ISEF
Program Information
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| Department of Homeland Security, University
Programs Office |
| Six $20,000 portable, undergraduate scholarships
($5,000 per year for 4 years) in the categories of Behavioral
and Social Sciences, Biochemistry, Computer Science, Engineering,
Mathematics, Microbiology, Physics, and Zoology. Recipient
must be a U.S. citizen and agree to major in science, math,
engineering or technology. The Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) is particularly interested in projects where there
is a connection with the mission of DHS. This mission is
to prevent or mitigate the effects of catastrophic terrorism
against the United States or it's allies. |
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| Scholarship Award of $20,000 |
| BI032 |
Radiation Shield: Using Biological Molecules
to Prevent or Repair DNA Damage Caused by Radiation in Drosophila
melanogaster
Parijata Desiree Mackey, 17, Dr. Michael M. Krop High School,
Miami, Florida
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| BO050 |
`Ohelo: Inhibition of Bacterial Growth
Jessie Ann Ka`iulani Pa`ahana, 16, Kamehameha High School,
Honolulu, Hawaii
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| CS051 |
Identification of Differential Surface
Properties on a Triangle Mesh for Facial and Object Recognition
Justin Moore Solomon, 17, Thomas Jefferson High School for
Science and Tech, Alexandria, Virginia
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| EN065 |
An Ear to the Track: An Ultrasonic Train
Wreck Avoidance System
Courtney Anne Rafes, 17, Northwest High School, Justin, Texas
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| MA043 |
Primality Testing: Utilizing Characteristics
of Prime Numbers that Allow for Optimal Deterministic and
Probabilistic Primality Testing Algorithms in Polynomial
Time
Anarghya A Vardhana, 16, Jesuit High School, Portland, Oregon
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| PH020 |
Polarization Dynamics of Ytterbium Doped
Silica Fiber Laser
Alexander Chernyak, 17, International Academy, Bloomfield
Hills, Michigan
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| Office of Naval Research on behalf of
the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. |
| Tuition Scholarship Award in
the amount of $8,000 |
| BE037 |
Prototype for Autonomy: Pathway for the
Blind
Ameen Abdulrasool, 18, Lane Technical High School, Chicago,
Illinois
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| BI075 |
Bioinformatics Discovery of Novel Stem
Cell Regulatory Mechanisms
Michael Segal, 17, Central High School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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| BO038 |
Environmental Differentiation of Pinus
contorta on Serpentine Soil
Sheila Marie Van Prooyen, 15, Gold Beach High School, Gold
Beach, Oregon
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| CH031 |
Study of Electrolyte-Cathode Compatibility
in a New Solid Oxide Fuel Cell
Megan Elizabeth Burger, 18, Academy of Science and Technology
at Oak Ridge High School, Conroe, Texas
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| CS015 |
Improving EEG Signal Recognition for Human/Machine
Control Using a Rat Model
Farre Nixon, 16, Pleasant Grove High School, Texarkana, Texas
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| EA016 |
The Derivation and Interpretation of Geochemical
Ratios Generated by Meteoritic Impact
Terik Daly, 15, Oak Grove High School, San Jose, California
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| EN033 |
Low Reynolds Number Aerodynamics, Phase
4: Development and Optimization of a Micro Air Vehicle
John Pease Moore, IV, 17, Dayton Christian High School, Miamisburg,
Ohio
|
| EV031 |
Bioremediation of Crude Oil in Pristine
and Contaminated Soil Environments with Natural Enhancement
of Degradation
Srishti Deepak Mirchandani, 15, duPont Manual Magnet High
School, Louisville, Kentucky
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| MA003 |
Programmable Quantum Computing: A New Framework
with von Neumann Type Architecture
Nimish Pradipkumar Ramanlal, 16, Seminole High School, Sanford,
Florida
|
| ME037 |
Implications of Nicotine's Pro-Angiogenesis
