ISEF
Program Information
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| ADA Foundation |
| For the best exhibit in the area of dental
research. |
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| Award of $1,000 |
| ME036 |
Association Between Periodontal Disease
and Heart Defects in Children
Maria Isabel Guzman, 18, Academia del Perpetuo Socorro, San
Juan, Puerto Rico
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| Acoustical Society of America |
| First Award of $500 |
| BE015 |
Absolute vs. Relative Pitch: It's
Music to My Ears! Or Is It to My Mind?
Sita Chandrika Palepu, 17, James Madison High School, Vienna,
Virginia
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| Honorable Mention Awards |
| BE057 |
The McGurk Effect: Does Age Matter?
Elisabeth Lee Crabtree, 17, Byng High School, Ada, Oklahoma
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| PH014 |
Sonoluminescence
Samrat A. Amin, 18, Laramie Senior High School, Laramie,
Wyoming
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| PH050 |
The Physics of Mallet Percussion: The Search
for an Alternate Wood
Ashley Renee Woodall, 15, North Garland High School, Garland,
Texas
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| Each winner also receives a one-year ASA
membership. |
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| Agilent Technologies |
| Two paid summer internships at an Agilent
Technologies Site. Each internship not to exceed eight
weeks. |
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| Summer internship |
| CS015 |
Artificial Creation of Music Using Music
Theory
Aadhar Mittal, 17, Montford School, Delhi, Delhi, India
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| EA042 |
Determining the Quantitative Characteristics
of the Eclipsing Binary Star System V508 Ophiuchus Using
Observational Astrometry
Alan Nathan Calfee, 17, Folsom High School, Folsom, California
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| EV076 |
The Effect of Global Change on Decomposition:
Light Availability, Standing Litter and Growth Environment
Grace Hsu, 17, Saratoga High School, Saratoga, California
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| PH027 |
Effect of Static Electricity to "Rebound" of
Droplets Against a Water Surface
Hokuto Sunago, 18, Toyama-Tyubu High School, Toyama, Toyama,
Japan
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| American Association for Artificial Intelligence |
| For the best projects in the area of computer
science with an artificial intelligence component. |
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| Award of $500 |
| CS013 |
Nice Guys Dominate: A Computer Simulation
Studying the Effect of Dominant-Recessive Genetics on a
Population
Michael Jason Diedrich, 16, Century High School, Rochester,
Minnesota
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| CS014 |
Applying Genetic Algorithms to Dynamic
Traitor Tracing
Adam Charles Vogel, 18, Saint Charles West High School, St
Charles, Missouri
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| CS024 |
Data Mining Network Traffic With Neural
Networks
Dmitry Kashlev, 19, The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx,
New York
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| CS025 |
TensorFaces: A Multilinear Model for Computerized
Face Recognition and Image Processing
Tonislav Ivanov Ivanov, 19, Stuyvesant High School, New York,
New York
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| CS033 |
Modeling the Ecological Success of Decision
Rules Using Variants of the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
Katherine Harvard, 17, Great Neck South High School, Great
Neck, New York
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| CS041 |
Implementation of Bayesian Statistical
Spam-filtering Algorithm
Jerry Ji Guo, 15, Riverside High School, Greer, South Carolina
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| CS051 |
Brain-Computer Interface for the Muscularly
Disabled
Elena Leah Glassman, 16, Central Bucks High School West,
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
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| CS054 |
Training Neural Networks With Genetic Alogrithms
Nhan Duy Nguyen, 15, Southside High School, Greenville, South
Carolina
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| CS062 |
The Telltale Heart of Darkness - Differentiating
Between Authors: Beyond Naive Bayesian Classification
Brian Andrew Camley, 17, William J. Palmer High School, Colorado
Springs, Colorado
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| EN102 |
Factors Affecting Cooperative Robotic Behavior
Donald Eng, 15, Stanton College Preparatory School, Jacksonville,
Florida
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| EN121 |
Robots to the Rescue: The Effect of Sensor
Type on the Detection of Life Signs
Brian Edward Pinkham, 17, Stone Bridge High School, Ashburn,
Virginia
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| EN317 |
The Fish Robot
Fransisco Selles de Almeida Junior, 20, ETEL - Escola Tecnica
de Eletronica, Ipaussu, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Nei Alcantara Junior, 17, ETEL - Escola Tecnica de Eletronica,
Ipaussu, Sao Paulo, Brasil
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| All winners will receive a certificate.
