Ryan Honary is a teenage inventor and entrepreneur who has been actively putting his STEM-fueled passion for people and the environment into action for years. He has won numerous national and international science and humanitarian awards, and has been featured in national media. He has spent years developing an AI enabled ultra early wildfire detection sensor network.
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His company, SensoRyAI, which he founded upon a grant awarded by an environmental non-profit Irvine Ranch Conservancy, is collaborating with Orange County Fire Authority leveraging his proprietary AI-driven sensor network technology. The system was deployed for a live trial in February of 2025, with plans for expansion throughout 2025. For more information on SensoRy AI click here.
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Ryan is also the founder of the educational non-profit Climate Solutions Society. which is helping other youth develop tech based solutions for various environmental applications and has grown to multiple chapters across a number of high schools and organizations.
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In this video you can see the story of how Ryan started from a simple science project and over 5 years turned it into a product now being field tested by fire professionals: click here to see video
Evolution of Ryan's simplistic science project on the far left, step by step into a real-world product on the right
Selected Awards & Distinctions
For more details and complete list refer to Awards page
ISEF 2025 Grand & Special Awards Recipient: At the 2025 International Science & Engineering Fair, the biggest and most prestigious global high school STEM competition with top 1% science fair participants from 66 countries, achieved 2nd place Grand Award in Embedded Category, $15000 Office of Naval Research Special Award, and $5000 first place Innovator Special Award from Qorvo.
California Science & Engineering Fair 2025 - 2nd Place Environmental Engineering among California high schools
The Earth Prize 2024 largest teenage global environmental competition, selected Global Top 10 Finalist chosen from over 1000 projects across 117 countries
Ryan's non profit Climate Solutions Society was the winner of the International Baccalaureate and United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network Global Youth Action Fund Award Winner 2023
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UN Summit of the Future 2023 & 2024 Youth Delegate at UN General Assembly in New York
Broadcom Masters Top 30 Finalist, the top middle school national level science competition September 2020
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Red Cross Disaster Services Award, August 2020
Ignite Innovation Student Challenge Grand Prize Winner, May 2019 a National Level Middle School Science Competition
Click here for more information about the awards Ryan has received for his work.
Selected Press Releases
PRESS RELEASE: SensoRy AI and OCFA deploy AI-driven early wildfire detection system in City of Irvine Open Space Preserve
In a unified effort to address the growing threat of wildfires in Southern California, Ryan Honary, founder of SensoRy AI, has partnered with the Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) and the City of Irvine to deploy his award-winning AI-driven wildfire detection system in the Irvine Open Space Preserve.
February 12, 2025
PRESS RELEASE: SensoRy AI, Founded by Teen Inventor, Receives Funding and Partners With Irvine Ranch Conservancy and Orange County Fire Authority to Test Climate Solution
Ryan Honary to work with organizations to further evaluate his "AI-Driven Wireless Mesh Sensor Network for Early Detection and Growth Prediction of Environmental Hazards"
December 14, 2022
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PRESS RELEASE: Teen Inventor-Environmentalist Invited to Work with Irvine Ranch Conservancy to Leverage Technology to Address Environmental Challenges
Irvine Ranch Conservancy and Ryan Honary Collaborate to Evaluate and Assist in Productization of Honary’s invention: “AI-Driven Wireless Mesh Sensor Network for Early Detection and Growth Prediction of Environmental Hazards”
December 8, 2021
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