Intel International Science

and Engineering Fair

Finalist Directory 2018

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments and Special Award Organizations............................................... 2

Animal Sciences (ANIM) ..........................................................................................................3
Behavioral and Social Sciences (BEHA) .............................….......................................... 6
Biochemistry (BCHM) ............................ ………………………………………………………………….9
Biomedical and Health Sciences (BMED............................. …………………………………11
Biomedical Engineering (ENBM)............................... …………………………………………… 14
Cellular and Molecular Biology (CELL) ............................. ……………………………………17
Chemistry (CHEM) ............................. ……………………………………………………………………19
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBIO) ............................………………..22
Earth and Environmental Sciences (EAEV) ............................……………………………..24
Embedded Systems (EBED) .............................……………………………………………………..28
Energy: Chemical (EGCH)............................. ………………………………………………………….30
Energy: Physical (EGPH) ............................ ……………………………………………………………32
Engineering Mechanics (ENMC) ............................ ……………………………………………….34
Environmental Engineering (ENEV) .............................…………………………………………37
Materials Science (MATS) ............................. …………………………………………………………41
Mathematics (MATH) .............................………………………………………………………………..44
Microbiology (MCRO) ............................………………………………………………………………..46
Physics and Astronomy (PHYS).............................. ……………………………………………….49
Plant Sciences (PLNT) ............................……………………………………………………………….53
Robotics and Intelligent Machines (ROBO) .............................…………………………….56
Systems Software (SOFT) ..............................………………………………………………………..59
Translational Medical Sciences (TMED) ............................. ………………………………….62
Intel ISEF 2017 Special Award Organizations provide education scholarships, cash awards,
summer internships, scientific field trips, and equipment grants. Intel and Society for Science &
the Public thank the following organizations for their support of the Intel ISEF.

Acoustical Society of America International Council on Systems Engineering –

Air Force Research Laboratory on behalf of the INCOSE
United States Air Force K. Soumyanath Memorial Award
American Chemical Society King Abdul-Aziz & his Companions Foundation for
Giftedness and Creativity
American Committee for the
Weizmann Institute of Science Mu Alpha Theta, National High School and
Two-Year College Mathematics Honor Society
American Geosciences Institute
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics
American Mathematical Society National Anti-Vivisection Society

American Meteorological Society National Center “Junior Academy of

Sciences of Ukraine”
American Physiological Society
National Institute on Drug Abuse,
American Psychological Association National Institutes of Health & the Friends of NIDA
American Statistical Association National Security Agency Research Directorate
Arconic Foundation National Taiwan Science Education Center
Arizona State University Office of Naval Research on behalf of the
Association for Computing Machinery United States Navy and Marine Corps
Association for the Advancement of Oracle Academy
Artificial Intelligence Patent and Trademark Office Society

ASU Rob and Melani Walton Qatar Foundation, Research & Development
Sustainability Solutions Initiatives Ricoh USA, Inc
Carnegie Mellon University Leonard Gelfand Center for Samvid Education Foundation
Service Learning and Outreach Shanghai STEM Cloud Center
China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society
Coalition for Plasma Science (CPS) Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc
Drexel University .Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh
Drug, Chemical & Associated Technologies Association Thermo Fisher Scientific
(DCAT)
U.S. Agency for International Development
Florida Institute of Technology
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Fondazione Bruno Kessler University of Arizona
GoDaddy University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
IEEE Foundation West Virginia University
Intel Foundation Wolfram Research, Inc.

Visit student.societyforscience.org/special-awards-organizations to learn more

about each Special Award Organization.

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 Intel ISEF Finalist Directory

Each # next to the finalist’s name indicates previous ISEF participation;

An * identifies non-competing projects
A T after the booth ID number indicates a Team Project

Animal Sciences ANIM013T On the Structure and Mechanics in vivo of the Ostial Cells and
the Aortic Valve of the Drosophila melanogaster Larva Heart
by Analyzing High Resolution Microscopic Images
Claudia Rodriguez, 18, Senior,
ANIM001T FishApp
Juan Sanchez Mateos, 17, Junior,
Manuel Cassarino, 18, Senior,
I.E.S. Maestro Gonzalo Korreas, Jaraiz de la Vera, Caceres, Spain
Sofia Cabezas, 17, Junior,
Liceo No. 1 Jose Maria Campos, Mercedes, Soriano, Uruguay
ANIM014 Evolution of Aphid Species due to Host Plant Preference
Kyohei Ikawa, 18, Senior,
ANIM002 Hopping Down the Bunny Trail: Spatial Distribution of Lepus
Kosei Gakuen High School, Suginami-ku, Tokyo, Japan
americanus Tracks
Lily Marie Hall, 18, Senior,
ANIM015 Accelerated Planarian Regeneration through the Manipulation
South Ridge School, Culver, Minnesota
of Frequency
Xena Tame, 18, Senior,
ANIM003 Analyzing the Relationship Between Herbicide Introduction
Ysleta High School, El Paso, Texas
and the Development of Gallus domesticus Embryos
Katelyn Nicholson, 17, Senior,
ANIM016 Environmentally-Friendly, Color-Infused, Structurally-
Episcopal School of Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida
Strengthened Silk Fibers from Feed-Induced Bombyx mori
## Andrew Dong-Hyun Kim, 18, Senior,
ANIM004T Larvicidal Effect of Coffee (Coffea arabica cordoba-
Academy of Science and Technology, The Woodlands, Texas
caracolillo) Against Mosquito (Aedes aegypti)
Vanessa Salazar Balboa, 19, Senior,
ANIM017 Can A Small Bird End Malnutrition? A Comparison of Coturnix
David Hernandez Garza, 19, Senior,
japonica and Gallus gallus as Potential Sustainable Protein
Adrian Villareal Castillo, 19, Senior,
Sources for Developing Countries and Those Seeking a
Prepa UDEM Unidad San Pedro Universidad de Monterrey, San
Quality Sustainable Source of Protein
Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Shannon Leigh Anderson, 16, Sophomore,
Anderson Christian Academy, Seguin, Texas
ANIM005T Yogyakarta Beaches Mapping Based on Sea Turtle Nesting
Beach Characteristics
ANIM018 A Novel Approach to Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Using
Aden Muflih Khaitami, 17, Senior,
Transient Receptor Potential Channels and Insulin Signaling in
Fadlilah Nur Hasanah, 18, Senior,
C. elegans
SMA Negeri 1 Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, D.I. Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Sindhuja Uppuluri, 16, Sophomore,
Westwood High School, Austin, Texas
ANIM006 The Effect of Environmental Factors on Tardigrade
Communities
ANIM019 Motion Activated Auditory Deterrents to Prevent Wildlife
Stefan Kemmerich, 15, Sophomore,
Vehicular Collisions Along High-Density Wildlife Crossing
Erzbischofliches St.-Angela Gymnasium, Wipperfurth, Germany
# Maegan Yeary, 18, Senior,
J.W. Nixon High School, Laredo, Texas
ANIM007 Effect of Fragmentation, Isolation, and Bleaching on Coral
Reef Fish Assemblages
ANIM020T Metformin as a Novel Neurogenic Method of Methylmercury
Sonja Giardina, 15, Sophomore,
Neurotoxicity Symptom Mitigation in Danio rerio as a Model
Hilo High School, Hilo, Hawaii
for Human Fetuses
Ayman Napsy Isahaku, 18, Senior,
ANIM008 Worm Amnesia: The Effect of Taurine, Glucose, and Caffeine
Anna Spektor, 17, Junior,
on Dugesia dorotocephala
Nicolet High School, Glendale, Wisconsin
David Lee Garcia, 17, Junior,
IDEA College Preparatory McAllen, McAllen, Texas
ANIM021 What’s All the Buzz About?
Breanna Michelle Williams, 18, Senior,
ANIM009 Determining the Effect of a Top-Level Predator in a Simulated
Alma High School, Alma, Arkansas
Aquatic Ecosystem with Organisms Used for the Mitigation of
HABs
ANIM022 Mealworms... A Potential Solution to the Global Plastic
Nathan Foo, 14, Freshman,
Problem
West Shore Junior/Senior High School, Melbourne, Florida
# Alyssa H. Rawinski, 17, Junior,
Monte Vista High School, Monte Vista, Colorado
ANIM010 Mammalian Behavioral Ecology in Southern California
Habitat Fragments
ANIM023 Isolation of Novel Epigenetic Insights in Heritable Fertility
Austin Leonard Nash, 18, Senior,
Trends via NGS-Driven Analysis of DNA Damage Response and
Palos Verdes High School, Palos Verdes Estates, California
piRNA Biogenesis Pathways
# Evan James Mizerak, 18, Senior,
ANIM011T Who Is the Mice’s King? Key Factors for Regulation of Social
Wachusett Regional High School, Holden, Massachusetts
Hierarchy on C57BL/6, Mice
Jingru Zhang, 17, Junior,
ANIM024 Resurvey of Fish Species in Three Agricultural Freshwater
Xieran Gu, 17, Junior,
Ecosystems in Fulton County, Ohio 2014-2017
Yuhui Zhang, 17, Junior,
Jordan M. Skates, 17, Senior,
High School Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Pettisville High School, Pettisville, Ohio
Shanghai Foreign Language School, Shanghai, China
High School Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
Shanghai, China

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ANIM025T Evaluation of the Potential of Planarians Dugesia tigrina as ANIM038 Bovine Somatic Cell Count and Mastitis Bacterial Strains
Bioindicators of the Toxicity of Waters and Sludges from Kathryn Marie Bosley, 17, Senior,
Mining Tailing Franklin Academy High School, Malone, New York
Fernando Andres Gonzalez, 17, Senior,
Rene Alonso Esper, 17, Senior, ANIM039 The Role of NRBF2 in the Regulation of the ULK1
Colegio Ingles Saint John, Rancagua, Cachapoal, Chile Kinase Complex
Jessica Li Jiang, 17, Senior,
ANIM026T Galaxy Nest: A Study on the Nesting Behaviors of Asian William A. Shine Great Neck South High School, Great Neck,
Weaver Ants New York
Ruo Yan Elysia Ye, 15, Sophomore,
Muhua Yang, 16, Sophomore, ANIM040 The Effect of Talking on a Horse’s Heart Rate When Grooming
Chinese International School, the Neck and Withers After Exercise
St. Joseph’s College, Hong Kong, China, ### Abegail Louise Faz, 17, Senior,
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Northridge High School, Layton, Utah

ANIM027 Sheep Vocalization Analysis from Gestation to Birth ANIM041T Conservation of Endangered, Endemic Megapode
# Clara Megan Benadon, 16, Junior, Macrocephalon maleo S. Muller, 1846, in Lore Lindu National
Poolesville High School, Poolesville, Maryland Park, Indonesia: Strategy in Selecting Nesting Pit
Herditha Asya Putri, 18, Senior,
ANIM028 Effects of Known Endocrine Disruptor Pyriproxyfen Compared Nabila Triana, 17, Senior,
to Suspected Endocrine Disruptors Bisphenol-A (BPA) and Al-Azhar Mandiri Palu Senior High School, Palu,
Bisphenol-S (BPS) on Blaptica dubia Roaches Central Celebes, Indonesia
Casey Wyrwas, 17, Senior,
Baker High School, Baker, Montana ANIM042T A Method Combining Geographic Information Systems
and Environmental DNA Reveals Hidden Populations of
ANIM029 Accelerating Biomimetic Design Evolution Using Advanced the Endangered Japanese Clouded Salamander, Hynobius
Analytics and Rapid Prototyping: An Api-Centric Hive for nebulosus
Domestic Apis mellifera Kota Tsuchida, 18, Senior,
Jade Anne Greenberg, 17, Junior, Yusuke Sakai, 17, Senior,
Pascack Hills High School, Montvale, New Jersey Yuka Tsuzuku, 17, Senior,
Gifu Prefectural Gifu Senior High School, Gifu-City,
ANIM030 Developing a Protocol to Extract DNA from Killer Whale Mucus Gifu-Pref, Japan
as a Non-Invasive Alternative to the Use of Biopsy Darts
Luke Joseph Harris, 18, Senior, ANIM043T A Study on the Species Diversity in Ponds with and without
West Islip High School, West Islip, New York Bullfrogs in Jeju Island
Hee Do Shin, 17, Junior,
ANIM031 The Role of Purple Hermit Crabs, Coenobita brevimanus, as Su-Sung Park, 16, Junior,
Forest Frugivores Minbeom Kim, 16, Junior,
Alyssa Cepeda, 17, Senior, Daykey High School, Jeju-si, South Korea
Kagman High School, Saipan, MP, Northern Mariana Islands
ANIM044 A Novel Approach to Increase Honey Bee Immune Response:
ANIM032 Analysis of the Use of an Organic Pesticide Synthesized with The Effect of Amino Acid Supplementation on the Longevity
Ursolic Acid as a Substitute for Pesticides with Neonicotinoids of Nosema Infected Honeybees
to Maintain Stable Sperm Production in Apis mellifera Drones # Natalia Noel Jacobson, 18, Senior,
Jerica Andrea Siberon, 18, Senior, Empire High School, Tucson, Arizona
Dr. Pedro Albizu Campus, Ponce, Puerto Rico
ANIM045 The Significant Agrohomeopathic Effect of Natural Extracts on
ANIM033 A Reverse Genetic Approach to Identify Novel Regulators of Acheta domesticus
Cell Invasive Behavior Rodnell Busigo Torres, 16, Senior,
Sydney Bracht, 18, Senior, CROEM HIgh School, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Smithtown High School East, St. James, New York
ANIM046 Behavior of Weaver Ants to Access Food when Encountering
ANIM034 Saving the Honey Bee from Varroa destructor Using RNA- Barriers
Interference Suparas Yendee, 18, Senior,
Elizabeth Paige Wamsley, 16, Sophomore, Princess Chulabhorn Science High School Phetchaburi, Cha-Am,
Timber Ridge Scholars Academy, Pacific, Missouri Phetchaburi, Thailand

ANIM035T Elucidating the Influence of Habitat Fragmentation, ANIM047T A New Method to Increase Propolis Production by Activating
Urbanization, and Environmental Factors on the Inhibitory Nest Repair Behavior in Stingless Bees
Ability of Antifungal Cutaneou Bacteria Found on the Eastern Metawee Leeja, 17, Junior,
Redback Population Chonnaphat Luanghan, 17, Junior,
Julia Ann Piccirillo-Stosser, 16, Junior, Nattakarn Prommin, 17, Junior,
Sabrina Grace Piccirillo-Stosser, 16, Junior, Damrongratsongkroh School, Muangchiangrai, Chiangrai,
Kiara Taveras, 16, Junior, Thailand
Ossining High School, Ossining, New York
ANIM048 Acoustic Signatures: A Novel Tool to Detect Muscle Myopathy
ANIM036 Analyzing the Role of Intralipid and Epinephrine in the Divya Srinivasan, 17, Junior,
Treatment of Bupivacaine-Induced Toxicity in Daphnia magna Johns Creek High School, Johns Creek, Georgia
Nicholas Lin, 17, Junior,
Westfield High School, Chantilly, Virginia ANIM049 Determining the Availability of Pollen Sources for Honeybees
on Deciduous Fruit Farms in Summer
ANIM037T Effect of Yeast Diversity on Mosquito Populations Gabriele Maria Gess, 18, Senior,
Jadyn Lynne Henry, 15, Freshman, St. Cyprian’s School, Cape Town, Western Cape,
Kylie Erin Orris, 17, Junior, South Africa
Southeastern Junior/Senior High School, Augusta, Illinois

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ANIM050 Acetylcholine and Nicotine Potentiate Currents in Cells ANIM065 The Effect of Turmeric Upon the Mortality and Mobility of
Isolated from Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis Drosophila melanogasters with Alzheimer’s
Sarah Elizabeth Adamo, 18, Senior, Arielle Jasmine Fedee, 17, Junior,
Smithtown High School West, Smithtown, New York Westminster Christian School, Palmetto Bay, Florida

ANIM051 Bird Migration Patterns ANIM067 A Better Way to Wean

Liam-Gavin Dell, 15, Freshman, # Abigail Grace Larson, 17, Senior,
City Honors School, Buffalo, New York Tioga High School, Tioga, North Dakota

ANIM052 Color Preference in Poultry Chicks ANIM068 Unintended Consequences of the Sunscreen Compound
Loulou Neff, 15, Freshman, Oxybenzone on the Threatened Staghorn Coral Acropora
Elko High School, Elko, Nevada cervicornis
Madison Kristin Precht, 18, Senior,
ANIM053T Novel Method for Determining Culex quinquefasciatus Westminster Christian School, Palmetto Bay, Florida
Behavioral Response to Acoustic Stimuli Utilizing a
Split-tube Design ANIM069 See the Bees Speak: Confined Direct Analysis in Real Time
Hunter Chase Bishop, 17, Junior, and SPME-GC-MS for B. impatiens and A. mellifera Alarm
Fritz Alexander Ruppert, 15, Sophomore, Pheromone Detection
Brevard Senior High School, Brevard, North Carolina Skylar Mariquita Brodowski, 17, Senior,
Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, Virginia
ANIM054 Increased Conception Rates by Regulating Temperature of
Semen ANIM070 Satellites and Cows
Bailey Beckman, 17, Senior, Ashley Nicole Riggs, 15, Sophomore,
Danville Junior/Senior High School, Danville, Iowa Willcox High School, Willcox, Arizona

ANIM055 The Effects of Monk Parakeet Age on Sociality ANIM071 Which Egg-Laying Substrate Do Crickets Prefer?
Aushna Saleem, 17, Senior, Katherine Traver, 15, Sophomore,
Midwood High School at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York Sockdolager School, Hartsville, South Carolina

ANIM056 The Effects of Salinity on Aedes aegypti Blood Meal Selection ANIM072 Illuminating the Problem: Bioluminescence
Rachel Leigh Brown, 18, Senior, Chase Andrew Beausoleil, 16, Sophomore,
Bartlesville High School, Bartlesville, Oklahoma Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, Massachusetts

ANIM057 Effects of Molting on Movement Patterns in Chromatopelma ANIM066 The Impact of Ocean Acidification on Lytechinus variegatus
cyanpubescens (Green Bottle Blue Tarantulas) Fertilization & Development
Francesca Teresa Circosta, 18, Senior, Logan M. Track, 18, Senior,
Massanutten Regional Governor’s School, Mt. Jackson, Virginia Sarasota High School, Sarasota, Florida
 
ANIM058 All Cracked Up Again
Amy Bonner, 17, Sophomore,
Cleveland High School, Cleveland, Mississippi

ANIM059 The Effect of Storage Conditions and Time on the Quality of

Chicken Eggs
Emma Millie Serisier, 16, Junior,
Bishop Druitt College, North Boambee Valley, New South Wales,
Australia

ANIM060 Comparative Study Between Bellis sylvestris, Artemisia

dracunculus and Lantana trifolia in the Ability to Attract Apis
mellifera
Marco Antonio Calo, 16, Sophomore,
University Gardens High School, San Juan, Puerto Rico

ANIM061 Modeling American Alligator Population Dynamics

Karin Ruth Ebey, 14, Freshman,
Los Alamos High School, Los Alamos, New Mexico

ANIM062T Increasing the Honey Productivity of Stingless Bees

(Tetragonula fuscobalteata) by Creating Pseudo Honey Pots
Wirachad Sripoori, 17, Junior,
Boonyakorn Sonkhayan, 17, Junior,
Jitrada Chaichaompoo, 17, Junior,
Damrongratsongkroh School, Muangchiangrai, Chiangrai,
Thailand

ANIM063 Development of 3D Pollen Adsorption Models by Analyzing

Pollinating Insects’ Setae Structures
Seong Won Ok, 17, Senior, Gyeongnam Science High School,
Jinju-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

ANIM064 Wnt6, in Progenitor Maintenance During Hematopoiesis:

A Potential Biomarker for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
# Titash Biswas, 17, Senior,
Crescenta Valley High School, La Crescenta, California

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 Behavioral and Social Sciences BEHA016 Alterations in Oligodendroglia Lineage Cells and Their Impact
in Major Depressive Disorder
Matthew Ryan Mullahy, 17, Junior,
Smithtown High School East, St. James, New York
BEHA001 Endophenotype Model in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder:
Identification of Risk and Protective Factors
BEHA017 What Influences Safe Medication Practices: Investigating the
Ricardo Angelin Pereira Giorgion, 17, Junior,
Relationship Between Parent’s Intentions, Self-Efficacy and
Alef Peretz, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Knowledge
Emily Stephany Garcia, 17, Junior,
BEHA002 KeMotions: Keys to Emotional Cues, Year Two
Young Women’s Leadership Academy, San Antonio, Texas
### Sapna Karina Patel, 17, Senior,
Oviedo High School, Oviedo, Florida
BEHA018T Cartography of Missing Teenagers within the Violence Triangle
in the South Area of Sao Paulo City in 2016
BEHA003T Biopsychosocial Impact in Mayan Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
Clara Helena Vicentini Ferreira do Valle, 17, Senior,
in Yucatan
Ana Carolina Bueno Goncalves, 16, Senior,
Jesus Raymundo Ceballos Torres, 17, Junior,
Beatriz de Souza Bim, 17, Senior,
David Zavala Perez, 17, Junior,
Escola Nova Lourenco Castanho, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Escuela Preparatoria Dos, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
BEHA019 The Effects of Lithium on Insomniac Drosophila melanogaster
BEHA004T Anthropological and Historical Study of “Tamal Chinchano”
Alaina Shana Leticia Otto, 18, Senior,
(Tamale from Chincha) Throughout Time
Sleepy Hollow High School, Sleepy Hollow, New York
Jose Ignacio Tijero Ayarza, 15, Sophomore,
Fiorella Giovanna Almeyda Luis, 15, Sophomore,
BEHA020 Diagnostic Test for Dyslexia, Year Three
Simon Bolivar, Chincha, Ica, Peru
# Ainsley McDonald-Boyer, 18, Senior,
Azle High School, Azle, Texas
BEHA005 Social Skills in Adolescents Who Use Cochlear Implants
Megan Cantwell, 16, Sophomore,
BEHA021 Banding Together: Gender’s Role in Collaboration on a
Veritas Academy, Austin, Texas
Logic Puzzle
Elias Balslev Gilbert, 15, Sophomore,
BEHA006 Better Decision Making: Forecasting or Surrogation?
Santa Cruz High School, Santa Cruz, California
Alyssa Knowles, 16, Sophomore,
Friendswood High School, Friendswood, Texas
BEHA022T Correlation Between the Development of the Prefrontal Cortex
and Reaction Time
BEHA007 A Rapid Prediction Method for Epileptic Seizures Using
Jess Huber, 18, Senior,
Machine Learning Algorithms
Elsie Aslesen, 18, Senior,
# Suraj Modi, 16, Junior,
Elk Point Jefferson High School, Elk Point, South Dakota 
Mountain View High School, Lawrenceville, Georgia
BEHA023T The Upside Down in the Modern Day: The Changing Role of
BEHA008 The Expression of Genes Correlated with ADHD and Dyslexia
Father and Mother in Parenting World
on the Vocal and Auditory Pathways of a Zebra Finch Model
Tara Belinda, 17, Senior,
# Alison Thomas, 17, Junior,
Putri Azizah Malik, 17, Senior,
Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, Oregon
Senior High School 2 Purbalingga, Purbalingga,
BEHA009T Using Python to Develop Twitter Personas Central Java, Indonesia
Daniella Feistritzer, 15, Sophomore,
BEHA024T Providing Social Support for Cancer Survivors in
Adam Joseph Rilatt, 15, Sophomore,
Rural Indonesia
Central York High School, York, Pennsylvania
Zahira Amaalia, 17, Senior,
BEHA010T A Device that Regulates Auditory Hypersensitivity for Autistic Nur Bella Turcica Anibah, 17, Senior,
Children Using Specialized Sounds SMA Negeri 2 Bengkulu Selatan, South Bengkulu,
Hoor Abdel Karim Al Amawi, 16, Junior, Bengkulu, Indonesia
Mohammad Na’el Al Masri, 16, Junior,
BEHA025 Drawit
Jubilee School, Amman, Jordan
Dania Rasmi Almubiden, 15, Freshman,
BEHA011 Peer Group Influences on High School Girls’ Interest in STEM Modern Systems School, Amman, Amman, Jordan
Percy Gresham, 18, Senior,
BEHA026 Recreating Ancient Art Mediums
Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, Alabama
Hailey Ann Boekelheide, 16, Sophomore,
BEHA012 Effects of Stress on Neuroanatomical Functionality Northwestern High School, Mellette, South Dakota
# Meredith Odyl Blaise, 16, Junior,
BEHA027 What’s Feeding Your Mind?
Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, Massachusetts
Shantel A. Mack, 16, Freshman,
BEHA013T The Effect of Altering Drosophila Gut Microbiota on Mate Waverly-South Shore Public School, Waverly, South Dakota
Choice, Immunity, Memory, and Aggression
BEHA028 Externality Framing Effects on Cognition
Natalia Nicole Murillo, 18, Senior,
# Emma Grace Sun, 15, Sophomore,
Rebecca Volkov, 17, Senior,
The Waterford School, Sandy, Utah
Pascack Hills High School, Montvale, New Jersey
BEHA029 Assessment of Fall Risk Associated with High-Heeled
BEHA014 Reducing Test Anxiety to Increase Academic Performance
Footwear Utilizing Computerized Dynamic Posturography:
Through Novel Breathing Techniques and Digital Visualization
A Two-Phase Study
Rhitishah Yuva Raju, 15, Sophomore,
Alexis McFeely, 16, Sophomore,
Mira Loma High School, Sacramento, California
St. John Paul II Catholic High School, Huntsville, Alabama
BEHA015 The Language of Facial Expressions: A Neuroimaging Study on
BEHA030T Learning in the Digital Era
How a Smile Is Generated and Perceived by Another Person
Amy Nicole Cyr, 17, Junior,
Amy Rose Shteyman, 18, Senior,
Sarah Arbuckle, 17, Junior,
John L. Miller Great Neck North High School, Great Neck,
Ames High School, Ames, Iowa
New York

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BEHA031T The Petroglyphs Attribute in Pre-Columbian of Caldera BEHA045T Watch Out! Move Objects! Secure Your Furniture! Good
Luz Jackeline Yanguez Franco, 18, Senior, Practices for Seismic Safety
Liz Jackeline Yanguez Franco, 18, Senior, Annalisa Persello, 18, Senior,
Instituto David, David, Chiriqui, Panama Martina Piemonte, 18, Senior,
High School ‘Magrini Marchetti’, Gemona del Friuli, Udine, Italy
BEHA032 Sex Perspective Rigidity and Sex Discrimination
Troilus White, 16, Sophomore, BEHA046 Perceptual Learning Channel Predominance Among Young
Cedar City High School, Cedar City, Utah Students in a Public High School of Canovanas District of
Puerto Rico
BEHA033 Improving Communication for the Visually Impaired through Elymar Polanco Dominguez, 17, Senior,
an Innovative Arabic Writing System Escuela Superior Luis Herniaz Veronne, Canovanas, Puerto Rico
Taala Fahad Aboalnaja, 14, Freshman,
Third Intermediate School in Dhahran, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia BEHA047 Combatting Familial Alzheimer’s Disease by Comparing
Calcium Retention of Mutated Presenilin Genes and Assessing
BEHA034 Generation Z’s Motivations to Use Social Media and the Restorative Potential of Parathyroid Hormone in a
Susceptibility to Anxiety Caenorhabditis elegans Model
Alisha Goyal, 18, Senior, Amber Bhutta, 16, Junior,
Hamilton High School, Chandler, Arizona American Heritage School, Plantation, Florida

BEHA035 Automatically Analyzing Open-Ended Survey Responses BEHA048T Improving Facial Expression Recognition in Parkinson’s
Using Statistical and Machine Learning Methods Disease Using Meditation
Devrath Iyer, 15, Sophomore, ## Ben Weiss, 17, Junior,
Hamilton High School, Chandler, Arizona Kaitlynn Weiss, 15, Freshman,
Kalaheo High School, Kailua, Hawaii
BEHA036T The Effect of Metformin on Post Traumatic Brain Injury
Learning and Learning Disabilities BEHA049 Caffeine and Sugar vs. Focus
# Emma Elizabeth Bilton, 18, Senior, Aisling Irene Finnegan, 17, Junior,
# Hannah Rose Bilton, 18, Senior, Murphy High School, Mobile, Alabama
Yorktown High School, Yorktown Heights, New York
BEHA050 The Effects of Multilingualism on the Working Memory of
BEHA037 A Quantifiable Method to Detect and Monitor ADHD: The Use Human Subjects
of Facial and Motion-Based Behavioral Cues Analysis Using Joaquin Alejo Gomez, 15, Sophomore,
Deep Neural Network and RGBD Data Benjamin Franklin High School, New Orleans, Louisiana
Ishaan Maitra, 16, Sophomore,
Ardrey Kell High School, Charlotte, North Carolina BEHA051T Unplugged: Quantifying the Effects of Technology on
Adolescent Sleep and Mood
BEHA038 The Effect of Exercise on Neuroplasticity: Louise Aehyun Hostrup Kim, 16, Junior,
A Skill-Based Approach Spencer Lee Yueh, 17, Junior,
John Austin Schupbach, 18, Senior, Breck School, Golden Valley, Minnesota
Monett High School, Monett, Missouri
BEHA052 FacePrint: A Novel, Differential Diagnostic and Monitoring
BEHA039 The Impact of Emotionally Targeted Branding on Social Tool for Parkinson’s Disease, Essential Tremor, and Atypical
Behavior Parkinsonism Using Facial Behavioral Biomarkers and
Phoebe Mae Yates, 17, Senior, Dynamic Video Footage Tracking with Machine Learning
Institute for Collaborative Education, New York, New York ## Erin Smith, 18, Senior,
Shawnee Mission West High School, Overland Park, Kansas
BEHA040 Effects of High Fat Diet on Metabolic Profile, Cognition,
and Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF): BEHA053T CAC – Companions of Autistic Children
Establishing a Connection Between Metabolic Pham Nhat Minh Tran, 16, Sophomore,
Dysregulation and BDNF Expression Thi Hau Nhu Nguyen, 16, Junior,
Rachel Elman, 16, Junior, Tran Phu Gifted High School, Hai Phong, Viet Nam
Fayettevile-Manlius High School, Manlius, New York
BEHA054 Whistle While You Work It
BEHA041 Investigating the Relationship Between Polling Building Type Mikayla Grace Wolfe, 17, Junior,
and Voting Results: A Study in Priming Tioga High School, Tioga, North Dakota
Noah Ball Robinson, 17, Junior,
Bangor High School, Bangor, Maine BEHA055T Creation of a Diagnostic Tool to Identify Spatial Abilities in
Scholastically-Classified Slow-Learners
BEHA042 S.O.S (Students Overcoming Stress) Gaining Insight and Tanya Kaur Talwar, 15, Freshman,
Addressing Student Stress: An Exploratory Study Analyzing Akshat Gupta, 14, Sophomore,
the Different Modalities of Stress and Mindfulness on Amity International School, Pushp Vihar, New Delhi, Delhi, India
Adolescents
Caitlin O’Donnell, 18, Senior, BEHA056T Blind’s Eye
Yorktown High School, Yorktown Heights, New York Farah F. I. Ghanim, 16, Junior,
Danya S. A. Ishtaiwi, 17, Junior,
BEHA043 Treating Parkinsonian Neurodegeneration in Diabetic, Immatain Secondary Mixed School, Qalqelia, Palestine
Paraquat-exposed Drosophila by Increasing Caffeine Intake
Ephraim Oyetunji, 17, Junior, BEHA057 Are Twenty-Four Heads Better than One? Testing the Optimal
American Heritage School, Plantation, Florida Group Size for Decision-Making in a Social Insect
# Sylvia Zarnescu, 18, Senior,
BEHA044T Harmony: How Math Influences Our Esthetic Choices Catalina Foothills High School, Tucson, Arizona
Gabriele Morello, 17, Senior,
Elisa Seghetti, 18, Senior, BEHA058 Can a Preventative Social Media UI Break “Fake News?”
Liceo Scientifico Galileo Ferraris, Torino, Italy Ryan Miles Beam, 16, Sophomore,
Scotts Valley High School, Scotts Valley, California

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BEHA059 Test Tunes
Naomi Rae Higgins, 15, Freshman,
The Georgetown School of Arts and Sciences, Georgetown,
South Carolina

BEHA060 An Interactive Design of an Upper Limb Therapy Method for

Stroke and Spinal Cord Injury to Measure Patient’s Motor
Performance Quantitatively and Objectively with Tangible
Robotic Companionship and Emotion Assessment
# Mustafa Muhyi, 16, Junior,
Las Cruces High School, Las Cruces, New Mexico

BEHA061 The Effect of Noise Reduction and Pink Noise on Memory

and Cognition
Grayson Roger Gretizinger, 18, Senior,
Oak Grove High School, Hattiesburg, Mississippi

BEHA062T MJF Smart Cane

Mays K. A. Hussein, 15, Sophomore,
Jwana M. O. Ainasawi, 14, Freshman,
Applied Nour Al-Huda School, Ramallah, Palestine
 

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 Biochemistry BCHM016 The Role of Autotaxin-LPA-LPP3 Axis in Ischemic Stroke
Grace Karen Sun, 16, Sophomore,
Caddo Parish Magnet High School, Shreveport, Louisiana
BCHM001 Evaluation of the Biocatalytic Potential of Agroindustrial
BCHM017 Targeting a Redox Dependency in Pancreatic Ductal
Residues by Employing the Orange Peel Residue as a
Adenocarcinoma
Biocatalyst in the Asymmetric Bioreduction Reaction of the
Julia Park, 18, Senior,
Acetophenone Substrate to 1-Phenylethanol
Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School,
Gabriel Negrao de Morais, 18, Senior,
Plainview, New York
Escola Djalma Pessoa - Sesi Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
BCHM018 The Effect of Ocean Acidification on Native Oyster
BCHM002 Hydrolysis of the Bovine Milk Lactose from Beta-
Reproduction and Larval Development
Galactosidase Enzyme Obtained by Extraction and
Anna Christine Mattson, 18, Senior,
Permeabilization of Saccharomyces fragilis IZ 275 Cells
Tillamook High School, Tillamook, Oregon
Amanda Sayuri Senoo Kakuno, 16, Junior,
Colegio Interativa, Londrina, Parana, Brazil
BCHM019 Biodegradable Polymers for Protein and DNA Drug Delivery
Ariel Jade Butler, 16, Junior,
BCHM003 Novel Replication Fork Protection Factor
Sibley East High School, Arlington, Minnesota
# Karina Zadorozhny, 19, Senior,
Prvni Ceske Gymnazium v Karlovych Varech,
BCHM020 Rab35: A Potential Therapeutic Target for Alzheimer’s Disease
Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
Madiha Qureshi Zia, 18, Senior,
Ossining High School, Ossining, New York
BCHM004T Cantaloupe Seeds: An Exploitable Waste
Samantha Serna Fernandez, 18, Senior,
BCHM021 Optimal Circadian Rhythms of Pyrocystis Dinoflagellate Algae
Susana Sosa Ballesteros, 18, Senior,
for Maximizing Bioluminescence
Alejandra Perez-Merodio Gomez, 18, Senior,
Carissa Margaret Bruton, 17, Junior,
Instituto Cumbres Alpes Torreon, Torreon, Mexico
Winnsboro High School, Winnsboro, Texas
BCHM005 The Development of Biligand Inhibitors and Non-Radioactive
BCHM022 Exploring the Floating Mechanism of Algal Cells Responsible
Inhibition Assay for Protein Kinase Aurora B
for Cyanobacterial Blooms
Mirel Mesila, 18, Senior,
Lixin Zhang, 15, Sophomore,
Tallinn Secondary School of Science, Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
Xiamen Shuangshi Middle School, Xiamen, Fujian, China
BCHM006 Effective Evasion of Chemotherapeutic Resistance by
BCHM023 Developing an Optimal Fluorescent Protein Tag
Functionalized Viral Capsid QB
Mia Pellegrini, 16, Junior,
# Sangita Vasikaran, 16, Junior,
Pittsburgh Allderdice High School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, Denton, Texas
BCHM024 Uncovering the Hidden Defense Mechanisms of Flaviviruses
BCHM007 The Role of Sarcolipin Protein on Energy Expenditure and
Jacqueline Liu, 17, Senior,
Obesity Prevention
Urbana High School, Ijamsville, Maryland
Kadambari Vyas, 17, Junior,
Lake Nona High School, Orlando, Florida BCHM025 The Effects of Exercise on Cognitive Impairment due to
Metabolic and Epigenetic Dysregulation
BCHM008 Alteration of the Metabolism of Chlorella in a Productive Way
Aysha Mariyam Puzhakkaraillath, 15, Sophomore,
Fidan Ibrahimova, 15, Sophomore,
duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Kentucky
Lyceum Named after Academician Zarifa Aliyeva, Baku,
Azerbaijan BCHM026T New Materials with Micron Network Membrane Morphology:
The Research of Their Potential Usage in Proteomic Studies
BCHM009 Glycosylation of the Cardiac Ion Channel Protein TRPM4 in Rat
Roza Mercan Eskin, 15, Sophomore,
and Mouse Tissues
Halil Ozgur, 16, Sophomore,
Nicole Barbara Christine Hasler, 20 Senior,
Gaziemir Ozel Rota Fen Lisesi, Izmir, Turkey
Neue Kantonsschule Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland
BCHM027 The Effect of Nonassociative Learning on Oxidative Stress
BCHM011 Developing a Novel Inhibitor for Cdc14, in the Fungus
in Caenorhabditis elegans: A Potential Application for
Aspergillus niger
Alzheimer’s Disease Research
Stephanie Xue Zhang, 18, Senior,
Gillian Elizabeth Patton, 16, Junior,
Fairview High School, Boulder, Colorado
Spring Valley High School, Columbia, South Carolina
BCHM012 The Difference in the Energy Release of Lipids vs.
BCHM028 Determination of Optimal Metal Conditions for Adaptation in
Carbohydrates Based on Their Chemical Structure
a Type 1E CRISPR System
Mairead Baker, 16, Sophomore,
Lily Kathleen DeBell, 17, Junior,
Boston Latin Academy, Boston, Massachusetts
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
BCHM013 Identifying Metabolic Inhibitors to Target Aggressive Cancers
BCHM029 Neutralizing Free Radical Peroxynitrite Using Antioxidants
with Deregulated p27kip1
Savannah Margaret Huff, 18, Senior,
Michael Ken-Long Hwang, 16, Sophomore,
Joplin High School, Joplin, Missouri
Jenks High School, Jenks, Oklahoma
BCHM030 Cancer is MAD(2L2); Regulation of Rev7, on Survival and
BCHM014 Post-Translational Modification of LaminB1 as a Regulator of
Chemoresistance in Multiple Myeloma
Translesion DNA Synthesis (TLS)
Jordan Levett, 16, Sophomore,
Dvora Rywka Sehtman, 17, Senior,
Herzliah High School, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ulpenat Bnei Akiva Orot Modiin, Israel, Modiin Macabim
Reut, Israel BCHM031 Cell Surface Engineering of Glycosaminoglycan Mimetics for
Targeting Parkinson’s Disease
BCHM015T Medicinal Activity of Larrea tridentata and Juniperus
Vicky Qianqian Qu, 18, Senior,
osteosperma Extracts
Raffles Institution, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Destiny Jonisha Max, 17, Junior,
Rachel Rae Gallego, 17, Junior,
Owyhee High School, Owyhee, Nevada

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BCHM032 Magnetite Synthesis for Drug Delivery Purposes
Pablo Luis Garcia, 16, Junior,
Union City High School, Union City, New Jersey

BCHM033 The Agricultural Application of Phytomethylotrophy

Frank Kaelin Mittel, 18, Senior,
American Fork High School, American Fork, Utah

BCHM034T Identification, Cloning and Recombinant Expression of

Novel Bioactive Peptides from Coral: Clues to Potential New
Therapeutics for Human
Chun Hei Fong, 14, Freshman,
Chi Kio Chan, 18, Senior,
Pui Ching Middle School, Macau, China,
Macao Special Administrative Region

BCHM035 The Effects of Alkaline and Acidic Substances on Catalase

Functionality and Molecular Structure
Emily Ann Dean, 14, Freshman,
Woodstock Union High School Middle School,
Woodstock, Vermont

BCHM036 Buffalo vs. Beef: Analyzing Lipid Content in Search of Potential

Health Benefits (Phase II)
# Elise Monique DuBray, 17, Senior
Timber Lake High School, Timber Lake, South Dakota

BCHM037T Novel Bacteriophage Lysin: A Solution for Antibiotic Resistant

Staphylococcus aureus Infection in Vietnam
Tuyet Quynh Anh Le, 17, Senior,
Thi Minh Hue Pham, 17, Junior,
Tran Phu Gifted High School, Hai Phong, Viet Nam

BCHM038 The Biochemical Interactions of Cardiac Ion-Blocking

Agents and Optical Coherence Tomography in vivo for
Cardiovascular Diseases
Rhea Malhotra, 15, Sophomore,
Moravian Academy, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

BCHM040 Allosteric Inhibition of the Carbonic Anhydrase IX for

Anticancer Applications
## Nandini Tondamantham Naidu, 17, Senior,
Valley Catholic High School, Beaverton, Oregon

BCHM041 Targeting Apoptotic Pathways by Regulating Caspase-3 with

Chemo-Preventive Agents for Cancer Therapeutics
Tanya Mehta, 14, Freshman,
Parkland High School, Allentown, Pennsylvania

BCHM042 Heterocyclic Arylidene Chemical Compounds vs. Glioblastoma

Megan Wieger, 15, Freshman,
Berrien County Mathematics and Science Center,
Berrien Springs, Michigan

BCHM043T The Influence of Citric Acid on Bacterial Growth

Noemie Ney, 15, Sophomore,
Jean-Marc Raffaello Matteo Furlano, 16, Sophomore,
Atert-Lycee Redange, Redange/Attert, Luxembourg

BCHM044 Engineering a Bacterial Pathogen with an Enhanced

Luminescent Reporter for High-Throughput Resistance Assays
Isabella Quisqueya Elmore, 16, Sophomore,
San Marcos High School, San Marcos, Texas

BCHM045T Release of Active Pharmaceuticals Using Hyperbranched

Polyesters
Brandon Zhu, 18, Senior,
Daniel Lin Zhang, 17, Senior,
Herbert Henry Dow High School, Midland, Michigan

BCHM046T Organic Arch Support

Soukaina El Atifi, 17, Junior,
Lidiya Assefa Gebru, 18, Junior,
Excel High School, Boston, Massachusetts

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   BMED015 Nanoparticle-Mediated Sorting of Circulating Tumor Cells
Kaiya Mitchell, 18, Senior,
Biomedical and Health Sciences Benjamin E. Mays High School, Atlanta, Georgia

BMED016 Can Yeast Help Boost the Immune Response to Cancer?