Winners and their schools will also receive a one-year
membership in the American Association for Artificial Intelligence,
including a subscription to AI Magazine. |
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| American Association of Physics Teachers
and the American Physical Society |
| First Award of $1,000 |
| PH053 |
Chaotic Fluids: An Examination of Phase
Transitions in Taylor-Couette Flow
Mairead Mary McCloskey, 17, Loreto College, Coleraine, Co
Derry, Northern Ireland
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| Second Award of $400 |
| PH039 |
Modeling the Dynamics of a Pneumatic Water
Sprayer
Ross Andrew Coleman, 18, Winner High School, Winner, South
Dakota
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| Third Award of $300 |
| PH017 |
Characterization of Bending Loss in Optical
Fiber
Jessica Rose Haney, 17, Oakton High School, Vienna, Virginia
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| Honorable Mention Awards of
a Certificate |
| PH018 |
Spectroscopy Never Sounded So Good
Andrew Jared Herron, 18, Dallastown Area High School, Dallastown,
Pennsylvania
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| PH024 |
A Siphoned Flowing Soap Film as a Model
for Density-stratified Fluid Systems
Jonathan Jacques Kamler, 17, Townsend Harris High School,
Flushing, New York
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| PH027 |
Effect of Static Electricity to "Rebound" of
Droplets Against a Water Surface
Hokuto Sunago, 18, Toyama-Tyubu High School, Toyama, Toyama,
Japan
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| Top award winners receive a one-year AAPT
membership, a one-year APS student membership, a certificate
from both AAPT and APS, as well as subscriptions to the
AAPT "The Physics Teacher" Journal and other APS journals.
Each sponsoring teacher of a student who receives an AAPT
and APS award also receives certificates. |
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| American Astronomical Society and the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific |
| Priscilla and Bart Bok First
Award of a $5,000 scholarship |
| EA005 |
A Rapid, Accurate Method of Determining
the Distance to Near Earth Asteroids
Lisa Doreen Glukhovsky, 17, New Milford High School, New
Milford, Connecticut
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| Priscilla and Bart Bok Second
Award of a $3,000 scholarship |
| EA041 |
Development of an Adaptively Controlled
Telescope with Star-Pattern Recognition Pointing
Jonathan Nicholas Sick, 17, Queen Elizabeth High School,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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| In addition each student's school science
department will receive $1,000. Support for these awards
have been provided by a grant from the National Science
Foundation. |
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| American Chemical Society |
| First Award of $1,000 |
| CH020 |
Self-assembling Nanostructures Using Conductive
DNA: A New Approach to Post-silicon Computer Processor
Technology
John Paul Sadowski, 18, North Shore High School, Glen Head,
New York
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| Second Award of $500 |
| CH028 |
A Novel Room Temperature Fuel Cell Utilizing
a Carbonate Ionic Liquid Electrolyte
Kunil Kaushik Raval, 17, Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy,
Saginaw, Michigan
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| Third Award of $300 |
| BI043 |
Determining the Presence of Heteroplasmy
Through and Analysis of the Hypervariable Region of Mitochondrial
DNA
Charles Adaolph Jantzen, 18, Latta High School, Ada, Oklahoma
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| Fourth Award of $100 |
| CH011 |
Effect of Varying Electrical Potential
on Liesegang Rings Growth
Adam Robert Brungardt, 17, Brush High School, Brush, Colorado
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| Honorable Mention Awards |
| BI001 |
Inhibition of Bacteria by Chemicals in
Herbs
Ekta A. Solanki, 18, Lake Brantley High School, Altamonte
Springs, Florida
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| CH003 |
