Build a CubeSat Challenge 2026 Teams

AcaSats

Carissa Penn

David Penn

Emma Brewer

Henry Rosenberg

Sze Ting Chen

Coach: Aron Rosenberg

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Ad Astra

Ethan Go

Hannah Yuditsky

Stanislaw Chadrys

Coach: Sau Ling Chan

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Always Wright

Daniel Pashkevich

Ishaan Desai

Jaiveer Bala

Lasya Madineni

Yash Sethuraman

Coach: Gaurav Desai

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Among Us Happy Meal

Alexander Mahoney

Kyle Benesch-Lee

Nathaniel Rosman

Sam Paley

Coach: Lily Lee

 

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Astrodust

Archita Khandelwal

Christine Thomas

Joann Mathew

Kavya Narayanan

Nikita Naik

Coach: John Shockley

 

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AstroRev

Ayaan Gupta

fangyi niu

Mahika Khosla

Siddharth Gandhi

Vihaan Khosla

Coach: Wolf Witt

 

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AuroraSat

Aneesh Kukreti

Roshan Saxena

Saumit Korada

Shrehan Chatterjee

Shreyas Chatterjee

Coach: Soumen Chatterjee

 

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Bay Area Tinkerers

Aadvik Nagpal

Jay Kumar

Nathan Chia

Nishka Wadhawan

Coach: Amit Nagpal

 

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Bluelink

Caroline Weinmann

Jasjit Hargun

JunYi Zhang

Nathan Chun

Nathan Ramani

Coach: Jose Manuel Zorrilla Matilla

 

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CH4

Aiden Heller

Christos Kyttaris

Karan Krishnan

Zirui Wang

Coach: Hans Batra

 

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cubeagle

Charles He

Daniel Gao

Daniel Ge

Hanson Zhu

Coach: Haifeng Ge

 

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Ex-Falcons

Andy Clark

Hudson Reich

William Clark

Coach: Evan Reich

 

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Fantastic Five

Abir Nath

Daniel Mun

Sehaj Singh

William Lee

Zhijia Chen

Coach: Richard Chan

 

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Firefox

Elijah Driver

Ramon Mireles

Sam Zou

Ziyue Zhou

Coach: Antonio Renzaglia

 

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Galactic Neutrons

Aaron Cheng

Annie Jin

Cindy Wang

Daniel Farcas

Kyle Wang

Coach: Will Wang

 

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Gemini IV

Colin Teng

Daniel Yang

Rishi Govind

Venkat Ramanavar

Coach: Rishi Govind

 

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Haddonfield Memorial High School

Timothy O'Donnell

Alexander Frey

Talia Seshasai

Samuel Novak

Dylan Yi

Coach: Satwik Seshasai

 

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HExaCube

Carissa Hahn

Flower Park

Hyeongwoo Jeon

Steve Han

Yuhwan Shin

Coach: Andrew Choi

 

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HSMSE Dragons

Savannah Dare

Felix Quezada-York

Qi Cheng Feng

Anna Keh

Coach: Alexander Genel

 

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Interisland Orbiters

Andrew Rezabek

Clara Borner

James Sears

John Sears

Neil Gresseth

Coach: Sam Garson

 

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JAYBOTS

Anika Anne

Anthony Chen

Hailey Kim

Matthew Glasser

Nathaniel Marra

Coach: James Amodio

 

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KnightSat

Bryan Xiao

Ipek Oruc

Kunj Parikh

Varsha Tyagi

Vivaan Joshi

Coach: Michael Liva

 

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Krystal Palace

Ammaar Junaid

Andrew Zhang

Brendon Xie

David Krystal

Tahmid Islam

Coach: Brian Sterr

 

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LA Blackbirds

Aaron Shi

Eric Li

David Liu

Coach: Duhee Lee 

 

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MuraltZ

Aayush Aluru

Alex Burnside

Ambarish Iyer

Ayush Garg

Rohan Prasad

Coach: Jeff Muralt

 

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OrbitMind

Hejun Park

Jaden Kim

Riyeon Kim

Shihoo Lee

Taeyeon Kim

Coach: Junhee Pyo

 

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Pioneer Dreamers

Ayoal Ayoal

Jeffrey Pop

Kevin Romero

Parth Shetty

Yousef Ghonime

Coach: Andi Alla

 

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Quantum Pioneers

Anthony Chapa

Daniel Mendoza

Pavit Kansupda

Riday Jogani

Coach: Karthikeyan Gurunathan 

 

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Sats and snacks

Ben Vaccaro

David Rollag

Nicholas Roy

William Leussia

Coach: George Leussis

 

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Soundwave

Melody Dai

Brian Yu

Jack Zhu

Naman Siddheshwar

Zimeng Xiong

Coach: Kyle Covert

 

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Space Buffalos

Dhruva Akkineni

Gautam Manikandan

Mihir Jain

Richa Rai

Sai Giridhar Chitturi

Coach: Anil Rai

 

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SuperSAT

Adam Pell

Jason Blanco Alfaro

Nickolas Beltran

Noah Francisco

Coach: Julie Carver

 

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Tardigrades

Adhavan Babu

Anish Kommireddy

Cheng-Yeh Kuo

Clement Koh

Nikhil Sivaji

Coach: Chee Wong

 

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The Geeks

Mihir Jain

Riya Dubey

Tanay Apte

Varvara Karenski

Coach: Ryan Page

 

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TrajectorySAT

Angel Chepillo

Darshaanguru Karthikeyan

Kaiden Valtierra

Maurilio Garcia Jr

Coach: Christian Florczak

 

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Trivector

Adidev Chowdhury

Ethan Wu

Shankaranarayanan Iyer

Coach: Jonathan Wyllie

 

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TWolves

Arsh Gupta

Nikhil Rangachar

Aarnav Shah

Rohan Khanna

Coach: Karen Gorospe