BMED001 Treatment of Human Melanoma: Overcoming Cell Resistance Edward Qihao Zhong, 16, Junior,
by Glutathione Depletion (Phase II) Kentucky Country Day School, Louisville, Kentucky
Juliana Martes Sternlicht, 17, Senior,
Colegio Dante Alighieri, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil BMED017 Stress Signaling Inhibitory Effects of Estrogen
Cardioprotection in Myocardial Ischemia
BMED002 Using CRISPRi to Analyze the Role of Caveolae-Mediated Lilly Anne Denis Kamberov, 17, Senior,
Endocytosis in Tau Uptake of Central Nervous System Culture Caddo Parish Magnet High School, Shreveport, Louisiana
Helen Zhang, 17, Senior,
Concordia International School Shanghai, Shanghai, BMED018T Melatonin’s Effect on Learning and Memory in a Tauopathy
Pudong, China Model of Alzheimer’s Disease in D. melanogaster
Sada Rose Nichols-Worley, 17, Senior,
BMED003 Discovery of Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption Regional Sophie Haugen, 18, Senior,
Variability and Neuronal and Glial Uptake of Fibrinogen in Saint Mark’s School, Southborough, Massachusetts
Multiple System Atrophy Using a Novel Color Deconvolution
Algorithm BMED019 Mast Cell Quantity and Localization in the Hearts, Quadriceps,
# Devanik Biswas, 18, Senior, and Diaphragms of a Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Model
Stanton College Preparatory School, Jacksonville, Florida Justin Vo Duffy, 17, Senior,
Mounds View High School, Arden Hills, Minnesota
BMED004 Igniting Tumorigenesis: Gamma-Glutamyl-Glutamine Induced
Transformation of NIH 3T3 Cells BMED020 Drawing the Line Between Atypical Ductal Hyperplasia and
Sabrina Jones, 18, Senior, Ductal Carcinoma in situ
Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts, # Joshua Matthew Proehl, 18, Senior,
Hot Springs, Arkansas New London-Spicer High School, New London, Minnesota

BMED005 Investigating Whether FOXO1 Hinders ZEB1 Gene Expression BMED021 Effect of Protein Kinase Inhibitors on Tau
in (U87MG) Glioblastoma Cells Hyperphosphorylation as a TBI Cell-Based Model
Angelica Rodriguez, 17, Junior, Milin Jiji Kurup, 18, Senior,
UTRGV Mathematics and Science Academy, Edinburg, Texas T. R. Robinson High School, Tampa, Florida

BMED006 Effectiveness of 3D vs. 2D in vitro Well Treatments BMED022 The Effect of Senescence on Drosophila Rhythmic Behavior
Lillian Nicole Zobel, 18, Senior, and Possible Molecular Mechanism
Satellite High School, Satellite Beach, Florida Jiaming He, 17, Junior,
Beijing No. 4 High School, Beijing, Beijing, China
BMED007 Differential Inflammatory Genes Expression Between the
Inflamed and the Unaffected Gut Tissues of Inflammatory BMED023 Can I Eat That? An Investigation into the Effectiveness of
Bowel Disease Patients Gluten Digestive Dietary Supplements
# Radhika Uday Desai, 18, Senior, Cassandra Leigh Dods, 18, Senior,
Lake Highland Preparatory School, Orlando, Florida Tintern Grammar, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

BMED008 Protective Effects of Natural Products Like Curcumin and BMED024 The Role of Carbohydrate Sulfotransferase 11 on Epithelial-
Centella asiatica Against Amyloid Beta Induced Mitochondrial to-Mesenchymal Transition in Lung Cancer Cells
Dysfunction in Ocular Manifestations of Alzheimer’s Disease I-An Chiu, 18, Senior,
Himanshi Verma, 16, Sophomore, Taipei First Girls High School, Taipei, Taiwan
Eastside High School, Gainesville, Florida
BMED025 Ovarian Cancer Pathogenesis Is Associated with Decreased
BMED009 Identification of Novel Drivers of Insulin Resistance and Expression of the Zinc-Finger Transcription Factor SLUG
Type 2 Diabetes in the Skeletal Muscle Tissue of Non-Obese Emma Theresa Kelly, 16, Junior,
Individuals Using a Multi-Omics Approach Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, Newton,
# Adithya Mummidi, 17, Senior, Massachusetts
Keystone School, San Antonio, Texas
BMED026 What Is the Role of Wolframin in the Endoplasmic Reticulum
BMED010 East Indian Sandalwood Oil (EISO) as a Therapeutic Target for Ca2+ Signaling Network?
Disease: A Study of TRPM7, Ion Channels (Year IV) Daniel Edwin Schaffer, 16, Junior,
## Nia Myfanwy Clements, 17, Senior, Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland
Keystone School, San Antonio, Texas
BMED027 More than Skin Deep: Deciphering the Role of Bartonella
BMED011 Role of Telomerase in Vascular Function and Exploration of henselae Infection in Melanoma Metastasis, (Phase Two)
Mitochondrial Dynamics: A Novel Approach to Treatment of Cole Maxwell, 18, Senior,
Vascular Dysfunction Breck School, Golden Valley, Minnesota
## Nabeel Jami Quryshi, 18, Senior,
University School of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin BMED028 Next Generation Intracellular Delivery: Optimization of
Exosome Isolation and Novel Exosome-Mediated Delivery for
BMED012 Exosomes and Macrophage Polarization in Lung Cancer Therapeutic Targeting of Cancer
Alexandra Pritchard, 16, Junior, # Megha Nitin Joshi, 16, Junior,
The Altamont School, Birmingham, Alabama South Salem High School, Salem, Oregon

BMED013 Sleep Deprivation: “Are You Getting Enough Sleep?” BMED029 Effect of Plasma Exosomes in Polymicrobial Sepsis on
Corbin Osburn, 15, Sophomore, Erythrocyte Deformability
Rural Special High School, Fox, Arkansas # Srikrishnan Pillai Raju, 16, Junior,
Lakeside High School, Evans, Georgia
BMED014 Efficiency of a Novel Nano-Cardiac Device for Atherectomy of
Coronary Artery Occlusion
# Ethan Zvi Levy, 15, Sophomore,
Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School, Miami, Florida
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BMED030 Evaluating the Potential of CD264 as an Effective Biomarker BMED044T Identifying Alzheimer’s-Associated Proteins as Substrates of a
for Cellular Aging in Mesenchymal Stem Cells Novel Protein Quality Control Pathway
Amaris Rachael Lewis, 16, Junior, Karthik Sai Budharaju, 18, Senior,
Lusher Charter High School, New Orleans, Louisiana Christopher Bi, 16, Junior,
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology,
BMED031 Dihydrotanshinone: A Pan-Therapeutic Treatment for Alexandria, Virginia
Chemoresistance in Cancer
Varun Kumar, 16, Junior, BMED045 Analysis of Periodontal Trends within the United States in
Bergen County Academies, Hackensack, New Jersey Comparison to Developing Countries to Further Oral Disease
Prevention Understanding
BMED032 BIC Augments the Proliferative Effects of miR-155 in Diffuse Michaela Rachel Kyer, 17, Senior,
Large B Cell Lymphoma Via Downregulation of Tumor Yorktown High School, Yorktown Heights, New York
Suppressor and Anti-Apoptotic Targets
Rinni Bhansali, 17, Junior, BMED046 Optimization of Lipid-Coated Mesoporous Silica
Half Hollow Hills High School East, Dix Hills, New York Nanoparticles for Cancer Immunotherapy
## Lien Tang, 18, Senior,
BMED033 Riluzole Rescues Non-Canonical Akt Signaling and Improves Manzano High School, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Vascular Pathology
Radhika Patel, 18, Senior, BMED047 The Protease Inhibiting Effects of Almonds
Syosset High School, Syosset, New York Caitlin Lucy Roberts, 18, Senior,
The Friends’ School, Hobart, Australia
BMED034 Establishment and Characterization of Topotecan Resistant
NCI-H460/TPT10 Cells BMED048 Tissue-Specific Requirement of Autophagy Gene Atg-18,
Kimberly W. Lu, 18, Senior, Is Essential for Lipid Metabolism Regulated by Insulin-like
William A. Shine Great Neck South High School, Great Neck, Signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans
New York # Ray Jia, 18, Senior,
Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts,
BMED035 Development of Differentiation Therapies for NPM1 West Palm Beach, Florida
Mutated AML
Allison Sewell, 17, Junior, BMED049 Using Unique Ultrashort Inhibitor Peptide as BETA-Amyloid
Hawken School, Gates Mills, Ohio Modulator in C. elegans
Abdulelah Ghazi Alharbi, 16, Senior,
BMED036 Wasp Venom Stings Cancer: Investigation of Dictyostelium as Alssdeq Secondary School, Hail, Saudi Arabia
a Model Organism and the Potential of an Improved Treatment
Delivery System BMED050 Viability of Lung Cancer Cells After Exposure to a
Rini Vyomesh Kaneria, 17, Senior, Commercial Mixture of a Natural Compound Extracted
Conrad Weiser High School, Robesonia, Pennsylvania from Seaweed and Cereals
Serena Catalina Florez, 16, Junior,
BMED037 A Microbiome Approach to Treat Galactosemia, a Life- Academia Interamericana de Arecibo, Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Threatening Disorder
Philippe Ingemann Hansen-Estruch, 17, Senior, BMED051 The Effect of Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibition on Spiral
Canyon Crest Academy, San Diego, California Arteries and Venous Remodeling During Rat Pregnancy
Anna Grace Oblak, 14, Sophomore,
BMED038T The Detection of Peanut Protein on Eating Surfaces in South Burlington High School, South Burlington, Vermont
Monterey County Public Schools and on Commercial
Passenger Airliners BMED052 The Effect of Green Tea on a Dementia Patient’s
# Camryn Leigh More, 17, Junior, Cognitive Ability
Annalisa Jane More, 14, Freshman, Aislin Claire Gamon, 17, Senior,
Salinas High School, Salinas, California Mead Senior High School, Spokane, Washington

BMED039 Strategic Epithelialization: Utilizing RNA Interference to BMED053T The Association of the KIT Gene withColorectal Cancer
Inhibit Novel Microtubule Depolymerase Fidgetin Like-2 in Marlee Feltham, 17, Junior,
Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells Rishima Mukherjee, 16, Junior,
Ifeoluwa Tugbobo, 17, Senior, West Linn High School, West Linn, Oregon
Elmont Memorial Junior-Senior High School, Elmont, New York
BMED054 Role of G Protein Receptor Kinase 3 (GRK3) on Pathogenesis
BMED040 From EpiPens to EpiGenetics: Understanding the Mechanisms of Osteoarthritis
Behind the Microbiome’s Impact on Peanut Allergies Hyun Ho Lee, 18, Senior,
Isabella M. Heffernan, 14, Freshman, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham,
St. Mary Academy - Bay View, Riverside, Rhode Island North Carolina

BMED041 Inhibitor A: Targeting Therapeutically Resistant HER2+ Breast BMED055 Developing Diagnostic Tools for Vascular Disease Using RNA
Cancer Tissues Markers
Alexander James Schaffer, 18, Senior, # Brindha Priya Rathinasabapathi, 16, Sophomore,
May River High School, Bluffton, South Carolina Eastside High School, Gainesville, Florida

BMED042T Total Sponge and Coral Proteins Show Promise for Slowing BMED056 Blocking Multidrug Resistance in Cancer Cells with
N2a Cancer Cell Division MicroRNA Mimics
Ben Smith, 18, Senior, Seo-Hyun Yoo, 17, Junior,
Grant Harrison Smith, 18, Senior, Lexington High School, Lexington, Massachusetts
McCallie School, Chattanooga, Tennessee
BMED057 Potentiation of Glutamatergic Neurons of the Medial
BMED043 The Effect of Different Wavelengths of Amplified Light on the Amygdala Promotes Aggression
Corneas of Cow Eyes Jada Christine Collins, 18, Senior,
Makenzie Paula Moore, 16, Sophomore, Oxon Hill High School, Oxon Hill, Maryland
Syracuse High School, Syracuse, Utah

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BMED058 Multiple Sclerosis and Epilepsy: Insights into a Potential BMED072T Using C# Programming Language to Create a Ready to Use
Therapy Through the Role of Mutation T1244C of Theiler’s Therapeutic Food (Rutf) Aimed at Addressing the Nutritional
Murine Encephalomyelitis Virus (TMEV) in Reducing Virulence Needs of the Undernourished in Kenya
Xiao Zhou, 16, Junior, Aleena Sara Saji, 16, Sophomore,
College Station High School, College Station, Texas Atiya Kadide Kuwehan, 15, Sophomore,
Shree Cutchi Leva Patel Samaj School, Nairobi, Kenya
BMED059 Bidara Vape (The Potential as a Mosquito Repellent)
Muhammad Danial Afham Zailan, 16, Sophomore, BMED073T Garcinia binucao Fruit and Leaf: Phytochemicals-Mediated
Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Palong Timur, Batu Anam, Antioxidant, Alpha-Amylase and Alpha-Glucosidase Enzyme
Segamat, Malaysia Inhibitors
Leann Patrice Advincula Ganzon, 17, Sophomore,
BMED060 An Affordable, Autonomous, AI-Enhanced Microscope to Anne Nicole Occena, 16, Sophomore,
Enable Efficient Diagnosis of Parasitic Infection in Iloilo National High School, Iloilo City, Philippines
Developing Countries
Alice Martynova, 16, Junior, BMED074T Use of Cardiac Stent to Restore Blocked Air Passage in
Los Gatos High School, Los Gatos, California Chronic Sinusitis
Ahmed Bassel Abboushi, 16, Junior,
BMED061 Tumorigenic Effect of a Cannabinoid Receptor Blocker Ali Nasser Murad, 16, Junior,
in a Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cell Line: Implications for Ahmad Bin Hanbal Secondary School, Doha, Qatar
Treatment
Daniel Baksh, 16, Sophomore, BMED075 Computational and Experimental Methods to Find Targets of
Lancaster Catholic High School, Lancaster, Pennsylvania HCFC1, a Gene Linked to Neurological Disease
Anand Manohar Chundi, 15, Sophomore,
BMED062 Quantifying Lung Macrophages to Understand Increased Skyview Academy, Highlands Ranch, Colorado
Susceptibility to Bacterial Pneumonia with Age
Anika Gupta, 16, Sophomore, BMED076T The Study of Concentration of Urine Neurotransmitters of
Westdale Secondary School, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Dopaminergic and Serotonergic System and the Relationship
to Behavioral Disorders in Patients with Online Game
BMED063 A Novel Pediatric Cancer Therapy Targeting Epigenetics and Addiction
Neuroblastoma Differentiation Ha Khoa Le, 16, Junior,
Colette Erin Benko, 17, Senior, Phuong Nam Nguyen, 16, Junior,
St. Mary’s High School, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Nguyen Hue High School for Gifted Students, Hanoi, Viet Nam

BMED064 The Effect of Folic Acid on Adipose Derived Mesenchymal BMED077T Identification of the Gene by Which Physical Exercise Protects
Stem Cells Migration and Proliferation with Gamma Brain Injury Against Stroke
Secretase Inhibitor Fahema Shaik, 17, Junior,
Kathryn L. Richards, 17, Senior, Fathima Shaik, 17, Junior,
Sarasota High School, Sarasota, Florida Morgantown High School, Morgantown, West Virginia

BMED065 Transcription Factor Preferences of Bacterial Detection BMED078T A Novel Approach to a p53-Stabilizing Agent to Accelerate
Proteins Cell Apoptosis and Initiate Cell Arrest and Curb Malignancy of
Rollin Leavitt, 18, Senior, Tumor Cells
Animas High School, Durango, Colorado Shuvayu Dasgupta, 17, Junior,
Syed Roshan Ali, 16, Junior,
BMED066 The Effect of Ketoacidosis on the Breath: A Cost-Efficient Way La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
to Monitor Ketones
Cody Kay Robinson, 16, Junior, BMED079 Diabetes Biomarker Study on the Navajo Nation
Yuma High School, Yuma, Colorado Kaylin Nicole McLiverty, 16, Sophomore,
Navajo Preparatory School, Farmington, New Mexico
BMED067T Near Infrared Light Photobiomodulation and C. longa
Mitigates the Neurological Effects of Mutant Amyloid Beta BMED080 The Effect of Various Sodium Hypochlorite Solutions on
Precursor Protein Pathway in D. melanogaster Porcine Dental Pulp Dissolution
Hoang Le, 17, Junior, Shannon Caitlin Kirkpatrick, 18, Senior,
Laura Sarah Allen, 17, Junior, St. Patrick Catholic High School, Biloxi, Mississippi
Western High School, Davie, Florida
BMED081 What Conditions Do Planarians Regenerate Best In?
BMED068 The Role of Notch Signaling in T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Britney Kristen Freund, 18, Senior,
Leukemia Lakota High School, Lakota, North Dakota
Jessica Finkler, 18, Senior,
Mahopac High School, Mahopac, New York BMED082 Drug Testing Chemotherapies to Identify Kinase Pathways
Affected by Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
BMED069 EEG Coherence as a Marker for Alzheimer’s Dementia Himani Sood, 17, Junior,
Crystal Kelly Radinski, 17, Junior, Westview High School, Portland, Oregon
Rundle College, Calgary, AB, Canada
BMED083 A Novel Inflammation Detection Device Through Hydrogen
BMED070T Novel Strategies for Detecting and Treating Podocyte Injury in Peroxide Decomposition
Diabetic Nephropathy Michael Chen, 15, Sophomore,
Nicole Hankovszky, 15, Sophomore, Ridgeview High School, Orange Park, Florida
Evelyn Ariana Bodoni, 16, Sophomore,
Cherry Creek High School, Greenwood Village, Colorado BMED084T The Use of Calf Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase and CRISPR to
Change the Permeability of the BBB
BMED071 An In-Depth Patch Clamp Study of HCN2 Channels: Cyclic Mehmet Ihsan Kiziloglu, 15, Freshman,
AMP – A Possible Novel Therapy for the Treatment for the Muhammed Ahmed Mudheher, 17, Junior,
Suppression of the Ih Current by Dexmedetomidine Kirkuk Cag Boys College, Kirkuk, Girnata, Iraq  
Perisa Satish Ashar, 15, Freshman,
Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School, Richmond, Virginia

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 Biomedical Engineering ENBM014 3D Printable Prosthetic Foot
# Everett Adien Jeffrey Kroll, 17, Junior,
Stillwater Area High School, Stillwater, Minnesota
ENBM001T Sit to Play- Floor-Level Adaptable Mobility Device for
ENBM015 Creating a High Fidelity Portable Electrocardiogram
Paraplegic Children
Analysis System
Matheus Bender, 18, Senior,
Sanjeev Melchizedek Gunawardena, 16, Junior,
Emerson da Costa e Silva, 18, Senior,
Centerville High School, Centerville, Ohio
Fundacao Escola Tecnica Liberato Salzano Vieira da Cunha,
Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
ENBM016 Sucrose Addition Improves Targeted ECO/siBeta3
Nanoparticle Stability
ENBM002 Fish & Snips: Facilitating Wound Healing through Tilapia
Michelle Yin, 18, Senior,
Collagen Dressing
Hathaway Brown School, Shaker Heights, Ohio
Juyeon Baik, 17, Junior,
Concordia International School Shanghai, Shanghai,
ENBM017 Design and Mechanical Analysis of a Promising Hip Prosthesis
Pudong, China
Using Quaternions
Rei Landsberger, 18, Senior,
ENBM003T Lipid Structures in Microelectromechanics (Mems) and Their
Palos Verdes Peninsula High School, Rolling Hills Estates,
Use in the Drug Delivery
California
Andrei Cristian Ionescu, 17, Junior,
Serghei Ulian, 17, Junior,
ENBM018 HeartMonitor: An Integrated Home-Based and Mobile Heart
Colegiul National Mihai Viteazul Ploiesti, Ploiesti, Prahova,
Attack Monitor and Alert System
Romania
Kavinya Theumali Welikala, 16, Junior,
Liceul Teoretic International de Informatica Bucuresti, Bucharest,
Daramalan College, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Bucharest, Romania
ENBM019T HDYS (How Did You Sleep): A Home-Based System for
ENBM004 Rotating Electric Spark: Innovative Medical Device
Monitoring and Treating Insomnia
# Valeriia Lebedeva, 17, Junior,
Yuval Bazak, 18, Senior,
Gymnasium #5 of Korolyov, Korolyov, Moscow Region,
Shir Ner Gaon, 17, Senior,
Russian Federation
Omer Nulman, 18, Senior,
Experimental High School - Rabin Tel Mond, Tel Mond, Israel
ENBM005 Single-Step Breast Cancer Detection Method Through
Measurement of Gold Nanoparticle Adsorption to Lysine
ENBM020T Development of a Mobile Application with a Wearable Device
Amino Acid
for the Detection and Monitoring of Heartbeat Irregularities
Liam A. Ordner, 17, Junior,
Gustavo Enrique De Leon-Rivera, 17, Senior,
Niceville High School, Niceville, Florida
Hector Manuel Santos-Soto, 18, Senior,
Escuela Especializada en Ciencias, Matematicas y Tecnologia,
ENBM006 A Cardio-Auxiliary Bracelet for the Monitoring of Arrhythmias
Caguas, Puerto Rico
Daniela Vianey Luna Sandoval, 16, Junior,
Colegio de Estudios Cientificos y Tecnologicos del Estado de
ENBM021 Smartphone-Controlled Portable Phoropter Powered by
Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico
Variable Focal Length Liquid Lens
Ronak Roy, 16, Junior,
ENBM007T In vitro Cytotoxicity Testing of PEEK Biomaterials on
Canyon Crest Academy, San Diego, California
Mesenchymal Stromal Cells
# Samuel Smoter, 18, Junior, ENBM022 Non-Invasive, Low-Cost Detection of Chronic Obstructive
# Miriam Feretova, 18, Junior, Pulmonary Disease (COPD) via Smartphone Breath Analysis
Saint Nicholas Grammar School, Presov, Slovakia Hiba Hussain, 15, Sophomore,
Greenwich High School, Greenwich, Connecticut
ENBM008 “Anaphylactic Shocker!”: The Use of a Dynamic QR Code
Medical Bracelet and Connected Bluetooth Carrying Case to ENBM023T Holding Your Heart in Your Hand: 3D-Printing a Mechanically
Locate and Administer a Practice Epinephrine Auto-Injector Accurate Aortic Valve Model
During a Staged Medical Emergency Siyuan Ma, 17, Senior,
## Katelyn Jo France, 18, Senior, Alexander Richard Anderson, 17, Junior,
Hinckley-Finlayson High School, Hinckley, Minnesota Breck School, Golden Valley, Minnesota
ENBM009T So that Load-Bearing Implants Do Not Burden: Load Analyzes ENBM024 Innovative Carbon Nanotube Based Microsensor for Early
for the Selection of Joint Replacements Diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer
Paula Lankowski, 19, Senior, JooUn Lee, 16, Sophomore,
Bianca Kreitz, 19, Senior, Tenafly High School, Tenafly, New Jersey
Lea Kampfert, 19, Senior,
Innerstadtisches Gymnasium, Rostock, Germany ENBM025 Automatic Contouring Methods for Adaptive Radiotherapy
in Cancer Patients Using Artificial Intelligence and a Virtual
ENBM010 Solar Powered Decontaminator Design and Testing Mobile Robotic Assistant
Alyssa Keirn, 16, Sophomore, David Lyons, 17, Junior,
Rocky Mountain High School, Fort Collins, Colorado Hawken School, Gates Mills, Ohio
ENBM011 Is Honeybee Silk Antimicrobial? ENBM026 The Peru-Ready Method for Optimizing Bioavailable Iron in
Ella Jade Cuthbert, 15, Sophomore, Water to Reduce Anemia Caused by Iron Deficiency in the
Lyneham High School, Canberra, Australia Highlands of Peru
# James Paul Verheyden, 17, Senior,
ENBM012 Detection of Ear Infection Using a Smartphone Application
Bend Science Station, Bend, Oregon
Anushka Sameer Jetly, 15, Sophomore,
Friendswood High School, Friendswood, Texas ENBM027 Subchondral Bone Engineering: Regeneration of Cartilage-
Bone Interface to Replace Knee Prosthetics
ENBM013 Superhydrophobicity of Biocompatible Titanium Dioxide
# Irene Antony, 17, Senior,
Nanotubes
Half Hollow Hills High School West, Dix Hills, New York
Helvi Shah, 15, Sophomore
Little Rock Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas

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ENBM028 Biodegradable Artificial Blood Vessels: A Breakthrough in ENBM042 A Low-Cost, Point-of-Care Ammonia Sensor for Urea Cycle
Tissue Engineering Disorder Patients Utilizing Colorimetric Techniques
Claudia Michelle Hamilton, 16, Junior, Mindy Long, 17, Junior,
Hawken School, Gates Mills, Ohio Hamilton High School, Chandler, Arizona

ENBM029 Neural Networks and Colon Polyp Detection ENBM043 3-D Printing with Modified Biocompatible Polymers for Tissue
Inthat Boonpongmanee, 17, Junior, Regeneration and Drug Delivery
Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Massachusetts Bhargav Ramesh, 16, Junior,
duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Kentucky
ENBM030 VTE GTG: Using Near Infrared Light to Create a Vein
Map to Accurately, Quickly and Safely Diagnose Venous ENBM044 Developing Novel Peptide Sequences to Produce
Thromboembolism Antimicrobial Hydrogels for Potential Wound Treatment
Rohan Khera, 16, Junior, Qusai Abdulbasit Ghabrah, 17, Senior,
Plano West Senior High School, Plano, Texas Dar Althikr Private School, Jeddah, Mecca, Saudi Arabia

ENBM031 Metal Nitrate Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein for Nano- ENBM045T Detecting World’s Dengue Fever with Dengue Test Strip: An
Technology Innovation of Dengue Rapid Test System
Lexie Kay Smith, 18, Senior, Amelinda Mayaparamastri Agus, 18, Senior,
Joel E. Ferris High School, Spokane, Washington Alifah Hanandyanti Susatya, 18, Senior,
Budi Mulia Dua International School, Sleman, Daerah Istimewa
ENBM032T SmartRate: A Machine Learning Approach to Predicting Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Cardiac Arrest
# Sameer Sundrani, 17, Senior, ENBM046T Microfluidic Chips for Detection of Lung, Breast and
# Nikhil Sundrani, 16, Junior, Prostate Cancer
University High School, Fresno, California Berna Akdeniz, 18, Senior,
Leyla Al Masoud, 17, Senior,
ENBM033 Efficient Incorporation of Matrix Protein M2 into Influenza Izmir Ozel Ege Lisesi, Izmir, Bornova, Turkey
Virus-like Particles (VLPs) to Improve Future Vaccine
Production and Immunogenicity ENBM047 UCICATRIZE: Practical Self-Healing Injection Kit for
# Madeleine Yang, 16, Junior, Allergic Reactions
Detroit Country Day School, Beverly Hills, Michigan Yahya Yagiz Kemikoglu, 17, Senior,
Ozel Kemerburgaz Okyanus Anadolu Lisesi, Istanbul, Turkey
ENBM034 Development of Decellularized Peppermint Leaf
Functionalized Biomimetic Scaffolds for Cardiac Tissue ENBM048 Smart Heart: A Portable Early Diagnostics System for
Engineering: An Investigation of Physico-Chemical and Myocardial Infarction Events Utilizing Generative Machine
Mechanical Properties Learning Algorithms
Sarah Mae Broas, 17, Junior, # Abhinav Gundrala, 16, Junior,
Putnam Valley High School, Putnam Valley, New York Olympia High School, Olympia, Washington

ENBM035 Multiscale Statistical Analysis of Lung Cancer Tissue Using the ENBM049 Improving Documentation and Treatment for Patient Care
Backscattering of Polarized Light Utilizing a Cell Phone Algorithm to Quantify Wounds in
Kiera Megan Mallinson, 17, Senior, Three Dimensions
Pelham Memorial High School, Pelham, New York Abigail Jean Browne, 17, Junior,
Conrad Weiser High School, Robesonia, Pennsylvania
ENBM036 MaculAR
Priyanka Agochiya, 16, Sophomore, ENBM050 Immunology Interfaces with Nanotechnology: The
Olentangy High School, Lewis Center, Ohio Development of a Sensitive Carbon Nanotube-Based
Biosensor for the Detection of Influenza A (H1N1)
ENBM037 A Fully Functional Closed- Loop System Using Ultrasound Benjamin Josiah Cummings, 17, Junior,
Imaging to Automatically Detect Lipohypertrophy in People Pittsburgh Allderdice High School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
with Insulin-Dependent Diabetes
Rohan Ahluwalia, 16, Sophomore, ENBM051 Development of an in vitro Human Liver Model for
Westview High School, Portland, Oregon Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Nicole Marie Munne, 18, Senior,
ENBM038 Automatic Detection of Intravitreal Neovascularization in Peters Township High School, McMurray, Pennsylvania
Retinal Flat Mount Images Using Deep Learning Methods
## Alexander Cheng, 17, Junior, ENBM052T Prescripted Code: A Therapeutic Smart Device Used for Rapid
Hillcrest High School, Midvale, Utah Rehabilitation of Ligaments, Muscles, and Tendons
William Robert Voorhees, 18, Senior,
ENBM039 Designing a Miniature Gait Lab Kyra Sue Pratley, 18, Senior,
# Michael James Remley, 18, Senior, John Caleb Podsednik, 18, Junior,
Northern Utah Acadamy for Math, Engineering and Science, Dr. James A. Forrest Career and Technology Center,
Layton, Utah Leonardtown, Maryland

ENBM040 A Novel Approach to Diagnosing Zika: The Use of Silk Fibroin ENBM053 Optimizing Long-term Gene Expression Using Chromatin
and 2D Paper Networks to Create a Temperature-Independent, Insulators in Stably Integrated Multi-gene Constructs
Affordable Paper Test Strip Morgan Kopecky, 16, Junior,
# Ashlynn Anne Gallagher, 18, Senior, Woodbridge High School, Irvine, California
W.F. West High School, Chehalis, Washington
ENBM054 Development of a Biosensor Using Sialic Acid-Bound Gold
ENBM041 Detecting the Elusive Lyme Disease, Year Two: Creating a Nanoparticles for the Rapid Screening of Influenza A Virus-
Novel Diagnostic Aid for the Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi Positive Samples
in Ticks Hamilton Ji Wan, 16, Junior,
## Luke Daniel Little, 18, Senior, Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science,
Timber Ridge Scholars Academy, Pacific, Missouri Columbus, Mississippi

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ENBM055 Recruiting Endogenous Proteins for Site-Specific Transport: A ENBM069T Exerciser for Rehabilitation After a Stroke
Novel Workflow for Gene Carrier Design Georgii Barashkov, 16, Sophomore,
Sajeev Kohli, 16, Junior, Vladislav Sokolskiy, 17, Sophomore,
Sir John A. Macdonald Secondary School, Waterloo, Lyceum 1580, Moscow, Russian Federation
Ontario, Canada University High School Moscow State University Named after M.
V. Lomonosov, Moscow, Russian Federation
ENBM056 W.I.N.I.T.S. (Wireless Interconnected Non-Invasive
Triage System) ENBM070 Engineering and Evaluation of 3D Printed and Bioprinted
Danish Mahmood, 14, Freshman, Novel Photocuring Polymer Composite Scaffolds for Bone
London Central Secondary School, London, Ontario, Canada Tissue Regeneration
# Nipun Udara Jayatissa, 16, Junior,
ENBM057 A Novel Computational Solution to Advance Ferromagnetic Maumee Valley Country Day School, Toledo, Ohio
NanoTherapy to Cure Cancer
Tasnia Nabil, 17, Senior, ENBM071 Unfolding the Mysteries of vWF: Experimental vs.
Vincent Massey Secondary School, Windsor, Ontario, Canada Computation Studies of vWF’s A2 Domain
Prathysha Oliveira Kothare, 15, Freshman,
ENBM058T Heart Knight Parkland High School, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Fadwa Elshenawy Elshenawy, 17, Senior,
Hadeel Hesham Adam, 18, Senior, ENBM072 An Electronic Device with an Integrated Mobile App for Early
Kafr EL-Sheikh STEM School, Kafr EL-Sheikh, Egypt Detection of Cardiovascular Diseases: A Low-Cost, Easy-
To-Use, Non-Invasive Device and Comprehensive, Multi-
ENBM059T Safety Collar Parametric Smartphone App
Suad I. M. Farun, 14, Freshman, # Shelly Goel, 17, Junior,
Sadil N.D Ibaidi, 14, Freshman, School of Science and Engineering at Yvonne A Ewell Townview
The Orthodox School of Bethany, Bethany, Palestine Magnet Center, Dallas, Texas

ENBM060 Novel Vascularization of Mouse Heart Tissue-Engineered ENBM073 3D Printing of Bioengineered Human Cardiac Stem Cells
Vascular Scaffolds by Triggering Decidualization of Mouse Katharine Claire Schwister, 17, Junior,
Endometrial Stromal Cells for Use in Bio-Synthetic Organs Brookfield Academy, Brookfield, Wisconsin
Emily Pallack, 17, Junior,
American Heritage School, Plantation, Florida ENBM074 Giving a Hand: A 3D Printed Modern Day Miracle
Gracie Kimbrell, 17, Junior,
ENBM061 The Use of AI Algorithms to Automatically Identify Premature Lyceum Named after Academician Zarifa Aliyeva, Baku,
Atrial Contractions from Electrocardiogram Recordings Azerbaijan
Ryan Zhu Luo, 17, Junior,
Biotechnology High School, Freehold, New Jersey ENBM075 3D Printing Away Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections
Mitchell James Sampson, 15, Freshman,
ENBM062T A U”knee”Que Solution Northview High School, Brazil, Indiana
Thomas Alexander Curtin, 15, Freshman,
Ibrahim Samhar Al-Akash, 15, Freshman, ENBM076 A Low Cost, Closed Loop Insulin Pump for Better Management
Veterans Memorial High School, Corpus Christi, Texas of Types 1 and 2 Diabetes Mellitus
## Anna Quinlan, 16, Junior,
ENBM063 Automatic Lung Cancer Prediction from Chest X-Ray Image Menlo-Atherton High School, Atherton, California
Using Machine Learning Techniques
Worawate Ausawalaithong, 16, Junior,
Kamnoetvidya Science Academy, Rayong, Thailand

ENBM064T Fabrication of Fluorescein Isothiocyanate (FITC)-Doped Silica

Nanoparticles and Gold-Coated Silica Nanoparticles for
Locating and Killing Cancer Tumors
Bao Vu Dang, 18, Senior,
Ha Phuong Thao Nguyen, 17, Senior,
Bao Loc High School for the Gifted, Bao Loc,
Lam Dong, Viet Nam

ENBM065 Prostate Cancer Diagnostic Device: The Application of

Multiplex Lateral Flow Immunoassay for the Detection of
Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA)
Shehbeel Arif, 18, Senior,
Central High School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

ENBM066 Non-Invasive Detection of Asymptomatic Heart Attacks Using

BioElectrics Through Transcutaneous Blood Analysis
Akash Manoj, 16, Junior,
The Ashok Leyland School, Hosur, Tamil Nadu, India

ENBM067 Migraine Mind

Doaa M. H. Sammoudi, 16, Junior,
Al Yamoun Secondary Girls School, Al Yamoun, Jenin, Palestine

ENBM068 Re-Life Socks

Jawa I. M. Nazzal, 16, Junior,
Qabatiya Westren School for Girls, Qabatiya, Jenin, Palestine