Palladium and Platinum Catalyzed Hydroselenation
of Alkynes
Denis Alexandrovich Malyshev, 16, Moscow Chemical Lyceum,
Moscow, Russia
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| CH015 |
Carbon Nanotubes (CNT): A New Frontier
in Nano-technology, Their Production from Vegetable Oils
and Studying Their Applications
Bhushan Prakash Mahadik, 16, Fr. Agnel Junior College, Maharashtra
State, India
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| CH017 |
Uncovering a Method to Convert Borate Glass
to Hydroxyapatite and Improving Applications
Rachael Yvonne Nestor, 17, De Soto High School, De Soto,
Missouri
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| CH031 |
Biomolecular Templating in the Growth of
Minerals
Thomas Henry Huynh, 17, Boston Latin Academy, Boston, Massachusetts
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| CH308 |
Quantum Yield Studies of Singlet Oxygen
Production by Bis-cyclometalated Ir(III) Complexes
Henry Fong, 16, Alhambra High School, Alhambra, California
Allen Hing Tran, 15, Alhambra High School, Alhambra, California
Johanna Tang, 15, Alhambra High School, Alhambra, California
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| All award winners and HMs receive a t-shirt
and a subscription to "Chem Matters". The sponsoring teachers
and schools of the winners and HMs also receive a certificate. |
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| American Committee for the Weizmann Institute
of Science |
| All expense paid trip for five
weeks and scholarship to the Bessie Lawrence International
Summer Science Institute at the Weizmann Institute of Science
in Rehovot, Israel |
| EA029 |
Venus from the Outside in: Linking Surface
Features to Changing Mantle Convection Patterns
Carolyn Morgan Tewksbury, 17, Clinton Senior High School,
Clinton, New York
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| First alternate for trip |
| PH040 |
Magnetoplasmadynamics: Ionization and Magnetic
Field
Ray Chengchuan He, 19, Hempfield High School, Landisville,
Pennsylvania
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| The International Summer Science Institute
provides students with an opportunity to work alongside
top Weizmann Institute researchers, as well as to learn
about life in Israel today. |
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| American Geological Institute |
| AGI is pleased to recognize three projects
that best reflect the study of Earth and the mission of
AGI. Founded in 1948, AGI strives to increase public awareness
of the vital role of the geosciences to mankind and society. |
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| First Award of $1,000, a certificate
and the book "Origins, the Evolution of Continents, Oceans
and Life" by Ron Redfern, inscribed by the AGI Chief Judge |
| EV085 |
Passive Remediation of Arsenic and Zinc
Using Permeabile Reactive Barriers
Douglas Calvin Naftz, 16, Park City High School, Park City,
Utah
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| Award of $250, a certificate
and the book "Origins, the Evolution of Continents, Oceans
and Life" by Ron Redfern, inscribed by the AGI Chief Judge |
| EA029 |
Venus from the Outside in: Linking Surface
Features to Changing Mantle Convection Patterns
Carolyn Morgan Tewksbury, 17, Clinton Senior High School,
Clinton, New York
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| Recognized by AGI on behalf
of the Association of Engineering Geologists (AEG) this
awardee will receive a subscription to the AEG journal, "Environmental
and Engineering Geosciences". |
| EV049 |
Polymer Possibilities Phase III: Biodegradable
Cellulose for Wind Erosion Control
Vincent Tyler Metzger, 16, Cibola High School, Albuquerque,
New Mexico
|
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| Each student and their teacher receive a
one-year subscription to AGI's magazine "Geotimes". |
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| American Indian Science and Engineering
Society |
| For the project that best represents the
relationship between science, mathematics, technology,
engineering and American Indian culture. |
| |
| Awards of $500 |
