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2025 MS&E photo contest winners

Three winners of the popular vote feature adventure, impact, and fun.

Congratulations to MS&E students Ben Gao and Emna Sellami, as well as Career Services Officer Lindsey Akin for their winning entries to MS&E's 2025 photo contest! 

Their winning photos captured the spirit of innovation, breadth, and depth that makes MS&E a unique place. Thank you to everyone who participated in the contest, both by submitting photos and voting on them. Enjoy the winners, below, and revisit all of the entries here.

In the Field category

Tie: Ben Gao - Formula Sun Grand Prix, mid-race

This summer, I traded the familiar bustle of internships to work on the Stanford Solar Car Team, which raced in the Formula Sun Grand Prix, where we won second overall. This photo is our race car Azimuth on the second day of racing zooming through the racetrack.

Tie: Emna Sellami - Nuclear Reactors

This is a picture of me at the very top of one of California's two nuclear reactors, with the second one in the background! I interned at PG&E's Diablo Canyon Power Plant this summer on the Nuclear Supply Chain and Procurement team in beautiful San Luis Obispo (the reactors are in Avila Beach but my office was nearby in SLO). I climbed over 150 feet of ladders to get to the top.

On My Travels category

Lindsey Akin - Helicopter Takeoff

Through the window of a helicopter, taking off from Mead Glacier in Alaska on July 1st.

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