🏆 Selected Honors

• NASA Group Achievement Award (2025). As a member of the DART Period Change Determination Team, for the first measurement of the change in an asteroid's orbital motion caused by a kinetic impact - part of NASA's Planetary Defense program.
• Third Place, Student Oral Competition - NASA Exploration Science Forum (2026). SSERVI's forum at NASA Ames Research Center; the only high-school student among the graduate and early-career researchers giving oral talks. For Project MOON, tracking the Artemis II mission through open science.
• Third Grand Award - Regeneron ISEF (2025). Among ~1,700 finalists from 60+ countries. For NEPTUNE: predicting unseen exoplanets from transit-timing variations.
• Second Prize - EU Contest for Young Scientists, EUCYS (2023), Brussels. The EU's flagship science contest (136 finalists from 36 countries); represented Canada. For algorithms determining asteroids' physical properties, applied to NASA's DART mission.
• Masason Scholarship (2024–ongoing). Full undergraduate scholarship, awarded for planetary-defence research.
• Foresight Fellow - Planetary Defense Fellowship (2025). A selective fellowship from the Foresight Institute.
• Best Project Award, Canada-Wide Science Fair (Youth Science Canada) - 2023 and 2022 (back-to-back). Top project prize at Canada’s national science fair.
• Young Astronomer & Excellence in Astronomy Awards - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. From Canada's national astronomy society (RASC).
• City of Toronto Open Data Award (2026). Second place, for the "Better My City" open-data civic project.

2026

Third Place, Student Oral Competition - NASA Exploration Science Forum (2026) - Awarded by SSERVI at NASA Ames Research Center for Project MOON, tracking the Artemis II mission through open science. The only high-school student among the graduate and early-career researchers giving oral talks.

City of Toronto Open Data Award - 2nd Place, Public Projects (2026) - Better My City: merging open data and AI to automate 311 reporting.

2025

• NASA Group Achievement Award (2025). As a member of the DART Period-Change Determination Team, for the first measurement of the change in an asteroid's orbital motion caused by a kinetic impact - part of NASA's Planetary Defense program.

• Third Grand Award - Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), Columbus, Ohio Project: NEPTUNE - Unseen Exoplanet Prediction Using TTV https://isef.net/project/phys055-neptune-unseen-exoplanet-prediction-using-ttv Press Release: https://youthscience.ca/team-canada-secures-three-prestigious-awards-at-regeneron-isef-2025-in-columbus-ohio/

• Foresight Fellow - Planetary Defense (2025) https://foresight.org/people/arushi-nath/

• Challenge Award (Aerospace) - Canada-Wide Science Fair (2025) https://partner.projectboard.world/ysc/project/neptune-n-body-exoplanet-prediction-using-ttvs-for-unseen-exoplanets

• Gold Medal - Canada-Wide Science Fair (2025) https://partner.projectboard.world/ysc/project/neptune-n-body-exoplanet-prediction-using-ttvs-for-unseen-exoplanets

• Excellence in Astronomy Award - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (2025) https://partner.projectboard.world/ysc/project/neptune-n-body-exoplanet-prediction-using-ttvs-for-unseen-exoplanets

• Gold Medal - Toronto Science Fair (2025)

• University of Toronto Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences Award (Physics) (2025)

• Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Award (2025)

2024

• Masason Scholar (2024) Scholar Page: https://masason-foundation.org/en/scholars/ Press Release: https://masason-foundation.org/en/2024/06/26/126542/

• Gold Medal - Toronto Science Fair (2024) https://isef.net/project/phys035-accelerated-asteroid-characterization-using-phast

• University of Toronto - Earth Sciences Mathew Shawn McConville Award (2024)

• Ingenious+ Youth Innovation Challenge - Regional Winner (2024) https://ingeniousplus.ca/celebrating-the-ingenious-2024-innovation-challenge-regional-winners/

2023

• Second Prize - European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS), Brussels (2023) Winners List: https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2023-09/EUCYS2023_Winners_List.pdf Project: https://eucys2023.eu/physics-05/ Press Release: https://youthscience.ca/team-canada-eucys-2023-award-winners/

• Young Astronomers Award - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (2023) https://rasc.ca/young-astronomers-award

• Best Project Award (Innovation) - Canada-Wide Science Fair (2023) https://partner.projectboard.world/ysc/project/developing-algorithms-to-determine-asteroids-physical-properties-and-success-of-deflection-missions-zbdjwn

• Youth Can Innovate Award - Gwyn Morgan & Patricia Trottier Foundation (2023) https://youthscience.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CWSF2023-Award-Results-Scholarships-EN.pdf

• Challenge Award - Curiosity & Ingenuity - Canada-Wide Science Fair (2023) https://youthscience.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CWSF2023-Award-Results-Scholarships-EN.pdf

• Gold Medal - Canada-Wide Science Fair (2023) https://youthscience.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CWSF2023-Award-Results-Scholarships-EN.pdf

• Excellence in Astronomy Award - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (2023) https://youthscience.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CWSF2023-Award-Results-Scholarships-EN.pdf

• Actuarial Foundation of Canada Award (2023) https://youthscience.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CWSF2023-Award-Results-Scholarships-EN.pdf

• Team Toronto Travel Award - University of Toronto (VPRI) (2023)

• Gold Medal - Toronto Science Fair (2023)

• University of Toronto - Physics Award (2023) https://www.torontosciencefair.ca/about-us/2023-special-award-recipients

• Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Award (2023) https://www.torontosciencefair.ca/about-us/2023-special-award-recipients

• Mentee of the Year - Tundra STEM (2023) https://tundratechnical-stem.com/arushi-nath/

• Ontario Volunteer Service Award - Government of Ontario (2023) For science outreach and communication

2022

• Best of the Canada-Wide Science Fair (Innovation) (2022) https://youthscience.ca/plankton-wars-and-planetary-defense-take-best-project-awards-at-this-years-cwsf/

• Gold Medal - Canada-Wide Science Fair (2022) https://youthscience.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/CWSF-2022-Award-Scholarship-Results-EN.pdf

• Excellence in Astronomy Award - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (2022) https://youthscience.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/CWSF-2022-Award-Scholarship-Results-EN.pdf

• Andrew Elvins Award - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (2022) https://rascto.ca/news/congratulations-member-awards-recipients-2022

• MIT Solve - Solv[ED] Micro-Grant (2022) https://solve.mit.edu/solv-ed

• Youth Can Innovate Award - Gwyn Morgan & Patricia Trottier Foundation (2022) https://youthscience.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/CWSF-2022-Award-Scholarship-Results-EN.pdf

• Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Award - Toronto Science Fair (2022) https://www.torontosciencefair.ca/about-us/2022-special-award-recipients

• Gold Medal - Toronto Science Fair (2022)

2019

• NASA Space Apps Toronto Winner + Global Nominee (2019) https://hotpoprobot.com/2020/01/04/my-satellite-data-and-climate-change-project-wins-spaceapps-toronto-2019-and-is-a-global-nominee/

• Finalist - Canadian Space Agency / NSERC Little Inventors Challenge (2019) https://www.littleinventors.org/makers/arushi-nath/

In Pictures

Third-place certificate, student oral competition, NASA Exploration Science Forum (2026)

Masason Foundation (Japan) announcement of its 2024 Scholars