| EN023 |
Testing Solar Cells for Space Applications:
Phase I
Ernestine Chaco, 18, Navajo Preparatory School, Farmington,
New Mexico
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| ME027 |
Native American Herbs as Antibiotics
Hannah Euphrates Woriax, 13, Purnell Swett High School, Pembroke,
North Carolina
|
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| Award of $1,000 |
| EN032 |
Artificial Intelligence Using a Shaped
Memory Alloy, Flexinol 150 LT, MARCO (Mobile Activated
Radio Controlled Observer)
Alicia J. Ortega, 15, Pojoaque High School, Santa Fe, New
Mexico
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| Winner also receives a plaque and AISES
denim shirt for 1st place winner. |
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| American Intellectual Property Law Association |
| First Award of $1,000 and a
certificate |
| BO017 |
Diagnosis of Pregnancy in Cattle (Punyakoti
Pregnancy Test)
Varun Kumar Nagaraja, 14, Sri Vani Public School, Bangalore,
Karnataka, India
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| CH008 |
Bugs Away! A Two Year Study
Kegan Kade Crouch, 16, Mason High School, Mason, Texas
|
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| Second Award of $250 and a
certificate |
| BE016 |
Identification of Absolute Pitch Possessors
Without Bias in Musical Training: The Development of a
Screening Procedure that Discerns Between Tones
Priya Ashoke Rajdev, 16, Ossining High School, Ossining,
New York
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| MI039 |
Antibacterial Agent Obtained from the Midgut
of Cattle Leeches (Hirudinaria manilensis)
Efrellene Talaver Galula, 16, Agusan del Sur National High
School, Agusan del Sur, Philippines
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| American Mathematical Society |
| Karl Menger Awards of Excellence |
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| First Place Award of $1,000 |
| MA306 |
Fractals, Power-Laws and the Weibull Distribution:
Mathematically Modeling Crumpled Paper
Andrew Michael Leifer, 18, Fairview High School, Boulder,
Colorado
Raymund Chun-Hung To, 17, Fairview High School, Boulder,
Colorado
David Guillaume Pothier, 17, Fairview High School, Boulder,
Colorado
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| Second Place Awards of $500 |
| MA012 |
Polynomial Maps From Zn to Zn
Alexandr V. Medvedev, 17, BSU Liceum, Minsk, Belarus
|
| MA027 |
Continued Fractions of Quadratic Laurent
Series
Ethan James Street, 18, Winston Churchill High School, Livonia,
Michigan
|
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| Third Place Awards of $250 |
| MA001 |
Game Theory in Action: Proving and Computing
Winning Strategies for "Nim" and Its Variants
Hyeyoun Chung, 18, Saint Paul's Girl's School, London, United
Kingdom
|
| MA014 |
Computation of Quandle Cocycle Knot Invariants
Anatoly Preygel, 17, Montgomery Blair High School, Silver
Spring, Maryland
|
| MA021 |
A Combinatorial Proof of Seymour's Conjecture
for Regular Oriented Graphs With Almost Regular Outsets
O'a and O"a
Lester Wayne Mackey, 18, Half Hollow Hills High School West,
Dix Hills, New York
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| MA302 |
Multifractal Dimension Functions of Rn
and Qp Space Subsets
Evgeniy E. Loharu, 17, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Russia
Sergey O. Ivanov, 16, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Russia
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| Honorable Mention Awards |
| MA002 |
Mathematics Is Not Yet Ready for Such Problems:
Collatz Conjecture Rationalized
Robert Shea Bracco, 15, DuPont Manual Magnet High School,
Louisville, Kentucky
|
| MA005 |
Random Walks and Handshakes
Brian Todd Rice, 16, Southwest Virginia Governor's School,
Dublin, Virginia
|
| MA007 |
On Decompositions of Continuous and Differentiable
Functions on Planar Sets
Alexey V. Baran, 16, AES Centre of MSU, Moscow, Moscow City,
Russia
|
| MA301 |
Generalization of the Kuratovsky's Problem
Evgeny A. Amosov, 16, Continous Math Education Center, St.
Peterburg, St. Peterburg City, Russia
Artem G. Viktorov, 17, Continous Math Education Center, St.
