2026
- Lambert iGEM's LANCET featured in Global Health NOWGlobal Health NOW (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)‘They Had Nothing to Lose’: How a High School Science Club Landed on Promising New Lyme Diagnostic
- Conrad Challenge 2026 FinalistConrad Challenge, Space Center HoustonTop 2% of all teams; Power Pitch Award, Health & Nutrition. Awards ceremony 25 April 2026.
- Gore Innovation Excellence Prize, Diamond Challenge 2026Horn Entrepreneurship, University of Delaware2 of 70 finalist teams (top 3%), entered as NYX Headband. Limitless World Summit, 23-24 April 2026.
- VIGIL named in the Conrad Challenge press release on Yahoo FinancePR NewswireHigh School Innovators and Entrepreneurs Named Pete Conrad Scholars at the 2026 Space Center Houston Conrad Challenge, Presented by Equinor
- Georgia House Resolution 1845Georgia House of RepresentativesRecognizing and commending the Lambert High School iGEM Team for its outstanding achievements at the 2025 iGEM Grand Jamboree; adopted 23 March 2026.
- 2nd in Georgia, Franchise Business PlanDECA Georgia State Career Development ConferencePlaced second at the Georgia DECA State Career Development Conference, Atlanta, 25-28 February 2026.
- 1st in Georgia, Business PlanFBLA Georgia State Leadership ConferencePlaced first in the Business Plan event at the Georgia FBLA State Leadership Conference.
2025
- Profiled on CBS 60 MinutesCBS NewsBill Whitaker profiled the Lambert iGEM team's CRISPR Lyme work. Aired 30 November 2025.
- Gold Medal and Best Software Tool, iGEM 2025iGEMAwarded in the high-school section at the 2025 Grand Jamboree.
- iGEM 2025 Grand JamboreeiGEMThe only North American team in the High School Top 10 (of 140 high-school teams worldwide, top 7%). Jamboree held 28-31 October 2025.
- International Public Policy Forum, Top 32The Brewer Foundation and New York UniversityRound of 32 of 283 teams (top 11%), debating as Ivy Bridge Academy.
2026
- Source-Anchored Exact-Lag Adaptation of a Molecular Simulation Foundation ModelNeurIPS 2026 SimBioChem workshopAccepted to the SimBioChem II workshop at NeurIPS 2026, Sydney, 11 December 2026.
- LANCET at the Johns Hopkins Ticks and Tickborne Diseases SymposiumJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthLANCET presented at the 4th annual symposium in Baltimore, 29-30 April 2026.
- Poster #520, CspZ proximity ligation assay for point-of-care Lyme diagnosisACS Spring 2026 National MeetingCo-authored poster #520 at the ACS Spring 2026 National Meeting (Atlanta, 22-26 March 2026).
- Development of a CspZ-Targeting Proximity Ligation Assay for Rapid Point-of-Care Diagnosis of Lyme DiseaseFrontiersFirst author; pending publication.
- MSI model abstract pending publication at USCAP 2027USCAP 2027 (Vancouver, March 2027)Abstract submitted; pending publication.
- VIGIL paper pending publication at IEEE BIBMIEEE BIBMPending publication.