Greenwich Student Named Scholar Regeneron Science Talent Search 2026

GREENWICH, CT — Society for Science last week announced that Greenwich High School senior Henry Jin was included in the top 300 scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2026, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors. He will be awarded $2,000 with an additional $2,000 being awarded to GHS.

Jin is the 14th GHS student to be recognized as a scholar since 2021. His project is titled "Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap in Autonomous Drone Control via Curriculum-Scheduled Domain Randomization."

Regeneron Science Talent Search scholars were selected from more than 2,600 applications from 826 high schools across 46 states, Washington, D.C., Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and 16 countries.

Scholars were chosen based on their outstanding research, leadership skills, community involvement, commitment to academics, creativity in asking scientific questions and exceptional promise as STEM leaders demonstrated through the submission of their original, independent research projects, essays and recommendations.

The 300 scholars come from 203 American and international high schools in 34 states, Washington, D.C. and China.

On Wednesday, Jan. 21, 40 of the 300 scholars will be named Regeneron Science Talent Search finalists. The finalists will then compete for more than $1.2 million in awards during a week-long competition in Washington, D.C., taking place March 5-11.