Peterburg, St. Peterburg City, Russia
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| MA309 |
New Bounds for the Diameters of k-path
Graphs
Jeremy Takashi Warshauer, 16, Lyndon B. Johnson High School,
Austin, Texas
Alan Craig Taylor, 18, Lyndon B. Johnson High School, Austin,
Texas
Hannah Chung, 15, Lyndon B. Johnson High School, Austin,
Texas
|
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| A booklet on Karl Menger and a magazine
will be given to each winner. |
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| American Meteorological Society |
| For the best exhibits in the area of atmospheric,
oceanic and hydrologic sciences. |
| |
| First Award of $1,000 |
| EA026 |
Heat of Condensation: A Natural Source
of Protective Heat: A Third Year Study
Shamsher Singh Samra, 16, Clovis West High School, Fresno,
California
|
| |
| Second Award of $500 |
| EA034 |
Global Climate Change and Antarctica
Nicole Marie Hanney, 15, Saint Joseph's Academy, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana
|
| |
| Third Award of $250 |
| EV052 |
Aerosols and Climatic Change
Ridhwaan Suliman, 16, Pretoria Boys High School, Pretoria,
Gauteng, South Africa
|
| |
| Honorable Mention Awards |
| EA004 |
Idaho Tornado Climatology
Paul Martin Hoffman, 17, Upper Arlington High School, Columbus,
Ohio
|
| EA030 |
The Dependence of Weather in Kazakhstan
from Climate Cycle Known as El Nino/ Southern
Oscillation
Saule Sakenova, 17, Lycee #105, Almaty, Kazakhstan
|
| EV011 |
The Implications of the Flow of Bacteria
in the Atmosphere on Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Three Year
Study
Timothy Calvin Borden, 17, Canterbury School, Fort Myers,
Florida
|
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| Winners receive a certificate, a CD-ROM,
and a one year student membership to the AMS. The student
membership includes a subscription to the "Bulletin of
the American Meteorological Society" or "Weatherwise" magazine. |
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| American Physiological Society |
| For the best projects in the physiological
sciences which include cellular physiology, animal physiology
and neurophysiology. |
| |
| First Award of $1,000 |
| ME082 |
Gene Expression Analysis of Synovial Cells
in Response to Impulsive Shock
Irene Yuan Sun, 16, Ben Davis High School, Indianapolis,
Indiana
|
| |
| Second Award of $500 |
| ME028 |
Simvastatin Activation of Ryanodine Receptor
Mediated Calcium Channels May Promote Myolysis
Daniel Jacob Sachs, 17, John Jay High School, Cross River,
New York
|
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| Third Award of $500 |
| GN017 |
Effect of Age on B Cell Responsiveness
to Stromal Cell-derived Factor-1 (SDF-1) and B-Lymphocyte
Chemoattractant (BLC)
Truc Thanh Pham, 18, Suncoast High School, Riviera Beach,
Florida
|
| ME092 |
Silencing Cancer With RNA
Anila Madiraju, 17, Marianopolis College, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada
|
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| Winners will receive a certificate and a
one-year student membership in the APS. |
| |
| American Phytopathological Society |
| First Award of $1,000 |
| BO010 |
Xanthomonas campestris pv.