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 Cellular and Molecular Biology CELL015 Oxidative Damage and Aging: Characterization of Novel
Helicases DinG and YoaA and Catalases KatE/KatG, and Their
Effects in Cellular Defense Against Reactive Oxygen Species
Natalie Eajia Wang, 15, Sophomore,
CELL001 Should Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Regret Their
Lincoln High School, Portland, Oregon
Choice of DNA Repair Mechanisms?
Adela Rotreklova, 18, Senior,
CELL016 The Functional Requirement of Aquaporin1a1 in Zebrafish
Gymnazium Brno, Trida Kapitana Jarose,
Vascular Development
Prispevkova Organizace, Brno, South Moravian Region,
Merrina Lan, 19, Senior,
Czech Republic
Ames High School, Ames, Iowa
CELL002 Transient Expression of Flowering Locus T1 in Arabidopsis
CELL017 SOX and MALAT1: Understanding the Progression of Breast
thaliana via Cell-Penetrating Peptides
Cancer Metastasis
Antonio Hernandez, 18, Senior,
Shruthi Shekar, 17, Junior,
South Sumter High School, Bushnell, Florida
Jericho High School, Jericho, New York
CELL003 Electronic Cigarette Aerosols Induce Adverse Health Effects in
CELL018 Examining the Effect of HIF and Notch in Endothelial Cell
Mice of Reproductive Age and Their Offspring
Migration and Sprouting
# Anusha Zaman, 17, Junior,
Vishal Keshav Senthilkumar, 17, Senior,
Baton Rouge Magnet High School, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Brunswick High School, Brunswick, Ohio
CELL004 Detecting Self-associated ORC4 in Live Murine Oocytes
CELL019 Melanoma Cell Malignancy Does Not Correlate with Migratory
During Polar Body Extrusion Using FLIM of eGFP and FlAsH-
Rates in Three Different Highly Metastatic Cell Lines
EDT2 Labelling
Tyler Lee Amos, 17, Senior,
Brandon Alex Nguyen, 14, Sophomore,
Chantilly High School, Chantilly, Virginia
Henry J. Kaiser High School, Honolulu, Hawaii
CELL020 Dietary Analysis of Sea Lion Consumption of Salmonid
CELL005 Can Lowering Mutant Huntingtin Limit Susceptibility to
Populations Along the Pacific Northwest Coast Using qPCR
Oxidative Stress in HD Neurons?
and Fluorescent Species-Specific Probes
Ritika Jeloka, 16, Sophomore,
Cydni Tatem Lynn Marshall, 18, Senior,
Melbourne High School, Melbourne, Florida
North Central High School, Spokane, Washington
CELL006 Prototypical Galectins and the Innate Immunity Against
CELL021 Role of GATA4 in Early Gastrointestinal Tract Development
Molecular Mimicry
Afiya Fatima Quryshi, 16, Sophomore,
# Marissa Rose McDonald, 18, Senior,
University School of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Union Grove High School, McDonough, Georgia
CELL022 In vitro Characterization of HER2 Positive Breast Cancer
CELL007 Characterization of Assembly-Activating Protein in Adeno-
Brain Metastases
Associated Virus Capsid Assembly
Allison Sarah Heath, 18, Senior,
Lauren Hsing-Tze Li, 17, Junior,
Bloomfield Hills High School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Westview High School, Portland, Oregon
CELL023T The Cilium and Centrosome Associated Protein CCDC11 Is
CELL008 Genome Architecture Indicates Cellular Potential in
Required for Cytokinesis via Midbody Recruitment of the
Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation
ESCRT-III Membrane Scission Complex
Sruthika Baviriseaty, 17, Senior,
Jillian Emma Parker, 16, Junior,
C. Leon King High School, Tampa, Florida
Jiachen Elizabeth Lee, 17, Junior,
Arooba Ahmed, 16, Junior,
CELL009T Impact of Chitinase-3-Like-1 on M1 Macrophage Polarization
Half Hollow Hills High School West, Dix Hills, New York
and Functions
Half Hollow Hills High School East, Dix Hills, New York
Guan-Yi Huang, 17, Junior,
Yu-Ruei Chen, 17, Junior,
CELL024 Mechanisms of the Interplay of Tau and Alpha-Synuclein on
Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School, Taipei City, Chinese Taipei
Tubulin Polymerization Promoting Protein (TPPP/p25)
Anjali Hetal Patel, 18, Senior,
CELL010T Assessing the Impacts of CRISPR Editing on Protein
New Horizons Governor’s School for Science and Technology,
Expression; Utilizing dCas9, as a Potential Roadblock to
Hampton, Virginia
DNA Transcription
## Yesh Satyajit Doctor, 18, Senior,
CELL025 Engineering Bacterial Guanylate Cyclase for Optogenetic
## Kshitij Sachan, 18, Senior,
Applications
Plano East Senior High School, Plano, Texas
Arundathi Sreejayan Nair, 15, Sophomore,
Laramie High School, Laramie, Wyoming
CELL011 Peptide Nucleic Acids as Potential Designer Antimicrobials
Raaga Unmesha Vullikanti, 17, Junior,
CELL026 Inhibiting the Effects of Fetuin-B Upregulation Using TAK-242
Blacksburg High School, Blacksburg, Virginia
Eden Sheinin, 18, Senior,
Yorktown High School, Yorktown Heights, New York
CELL012 X Chromosome Inactivation in Pluripotent Stem Cells
Lev Roz Seaton, 17, Senior,
CELL027 Preventing Preterm Birth: Maximizing GSH Synthesis to Fight
Ort Giva’at Ram High School Jerusalem in the name of Joseph
Oxidative Stress
Charmatz, Jerusalem, Israel
Lucy Arin Greenman, 17, Senior,
Academy of Science, Sterling, Virginia
CELL013 The DNA Damage Effect of Aloe Vera Extracts
Chengyue She, 15, Sophomore,
CELL028 Targeted Screen of Genes Involved in Drosophila
Little Rock Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas
Neuromuscular Junction Development
# Bowen Jing, 18, Senior,
CELL014 TrkC Identifies a Putative Mechanoreceptor that Specifically
West Lafayette Junior/Senior High School, West Lafayette,
Innervates Taste Papillae
Indiana
# Madison Andrea Sneve, 18, Senior,
duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Kentucky

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CELL029 Participation of Annexin A1 and Associated Genes in the CELL043 The Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance Through Protein
Pathogenesis of Gliomas Mutations
Elena Ptitsyna, 17, Junior, Adis Kukuljac, 18, Senior,
Advanced Educational Scientific Centre, A.N.Kolmogorov James W. Mitchell High School, New Port Richey, Florida
Boarding School, Moscow, Moscow, Russian Federation
CELL044 The Use of NKG2D Signaling in NK Cell Immunotherapy
CELL030 Expression of Arginase in Murine Colon Cells During Wound Rachel Brenner Silverstein, 18, Senior,
Healing Confirms the Presence of Myeloid Derived Suppressor Shawnee Mission West High School, Overland Park, Kansas
Cells  
Joseph Zhang, 17, Junior,
Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology,
Lawrenceville, Georgia

CELL031 Radioprotection of Normal Cells Using CD47, Morpholino

Antisense Therapeutics Causes Progression of Prostate Cancer
Teresa Anne Ozga, 17, Senior,
Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Greenbelt, Maryland

CELL032 A Two-Year Study to Initiate and Characterize a Cell Culture

of the Native Pollinator Bombus impatiens: Applications in
Entomology, Agriculture, and Nosema Research
# Olivia Ann Kline, 18, Senior,
Camdenton High School, Camdenton, Missouri

CELL033 Exploring Posterior Growth in D. rerio Using a Live Cell Cycle

Biosensor
Ella Rose Feiner, 18, Senior,
Horace Mann School, Bronx, New York

CELL034 Regulation of Endothelial Cell-Specific Molecule 1 (Esm-1)-

Implications in Diabetes and Cancer
Arvind Muruganantham, 16, Junior,
American High School, Fremont, California

CELL035 Development of Animal Component-Free Media for the

Cryopreservation of Drosophila S2 Cells
Erin Yuki Kajihiro, 17, Senior,
Moanalua High School, Honolulu, Hawaii

CELL036 An Investigation into the Current Use of Caffeine as a Migraine

Treatment and Its Effects on Spreading Depolarizations:
A Second Year Study and the Introduction of a Novel Therapy
## Russell Warren Ludwigsen, 17, Junior,
Early College Academy, Albuquerque, New Mexico

CELL037 Use of a Novel Peptide-Based Assay to Determine Potential

Risk of Reaction to Lupine for Peanut Allergic Patients
Simon Jacob Peck, 17, Senior,
Fox Lane High School, Bedford, New York

CELL038 Investigating Heat Exposure on Transgenerational Inheritance

in C. elegans
Reed Elizabeth Robinson, 17, Junior,
Alabama School of Mathematics and Science, Mobile, Alabama

CELL039 Identifying Inhibitors of PDE4B2 Mutant Enzymes and

Inhibitor Specificity Using Schizosaccharomyces pombe
# Avi Jonah Cohen, 17, Senior,
South Burlington High School, South Burlington, Vermont

CELL040 CRISPR and Its Use in Determining the Function of the VPS-34
Gene in Caenorhabditis elegans
Colin Michael Robinson, 18, Senior,
Utah County Academy of Sciences, Orem, Utah

CELL041 Using Urine and Saliva Solutions in a Capillary Tube

Precipitation Test to Detect Dust and Dander Allergens in IgE
Sensitized Individuals: A New Non-Intrusive Antigen/Antibody
Reaction Test
# Audrey Jules Bakerson, 16, Sophomore,
Berrien County Mathematics and Science Center, Berrien
Springs, Michigan

CELL042 A Novel Method of Constructing Short Synthetic Promoters

Using Random Transcription Factor Binding Site Combinations
Adit Gupta, 16, Junior,
Westview High School, Portland, Oregon

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 Chemistry CHEM015 Computer Modeling of Protein-Protein Interactions with
Hsp70 to Understand the SOD2 Import to Mitochondria for
Regulation of Oxidative Stress
Amogh Bhatnagar, 16, Sophomore,
CHEM001 Isolation and Identification of Quercetin from the Leaves of
University School of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Psidium guajava by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
and Evaluation of the Extract for Anti-Cancer Activity Using
CHEM016 Geophone Phase 1: Synthesis and Characterization of a NiO
the Brine Shrimp Cytotoxicity Bio-Assay
ZnO P-N Type Semiconductor Junction for an Increased
# Anna Kucera, 17, Senior,
Electromechanical Effect
Canterbury School, Fort Myers, Florida
## Jenna Marie Salvat, 17, Junior,
Coronado High School, Colorado Springs, Colorado
CHEM002 The Filter for Dynamic Purification of Water from Oil Products
Alena Sergeevna Nikiforova, 18, Junior,
CHEM017 Direct Methanol Fuel Cell, Phase II
State School #1080, Moscow, Russian Federation
Molly Anne Kleier, 16, Sophomore,
Notre Dame Academy, Park Hills, Kentucky
CHEM003T Research of Wood and Oil Shale Ash Utilisation
Martins Kaukulis, 18, Senior,
CHEM018 Manihot esculenta: A Raw Material for Biodegradable Plastic
Rudolfs Baumanis, 19, Senior,
Evan Scott Blank, 14, Freshman,
Valka Janis Cimze Gymnasium, Valka, Latvia
Wilcox-Hildreth Public School, Wilcox, Nebraska
CHEM004 An Investigation into the Removal of Microplastics from Water
CHEM019 Computational Predictions in the Design of Affinity-Based
Using Ferrofluids
Drug Delivery
Fionn Miguel Eckardt Ferreira, 17, Junior,
Alison Wenqing Xin, 17, Junior,
Schull Community College, Schull, Co. Cork, Ireland
Hathaway Brown School, Shaker Heights, Ohio
CHEM005 JONOTEC-Sustainable Bioplastic
CHEM020T Tree Plaster - Using Polymers as a Drugs Release Media to
Yadira Guadalupe Fernandez Maximo, 17, Senior,
Cure Wood Decay Fungi
Colegio de Bachilleres del Estado de Hidalgo Plantel Actopan,
Po Ying Yip, 14, Freshman,
Actopan, Hidalgo, Mexico
Yuet Ting Wong, 15, Freshman,
Pui Lam Queenie Choi, 15, Freshman,
CHEM006 Biopolymer from Musa paradisiaca Peel Waste and
Shun Tak Fraternal Association Yung Yau College, Hong Kong,
Nanoparticles
China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Jorge Enrique Gonzalez Sevilla, 18, Senior,
Colegio de Estudios Científicos y Tecnologicos del Estado de
CHEM021T An Investigation on Starch-Stabilized Silver Nanoparticles on
Jalisco, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Detection of Proteinuria and Hyperphosphatemia
Kam Fai Wan, 18, Senior,
CHEM007T Penicillium and Pleurotus Fungus-like Biocatalyst of Heavy
Chi Ho Ng, 17, Senior,
Metals in Batteries
King’s College, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong Special
Elizabeth Martinez Becerril, 17, Senior,
Administrative Region
Sarahi Sosa Mondragon, 17, Senior,
Escuela Preparatoria Oficial No. 109, Acambay, Mexico, Mexico
CHEM022 Molecular Sensor Using Aptamers in Precision Ellipsometry
Jin Wen Kee, 18, Senior,
CHEM008T Green Synthesis of the Biodegradable Polymers
National Junior College, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Maryam Ijaz, 16, Sophomore,
Momina Akmal, 15, Sophomore,
CHEM023T Photodegradation of Ciprofloxacin Using Titanium Oxide
The City School, Girls Campus, Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan
Nanowires and Nanoparticles (P25)
Ana Valeria Vazquez-Navas, 16, Junior,
CHEM009 Attacking Alzheimer’s: Developing New Drugs Using
Juan Diego Rodriguez-Rivera, 17, Junior,
Computational Modeling of Beta-Amyloid Protein Binding
Escuela Especializada en Ciencias, Matemáticas y Tecnología,
Sanidhya Dutt Tripathi, 17, Senior,
Caguas, Puerto Rico
Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts,
Hot Springs, Arkansas
CHEM024T Design New Exciplex-forming Systems for OLEDs Application
Jie-Lan Jhang, 17, Junior,
CHEM010 Lipid Layer’s Permeability of Amino Acids in Primordial Earth
Jie-Jhu Jhang, 17, Junior,
Mark C. Brigman, 18, Senior,
Taipei First Girls High School, Taipei City, Chinese Taipei
Polk State Collegiate High School, Lakeland, Florida
CHEM025 Green Synthesis of Phosphorous, Nitrogen Co-Doped Carbon
CHEM011 Will Fluorescent Dyes Be Able to Detect the Saccharide
Materials from Renewable Resources for Supercapacitor
D-galactose on Parasites, such as Trypanosoma cruzi?
Applications via Microwave Assisted Technique
Abigail Haydee Soliven, 15, Sophomore,
# Meghana Chowdary Bollimpalli, 17, Junior,
Melbourne High School, Melbourne, Florida
Little Rock Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas
CHEM012 The Fabrication of Flexible Transparent Electrodes Based on
CHEM026T Water Free of Lead and Mercury
Silver Nanowires
Marwa Nabil Al Aqtash, 15, Freshman,
Yuejia Zhu, 16, Junior,
Dima Abdallah Alshawabkeh, 14, Freshman,
Hefei No. 8, Senior High School, Hefei, Anhui, China
Al-Hasaad Al-Tarbawi School, Amman, Amman, Jordan
CHEM013T Leading the Environment with Less Heavy Metals
CHEM027 Synthesis of Acetylene-Perfluorinatedpyridine Monomer for
Ghada Sameeh Haddad, 17, Junior,
Click Mediated Linear Polymerization
Ayah Amjad Bani Mustafa, 16, Junior,
## Katelynn Ryenne Salmon, 17, Junior,
Jubilee School, Amman, Jordan
Palmer Ridge High School, Monument, Colorado
CHEM014T Research and Application of Diethyl Ether Solution of Au(III)
CHEM028 Benzodiazepine Detection in Alcoholic Beverages
Shuhei Tsumuraya, 17, Junior,
Isabela Dadda dos Reis, 17, Senior,
Hiroki Nagata, 17, Junior,
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio
Tomoya Yamada, 17, Junior,
Grande do Sul (IFRS) - Campus Osório, Osorio, Rio Grande do
Miyagiken Sendai Daisan High School,
Sul, Brazil
Sendai-shi Miyagiken, Japan

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CHEM029 Synthesis and Separation of Chiral Compounds in the CHEM042 The Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Heteroleptic
Preparation of a PET Radiotracer Targeting Synaptic Vesicle Alkaline Earth Metal Compounds
Glycoprotein 2A Marina Cousins, 18, Senior,
## Maya N. Geradi, 17, Senior, Manlius-Pebble Hill School, Dewitt, New York
Wilbur Cross High School, New Haven, Connecticut
CHEM043 Designing Sustainable Adsorbents to Remove Arsenic from
CHEM030 Fatty Acid Methyl Ester Energy Solutions: Biodiesel as a DIY Drinking Water Using Computer-Aided Molecular Design
Energy Alternative Rajat Kaushik Doshi, 16, Junior,
Elizabeth Grace Melby, 18, Senior, Henry B. Plant High School, Tampa, Florida
Carroll High School, Ozark, Alabama
CHEM044 Can the Efficiency of Hydrogen Gas Production by Electrolysis
CHEM031 Extract the Insulating Fiber from the Chicken Feathers Be Increased?
Amira Gamal Abdelazim, 16, Sophomore, Shirlin Janita Kingston, 15, Freshman,
El Menia Preparatory Secondary School for Girls in New Menia, Ballard High School, Louisville, Kentucky
New Minia, Egypt
CHEM045T Quest to the Mystery Metal
CHEM032T Reception of New Biologically Active Substances on the Basis Camila Muneton, 17, Junior,
of Curcumin Shandira Soto, 17, Junior,
Grigol Mikadze, 18, Senior, Boston Latin Academy, Boston, Massachusetts
Tsotne Mikadze, 15, Sophomore,
Luka Buskandze, 17, Junior, CHEM046 Development of a Mathematical Algorithm Modeling the
Vazha-Pshavela #87, Public School, Tbilisi, Georgia Bioaccumulation of Styrene in the New Hanover County
Materials Recovery Facility Through the Analysis of Volatiles
CHEM033 Removal of Pharmaceuticals from Water by Thin Film of Emitted from Recyclable Plastics
Nano-Composite Zane S. Dash, 16, Sophomore,
# Ban Ayoup Ghrair, 16, Sophomore, Isaac Bear Early College High School, Wilmington,
Pioneer Educational Schools, Amman - Khalda, Jordan North Carolina

CHEM034 Pharmaceutical Identification and Purification: Evaluating CHEM047 Cutting off Cancer: Design, Analysis, and Synthesis of Novel
International Publications in Reference to Pharmaceutical Vascular Disrupting Agents
Substance Identification Brendon Choy, 17, Senior,
Zoe Elizabeth Timothy, 18, Senior, Hunter College High School, New York, New York
Susquenita High School, Duncannon, Pennsylvania
CHEM048T The Power of Nature
CHEM035T New Approach to the Synthesis of the Functionalized Abdelaziz Emad Mohamed, 17, Senior,
Fluoroalkenes’ New Perspective Types of Medicines Mohamed Mahmoud Hegazy, 17, Senior,
Yulia Maslova, 17, Junior, The Red Sea STEM High School, Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt
Anastasiia Andrianova, 17, Junior, Red Sea STEM, Hurgada, Egypt
Moscow South-Eastern School Named After V.I. Chuikov,
Moscow, Russian Federation CHEM049T Use of Electrochemical Advanced Oxidation Processes for
Novel Treatment of Sludge and Wastewater
CHEM036 Predicting the Hazardous Qualities of Compounds # Bryan Wei Leong Lim, 18, Senior,
Based on NFPA 704 Labels Using Deep Learning for # Shawn Hai Leong Lim, 17, Senior,
QSAR/QSPR Modeling # Dominic Wei Ting Yap, 18, Senior,
Hashim Mohammed Almutairi, 17, Senior, Hwa Chong Institution, Singapore, Singapore
Dar Althikr Private School, Jeddah, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
CHEM050 The Effect of Natural Chitosan on the Removal of Azo Dyes
CHEM037 A Novel Analytical Method for Quantifying Metallic Impurities from Water
in Carbon Nanotubes by Using ICP-OES Carly Mae Smith, 17, Junior,
Mohammed Jamal Hamdi, 17, Senior, Roanoke Valley Governor’s School for Science and Technology,
AL-Falah High School, Makkah, Saudi Arabia Roanoke, Virginia

CHEM038T The Polar Compound Measuring Tool Referred from the Frying CHEM051 Novel Sustainable Process for Synthesis of Acetylsalicylic
Oils Viscosity Acid: Application to Opioid Epidemic and CO2 Emissions
Nichapat Bunlengjit, 18, Senior, # Akshaj Mishra, 16, Sophomore,
Yadthip Thaithunyaphanich, 18, Senior, Signature School, Evansville, Indiana
Satriwithaya School, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok, Thailand
CHEM052 Multifunctional, Hybrid Electrocatalitic Systems Active
CHEM039T Electrochemical Preparation of Tin-Silver Alloy to Be Towards Electroreduction of Oxygen
Used as Solder Maciej Stanislaw Solnicki, 18, Junior,
Anhelina Hunich, 15, Sophomore, II Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace z Oddzialami Dwujezycznymi im.
Hanna Rabenok, 16, Junior, Stefana Batorego, Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Minsk State Regional Lyceum, Minsk, Minsk Region, Belarus
CHEM053 Keeping Water Supercool: Non-Toxic Substances that Inhibit
CHEM040 BPA vs. BPS: An Analysis of Water Stored in “BPA-Free” the Crystallization of Supercooled Water
Polycarbonate – Based Baby Bottles Using High Performance Xavier Rafael Morales, 17, Junior,
Liquid Chromatography and X-Calibur Software Escuela Secundaria de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (UHS),
Rachel Alys Stratton, 15, Sophomore, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Hilton Head Preparatory School, Hilton Head Island,
South Carolina CHEM054T Indenyl Rhodium Complexes; New Efficient Coal Tar Catalyst
Elizaveta Sovdagarova, 18, Junior,
CHEM041 Comparing the Potentially Hazardous Chemical Components Vladimir Kharitonov, 18, Junior,
of Different Types of Drinking Water and the Dangers We Moscow South-Eastern School Named After V.I. Chuikov,
Might Not Perceive Moscow, Russian Federation
Nicole Monika Grace Jeselson, 18, Senior,
Rome Free Academy, Rome, New York

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CHEM055 TiO2 Hollow Shell Around Gold Nanoparticles- A More CHEM068T Techno-Filter Glasses
Efficient Photocatalyst Fatma Arif Albastaki, 15, Junior,
Laura Marie Noronha, 15, Sophomore, Fatima Mohammed Alneyadi, 17, Junior,
Redlands High School, Redlands, California Hessa Yousuf Alsayegh, 16, Junior,
Dubai National School - Al Barsha, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
CHEM056 LC-MS-MS Method Development and Analysis of Stimulants,
Opiates, Synthetic Opiates, PCP, and Benzodiazepines in CHEM069T Temperature Insulating Solution
Wastewater: Preponderance of These Drugs During Football Noora Salem Aldahmani, 16, Junior,
Games Shaikha Ali Alsuwaidi Street, 16, Junior,
Shahbaz Waseem Gul, 18, Senior, Dubai National School - Al Barsha, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Oxford High School, Oxford, Mississippi  

CHEM057 A New Route to Next-Generation Spin Based Devices for

Quantum Information Processing: Optically Active Fully
Organic Room Temperature Ferromagnetic Semiconductors
### Arnob Das, 18, Senior,
Jesuit High School, Portland, Oregon

CHEM058 Synthesis and Antiproliferative Properties of Tryptamine

Derivatives
Irina Konstantinovna Belousova, 17, Junior,
Moscow South-Eastern School Named After V.I. Chuikov,
Moscow, Russian Federation

CHEM059T Eggshells as a Substituent for Lowering the Rate of

Combustion
Muhammad Shazwan Bin Sobri, 16, Senior,
Nur Helmi Arwizar, 16, Senior,
MRSM Transkrian, Nibong Tebabl, Malaysia

CHEM060T SoBlue: A Pigment from the Past with a New Future. Nanosized
Halloysite Clay-Colorant Composites
Roberto Mignacco, 16, Junior,
Valentina Bo, 18, Senior,
Samuele Ferrero, 18, Senior,
Istituto Superiore Ascanio Sobrero, Casale Monferrato, Italy

CHEM061T Flammability of Fabrics

Estabraq Qussay Al Sanousi, 18, Senior,
Lujain Ammar Sadeqi, 18, Senior,
American Baccalaureate, Khaitan, Kuwait

CHEM062 The Color of An Azo Dye - A Combined Experimental and DFT

Investigation of Spectral Properties of 5-(4-Sulfophenylazo)
Salicylic Acid
Johanna Kristina Huhtasaari, 19, Senior,
Midgardsskolan School, Umea, Sweden

CHEM063 Synthesis of a Bifunctional Metal (Fe, Ni, Co) Phthalocyanine/

Tin (IV) Oxide/Carbon Nanotube Electrocatalyst for the
Aqueous CO2 Reduction to Carbon Monoxide and Formate at
Different Potentials Respectively
Jessica Cohen, 18, Senior,
Spackenkill High School, Poughkeepsie, New York

CHEM064 The Impact of Fullerene Additives on the Morphology of P3HT

Thin Films Processed from Binary Solvent Mixtures
Anna Smirnova, 18, Senior,
Academic Magnet High School, North Charleston, South Carolina

CHEM065 Augmenting Gaseous Adsorption Capabilities via Nanoporous

Cyclodextrin Metal-Organic Frameworks (CD-MOF)
Synthesized with Alkali Coordinating Ions
David Jeremy Toomer, 16, Junior,
Hayfield Secondary School, Alexandria, Virginia

CHEM066 Development of Synthesis Strategies of Quinoline for the

Inhibition of HIV-Integrase
Amy Hoang Pham, 18, Senior,
Oak Grove High School, Hattiesburg, Mississippi

CHEM067 Lord Kelvin’s Thunderstorm: Improving Power Generation

with Ionic Solutions
# Benjamin DeVries, 16, Sophomore,
Woods Cross High School, Woods Cross, Utah

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Computational Biology and Bioinformatics CBIO015 Generation of Novel Fatty Acid Binding Protein (FABP)
Inhibitors with Analgesic and Anti-Cancer Properties
Kiana Ziadkhanpour, 17, Senior,
CBIO001 Dementia, Beyond Memory Loss: A Neuroimaging Study of the
Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School, Plainview,
Hippocampus and Amygdala Utilizing OASIS and FreeSurfer
New York
Ryan Theodore Nguyen, 13 Freshman,
Henry J. Kaiser High School, Honolulu, Hawaii
CBIO016 GlioVision: A Platform for the Automatic Assessment of
Glioblastoma Tumor Features, Molecular Identity, and
CBIO002 Botanical Biomimicry: Using Genetic Algorithms and Plant
Gene Methylation from Histopathological Images Using
Phyllotaxy to Determine Optimum-Efficiency Solar Arrays
Deep Learning
John Ostermueller, 18, Senior,
# Kavya Kopparapu, 17, Senior,
Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts,
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology,
Hot Springs, Arkansas
Alexandria, Virginia
CBIO003 Analysis of the HBG2-4kb DNase I Hypersensitive Site
CBIO017 Comparing Lichen Phenotypic Expression with Genomic
Before and After the Knockout of the HBD-1kb Region in the
Verification
Beta-Globin Locus
# Jessica Deonna Moore, 18, Senior,
Alex Salvador Perez, 17, Junior,
Jasper County High School, Monticello, Georgia
Union County High School, Lake Butler, Florida
CBIO018 Optimization of Seizure Detection Using the Machine Learning
CBIO004 Classification of Burkholderia Species Using Random Forest
Algorithm SVM
for Detection of Pathogenicity
Zachary Xiao Huang, 16, Junior,
Michael Lu, 15, Freshman,
The Albany Academies, Albany, New York
Starkville High School, Starkville, Mississippi
CBIO019T New Structure and Energy Cycles of Kinesin Dimers Walking
CBIO005 Designing a Modified HAC-PD-1 to Antagonize PD-L2 for the
on Microtubules Revealed from Molecular Simulations
Improvement of Cancer Immunotherapy
Alicia Pan, 16, Junior,
Amanda Grace Moon, 17, Junior,
Allen Pan, 15, Freshman,
Plano East Senior High School, Plano, Texas
James Madison High School, Vienna, Virginia
CBIO006 Alzheimer’s Disease Prediction
Adarsh Suresh, 16, Junior, CBIO020 MiRNet: A Novel in silico Network-Based Approach to miRNA
Clear Brook High School, Friendswood, Texas Drug Target Identification for Next Generation Drug Discovery
## Marissa Sumathipala, 17, Senior,
CBIO007 Mathematical Model of HIV: Immune System Dynamics Broad Run High School, Ashburn, Virginia
and Treatments
Nicole Victoria Rychagov, 17, Junior, CBIO021 Gene Methylation Is a Driver of Cellular Differentiation for
Cape Henry Collegiate, Virginia Beach, Virginia Intrinsic Subtype of Breast Cancer During Carcinogenesis
Thomas Ik-Hyun Kim, 18, Senior,
CBIO008 The Relationship Between Brain Volume and Cognitive Vincentian Academy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Function in Parkinson’s Disease
Christopher Quinn Ferrier, 18, Senior, CBIO022 Modeling the Emergence of Epistatic Gene Combinations as a
Caddo Parish Magnet High School, Shreveport, Louisiana Phenotypic Function of Evolution
# Wyatt Graham Brannon, 15, Sophomore,
CBIO009 Data-Analytics Modeling to Detect Peripheral Neuropathy: InTech Collegiate High School, North Logan, Utah
Augmenting Big Data with Google Trends
Neil Ujjal Tomala, 16, Junior, CBIO023 New Cell Type Detection via a Universal Single-Cell Gene
Parkway West High School, Chesterfield, Missouri Expression Algorithm
# Zoe Weiss, 17, Junior,
CBIO010T The Anti-inflammatory and Regenerative Effects of Lakeside High School, Atlanta, Georgia
Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist on Ischemic Strokes
Isabel Baez-Alicea, 16, Junior, CBIO024T Experimental External Neural Pathway for Motion in
Kamileh Alexandra Rivera-Amaral, 17, Junior, Stroke Victims
Colegio Puertorriqueno de Ninas, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico Jacqueline Frances van Zyl, 16, Sophomore,
Caitlin Patrica van Zyl, 16, Sophomore,
CBIO011 Designing a Reinforcement Learning Controller for Insulin McIntosh High School, Peachtree City, Georgia
Delivery in an Artificial Pancreas
Mark James Raj, 17, Junior, CBIO025T Undetected Suicide: Classification of Undetermined Drug-
duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Kentucky Related Deaths Using Machine Learning Techniques
Daphne Liu, 14, Freshman,
CBIO012 A Characterization of n-way Fitness Graphs that Imply n-way Mia Yu, 17, Senior,
Epistasis West High School, Salt Lake City, Utah
Mengming Luo, 18, Senior,
Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland CBIO026 A Novel Computational Model for Discovery of DNA Spatial
Interactions: New Insights into Genomic Organization
CBIO013 Proteomic Evolution in Hair Cell Regeneration ## Joseph Galasso, 17, Senior,
Rahul Ram, 16, Junior, Galasso Homeschool, Tucson, Arizona
Camas High School, Camas, Washington
CBIO027 Developing a Machine Learning Model to Identify Protein-
CBIO014 Deep Learning Identification of Autism Mutations: Using Protein Interaction Hotspots to Facilitate Drug Discovery
Molecular and Computational Methods to Characterize a Rohit Nandakumar, 17, Senior,
Novel Prioritized Non-Coding Variant in FEZF1 Basha High School, Chandler, Arizona
Vanessa J. Zhang, 17, Senior,
Manhasset High School, Manhasset, New York CBIO028 Accuracy Estimation of Protein Multiple Sequence Alignments
Using Profile Hidden Markov Models
## Joyce Muhan Liu, 18, Senior,
Sentinel High School, Missoula, Montana

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CBIO029 Early-Onset Schizophrenia Detection via Novel Diffusion
Tensor Machine Learning of Cingulate-Orbitofrontal
Tractography
Utkarsh Tandon, 18, Senior,
Cupertino High School, Cupertino, California

CBIO030 Battling Superbugs: A Machine Learning Framework for

Identifying Novel Antibiotic Resistance Factors
# Harkirat Bhullar, 17, Junior,
Evan Hardy Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
Canada

CBIO031 A Scalable and Freely Accessible Machine Learning Based

Application for the Early Detection of Dyslexia
Isha Puri, 16, Junior,
Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua, New York

CBIO032 Computational Analyses to Identify Genes Disproportionately

Affected by NFKBIA Deletions and Implicated in Breast Cancer
and Glioblastoma Tumorigenesis
Amrita Lakhanpal, 17, Junior,
The Altamont School, Birmingham, Alabama

CBIO033 Illuminating Gene Dysregulation in Cancer: Deep Learning

Identification of Disrupted Transcription Factor Binding Sites
Bryan Hau-Ping Chiang, 17, Senior,
Lynbrook High School, San Jose, California

CBIO034 The Role of Kinetic Parameters in Phenotypic Switches

Sreya Banik, 15, Sophomore,
Lincoln Park Academy, Fort Pierce, Florida

CBIO035 Phylogenetic and Evolutionary Patterns of the P53 Gene in

Mammals
Yuqi Zhang, 17, Junior,
BASIS Tucson North, Tucson, Arizona

CBIO036 A Machine Learning Method for Selection of Genetic Variants

and Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Using Next-
Generation Sequencing Data
# Luann Chan Jung, 17, Senior,
Manhattan High School, Manhattan, Kansas

CBIO037 A Novel Approach to Classify and Detect Thoughts Using

Electroencephalography
Viraat Das, 17, Senior,
Morgantown High School, Morgantown, West Virginia

CBIO038 Developing a Novel Model for Predicting Patient

Susceptibility to Contracting a Hospital Acquired Infection
Utilizing Machine Learning in the Evaluation of Electronic
Patient Health Records
## Erika Eleonora Ravitch, 17, Senior,
Cascia Hall Preparatory School, Tulsa, Oklahoma

CBIO039 Analysis of Polymer Characteristics through C++

Computational Methods
Shridhar Athinarayanan, 17, Junior,
White Station High School, Memphis, Tennessee

CBIO040T Hit or Miss? Using Mathematical Computations Based on

Existing Physics Theorems to Evaluate Head Impacts in the
National Football League
Smaran Velidi, 16, Sophomore,
Aditya Sai Vishnubhotla, 16, Sophomore,
Plano East Senior High School, Plano, Texas
 

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 Earth and Environmental Sciences EAEV015T Using 3D Drone-based Digital Models to Investigate the
Fluvial Geomorphology of an Eroding Arroyo
Kathryn Tsi-Pak Kummel, 14, Freshman,
## Michelle Tsi-ying Kummel, 17, Senior,
EAEV001T Environmental Magnetism on the Black Sea Coast
William J. Palmer High School, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Cristiana Savuca, 16, Sophomore,
Alin Mihai Rada, 17, Sophomore,
EAEV017 A Tale of Two Fishes: An Analysis of Differentiation in
Carmen Sylva High School, Eforie Sud, Constanta, Romania
Compositional Characteristics of Two Distinct Fossil Butte
Member Localities
EAEV002 Aquaponics and Hydroponics; Experimentation in Real World
## Casey John Shaw, 17, Senior,
Environments
Liberty High School, Joes, Colorado
Makayla Bedgood, 15, Junior,
South Sumter High School, Bushnell, Florida
EAEV018 Biodegradation of Polystyrene by Superworms
Ariana Nicole Peralta, 18, Senior,
EAEV003 An Efficient Water Purification Method Using Renewable
Medical Academy for Science and Technology, Homestead,
Energy
Florida
Prerana Kumar, 18, Senior,
Americus Sumter High School, Americus, Georgia
EAEV019T Effects of Different Frequencies of Electromagnetic Radiation
EAEV004 Crumb Rubber for Artificial Turf: The Effects of Herbs on on the Growth Rates of the Cyanobacteria Spirulina platensis
Environmental Runoff Alyssa Yumi Watarida, 15, Sophomore,
## Connor N. Cleveland, 18, Senior, Michelle Cho Tam, 15, Sophomore,
Fort Walton Beach High School, Fort Walton Beach, Florida Kapolei High School, Kapolei, Hawaii

EAEV005T Characterization of Aquatic Plants of the Coba Lagoon and Its EAEV020 Small Plastics Causing a Big Problem: The Prevalence of
Potential as Biofilters in Planters Micro- and Macro- Plastics on Oahu Beaches
Alba Yuselmi Hau May, 17, Junior, Jasmine Mia Chase, 16, Junior,
Jose Eduardo Yam Chay, 16, Junior, Mililani High School, Mililani, Hawaii
EMSaD Coba, Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico
EAEV021 Using Microbial Indicators to Analyze Water Quality at
Cypremort Point Beach
EAEV006 G. mellonella, T. molitor, Z. morio, Larvae Waste Products
Ruth Adams, 17, Junior,
from Polystyrene Biodegradation Used as Fertilizer for
Ovey Comeaux High School, Lafayette, Louisiana
Tropaeolum Plant
Lourdes Marian Marquez, 17, Junior,
EAEV022 Multiple Time-Step Predictive Models for Hurricanes in the
John B. Alexander High School, Laredo, Texas
North Atlantic Basin Based on Machine Learning Algorithms
Aneesh Gupta, 16, Junior,
EAEV007 A Combined Explanation for the Sailing Stones in Death
Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, Oregon
Valley, California and the Laguna del Altillo Chica, Spain
Ronja Spanke, 18, Senior,
EAEV023 Analyzing Water Quality in Local Watersheds Through Water
Hans Thoma Gymnasium, Lorrach, Germany
Chemistry and Macroinvertebrates
Ethan Jean, 17, Junior,
EAEV008 Testing the Effectiveness of Various Shading Materials to
Cookeville High School, Cookeville, Tennessee
Mitigate Effects of Climate Change on Mock Leatherback Sea
Turtle Nests
EAEV024T Study of Mercury (Hg) Concentration Levels in Commercial
Annabelle Christine Colao, 18, Senior,
Fish: A Quantitative Analysis
Ridgefield High School, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Jean Paul Ambroise-Robles, 17, Senior,
Isabel Irene Vega-Calderon, 17, Senior,
EAEV009 The Lethal Effects of Hexafluoropropylene Oxide Dimer Acid
Colegio Rosa-Bell, Guaynabo, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
on Daphnia magna
Emmily Mobley, 16, Sophomore,
EAEV025 The Effect of 4-MCHM on Daphnia magna Population Change
Stuart W. Cramer High School, Belmont, North Carolina
Kate Nadja Karaman, 16, Sophomore,
Niles Township West High School, Skokie, Illinois
EAEV010T Campaign Air Pollution with the Help of Nanotechnology
Artemie Mitioglo, 17, Junior,
EAEV026 Spray and Stick: A Novel Agent for Pesticide Adhesion
Vladislav Mitioglo, 17, Junior,
Jacob Wu, 16, Junior,
Theoretical High School “ Orizont, Durlesti “, Chiinu, Republic of
The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Moldova
EAEV027 Sinkhole Detection Using Wireless Sensor Networks and
EAEV011 Examining Directivity of the 2016, Meinong Earthquake Using
Structural Health Monitoring
Doppler Effect
Sophia Joy Wang, 15, Sophomore,
Shen-Chang Huang, 17, Senior,
Amity Regional High School, Woodbridge, Connecticut
Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School, Taipei City, Chinese Taipei
EAEV028T Water Retaining Characteristics of Pomelo albedo to Combat
EAEV012 An Environmental Study: Activated Carbon as a Neutralizing
Water Crisis
Agent of a Pesticide Imidachloprid
Raymond Yin Hong Chow, 16, Junior,
Isabella Lopez, 17, Senior,
Kai Wern Wong, 16, Senior,
J.W. Nixon High School, Laredo, Texas
Yew Siang Ku, 17, Senior,
EAEV013 Carbon Dioxide Removal in Coniferous and Deciduous Trees Heng Ee High School, Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia
Analise Elizabeth Chambers, 16, Junior,
Jefferson County International Baccalaureate, Irondale, Alabama