Activities: The Good and the Bad
Sarah S. Mousa, 17, Columbia High School, East Greenbush,
New York
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| MI033 |
The Role of Arp8, a Chromatin Remodeling
Protein, in DNA Repair and Its Implications to Cancer
Aditya Krishna Denduluri, 18, Saint Pius X School, Albuquerque,
New Mexico
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| PH006 |
Raising the Rayleigh Number: Plumes and
Circulation in Turbulent Thermal Convection
Meredith Ann MacGregor, 16, Fairview High School, Boulder,
Colorado
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| SP022 |
The Martian Balloon
John Thomas Hagen, 17, Ayersville High School, Defiance,
Ohio
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| ZO040 |
Olfactory Learning and Brain Plasticity
in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) in the Absence of
Visual Cues
Lesley Elizabeth Ash, 17, Tucson Magnet High School, Tucson,
Arizona
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| Tuition Scholarship Award of
$8,000 for original research in an important Naval-relevant
scientific area |
| EN013 |
Camera Stabilization: Take Two
Adam Daniel Sidman, 17, Palmer High School, Colorado Springs,
Colorado
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| EN059 |
Enhanced Stability Effects of Micro-Foils
on Supercavitating Torpedoes
Robert Francis Minehart, III, 16, Sterling, Virginia
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| EN095 |
Preventing Degradation in Proton Exchange
Membrane Fuel Cells: A Novel, Multi-cartridge Air Contaminant
Control System
Jonathan Brandon Burke Cross, 17, James W. Robinson, Jr.
Secondary School, Fairfax, Virginia
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| Team Tuition Scholarship Award
in the amount of $8,000 to be equally divided between the
team members |
| BI304 |
In vitro Simulation of Immunological
and Biochemical Attack on Pancreatic Cancer-Specific Antigen,
PaCa-Ag1
Genna Anne Ableman, 17, Midwood High School at Brooklyn College,
Brooklyn, New York
Maya Barsky, 17, Midwood High School at Brooklyn College,
Brooklyn, New York
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| Scholarships are payable at $2,000 a year
for four years. Recipients also receive a certificate signed
by the Chief of Naval Research and the Vice Chief of Naval
Research; and a U.S. Navy memento. Team award winners receive
$1,000 a year for four years. |
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| U.S. Air Force |
| First Award of $3,000 |
| BE039 |
"My Brother's Keeper": Well-Being and Relationship
Effects of Having a Sibling with Autism
Christina Marie Amoroso, 17, Lawrence High School, Cedarhurst,
New York
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| BI008 |
Thiolated Gelatin Nanoparticles: A Novel
Approach for Intracellular Delivery in Gene Therapy and
Drug Delivery
Joline Marie Fan, 17, Upper Arlington High School, Upper
Arlington, Ohio
|
| BO041 |
Rapid and Reversible Photobleaching in
a Green Plant, the Spiderwort Boat-lily, Tradescantia
spathacea (family Commelinaceae)
Philip Christopher Redding, 17, Cookeville High School, Cookeville,
Tennessee
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| CH058 |
Toward Self-Assembling Nanocircuitry Using
Liquid Crystal Solvents
Karl James Plank, 17, Squalicum High School, Bellingham,
Washington
|
| CS049 |
Artificial Cognition and Memory: Tissue
Image Analysis for Tumor Diagnosis
Kimberly Elise Reinhold, 17, Saint Joseph's High School,
Hilo, Hawaii
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| EA009 |
The Connection Between Solar Variability
and Annular Modes
Thomas Franklin Christian III, 17, Houston County High School,
Warner Robins, Georgia
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| EN033 |
Low Reynolds Number Aerodynamics, Phase
4: Development and Optimization of a Micro Air Vehicle
John Pease Moore, IV, 17, Dayton Christian High School, Miamisburg,
Ohio
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| EV001 |
Water-Borne PAH Concentrations Associated
with Fossil Fuel Production and Their Impact on Apoptosis-Related
Proteins
Megan Marie Kuper, 17, Greybull High School, Greybull, Wyoming
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| MA003 |
Programmable Quantum Computing: A New Framework
