Certificate | |
| Special Broadcom Masters | Megan Miller | Don't Be a Drag: Improving the Aerodynamics of Tractor-trailer Trucks | Western Middle | Elon | Certificate |
| Special Broadcom Masters | Emma Christensen | Bugs For Brunch | Stone Circle Academy | Greenville | Certificate |
| Special Broadcom Masters | Will Jordan | Analyzing Lift to Drag Ratios to Evaluate the Efficiency of Biplane Wings to a Monoplane | Avery Middle | Newland | Certificate |
| Special Broadcom Masters | Daniel Meyers | Food for the Future of Venus Flytraps | Holly Ridge Middle | Holly Springs | Certificate |
| Special Broadcom Masters | Alice Liu | Levels of protein and carbohydrates in different types of milk | Metrolina Reg Scholars Academy | Charlotte | Certificate |
| Special EPA Award Elementary | Alexandra Warren, Mackenzy Sharpe | Have the pH Levels in Baymount Meadows Changed over the Last 14 Years? | Cloverleaf Elementary | Statesville | Clock |
| Special EPA Award Elementary | Noah Couch | The Trash You Throw Away Today Could Clean the Ocean Tomorrow | Meadowlark Elementary | Winston-Salem | Clock |
| Special EPA Award Junior | Callum Funk | Clean Water Saves Lives | Northwoods Park Mid | Jacksonville | Clock |
| Special EPA Award Junior | Jonathan Rieco | MUD POWER | Flat Rock Middle | Winston-Salem | Clock |
| Special Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | Jarrod Dunne | Eat My Dust: The Effectiveness of Robotic Vacuum Algorithms | Franklin Academy | Wake Forest | Certificate |
| Special Meredith Award | Margaret Hopkins | Trail Mix: Which Nut Has the Most Energy? | The Epiphany School | New Bern | Certificate and $10,000 scholarship over four year |
| Special Meredith Award | Ghallia Kaouk | The Effects of Particulate Matter on Asthma Rates | Charlotte Islamic Academy | Charlotte | Certificate and $10,000 scholarship over four year |
| Special Meredith College President's Award | Mariah Reese | The Development of Selective Receptors for the Various Methylation States of Arginine and Lysine | Hillside High | Durham | |
| Special Mu Alpha Theta Award | Anne Talkington | An Analytical Approach to Determining Microbial Population Growth | Massey Hill Classical High | Fayetteville | Certificate |
| Special National Society of Professional Engineers Innovative Engineering Award | Emma Christensen | Bugs For Brunch | Stone Circle Academy | Greenville | Certificate and Lapel Pin |
| Special NC American Water Works Association Award Junior | Callum Funk | Clean Water Saves Lives | Northwoods Park Mid | Jacksonville | 1st Place |
| Special NC American Water Works Association Award Junior | Cody Kaplan | Too Much of a Good Thing? Effects of Fertilizers on ALgae Growth | East Hoke Middle | Raeford | 2nd Place |
| Special NC American Water Works Association Award Junior | Alex Espenship | Which Stream Has a Greater Diversity & Abundance of Species of Animals | Central Wilkes Middle | Moravian Falls | 3rd Place |
| Special NC American Water Works Association Award Senior | Sam Christensen | Effects of Impervious Surface Runoff During Storm Events on Stream Chemistry | Stone Circle Academy | 1st Place | |
| Special NC American Water Works Association Award Senior | Asha Bethea | The Effects of Photodynamic Inactivation and UV Light in Water Disinfection Treatments | Hillside High | Durham | 2nd Place |
| Special NC American Water Works Association Award Senior | Andrea Cuevas, Lauren Huffstetler, Kelly Roddick | Water Purification through Mirror Distillation | Ashbrook High | Gastonia | 3rd Place |
| Special NC American Waterworks Prize Elementary | Hannah Greer | Tidal Effects on the Cape Fear River Salinity | Southport Elementary | Southport | 1st place |
| Special NC American Waterworks Prize Elementary | Marshall Billings, Alec Wall, Harrison Wall | Sticky Water | Mountain View Elementary | Hays | 2nd place |
| Special NC American Waterworks Prize Elementary | Mackenzy Sharpe, Alexandra Warren | Have the pH Levels in Baymount Meadows Changed over the Last 14 Years? | Cloverleaf Elementary | Statesville | 3rd place |
| Special NOAA's Taking the Pulse of the Planet Award | Sam Christensen | Effects of Impervious Surface Runoff During Storm Events on Stream Chemistry | Stone Circle Academy | Certificate and Medallion | |
| Special NOAA's Taking the Pulse of the Planet Award | Natalia von Windheim | Use of lipophilic fertilizers and surfactants to enhance oil degradation by B. cereus | NCSSM | Durham | Certificate and Medallion |