EAEV014 Banana Peel Sorption of Cations

Trang Thi Thuy Do, 18, Senior,
Fayetteville Christian School, Fayetteville, Arkansas

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EAEV029T Mitigation of Ti02 Stress and Characterization of a EAEV042T Can Cicada’s Song Forecast Local Weather? A Scientific
Brassinosteroid Insensitive-1 Gene in Aquatic Bioindicator Approach
Species Lemna minor Arif Kusuma Firdaus, 17, Senior,
Dylan Daniel Makani, 16, Sophomore, Nadia Alfi Syarifah, 17, Senior,
Tong Ye, 16, Sophomore, Madrasah Aliyah Negeri 2 Kota Malang, Malang, East Java,
Jacqueline Olivia Balestrieri, 16, Sophomore, Indonesia
North Shore Hebrew Academy High School, Great Neck,
New York EAEV043 The Abundance and Population Health of Common Reef Fish
Half Hollow Hills High School East, Dix Hills, New York in Protected Marine Reserves Compared to Unprotected Reef
Saint Anthony’s High School, South Huntington, New York Environments, Utilizing Baited Remote Underwater Video
(BRUV) Surveys
EAEV030 Tracking Climate Change, Human Impact, and the Overall Michael Noah Odzer, 15, Freshman,
Oceanic and Terrestrial Health of Estuaries Along the Hudson Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School, Miami, Florida
River and Long Island Sound to Influence Policy
Emily Alexandra Cruz, 18, Senior, EAEV044 Carbon Capture Using Solid Sorbents. Amine-Tethered
Manhasset High School, Manhasset, New York Polystyrene and Polyacrylic Polymers for CO2 Adsorption
Glenn Manuel Grimmett, 16, Sophomore,
EAEV031 Microplastics, Macro Problem: A Novel Technique to Remove American Heritage School of Boca Delray, Delray Beach, Florida
Microplastics from Water Using a Modified Electrostatic Filter
Melanie Elise Quan, 15, Freshman, EAEV045 Machine Learning Algorithms for Satellite Remote Sensing of
Las Lomas High School, Walnut Creek, California Ocean Color in Coastal Waters
Marvin Fangzhou Li, 15, Freshman,
EAEV032 Radiochemistry and AI: Development of a Targeted Emergency James M. Bennett High School, Salisbury, Maryland
Response and Recovery System Using ML Algorithms for Use
After a Nuclear Event EAEV046 Satellite Modeling of Wildfire Susceptibility in California by
# Anushka M. Nair, 17, Junior, Using Artificial Neural Networking
Lake Oswego High School, Lake Oswego, Oregon # Anthony David Weng, 17, Senior,
Terre Haute South Vigo High School, Terre Haute, Indiana
EAEV033 Next Generation Morphological and Molecular Analysis of
the Toxicity of Pharmaceutical-Derived Aquatic Contaminants EAEV047T Modeling of the Objects Drifting on the Sea Surface
(PPCPs) Oleg Andreevich Kirillov, 15, Freshman,
Ronit Jain, 16, Sophomore, Elena Alexandrovna Kovalchuk, 17, Junior,
Interlake High School, Bellevue, Washington Academic Gymnasium No. 56, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Middle School of General Education No.25, Balakovo, Saratov
EAEV034 Stop the Flame in Its Infancy! Multivariable Early-Warning Region, Russian Federation
System for Low-Cost Prevention of Wildfire Proliferation
### Vasily Antonovich Tremsin, 18, Senior, EAEV048T Effect of Mud Conditions in Mangrove Forests on Rowing
Campolindo High School, Moraga, California Motions of Robotic Mudskippers: A Novel Anticipation Method
on Reforestation and Ecosystem Rehabilitation
EAEV035 Enhanced Biogas System for Sustainable Agriculture Naphat Cheenchamrat, 17, Junior,
Sara Atef Ibrahim Hasan, 16, Sophomore, Pattharaphol Chainiwattana, 16, Sophomore,
Hadabet El-Ahram Governmental Language School, Giza, Bangkok Christian College, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Haram, Egypt
EAEV049T Comparison of the Toxic and Lethal Effects of the Cleaners
EAEV036T Eco-Brick Containing and Non-Containing Phosphate and Petroleum
Ahmed Abdelbaset Elshenawy, 17, Senior, Derived Agents on Biomes in Aquatic and Terrestrial
Ahmed Nabil El Sheikh, 18, Senior, Ecosystem
Kafr EL-Sheikh STEM School, Kafr EL-Sheikh, Zeynep Coskun, 17, Senior,
Kafr Elsheikh, Egypt Ali Umut Guler, 19, Senior,
Fethi Gemuhluoglu Fen Lisesi, Yesilyurt, Malatya, Turkey
EAEV037T FLOC AND FLOW: Using Electrocoagulation and Granular Fahri Kayahan Kultur Temel Lisesi, Yesilyurt, Malatya, Turkey
Media Filtration to Improve Water Quality
# Matthew Jeffrey Trees, 15, Sophomore, EAEV050T Chitosan as an Eco-Friendly Biopack
Garrett Guerrero, 16, Sophomore, Aliaksandra Hileuskaya, 16, Junior,
Trees Family Home School, San Angelo, Texas Lizaveta Karpovich, 17, Junior,
Guerrero Home School, San Angelo, Texas BSU Lyceum, Minsk, Minsk Region, Belarus

EAEV038 Speed and Survival Rate of Oncorhynchus nerka Migrating EAEV051T Development of Green Mussels Granules Coated with Actives
from the Pacific Ocean from Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunch Extract as a
Ryan Paul Bunn, 16, Junior, Natural Coagulant
Success Academy DSU, St. George, Utah Christopher Prasetya Mulya, 18, Senior,
Devina Grisella, 18, Senior,
EAEV039 The Effect of Pharmaceuticals on Nitrate Concentration and Santa Laurensia Senior High School, Tangerang Selatan, Banten,
Removal Rate in a Simulated Bardenpho Reactor Indonesia
James Licato, 15, Freshman,
Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, Virginia EAEV052 Influence of Color Dishes on Insects Capture and Composition
in the Forests of the Comarca Kuna Yala, Panama
EAEV040 Microplastics in the Terrestrial Food Chain via Earthworms Edili Aurelis Paredes, 17, Junior,
(Lumbricus terrestris) Instituto Cacique Olodebiliginya, Panama, Comarca Kuna Yala,
Siena Catherine Cizdziel, 16, Junior, Panama
Oxford High School, Oxford, Mississippi
EAEV053 Evaluating Phosphorus Absorbing Materials for the Mitigation
EAEV041 Quantifying Microplastics in the Mississippi River: A Source of of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs)
Pollution in Gulf Coast Seafood Savio Le, 17, Junior,
Claire Theresa Cizdziel, 15, Freshman, Holy Rosary Academy, Anchorage, Alaska
Oxford High School, Oxford, Mississippi

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EAEV054 Predicting Food Shortages in Africa from Satellite Imagery EAEV068 Earthquakes ROCK: Preliminary Data from a Manipulated
# Lillian Petersen, 15, Sophomore, Model to Show the Newton Force of Different Bedrock Types
Los Alamos High School, Los Alamos, New Mexico and Their Relationship with Induced Earthquakes in Kansas
Kevin Johnson, 18, Senior,
EAEV055 Insights into the Effects of Tropical Disturbances Hurricane Pratt High School, Pratt, Kansas
Irma and Invest 92L on the Dynamics of the Phytoplankton
Community of the Estero Bay Estuary EAEV069 The Dark Side of Light: The Potential Impact of Artificial Light
Mark Ethan Leone, 15, Sophomore, on Libellulid Feeding Behavior and Activity
Canterbury School, Fort Myers, Florida Hannah Rogers, 16, Sophomore,
Camdenton High School, Camdenton, Missouri
EAEV056 Combating Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the Developing
World: A Novel Discovery of the Fungicidal Potential of EAEV070 The Aquaponic Life
Bicarbonate Solutions Against Aspergillus flavus Sarah Grace Trimble, 17, Junior,
Evan Thomas Collins, 18, Senior, Kossuth High School, Corinth, Mississippi
Ridgeview High School, Orange Park, Florida
EAEV071 Air Quality: A Quantitative Approach to Small and Large
EAEV057T The Effects of Increasing Temperature on Plant Development Particles
and Nutritional Content Abigail Renae Post, 14, Freshman,
# Vivian Heleana Pryor, 17, Junior, Hankinson Public School, Hankinson, North Dakota
Sabrina Michelle Borg, 15, Freshman,
St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, Ridgeland, Mississippi EAEV072T Innovative Conservation of Wetland Resources with
Rhizophora mucronata Nursery
EAEV058 A Destructive Invader: How Rising Atmospheric CO2 Is Aiding Kasidet Sukkwai, 17, Junior,
Noctiluca scintillans in Taking Over Tropical Oceans Chidchanok Inkaew, 17, Junior,
Alexandria Lauren Ang, 17, Senior, Pattadon Namwongnao, 17, Junior,
Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, New York Suratpittaya School, Muang District, Suratthani, Thailand

EAEV059 The Effects of Bacteria on the Biodegradation of Polymers EAEV073T “FloBot”: A Mobile Portable and Floating Real Time Data
Alexis Elizabeth Kellogg, 15, Sophomore, Acquisition Device for Lake Water Quality Monitoring and
Warwick High School, Lititz, Pennsylvania Mapping
Pranav Nadig Shikarpur, 17, Junior,
EAEV060T Rain vs. Bore –Do the Best Results Come Out of the Blue or Siddharth Viswanath, 17, Junior,
the Red? Bangalore International Academy (NSV), Bangalore, Karnataka,
Felisha Rose Kaiser, 18, Senior, India
Elena Suzette Kaiser, 16, Junior,
Danthonia Home School, Elsmore, New South Wales, Australia EAEV074 The Alamosa River Watershed: A Unique Proving Ground for
Natural Selection
EAEV061 Taphonomic Geochemistry of Fossil Bones from Marine and Amber L. Michel, 17, Junior,
Terrestrial Fossilization Environments Monte Vista High School, Monte Vista, Colorado
## Emily Grace Cross, 18, Senior,
Hammarskjold High School, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada EAEV075 The Optimization of Degradation of Azo Dyes via
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
EAEV062 Silver Nanoparticles: Reducing Environmental Toxicity Nicole Segaran, 16, Sophomore,
Through Shape Control Carmel High School, Carmel, Indiana
Katie Lu, 17, Junior,
Central High School, Springfield, Missouri EAEV076 Nitrogen Fixation: Biological vs. Synthetic Agents
# Addie James Schnabel, 18, Senior,
EAEV063T Effect of the Extract of the Leaves of the Rizophora mangle on Ashley Public School, Ashley, North Dakota
the Growth of E. coli Bacteria
Naomi L. Santell Lebron, 17, Senior, EAEV077T Biosorption of Manganese Mine Effluents Using Crude Chitin
Krystal L. Santell Lebron, 17, Senior, from Shell Wastes of Philippine Bivalves
Specialized School of Science and Mathematics Genaro Cautino Randy Estales Molejona Jr., 19, Senior,
Vazquez, Guayama, Puerto Rico Elaine Nicole Sally Saquin, 18, Senior,
Iloilo National High School, Iloilo City, Philippines
EAEV064 Assessment of Water Quality of the Gulpha Creek Watershed,
Hot Springs National Park EAEV078T The Effect of Different Types of Fruit Peels on the Absorption
Rachel Elizabeth Stall, 17, Junior, of Oil: A Biodegradable Way to Clean Oil Spills
Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts, Hot Elda Bengu, 14, Freshman,
Springs, Arkansas Shreya Tripathi, 15, Freshman,
Hamilton High School, Chandler, Arizona
EAEV065T Eradication Methods of Paulownia tomentosa in the Hot
Springs National Park EAEV079 Reducing Total Coliform Bacteria in American Samoa’s GUDI
Hollie Hagler, 18, Senior, Wells with UV-B Treatment
Lily Ann Easley, 17, Senior, Gloria Park, 16, Junior,
Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts, Hot Pacific Horizons School, Pago Pago, American Samoa
Springs, Arkansas
EAEV080T Trip to Old Astronomical Map: Development and Application
EAEV066 Which Solar Reflector Increases Solar Efficiency the Most? of Equation to Convert from 2D to 3D
Charles Bryce Buchanan, 15, Freshman, Youngseo Du, 17, Junior,
South Lake High School, Groveland, Florida Hajun Myung, 18, Senior,
Gyeonggibuk Science High School, Uijeongbu-Si, Gyeonggi-do,
EAEV067T Comparing the Difference in Plant Species Diversity, Plant South Korea
Growth Forms, and Soil Characteristics Between Native and
Non-Native Forests,Year II EAEV081 Searching for Hydrothermal Vents in the Samoan Archipelago
Marion Rose Powell, 16, Junior, Seamos Cleary, 16, Junior,
Cameryn Rae Kahalewai, 16, Junior, Pacific Horizons School, Pago Pago, American Samoa
Molokai High School, Ho’olehua, Hawaii

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EAEV082 The Effect of Atrazine on Raphanus sativus ‘Champion’ Seed
Germination
Austin Gene Sundell, 17, Senior,
Delavan High School, Delavan, Illinois

EAEV083T Micro Farms

Lillian Pearl Ingraham, 18, Senior,
Taylor Brianne McKinney, 18, Senior,
Northwest Technology Center, Fairview, Oklahoma
Fairview High School, Fairview, Oklahoma

EAEV084 Adsorption of Nitrophenols (NPhs) Using N-Doped

Carbonaceous Material
# Anusha Bhattacharyya, 16, Junior,
Little Rock Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas

EAEV085T Save It, Repeat It and Eat It

Dinya Nazeer Brifkani, 16, Sophomore,
Rashan Jamal Mohammed, 16, Sophomore,
Ronaki Duhok Ishik Girls College, Duhok, Duhok, Iraq
 

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 Embedded Systems EBED015
#
EMG Controlled Bionic Hand
Marc Miguel Mirabal, 17, Sophomore,
Grants High School, Grants, New Mexico
EBED001T Experimental Study of Upper Limb Movement for Creating a
EBED016 A Low-Cost, Rapid Response Communication Link During a
Natural and Universal Interface: Innovative Applications
State of Emergency Using WiFi Mesh Networks
Paul Andrei Bricman, 17, Junior,
Pooja Jain, 17, Junior,
Matei Ciprian Anghel, 17, Junior,
West Linn High School, West Linn, Oregon
National Bilingual High School “George Cosbuc”, Bucharest,
Romania
EBED017 Indoor Blind Navigation System
Lauder-Reut Educational Complex, Bucharest, Romania
Abdul Rahman Hazem Sa’D, 16, Sophomore,
Jubilee School, Amman, Jordan
EBED002 A Novel Gesture Decoding Sensor for the Evolution of Cost
Effective Electronic Smart Gloves
EBED018 Typing without Touch: A Touchscreen Accessible Device for
# Arqam Ali Khan, 18, Senior,
the Visually Impaired
Islamabad Model College for Boys, G-10/4, Islamabad, Capital
Natasha Dilamani, 17, Senior,
Territory, Pakistan
John L. Miller Great Neck North High School, Great Neck,
New York
EBED003T Intel Genuino-Based Cow Estrous Detector
Yuan Dwi Kurniawan, 17, Junior,
EBED019 Write Anywhere: Filtering Low-Cost IMU Data for Small-Scale
I Dewa Gede Wicaksana Prabaswara, 18, Junior,
Motion Reproduction
SMA Negeri Bali Mandara, Buleleng, Bali, Indonesia
David Xu, 16, Junior,
SMAN Bali Mandara, Singaraja, Bali, Indonesia
Jericho High School, Jericho, New York
EBED004 Infrared-Laser Computer Control
EBED020 Developing a Facial Shaving Device for People with Limited
Lukas Nullmeier, 19, Senior,
Hand Dexterity
Salier-Gymnasium, Waiblingen, Germany
Aaron Hannon, 19, Senior,
St. Muredach’s College, Co. Mayo, Connacht, Ireland
EBED005 Read4me: Using the Internet of Things and Machine Learning
to Enable Blind People to Read Paper Books
EBED021 Autonomous Liquid Dispenser
Tarek Abdessattar Aloui, 17, Junior,
Gabriel Gelli Checchinato, 18, Senior,
Pioneer School of Gabes Tunisia, Gabes, Gabes, Tunisia
Colegio Ser, Jundiai, Sao Paulo, Brazil
EBED006 Multicopter Autonomous Refueling System
EBED022 Repti-Lighting: The Automated Solution to Prevent Calcium
Aziz Hanafi, 14, Freshman,
Deficiency in Reptiles
International School of Carthage, Tunis, Carthage, Tunisia
# Abigail Ann Arnashus, 15, Sophomore,
Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center, Chicago, Illinois
EBED007T Biofeedback for the States of Anxiety and Stress Through
Automated Detection Processes
EBED023 Aware of Air: Measuring Local Air Quality Using Portable
Nicolas Esleyder Caytuiro Silva, 15, Sophomore,
Arduino-Based Sensors
# Alfred Addison Chillitupa Quispihuanca, 16, Sophomore,
Nikhil Devanathan, 16, Sophomore,
High Performance College - Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru
Kennewick High School, Kennewick, Washington
EBED008 Diurnal Variation and Duration of Meteors Usable for Radio
EBED024T New Vision for the World
Communications
Nourhan Hussien ZainElabedeen, 16, Junior,
Kyra Slovacek, 18, Senior,
Mira Medhat Moussa, 16, Junior,
Monarch High School, Louisville, Colorado
S.T.E.M. Luxor School, Luxor, Egypt
EBED009 Monitoring Environmental Status of a Mesocosm
EBED025T Salvum Cars
Using an ESP32
Sama Mahmoud Hadhoud, 16, Junior,
## Richard Alexander Pope, 16, Junior,
Hanin Hossam Eldaly, 16, Junior,
Pensacola High School, Pensacola, Florida
Menofya STEM School, Sirs Eel Lian, Menofya, Egypt
EBED010 Wearable Tech Glove Enabling Speech Through Hand
EBED026T Large Format Mosaic Screens to Visualize Schlieren
Gestures
Shorena Gudzhabidze, 16, Junior,
Ethan Nathaniel Damiani, 16, Junior,
Marina Gudzhabidze, 17, Junior,
Henry W. Grady High School, Atlanta, Georgia
Dea Ilarionova, 17, Junior,
Cervantes Gymnasium AIA-GESS, Tbilisi, Georgia
EBED011 Design of Blind E-Reader with Conjugate Cam Group Based on
Binary Principle
EBED027T Automatic Sustainable Low Cost Climate Control for Small
Zizhuo Wang, 17, Senior,
Rural Buildings
Shanghai Experimental School, Shanghai, China
Naresh Pradeep Pillay, 16, Sophomore,
Lucca Poli Fernandes Pinto, 16, Sophomore,
EBED012 Electroencephalogram (EEG) Sensor and Subsequent
Alexandra Leah Sherman, 16, Sophomore,
Analysis System Optimization for Objective and Point-of-Care
International School of Panama, San Miguelito, Panama Este,
Concussion Diagnosis
Panama
# Paritosh Suri, 17, Junior,
Plano West Senior High School, Plano, Texas
EBED028 Sound Wave Modulation as a Method of Color Perception for
the Visually Impaired
EBED013 Development of a Multidimensional Atmospheric
Jane Carolyne Hantanto, 18, Senior,
Sensing Platform
Smak Penabur Gading Serpong, Kab. Tangerang, Banten,
# Ryan Westcott, 16, Sophomore,
Indonesia
Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, Oregon
EBED029 Universal GPS Watch
EBED014T Universal Sign Language Translation Gloves
Mallory Bohr, 15, Sophomore,
Ho Fai Chung, 17, Senior,
Plankinton High School, Plankinton, South Dakota
Ka Lung Chan, 17, Senior,
Christian and Missionary Alliance Sun Kei Secondary School,
Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

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EBED030 e-Strip: The First Self-Taught, Personalized and Wearable EBED046T iSAFE (The Integrated Systems Automobile Failsafe
Smart Medical Device to Control the Temperature of Body Environment): Decreasing Infant Mortality Rates and Driver
Parts Distraction Using Microcontrollers and Embedded Circuits
Melinda Szegedi, 16, Sophomore, Melody Wheat, 17, Senior,
ELTE Apaczai Csere Janos High School, Budapest, Hungary Robert James Blaine, 18, Senior,
Fabian Dalton Hill, 17, Junior,
EBED031 Walk Enhancing Smart Device Jim Hill High School, Jackson, Mississippi
Liyanadura Supun Sasipriya Silva, 14, Sophomore,
De Mazenod College, Kandana, Western Province, Sri Lanka EBED047 Does Mental Practice Make Perfect?
Pamela Nash, 16, Sophomore,
EBED032 Background Noise Reduction by Using Spectral Selection to Strasburg Public School, Strasburg, North Dakota
Remove Unneeded Frequencies
Kevin Xiao, 17, Junior, EBED048 P.I.P.S. - An Inexpensive Patient Indoor Positioning System
Alabama School of Mathematics and Science, Mobile, Alabama Joseph Carmelo Saturnino, 15, Freshman,
Bishop Ryan Catholic Secondary School, Hannon, Ontario,
EBED033 Ultrasonic Glasses for the Visually Impaired Canada
Axel Sariel Toro Vega, 15, Sophomore,
Dr. Carlos González High School, Aguada, Guaniquilla, EBED049 Arduino Navigation for the Visually Impaired and Elderly
Puerto Rico Luis Fernando Flores Juarez, 16, Sophomore,
Yuma High School, Yuma, Arizona
EBED034 Wireless Sensor Network for Illegal Logging and Wildfire
Detection EBED050T EyeMove: Using Electrooculography to Provide Mobility for
Yanapat Nikomrak, 18, Senior, the Disabled
Princess Chulabhorn Science High School Mukdahan, ## Malav H. Shah, 18,
Mukdahan, Thailand ## Burzin Poras Balsara, 18, Senior,
Plano Senior High School, Plano, Texas
EBED035 RDS of Things: Using RDS Technology for Smart Cities
Atalay Kutlay, 19, Senior, EBED051T NeoEyes: Smart Glasses for the Blind Based on Vietnamese
Ankara Ataturk Lisesi, Ankara, Turkey Character Recognition System
Hoang Minh Khoi Nguyen, 17, Senior,
EBED036 A Portable Android Based Detection System of Prevalent Phuong Thao Vu, 17, Senior,
Chronic Respiratory Illnesses Le Hong Phong High School for the Gifted, Ho Chi Minh,
Sathvik Nallamalli, 14, Freshman, Viet Nam
Olympia High School, Olympia, Washington
EBED052 DIMOS: A Novel Low-Power, Fast Response Logic Gate
EBED037 Development of an Efficient Pipe to Separate Reusable and Architecture
Non-Usable Water # Swagat Bhattacharyya, 17, Senior,
Kau Winston Mohlamonyane, 17, Senior, Morgantown High School, Morgantown, West Virginia
Hoerskool Ben Viljoen, Groblersdal, Mpumalanga, South Africa
EBED053 ENVIRO
EBED038 SkySend: Providing Communication During Disaster Relief Fahad Osama Al Yaqout, 17, Senior,
Sanjana Subramanian, 16, Sophomore, Salah Edin School, Kuwait, Kuwait
Urbana High School, Ijamsville, Maryland
EBED054 Using Piezoelectric Sensors to Find the Center of Gravity
EBED039 Developing a Tactile Depth Map for the Blind of an Aircraft
Tyler James Delargy, 16, Junior, Everett Reed, 17, Senior,
Bangor High School, Bangor, Maine Washington Math Science Technology PCHS, Washington,
District of Columbia
EBED040 iCordisX: SmartPhone-Based Personalized Cardiac Monitoring
Using Computer Vision and Bluetooth Low Energy EBED055 Ferrotilt - A New High Accuracy Tilt Measurement Sensor
Patrick Liu, 17, Junior, Aron Molnar, 19, Senior,
University High School, Irvine, California Szechenyi Istvan Technical Secondary School of Szekesfehervar,
Szekesfehervar, Hungary
EBED041 Green Switch
Athavan Thambimuthu, 16, Junior, EBED056 A Smart Device to Protect Children from Heat Stroke in
Royal West Academy, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Confined Spaces
Sara Ameer Abdulla AL-Baker, 17, Junior,
EBED042T Smart Walking Stick for Blind: The “Golden i” Qatar Banking Studies & Business Administration School for
Gajindu Kavinda Bandara, 17, Senior, Girls, Doha, Qatar
Kavindra Gimhan Wijayawardana, 17, Senior,
St. Anthony’s College, Kandy, Central Province, Sri Lanka EBED057T A Compact Microstrip Antenna for Ultra-Wide Band
Applications
EBED043 Drip - A Precision Irrigation System for Developing Nations Rashed Ali Aljasmi, 17, Senior,
Waleed Wael Sawan, 16, Junior, Omar Hassan Alhousani, 16, Junior,
Oakridge Secondary School, London, Ontario, Canada Humaid Bin Abdulaziz School for Boys, Ajman,
United Arab Emirates
EBED044T LabTrak: A Micro-Telemetry Device for Modeling
Mice Behavior EBED058 Design of the Onboard Computer “CERBER”
# Rohan Arora, 17, Senior, Ivan Shoitov, 17, Sophomore,
# Venkat Vinayak Krishnan, 17, Senior, Murmansk Polytechnic Lyceum, Murmansk, Russian Federation
Anil Ravi Tolwani, 18, Senior,  
American High School, Fremont, California

EBED045 Doppler Radar Flash Flood Detector

Ammon Wallace, 14, Freshman,
Salem Hills High School, Salem, Utah

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 Energy: Chemical EGCH015 Research on the Conversion of Waste Straws into
High-Octane Gasoline
Ziqi Pan, 17, Junior,
Beijing No. 4 High School, Beijing, Beijing, China
EGCH001 Biocombustion Cells with Photosynthesizing Microorganisms
Elena Robu, 18, Senior,
EGCH016 How to Feed Your Fuel: Analyzing the Effects of Nitrogen
Tudor Vianu National High School of Computer Science,
Deprivation vs. Increased Carbon on Lipid Production in an
Bucharest, Romania
Algal Photobioreactor
Christopher Daniel Dwyer, 17, Junior,
EGCH002 The Development of New Power Storage Devices Based on
Wachusett Regional High School, Holden, Massachusetts
Organic Heterocyclic Aromatic Compounds
### Samuel Marin Scott, 18, Senior,
EGCH017 Paper-Based Microbial Fuel Cells for Self-Powered
Kahuku High and Intermediate School, Kahuku, Hawaii
Sustainable Disease Diagnostics
# Kendra Zhang, 17, Senior,
EGCH003T Development of Novel Synthetic Methods for Hybrid
Jericho High School, Jericho, New York
Perovskites Using Reactive Polyiodide Melt CH3NH3I-I2
Ivan Yakimov, 18, Junior,
EGCH018T Storage of Electrical Energy by Converting It into
Elizaveta Maksimovna Nemygina, 17, Junior,
Chemical Energy
Universitetskaya Gimnaziya MSU im.Lomonosova, Moscow,
Matthias Franz Breitegger, 19, Senior,
Russian Federation
Kerstin Koller, 19, Senior,
Hohere Technische Lehranstalt Weiz, Weiz, Styria, Austria
EGCH004 Trash to Treasure: Converting Aluminum Cans into a
Valuable Additive for Li-S Batteries with an Unprecedented
EGCH019 Sulfur-Deplete Cultivation of C. reinhardtii: A Novel Approach
Performance
to Increasing the Cost-Efficiency of Green Hydrogen Fuel
# Sophia Patricia Zhou, 15, Sophomore,
Production
Lafayette High School, Lafayette, Louisiana
Alexander Bryce Walker, 17, Junior,
EGCH005T A Bright Future: The Use of Organic Waste in Dye-Sensitized Patrick F. Taylor Science & Technology Academy,
Cells in the Creation of Efficient Solar Energy Systems Westwego, Louisiana
Grace Lee, 16, Junior,
EGCH020 The Production of Oxygen and Hydrogen Gases Through the
Nick Lee, 18, Senior,
Development of an On Board Electrolyzer to Improve the Mile
Colleyville Heritage High School, Colleyville, Texas
per Gallon Efficiency of a Spark-Ignition Engine
EGCH006 Long Life High Energy Density K+/FSI- Dual-Ion Battery # Daniel A. Orr, 17, Junior,
with Corncob/Graphite Mixture as Cathode and Soft Carbon Northwestern High School, Mellette, South Dakota
as Anode
EGCH021 Fuel Ethanol Potential of Barley, Phase Four
Kairui Lin, 17, Junior,
## Morgan Marcella Kohl, 18, Senior,
QuanZhou No.5 High School, Quanzhou, Fujian, China
Waverly-South Shore Public School, Waverly, South Dakota
EGCH007 Development and Performance Evaluation of a New Type of
EGCH022 A Novel Sol-Gel Derived SPEEK/Silicon Dioxide Composite
Mg-Air-Battery for Emergency: The Teabag Model
Membrane for the Vanadium Redox Flow Battery
Shuho Hamano, 17, Junior,
Dhruvik Parikh, 18, Senior,
Sakado High School of Saitama Prefecture, Sakado-shi,
Henry M. Jackson High School, Bothell, Washington
Saitama, Japan
EGCH023 Electricity from Living Water Hyacinth Plants Enhanced
EGCH008 Genetic Engineering Yeast to Produce Lipid Based Biofuel
Biogas Production
for the Future
Macdonald Tawanda Chirara, 18, Senior,
Remi Olivier Labeille, 16, Sophomore,
ZRP High School, Harare, Harare Metropolitan, Zimbabwe
Midway High School, Waco, Texas
EGCH024T The Effect of Fluorination of Graphene on the Effectiveness of
EGCH009T Roots for the Road
Primary Batteries (Li/CFx) and Supercapacitors
Emma Stone, 15, Freshman,
Sukitha Rukshan Gunasena, 15, Sophomore,
Reiley Leake, 15, Freshman,
Ruchira Udara Sumanasekera, 16, Junior,
Brush High School, Brush, Colorado
duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Kentucky
EGCH010 America’s Next Generation of Green Energy: Biodigesters
EGCH025 Proposed Inclusive Model for the Prediction of the Derived
David S. Baden, 17, Junior,
Cetane Number (DCN) of Fuels Using Molecular Parameters
Patrick Henry High School, Hamler, Ohio
Mohannad Ahmed Jabrah, 17, Senior,
EGCH011 Deconvoluting Impedance Mechanisms in Emerging Dar AlFikr Schools, Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Fuel Cell Material
EGCH026 Acquisition of Low Cost Energy by Natural Dyes with Dye
Alexia Popescu, 16, Junior,
Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC)
Niles Township West High School, Skokie, Illinois
Muhammed Melih Dogan, 18, Senior,
EGCH012 The Effects of Sodium Bicarbonate Concentration on the Fethi Gemuhluoglu Fen Lisesi, Yesilyurt, Malatya, Turkey
Growth Rate of Chlorella
EGCH027 Improving the Water Splitting Efficiency Using Nickel-
# Jessica Elise Roth, 18, Senior,
Based Catalysts: A Hydrogen Production Device Driven by
Big Sandy High School, Big Sandy, Montana
Photovoltaic Cell
Nawar Tayseer Alhaddad, 17, Senior,
EGCH013 The Relationship Between Oil and Biodiesel Quality
Dhahran Ahliyya School, Dammam, Eastren Province,
# Tyler Shaud Schwarzbach, 17, Junior,
Saudi Arabia
Big Sandy High School, Big Sandy, Montana
EGCH028 Efficiency and Stability Improvement of Perovskite Solar Cells
EGCH014 The Effect of Sulfate Compounds on Perovskite Solar Cell
Meshail Mansour Aljalawi, 17, Senior,
Voltage Output
AlBassam Schools, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Chloe Anne Seng, 17, Junior,
Central Virginia Governor’s School for Science and Technology,
Lynchburg, Virginia

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EGCH029 A Novel Approach to Optimizing Algae Biofuel Production by
Using Naturally Occurring Extracellular Polymeric Substances
(EPS) Through Bioflocculation
Nikita Bharati, 14, Freshman,
Basha High School, Chandler, Arizona

EGCH030 Multi-Fuel Analysis

Jackson Carmichael Boyle, 18, Senior,
Delta High School, Delta, Utah

EGCH031 Creating a Cost-Efficient Water Soluble Carbon Capture

System for CO2 Emitting Vehicles to Increase Biofuel
Production Efficiency
Satya Phoenix Alagarsamy, 17, Junior,
American Heritage School, Plantation, Florida

EGCH032T Performance of Conventional & Unconventional Hybrid

Rocket Fuels
Ryan Spencer Pearson, 15, Sophomore,
Chad Harrison Brown, 16, Sophomore,
Woods Cross High School, Woods Cross, Utah

EGCH033T The Efficiency Increase of Eco-Friendly DSSC Containing

Visible Light Activity
Dabin Lee, 17, Senior,
Subin Lee, 16, Junior,
Seo Yeon Jeong, 16, Senior,
Changwon Sungmin Girls’ High School, Changwon,
Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

EGCH034 Novel Use of Bio-Based Materials in Metal-Air Batteries

# Aniruddh Chennapragada, 17, Senior,
James Ruse Agricultural High School, Sydney, NSW, Australia

EGCH035 Optimizing the Designs of Multi-Layer Microbial Fuel Cells

Zachary Kochert, 17, Senior,
Center for Advanced Technical Studies, Chapin, South Carolina

EGCH036T Highly Mesoporous Electrodes Derived from Polymer Blends

of Polyacrylonitrile-Polystyrene and Polyacrylonitrile-
Poly(Methyl-Methacrylate) Paired with a Cost-Effective Deep
Eutectic Solvent for High Energy Density Supercapacitors
Ashna Shah, 17, Junior,
Ashay Shah, 17, Junior,
Plano East Senior High School, Plano, Texas

EGCH037T Biomass Energy as a Means of Electrical Production

Angela Carolina Morales Diaz, 16, Junior,
Daniel Esteban Cruz Perez, 16, Junior,
Veinte de Julio, Acacias, Meta, Colombia

EGCH038T Research of LI-S Battery with Porous Carbon from Garlic Peel
Jihyeok Jang, 16, Sophomore,
Seungjin Lee, 16, Sophomore,
Changwon Science High School, Changwon-si,
Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

EGCH039T Vermicompose as a Source of Electricity

Muhammad Fareeq Bin Mohamed Nasser, 16, Senior,
Muhammad Amirul Naim Bin Shaiful Kamarul, 17, Senior,
MRSM Tun Abdul Razak, Pekan, Pahang, Malaysia

EGCH040 Leidenfrost Effect as a Reactor for Direct Methanol

Fuel Cell Catalyst
Fatima Zayed AlMaadeed, 16, Senior,
AlArqam Academy for Girls, Doha, Qatar

EGCH041T Determining the Role of n-Hexane in Multiple Phases in

Nannochloropsis sp. and Nitzschia sp.
Jenna Lily Takata, 16, Junior,
Charlene Tan, 16, Junior,
Kauai High School, Lihue, Hawaii

EGCH042 A Billion Powerplants: Could Microscopic Organisms Lead to a

Future of Environmentally Friendly Electricity?
Kylee Pameticky, 18, Senior,
Fairview High School, Fairview, Oklahoma
 

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 Energy: Physical EGPH014 Maximizing Energy Efficiency: Improvements in Litz Wire
Designs in the Megahertz Range
Rachel Joseph, 17, Junior,
Somers High School, Lincolndale, New York
EGPH001 In-Line Turbine Network Based Hydro-Electric Power
Generation System for Residential Application
EGPH015T Solar Musical Engine
Hasnat Ahmad, 13 Freshman,
Fatma Adel Mahmoud, 17, Junior,
Scarsdale International School, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Khadeja Omar Dapour, 17, Junior,
STEM School of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
EGPH002 Solar Efficiency Cover-Up: Solar Panel Protective Cover
Effects on Efficiency
EGPH016 Use of Stray Currents as a Source of Renewable Energy
Davis Cinitis, 18, Senior,
Vladyslav Kazakov, 14, Freshman,
Riga’s French Lyceum, Riga, Riga, Latvia
Educational Complex “Alexandria Kollegium - Specialized
School”, Olexandriya, Ukraine
EGPH003 Untapped Static: A New Paradigm for Energy Harvesting
Integrating a Cost-Effective Electrostatic-Based Generator
EGPH017 The Design and Testing of an Ankle Induction Coil to Charge
with Supercapacitors to Optimize Energy Storage and Energy
Devices During Movement
Harvesting Efficiency
Chase Joel Newel, 17, Senior,
Eshan Chhabra, 17, Junior,
Pinelands High School, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Plano Senior High School, Plano, Texas
EGPH018 Increasing Hydropower Flow Rate Using a Non-Linear
EGPH004T Energy of Life: Colored Bioluminescent Concentrator for
Penstock
Enhanced Photovoltaic Performance
## Malini Mukherji, 18, Senior,
Smiti Gandhi, 17, Senior,
Notre Dame Preparatory, Pontiac, Michigan
Andrew Liu, 17, Senior,
Clear Brook High School, Friendswood, Texas
EGPH019 Medium Affecting Thermal Efficiency in the Heating Pipe
System with the Simultaneous Prevention of Eutrophication
EGPH005 Offsetting High Rise Booster Pump Systems’ Energy
Process
Consumption with the Implementation of Hydropower
Szymon Pawel Kanikowski, 19, Senior,
Turbines
I Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Karola Marcinkowskiego, Poznan,
Sean Arthur Roades, 17, Junior,
Wielkopolska, Poland
Valley View High School, Jonesboro, Arkansas
EGPH020T Electricity from the Air
EGPH006T Road Wind Power Generation Using Momentary Air
Tonyaradzwa Louisa Chivandire, 17, Senior,
Pressure Difference
Tapiwanashe Kamba, 16, Junior,
Leehan Kim, 17, Senior,
Queen Elizabeth Girls’ High School, Harare, Zimbabwe
Jaewon Jang, 18, Senior,
Jinhyeok Choi, 17, Senior,
EGPH021 RPAL: A Novel Low-Cost High-Efficiency Photovoltaic System
Bundang Jungang High School, Seongnam-si, South Korea
Using Tunable Plasmonic Nanostructures
# Sathya Edamadaka, 16, Junior,
EGPH007 Improving the Energy Produced by a Flexible Solar Cell
High Technology High School, Lincroft, New Jersey
Michele Schremp, 14, Freshman,
Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, Massachusetts
EGPH022T A Dual Axis Solar Tracker as a Hybrid Solar Harvesting Tool as
an Alternative Energy Provider for Rural Areas in Kenya
EGPH008 The Laser’s Potential: Photonic Propulsion in the Future of
Rohit Dhanji Rabadiya, 17, Sophomore,
Transportation
Kauel Rajeshkumar Brahmbhatt, 15, Sophomore,
Benjamin Erik Hickenlooper, 18, Senior,
Shree Cutchi Leva Patel Samaj School, Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
Fremont High School, Plain City, Utah
EGPH023T Design and Development of Solar-Tracking Arduino-Rooted
EGPH009T Increase of the Wave-Tidal Power Generator Efficiency by
PV Panels
Copying Litopenaeus vannameis’ Swimming
Joscel Kent Padayao Manzanero, 19, Senior,
Yuna Jung, 18, Senior,
Keith Russel Pelagio Cadores, 18, Senior,
Chan Hui Kim, 17, Senior,
Eugene Rualizo Rivera, 18, Senior,
Minseo Bang, 19, Senior,
Camarines Sur National High School, Naga City, Camarines Sur,
Gyeongnam Science High School, Jinju-si, Gyeongsangnam-do,
Philippines
South Korea
EGPH024 Investigation of Novel and Unconventional Microwave
EGPH010 Fusion Reactions in Low Wattage Inertial Electrostatic
Antenna Designs Using in silico Modeling
Confinement Devices
## Samuel Brian Lossef, 17, Junior,
Daniel Alexander Klasing, 19, Senior,
School Without Walls High School, Washington,
Stuart W. Cramer High School, Belmont, North Carolina
District of Columbia
EGPH011 Catalyst Integration and Surface Protection of Water-Splitting
EGPH025 Electrae- An Innovative Solution for Generating Energy from
Photoelectrochemical Cells for Hydrogen Production
Multiple Sources Including Piezoelectrics, Photovoltaic
Applications
Materials and Low Flow/Head Hydropower for Application in a
Dana Turki Altoaimi, 17, Senior,
Multitude of Environments
Kingdom Schools, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Laalitya Acharya, 14, Freshman,
William Mason High School, Mason, Ohio
EGPH012 An Innovative Design of Enhanced-Performance Solar Panels
Using Heat Pipe and Thermoelectric Generator
EGPH026 Harvesting Energy from Raindrops Using Piezoelectric
Norah Fahad Alamri, 16, Sophomore,
Generator
Alfaisaliah Islamic Schools, AlKhobar, Saudi Arabia
Huong Ho, 17, Junior,
Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology,
EGPH013 Aneutronic IEC Fusion Concept
Conyers, Georgia
Ben James Kolar, 17, Junior,
Fergus High School, Lewistown, Montana