with von Neumann Type Architecture
Nimish Pradipkumar Ramanlal, 16, Seminole High School, Sanford,
Florida
|
| ME010 |
Hemodynamics and Heart Failure: Utilization
of Impedance Cardiography to Measure Therapeutic Response
in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure, Year Two
Winston Harmon Messer, 18, Presbyterian Christian High School,
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
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| MI058 |
An Investigation into the Biological/Physiological
Role of Prion Conformation
Emily Elizabeth McGettigan, 16, McGettigan Homeschool, Delanco,
New Jersey
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| PH048 |
Calculating a Mathematical Correlation
Between Several Aerodynamic Values and Leading Edge Boundary
Layer Separation in an Eppler- 205 Airfoil
David Amor, 18, MAST Academy, Key Biscayne, Florida
|
| SP020 |
The Design and Testing of a Shuttle Inspection
Vehicle's Guidance and Imaging Systems
Cameron Alexander Martin, 17, Imlay City High School, Imlay
City, Michigan
|
| ZO028 |
Inhibition of Cell Recognition and Reaggregation
by Chitin and Chitinase in the Sponge Microciona prolifera:
A Possible Model for the Cause and Effects of RAD
Vinay Tripuraneni, 16, Clovis West High School, Fresno, California
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| Second Award of $1,500 |
| BE041 |
The Effects of External Loans on the Economic
Performance of Latin American Countries: An Integrated
Statistical Approach
Daniel Nikbakht, 16, Half Hollow Hills High School West,
Dix Hills, New York
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| BI032 |
Radiation Shield: Using Biological Molecules
to Prevent or Repair DNA Damage Caused by Radiation in Drosophila
melanogaster
Parijata Desiree Mackey, 17, Dr. Michael M. Krop High School,
Miami, Florida
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| BO004 |
Augmented Imidacloprid: Improving Pest
Management, Increasing Plant Health
Austin Hensel, 16, Lincoln Park Academy, Ft. Pierce, Florida
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| CH052 |
Interfacial Phenomena in -(Ni-Fe-Cu)- Giant
MagnetoResistance Systems
Dylan Reed Conradson, 17, Los Alamos High School, Los Alamos,
New Mexico
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| CS044 |
Smart Soaring: Flocks of Autonomous Airplanes
Elliot Robert Kroo, 14, Henry M. Gunn High School, Palo Alto,
California
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| EA007 |
Investigations of Oxide-Reduction During
Lightning-Induced Fulgurite Formation
Britta Elyse Jones, 18, Eastside High School, Gainesville,
Florida
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| EN084 |
Factors Affecting Cooperative Robotic Behavior,
Year Three
Donald Stuart Eng, 17, Stanton College Preparatory School,
Jacksonville, Florida
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| EV043 |
A Comparison of Herbs and Bti as Larvicides
on Culex pipiens and Their Effect on Daphnia
magna, Year Two
Abigail Marie Hines, 15, Orchard Day School, Fort Wayne,
Indiana
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| MA041 |
Sinking Battleship
Christopher Edward Tucker, 17, Huntington High School, Huntington,
West Virginia
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| ME029 |
Dendritic Polymer-Insulin Conjugates/Nanodevices
for Oral Insulin Delivery: A System for Optimal Bioavailability
in Type 1 Diabetes
Shilpa Naresh Raja, 17, West Bloomfield High School, West
Bloomfield, Michigan
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| MI049 |
Putting a Silver Lining on Solar Disinfection:
The Additive Effect of Silver Nitrate on a Solar Disinfection
Model
Cameron Thomas Gross, 15, Solon High School, Solon, Iowa
|
| PH023 |
Getting Started on the Right Foot: An Evaluation
of Equine Arena Footing Materials
Megan Jean Webb, 15, Keyser High School, Keyser, West Virginia
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| SP012 |
A New Algorithm for Multiple Hypothesis-based
Tracking and Discovery of Potentially Hazardous Near Earth
Objects
Anand M. Palaniappan, 17, David H. Hickman High School, Columbia,
Missouri
|
| ZO040 |
Olfactory Learning and Brain Plasticity
in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) in the Absence of