Vesicatoria; A Study of the Relationship Between Extra
Cellular Material and Heightened Host Response
Lauren Marie Smith, 16, Rampart High School, Colorado Springs,
Colorado
|
| |
| Second Award of $700 |
| MI021 |
The Identification of Antimicrobial Volatile
Compounds and Their Effects on Representative Species of
Medically and Agriculturally Important Fungi
Thomas Edgar Cleveland, 18, Louisiana School for Math, Science,
and the Arts, Natchitoches, Louisiana
|
| |
| Third Award of $500 |
| EV310 |
Clearing the Air: The Effects of Tropospheric
Ozone on Live Oak Leaves from Various Levels of Urbanization
in Texas
Parker Fennell, 17, John B. Connally High School, Austin,
Texas
Emma Donaldson, 17, John B. Connally High School, Austin,
Texas
|
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| Fourth Award of $200 |
| EV051 |
An Alternative to Synthetic Nematicides: Brassica rapa as
an Antagonistic Green Manure Against Meloidogyne arenaria
Glenna Matthews Wink, 15, Mecosta Osceola Math, Science & Technology
Center, Big Rapids, Michigan
|
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| American Psychological Association |
| First Award of $1,000 and a
certificate |
| BE012 |
Media Mayhem: The Neurophysiological Reaction
and Behavioral Effects of TV on Children
Natalie Rose Mergler, 18, Chaminade-Julienne High School,
Dayton, Ohio
|
| |
| Second Award of $500 and a
certificate |
| BE020 |
The Influence of Physical and Neurological
Trauma on Personality
Zarabeth Lehr Golden, 16, Blanche Ely High School, Pompano
Beach, Florida
|
| |
| Third Award of $125 and a certificate |
| BE003 |
HSDQ: A Decade Added to Life
Elizabeth Fairchild Harding, 15, Lake Highland Preparatory
School, Orlando, Florida
|
| |
| Honorable Mention Award |
| BE007 |
A Look at Youth in Trouble: Using Simple
Ethics to Detect Potentially Troubled Teens
Alicia Lynn McDermott, 17, Grace Fellowship Christian School,
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
|
| BE018 |
Epilepsy Impact: Socio-demographic Study
of Self-perception, Psychosocial Characteristics and Limitations
of Patients With Intractable Epilepsy
Alfredo Andres Medina, 18, Academia del Perpetuo Socorro,
San Juan, Puerto Rico
|
| BE035 |
Speed and Cell Phones: Are Male or Female
Brains Better Suited for the Task?
Elais M. Ponton, 17, Franklin High School, El Paso, Texas
|
| BE050 |
Gender and Faculty Perception of Adolescent
Adjustment
Erin Margaret White, 16, Immaculata High School, Somerville,
New Jersey
|
| BE051 |
Social Cognition and Jury Bias Toward the
Elderly in the Courtroom
Michael Duane Buhrmester, 18, Plano Senior High School, Plano,
Texas
|
| BE307 |
Reaction Time
Bradley Joel Baggett, 18, Cedarville High School, Cedarville,
Arkansas
Jon-Erik Ian Garrido, 18, Cedarville High School, Cedarville,
Arkansas
|
| BE309 |
Aggressiveness of Stressed Crayfish (Procambarus
clarkll): Effects of Photoperiod in the Maintenance
of Dominance Hierarchies
Lynn Marie Torrech-Antonetty, 16, Isidro A. Sanchez High
School, Luquillo, Puerto Rico
Rafael Andres Torrech-Antonetty, 14, Isidro A. Sanchez High
School, Luquillo, Puerto Rico
Felix Javier Jorge-Garcia, 15, Isidro A. Sanchez High School,
Luquillo, Puerto Rico
|
| EN120 |
The Effects of Balance Training on Older
Adults
Christina Nicole Hobson, 17, Red Mountain High School, Mesa,
Arizona
|
| ME017 |
Hippocampal Volume and Memory in Schizophrenia
Christopher F Recinella, 17, Baker County High School, Glen
Saint Mary, Florida
|
| ME068 |
Determining a Correlation Between Salivary
Cortisol Concentrations, Socio-Economic Classes and At-Risk
School-aged Children
Chelsea Ray Keeney, 18, School of the Osage, Kaiser, Missouri
|
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| All behavioral science participants receive
an APA/Intel ISEF pin, a pamphlet on career choices in
psychology, a pamphlet on resilience in a time of war:
adapting to wartime stress for the student and a companion
pamphlet for the parents: resilience in a time of war,
questions asked by children. |
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| American Society for Horticultural Science |
| Each awardee and his/her school will receive
a one-year subscription to ASHS's "HortScience" and "Hort
Technology" plus a mounted certificate. |