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EGPH027 Thickness Variation of Optical Spacer By Using Poly (Methyl
Methacrylate) (PMMA) on the Performance of a Four Terminal
Mechanically-Stacked Tandem Solar Cell
Hasan Abdulredha Ashkanani, 17, Junior,
Yosef Bin Eissa, Kuwait, Kuwait

EGPH028 Eggtricity: The 3-D Printed Buoy that Generates Sustainable

Energy Using Wave Movement
Catalina Teresa Lemus, 17, Junior,
Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, Washington,
District of Columbia

EGPH029T Designing a Novel Self-Sustained Solar Powered Desalination

Apparatus to Produce Thermoelectricity, Using a Fresnel Lens
and Thermoelectric Generators
Ibrahim Mateen Moghul, 15, Sophomore,
Maryam Mateen Moghul, 16, Junior,
Triangle Math and Science Academy, Cary, North Carolina

EGPH030T Anti-Shake for Sky Scrapers

Zhir Raouf Mohammedali, 18, Junior,
Shkar Abdalla Ahmed, 18, Junior,
Private Salahaddin Ayyubi College, Sulaimania, Iraq

EGPH031T Portable Thermoelectric System

Oula Fares Qasim, 17, Junior,
Manar Montasar Kadhim, 17, Junior,
Baghdad Ishik Girls College, Baghdad, Iraq

EGPH032T Smart Extension Cord

Omar Maghdid Abdullah, 17, Sophomore,
Mustafa Fadhil Kamal, 16, Sophomore,
Erbil Ishik Boys College, Erbil, Iraq
 

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 Engineering Mechanics ENMC017T An Amphibious Teleoperated Vehicle Designed to Collect
Water Samples in Remote and Hazardous Environments
Ryker Bullis, 18, Senior,
Nathaniel A. Fritsch, 18, Senior,
ENMC001T Using Fluid Dynamics to Create a Submersible Aircraft
Nicholas Conrad Ogden, 18, Senior,
# Donald Edward Martin 17, Junior,
Glencoe High School, Hillsboro, Oregon
# Jason Dong, 17, Senior,
Academics Etc., Lake Charles, Louisiana
ENMC018 B.M.G. Brushless Motor Generator
Alfred M. Barbe High School, Lake Charles, Louisiana
Ashley Hugh Cain, 17, Junior,
Mazenod College, Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia
ENMC002T Captain Smartphone
Ivan Andres Otero, 16, Sophomore,
ENMC019 Inspection 360: A Novel Spin-Climbing Robot Design
Santiago Gabriel Perez, 17, Sophomore,
Targeting at Performing Maintenance Tasks for
Escuela Technica Carmelo Anexo (ERCNA), Carmelo, Colonia,
Cable-Stayed Bridges
Uruguay
Yifan Zhang, 18, Senior,
Shanghai High School, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
ENMC003 Dynamo Powered Vaccine Carrier for Off-Grid Locations,
Year Two
ENMC020T Wildlife Observation System Based on Autonomous Target
Susanna Ruth Dorminy, 16, Junior,
Recognition and Tracking
Sola Fide Home School, McDonough, Georgia
YanYi Wang, 16, Sophomore,
# YuFei Li, 16, Sophomore,
ENMC004 Measuring the Sound Intensity and Reflection Coefficients of
Beijing No. 4 High School, Beijing, Beijing, China
Materials Inside an Acoustically Designed Classroom (Choir
The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China, Beijing,
Room), Assisted by a Custom Impedance Apparatus and
Beijing, China
Modeled by Two and Three Dimensional Models
Abigail Rose Smith, 15, Sophomore,
ENMC021 Traditional Five-Story Pagoda: Experimental Analysis Using
Cloquet Senior High School, Cloquet, Minnesota
Home-Brew Seismic Generator
Miyabi Nagano, 17, Junior,
ENMC006T Automatic Brake System for Motorcycles
National Institute of Technology, Gifu College, Motosu-shi,
Ignatius Vito Wirawan Putra Hapsara, 16, Junior,
Gifu, Japan
Attar Husna Fathiya, 16, Junior,
SMA Negeri 8, Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Daerah Istimewa
ENMC022 Development of a Smart Cervical Vertebrae Brace for Neck
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Pain Prevention and Rehabilitation
Muning Fan, 17, Junior,
ENMC007 Is Your Smart Phone Leaking?: Year Three
Academy of Science and Technology, The Woodlands, Texas
Camila Rimoldi Ibanez, 15, Freshman,
Sebring High School, Sebring, Florida
ENMC023 Economizing Materials on a Pratt Truss Bridge
Chloe Aviana Boerner-Martinez, 15, Freshman,
ENMC008 Electromagnetic Wall Climber
John Jay Science and Engineering Academy, San Antonio, Texas
Matthew Garrett Graham, 15, Freshman,
Polk Pre-Collegiate Academy, Auburndale, Florida
ENMC024 The Hexagonal Weave: Using Hexagonal Engineering to Create
a Better Body Armor
ENMC009 Detecting Earthquakes Using a Two-Dimensional Pendulum
# Lucas Carey Lynn, 18, Senior,
Ephram Jonah Edelkind, 14, Freshman,
Wetumpka High School, Wetumpka, Alabama
Manatee High School, Bradenton, Florida
ENMC025T A Helping Hand for Arthritis Pain Relief & Rehabilitation
ENMC010 Controlled Landing: Manipulating a Parachute to Determine
Natalie Noel Luong, 17, Junior,
the Landing Site of a Rocket
Jenna White, 17, Junior,
Lorenzo Shaikewitz, 16, Junior,
Ana Bogdanova, 16, Junior,
Charles E. Jordan Senior High School, Durham, North Carolina
Peachtree Ridge High School, Suwanee, Georgia
ENMC011 Designing and Building a Continuously Spinning but
ENMC026 Saving Our Environment: Ash to Concrete
Controllable Flying Object
Dylan Tornquist Tucker, 17, Junior,
Frederik Dunschen, 19, Senior,
Waipahu High School, Waipahu, Hawaii
Friedensschule Munster, Munster, Germany
ENMC027 Development of a Hybrid Direct Write 3D Printer: A Novel
ENMC012T Orientation Gadget for Visually Impaired
One-Step Approach to Fabricating Multi-Layer Functional
Nele Tornow, 18, Senior,
Devices and Flexible Electronics Through Reactive Inkjet
Fabian Charles Miro Rimmele, 19, Senior,
Printing
Alfred Nobel Schule, Geesthacht, Germany
Joshua Murphy Jacob, 18, Senior,
ENMC013 Suppression of Aeroelastic Instabilities in High Ratio Wing Saint Xavier High School, Louisville, Kentucky
Structures Using Principal Component Analysis
ENMC028 Solar Updraft Tower-Wind Turbine Hybrid: Optimizing
Krithik Ramesh, 15, Sophomore,
Power Generation in Multifarious Climatic Conditions Using
Cherry Creek High School, Greenwood Village, Colorado
Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis
ENMC014 KN-Sucrose Rocket Fuels Rachel Spaulding, 17, Junior,
Caleb Wilson Chakmakjian, 15, Freshman, Eastern High School, Louisville, Kentucky
Live Oak Classical School, Waco, Texas
ENMC029 Essential Features of Hyperloop Systems
ENMC015T Access to the Study of Rapid Chemical Kinetics by Generating Collin Christopher Kemper, 18, Senior,
and Monitoring a Drop of a Reaction Mixture Saint Xavier High School, Louisville, Kentucky
Clarisse Baudouin, 17, Senior,
ENMC030 The Virtual Winglet: A Novel Approach to Boundary Layer
Clement Traup, 18, Senior,
Manipulation and Wingtip Vortex Suppression
Chloe Emma Simonnet, 17, Senior,
# Rachel Seevers, 16, Junior,
Lycee Douanier Rousseau, Laval, France
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, Lexington, Kentucky

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ENMC031T A Spherical Induction Motor with Hexahedron Stator for ENMC045 Towards Engine Downsizing: Examining the Effect of Injection
Attitude Control Strategies and Novel AC Ion Sensor on Preignition Tendency
Shang-Jung Lee, 18, Senior, of Spark-Ignited Engines
Po-Hsun Yen, 18, Junior, Yousif Bader Alhammadi, 17, Senior,
Concordia Middle School, Chiayi County, Taiwan Dhahran Ahliyya School, Dammam, Eastern Province,
Department of Education, Chiayi City, Taiwan Saudi Arabia

ENMC032 Project POWER: A Swift Water Warning System ENMC046 Determining the Ignition Characteristics of GCI Blend for
Tyler E. Robertson, 16, Junior, Gasoline Compression Ignition Engines Using Chemical
Clovis West, Fresno, California Kinetics
Hassan Ahmed Alkhunaizi, 17, Senior,
ENMC033 Undulated Leading-Edge Airfoils in Low to Medium Reynolds Almajeediah Secondary School, Qatif, Saudi Arabia
Number Regime
Keshav Vedula, 18, Senior, ENMC047 New Generator Producing Energy in a Closed Circuit
CREC Academy of Aerospace and Engineering, Windsor, Angelysmar Feliciano-Cordero, 18, Senior,
Connecticut Dr. Carlos González High School, Aguada, Guaniquilla,
Puerto Rico
ENMC034 Engineering an Atomic Force Microscopy Based Nano-
Stethoscope ENMC048 Utilizing Low-Cost Hybrid Technology to Decrease Emissions
Fred Chu, 18, Senior, in Motorcycles
Manhasset High School, Manhasset, New York Nikhil Wagher, 17, Senior,
Rivermont Collegiate, Bettendorf, Iowa
ENMC035 BEAM Me Up, Scotty! Mitigating the Decibel Levels on the
BEAM Space Module Using a 1:10 Scale Model with Acoustic ENMC049 Mathematically Accurate, Double-Axis Microgravity Simulator
Engineering Techniques for Long Term Space Missions Gwyneth Marie Schloer, 17, Senior,
Daniel Liddell Anand, 17, Junior, Rock Ridge High School, Ashburn, Virginia
Anand Homeschool Academy, Akron, Ohio
ENMC050T Langmuir Plasma Research
ENMC036 MARS-Q: A Vertical Thrust Vehicle Capable of Planetary Daniel Joel Christensen, 18, Senior,
Reconnaissance in a Martian Atmosphere Michaela Germani Fennell, 17, Junior,
Aylor Jake Huneycutt, 15, Freshman, Northwest Nuclear Consortium, Federal Way, Washington
AP4, Madison, Tennessee
ENMC051 The Optimal Truss
ENMC037 FEA Based Analysis of Spidron Fractal Structures in Force Edwin Ding, 15, Sophomore,
Absorption Applications Bartlesville High School, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
# Skyler Steven Hughes, 18, Senior,
Albuquerque Institute for Math and Science, Albuquerque, New ENMC052T Investigating the Effects of Propellant Mass Flow Rate and
Mexico a Swirl Ring on the Efficiency of a Magnetoplasmadynamic
Thruster
ENMC038 Optimizing Combustion Efficiency and Emissions in a Burner Avery Parker Clowes, 16, Sophomore,
Design Using Spiral Mixing Technology; Year Two of an William Augustus Menken, 16, Sophomore,
Ongoing Study Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire
# Brendan Joseph Crotty, 16, Sophomore,
Home School, Muskogee, Oklahoma ENMC053 The Impact of Physical Properties on a Subsonic Projectile’s
Velocity
ENMC039 Simulation, Optimization, and Validation of a Closed Wing Andre Farinazo Jr., 17, Junior,
Airplane Olentangy High School, Lewis Center, Ohio
### Andrew Bennett, 18, Senior,
Bountiful High School, Bountiful, Utah ENMC054 EVERSE: Electric Vehicle Energy Recovery and Safety
Enhancement
ENMC040 Proof of Concept Modeling of Venus Atmospheric Michael Wolfe, 15, Sophomore,
Maneuverable Platform Utilizing Earth-Bound Modeling King’s Christian Collegiate, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Spencer Andrew Krock, 17, Junior,
Norco High School, Norco, California ENMC055 Automatized Radiation Shield for Potential Space Colonies
Deniz Gulbaharli, 18, Senior,
ENMC041T Fuel Geysering in Small Motor Systems Ozel Cevizlibag Doga Anadolu Lisesi, Istanbul, Turkey
Mason Robert Palmer, 17, Senior,
Lylee Ranee Nebeker, 18, Senior, ENMC056 Microwave Resonant Cavity Thruster
Fremont High School, Plain City, Utah Jakub Jedrzejewski, 19, Senior,
Technikum nr 1 w Zespole Szkoa‚ Technicznych w Ostrowie
ENMC042 How to Make a More Efficient DC Motor Wielkopolskim, Ostrow Wielkopolski, Poland
Delaney Ann Hammond, 15, Freshman,
Piedra Vista High School, Farmington, New Mexico ENMC057 The Designing of Remote Control System “Robot Snowplow”
Evgenii Mikhailov, 16, Sophomore,
ENMC043 Implementation of Gyroscopically Leveled Spherical Municipal Budgetary Educational Institution “The Hibinsky
Drones Optimized Through Neuro-Evolution of Augmented Gymnasium”, Kirovsk, Murmansk Region, Russian Federation
Topologies for Reconnaissance and Imaging of Martian
Environments ENMC058 3... 2... 1... Blast Off!
William Wang, 16, Junior, Durga Sai Venu Omkaar Chimma, 15, Sophomore,
Nikola Tesla STEM High School, Redmond, Washington Greenwood High School, Greenwood, Mississippi

ENMC044 Evaluation of Scrubber Designs for Cleaning Ship’s Hulls ENMC059T The Automatic Freshwater Distillation System from Seawater
Lily Gabrielle Adcock, 16, Junior, Operated by Water Pressure
Pearl City High School, Pearl City, Hawaii Anh Nhat Mai, 17, Senior,
Long Van Phung, 17, Senior,
Phan Boi Chau Gifted High School, Vinh, Nghe An, Viet Nam

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ENMC060T The Wheel for Moving on the Floor and Stair, the New
Solution for Wheelchairs
Nguyen Cong Khanh, 17, Senior,
Nguyen Huu Thanh Dat, 16, Junior,
Bac Ninh Specilaized High School, Bac Ninh, Viet Nam

ENMC061 Engineering a Composite Ballet Pointe Shoe Shank

Abigail Roslyn Freed, 17, Junior,
Hilton Head Preparatory School, Hilton Head Island,
South Carolina

ENMC062 Device for Measuring the Efficiency of Electromagnetic

Launchers
Petteri Haverinen, 16, Sophomore,
Lahden Lyseo, Lahti, Paijat-Hame, Finland

ENMC063 Flying Birdie

Hailey M. Smith, 17, Junior,
Billings Senior High School, Billings, Montana

ENMC064T Hexagon Housing: A More Realistic Solution to Refugee

Housing Using the Isoperimetric Honeycomb Conjecture
Samantha B. Davis, 17, Junior,
Alicia Kuhlmann, 17, Junior,
Bingham High School, South Jordan, Utah

ENMC065 The Effectiveness of Man-Made Structures in Reducing the

Amount of Flooding Caused by a Tsunami
Liam Paul Kellogg, 15, Freshman,
Seton School, Manassas, Virginia

ENMC066 Improving Robustness of X-Ray SynchrotronImage Analysis

Using Deep Learning and Data Augmentation
Nicole Meister, 17, Senior,
Centennial High School, Ellicott City, Maryland

ENMC067 Graphene Insulated Nanosatellite

Ghaya Mohammed Ibrahim, 16, Senior,
Al Khaleej National School, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
 

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 Environmental Engineering ENEV014 Sustainable Structural Health Monitoring after Earthquake
Based on Multiscale Entropy Analysis
Kai-En Yang, 17, Junior,
National Experimental High School at Hsinchu Science Park,
ENEV001 Biosorventum: A Novel Approach for Textile Effluent
Hsinchu, Taiwan
Treatment
Juliana Davoglio Estradioto, 17, Senior,
ENEV015 A New Air Pollution Filter for Effective Gas Separation and
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio
Purification: High-Performance Polymer-Blended Mixed-
Grande do Sul (IFRS) - Campus Osório, Osorio,
Matrix Membranes with Triad Compatibilizers - Small Organic
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Molecules, Metal Organic Frameworks, and Carbon Nanotubes
David Yue, 17, Junior,
ENEV002 Sustainable Construction of a Desalination Model with
Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, Denton, Texas
Supplementary Heating and Photovoltaic Conversion
Caio Vinícius Lima de Souza, 16, Sophomore,
ENEV016T Reducing Commercial Food Waste: Developing an Application
Escola Estadual Gabriel de Almeida Cafe, Macapa, Amapa, Brazil
for the Economically Viable Transportation of Food Waste
from Source to Compost Facility via Private Contractors
ENEV003 Potential Bioremediation of Waste Hydrocarbons: Utilization
Michael Jonathan Gerhard, 15, Sophomore,
of Mycorrhizal Fungi as an Environmental Enhancement Agent
Kabir Jolly, 16, Sophomore,
# Eduardo Burgos, 17, Senior,
Academy of Science and Technology, The Woodlands, Texas
Greybull High School, Greybull, Wyoming
ENEV017T Understanding the Degradation of an Algae-Derived
ENEV004 Developing a Deployable pH Sensor to Monitor Ocean
Bioplastic and Its Immediate Effects on Aquatic Environments
Acidification, Year Three
Odessa Emmanuelle Thompson, 16, Sophomore,
## Evelyn Amal Haase, 17, Junior,
Rose Marlee Leveen, 15, Sophomore,
Molokai High School, Ho’olehua, Hawaii
Bailey Rhyan Segall, 16, Sophomore,
ENEV005 Biodiesel Fuel Production via Mild Chemical Recycling of Camas High School, Camas, Washington
Thermosetting Polymers
ENEV018 Cleaner Bottoms, Part III, Hull Materials: An Environmentally
Emily Guo, 17, Junior,
Friendly Method of Reducing Barnacle Growth and Improving
Chattahoochee High School, Johns Creek, Georgia
the Quality of Our Waterways Using Ultrasonic Waves
ENEV006 Harmful Algal Growth Suppressed by Allelopathy Regardless Isabela Victoria Perdomo, 15, Freshman,
of Excess Phosphorus MAST at FIU Biscayne Bay Campus, North Miami, Florida
Elizabeth Margaret Farmer, 17, Senior,
ENEV019 Time of the Month: Bad for the Environment?
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham,
Tykera Carmen Moore, 16, Junior,
North Carolina
Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology,
ENEV007T Innovative Indoor Biowaste Composting Solution: Biobox with Conyers, Georgia
Added Microorganisms and Heating Source
ENEV020 Designing a Novel Heavy Metal Bioremediation System
Kevin Reisenbuk, 19, Senior,
Utilizing Immobilized Algae Partnered with Heavy Metal
Kris-Robin Sirge, 19, Senior,
Resistant Microbial Isolates Collected from Contaminated
Joonatan Oras, 19, Senior,
Superfund Mine Sites and Identified with a 16S Ribosomal
Hugo Treffner Gymnasium, Tartu, Tartu County, Estonia
Subunit Analysis
ENEV008T Arsenic and Lead Decontamination Level Identification Braden Nicholas Milford, 16, Junior,
Through the Toxic Metal Biosorption Technique Using Cascia Hall Preparatory School, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Vegetable Residues
Ariana Fernanda Ponce Bohorquez, 15, Sophomore, ENEV021T Implementation of Salvinia sp. and Eichhornia sp. for the
Maria Jose Jaico Roman, 15, Sophomore, Santa Ana, Tacna, Peru Phytoremediation, Rhizofiltration, and Recycling of Heavy
Metals from Contaminated Aquatic Environments
ENEV009T Development of Self-Managed Seawater Desalination Device Nastassia Goodson, 18, Senior,
with Biofouling Reduction Powered by the Tidal Range Bryan To, 17, Senior,
Hyesung Jeon, 18, Senior, Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, Oregon
Yoojeong Kwon, 18, Senior,
Gyeonggi Science High School for the Gifted, Suwonsi, ENEV022 From Shrimps to a Barbie: Shrimp Shell Bioplastics – A New
Gyeonggido, South Korea Solution to the World’s Growing Plastic Problem
Angelina Arora, 15, Junior,
ENEV010 Using Solar Power in a Combined Electrocoagulation- Sydney Girls High School, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Electroflotation Approach to Water Treatment
Stephanie Brown, 17, Junior, ENEV023T Grapes Cotton
College Station High School, College Station, Texas Obada Nayef Al-leimon, 16, Sophomore,
Ahmad Nayef Al-leimon, 16, Sophomore,
ENEV011 One Key Recycling Intelligent Disinfection Cabinet for Waste Abdullah II for Excellence Alkarak, Alkarak, Jordan
Textbooks
Jingke Hu, 17, Sophomore, ENEV024T Introduction of Styrofoam-Degrading Bacteria Derived from
Hangzhou Xuejun High School, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China Mealworm into Intestine of Goldfish
Jinhyuk Park, 18, Senior,
ENEV012 ECO 3D Printing Younghoon Lee, 18, Senior,
Mohammad Basil Omari, 17, Junior, Sebin Choi, 17, Senior,
Modern Systems School, Amman, Amman, Jordan Hanmin High School, Goyang-si, South Korea

ENEV013T Assessment of the Levels of Mercury in Students ENEV025T Application of Stirling Engine to Appropriate Technology
Aged 12 to 18 Junsu Kim, 17, Senior,
Afonso Morgado Mota, 18, Senior, Jaeho Seong, 18, Senior,
Bernardo Jose Soares Alves, 17, Senior, Horyeong Chung, 17, Senior,
Joao Neto Afonso Dickson Leal, 18, Senior, Moksang High School, Mokpo City, Jeollanam-do, South Korea
Colegio Valsassina, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

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ENEV026 Magnetically Induced, Visual Detection of Trace Arsenic ENEV040 Direct Functionalization of Algal Nanocellulose to Enhance
Contaminants in Water Using Fe3O4 Photonic Crystal Biosorption for Lead(II) Remediation
Structures Michelle Xing, 17, Senior,
Raina Jain, 15, Sophomore, William A. Shine Great Neck South High School, Great Neck,
Greenwich High School, Greenwich, Connecticut New York

ENEV027 Investigating the Water Filtration Capabilities of Carbon- ENEV041 Transforming Agriculture to Feed the World Sustainably: A
Coated Oyster Shells State-of-the-Art, Drone-Enabled Precision Agriculture
Alexander Jason Howard, 17, Senior, End-to-End Solution
Timberline High School, Boise, Idaho # Veenadhari Kollipara, 17, Senior,
Interlake High School, Bellevue, Washington
ENEV028 Development of a Fully Automated 3D-Printed IoT Sensor for
Arsenic Detection in Groundwater ENEV042 Polymeric Environmental Cycle: Synthesis of Crystals from
# Anjali R. Chadha, 15, Junior, Expanded Polystyrene to Solve Problems in the Petroleum
duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Kentucky Industry
# Myllena Cristyna Braz da Silva, 19, Junior,
ENEV029 Pulp Fiction?! Lead Remediation with Biochar Made from the Instituto Federal De Educacao, Ciencia E Tecnologia Do Ceara,
Apiacae (Carrot) Plant Family Limoeiro do Norte, CE, Brazil
# Manashree Seth Padiyath, 16, Sophomore,
Woodbury High School, Woodbury, Minnesota ENEV043T Using Dunaliella salina Microalgae to Reduce Anthropic
CO2 Levels in the Atmosphere and Applying Its Biomass to
ENEV030 PEBBLE: Preservation and Evaluation for Benthic Barcode Life Produce Surfactants
Elements Marcos Felipe Soares Alves Pereira, 18, Sophomore,
Sonja Morgan Michaluk, 15, Sophomore, Joao Vitor dos Santos Oliveira, 18, Sophomore,
Hopewell Valley Central High School, Pennington, New Jersey Escola SESI Djalma Pessoa - Unidade Piata, Salvador, BA, Brazil

ENEV031 Development of a Highly Efficient Low-Cost Filter for Effective ENEV044T Copper Recovery from Galvanic Industries Through
Dissolved Heavy-Metal and Organic Contaminant Removal Spontaneous Oxidation
# Yatin J. Chandar, 17, Junior, Kaique Goncalves Ferreira, 17, Senior,
The Davidson Academy of Nevada, Reno, Nevada Elizandra Larissa da Silva, 16, Senior,
Vitoria Ventura, 16, Senior,
ENEV032 Single Chamber MFC: Role of Extracellular Phosphate in ETEC Trajano Camargo, Limeira, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Heavy Metal Precipitation
# Nathan Michael Tidball, 16, Junior, ENEV045 Engineered Environmental Containment: Converting
Wilsonville High School, Wilsonville, Oregon Lemna minor L. into a Natural Fertilizer
# Aaron Alexander Wills, 18, Senior,
ENEV033 Examining Manufactured Esterification, Homemade Central Lee High School, Donnellson, Iowa
Esterification, and Non-Corroding Coating as Viable Solutions
to Fatberg Formation ENEV046 A Novel Approach to Marine Hydrocarbon Bioremediation
Jee-Ho Kim, 16, Junior, Christian Andrew Bloch, 18, Senior,
Albemarle High School, Charlottesville, Virginia North Toole County High School, Sunburst, Montana

ENEV034 Innovative Wind Turbines ENEV047T Silver Nanoparticle Water Filtration Incorporating Ultra-Violet
Mahammad Hajiyev, 16, Junior, Sterilization
Namiq Hemzeyev Adina 238, Sayli Tam Orta Mekteb, Mackenzie Camille Wiegand 16, Junior,
Baku, Azerbaijan # Madison Clio Wiegand, 16, Junior,
Simms High School, Simms, Montana
ENEV035T A Multi-Functional, Deep Water Monitoring Robot for
Pollution Control in Reservoirs ENEV048 Constructing a Solar Graphene-Based Supercapacitor, Phase II
Man Chon Ho, 15, Sophomore, ## Madison Rose Hetland, 18, Senior,
Seong Hok Lao, 16, Sophomore, Mitchell High School, Mitchell, South Dakota
Pui Ching Middle School, Macao, Macao, Macao,
China, Macao Special Administrative Region ENEV049 Organic and Synthetic: Evaluation of Environmentally
Conscious Chemical Dispersant for Biological Crude Oil
ENEV036 Chlorella vulgaris Culturing as a Method of Bioremediation for Remediation
Waste Water Treatment to Control Entropic Eutrophication Adham Mohab Kassem, 17, Junior,
Ernesto Vazquez, 17, Junior, Academy of Science and Technology, The Woodlands, Texas
Dr. Pedro Albizu Campus, Ponce, Puerto Rico
ENEV050T Impurivision: A High Performance Mobile Application for
ENEV037 Textile Dye Pollution: Can Green Chemistry Fix the Problem Identifying Water Contamination Using Deep Learning
with a Biomimetic Iron-Complex? # Palash Shah, 17, Junior,
Sanjana Padala, 16, Junior, Kartik Chugh, 17, Junior,
Little Rock Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas Westfield High School, Chantilly, Virginia

ENEV038 An Economical Approach for Detecting Water Contamination ENEV051 Hydrogen Generation and the OER Electrode
at Homes - Preventing a Public Drinking Water Crisis Madison M. Autrey, 16, Junior,
Meghana Avvaru, 17, Junior, Trinity Preparatory School, Winter Park, Florida
Nashua High School South, Nashua, New Hampshire
ENEV052T No More Nitrates! A Comparison of Materials Used to Reduce
ENEV039 Solar Powered Nanotech Water Filtration Device with Personal Nitrate Levels in Sand Creek
Robotic Transport System Anna Jo Prchal, 17, Junior,
Smiti Shah, 17, Senior, Julianne Pankow, 17, Junior,
Bethpage High School, Bethpage, New York New Prague High School, New Prague, Minnesota

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ENEV053 Using Stropharia Mushroom Mycelium (S. rugosoannulata) ENEV066 Calculating Nephelometric Turbidity Units of Increased
and Waste Treatment Residual for Filtration of Nitrate/Total Suspended Solids in Water by Creating a Cost-Effective
Dissolved Nitrogen and Phosphate from Agricultural Runoff to Turbidity Buoy System Using an Attenuation Light Collection
Prevent Harmful Algae Blooms, Year Four System
# Harshal Rajesh Agrawal, 16, Junior, # Samuel Anthony Maher, 17, Senior,
Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School, Jersey City, Arthur Hill High School, Saginaw, Michigan
New Jersey
ENEV067 The Air We Breathe – Reducing Health Risks by Improving
ENEV054 Affordable Web-Enabled Continuous Radon Detector IAQ: An Innovative, Smart, and Responsive Ductless System
Anna Erica Prilutsky, 15, Sophomore, Optimized by Stochastic Simulation and Machine Learning
Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School, Jersey City, Eeshan Tripathii, 16, Junior,
New Jersey Dalton School, New York, New York

ENEV055 Re-Use and/or Disposal of Disposable Diapers ENEV068 Desalinating Water Using Electric Fields
Memory Panashe Bvungo, 14, Freshman, Ari Joseph Firester, 15, Sophomore,
Irene Christian College, Harare, Zimbabwe Hunter College High School, New York, New York

ENEV056 Enhancing Algal Bioremediation in Wastewater Using the ENEV069T The SAS Water Purification System: Utilizing Novel Chemical,
Surface Plasmon Resonance of Silver Metal Nanoparticles as Ionizing, Solar and Off Grid Thermal Induction Techniques for
an Optical Nanofilter Chemical and Microbial Purification and Medical Sterilization
# Min Hua Tsou, 17, Junior, of Water in Developing Communities
Mililani High School, Mililani, Hawaii ## Macinley Neve Butson, 17, Senior,
## Jade Taylor Moxey, 18, Senior,
ENEV057T ‘Leave’ It Back to Us: A Comprehensive & Sustainable MCD The Illawarra Grammar School, Mangerton, NSW, Australia
Concept Integrating the Whole Life Cycle of Consumer Goods Sapphire Coast Anglican College, Bega, NSW, Australia
Weng Io Chan, 17, Senior,
Weng Ian Wong, 18, Senior, ENEV070T Utilizing the Limestone Cycle to Reduce Net Atmospheric CO2
Keang Peng School - Secondary Section, Macao, Macao, China, While Simultaneously Producing Electricity
Macao Special Administrative Region Rishi Sai Popuri, 16, Sophomore,
Kishore Jaiswal, 15, Freshman,
ENEV058T Novel Approach to lmprove Local Wisdom Using Termite Hillfield Strathallan College, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Mounds in Treating Agricultural Waste
Atid Techanitisawad, 16, Sophomore, ENEV071 Altitude: A Auadcopter UAV for Air Pollutants Identification
Siwakorn Chanchalotorn, 16, Sophomore, and Measurement
Wasin Tiarawut, 15, Freshman, John Fredy Sepulveda, 17, Junior,
Bangkok Christian College, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand Institucion Educativa Instituto Tecnico Industrial Pascual Bravo,
Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia
ENEV059 Developing a Biologically Based Artificial Leaf to Filter
and Transform Carbon Dioxide Emissions into Oxygen via ENEV072 Homemade Water Purifying System
Photosynthesis Jeancarlos Melendez, 17, Junior,
Vithulan Suthakaran, 17, Junior, Jose Rojas Cortes, Orocovis, Puerto Rico
Florida Atlantic University High School, Boca Raton, Florida
ENEV073T Plasphalt: An Engineered Application for Plastic Waste
ENEV060 Comparing the Effects of Mycoremediation and in Asphalt
Phytoremediation on Soil Pollution Levels Using Pleurotus Dakota Lynn Finley, 16, Sophomore,
ostreatus and Brassica juncea Eduardo Lauro, 16, Sophomore,
Ali Talib Mustufa Saifee, 16, Junior, Willcox High School, Willcox, Arizona
Success Academy at DSU, St. George, Utah
ENEV074 A Novel Approach to the Bioremediation of Concurrent
ENEV061 Reducing the Environmental Impact of Organic Dyes in 1,4-Dioxane and Chlorinated Solvent cis-DCE Contamination
Industrial Wastewater Using Modified Graphene-BiOBr # Lauren Waldman, 17, Senior,
Photocatalysts American Heritage School, Plantation, Florida
Razan Ahmed Almusaed, 15, Sophomore,
Al-Bassam Schools, Dammam, Saudi Arabia ENEV075 Buffering the Bloom - The Effect of Nutrient Management
Practices on Pond Eutrophication
ENEV062 Storing CO2 in Unconventional Gas Reservoirs Through the # Alyssa Mae Kemp, 16, Junior,
Development of an Optimum Hydraulic Fracturing Design Cavalier Public High School, Cavalier, North Dakota
Deemah Ali Alashban, 17, Senior,
Dhahran Ahliyya School, Dammam, Eastern Province, ENEV076 Development of Innovative Strategies to Protect the Aquatic
Saudi Arabia Environment from Household Plastic Microfibers
# Noel Katherine Lange, 17, Junior,
ENEV063 Recycling Waste into Biochar: A Sustainable and Economic Auburn High School, Auburn, Alabama
Wastewater Filter and Fertiliser for the Agricultural Industry
# Minh Nga Nguyen, 17, Senior, ENEV077 Lead Ion Biosorption with Candida albicans, Escherichia coli,
Sydney Girls High School, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Saccharomyces cerevisiae via Engineered Bio-Sand Filters
as a Method for Pollution Remediation
ENEV064 Using Dimorphotheca sinuata in the Phytoremediation of Abril Noel Hunter, 17, Junior,
Tailing Storage Facilities Contaminated by Gold Mining The Governor French Academy, Belleville, Illinois
Martha Ama Nyarko Djan, 17, Senior,
The Potchefstroom High School for Girls, Potchefstroom, ENEV078 The Effect of Spent Coffee Grounds on the Multicyclic
North West, South Africa Adsorption of Lead
Janine Tomas Icalla, 15, Sophomore,
ENEV065 An Improved Method for Trace Level Arsenic Quantification Mills E. Godwin High School, Henrico, Virginia
in Water
# Ankush Kundan Dhawan, 16, Sophomore,
Signature School, Evansville, Indiana

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ENEV079 Remediation of Cr(VI) Contaminated Soil and Water Using ENEV093T H2O Desalination and Purification Using CNT and Silver
an Optimized Strain (Anabaena cylindrica) Immobilized in a Nanoparticles
Polymer Matrix Hind Tariq Alqassem Street, 17, Senior,
Naisargik Lenka, 15, Freshman, Hamda Arif Almheiri, 17, Senior,
Dav Public School, Bhubaneswar, India Al Khaleej National School, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
 
ENEV080T Non-Thermal, Atmospheric Plasma: A Means of Water
Purification
Mary Eileen Sgroi, 17, Junior,
Victor Karwacinski, 17, Junior,
Trinity School at Greenlawn, South Bend, Indiana

ENEV081 Is Your Water Safe to Drink? Development of a Novel Home

Test Method to Quantitatively Determine the Concentration of
Lead in Water, Phase Two
Mukund Anand Seshadri, 15, Sophomore,
Dublin Coffman High School, Dublin, Ohio

ENEV082T Study on Prevention of Soil Acidification Using Hydrogen

Bacteria
Tae Gyun Lee, 18, Senior,
Hyun Ho Bae, 18, Senior,
Gyeongnam Science High School, Jinju-si, Gyeongsangnam-do,
South Korea

ENEV083 Ordered Mesoporous Alkali Metal Catalyst for Recycling

Waste Glycerol from Biodiesel Manufacturing Process
Yoonseok Yang, 18, Junior,
Korean Minjok Leadership Academy, Hoengseong, Gangwon,
South Korea

ENEV084 Low Cost Coastal Irrigation System. Spots I the Desert

Anastasiia Venchkovska, 16, Freshman,
Lviv Lyceum of Technology, Lviv, Ukraine

ENEV085 Reliability and Efficiency of 3D Printed Microfluidic Devices

when Used in Ocean Acidification Testing
Ibrahim Ghassan Saleh, 16, Junior,
Greely High School, Cumberland, Maine

ENEV086 Enhanced Biofilter Control of CAFO Green House Gas

Emissions
### Juliann Kathleen Spilman, 17, Senior,
Mandan High School, Mandan, North Dakota

ENEV087 Bat Consumption of Ostinia nubilalis, European Corn Borer

Mya Nicole Vetter, 17, Senior,
Linton High School, Linton, North Dakota

ENEV088 The Gel of the Future: The Extraction and Creation of

Polyethylene Degrading Bacterial Gel
Taeseung Um, 18, Junior,
Oviedo High School, Oviedo, Florida