Visual Cues
Lesley Elizabeth Ash, 17, Tucson Magnet High School, Tucson,
Arizona
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| Team Award of $1,500 for each
member |
| EV325 |
Engineering Environmentally Safe Self Extinguishing
Polymers
Daniel Hefter, 16, Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School
for Boys, Woodmere, New York
Aryeh Sokolov, 16, Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School
for Boys, Woodmere, New York
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| Team Award of $1,000 for each
member |
| CS302 |
The Effect of Network Interruption on Effectiveness
of Bundling vs. TCP/IP Data Transmission Protocols
Daniel Flynn Caughran, 17, Yorktown High School, Arlington,
Virginia
Anna S Chan, 17, Yorktown High School, Arlington, Virginia
Christopher Colin Applegate, 18, Yorktown High School, Arlington,
Virginia
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| Each winner will receive a plaque and a
certificate of reconicition, teacher of each individual
and team will receive a grant in the amount of $300. |
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| U.S. Army |
| Award of $3,000 in savings
bonds, a certificate of achievement and a gold medalion |
| BE037 |
Prototype for Autonomy: Pathway for the
Blind
Ameen Abdulrasool, 18, Lane Technical High School, Chicago,
Illinois
|
| BI064 |
Percent Conservation of the Human Insulin
Molecule vs. CNS Development in Lower Organisms
Kathleen Curley Clement, 15, Langley High School, McLean,
Virginia
|
| BO024 |
The Effects of Triclosan Dioxins (TD's)
from Biome Chemical Soil Runoff Bioaccumulation: An Investigation
for an Innovative Use of Crinum americanum as Bioremediation
Zachary Mason Sandoval, 16, Dr. Michael M. Krop High School,
Miami, Florida
|
| CH009 |
An Investigation of Bioactive Ceramic Materials:
Efficient Media Milling Techniques for Bioglass 45s5 (R)
Composites
Kayla L. Paulk, 17, Blanche Ely High School, Pompano Beach,
Florida
|
| CS015 |
Improving EEG Signal Recognition for Human/Machine
Control Using a Rat Model
Farre Nixon, 16, Pleasant Grove High School, Texarkana, Texas
|
| EA008 |
Wind-Renewable Alternative Energy: It's
About Time!
Kasey Blythe Painter, 17, Enid High School, Enid, Oklahoma
|
| EN033 |
Low Reynolds Number Aerodynamics, Phase
4: Development and Optimization of a Micro Air Vehicle
John Pease Moore, IV, 17, Dayton Christian High School, Miamisburg,
Ohio
|
| EV123 |
Radon: Guam's Unknown Threat
Kim Tae Hun, 17, Father Duenas Memorial School, Hagatna,
|
| MA016 |
Combating Gerrymandering: A Novel Mathematical
Approach
Daniel David Graves, 18, Nicolet High School, Glendale, Wisconsin
|
| ME019 |
The Beneficial Effects of Fish Oil on Breast
Cancer: A Fourth-Year Study
Triparna Ghosh-Choudhury, 17, Northside Health Careers High
School, San Antonio, Texas
|
| MI047 |
Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato
DC3000 Effectors' Effects on Plant Cells: Hypersensitive
Response or Disease
Daniel Abraham Blumenthal, 17, Jones College Preparatory
High School, Chicago, Illinois
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| PH020 |
Polarization Dynamics of Ytterbium Doped
Silica Fiber Laser
Alexander Chernyak, 17, International Academy, Bloomfield
Hills, Michigan
|
| SP012 |
A New Algorithm for Multiple Hypothesis-based
Tracking and Discovery of Potentially Hazardous Near Earth
Objects
Anand M. Palaniappan, 17, David H. Hickman High School, Columbia,
Missouri
|
| ZO028 |
Inhibition of Cell Recognition and Reaggregation
by Chitin and Chitinase in the Sponge Microciona prolifera:
A Possible Model for the Cause and Effects of RAD
Vinay Tripuraneni, 16, Clovis West High School, Fresno, California
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| Award of $3,000 in savings
bonds to be shared equally by team members, certificates
of achievement and gold medallions |
| CS303 |
Search for Tomorrow: A Study of Associative
Linguistics to Optimize Search Technology
Jason Hamid Rezvanian, 18, duPont Manual Magnet High School,
Louisville, Kentucky
Harish Mayur Srinivasan, 17, duPont Manual Magnet High School,
Louisville, Kentucky
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| Winners receive an all expense
paid trip to Operation Cherry Blossom in Tokyo, Japan.
