Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge nominees represent the top 10 percent of 6th, 7th and 8th grade projects entered in affiliated fairs around the United States. For 2025, SCVSEFA nominated its 8th grade Category Prize 1st Place winners. The Society for Science has managed this competition (formerly Broadcom MASTERS®) since 2010.
The official nominees from the Synopsys Championship to the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (JIC) are:
| Ximena Blanco-Sarmiento | Cabrillo Middle School |
| Dylan Bondar | Cabrillo Middle School |
| Devansh Chakraborty | Cabrillo Middle School |
| Zoe Fan | Harker School-Middle Campus |
| Alexander Garcia | Cabrillo Middle School |
| Dhruva Gopal | Harker School-Middle Campus |
| Safiya Jawad | Cabrillo Middle School |
| Shuwen Jin | The King's Academy (TKA) |
| Rahini Kenkre | Cabrillo Middle School |
| Zooey Lan | Harker School-Middle Campus |
| Aaron Lau | Harker School-Middle Campus |
| Hanna Lee | Cabrillo Middle School |
| Anya Lee | Harker School-Middle Campus |
| Vihaan Narkhede | Cabrillo Middle School |
| Vihaan Punjabi | Cabrillo Middle School |
| Mia Scilingo | Cabrillo Middle School |
| Tvisha Singh | Harker School-Middle Campus |
| Samuel Spalek | Cabrillo Middle School |
| Saksham Srivastava | Challenger Middlefield-Palo Alto |
| Maggie Sun | Harker School-Middle Campus |
| Jiya Tejura | Cabrillo Middle School |
| Ethan Weyn | Harker School-Middle Campus |
| Braden Yang | Harker School-Middle Campus |
| Serena Yuan | Harker School-Middle Campus |