ENEV089 Filtration of Microplastics in Aqueous Environments Using

Ultrasonic Acoustics
Gary Thanh Nguyen, 18, Senior,
The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, Columbus,
Mississippi

ENEV090T Lint! A New Way to Conserve Water

Monique Dianna Reyes, 16, Junior,
Andrea Yocelin Campos, 17, Junior,
Alta Vista Early College High School, Anthony, New Mexico

ENEV091 Comparative Assessment of Physical and Chemical Properties

of Carrier Bags and Comparison of Its Appropriateness with
Environmental Studies
Vita Krump, 19, Senior,
II.Gimnazija Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

ENEV092T The Recycling of Fiberglass in Wind Turbine Blades

Bram Bats, 16, Junior,
Myrthe van de Velde, 17, Junior,
Sarah Dahoe, 16, Junior,
Bonhoeffer College, Enschede, Netherlands

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 Materials Science MATS014T Effect of Experimental Parameters on Forming Prince Rupert’s
Drops for Maximum Strength and Toughness
Srikar Reddy Godilla, 16, Junior,
Cristian Alexen Rodriguez, 17, Junior,
MATS001 Tensile Testing of Additively Manufactured Joineries
CREC Academy of Aerospace and Engineering, Windsor,
Complementary to Digital Engineering
Connecticut
Zhaoxian Zhang, 17, Senior,
Episcopal School of Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida
MATS015 A Kinetic Monte Carlo Study of Effects of Adatom-Adatom
Repulsive Interactions on Nucleation and Growth of
MATS002T CEBA-TIC: Bioplastic Generated with Biopolymers of
Nanoclusters
Hordeum vulgare
Lilly Gonzalez, 15, Sophomore,
Uriel Gutierrez Aguilar, 17, Senior,
duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Kentucky
Alejandro Dominguez Ayala, 17, Senior,
Colegio de Estudios Científicos y Tecnologicos del Estado de
MATS016 3D Printing of Biodegradable Material
Hidalgo, San Salvador, Hidalgo, Mexico
Alex Sun, 17, Junior,
Red Lion Area Senior High School, Red Lion, Pennsylvania
MATS003 Developing a 3D Printer Capable of Producing Hybrid
Hydrogel Based Artificial Cartilage
MATS017 A Novel Type of Nonvolatile Memory Device - RS Study on
Anna C. Feldbush, 19, Senior,
ZnO Materials
West Shore Junior/Senior High School, Melbourne, Florida
Tsz Hei Lo, 17, Senior,
St. Paul’s Co-Educational College, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong
MATS004 Green Synthesis of Antibacterial Silver Nanoparticles from
Special Administrative Region
Georgia Peach
Harshvardhan Singh, 16, Junior,
MATS018 Quantification of the Effects of Fluid Shear Stress on
Houston County High School, Warner Robins, Georgia
Circulating Tumor Cells
Rachael Noel Coates, 17, Junior,
MATS005 Novel Agarose Processing Techniques: Design and
St. Joseph’s Academy, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Characterization of a Sturdy, Porous Foam for Controlled
Topical Drug Delivery
MATS019 An Investigation of a Simple, Inexpensive Apparatus for Lipid
# Hamzah Faiyaaz Jhaveri, 18, Senior,
Nanoparticle Fabrication with Controllable Size and Dispersity
Lake Highland Preparatory School, Orlando, Florida
with in vitro Applications
Susan Wu, 18, Senior,
MATS006 Reclaimed Consumer Waste and Additive Manufacturing: The
Manhasset High School, Manhasset, New York
Perfect Blend
## Daniel Craig Bobbitt, 18, Senior,
MATS020 The Effect of Drumstick Material on Sound Produced
Niceville High School, Niceville, Florida
Davis Michael Funk, 16, Sophomore,
Spring Mills High School, Martinsburg, West Virginia
MATS007 Sulfur-Doped Carbon Materials Derived from Waste-Car-Tire
for High Performance Lithium-Sulfur Battery
MATS021 Making Scalable Inexpensive High Power and Energy Density
Yutong Wang, 16, Sophomore,
Graphene Supercapacitors with the LightScribe Method
The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China,
Minxing “Tony” Pan, 17, Senior,
Beijing, China
University Liggett School, Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan
MATS008T Jaundice: The Battle Between Blue vs. Yellow
MATS022 Repurposing Recycled Materials for Greener, Stronger Cement
Samantha M. Perez, 15, Freshman,
# Jill Elizabeth Bohnet, 17, Junior,
Dinorah A. Perez, 16, Sophomore,
Academy of Science and Technology, The Woodlands, Texas
Loretto Academy High School, El Paso, Texas
MATS023 Alternative Construction 3D Printing Materials
MATS009T Eco-friendly Alternatives to Polystyrene
Christine Pagett, 17, Junior,
Varisha Masroor, 16, Sophomore,
Portville Central School, Portville, New York
Rushmia Zaina Hoq, 16, Sophomore,
Austin Peace Academy, Austin, Texas
MATS024 Thermal Transport Properties of 2-Dimensional Transition
Metal Dichalcogenide Heterostructures
MATS010 Optical Studies of Nanostructures for Biosensing Applications
# Terrance Li, 17, Junior,
Aniket Pant, 15, Sophomore,
Newport Senior High School, Bellevue, Washington
Jefferson County International Baccalaureate, Irondale, Alabama
MATS025 A Comparison of the Strength of Experimental Chestnut
MATS011 Heteromultivalent Approaches to Clot-Targeted
Hybrids to Functionally Extinct Castanea dentata
Nanomedicine: Combination Targeting of Drug Delivery
# Heather Dawn Wotton, 18, Senior,
Systems to Active Platelets and Fibrin
Mountain Vista Governor’s School, Warrenton, Virginia
# Amaya Najma Razmi, 17, Senior,
Hathaway Brown School, Shaker Heights, Ohio
MATS026 Radiation Prevention: One Fiber at a Time
Kaylee Cunningham, 18, Senior,
MATS012 Formation of Copper Nanoparticles Ink Upon Copper Complex
Olympic Heights Community High School, Boca Raton, Florida
Decomposition
Hallel Shohat, 16, Junior,
MATS027 Casualty Care Improvised Direct Pressure Adjunct
The Hebrew University Secondary School, Jerusalem, Israel
Marissa Claire McAfee, 17, Senior,
South Forsyth High School, Cumming, Georgia
MATS013 Rotating Magnetic Nanoparticles to Measure Microviscosity
in Gels
MATS028T “Med1cast”- Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) and Plaster of
Wei De Koo, 17, Senior,
Paris as a Novel Composite to Produce an Eco-Friendly and
National Junior College, Singapore, Singapore
Cost Effective Orthopedic Cast
Wei Wen Chiew, 17, Junior,
Jing Jun Chew, 17, Junior,
Chung Ling High School Penang, Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia

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MATS029 Preventing the Drought from Turning into World Hunger MATS042 Preparation of Carboxymethyl Cellulose from Water Hyacinth
Bianca Cristina Rodriguez-Castro, 18, Senior, for Film Formation and Encapsulations
Centro Residencial de Oportunidades Educativas de Ceiba, Yuttapong Sritrakan, 18, Senior,
Ceiba, Ceiba, Puerto Rico Anukoolnaree School, Muang Kalasin, Kalasin, Thailand

MATS030 Development of Bio-Based PLA/NR Blends and DIY Mini- MATS043T Improving the Elasticity of Concrete Paving-Blocks Using
Extruder for Fabrication of 3D Printing Filaments Natural Rubber Latex and Rice-Husk-Ash Silica
Pattiya Pibulchinda, 16, Junior, Apinya Chotson, 18, Junior,
Kamnoetvidya Science Academy, Rayong, Thailand Inthira Somsriyo, 17, Junior,
Kanthicha Pholsana, 17, Junior,
MATS031 Evaluating Zinc Oxide-Doped Aluminum Oxide (AZO) as a New Princess Chulabhorn Science High School Loei, Loei, Thailand
Dielectric Material to Develop Highly Efficient Transparent
Thin Film Transistors MATS044T The Investigation of Pectin Extracted from Melon Shells Used
Doha Ahmed Amer, 17, Senior, in Capsule Production
Dar AlFikr Schools, Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia Praewa Makmee, 17, Junior,
Tunpitchar Singnontad, 17, Junior,
MATS032 Exploring Protective Barriers for the Outer Layer of Spacesuits Princess Chulabhorn Science High School Phitsanulok,
and Visors Phitsanulok, Thailand
Steven Sacht-Luwes, 17, Senior,
Bethlehem Voortrekker High School, Bethlehem, Free State, MATS045 Establishing the Method for Investigating the Impact of
South Africa Healing Agent to Concrete Ratio on Water Permeability of
Concrete
MATS033T Degradation of Polyethylene and Poly (Ethyl Cyanoacrylate) Katie Lynn Sommerfield, 17, Junior,
via Photothermal Heating Mountain Vista Governor’s School, Middletown, Virginia
Tamar Ruth McMahon, 18, Senior,
Matthew Ray Mims, 17, Senior, MATS046T Synthesizing and Characterizing Novel Gelatin and Pluronic
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham, F127, Hybrid Hydrogels as a Barrier Membrane for Guided
North Carolina Bone Regeneration Following Periodontitis
Jainil Sutaria, 18, Senior,
MATS034 Designing a Water Repellent and Breathable Material for Chelsea Wang, 17, Senior,
Wound Dressings Using Nanotechnology Rachel Li, 17, Junior,
Sasha Leila Ronaghi, 15, Sophomore, Ardsley High School, Ardsley, New York
Sage Hill School, Newport Coast, California Fossil Ridge High School, Fort Collins, Colorado
Spackenkill High School, Poughkeepsie, New York
MATS035T Pervoskite Nanostructures as LEDs: Towards Flexible Displays
# Nathaniel Goenawan 17, Senior, MATS047 Highly Induced Electrical, Morphological, and Optical
Siddhant Nandkishor Pagariya, 17, Senior, Characteristics of PEDOT: PSS Film Fabricated by Hot-Casting
Kalamazoo Area Mathematics and Science Center, Kalamazoo, Technique
Michigan MinJae Kim, 16, Senior,
Gwangju Science Academy for the Gifted, Gwangju, South Korea
MATS036 Novel Fabrication of Organic Multifunctional Materials via
Magnetic Alignment MATS048 Laser Micro Structurization of Titanium Surface in Liquid and
# Vera Alexandra Zarubin, 17, Senior, Subsequent Galvanic Metal Deposition
The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, New York Aziza Khusainova, 17, Junior,
Samara Regional Centre for Intellectually Gifted Children,
MATS037 Polarized Vehicle Headlights: A Novel Solution to Nighttime Samara, Samara, Russian Federation
Snowblindness Affecting Human Drivers & Autonomous
Vehicles MATS049T Nanosurfer Flash Mobs: E-Field-Choreographed Silver
Nicholas Albert-Jozef Primanis-Erickson, 16, Sophomore, Migration on Graphene Oxide
Pinedale High School, Pinedale, Wyoming Patria Yun Xuan Lim, 18, Senior,
Yong Han Jerome Leow, 17, Senior,
MATS038T From Banana Peels to Bioplastic - Using Banana Peels as a Dunman High School, Singapore, Singapore
Starch-Rich Material to Produce Biodegradable Plastic
Jassin Fahd Zaki, 17, Senior, MATS050 Building a Multilayered Hydrogel Microsphere Crosslinked by
Mohammad Yahia Arafa, 18, Senior, Genipin for Controlled Dissolution in Drug Release
6 of October STEM Egypt School, Giza, Egypt Hyokyung An, 16, Junior,
Palos Verdes Peninsula High School, Rolling Hills Estates,
MATS039 Developing Cellulosic Biocomposites for Water Purification California
and Smartphone-Based Analysis
Krtin Kanna Nithiyanandam, 17, Senior, MATS051 Phytoreductive-Hydrothermal Synthesis of Polyethylene
Sutton Grammar School, Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom Glycol-Coated Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Drug
Delivery Applications
MATS040 Fabricating a Novel Ultrasensitive Flexible Biosensor with Pete Gabriel Labayno Ledesma, 18, Senior,
Patterned 10 nm Single Antibody Size Periodic Line Channel Iloilo National High School, Iloilo City, Philippines
Created by Directed Molecular Self-Assembly to Achieve
Extremely High Accuracy in the Earlier Detection of Cancer MATS052 Novel Graphene Nanoplatelet Embedded Pigmentless
# Erika Yang, 18, Senior, Emulsions for Low-Cost Paintable Capacitive Sensors and
Granada High School, Livermore, California Supercapacitors
Daniel Zion Kang, 16, Sophomore,
MATS041T The Impact of Using Nanotechnology to Improve the Silica to John F. Kennedy High School, Tamuning, Guam
Make Self-Cleaning Glass
Faisal Adel Alyafei, 17, Senior, MATS053 A Novel Approach for Sensing Seismic Events: Applications of
Mahmoud A Hamid Sawalha, 15, Sophomore, Graphene Nanoflake Powder Composites, Part Two
Ahmad Bin Hanbal Secondary School, Doha, Qatar # Isaac Nicholas Jordan, 17, Senior,
Southwest Colorado eSchool, Durango, Colorado

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MATS054 Superconductivity: Planar Weight Disparity in Relation to
Critical Temperature
# Grayson Nelson, 17, Senior,
Sturgis Brown High School, Sturgis, South Dakota

MATS055 A Novel Analytical Technique for Dendritic Microstructures

Formed During Directional Solidification of Metallic
Alloys and Synthesis of an Alloy Fabrication Protocol for
Optimization of Physical Properties
Arman Sharma, 15, Sophomore,
Academy of Science and Technology, The Woodlands, Texas

MATS056 Effect of Shot-Peening on Oxidation Behavior of Nuclear Light

Water Reactor Fuel Cladding Material to Improve Accident
Stability
Charles Xialong Hua, 17, Senior,
West High School, Madison, Wisconsin

MATS057 Various Crystals Responding to Environmental Sound Audio

Adrienne Lillian Jones, 18, Senior,
Trinidad High School, Trinidad, Colorado

MATS058 Cupronickel Nanowire Networks for Future Flexible Touch

Sensor Display Applications
Musa Asim Tahir, 16, Junior,
Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, Oregon

MATS059 Investigation of the Effect of Basalt Fiber on the Mechanical

Properties of Asphalt Concrete Which Is Operated in the
Extreme North
Ashot Shagenian, 16, Sophomore,
Secondary School #2 of Nijniy Bestyakh, Nijniy Bestyakh,
Republic of Sakha, Russian Federation
 

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 Mathematics MATH016 Using Lyapunov Exponents to Differentiate Between
Randomness and Pseudorandomness
Adam Michael Saunders, 17, Junior,
Carroll High School, Dayton, Ohio
MATH001 Generating Functions of the Free Generators of Some
Submagmas of the Free Omega Magma and Planar Trees
MATH017 Discrete Derivatives of Random Matrix Models and the
Chavdar Tsvetanov Lalov, 17, Junior,
Gaussian Free Field
Geo Milev High School of Mathematics, Pleven, Pleven, Bulgaria
Gopal Krishna Goel, 14, Freshman,
Krishna Homeschool, Portland, Oregon
MATH002 A Probabilistic Formulation of the Computational Analysis of
Stratified Spaces
MATH018T On Two Letter Identities in Lie Rings
Gianfranco Cortes-Arroyo, 16, Senior,
Boris Borisovich Baranov, 16, Sophomore,
West Port High School, Ocala, Florida
# Savelii Novikov, 18, Junior,
School 564, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
MATH003 Combinatorics of Circular Codes
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Serdiukov, 17, Junior,
MATH019 Elementary Solution to Primes of the Form x2+ny2
School 564, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Ohad Avnery, 18, Senior,
Shimon Ben Zvi High School, Givatayim, Israel
MATH004 New Explicit Solution to the N-Queens Problem and the
Millennium Problem
MATH020T A Study on the Estimation of the Number of People Through
# Dmitrii Mikhailovskii, 17, Junior,
Photographs
School 564, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Kyung Jae Lee, 16, Junior,
Seunghun Jee, 16, Junior,
MATH005 Levi-Civita Symbol in Hilbert Space L2
Dongwook Cho, 17, Junior,
Dusan Daniel, 18, Senior,
Incheon Science High School, Incheon, Incheon, South Korea
Grammar School of St. Francis, Malacky, Slovakia
MATH021T Mathematics of Gene Regulation: Control Theory for Ternary
MATH006 A Fine Classification of Second Minimal Odd Orbits
Monomial Dynamical Systems
## Muhammad Ugur Oglu Abdulla, 18, Senior,
## Omar Alejandro Santiago-Reyes, 18, Senior,
West Shore Junior/Senior High School, Melbourne, Florida
## Gustavo Xavier Santiago-Reyes, 18, Senior,
MATH007 The Generalization of Finsler-Hadwiger’s Inequality on Escuela Especializada en Ciencias, Matemáticas y Tecnología,
General Hyperbolic Triangles and Its Applications Caguas, Puerto Rico
Yingxin Liu, 17, Junior,
MATH022 The Effect of the Number of Crossing on Prime Knots on the
Beijing No.161 High School, Beijing, China
Complexity of Their Stereographic and Inverse Stereographic
MATH008 A Design of Early Warning Models for Spectator Violence Projections
at Soccer Games - A Research Based on Home Games of Varun Malladi, 17, Junior,
Shanghai Greenland Shenhua FC in China Super League 2016 Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, Illinois
Nuo Chen, 17, Junior,
MATH023 On a Lower Bound for the Energy Functional on a Family of
No. 2 High School of East China Normal University, Shanghai,
Hamiltonian Minimal Lagrangian Tori in CP2
Shanghai, China
Aknazar Kazhymurat, 16, Junior,
MATH009 What Do We Have in Mathematics 2000 Years Ago?: Nazarbayev Intellectual School of Physics and Math, Almaty,
A Study of Arithmetic Based on the Nine Chapters on the Almaty, Kazakhstan
Mathematical Art
MATH024 The Frequency and Distribution of Consecutive Quadratic
Yundi Hou, 17, Junior,
Residues Modulo p
Nanjing Foreign Language School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Merrick H. Cai, 16, Junior,
MATH010T The Possibility to Build a Triangle, Given Its Three Kings Park High School, Kings Park, New York
Medians,Three Bisectors or Three Heights
MATH025 Musical Homotopy: A Topological Study of Voice Leading
Sandro Janelidze, 16, Sophomore,
Groups and Its Application to Contrapuntal Music Genres
Nodar Trapaidze, 15, Freshman,
# Aditya Sivakumar, 18, Senior,
Georgian-American School, Tbilisi, Georgia
Franklin High School, Portland, Oregon
MATH011T “Equal Powers Turn Out” - Conics, Quadrics, and Beyond
MATH026 Combinatorics on Path Connections of a Rectangular Graph
Kai Wang, 18, Senior,
# Emil Geisler, 16, Junior,
Chi-Lung Chiang, 17, Senior,
Bountiful High School, Bountiful, Utah
The Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal
University, Taipei City, Chinese Taipei
MATH027 An Improvement of the Asymptotical Upper Bound for the
Cardinality of Sidon Sets of Vectors with Binary Components
MATH012 The Napkin Ring Paradox
Joakim Asger Faergeman, 19, Senior,
Evan Joseph Crispino, 16, Freshman,
Alssundgymnasiet Sonderborg, Sonderborg, Denmark
Terrebonne High School, Houma, Louisiana
MATH028 Analyzing Patterns within an Original Egyptian Fraction
MATH013 Fractals
Decomposition Algorithm
Barrett Seth Daves, 16, Junior,
# AnaMaria Perez, 16, Sophomore,
Cross County High School, Cherry Valley, Arkansas
Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque, New Mexico
MATH014 From Lucas Sequences to Lucas Groups
MATH029 Restoring Wild Oyster Reefs: Optimization of Population
# Kayson Taka Hansen, 16, Junior,
Sustainability Through Mathematical Modeling of Fertilization
Twin Falls High School, Twin Falls, Idaho
Dynamics
MATH015 Pythagorean Quintuples and Quaternions Vincenzo Pagano, 18, Senior,
Theodore Arthur Ehrenborg, 16, Junior, Long Beach Senior High School, Lido Beach, New York
Henry Clay High School, Lexington, Kentucky

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MATH030 A Practical Cryptosystem with Provable Security: Three New MATH044 On the Modular Properties of Hypothetical Collatz Loops
Innovations in Cryptography Jian Park, 15, Freshman,
Wyatt John Howe, 17, Senior, Sage Hill School, Newport Beach, California
Hershey High School, Hershey, Pennsylvania
MATH045 Differentiate the Difference
MATH031 On the Maximum Number of Non-Intersecting Diagonals in Tessla Jade Muir, 17, Junior,
Unit Squares Filling an n*n Grid Musselman High School, Inwood, West Virginia
Anna Savelyeva, 16, Sophomore,
Moscow State School #57, Moscow, Russian Federation MATH046 Braid Groups on Triangulated Surfaces and Singular
Homology
MATH032T Extension of Soddy’s Hexlet: Number of Spheres Generated by ## Karthik Yegnesh, 18, Senior,
Nested Hexlets Methacon High School, Eagleville, Pennsylvania
Yuta Yokohama, 18, Senior,
Ryusei Sakai, 17, Senior, MATH047 Looking at the Dynamics of Q(Z)=Z2+C in the Space of 2X2
Sota Kojima, 17, Senior, Real Matrices
Shiga Prefectural Hikone Higashi High School, Hikone City, Pranav Garimidi, 16, Sophomore,
Shiga-Pref., Japan Conestoga High School, Berwyn, Pennsylvania

MATH033 Asymptotics of Character Sums MATH048 Finnish Baseball’s Draw of Choice (Hutunkeitto) as a Two
Rachana Madhukara, 16, Sophomore, Player Finite Game
Canyon Crest Academy, San Diego, California Olli Aapo Matias Jarviniemi, 16, Sophomore,
Valkeakosken Tietotien Lukio, Valkeakoski, Pirkanmaa, Finland
MATH034 A Solution of Generalized Legendre’s Equation Czn=Ax2+By2
and Its Application to Cryptography MATH049 Solving a Mathematical Mystery: Schinzel’s Conjecture
# Yuliia Suprun, 16, Junior, # Sacheth Sathyanarayanan, 17, Senior,
Municipal Institution Sumy Specialized School of I-III Levels National Public School, Chennai, India
Named After the Hero of the Soviet Union O. Butko, Sumy,
Ukraine MATH050 The Analogue of Szemeredi’s Theorem for Rectangles, n x n
Lattice, Cuboid and n-Orthotope
MATH035 On the Validity of Composite Logical Functions Nishant Dhankhar, 15, Sophomore,
# Daniel Alejandro Santiago, 16, Sophomore, Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram, Delhi, New Delhi, India
Centro Residencial de Oportunidades Educativas de Mayagüez,
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico MATH051 Extreme Point in the Triangle Plane
Egor Vladislavodich Batarin, 16, Sophomore,
MATH036 On the Convergence of the Reciprocals of Mersenne Primes Lyceum 1523, Moscow, Russian Federation
Juan Diego Cancel, 17, Senior,
Centro Residencial de Oportunidades Educativas de Mayagüez, MATH052 Monodromy Groups of Indecomposable Rational Functions
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico Franklyn Hai Wang, 17, Senior,
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology,
MATH037 The Use of Algorithms to Analyze 3D Vectors and Component Alexandria, Virginia
Transformations in a ROV Simulator
Zahydee Marie Machado, 17, Senior, MATH053 Deconstructing Complexity of Large Topological Models
Centro Residencial de Oportunidades Educativas de Mayagüez, Roshan Warman, 17, Junior,
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico Academy at the Lakes, Land O’ Lakes, Florida

MATH038T The Polar Equations of Water Distribution from Butterfly MATH054T Sharis Sohcahtoa
Sprinkler Heads Sharon Jerop, 16, Senior,
Adisorn Khantong, 18, Senior, Damaris Chepotip, 19, Senior,
Witchaya Natemonprapa, 18, Senior, Stephen Kositany Girls’ High School, Kaviyet, Rift Valley, Kenya
Kullanut Booranarom, 17, Senior,  
Princess Chulabhorn Science High School Phetchaburi, Cha-Am,
Phetchaburi, Thailand

MATH039 Number Patterns and Power-Difference Triangles

Melih Sahin, 17, Junior,
Ankara Fen Lisesi, Ankara, Turkey

MATH040 Properties of Bicentric Quadrilaterals

Mehmet Emin Ozturk, 17, Senior,
Gazi University Foundation Private Science High School,
Ankara, Turkey

MATH041 Game Theory-Based Investment Strategy vs. Buy-And-Hold:

Which Optimizes Profits?
Lisa Qin, 16, Junior,
Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School, Richmond, Virginia

MATH042 A Novel Accelerator for Machine Learning Algorithms

Bryan Dev Gopal, 17, Junior,
Brophy College Preparatory, Phoenix, Arizona

MATH043T What Properties Define the Eulerian Sequence? A Computer-

Inspired Analysis
Raj Sekhar Reddy Palleti, 16, Sophomore,
Suhas Prasad, 15, Sophomore,
Monta Vista High School, Cupertino, California

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 Microbiology MCRO014 The Temperature-Dependent Inhibition of Pseudogymnoascus
pannorum by Pseudomonas protegens
Benjamin George McCarthy, 17, Junior,
Central Virginia Governor’s School for Science and Technology,
MCRO001T In vitro Evaluation of Cytotoxicity and Genotoxicity of an Ionic
Lynchburg, Virginia
Liquid with Antifungal Activity
Laura Cavalheiro Brizola, 18, Senior,
MCRO015T An Inside Job: The Transformation of Escherichia coli K-12
Andrea Auler, 18, Senior,
with aiiA Encoded Plasmids and Their Translative Effects as
Fundacao Escola Tecnica Liberato Salzano Vieira da Cunha,
Quorum Sensing Inhibitors
Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
# Jason Tanner Smith, 18, Senior,
MCRO002 Do Microorganisms or Mealworms Poly-Degrade Polystyrene # Austin Wolfgang Katzer, 18, Senior,
Faster? Plano West Senior High School, Plano, Texas
Sarah Whittle, 15, Freshman,
MCRO016 Antimicrobial Properties of Honey from Different Regions in
The Villages Charter High School, The Villages, Florida
North America
Zachary R. Kurowski, 17, Junior,
MCRO003 Efficacy of Bacteriophage P1 Therapy vs. 1,3-Dibromo-5,5-
Ovey Comeaux High School, Lafayette, Louisiana
Dimethylhydantoin on Pathogenic Bacteria in Cow Skeletal
Muscle
MCRO017 The Potential Antimicrobial Abilities of Herb Mold
Jay Iyer, 15, Freshman,
Morgan Frances Arnold, 15, Freshman,
Baton Rouge Magnet High School, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Cotter High School, Winona, Minnesota
MCRO004T The Nutmeg-ical Solution: Investigating Bactericidal Effects
MCRO018 Wolbachia Effects on the Fecundity of Drosophila mauritiana
of Myristica fragrans for Treatment of Helicobacter pylori
Sophia Vaughn Richter, 17, Junior,
Infection
Hellgate High School, Missoula, Montana
Dakota Chen Ma, 17, Senior,
Yoonhyun Jung, 16, Junior,
MCRO019T ShealS - Sea Heals Soil
Qiuhong (Anna) Wei, 16, Junior,
Gabriel Silva, 18, Senior,
Concordia International School Shanghai, Shanghai,
Eduardo Teixeira Rocha Nogueira, 18, Senior,
Pudong, China
Francisca Santos Martins, 19, Senior,
Colegio Luso-Frances, Porto, Portugal
MCRO005 Are Bacteria Transport Properties Correlated to Hydraulic
Conductivity and Geochemical Heterogeneity of the Porous
MCRO020 Tiny Titans: A Comparative Study of the Antimicrobial
Medium “Synthetic Porous”?
Effects of Silver Nanoparticles and Silver Nitrate Against
Rachael Yacuzzo, 14, Freshman,
MRSA and MSSA
South Sumter High School, Bushnell, Florida
# Jeremy Turner Cotton Ward, 18, Senior,
Ridgway Christian School, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
MCRO006 Green Watts: Investigating Power Generation of Spartina
patens Compared to Chlorophytum comosum by Utilizing a MCRO021 The Effects of Sugar Substitutes and Prebiotics on the Gut
Mixed Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 Community in a Plant Microbiome
Microbial Fuel Cell (A Novel Fourth Year Study) Elaina Rose Render, 15, Freshman,
Luke M. Long, 17, Junior, duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Kentucky
Canterbury School, Fort Myers, Florida
MCRO022 Bioprospecting for Benthic Fungi and Their Bactericidal
MCRO007 Isolation and Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus with Antibiotics
Zoonotic Potential from Domestic Pets Emma Louise Keeler, 17, Junior,
David Moises Quinones, 17, Senior, Falmouth Academy, Falmouth, Massachusetts
Colegio Bilingue Maria Auxiliadora, Arraijan, Panama
MCRO023 Is Alternate Sigma Factor H (SigH) Essential for the
MCRO008 Metformin Inhibits Bacterial Glycerol Metabolism: Mycobacterium marinum Response to Low-Shear Modeled
Implications for Medicinal Effect Microgravity (LSMMG)?
Isha Shah, 16, Sophomore, Matthew Blaise Willis, 17, Senior,
Veterans High School, Kathleen, Georgia Caddo Parish Magnet High School, Shreveport, Louisiana
MCRO009 Orchestrated Organisms MCRO024 Effects of Antimicrobial Culinary Spices on E. coli and
Bailey Marie Dupre, 17, Junior, C. butyricum
South Terrebonne High School, Bourg, Louisiana Jade Ray Samanta, 17, Senior,
Saxony Lutheran High School, Jackson, Missouri
MCRO010 Optimizing the Ratios of Manuka Honey to Adhesive in an
Antibacterial Surgical Adhesive MCRO025 Addressing Arsenic Contamination: Creating a “Super”
Peyton Maria Leyendecker, 15, Sophomore, Bioremediator with Sub-Lethal Pretreatment
Skyview Academy, Highlands Ranch, Colorado Nikhil Lohe, 18, Senior,
Bergen County Academies, Hackensack, New Jersey
MCRO011T Halobacteria - An Anti-Salt Bomb
Maria Joao Oliveira Lopes, 17, Junior,
MCRO026T Genetically Engineering Nonpathogenic E. coli to Bind to a
Ana Catarina Cairrao Barata, 17, Junior,
Cellulose Matrix Using Curli Fibers and Cellulose Binding
Raquel Costa Silva, 16, Junior,
Domains
Escola Secundaria Julio Dinis, Ovar, Portugal
Jonah Douglas Carter, 18, Junior,
Max Anthony Herrmann, 17, Junior,
MCRO012 Cancer Targeting and Drug Delivery by Chimeric Proteins
Carroll High School, Dayton, Ohio
Jennifer Lin, 17, Junior,
Michael E. DeBakey High School for Health Professions,
MCRO027 Study on Molds Prevention Effect of Broussonetia papyrifera
Houston, Texas
Milky Sap on Putty
Xingqiao Xu, 15, Sophomore,
MCRO013 Biodegrading Acid: A Novel Approach Using Bacteria
Beijing 101 Middle School, Beijing, Beijing, China
Raneen Aljamal, 17, Junior,
Austin Peace Academy, Austin, Texas

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MCRO028T Microbial Analysis and Categorization of School Surfaces MCRO042 Point-of-Care Identification and Determining the
Camryn Ivette Flores, 17, Junior, Susceptibility of Causative Organisms in Skin Infections,
Britley Sierra Jones, 17, Junior, Using Chromogenic Principles
Lanier High School, Buford, Georgia Alecia Brits, 18, Senior,
Diamantveld High School, Kimberley, Northern Cape, S
MCRO029 Examining the Effect of Temperature on the Photosynthetic outh Africa
Rates of Green Algal Species: Year Three of Ongoing Study
Abhishek Chetan Joshi, 17, Junior, MCRO043T An Innovative Approach to the Detection of Ringworm
Lane Technical College Prep High School, Chicago, Illinois Sara Katherine Dodge, 16, Junior,
Abigail Grace Wittkamp, 16, Junior,
MCRO030 The Effect of Black Carbon on Antibiotic Resistance Burlington Community High School, Burlington, Iowa
Amy Lynn Cotter, 17, Junior,
Kennett High School, North Conway, New Hampshire MCRO044T Screening of Yeasts in Azalea Nectar for Bioethanol
Production
MCRO031 The Effects of Nitazoxanide on Bacterial Virulence Factor Chihiro Ota, 18, Senior,
Assembly by the Chaperone/Usher Pathway Natsuno Shimoyama, 18, Senior,
# Raphael Leon Iskra, 18, Senior, Notre Dame Seishin Gakuen Seishin Girl’s High School, Kurashiki
Commack High School, Commack, New York City, Okayama-Pref., Japan

MCRO032 Characterization of Bacteria Living on the Teeth and Gums of MCRO045 Which Brand of Disinfectant Is the Most Resistant to Bacterial
Sharks, First Steps to Identify Potential Treatments in Case of Growth?
Shark Bites John David Lewis, 15, Sophomore,
## Lucas Alexander Tomita, 17, Junior, Patrician Academy, Butler, Alabama
Hilton Head Preparatory School, Hilton Head Island,
South Carolina MCRO046 Isolation of a Potential Microbial Agent for Controlling Dengue
Vector Mosquitoes in Sri Lanka
MCRO033 Novel Use of Phenolic Compounds for Epstein-Barr Virus Kawudugama Ralalage Rumal Induwara, 15, Junior,
Lytic Induction Ch/Ananda National School, Chilaw, North Western Province,
Logan Dunkenberger, 17, Junior, Sri Lanka
Roanoke Valley Governor’s School for Science and Technology,
Roanoke, Virginia MCRO047 Investigating the Effect of Floral Source on the Antimicrobial
Action of Synthetic Honey
MCRO034 Using Penium margaritaceum to Investigate Cytokinesis Will Joseph Deering, 16, Sophomore,
Conservation IDEA Homeschool, Anchorage, Alaska
Yolanda Aileen Shen, 17, Senior,
Dougherty Valley High School, San Ramon, California MCRO048 Exploring the Use of Bacteria in Mitigating Fungal Disease
Hannah Skocypec, 17, Senior,
MCRO035 Identifying Novel Mechanisms of Quorum Sensing Receptor Basha High School, Chandler, Arizona
Protein RpfR: Relevance to the BDSF Quorum Sensing
Signaling Pathway MCRO049T What Effect Does the pH of a Solution Have on the Growth of a
# Neehal Reddy Tumma, 16, Junior, Possible Cancer Linked Fungi Candida albicans?
Port Huron Northern High School, Port Huron, Michigan Ty Nelson, 15, Freshman,
Nathaniel James Diehn, 15, Freshman,
MCRO036 The Role of Apis mellifera on the Preservation of Vivian Clair Pellegrino, 14, Freshman,
Organic Tissue Paul M. Dorman High School, Roebuck, South Carolina
Piper Cai Deamer, 16, Sophomore,
Fremont High School, Plain City, Utah MCRO050T Antimicrobial Activity of Endophytes Isolated from
Transylvania County Spray Cliff Plants
MCRO037 Viruses to the Rescue: Using D. tsuruhatensis to Demonstrate Nicole Marisha Rideout, 17, Junior,
Phage Therapy’s Effectiveness Against Antibiotic Resistant Matthew Bailey, 17, Senior,
Bacterial Biofilms in a Medical Setting John Van Nguyen, 17, Junior,
Divyam Goel, 16, Junior, Brevard Senior High School, Brevard, North Carolina
West High School, Salt Lake City, Utah
MCRO051T Isolation of Entomopathogenic Fungi from Mosquito Larvae
MCRO038 Identifying the Components in Basil that Protect Lung Cells and Evaluation of Potential for Mosquito Control
from Pneumonia Emily Clare Trusler, 16, Junior,
# Arundhathy Suresh, 16, Junior, # Cullen Stuart Duval, 17, Junior,
Pioneer High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan Brevard Senior High School, Brevard, North Carolina

MCRO039 Antimicrobial Efficacy of Bacterially Secreted Peptide MCRO052T UT-WHY? Effects of Household Beverages on UTI Causing
Microcins Compared to Antibiotic Nitrofurantoin Bacteria
Billy M. Ngo, 18, Senior, Audrey J. Swanson, 18, Senior,
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham, Sierra Dawn Edvall, 17, Junior,
North Carolina Perham High School, Perham, Minnesota

MCRO040 The Effects of Bacillus cereus as a Biological Control Agent on MCRO053T Discovery, Isolation, Purification, Amplification, and
Xanthomonas vasicola pathovar vasculorum Characterization of Mycobacteriophage HSavage
Katie Joyce Bathke, 17, Junior, Grace Ludlow, 18, Senior,
Allen Consolidated Schools, Allen, Nebraska Hannah Dreesbach, 18, Senior,
Capital High School, Helena, Montana
MCRO041 Utilizing Kefir Bacteria to Target NF-kB of the Bax Gene to
Induce Apoptosis in Colorectal Adenocarcinoma Cells MCRO054 Tardigrade Mech: A Biomimetic System for Advanced
Tushar Sanjay Shenoy, 16, Junior, Radiation Protection in Space
American Heritage School of Boca Delray, Delray Beach, Florida # Arielle Ese Ainabe, 17, Junior,
Garth Webb Secondary School, Oakville, Ontario, Canada

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MCRO055 The Presence of the Bacterial Growth in Cow’s Milk for Human MCRO070 Can Bacteriophage Be Used to Treat Bacterial Imbalances
Consumption in Puerto Rico Before and After Hurricane Maria Associated with IBS and IBD?
Raphael Gabriel Acevedo Rivera, 16, Junior, George Walter Santarpia, 16, Sophomore,
Escuela Superior Especializada Vocacional Agricola de Corozal Albuquerque Institute for Math and Science, Albuquerque,
Pablo David Burgos Marrero, Corozal, Puerto Rico New Mexico

MCRO056 An Effective Peptide Vaccine Against the Zika Virus MCRO071 Successful Inhibition of Candida albicans Utilizing Borate-
Sruthi Kalavacherla, 15, Sophomore, Based Bioactive Glass: An Emerging Antifungal Material
Amador Valley High School, Pleasanton, California Madison Leigh Bright, 18, Senior,
Conrad Weiser High School, Robesonia, Pennsylvania
MCRO057 Potential Gene Therapy of Human Liver Cancer with
Recombinant AAV3 Flp-FRT Vectors MCRO072T The Effect of Nanotechnology on Purifying Water Supply in
Nivetha Aravind, 17, Senior, the Developing World
Viera High School, Viera, Florida Patrick Gerard Berry, 16, Junior,
Matthew Kian Baharmast, 17, Junior,
MCRO058 Treating SSSI Using an Antibiotic Silk Fibroin Solution James Madison High School, Vienna, Virginia
# Michelle Nguyen, 17, Senior,  
Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology,
Conyers, Georgia

MCRO059 An Antibacterial and Antifungal Comparison of Countertop

Disinfectant
Emerson Anna Falk, 15, Freshman,
Hankinson Public School, Hankinson, North Dakota