Each trip winner will also receive $3,000 in savings bonds,
$300 from the Association of the United States Army, a
gold medallion and a certificate of achievement. |
| EA002 |
Geochemistry of the Southern Juan de Fuca
Ridge: Isotopic Mantle Source Investigations
Sarah Rose Langberg, 18, Canterbury School, Fort Myers, Florida
|
| EN095 |
Preventing Degradation in Proton Exchange
Membrane Fuel Cells: A Novel, Multi-cartridge Air Contaminant
Control System
Jonathan Brandon Burke Cross, 17, James W. Robinson, Jr.
Secondary School, Fairfax, Virginia
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| One all expense paid trip to
London International Youth Science Forum, $3,000 in savings
bonds, $300 from the Association of the United States Army,
a gold medallion and Certificate of Achievement. |
| ME035 |
The Effects of Betaseron and Pycnogenol
on Nitric Oxide Levels in Multiple Sclerosis Cells
Katherine Joy Nicholas, 17, Ephrata Senior High School, Ephrata,
Pennsylvania
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| National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| For projects that best relate to NASA's
mission |
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| All expense-paid trip to attend
the U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama and a certificate |
| CH024 |
Grass for Biomass, Phase Three
Danielle Marie Wilson, 18, Stuart-Menlo High School, Stuart,
Iowa
|
| CS015 |
Improving EEG Signal Recognition for Human/Machine
Control Using a Rat Model
Farre Nixon, 16, Pleasant Grove High School, Texarkana, Texas
|
| EA007 |
Investigations of Oxide-Reduction During
Lightning-Induced Fulgurite Formation
Britta Elyse Jones, 18, Eastside High School, Gainesville,
Florida
|
| EN079 |
Ion Thruster Development and Analysis
Thomas Andrew Trudel, 17, Muhlenberg High School, Laureldale,
Pennsylvania
|
| EN101 |
Communal Aptitude Evolution System for
Autonomous Robots
Jessica Lauren Malone, 17, Berea High School, Berea, Ohio
|
| MA044 |
Complete Sequences of Positive Integers
Kledin Dobi, 16, Julia R. Masterman High School, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
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| MI017 |
The Pathological Effect of Bacteria on
Muscle Tissue
Jessica L. Miles, 16, duPont Manual Magnet High School, Louisville,
Kentucky
|
| SP004 |
First Measurements of Size and Surface
Temperature for Eclipsing Binary Star 1ES 1959+650 #5
Kristen Nicole Donahue, 16, Waterloo High School, Waterloo,
Illinois
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| Honorable Mention Award Certificates
for International students and students under the age of
16 |
| BI018 |
Biochemical Characterization of the Fire
Retardant Properties of Medicago sativa (Alfalfa):
An Alternative to an Environmental Sustainable Development
Maria Del Mar Torres-Aviles, 14, Colegio de la Salle, Bayamon,
Puerto Rico
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| CS005 |
Discretization-polymorphic Data Concealment
and Protection System "Stealth"
Danil Aleksandrovich Somsikov, 16, Gymansium #1, Alla Bystrina,
Odessa, Ukraine
|
| EN052 |
Wings: What a Drag. . .