| Special Optics and Photonics Science Fair Award | Robert Gourley, Jaehyeong Lee | Quantum Efficiency of a Silicon Solar Cell Measured Using an LED Spectrophotometer | NC School of Science and Mathematics | Durham | First place certificate and $250 |
| Special Optics and Photonics Science Fair Award | Kendall Dawkins | Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Graphene Using Cupric Oxide as the Catalyst | Sch Pre-Engineering Atkins Hig | Winston-Salem | Second place certificate and $150 |
| Special Optics and Photonics Science Fair Award | Arjun Raghavan | Stellar Evolution of a Pulsating subdwarf B Star CS 1246 - Is the Helium core burning out? | Chapel Hill High | Chapel Hill | Third place certificate and $100 |
| Special Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute Award | Justin Finkelstein, Halston Lim | A statistical evaluation of GRB afterglow time structures using the Swift Burst Alert Telescope and X-ray Telescope | NCSSM | Durham | Certificate, Hat, Lanyard, and Keychain |
| Special Regional Nominee for the Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Avi Aggarwal | Effect of thiols on the environmental fate of silver nanoparticles | NCSSM | Durham | Certificate |
| Special Ricoh Sustainable Development Award | Austin Bryan | Harvesting Micropower Within Ocean Waves: Application of the Electromechanical Phenomena Within Piezoelectric Plates to Rock Jetties and Other Theoretical Models | J.H. Rose High | Certificate | |
| Special SMT Outstanding Visual Presentation Elementary | Braylee Childers | Are Bostian Students in Their Right Mind...or Left? | Bostian Elementary | China Grove | Certificate |
| Special SMT Outstanding Visual Presentation Junior | Kevin Kareis | Musical Fish: The Effect of Music on Fish Movements | Greensboro Academy | Greensboro | Certificate |
| Special SMT Unique Research Topic Elementary | Dallas Knight | Genghis Khan's Underwear : Ancient Wisdom in Modern Warfare | Shiloh Academy | Dillsboro | Certificate |
| Special SMT Unique Research Topic Junior | Kaitlyn Bagnal | Does magnetism affect the regrowth of bisected planaria?? | Christ Covenant School | Winterville | Certificate |
| Special SMT Young Scientist Award Elementary | Zachary Froning | Calibrating Trebuchets | Salem Elementary | Apex | Certificate |
| Special SMT Young Scientist Award Junior | Brianna de la Houssaye | Can a gender-based color-coded breed of chickens be developed from chickens of mixed genetics | Silk Hope Elementary | Siler City | Certificate |
| Special Society for In Vitro Biology Award | Edgar Ferrer-Lorenzo | Human mutations associated with heart failure and pancreatic disease cause adipogenesis defects in mice and in a cell culture model. | East Chapel Hill High | Chapel Hill | Certificate |
| Special US Air Force Award Junior | Megan Miller | Don't Be a Drag: Improving the Aerodynamics of Tractor-trailer Trucks | Western Middle | Elon | Certificate, Messenger bag and other items |
| Special US Air Force Award Senior | Brittany Williams | Stealth Technology: Hiding in Plain Sight? | Emsley A Laney High | Wilmington | Certificate, Messenger bag and other items |
| Special US Air Force Award Senior | Justin Finkelstein, Halston Lim | A statistical evaluation of GRB afterglow time structures using the Swift Burst Alert Telescope and X-ray Telescope | NCSSM | Durham | Certificate, Messenger bag and other items |
| Special US Air Force Award Senior | Richard Everhart | Heightening The Versatility of an Autonomous Vehicle Through Refined Ultrasonic Sensor Trigonometry | Isaac M Bear High | Wilmington | Certificate, Messenger bag and other items |
| Special US Army Award | Richard Everhart | Heightening The Versatility of an Autonomous Vehicle Through Refined Ultrasonic Sensor Trigonometry | Isaac M Bear High | Wilmington | Certifcate of Achievement and $100 Savings Bond |
| Special US Army Award | Kris Petterson, Meredith Tooley, Erika Williams | Isolation, identification and characterization of endophytes from Cherokee medicinal plants: Xanthorhiza simplicissima, Goodyera pubescens, and Lobelia inflata | Brevard High | Brevard | Certificate of Achievement and $50 Saving Bond |
| Special US Army Award | Jin Yoon | Effects of photocatalytic activities of ZnO and TiO2 on methyl blue | NCSSM | Durham | Certificate of Achievement and $50 Saving Bond |