MCRO060 Belly Button Bacteria

# Kathleen Marie Schmidt, 18, Senior,
Ashley Public School, Ashley, North Dakota

MCRO061T Cultivation Using Self-Germinating Fungus Capsules

Sultan Saif SL AL-Misaifri, 15, Sophomore,
Talal Sarhan Alsayed, 16, Junior,
Jassim Hamad Independent Secondary School for Boys, Doha,
Doha, Qatar

MCRO062 Investigating Auranofin Ability to be Repurposed as a

Decolonizing Drug for Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci
Khalifa Elmagarmid, 16, Junior,
Qatar Academy Senior School, Doha, Al-Rayyan, Qatar

MCRO063 Adopting Lactobacillus and Organic Acids as Alternative

Treatments to Necrotic Enteritis
Javad A’arabi, 17, Senior,
Starkville High School, Starkville, Mississippi

MCRO064 Bacteriophage MS2 Transmission Across a High School

Classroom and the Effect of an Antimicrobial Intervention
Jack Lansing Picton, 18, Senior,
Canyon del Oro High School, Oro Valley, Arizona

MCRO065 Optimizing Escherichia coli Energy Usage for Chemotaxis and

Reproduction Through Experimental Evolution
Camryn Franke, 17, Junior,
Washington Technology Magnet, Saint Paul, Minnesota

MCRO066T Diversity and Effect of Endophytic Fungi Isolated from

Conifers on Growth Inhibition of Pathogenic Micro-Organism
Sanmaru Um, 18, Senior,
Sohyun Park, 18, Senior,
Kangwon Science High School, Wonju, South Korea

MCRO067 Mind Your Language: A Host Produced AI-2 Mimic Mediated

Communication to Inhibit Bacterial Pathogenesis
Harshit Jindal, 17, Senior,
Maharaja Agarsain Public School, Delhi, New Delhi, India

MCRO068 Fabrication of Highly Specific Electrochemical Genosensor for

the Detection of Escherichia coli
Kunal Singh, 17, Senior,
Maharaja Agarsain Public School, Delhi, New Delhi, India

MCRO069 The Stage Development Preference of Bactrocera xanthodes

(Pacific Fruit Fly) on Artocarpus altilis (Breadfruit) and the
Effect of Bacteria Found in B. xanthodes on A. altilis
# Da ln Myung, 17, Junior,
South Pacific Academy, Pago Pago, American Samoa

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 Physics and Astronomy PHYS015T Variations in the Evolution of Star-Forming Galaxies Through
the Last 10 Gyr
# Ivo Jose Goncalves, 19, Senior,
Helena Isabel Dias Pereira Marques Silva, 17, Junior,
PHYS001 Challenging Limitations: Using Deep Learning, Time Series
Agrupamento de Escolas D. Maria II, Braga, Portugal
Analysis, and Statistical Methods for Noise Reduction to
Develop an Innovative Approach to Exoplanet Candidate
PHYS016 Energy Transformation Associated with the Creation of an
Detection Using Earth-Based Telescopes
Electromagnetic Field
# Dahlia Dry, 17, Junior,
Haylee Adelaide Darling, 14, Freshman,
Fort Myers High School, Fort Myers, Florida
St. John Lutheran School, Ocala, Florida
PHYS002 Using Two-Mode-Squeezing for Room-Temperature Photon-
PHYS017T New Method for Changing Physical-Chemical Properties of Oil
Number-Resolving Detection
Aliagha Abdullayev, 16, Sophomore,
# Deepti Vaidyanathan, 18, Senior,
Adnan Bunyatov, 15, Sophomore,
Baton Rouge Magnet High School, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Zarifa Aliyeva Lyceum, Baku, Yasamal, Azerbaijan
PHYS003 Time Domain Calculations of Scalar Self-Force and Radiation
PHYS018 Spooky Actions at a Distance – On the Problem of Quantum
from an Orbiting Point Charge in Schwarzschild Spacetime
Correlations
Karna Ashwin Morey, 17, Senior,
Silvio Barandun, 19, Senior,
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham,
Liceo Cantonale di Locarno, Locarno, Switzerland
North Carolina
PHYS019 The Birth Rate of La Supernovae in Nearby Universe
PHYS004 Viscous Fluid Mixing in an Annular Slot
Jichen Zhang, 18, Junior,
Maria Milovanova, 17, Junior,
United World College Changshu China, Changshu, Suzhou,
Advanced Educational Scientific Centre, A.N.Kolmogorov
Jiangsu, China
Boarding School, Moscow, Moscow, Russian Federation
PHYS020T Dynamics of Bubble-Ring – A Mechanism Which Realizes High
PHYS005 How to Improve the Quality of a Laser Beam by
Stability and Efficient Energy Transfer
Homogenization
Goki Muramoto, 18, Senior,
Iuliia Dmitrievna Bulgatova, 16, Sophomore,
Yui Kobayashi, 18, Senior,
Lyceum #40, Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Region,
Kouhei Yamamoto, 18, Senior,
Russian Federation
Yamaguchi Senior High School, Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi,
Japan
PHYS006 Using a Computer Program to Compensate for the Force
Differentiation Between Two Electromagnets Simulating
PHYS021 Investigation of the Force Between Two Positively Charged
Earth’s Gravity in Space
Conducting Spheres
MaryAlice Diana Young, 16, Sophomore,
Madeline Metcalf Tveite, 19, Senior,
Bishop Kenny High School, Jacksonville, Florida
Gjovik Upper Secondary School, Gjovik, Norway
PHYS007 Discovery and Study of a New Cataclysmic Variable Star
PHYS022T Nanobubble Conductors -The Unexpected Hall and
Danil Panov, 17, Sophomore,
Temperature Characters
Lyceum “Erudite”, Rubtsovsk, Russian Federation
Cheng-Jui Yang, 18, Senior,
Yu-Chi Wang, 17, Junior,
PHYS008 A Runaway Star Candidate Selection and Analysis, Year Two
Han-Yuan Hsu, 17, Junior,
# Celeste Maida Jongeneelen, 18, Senior,
National Chiayi Senior High School, Chiayi City, Taiwan
Home School - Maui, Kula, Hawaii
PHYS023 Design and Simulation of a Novel Concentric Cone
PHYS009 A Novel Method for the Separation and Detection of
Antihydrogen Gravity Experiment
Macroscopic Particles Using Ion-Trap Mass Spectrometry in
Sahil S. Patel, 18, Senior,
the Presence of Atmospheric Gases
Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, Denton, Texas
Jannik Sonke Meyer, 16, Junior,
Jacob-Grimm-Schule Kassel, Kassel, Germany
PHYS024 Faraday’s Bicycle
Sebastian Saenz, 15, Freshman,
PHYS010T Galileo’s Ladder Problem: Rope Ladders Falling Faster
Academy of Science and Technology, The Woodlands, Texas
than Gravity
Lennart Nikolai Resch, 17, Senior,
PHYS025 Designing a Practical Quantum Network Using Standard Basis
Tim Noah Kubetzko, 18, Senior,
Rotation and Blockchain Verification
Hans Thoma Gymnasium, Lorrach, Germany
# Evan McKenna Meade, 18, Senior,
Keystone School, San Antonio, Texas
PHYS011T Liquid Stream Hits Rough Surfaces – Showing an Extraordinary
and Stable Wave Pattern
PHYS026 The Search for Newborn Stars: Observing Bok Globules Using
Matthias Paul Grutzner, 17, Junior,
Infrared Archival Data
Julian Egbert, 17, Senior,
# Anderson Thrasher, 17, Senior,
Arne Jakob Geipel, 17, Senior,
Henry W. Grady High School, Atlanta, Georgia
Herder-Gymnasium, Berlin, Germany
PHYS027 Far Out! Analyzing NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Data Using
PHYS012 Using Spectral Analysis to Calculate Space/Time Distribution
the Transit-Timing Variation Method to Discover Additional
Kelli Ann Lynch, 18, Senior,
Exoplanets in Planetary Systems
Satellite High School, Satellite Beach, Florida
## Molly Megan Nehring, 17, Junior,
Monte Vista High School, Monte Vista, Colorado
PHYS013 Parallax, Part III: A Study on the Effects of Time Duration on a
Stellar Parallax’s Accuracy
PHYS028T Analysis of Various Wing Structures for Hovering Capacity
Antonio Martin Arant, 17, Sophomore,
# Drake Lee Ludgate, 17, Junior,
Trinidad High School, Trinidad, Colorado
# Nathaniel David Miner, 16, Junior,
Brush High School, Brush, Colorado
PHYS014 Angular Reconstruction Algorithm for Galactic Cosmic Ray
Shower Arrays
Yufei Xiao, 17, Junior,
Iolani School, Honolulu, Hawaii

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PHYS029 Measuring Exoplanetary Radii Using Transit Photometry PHYS043T Research of Some Electrolytes’ Water Solutions’ Electrical
Sarah Tang, 15, Sophomore, Characteristics
Fairview High School, Boulder, Colorado Amir Atigayev, 17, Junior,
Amina Karymsak, 16, Sophomore,
PHYS030 Are We on the Dark Side of the Universe? #93 Gymnasium, Karagandy, Kazakhstan
Michael Bregar, 16, Sophomore, Republican School in Physics and Math after Zhautykov, Almaty,
MAST at FIU Biscayne Bay Campus, North Miami, Florida Karagandy, Kazakhstan

PHYS031 An Algorithm to Determine the Spectral Types of Stars PHYS044 Determination of the Orbital Elements of Near-Earth Asteroid
Jieyan Wang, 15, Sophomore, 1999, LO28, Using the Method of Gauss
Moscow High School, Moscow, Idaho Gautam Govind Pradeep, 16, Junior,
Mira Loma High School, Sacramento, California
PHYS032 A Geant4 Monte Carlo Simulation of a Quantum Entanglement
Experiment of the Decay of Spin-Singlet State Positronium: PHYS045T Magnetic vs. Electromagnetic Helmets
Computer Replication and Multiple Scattering Mitigation Jackson Wesley Diltz, 18, Senior,
Jerry Zhang, 18, Senior, Eric John Bone, 18, Senior,
Marquette High School, Chesterfield, Missouri Westfield High School, Westfield, Massachusetts

PHYS033 An Investigation into Efficient Wireless Power Transmission PHYS046 High-Resolution Near-Field Nanoscopy Simulation Platform
James Boudreaux, 16, Sophomore, for Nanomaterial Characterizations
Bartlesville High School, Bartlesville, Oklahoma Chiu Fan Bowen Lo, 18, Senior,
Jericho High School, Jericho, New York
PHYS034 Modeling and Integrating the Orbit of Near-Earth Asteroid
2003 QB90 (242211) PHYS047 Observation of the Chiral Magnetic Effect in the Quark-Gluon
David Fang, 18, Junior, Plasma Produced in Au+Au Collisions at the Relativistic Heavy
Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, Oregon Ion Collider
Cindy Wang, 17, Senior,
PHYS035 Three-Dimensional Trajectories of 2016, Perseid Meteors William A. Shine Great Neck South High School, Great Neck,
Over West Japan Obtained Through Multi-Site Observations New York
Kota Uekawa, 17, Senior,
Konko Gakuen Junior & High School, Asakuchi City, Okayama- PHYS048 Single Crystal Synthesis, Structure, and Magnetic Properties
Pref., Japan of CrAl3Bi2O9, the First Cr-Al-Bi-O Compound
Jaylyn Umana, 16, Junior,
PHYS036 Topological Analysis of Non-Symmetric Circuit Laplacians Long Beach Senior High School, Lido Beach, New York
and an Experimental Verification of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger
Topological Circuit PHYS049 Can Parachutes Be Used to Replace Runaway Ramps?
Russell Qi Xun Yang, 18, Senior, Benjamin Thomas Gardner, 17, Junior,
NUS High School of Mathematics & Science, Singapore, Sale Creek Middle High School, Sale Creek, Tennessee
Singapore, Singapore
PHYS050 The Effect of Spectral Content of Acoustic and Synthesized
PHYS037 Asteroid Ring Formation Through 3-Dimensional Inelastic Timbre
Collisions Justin Wang, 17, Junior,
Justin Lee, 17, Senior, Chantilly High School, Chantilly, Virginia
Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, Illinois
PHYS051 Balloon Based Observation of Sporadic Meteors from the
PHYS038T Procedural Determination of Novel Stoichiometric Topological Stratosphere
Superconductors through Surface and Pressure Effects # Natalie Celeste White, 15, Sophomore,
Carissa Wu, 18, Senior, University High School, Fresno, California
Abhishek Nikhileswar Allamsetty, 17, Junior,
Winston Churchill High School, Potomac, Maryland PHYS052 Modeling of Phenomena in Multiple Stellar Systems
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Dmytro Dmytriiev, 16, Sophomore,
Alexandria, Virginia Odesa Specialized School 117, Odesa, Ukraine

PHYS039 The Relationship Between the Primary Pulsation Period and PHYS053 A Novel Method for Simulating Diffracted Light
the Blazhko Effect in RR Lyrae Variables # Mary Catherine Lorio, 18, Senior,
Leonardo Clarke, 18, Senior, Saint Joseph’s Academy, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Minnetonka High School, Minnetonka, Minnesota
PHYS054 Fast-Neutron Yield of Alpha-Neutron Sources Using
PHYS040 Speech Intelligibility Analysis of Sound-Modulated Laser Varying Targets
Signal Countermeasures Joshua Almeida Guertler, 15, Freshman,
Sharmi Shah, 16, Junior, Barrington High School, Barrington, Rhode Island
Colonia High School, Colonia, New Jersey
PHYS055 Why Are We 3D: Modelling the N-Dimensional Electron
PHYS041 Saving Lives with AFLOAT: Airbag Flotation Anti-Drowning Orbitals
System Benjamin Muntz, 19, Senior,
Joaquin Haces-Garcia, 15, Freshman, H.C. Orsted Gymnasiet i Lyngby, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Santa Gertrudis Academy High School, Kingsville, Texas
PHYS056T Whether Insects See Anomalous Images Located Near a Lens
PHYS042T The Effect of a Solar Eclipse on Muon Count Rates or Not? Verification of Lens Equations for Anomalous Images
Markie Whitney, 16, Sophomore, and Application of the Simple Eye of an Insect
Perry Wayne Martin, 16, Junior, Norika Narimatsu, 17, Senior,
Newcastle High School, Newcastle, Wyoming Ayaka Kosai, 17, Senior,
Akiho Takata, 17, Senior,
Kumamoto Prefectural Uto High School, Uto-City, Kumamoto-
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PHYS057 Exploring Lunar Impact Basin Porosity Through a Weighted PHYS072T Finding the Next Tatooine: Discovery of Giant Planets, Brown
Least-Squares Fit Model Dwarfs, and the First-Ever Circumbinary Planet Using Doppler
Tara Kamala Venkatadri, 17, Senior, Spectroscopy
Ardsley High School, Ardsley, New York Brian Yikang Wu, 16, Sophomore,
Bi Tian Yuan, 16, Junior,
PHYS058 Lunar Origin: Is It Really Made of Cheese? Horace Mann School, Bronx, New York
Sky A. Harper, 16, Sophomore, Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, New York City,
Navajo Preparatory School, Farmington, New Mexico New York

PHYS059 The Response of Field Effect Transistors PHYS073 Dynamics of the Flows with Moving Contact Line
Christian Lee Ortiz, 17, Junior, Anna Malgorzata Len, 19, Senior,
Academy for Health Science Professions-STEM, La Joya, Texas Lodz University of Technology High School, Lodz, Poland

PHYS060 Finding Exoplanets by Assessing the Dynamical Packing of PHYS074 Development of a YBCO Quantum Processor
Kepler Three- and Four-Candidate Systems # Elijah Keene Kaimiola Mossman, 17, Senior,
# Ana Luisa Tio Humphrey, 17, Junior, Kamehameha Schools Kapalama Campus, Honolulu, Hawaii
T.C. Williams High School, Alexandria, Virginia
PHYS076 Effects of Geometry and Voltage on Ion Engine Design
PHYS061 A Novel Layered System to Prevent High-Energy, Ionizing Isabela Guadalupe Ceniceros, 15, Freshman,
Radioactive Photon Transmissions and Control Particle Bernalillo High School, Bernalillo, New Mexico
Behavior with the Utilization of Monte Carlo Transport
Modeling via SPENVIS-Based Modular Implementation PHYS077 Asteroid Repulsion
# Daniel Noon, 16, Sophomore, # Zachariah Elijah Goodrich, 17, Senior,
Brophy College Preparatory, Phoenix, Arizona Grants High School, Grants, New Mexico

PHYS062 Highly Efficient Low Power Nuclear Jet Engine PHYS078T Secondary Crater Morphology with Distance from
Artur Kachur, 16, Junior, Primary Crater
Gymnasium 5, Chernivtsi, Ukraine Dante Dalton, 18, Senior,
Brad Walter Taylor, 17, Junior,
PHYS063 Quantum Gravity: The (SEPs) Symmetry of QCD Constituents South Sevier High School, Monroe, Utah
Solves the Mass Gap for Quantizing EFE as the Glue-Balls
Yazeed Turki Alharbi, 16, Junior, PHYS079 Single vs. Multiple Planetary Systems: Insights from Analysis
AL-Falah High School, Makkah, Saudi Arabia of Exoplanetary Data
Antara Raaghavi Bhattacharya, 13 Freshman,
PHYS064 Wet Chemical Etching of Native Oxides on Si and GaAs G.D. Somani Memorial School, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Studied by Ion Beam Analysis (IBA)
Sukesh Ram, 17, Junior, PHYS080 Automated Identification and Inference of Organic
BASIS Peoria, Peoria, Arizona Molecular Structure and Relative Concentrations from
Infrared Spectral Data
PHYS065 The Impact of Rotational Damping on the Collective Motion Cameron Cole Jones, 16, Junior,
Exhibited by Systems of Self-Propelled Particles The Harker School, San Jose, California
Parker Jou, 16, Junior,
Carmel High School, Carmel, Indiana PHYS081 The Hofstadter Butterfly on a Ring Lattice: Exploring the
Discrete Case & Translating to a Continuous Model with a
PHYS066 Stochasticity on Astronomical Scales: A Half-life Formalism Bichromatic Sinusoidal Potential
for Predicting the Disruption of Small-N Body Systems Ankhitha Manjunatha, 15, Freshman,
Timur Ibragimov, 18, Senior, Parkland High School, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Staten Island Technical High School, Staten Island, New York
PHYS082 Determining Space Debris Orbits for Collision Prediction
PHYS067 An MRI Approach to the Quantification in vivo of Cerebral Using Chaos Theory
Blood Volume at High Resolution Aswath Suryanarayanan, 15, Junior,
Raphael Hotter, 18, Senior, Devi Academy Senior Secondary School, Chennai, India
Marianopolis College, Westmount, Quebec, Canada
PHYS083 The Brachistochrone Curve
PHYS068 Kepler-Keck Double Check: Confirming Exoplanet Candidates Jack Falconer, 15, Freshman,
Using Keck Radial Velocity Data Good Hope Country Day School, Kingshill, United States
Mary Alice Fitzpatrick Jouve, 17, Junior, Virgin Islands
McGill-Toolen Catholic High School, Mobile, Alabama
PHYS084 The Effect of Geomagnetic Activity in the Ionosphere on
PHYS069 Future Board GPS Signal
Lachlan John Bolton, 19, Senior, Alexandria Jewel Stephenson, 17, Senior,
Redeemer Baptist School, North Parramatta, NSW, Australia Olathe North High School, Olathe, Kansas

PHYS070 Application of a Styrene-Butadiene Copolymer Membrane PHYS085 Flexible, Low Cost Solar Cells Using High Efficiency Gallium
to Di-Commissioned Level A5 Aramid Fibers to Evaluate Arsenide Compound Semiconductors
the Distribution of Impact Force and Their Resistance to Kumaran Selva, 16, Sophomore,
Projectiles Clear Lake High School, Houston, Texas
Lyeme Nicole Rosado, 18, Senior,
Dr. Pedro Albizu Campus, Ponce, Puerto Rico PHYS086 The Effect of Varied Surface Gravity on the Gravitational
Radiation (Luminosity) Produced by a Binary System of
PHYS071 Optimization of the Efficiency of Photovoltaic Cells for Laser Black Holes
Light: An Application to Laser Power Beaming Medha Majety, 16, Junior,
Akarsh Kumar, 18, Senior, Science, Math, and Technology Center at Mills E. Godwin High
Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts, School, Henrico, Virginia
Hot Springs, Arkansas

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PHYS087 The Creation of a Portable Detector for Recording Extensive
Air Showers
Roman Nikolaenko, 17, Junior,
LyceumA– 1511 Affiliated with MEPHI, Moscow,
Russian Federation

PHYS088T The Acoustics of a Room

Ailyn Dannae Carter, 17, Senior,
Rocio Tania Rojas, 18, Senior,
Colegio Santa Marta de Valdivia, Valdivia, Chile

PHYS089 Universal (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, n) Geiger Detector

Maksim Mamchur, 17, Junior,
Samara Regional Centre for Intellectually Gifted Children,
Samara, Samara, Russian Federation

PHYS090 Silent Information

Khalid Yunis Almarzooqi, 17, Senior,
Emirates Science Club, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
 

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 Plant Sciences PLNT014 Crude Extraction of Amana edulis Induces Liver Cancer
Apoptosis
Yueyang Fan, 16, Junior,
No. 2 High School of East China Normal University, Shanghai,
PLNT001 Biological Activity and Phytochemical Approach of the
Shanghai, China
Medicinal Plant Barbatimao (Stryphnodendron adstringens)
Vanessa Aparecida Vasconcelos de Freitas, 18, Senior,
PLNT015T The Effect of Electromagnetic Fields on the Growth and
Escola Estadual Domingos Justino Ribeiro, Mateus Leme, Minas
Development of Plants
Gerais, Brazil
Mariami Bukia, 16, Sophomore,
Nino Machaidze, 15, Sophomore,
PLNT002 Investigating Plant Telomere Motifs Using Bioinformatics
Georgian-American School, Tbilisi, Georgia
# Martin Matl, 19, Senior,
Gymnazium Brno, Trida Kapitana Jarose, Prispevkova
PLNT016 Remotely Controlled Hydroponic System by Solar Energy
Organizace, Brno, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic
(RCHSSE)
Shatha Salah Al Thyabat, 15, Freshman,
PLNT003 Propagation of Allelopathic Properties Present in Ailanthus
King Abdullah II School for Excellence, Ma’an, Ma’an, Jordan
altissima and Juglans nigra for Efforts in Circumventing
Holistic Debilitation in Response to Occupational Herbicide PLNT017 How Are the Timings of Flower Opening and Closing
Exposure
Controlled in Nymphaea tetragona?
Jorge Abel Guillen, 18, Senior,
Masumi Suzuki, 17, Junior,
South Sumter High School, Bushnell, Florida
Tokyo Metropolitan Nishi High School, Suginami-ku, Tokyo,
Japan
PLNT004 The Antimicrobial Potential of Tree Bark Extracts
Niamh Ann Kelly, 18, Senior,
PLNT018T Stop and Smell the Flowers: The Assessment of the Effects of
Our Lady’s College, Drogheda, Leister, Ireland
Aeration in Regards to Lifespan and Bacteria Presence of the
Lilium orientalis
PLNT005T BIOFOMEX: Mexican Foliar Biofertilizer
Ashley Nicole Walker, 17, Senior,
Irvin Alfredo Feliciano Siles, 18, Senior,
Hannah Noelle Taylor, 17, Junior,
Cruz Francisco Salazar Alvarado, 18, Senior,
Agriscience Magnet Program, San Antonio, Texas
Colegio de Estudios Cientificos y Tecnologicos del Estado de
Chihuahua No. 7, San Isidro, Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
PLNT019T The Effect of pH on Plant Growth
Emily Lam, 15, Sophomore,
PLNT006 Microneedle-Assisted Delivery of Model Therapeutics in
Kimberly Chen, 15, Sophomore,
Plant Tissue
Boston Latin Academy, Boston, Massachusetts
Laboni Santra, 14, Freshman,
Oviedo High School, Oviedo, Florida
PLNT020 Exploring the Facilitative Relationship Between Rhamnus
PLNT007 Co-overexpression of AVP1 and PP2A-C5 Increases Plant cathartica and Lumbricidae
Tolerance to Multiple Stresses Flannery Enneking-Norton, 18, Senior,
Phyllis Ann Zhang, 17, Junior, Saint Paul Academy and Summit School, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Lubbock High School, Lubbock, Texas
PLNT021 Lichen as Bioindicators: A Study into the Relationship
Between Lichen Thallus Structures and Their Sensitivity to
PLNT008 In vitro Establishment and Acclimatization of Coffee (Coffea
NOx and SOx
arabica) in Three Costa Rican Traditional Varieties and in a
# Isaac Taylor Quinn Klementis, 18, Senior,
Promising Variety Resistant to Leaf Rust (Hemileia vastatrix)
Gresham High School, Gresham, Oregon
Heilyn Calvo-Vargas, 17, Junior,
Colegio Tecnico Profesional de Acosta, Acosta, San Jose,
PLNT022 Streaks on the Flowers of the Morning Glory, Pharbitis nil,
Costa Rica
Promote Water Absorption by the Flower and Play a Critical
Role in Flower Blooming
PLNT009 Reducing Water Requirements in the Establishment of
Misato Okano, 16, Junior,
Bermudagrass with Polymer Coated Sand, Year Two
Saitama Prefectural Kawagoe Girls’ Senior High school, Kawagoe
Benjamin Luke Wanjura, 17, Junior,
City, Saitama-Pref., Japan
Christ the King Cathedral School, Lubbock, Texas
PLNT023 The Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Glycine max (Soybean)
PLNT010T Risk Analysis: Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids in Honey and the
mRNA Accumulation in Radicle Tissue
Distribution of Senecio jacobaea
Mohammed Abuelem, 15, Junior,
Jessica Kirchner, 18, Senior,
Pulaski Academy, Little Rock, Arkansas
Jonas Boukamp, 19, Senior,
Berufskolleg Rheine, Rheine, Germany
PLNT024 Novel Strategy to Increase Fruit Production via CRISPR-Cas9,
Genome Editing
PLNT011T Effect of Traditional Organic Technique (BAMI) in the
Alina Virginia Pollner, 16, Sophomore,
Development of Cucumber Plants of Cucumis sativus L.
Canyon Crest Academy, San Diego, California
Yaricsa Segura-Marin, 17, Junior,
Prisly Segura-Marin, 19, Junior,
PLNT025 Maximizing Growth of Lactuca sativa with a Polyculture in
Luis Fernando Rios-Hidalgo, 16, Sophomore,
Aquaponics
Liceo Unesco, Perez Zeledon, San Jose, Costa Rica
Katherine Jean Benstead, 16, Junior,
Niles Township West High School, Skokie, Illinois
PLNT012 Effect of Ceratocystis Species A and B Isolate Mutations on
Disease Aggressiveness in Metrosideros polymorpha
PLNT026 Light Sensitive Turntable: Effects on Brassica rapa
Anne Akiko Nakamoto, 18, Senior,
Cheaheon Lim, 16, Junior,
Waiakea High School, Hilo, Hawaii
Northfield Mount Hermon School, Gill, Massachusetts
PLNT013 DNA Sequencing and Phylogenetics for the Conservation of
PLNT027 Environment Saving Biodegradable Plastics
the Florida Ridge Biodiversity
Dylan Thomas Long, 18, Senior,
Rohin Pankaj Patel, 15, Sophomore,
Dexter High School, Dexter, Missouri
Sebring High School, Sebring, Florida

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PLNT028T Improving Coccolithophore (Emiliania huxleyi) Tolerance to PLNT042 Effect of Fungi on Arid Grasses and Commercial Crops Under
Ocean Acidification Through Artificial Directional Selection Varying Environmental Conditions
Hannah Maria Budroe, 17, Junior, # Jayleigh Michelle Peuster, 17, Junior,
Michelle Pauline Stevens, 17, Junior, Southeastern Junior/Senior High School, Augusta, Illinois
Wilsonville High School, Wilsonville, Oregon
PLNT043 The Mosquito Whisperer
PLNT029 The Effects of Coronatine on Drought Stress Tolerance in # Laina Sofia Llano Jorge, 18, Senior,
Zea mays Centro Residencial de Oportunidades Educativas de Ceiba,
Daniel O’Neill Vogwill, 18, Senior, Ceiba, Ceiba, Puerto Rico
Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, Chicago, Illinois
PLNT044T An Analysis Examining the Phenotype in Chloroplast RNA
PLNT030 Ecological Restoration Zones Within the Monkey River Area Editing of the orrm1xorrm6, Double Mutants in Arabidopsis
(Belize) Using Community Grown Nurseries to Produce Plants thaliana
for Riparian Strips Zoha Aqeel, 18, Senior,
# Anna Colleen Koonce, 18, Senior, Sanjna Chalasani, 17, Senior,
Saint Joseph’s Academy, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Kalamazoo Area Mathematics and Science Center, Kalamazoo,
Michigan
PLNT031 Agriculture Production Increase with Carbon Dioxide Seed
Treatment, Phase II PLNT045 Creating Two Novel Strigolactone (SL) Analogs (C-13 and
Joao Americo Macori Barboza, 17, Senior, C-26) for the Benefits of Combatting Parasitic Seed Infestation
Colegio Londrinense - Instituto Filadelfia Londrina, Londrina, Faisal Adel Aldossary, 18, Senior,
PR, Brazil Dhahran Ahliyya School, Dammam, Eastren Province,
Saudi Arabia
PLNT032 What All the Buzz Is About: Contained Production and
Increased Yield of Glycine max and Other Crops with the Aid PLNT046 Increasing the Lipid Density of Chlorella Algae with
of Apis mellifera and Natural Fertilizers (Phase II) Aquatic Plants
Brooklyn Leann Pardall, 17, Junior, Phillip Matthew Arnston, 16, Sophomore,
Central Lee High School, Donnellson, Iowa St. John Paul II Catholic High School, Huntsville, Alabama

PLNT033 Phylogenetic Analysis to Provide Insight on the Trihelix Gene PLNT047 Integrating MFC-MEC Technology into Farms for More Efficient
Function in Arabidopsis thaliana Hydrogen and Food Production
Pragati Muthukumar, 17, Junior, # Taylor Herndon, 17, Senior,
Commack High School, Commack, New York Vision Charter School, Caldwell, Idaho

PLNT034T Corn Silage Yield and Nutritional Testing PLNT048 Analyzing the Pesticidal Properties of Trichoderma harzianum
# Jace Michael Marriott, 15, Sophomore, # Amanda Grace Wilson, 17, Junior,
Cheyenne Marcheta Breeding, 17, Junior, Northwestern High School, Kokomo, Indiana
Fremont High School, Plain City, Utah
PLNT049 A Study of the Carbon Dioxide Consumption and
PLNT035 High-Resolution Genetic Profiling of Rice Pinpoints Sequestration by I. galbana and A. platensis Under
Critical Sugar Transport Genes for Engineering of Flood Pyrolytic Conditions
Resistant Crops # Daniel Ulion Joshua, 17, Junior,
# Yushan Su, 17, Senior, Madison Central High School, Madison, Mississippi
Martin Luther King High School, Riverside, California
PLNT050 The Effect of Oscillatoria on Flooded Glycine max
PLNT036T Effect of Simulated Microgravity on Antioxidant Activity Jacob Liam Martin, 15, Freshman,
and Total Antioxidants Metabolite Contents of Germinated Northwestern High School, Kokomo, Indiana
Triticum astivum Extract
Raneem Mahmoud Abuelghanam, 16, Junior, PLNT051 The Web of Mycorrhizal Fungi: Identifying Associations
Lujain Shaher Alshakhanbeh, 17, Junior, Between Orchids, Ceratobasidium Fungi, and Trees
Malak Ahmad Ma’ayah, 16, Junior, Simone Alma Evans, 17, Senior,
King Abdullah II School for Excellence - Maddaba, Maddaba, South River High School, Edgewater, Maryland
Jordan
PLNT052T Enhancing Seed Viability for Space Travel with Silk
PLNT037 Starch Statoliths as Gravity Sensors in Arabidopsis thaliana Protein Polymers
Anru Tian, 17, Junior, Yae-won Michelle Jung, 17, Junior,
Athens High School, The Plains, Ohio Andre Nguyen, 17, Junior,
Gareema Dhiman, 17, Junior,
PLNT038 Optimizing Hydroponic Plant Growth and Energy Usage with Logan High School, Logan, Utah
LED Spectral Manipulation
April Elizabeth Pivonka, 18, Senior, PLNT053 Dehiscence of Creeping Woodsorrel’s Capsule
Camp Hill High School, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania Nattaboon Sirisangtragul, 18, Senior,
The Demonstration School of Khon Kaen University
PLNT039 The Effect of Acid Rain on Wheat Grass (Modindaeng), Muang Khonkaen, Khonkaen, Thailand
Alicia Colleen Johnson, 17, Senior,
Wilbur-Creston High School, Wilbur, Washington PLNT054 AE Space Herbs: The Future in Aeroponics
Marco Battisti, 19, Senior,
PLNT040 The Effect of Organic Plant Extracts on Seed Germination and Istituto Superiore “Enrico Fermi”, Mantova, Mantova, Italy
Seedling Growth
Damian Galasso, 15, Freshman, PLNT055 Progesterone Hormone Effects on Coriandrum sativum
Galasso Homeschool, Tucson, Arizona Growth and Development in vitro and Soil Seeding
Gabriela M. Lebron, 18, Senior,
PLNT041 The Effects of Acetic Acid Concentrations as a Natural Specialized School of Science and Mathematics Genaro Cautiño
Herbicide Vázquez, Guayama, Puerto Rico
Sydney Elaine Hefty, 15, Freshman,
DeKalb High School, Waterloo, Indiana

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PLNT056 Iodine Biofortification of Lactuca sativa var. longifolia in an PLNT069 The Plant Doctor: An Artificial Intelligence Based
Ebb and Flow Hydroponic System Collaborative Platform for Plant Disease Identification,
Julia Elizabeth Downes, 17, Junior, Tracking and Forecasting for Farmers
Episcopal School of Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida Kaushik Kunal Singh, 15, Sophomore,
Inventure Academy, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
PLNT057 Mimosa pudica as Indicator for Comparative Adverse Effects
of Topical Anesthetics PLNT070 The T/Ha Yield Potential of Simulated Herbicide Drift on
Makayla Gates, 16, Sophomore, Glycine max
Valencia High School, Los Lunas, New Mexico Prescott Oz Jeckel, 16, Sophomore,
Delavan High School, Delavan, Illinois
PLNT058T Hydroponic Agriculture: Commercial vs. Individual Growth in
New Mexico PLNT071 The Study and Description of Musci Mountain Tundra of the
Uriah S. Sanchez, 17, Junior, North-East of Sakha (Yakutia)
Xavier McTeigue, 17, Junior, Ilya Andreevich Balakirev, 16, Sophomore,
Gabriel M. Holesinger, 17, Junior, Municipal Budgetary Educational Institution “Ust-Nerskaya
Los Alamos High School, Los Alamos, New Mexico High School”, Ust-Nera, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russian
Federation
PLNT059 Molecular-Based Genotypic Selection for Anthocyanin in
Lactuca sativa, Year Three
# Sophia Edith Swartz, 18, Senior,
Central Bucks High School South, Warrington, Pennsylvania

PLNT060T Chlorella pituita for an Obesity Free World; By Regulating

Obesogen Activity
# Tanya Goyal, 17, Senior,
Sharen Ganesh Mangalam Chamu, 16, Junior,
Maharaja Agarsain Public School, Delhi, New Delhi, India

PLNT061 Applying the West, Brown, and Enquist Fractal Branching

Model on Palo Verde Trees
Zoey Zhao, 17, Senior,
Empire High School, Tucson, Arizona

PLNT062 Disruption of Circadian Rhythm: Its Effects on Glucose

Production and Photosynthesis Activity
Jewel Williams, 17, Senior,
New Orleans Charter Science and Mathematics High School,
New Orleans, Louisiana

PLNT063 Are Plant Growth Regulators Always Effective When

Treating Wheat?
Hannah Marie Johnson, 16, Junior,
Grenora Public School, Grenora, North Dakota

PLNT064 Droplet Vitrification - A Viable Method of Cryopreservation

for Deeringothamnus rugelii, Deeringothamnus pulchellus,
and Asimina tetramera
Caroline Frances Karbowski, 18, Senior,
The Summit Country Day School, Cincinnati, Ohio

PLNT065 A Low-Cost Technique to Combat Eutrophication and Soil

Contamination in Organic Agricultural Communities
Kavya Muralidhar, 16, Sophomore,
Plano East Senior High School, Plano, Texas

PLNT066T Cyanofertilization: A Comparative Analysis of Biological and

Environmental Impacts
Sarah Sajila Syed, 15, Sophomore,
Miamar Gloria Burgos-Rosario, 16, Sophomore,
Saijai Supanklang, 15, Sophomore,
Hayfield Secondary School, Alexandria, Virginia

PLNT067 The Effect of Native Velvet Mesquite (Prosopis velutina) and

Non-Native African Sumac (Rhus lancea) on Biodiversity in the
Sonoran Desert
Cassidy Sumbria Chamillard, 17, Junior,
Tucson High Magnet School, Tucson, Arizona

PLNT068 Using Guaiacol to Measure the Effect of a Hormone with

Antioxidant Properties (N-Acetyl-5-Methpxytryptamine) on
the Rate of Photosynthetic Reactions in Plants via Oxygen
Production
Chase Olivanti, 16, Sophomore,
Wiregrass Ranch High School, Wesley Chapel, Florida