Mark Richard Fleming, 14, Loyola High School, Mankato, Minnesota
|
| EV057 |
Multi-Tiered Wetlands: A Technique for
Improving the Efficiency of Artificial Wetlands
Andrew James Stewart, 17, Karabar Distance Education Centre,
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
|
| MA003 |
Programmable Quantum Computing: A New Framework
with von Neumann Type Architecture
Nimish Pradipkumar Ramanlal, 16, Seminole High School, Sanford,
Florida
|
| MI049 |
Putting a Silver Lining on Solar Disinfection:
The Additive Effect of Silver Nitrate on a Solar Disinfection
Model
Cameron Thomas Gross, 15, Solon High School, Solon, Iowa
|
| PH009 |
Optimization Research on Dye-sensitized
Solar Cells
YiRan Wang, 19, High School Affiliated to Renmin University
of China, Beijing, China
|
| SP001 |
Fractal Dimension Analysis of Putative
Martian Coastlines
Gabrielle Alyce Gianelli, 17, Lake Highland Preparatory School,
Orlando, Florida
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| DuPont's Center for Collaborative
Research and Education, Office of Education recognizes
individual and team winners in the categories that best
exemplify DuPont's business-related interests: Biology,
Chemistry, Engineering/Physics, Earth/Environmental Science
and/or Computer Science. Each project is recognized with
a Primary Award of $1,000. |
| EV080 |
Sustainable Development in an Unstable
World: Helping Economically Disadvantaged Families Produce
Their Own Food
Travis Lopez, 17, Skyline Technical High School, Phoenix,
Arizona
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| DuPont will additionally recognize
Honorable Mention winners with an award of $500. |
| BI027 |
Production of Ethanol by Vacuum Process
Jessica Lynn Laviolette, 17, Brandon High School, Ortonville,
Michigan
|
| CH014 |
Digitally-Enhanced Thin-Layer Chromatography:
An Inexpensive, New Technique for Qualitative and Quantitative
Analysis
Amber Victoria Irish Hess, 18, Robert Louis Stevenson School,
Pebble Beach, California
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| CS015 |
Improving EEG Signal Recognition for Human/Machine
Control Using a Rat Model
Farre Nixon, 16, Pleasant Grove High School, Texarkana, Texas
|
| CS055 |
A New Multidimensional Feature-Mapping
Algorithm
Ocan Sankur, 19, Galatasaray Lisesi, Istanbul, Turkey
|
| EN063 |
A Clear Choice: A Polycarbonate-Polyhedral
Oligomeric Silsesquioxane Nanocomposite
Blake Allen Campbell, 18, Stevens High School, Rapid City,
South Dakota
|
| ME038 |
Immunostimulation Through NF-kB Activated
Cytokine Synthesis from an Herbal Polysaccharide from Tinospora
cordifolia
Reshma Ramachandran, 17, Coral Reef Senior High School, Miami,
Florida
|
| MI017 |
The Pathological Effect of Bacteria on
Muscle Tissue
Jessica L. Miles, 16, duPont Manual Magnet High School, Louisville,
Kentucky
|
| PH032 |
Can Carbon Nanotubes Improve Material Strength?
Improving Bulletproof Vest Strength: Year Two
Graham Edward Gintz, 14, Hilton Head Preparatory School,
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
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| |
| U.S. Coast Guard |
| For projects that relate to boating and
water safety |
| |
| First Award of $5,000 |
| ZO306 |
Methods of Deterring Sharks in Both Invasive
and Noninvasive Situations
Kaitlin Maria Luther, 17, Henry Perrine Baldwin High School,
Wailuku, Hawaii
Alana Marie Yurkanin, 17, Henry Perrine Baldwin High School,
Wailuku, Hawaii
|
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| Second Award of $3,000 |
| EN060 |
F.I.N.D.-2: The Development of an Autonomous
Surveying Vessel
Benjamin Thomas Unsworth, 16, Kingswood Academy, Sulphur,
Louisiana
|
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| Third Award of $1,000 |
| EV067 |
Barnacles Be Gone, Two: Does Ultrasonic
Activation Prevent the Adhesion of the Balanus glandula?
