The Top 20 Finalists
They’re in! Congratulations to the Top 20 finalists of the 2025–26 Burns & McDonnell Battle of the Brains!
Elementary Division
Cottonwood Point Elementary School, Blue Valley Schools
Sound All Around | Proposal | Commercial
EPiC Elementary School, Liberty Public Schools
Erosion Expedition | Proposal | Commercial
Graden Elementary School, Park Hill School District
Subterranean Secrets | Proposal | Commercial
Heartland Elementary School, Blue Valley Schools
It’s a Hard Rock Life | Proposal | Commercial
Horizon Elementary School, Smithville School District
Poop: There It Is! | Proposal | Commercial
Ingels Elementary School, Hickman Mills C-1 Schools
Inside Out | Proposal | Commercial
McCarter Elementary School, Topeka Public Schools
Science of the Home | Proposal | Commercial
Mize Elementary School, USD 232
Time to Drive Deeper | Proposal | Commercial
Sni-A-Bar Elementary School, Grain Valley Schools
Out of This World | Proposal | Commercial
Sunset Valley Elementary School, Lee’s Summit R-7 Schools
What a Site! | Proposal | Commercial
Secondary Division
Blue Springs South High School, Blue Springs School District
Going Nuclear | Proposal | Commercial
Brittany Hill Middle School, Blue Springs School District
Listen hEAR | Proposal | Commercial
Clinton County Middle School, Clinton County R3
Autoverse: The Science of Cars | Proposal | Commercial
Clinton Middle School, Clinton School District
Disaster Strikes | Proposal | Commercial
Indian Woods Middle School, Shawnee Mission School District
Symphonic Symphony | Proposal | Commercial
Nativity Parish School, Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas
Nature Knows Best: The Science of Biomimicry | Proposal | Commercial
Olathe East High School, Olathe Public Schools
Brainy Bugs | Proposal | Commercial
Olathe North High School, Olathe Public Schools
Magical Microbes: It's a SMALL World | Proposal | Commercial
Oxford Middle School, Blue Valley Schools
Super Adaptors | Proposal | Commercial
Tonganoxie Middle School, Tonganoxie USD 464
Mechanical Madness: The Science of Cars | Proposal | Commercial