| Special US Army Award | Ghallia Kaouk | The Effects of Particulate Matter on Asthma Rates | Charlotte Islamic Academy | Charlotte | Certificate of Achievement and $50 Saving Bond |
| Special US Army Award | Jordan Dunne | The Effects of Household Appliance Interference on Radio Jove Observations | Franklin Academy | Wake Forest | Certificate of Achievement and $50 Saving Bond |
| Special US Army Award | Kaylen Cutler | The Development of Peptide Based Prochelators For Use in Tumor Angiogenesis Inhibition | Whiteville High | Whiteville | Certificate of Achievement to be divided among the different categories |
| Special US Army Award | Avi Aggarwal | Effect of thiols on the environmental fate of silver nanoparticles | NCSSM | Durham | Certificate of Achievement to be divided among the different categories |
| Special US Army Award | Sainath Asokan, Anirudh Guduru, Lauren Huffstetler | Superoxide Reductase Pathway Gene Expression under Oxidative and Cold Stress in Pyrococcus furiosus: An Analysis of Enzymatic Pathways and their Impact on ALS therapeutics | William G Enloe High | Raleigh | Certificate of Achievement to be divided among the different categories |
| Special US Army Award | Aakash Indurkhya, Peter Fan | Engineering a Genetic Toggle Switch Controller Using Synthetic Zinc Finger Transcription Factors | NCSSM | Durham | Certificate of Achievement to be divided among the different categories |
| Special US Army Award | Landon Carter | The Effect of Ascorbic Acid on the Thermal Decomposition of Polyethylene | NC School of Science and Mathematics | Durham | Certificate of Achievement to be divided among the different categories |
| Special US Army Award | Vidal Morales-Santos | The affects of pH, Nitrate, Nitrite in rainwater, runoff, and underground front lawn runoff on the total growth rate of grass seeds grown at room temperature | Graham High | Graham | Certificate of Achievement to be divided among the different categories |
| Special US Army Award | Pranav Maddi | Using blocking peptides to analyze fibrin fiber mechanics | NCSSM | Durham | Certificate of Achievement to be divided among the different categories |
| Special US Army Award | Robert Gourley, Jaehyeong Lee | Quantum Efficiency of a Silicon Solar Cell Measured Using an LED Spectrophotometer | NC School of Science and Mathematics | Durham | Certificate of Achievement to be divided among the different categories |
| Special US Army Award | Jarrod Dunne | Eat My Dust: The Effectiveness of Robotic Vacuum Algorithms | Franklin Academy | Wake Forest | Certificate of Achievement to be divided among the different categories |
| Special US Army Award | Kevin Frink | Carbon Nanostructures Via Dry Ice Exposed To High Temperature | Isaac M Bear High | Wilmington | Certificate of Achievement to be divided among the different categories |
| Special US Metric Association Award | Pranav Maddi | Using blocking peptides to analyze fibrin fiber mechanics | NCSSM | Durham | Certificate |
| Special US Metric Award (Junior) | Megan Miller | Don't Be a Drag: Improving the Aerodynamics of Tractor-trailer Trucks | Western Middle | Elon | |
| Special US Navy Naval Science Award Junior | Chase Lewis | Nitrocellulose: Speedy as a Flash | Lewis School | Chapel Hill | US Navy Naval Science Award |
| Special US Navy Naval Science Award Junior | Jonathan Rieco | MUD POWER | Flat Rock Middle | Winston-Salem | US Navy Naval Science Award |
| Special US Navy Naval Science Award Junior | Jacob Aldridge | Laser Communicator | Carnage Middle | Raleigh | US Navy Naval Science Award |
| Special US Navy Naval Science Award Senior | Jordan Dunne | The Effects of Household Appliance Interference on Radio Jove Observations | Franklin Academy | Wake Forest | Certificate |
| Special US Navy Naval Science Award Senior | Kevin Frink | Carbon Nanostructures Via Dry Ice Exposed To High Temperature | Isaac M Bear High | Wilmington | Certificate |
| Special US Navy Naval Science Award Senior | Mithi de los Reyes | Use of Spray Adhesives for the Manufacture of 3-D Capillary Origami Microstructures | NCSSM | Durham | Certificate |
| Special Yale Science and Engineering Association Award | Austin Bryan | Harvesting Micropower Within Ocean Waves: Application of the Electromechanical Phenomena Within Piezoelectric Plates to Rock Jetties and Other Theoretical Models | J.H. Rose High | Certificate | |
| Special Young Naturalist Award Elementary | Megan Hegeman | What Animals Live Near Us? | Mills Park Elementary | Cary | Certificate |
