Climate Case Competition

UChicago students can participate in an annual competition to critically investigate a modern-day climate problem posed by a competition partner.

The Institute sponsors an annual competition, hosted by the Energy and Climate Club and the Phoenix Sustainability Initiative, which provides UChicago students with the opportunity to critically investigate a modern-day problem posed by a competition partner. Students are granted the opportunity to critically investigate a modern-day climate problem for a chance to win up to $2,500 in cash prizes.

2026 Climate Case Competition

This year's Climate Case Competition will be held in spring 2026 in partnership with World Resources Institute (WRI), a research leader influencing global policy. Registration is now closed.

Participants

2025 Participants

Iris Badezet-Delory

First Place Awardee (Team Pasture Powered)

Eric Fang

First Place Awardee (Team Pasture Powered)

Charlie White

First Place Awardee (Team Pasture Powered)

Jesenia Parthasarathy

First Place Awardee (Team Pasture Powered)

Jackson Slater

First Place Awardee (Team Pasture Powered)

Tae Kyeong Hong

Second Place Awardee (Team Sustainable Freaks)

David Edwards

Second Place Awardee (Team Sustainable Freaks)

Juliet Katz

Second Place Awardee (Team Sustainable Freaks)

Ralph Lam

Second Place Awardee (Team Sustainable Freaks)

Vickey Zhou

Second Place Awardee (Team Sustainable Freaks)

Anna Bonnem

Third Place Awardee (Team Super Sisters Solutions)

Vera Chaudhry

Third Place Awardee (Team Super Sisters Solutions)

Lillian Gilbert-Smith

Third Place Awardee (Team Super Sisters Solutions)

Jonah Lovejoy

Third Place Awardee (Team Super Sisters Solutions)

Chelsea Wilp

Third Place Awardee (Team Super Sisters Solutions)

Vivian Li

Finalist (Team Photosynthisquad)

Zoe Springsteen

Finalist (Team Photosynthisquad)

Rudra Patel

College '27

Willa Wiley

Finalist (Team Tree-O)

Robbie Hlatki

Finalist (Team Tree-O)

Sadie Foer

Finalist (Team Tree-O)

Vidwat Jain

Finalist (Team Double Gains)

Omar Marei

Finalist (Team Double Gains)

2024 Participants

Kyle Anderson

College '27; First Place Qualitative Awardee (Team INN)

Riley Bruce

College '27; First Place Qualitative Awardee (Team INN)

Brendyn Burkitt

College '27; First Place Qualitative Awardee (Team INN)

Eric Fang

College '25; Honorable Mention Qualitative Awardee (Team Solar Express)

Samantha Francis

College '25; Honorable Mention Qualitative Awardee (Team Nature Navigators)

Christine Jonglertham

College '24; First Place Quantitative Awardee (Team Green Strategies)

Aidan Liu

College '27; First Place Qualitative Awardee (Team INN)

Amy Ma

College '27; First Place Qualitative Awardee (Team INN)

Jared Maksoud

College '25; Honorable Mention Quantitative Awardee (Team Solar Express)

Isaiah Matute

College '25; Honorable Mention Quantitative Awardee (Team Solar Express)

Eugene McCarty

College ‘26; Second Place Quantitative Awardee (Team MPSY)

Annabel Mendoza

College '24; First Place Quantitative Awardee (Team Green Strategies)

Rakan Mouasher

College '26; Honorable Mention Qualitative Awardee (Team Nature Navigators)

Judah Purwanto

College '25; Second Place Quantitative Awardee (Team MPSY)

Luigi Soriano

College '24; Second Place Quantitative Awardee (Team MPSY)

Alex Szmyd

College '25; Honorable Mention Qualitative Awardee (Team Nature Navigators)

Tamami Tamura

College '24; First Place Quantitative Awardee (Team Green Strategies)

Evelyn Wang

College '27; First Place Qualitative Awardee (Team INN)

Charlie White

College '25; Honorable Mention Quantitative Awardee (Team Solar Express)

Annie Yang

College ‘26; 2nd Place Qualitative Awardee (Team JAB)

Hayley Yeung

College '26; Second Place Quantitative Awardee (Team MPSY)

Johnathan Yin

College '26; Second Place Qualitative Awardee (Team JAB)

Lavinia Cavalet

College '25; Qualitative Finalist (Team POS)

Vaani Kapoor

College '27; Qualitative Finalist (Team POS)

Faris Lovejoy

College '27; Quantitative Finalist (Team POS)

Eugenio Merloni

College '24; Qualitative Finalist (Team POS)

Tanvi Siddhaye

College '25; Quantitative Finalist (Team Green Data)

Chenwei Hu

College '27; Quantitative Finalist (Team Green Data)

Past Events

Energy & Climate Club·May 15, 2025

2025 Climate Case Competition

Twenty-three University of Chicago College students who formed six case teams recently competed in the final round of the 2025 Climate Case Competition for the chance to win up to $2,500 in cash prizes.
Energy & Climate Club·Apr 25, 2024

2024 Climate Case Competition

Twenty-eight University of Chicago College students who formed eight case teams recently competed in the final round of the 2024 Climate Case Competition for the chance to win up to $3,000 in cash prizes.