Ryan John Clark, 15, Hilton Head Preparatory School, Hilton
Head Island, South Carolina
|
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| Fourth Award of $500 |
| CH063 |
Obtaining Fuel by Electrolytic Decomposition
of Sea Water
Claudio Bravo, 16, Eagle School, Antofagasta, Chile
|
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| Honorable Mention Award of
$100 |
| EN059 |
Enhanced Stability Effects of Micro-Foils
on Supercavitating Torpedoes
Robert Francis Minehart, III, 16, Sterling, Virginia
|
| EN331 |
Hovercraft Symmetry and Lift/Load Capacity
Amy Minh-Tran Duong, 18, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax,
Virginia
Samantha Lindsey Saenger, 17, W. T. Woodson High School,
Fairfax, Virginia
|
| EV019 |
Plant Derived Corrosion Inhibitor
Samuel Batista, 18, Colquitt County High School, Moultrie,
Georgia
|
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| Robert Luby, Jr. of IBM |
| In recognition of the need to invest in
the people that will make a difference in the future of
our world, the following awards are offered. |
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| $3,000 First Place Scholarship
Award in Mathematics |
| MA033 |
Minimizing Inconvenience in Directed Meshes:
A Model for Traffic Optimization
Matthew Huang, 16, Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale, New
York
|
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| $2,500 Second Place Scholarship
Award in Mathematics |
| MA016 |
Combating Gerrymandering: A Novel Mathematical
Approach
Daniel David Graves, 18, Nicolet High School, Glendale, Wisconsin
|
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| $1,500 Third Place Scholarship
Award in Mathematics |
| MA017 |
Computational Modeling of Physical Interactions
in Three Dimensions
James Halligan Powell, 18, Terre Haute South Vigo High School,
Terre Haute, Indiana
|
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| $1,000 Honorable Mention Scholarship
Award in Mathematics |
| MA029 |
The Fractal Nature of Music
Vinay Venkatesh Ramasesh, 15, North Crowley High School,
Fort Worth, Texas
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| $3,000 First Place Scholarship
Award in Computer Science |
| CS019 |
Braille Accessible Learning System: A Distance
Learning Approach
Ahmad Shakir Manshad, 15, Las Cruces High School, Las Cruces,
New Mexico
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| $2,500 Second Place Scholarship
Award in Computer Science |
| CS049 |
Artificial Cognition and Memory: Tissue
Image Analysis for Tumor Diagnosis
Kimberly Elise Reinhold, 17, Saint Joseph's High School,
Hilo, Hawaii
|
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| $1,500 Third Place Scholarship
Award in Computer Science |
| CS052 |
Collaborative Nurse Scheduling: A Novel
Approach to Improve Utilization of Existing Nurse Resources
through Secure Data Transactions and Hospital Clustering
Sonia Nijhawan, 16, duPont Manual Magnet High School, Louisville,
Kentucky
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| $1,000 Honorable Mention Scholarship
Award in Computer Science |
| CS017 |
Designing a General Purpose Equation Solver
Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays on NASA's HC-36 Hypercomputer
Vivek Mukherjee, 18, Tabb High School, Yorktown, Virginia
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| $3,000 First Place Scholarship
Award in Engineering |
| EN056 |
Enzymatic Electrodes for Biofuel Cells
Daniel Clayton Appel, 18, Eldorado High School, Albuquerque,
New Mexico
|
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| $2,500 Second Place Scholarship
Award in Engineering |
| EN084 |
Factors Affecting Cooperative Robotic Behavior,
Year Three
Donald Stuart Eng, 17, Stanton College Preparatory School,
Jacksonville, Florida
|
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| $1,500 Third Place Scholarship
Award in Engineering |
| EN091 |
Fuel Cell System Using Hydrogen from Aqueous
Sodium Borohydride Solution for Portable Communication
Applications
Shengbo Xu, 17, Hamilton High School, Chandler, Arizona
|
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| $1,000 Honorable Mention Scholarship
Award in Engineering |
| EN100 |
Iris Recognition for Individual Identification
Nina Maria Huffman, 17, Langley High School, McLean, Virginia
|
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| $2,000 Team Collaboration Scholarship
Award, to be divided equally among team members. |
| CS301 |
Generating 3D Anatomical Virtual Models
for Medical Training Systems, Phase III
Alexa Danielle Sider, 16, Lake Highland Preparatory School,
Orlando, Florida
Neha Rajendra Hippalgaonkar, 16, Lake Highland Preparatory
School, Orlando, Florida
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| EN311 |
Electricity Load Forecasting Using the
Support Vector Machine
Adam Shabti Charles, 17, Stuyvesant High School, New York,
New York
Yuriy Novodvorskiy, 17, Stuyvesant High School, New York,
New York
David Dengyu Wang, 17, Stuyvesant High School, New York,
New York
|
| MA308 |
Serial Numerical Recombinations, Phase
Two
Daniel B. Beksha II, 18, Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro,
Massachusetts
Matthew J. Hall, 18, Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro,
Massachusetts
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| Scholarship will be distributed annually
at the time the student enrolls in college. |
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