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 Robotics and Intelligent Machines ROBO014 Changing the Ratio of an Image Intelligently According to Its
Contents: An Image Processing Tool Based on Pixel Weight
and Face Detection
Han Qi, 17, Junior,
ROBO001T Self-Learning Robotic Arthropod
Tianjin Nankai High School, Tianjin, China
Radu-Bogdan Caprita, 18, Junior,
Razvan-Gabriel Dumitru, 17, Junior,
ROBO015T To Europa and Beyond
Alin Hertoiu, 18, Junior,
Annai Cuvelier, 16, Junior,
Colegiul National “Gheorghe Lazar” Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania
Alexa Hernandez, 17, Junior,
Jenny Cha, 16, Junior,
ROBO002 Affordable Autonomous Vehicle System
El Dorado High School, El Paso, Texas
Parkaranjot Singh, 16, Sophomore,
Dutchtown High School, Hampton, Georgia
ROBO016 A Sensor-Enhanced Digital Stethoscope (SEDS): Design and
Development of an Intelligent Sensor-Enhanced Digital
ROBO003T Cuboide - Screenless Robot Programmable by Children
Stethoscope for Patient-Friendly Remote Auscultation
Matias Julian Apablaza, 19, Senior,
## Syamantak Payra, 17, Senior,
Matias Alejandro Munoz, 19, Senior,
Clear Brook High School, Friendswood, Texas
Instituto Tecnologico del Comahue, Neuquen, Argentina
ROBO017 Utilizing Gesture Recognition with 3D Printed Prosthetics
ROBO004T Myelofon: The Way of Expressing Thoughts for People with
## Qingfeng Li, 16, Junior,
Speech Disorders
Laramie High School, Laramie, Wyoming
Daniil Vladimirovich Kazantsev, 15, Freshman,
Daniil Maksimovich Semenov, 16, Freshman,
ROBO018T Machine Learning Approach to Computer Assisted Diagnosis
Municipal Lyceum #12, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation
of Skin Diseases
# Daniel Joseph Haller, 18, Senior,
ROBO005T Developing an Algorithm for Detecting Diabetic Retinopathy
# Ashwin Kulshrestha, 18, Senior,
from Retinal Images Using Machine Learning
# Jainith Jagdish Patel, 18, Senior,
Gianna Nana Ama Boadi Torpey, 16, Junior,
Marvin Ridge High School, Waxhaw, North Carolina
William Thibaud Manirakiza, 16, Sophomore,
SOS-Hermann Gmeiner International College, Tema, Greater
ROBO019 Robot Forest Pathologist: Autonomous Robotic Complex for
Accra Region, Ghana
Forest Monitoring
Liberty American School, Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana
Maxim Mikhaylov, 16, Sophomore,
Presidential Physics and Mathematics Lyceum No 239, Saint-
ROBO006 Using Artificial Intelligence to Create a Self-Driving Car
Peterburg, Saint-Peterburg, Russian Federation
Compatible with Bad Infrastructure
Nader Jemel, 17, Junior,
ROBO020T Neural Action: A Real-Time and Accurate Gaze Tracking
Pioneer School of Gabes Tunisia, Gabes, Tunisia
Application for a More Natural Human-Computer Interaction
with User Interfaces
ROBO007 Improving the Performance of Unitary Recurrent Neural
Heejun Lee, 18, Junior,
Networks and Their Application in Real-Life Tasks
Jonghyeon Ham, 17, Junior,
Ivan Danielov Ivanov, 18, Senior,
Dongan High School, Anyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
American College of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
Korea Digital Media High School, Ansan-si, South Korea
ROBO008 The Creation of a Wearable Device Using Artificial Intelligence
ROBO021T Multitec Project
Technologies to Aid the Visually Impaired
Adriana Milagros Perez Rios, 17, Junior,
Omar Shareef, 16, Junior,
Juan Gabriel Caceres Cahuana, 16, Junior,
Saint Edward’s School, Vero Beach, Florida
Santa Cruz, Puerto Maldonado, Tambopata, Peru
ROBO009 Predicting Parkinson’s Disease Using AI and Machine Learning
ROBO022 Deep Learning of Mammogram Images to Enable Automatic
Shreya Ramesh, 15, Sophomore,
and Accurate Breast Cancer Screening
Milton High School, Milton, Georgia
Erik Y. Han, 16, Junior,
ROBO010T Multipurpose Platform Stabilization System (MPSS) Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, Lexington, Kentucky
Migran Sharoian, 17, Sophomore,
ROBO023T CARL: A Convolutional Neural Network Powered
Pavel Khakimov, 16, Sophomore,
Self-Driving Car
Municipal Classical Lyceum, Kemerovo, Russian Federation
Michael Raymond Hall, 18, Senior,
Municipal Budgetary Educational Institution, Leninsk-
Daniel Ellis, 18, Senior,
Kuznetskiy, Kemerovo Region, Russian Federation
Saint Paul Academy and Summit School, Saint Paul, Minnesota
ROBO011 Edge Detection in the Line of Sight
ROBO024 Neural Network Generator: Technology-Neutral Design and
Aditya Singh, 15, Freshman,
Technology-Specific Generation
Allen D. Nease High School, Ponte Vedra, Florida
Hyun Jin Kim, 16, Junior,
ROBO012 A Novel Approach to Recognize Emotion from Speech Using North London Collegiate School Jeju, Seogwipo-si, Jeju-do,
Machine Learning Algorithms to Aid Social Interaction of Kids South Korea
with Autism
ROBO025 A Novel Approach to Call Quality Assessment Using Deep
Anwesha Mukherjee, 14, Sophomore,
Neural Networks
Westview High School, Portland, Oregon
# Sandu Chirita, 18, Junior,
ROBO013 Vehicle Action Prediction with Artificial Intelligence: An B. Z. Herzl ORT Technological Lyceum, Chiinafu, Republic of
Innovative Way to Transform Advanced Driver Assistance Moldova
Systems from Reactive to Proactive
ROBO026 Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Machine
Kevin Meng, 15, Sophomore,
Learning
Jasper High School, Plano, Texas
Patrick Song, 17, Junior,
Davis Senior High School, Davis, California

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ROBO027 Agricultural Drones: The Development of an Unmanned Aerial ROBO042T The Development of a Holistic Cardiovascular Disease
System for Use in Semi-Autonomous Silo Inspection Screening System Utilizing a Low-Cost Electrocardiogram and
# Samantha Boyea, 17, Senior, a Machine Learning Algorithm
Greenwich Junior-Senior High School, Greenwich, New York Karthik Jetty, 16, Sophomore,
Pranav Senthilvel, 16, Sophomore,
ROBO028 Autonomous Quadcopter-Based Indoor Mapping System Shreshth Srivastava, 16, Sophomore,
Pedro Henrique Capp Kopper, 17, Senior, duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Kentucky
Fundacao Escola Tecnica Liberato Salzano Vieira da Cunha,
Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil ROBO043 Can Deep Reinforcement Learning Solve Misere Combinatorial
Games?
ROBO029 The Dexterous Hand of Sign Language # Abraham James Oliver, 18, Senior,
Ruixi Jiang, 17, Junior, Brown County High School, Nashville, Indiana
Beijing No.2 Middle School, Beijing, China
ROBO044 SMART Plate
ROBO030 Safecopter: Developing a Collision Avoidance and Mapping Amin Mohd Razak, 16, Senior,
System Based on an Array of Time-of-Flight 3D Cameras SMK Dato’ Abdul Rahman Yassin, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
## Robert Gabriel Tacescu, 18, Senior,
Clovis North High School, Fresno, California ROBO045T Smart and Safe Driving Monitor
Ayomide Emmanuel Ayoola, 14, Junior,
ROBO031 Analyzing the Efficiency of Subsequent Convolutional Layers Oluwapelumi El-Faithful Fadairo, 14, Junior,
with Small-Scale Images Doregos Private Academy, Lagos, West Africa, Nigeria
Anjo Baes Pagdanganan, 14, Freshman,
Salinas High School, Salinas, California ROBO046T The Reminder... The Locator
Ugochukwu Daniel Nnaji, 14, Junior,
ROBO032T Context Aware Medical Image Super Resolution Using David Oluwagbemiga Adekoya, 15, Junior,
Convolutional Neural Networks Doregos Private Academy, Lagos, West Africa, Nigeria
Matthew Dong, 14, Sophomore,
Pratham Soni, 16, Sophomore, ROBO047T Smart Farming
Troy High School, Troy, Michigan Rowan Ashraf Qushta, 17, Junior,
Yasmeen Amr Eltawil, 18, Junior,
ROBO033 Using Deep Learning to Identify Critical Documents for STEM School of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
Clinical Decision Support Systems
Brandon Xu Fan, 15, Sophomore, ROBO048 Arya-X4 Advanced Smart Drone
Blacksburg High School, Blacksburg, Virginia Mohamed Ashraf Ahmed, 19, Senior,
Martyr Osama Ahmed Ismael Language High School, Nasr City,
ROBO034 Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Feature Cairo, Egypt
Matching Algorithms to Develop Smarter Autonomous Cars
Alexander Wan, 15, Freshman, ROBO049 Improving Aviation Safety Using Low-Cost Low-Fidelity
Novi High School, Novi, Michigan Sensors Augmented with Extended Kalman Filters to Develop
an Accurate 3D Dynamic Sense-and-Track System
ROBO035 Non-Invasive Detection of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome ## Rohan Deshpande, 18, Senior,
(SIDS) Through Recurrent Neural Networks East Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Maximilian Junqi Du, 15, Sophomore,
Fayettevile-Manlius High School, Manlius, New York ROBO050 Concealed Weapon Detection Using Infrared Image Processing
and Machine Learning
ROBO036 AI-Powered Multi-Spectral Intelligent Robotic System for Andrew Adel Karam, 17, Junior,
Search and Rescue Arundel High School, Gambrills, Maryland
Aryia Dattamajumdar, 15, Sophomore,
Niskayuna High School, Niskayuna, New York ROBO051T Iago: A Study of Neural Networks, Othello, Difficulty, and
Intelligence
ROBO037 Creating a Simulation of an Intersection of Self-Driving Cars Nathan Zachary Hayes, 18, Senior,
Without Traffic Lights Jim Chaebum Kong, 18, Senior,
Alec Timothy Warren, 17, Junior, William Kirby Longsworth, 18, Senior,
Harrisburg Academy, Lemoyne, Pennsylvania Northern High School, Owings, Maryland

ROBO038 Response-Based Scaling Models the Binding Problem in Top- ROBO052 A Fast and Accurate Open-Source Solo Musical Instrument
Down Visual Search Classifier
Matthew Tran Radovan, 17, Senior, Hanna Yip, 18, Senior,
Ridgeline High School, Millville, Utah The Spence School, New York, New York

ROBO039 Development of Semi-Supervised Machine Learning Models ROBO053 Autonomous Window Cleaning Robot for Commercial High
to Predict Enhancer Regions in Polygenic Developmental Rise Buildings
Diseases Oliver Grant Nicholls, 18, Senior,
# Savitha Srinivasan, 16, Sophomore, Barker College, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Interlake High School, Bellevue, Washington
ROBO054 Using a Neural Network to Detect Threats Inside of TSA
ROBO040 Emotion Recognition from Human Speech Using Temporal Images
Information and Deep Learning Nikolos Antonio, 18, Senior,
John Kim, 17, Junior, Timberland High School, Wentzville, Missouri
Menlo School, Atherton, California
ROBO055T Low Cost 3-D Printed Robot Arm
ROBO041 Deep, Multimodal Representation Learning for Pan-Cancer Conner Joe Torrence, 18, Senior,
Prognosis Prediction Nathan Joseph Rook, 19, Senior,
# Anika Cheerla, 16, Junior, Aberdeen Central High School, Aberdeen, South Dakota
Monta Vista High School, Cupertino, California

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ROBO056 Biomechanical Effect of a Novel Designed Passive Knee
Exoskeleton for Human Augmentation
Brayden Noh, 16, Freshman,
Auburn High School, Auburn, Alabama

ROBO057T Bridging the Gap Between Robot and Human Interaction

Ethan William McKinley, 17, Senior,
Landon Medlock, 17, Junior,
Alma High School, Alma, Arkansas

ROBO058T Improving Breast Cancer Detection in Fine-Needle Aspiration

Biopsies Through Machine Learning
Dhanvee Ivaturi, 16, Senior,
Philip Kabranov, 16, Junior,
Silver Creek High School, San Jose, California

ROBO059 Development of Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems for

Semi-Dense Point Cloud Generation in Disaster Scenarios
Parthiv Nandakumar Krishna, 16, Junior,
Minnetonka High School, Minnetonka, Minnesota

ROBO060 Low-Cost Flatpack SCARA 3D Printer

Joshua Luke Mitchell, 18, Senior,
Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School, Crewe, Cheshire,
United Kingdom

ROBO061 Phishing Website Detection Using Support Vector Machines

and Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms
Sagnik Anupam, 16, Sophomore,
Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram, Delhi, New Delhi, India

ROBO062 Propulsion Performance Evaluation of a Lego-Based

Carangiform Mechanism for a Prototype Robotic Fish
Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV)
Adrian Maglasang, 19, Senior,
City of Bogo Science and Arts Academy, Bogo City, Cebu,
Philippines

ROBO063T Robotic Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation Applications

Maxwell James Rader, 16, Junior,
Christopher Richard Simmons, 17, Senior,
Minnetonka High School, Minnetonka, Minnesota

ROBO064 Optical Navigation System for All-Terrain Robot

Simon G. Armijo, 18, Senior,
Carlsbad High School, Carlsbad, New Mexico

ROBO065T A Generalized Machine Learning Framework for Fingerprinting

Disease Based on Gene Expression Profile
# Prathik Abhay Chakravarthy, 17, Junior,
Sudarshan Venkat Chakravarthy, 16, Sophomore,
Beavercreek High School, Beavercreek, Ohio

ROBO066 Guide Bot: A Robotic Guide Dog

Arya Eledath, 14, Freshman,
Greenwood Laboratory School, Springfield, Missouri

ROBO067 Dense Face Detection and Improving Temporal Convolutional

Networks for Automatic Image Captioning
Nikita Zozoulenko, 18, Senior,
Katedralskolan in Linkoping, Linkoping, Sweden

ROBO068 Teaching an Artificial Intelligence with an Artificial

Intelligence: Image Completion Using Tensorflow
Charles Shelby Strauss, 15, Sophomore,
Los Alamos High School, Los Alamos, New Mexico

ROBO069 Solar Powered Intelligent Irrigation System

Jackson Wolfe Windhorst, 16, Junior,
Fort Myers High School, Fort Myers, Florida
 

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 Systems Software SOFT015T BookGazers: An Interactive Mobile Application for Reading
Arjun Krishna, 15, Junior,
Arthi Krishna, 15, Sophomore,
Bentonville High School, Bentonville, Arkansas
SOFT001 Predicting Digital Asset Market Based on Blockchain
Activity Data
SOFT016 An Electroencephalographic Brain-Computer Interface to
Zvezdin Borisov Besarabov, 17, Junior,
Restore Communication to the Paralyzed
National High School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Triston Zhang, 17, Senior,
“Acad. Luybomir Chakalov”, Sofia, Bulgaria
Plano Senior High School, Plano, Texas
SOFT002 Optical Recognition of Cursive Handwriting
SOFT017T The Development of Self-Verifiable E-Voting System Using
Bretislav Hajek, 19, Senior,
Blockchain Technology
Gymnazium Cesky Brod, Cesky Brod, Czech Republic
Dongyeong Kim, 14, Freshman,
Jaehyun Bhang, 14, Freshman,
SOFT003 Simplex RPG Engine
Jinsoo Ok, 15, Freshman,
Matej Stagl, 19, Senior,
Shinmyung Middle School, Seoul, South Korea
Gymnazium Ceska Lipa, Ceska Lipa, Liberecky Kraj,
Mokdong Middle School, Seoul, South Korea
Czech Republic
Dae-Shin Middle School, Seoul, South Korea
SOFT004 CSE-Lab
SOFT018 Creation of a Mobile Application to Enhance Communication
Kamil Mudrunka, 19, Senior,
in Children with Autism
Gymnazium Pardubice, Dasicka 1083, Pardubice, Czech Republic
Joshua Ricardo Santiago-Ibarra, 17, Junior,
SOFT005 Minimal Footprint Hypervisor Escuela Especializada en Ciencias, Matemáticas y Tecnología,
Ilia Zakharov, 17, Junior, Caguas, Puerto Rico
Lyceum 1533 of Information Technologies, Moscow, Russian
SOFT019 accAAD: Efficient Append-Only Authenticated Dictionary for
Federation, Russian Federation
Transparency Logs
SOFT006T Using Spam Filters to Detect Malware: A Machine Learning # Vivek Bhupatiraju, 16, Senior,
Approach to Malware Detection Lexington High School, Lexington, Massachusetts
Chan Woo Kim, 17, Junior,
SOFT020 Dewey Wins: Predicting United States Presidential Elections
Austin Liu, 17, Junior,
Hava Susan Kantrowitz, 17, Junior,
Shanghai American School - Puxi Campus, Shanghai, Shanghai,
Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI, Worcester,
China
Massachusetts
SOFT007T Corn Price Forecasting Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques
SOFT021 EmerSave: A Novel Crowdsourcing Emergency Response
Mario De Jesus Lopez Najera, 17, Senior,
Application
Jesus Miguel Lugo Yolimea, 17, Junior,
Vishnu Sai Penubarthi, 16, Junior,
Colegio de Bachilleres del Estado de Sinaloa, Mazatlan, Sinaloa,
Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI, Worcester,
Mexico
Massachusetts
SOFT008 Developing a Full Featured Graphic Design Software for iOS
SOFT022 Revealing Unseen Motion: Eulerian Magnification Applied to
Mihai Vladimir Danila, 18, Senior,
Live Video
Lessing Berufskolleg Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
Anders Knospe, 16, Junior,
SOFT009 Using SONAR, LIDAR, and Computer Vision to Assist the St. Anne’s-Belfield School, Charlottesville, Virginia
Visually-Impaired
SOFT023T TreLop
# Samuel M. Cadotte, 16, Junior,
Jeyla Huseynzade, 14, Freshman,
Kalaheo High School, Kailua, Hawaii
Javid Huseynzade, 16, Sophomore,
SOFT010 The Construction and Accuracy of a Glove-Based Joint Sensor Lyceum Named after Academician Zarifa Aliyeva, Baku,
Sam Paul Triplett, 16, Sophomore, Azerbaijan
McIntosh High School, Peachtree City, Georgia
SOFT024 One-Handed Operation UI on Smartphone
SOFT011 Implementing Deep Learning Techniques to Detect Jihong An, 17, Senior,
Abnormal Cells Yangyoung Digital High School, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do,
# Gaurav Kumar Behera, 18, Senior, South Korea
Century High School, Rochester, Minnesota
SOFT025 JUGI-JUGI : Chemical Education Program to Use Wearable
SOFT012 Faster R-CNN over Attention: Shared Bikes Detection in Robot Hand
Surveillance Video Jangun Yeom, 16, Sophomore,
Xuelin Yang, 16, Junior, Gyeongsin High School, Daegu, South Korea
The Affiliated High School of South China Normal University,
SOFT026 Contributing Factors of Louisiana Teenage Driver Injury Levels
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
in Motor Vehicle Crashes
SOFT013 Seeing Clearly and Farther: Augmented Perception for Safe Corrine Michelle Hutchinson, 17, Junior,
Driving in Adverse Weather and Reduced Visibility Conditions Saint Joseph’s Academy, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Ruihua Chou, 16, Junior,
SOFT027 A Novel Kalman Filter Latent State Estimator for GPS/INS
The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China,
Reference Point Acquisition
Beijing, China
Kyle Markland, 17, Senior,
SOFT014 Optimizing Reinforcement Learning Through Dynamic Rocky Point High School, Rocky Point, New York
Environment Manipulation
SOFT028T Integrating OCR Technology into a Business Card Wallet
# Mihir Patel, 18, Senior,
Abhishek Ravi, 17, Senior,
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology,
Shiva Kittusamy, 18, Senior,
Alexandria, Virginia
Advanced Technologies Academy, Las Vegas, Nevada

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SOFT029 Saving Skin: A Mobile Application for the Prevention of Skin SOFT043 Survival of the Fittest: Using Biological Concepts to
Cancer, Using Risk Analysis Maximize Efficiency
Mercy Oladipo, 16, Junior, Helen Dover, 17, Senior,
Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, Chicago, Illinois South River High School, Edgewater, Maryland

SOFT030 It’s Possible to Improve Your Eyesight Naturally SOFT044 Using BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) Beacons and 2D (Two
Mohamed Ayman Hafez, 15, Sophomore, Dimensional) Trilateration in a Smartphone Application as an
Saint Fatima Abbassia Language School, Cairo, Egypt Affordable Positioning System to Assist People Suffering from
Severe Vision Loss and Blindness with Indoor Navigation and
SOFT031 Using Machine Learning to Optimize Key-Length Prediction Spatial Awareness
for Polyalphabetically Encrypted Text Louisa Wood, 14, Freshman,
Shriya Pingali, 17, Junior, Nicolet High School, Glendale, Wisconsin
West High School, Salt Lake City, Utah
SOFT045 Pearfect - A Modern Interpreted Programming Language
SOFT032 Development of a Computer Aided System for the Which Efficiently Unites Functional and Object-Oriented
Classification of Breast Lesions from Mammogram Scans Programming
William Christopher Peterson, 18, Senior, Michal Paszkowski, 16, Freshman,
Loudoun County High School, Leesburg, Virginia Publiczne Gimnazjum nr 7, w Belchatowie, Belchatow, Poland

SOFT033 A Novel Cryptographic Hash Code Algorithm Based on SOFT046T VoiceEDx: A Novel, Voice-Based End-to-End Multi-Disease
Cellular Automata Diagnostic Platform Featuring a Highly Accurate and
Rishabh Mohanka, 17, Junior, Expandable Artificial Intelligence Engine Integrated into a
Suncoast Community High School, Riviera Beach, Florida Secure Blockchain Network
# Shiladitya Dutta, 15, Sophomore,
SOFT034 Utilizing Machine Learning to Generate Efficient Quantum # Rishik Reddy, 15, Sophomore,
Algorithms # Parth Saxena, 16, Sophomore,
# Christopher Thomas Kang, 16, Junior, Foothill High School, Pleasanton, California
Hanford High School, Richland, Washington Amador Valley High School, Pleasanton, California

SOFT035 Developing an Efficient Algorithm for Measuring Density SOFT047 EEG-Based Person Authentication Method with Deep Learning
in Axisymmetric Airflows Based on Background Oriented Using Visual Stimulation
Schlieren Supawich Puengdang, 17, Junior,
Frank Sleigh Smuts, 18, Senior, Mahidol Wittayanusorn School, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Parklands College Secondary, Cape Town, Western Cape,
South Africa SOFT048 AllWatch - A Software Unification Framework for Wearables
Emil Mateusz Markiewicz, 19, Senior,
SOFT036 Preventing Domestic Violence Using Emotion Recognition in Publiczne Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace Katolickiego Stowarzyszenia
Speech Wychowawcow im. Bt Natalii Tutasiewicz, Poznan, Wielkopolska,
# Gabrielle Kaili-May Liu, 16, Junior, Poland
Ravenwood High School, Brentwood, Tennessee
SOFT049 Architecture Tweaking Image Analysis S/W for Automated
SOFT037 AzureVoice: A Novel Approach for the Early Detection of Identification of Land Features in Satellite Images
Parkinson’s Disease Using Android Apps and Artificial Param Singh Gujral, 17, Senior,
Intelligence La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
# Koushik Sridhar, 16, Sophomore,
Ardrey Kell High School, Charlotte, North Carolina SOFT050T A Public Interactive Funds Monitoring System that Enhances
Efficiency in Budgeting, Procurement and Expenditure to
SOFT038 An Algorithmic Approach with Matching Theory for Effective Reduce Misuse of Funds in Developing Countries - A Case
Prediction of Kidney Waitlist Times and Post-Transplant Study of Kenya
Survivability # Priyen Devraj Pindoria, 15, Sophomore,
Sameer Ponnaluri, 16, Sophomore, Sanjana Rajeshkumar Pillay, 15, Sophomore,
Maclay School, Tallahassee, Florida Shree Cutchi Leva Patel Samaj School, Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

SOFT039 Wireless Brainwave Classification for Alzheimer’s Patients via SOFT051T Native Language Companion: The Multilingual Platform
Efficient Neural Network Computation Bradley Agwa, 17, Senior,
Grant Sheen, 17, Junior, Jim Aloo, 17, Senior,
Sage Hill School, Newport Beach, California Kanga High School, Nairobi, Kenya

SOFT040T Deep Learning Real-Time Object Detection Through SOFT052T Support Material Reduction for Fused Filament Fabrication
Convolutional Neural Networks Using OpenCV and Optical Utilizing Compound Bridging and Constrained Steiner Trees
Flow Algorithms for the Visually-Impaired Wesston Reed McCollum, 18, Senior,
Prachi Bhagavatha, 18, Senior, Justin Austin, 18, Senior,
Jasmine Ngo, 18, Senior, Stephen Brad Greenway, 17, Senior,
Silver Creek High School, San Jose, California Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts, Hot
Springs, Arkansas
SOFT041 A New Method for the Exploitation of Speech Recognition
Systems SOFT053 Comparison Between Gradient Descent and Newton
Suha Hussain, 16, Junior, Method Optimization Algorithms Resulting in the Creation of
Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, Jamaica, a Unique Algorithm
New York # Matthew Fosdick, 16, Sophomore,
Empire High School, Tucson, Arizona
SOFT042T Heuristic Redesign of the Hungarian Graph Algorithm for an
Automated Asteroid Detection SOFT054 Do You See What I’m Saying? A Voice to Text Human-Machine
Ignasi Segura, 15, Sophomore, Interface for the Hearing Impaired
Javier Lopez-Contreras, 18, Senior, Alex Johnson, 16, Sophomore,
Col legi Casp - Sagrat Cor de Jesus, Barcelona, Spain Rutherford High School, Panama City, Florida
Aula Escola Europea, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

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SOFT055 Utilizing Blockchain to Revolutionize Privacy and Security of
Medical Records
# Divya Amirtharaj, 16, Junior,
Westview High School, Portland, Oregon

SOFT056 Software Techniques for Rendering Fractals

Cade Brown, 17, Junior,
L&N STEM Academy, Knoxville, Tennessee

SOFT057 Diagnosing Manifestations of Cardiovascular, Renal, and Liver

Disease in the Fingernail Through a Convolutional Neural
Network in a Smartphone Application
Varun Annamalai Lakshmanan, 16, Junior,
South Fork High School, Stuart, Florida

SOFT058 Dynamic Authentication Protocol to Improve Cyber Security

Utilizing Near Field Communication
Mason M. Eaton, 17, Junior,
Central High School, Saint Joseph, Missouri

SOFT059 Childsafe Web Browser Based on Age Estimation from

Fingerprints Through Discrete Wavelet Transform and
Singular Value Decomposition
Paritosh Dahiya, 16, Senior,
DAV Multipurpose Public School, Sonipat, Haryana, India

SOFT060 A Novel Machine Learning Approach for Determining the

Confounding Factors for Cancer Identification: An Integration
of Neural Learning and Decision Tree
# Shinjini Ghosh, 17, Senior,
South Point High School, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

SOFT061 Developing an Efficient Solution to Personal Computer

Security
Jared Callen, 18, Senior,
Wetumpka High School, Wetumpka, Alabama

SOFT062 Conclusive, Unbiased Medical Diagnosis System Using a p2p

Consensus Mechanism
Parth Raghav, 18, Senior,
K.R.Mangalam World School, New Delhi, Delhi, India  

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 Translational Medical Science TMED016 Development of an Innovative Drug-Delivery System for
Improving the Bioavailability and Release of Curcumin Using
Phosphatidylcholine and Silica-Based Nanoparticles
Eish Maheshwari, 15, Junior,
TMED001 Returning to Roots: A Study on the Antibacterial Properties of
Herricks High School, New Hyde Park, New York
Herbal Extracts Found in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Jeffrey Zheng, 17, Senior,
TMED017T Dyslipidemia Screening by Detecting Corneal Arcus Through
Shanghai American School - Puxi Campus, Shanghai,
Corneal Imaging
Shanghai, China
Saleh Mahmoud Malkawi, 17, Junior,
Saba Khaldoun Showman, 16, Junior,
TMED002 Honeybee Melittin Apitherapy for Targeted Cancer Cell
Jubilee School, Amman, Jordan
Suppression and Decimation
Dante Grace Minichetti, 17, Senior,
TMED018 Using Bioactive Compounds to Develop an Alternative to
Greenwich High School, Greenwich, Connecticut
Control Candida spp.
TMED003 Synergistic Relationship of Cisplatin and Withaferin A in the ## Maria Vitoria Valoto, 18, Senior,
Treatment of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Colegio Interativa de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil
Terric Tojo Abella, 18, Senior,
TMED019 The Effects of Beta-Hydroxybutyrate on the Effects of Beta-
Kamehameha Schools Kapalama Campus, Honolulu, Hawaii
Amyloid in Caenorhabditis elegans
TMED004 Bruxism: A Novel Diagnostic Approach Anwen Lin, 16, Junior,
# Edwin Christopher Bodoni, 17, Junior, Santa Rosa High School, Santa Rosa, California
Cherry Creek High School, Greenwood Village, Colorado
TMED020 Detection of Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease via Hierarchical
TMED005 Lipoprotein-based Therapeutic Approach to Combat Classification of Proteomic and Clinical Profiles
Breast Cancer # Shobhita Saroja Sundaram, 17, Senior,
Ruhani Kaur Ahluwalia, 14, Freshman, Greenwich High School, Greenwich, Connecticut
Harmony School of Innovation - Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
TMED021 Engineering PD-L1 Specific Diabodies for PET Imaging
TMED006 New Potential Therapy for Ovarian Cancer: Stearoyl-CoA Saaz Malhotra, 17, Junior,
Desaturase-1 (SCD1) Inhibition with the Novel Compound Northville High School, Northville, Michigan
SSI-4
Yara Maria Chehade, 18, Senior, TMED022 The Plausibility of Using Plant Based Extracts as
Allen D. Nease High School, Ponte Vedra, Florida Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors
## Thea Lauren Patrick, 18, Senior,
TMED007 Redox in CABG: A Tale of Two Cell Types Mitchell High School, Mitchell, South Dakota
# Sunjay Letchuman, 18, Senior,
Caddo Parish Magnet High School, Shreveport, Louisiana TMED023 A Novel Approach to Improving Photodynamic Therapy
Through Analysis of the Effects of Induced Hypoxia and
TMED008 The Development of a High Sensitive Home Diagnosis Kit for Utilization of Bioluminescence, Year Two
Group A Streptococcus Bacteria (GAS) ## Shannen Kelly Prindle, 17, Senior,
Michelle Mai, 17, Junior, Oakton High School, Vienna, Virginia
Century High School, Rochester, Minnesota
TMED024T Enhanced Alzheimer’s Treatment via External Gamma Brain
TMED009 Screening Malignant Glioma Using an Electrical Differential Wave Stimulation
Impedance Spectrometer and Artificial Neural Network Krystal Rose Horton, 16, Junior,
# Anna Faye Zheng, 17, Senior, Tanner John Packham, 17, Senior,
Saint John’s Preparatory School, Collegeville, Minnesota Western Center Academy, Hemet, California

TMED010 When East Meets West: Panax Notoginseng Alginate Diabetic TMED025 Human Oral Bacteria Strains vs. Xylitol (C5H7(OH)5) and Other
Wound Dressing Common Health Care Products
Natalie Cho, 17, Junior, Joshua Dean Mackley, 17, Junior,
Pui Ching Middle School, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong Special Weber High School, Pleasant View, Utah
Administrative Region
TMED026T Miswak Reduces the Toxic Effect of Phenytoin
TMED011 Synstatin-Mediated Inhibition of Syndecan-1 in Aggressive Dima Nidal Younes, 16, Junior,
Hodgkin Lymphoma Sara Bashar Alkhalidi, 17, Junior,
Grace Yujin Lee, 17, Junior, Dur Al-Manthur School, Amman, Jordan
Academies at Englewood, Englewood, New Jersey
TMED027 Mucoadhesive HA-Based Film Releasing Metronidazole to
TMED012 Detection of Melanoma via Deep Learning Treat Bacterial Vaginosis
Sophie Jane Andrews, 16, Junior, Marina Lee Gerton, 16, Junior,
Chatham High School, Chatham, New Jersey West High School, Salt Lake City, Utah

TMED013 Sabah Snake Grass: Nature’s Solution to Superbug Reservoirs TMED028 A Novel Point-of-Care Theranostic for Gram-Negative Sepsis:
## Isaac De Wei Chung, 18, Senior, Synthesis and Application of Polymer Nanoparticles for Rapid
Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Batu Lintang, Kuching, Sarawak, Endotoxin Capture
Malaysia ## Sriharshita Musunuri, 18, Senior,
Henry M. Jackson High School, Bothell, Washington
TMED014T Cytotoxic Activity of Rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum) Fruit
Skin Extract on Jurkat Leukemia Cell Line TMED029 A Novel Approach to Early Stage Melanoma Diagnosis Using
# Norman Sim, 17, Senior, Bioconjugated Gold Nanoparticles and Molecular Optical
Kee Khien Loo, 16, Junior, Coherence Tomography
Penang Free School, Penang, Georgetown, Malaysia Shriya Gampala Reddy, 14, Freshman,
Northville High School, Northville, Michigan
TMED015 Controlled-Release Delivery of Ovarian Anticancer Paclitaxel
via Vortex Ring, Donut-Shaped Hydrogels
Emily C. Philippides, 17, Senior,
Greenwich High School, Greenwich, Connecticut

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TMED030 Antimicrobial Peptide Derivatives as Potential Drug TMED044 Novel Warning Mechanism for At-Risk Stroke and Epilepsy
Candidates for Ebola Virus Disease Patients Through Detection of Harmful Levels of Cortisol
Amanda Kai Zhang, 17, Junior, Ryan Bose-Roy, 15, Sophomore,
Brownell-Talbot School, Omaha, Nebraska Hunter College High School, New York, New York

TMED031 Novel Nanotechnology for the Detection of Circulating TMED045 VANGUARD: An Opensource Approach to Predict Cancer
Tumor Cells Generation and Evolution by the Use of Nanoparticle SERS,
Alyssa Wu, 17, Junior, Probabilistic Analysis, and Collaborative Data Processing
Chamblee Charter High School, Chamblee, Georgia # Joel Romero Hernandez, 17, Senior,
Institut F.X. Lluch i Rafecas, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, Spain
TMED032 Development of a Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification
(LAMP) Assay for the Detection of Powassan Virus TMED046T UCH-L1 and s100B in Saliva as Novel Biomarkers for Severe
Cheryl Ann Blackmer, 16, Sophomore, Traumatic Brain Injury
Ballard Community Senior High School, Huxley, Iowa Anjay Saklecha, 17, Junior,
Krish Brij Kapadia, 17, Junior,
TMED033 Anti-Cancer Effects of Novel Morphologies of 2,3-Dichloro- The Harker School, San Jose, California
1,4-Naphthoquinone Nano-Particles in MCF7, Breast
Cancer Cells TMED047T Fabrication of 3D-Nano-Cellulose Network (3DNC) from Green
Deemah Khalid Ghazi, 17, Senior, Tea Fermentation, Used for Loading and Releasing to Increase
AlBassam Schools, Dammam, Saudi Arabia Bioavailability of Famotidine
Thi Huyen Vy Phan, 16, Junior,
TMED034T A New System Combined with a Smart Phone Application for Minh Thy Bui, 17, Junior,
On-Site Doping Analysis: Mobil-Dopsens Hung Vuong Upper Secondary School for the Gifted, Pleiku, Gia
Semiha Doga Firat, 18, Senior, Lai, Viet Nam
Yagmur Akyaz, 18, Senior,
Takev Science High School, Azmir, Aegean, Turkey TMED048 KetoPatch: A Novel Method for Early Detection of Diabetic
KetoAcidosis
TMED035 Inhibition of LPS-Induced Inflammation in Macrophages Nehali Gupta, 16, Junior,
Through Natural Anti-Inflammatory Compounds Parkland High School, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Anusha Puri, 15, Sophomore,
Mills E. Godwin High School, Henrico, Virginia TMED049 How Does Poor Posture Affect the Human Body?
Ariel Maire Baiano, 16, Sophomore,
TMED036 Investigating an Alternative Treatment Protocol for Commonly Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science,
Occurring Pathogenic Bacteria: Escherichia coli, Methicillin- Manahawkin, New Jersey
Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and Listeria Monocytogenes
Rahil Ishan Samlal, 17, Senior, TMED050 Reducing Dopaminergic Neurodegeneration and Motor
St. Dominic’s Newcastle, Newcastle, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa Dysfunction Using Crude Ethanolic Bamboo (Bambusa
vulgaris) Leaf Extract on a Transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans
TMED037 Ultra-Sensitive Cardiac Biomarker Detection Using Gold Model of Parkinson’s Disease
Nanocavity Localized Plasmon Resonance for Early and Rapid Roehann Mykael Bulaclac Zabat, 16, Sophomore,
Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction Juan R. Liwag Memorial High School, Gapan City, Nueva Ecija,
# Sophie Joy Guo, 17, Senior, Philippines
James Clemens High School, Madison, Alabama
TMED051 Cytotoxic Effects of Sulindac, Metformin, and TBHP on
TMED038 Heart Smart: A Novel Deep Learning Approach to Improving in vitro Lung Cancer Cells and the Effects of Glucose Level on
Heart Disease Diagnosis Efficiency of the Treatment
Sofia Tomov, 14, Freshman, # Shreya Reddy, 16, Junior,
Homeschool, Knoxville, Tennessee Lincoln Park Academy, Fort Pierce, Florida

TMED039T Cancer Screening Mobile Application: A Novel Machine TMED052 Assessing Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease: Predicting
Learning Based Approach Utilizing Retrospective Data Cognitive Impairments and Amyloid Deposition Through PET
Viraj Mehta, 15, Freshman, and MRI
Roshan Ravi Pillai, 15, Freshman, ## David Wang Ma, 18, Senior,
BASIS Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, Lexington, Kentucky

TMED040 A Precision Medicine Approach to Cancer: Epigenetic TMED053 Effectiveness of Neratinib in Inhibiting or Reversing Hepatic
Inhibitors Induce Highly-Specific Apoptosis in High Risk Acute Stellate Cell Activation
Lymphoblastic Leukemia Alexander Jordan Duh, 17, Junior,
Ruhi Sayana, 17, Junior, Gilman School, Baltimore, Maryland
The Harker School, San Jose, California
TMED054T Vertical Flow Assay Detection for GM2-AP in Simulated Urine
TMED041 Development of a Novel Organic Chemiresistor Sensor of Non Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients
for Disease Detection Through Breath: Applied Through a Alexa Reynders, 18, Senior,
Computational Model Benjamin Larson, 18, Senior,
Akhil Kadamala Shiju, 16, Sophomore, Benilde-St. Margaret’s, St. Louis Park, Minnesota
Lawton Chiles High School, Tallahassee, Florida
TMED055T Urine as an Alternative to Blood for Cancer Liquid Biopsy and
TMED042 Development of a Drug-Likeness Rule for Natural Products Precision Medicine
Saadh Ahmed, 17, Senior, Adam Ming Zhang, 17, Junior,
Northview High School, Johns Creek, Georgia Jonathan Ruibo Cheng, 16, Junior,
Methacon High School, Eagleville, Pennsylvania
TMED043 Plastics Destroying Your DNA: An Inquiry into the R-Loop
Inducing Behaviors of Bisphenol A and Its Implications TMED056 Methylene Blue May Mitigate Symptoms of Traumatic
Amy Xin-Yi Zhong, 17, Junior, Brain Injury
University High School, Irvine, California Beril Lara Saygin, 16, Sophomore,
Keystone School, San Antonio, Texas

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TMED057 digiTAC: An Automated and Inexpensive Solution for Visual
Acuity Testing in Preverbal Children Using Deep Convolutional
Neural Networks
Ishita Mangla, 17, Junior,
Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram, Delhi, New Delhi, India

TMED058T Ultralow-Cost Pre-Symptomatic Diagnostic Paper Tool for

Protein-Energy Malnutrition
Mohammed Suhail Chinya Salimpasha, 17, Senior,
# Swasthik Padma, 16, Junior,
St. Aloysius Pre-University College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Vivekananda Pre-University College, Dakshina Kannada,
Karnataka, India

TMED059 Neural Networking System for Detecting and Analyzing Heart

Pathologies
Solomiia Leno, 16, Junior,
LEC “Primary School - Gymnasium”, Lviv, Ukraine

TMED060 Endogenous Peptide as an Alternative to Antibiotics:

Investigating the Antibacterial Properties of Vicryl Sutures
Coated with TCP-25
Erik Anton Artur Hartman, 18, Senior,
Katedralskolan, Lund, Sweden

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