| |
| American Society of Agronomy |
| First Award of $1,000 in Crops |
| BO029 |
The Rate of Infestation of Parasitoids
(Bracon cephi) and Wheat Stem Sawfly (Cephus cinctus)
on Spring Wheat Compared to Barley
Laine Frances Lybeck, 18, Joplin-Inverness High School, Joplin,
Montana
|
| |
| First Award of $1,000 in Soil |
| EV022 |
The Use of Modified Alumina Refinery Residues
(Bauxsol TRADEMARK) for Acid Sulfate Soil Remediation
Estelle Lela Weber, 16, Wollumbin High School, Murwillumbah,
New South Wales, Australia
|
| |
| First Award of $1,000 in Environment |
| EV076 |
The Effect of Global Change on Decomposition:
Light Availability, Standing Litter and Growth Environment
Grace Hsu, 17, Saratoga High School, Saratoga, California
|
| |
| A one-year subscription to the "Journal
of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education" is given
to the libraries of the award winners' schools. |
| |
| American Society of Pharmacognosy |
| For projects involving the study of natural
products that are in any relevant category areas including
biochemistry, botany, chemistry, medicine, microbiology
and zoology. |
| |
| Awards of $500 |
| ME044 |
Effects of Momordica charantia and Curcuma longa Extracts
on Normal and Cancerous Breast Cells
Kumkum Sarkar, 18, Roanoke Valley Governors School for Science
and Technology, Roanoke, Virginia
|
| MI021 |
The Identification of Antimicrobial Volatile
Compounds and Their Effects on Representative Species of
Medically and Agriculturally Important Fungi
Thomas Edgar Cleveland, 18, Louisiana School for Math, Science,
and the Arts, Natchitoches, Louisiana
|
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| American Speech-Language-Hearing Association |
| First Award of $1,000 |
| BE021 |
The Neurobiology of Lexical Processing:
An Examination of a Model of the Comparison Process
Megan Chaya Gross, 17, Hunter College High School, New York,
New York
|
| |
| Second Award of $500 |
| BE060 |
The Effects of Positive and Negative Space
Reversal on Visual Perception in Children With and Without
Dyslexia: Phase III
Stephanie Alexandra Williams, 17, Pacific Collegiate School,
Santa Cruz, California
|
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| Third Award of $250 |
| BE027 |
Deaf, Not Dumb: Dispelling the Myth of
a Mathematics Deficit Among Deaf Students
Casey Ann Vaughn, 17, Lawrence High School, Cedarhurst, New
York
|
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| Winners also receive a certificate, a career
kit and a subscription to the "Journal of Speech and Hearing
Research". |
| |
| American Statistical Association |
| First Award of $500 and a plaque |
| MA033 |
When Direction Vanishes: Walking Straight
or in Circles
Andrea Lynn Axtell, 16, James Bowie High School, Austin,
Texas
|
| |
| Second Award of $300 and a
plaque |
| EV099 |
The Effects of Time and Thickness on the
Concentration of Formaldehyde Emitted by OSB and the Absorption
of Emissions by an Artificial Human Lung
Katherine Douglas Van Schaik, 16, Spring Valley High School,
Columbia, South Carolina
|
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| Third Award of $100 and a plaque |
| BO034 |
The Potency of Brassica rapa Pollen
Neha Chauhan, 17, R. Nelson Snider High School, Fort Wayne,
Indiana
|
| EN074 |
The Effects of Wing Shape and Sweep on
Lift
Benjamin Derek Gordon, 17, Amherst County High School, Amherst,
Virginia
|
| |
| All students receive one-year subscriptions
of "STATS" and "Chance". Their schools will also receive
a one-year school membership in the American Statistical
Association. |
| |
| American Veterinary Medical Association |
| Award of $1000 |
| ME087 |
Mechanisms by Which Lyme Disease and Cancer
Cells Invade the Central Nervous System
Parmita Pradip Dalal, 18, Shawnee Mission Northwest High
School, Shawnee, Kansas
|
| |
| Second award of $700 |
| ME013 |
The Prevalence of Ehrlichiosis in Dogs
from the Upper Midwest
Carrie Calkins Rethlefsen, 16, Winona Senior High School,
Winona, Minnesota
|
| ZO014 |
A Mineral Study of Selected Pasture Sites
and Bovine on the Lower Gillespie Ranch
Lacy Ann Gillespie, 17, North Toole County High School, Sunburst,
Montana
|
| ZO030 |
A Fecal Analysis of Equus caballus:
Phase II
Stephanie Ann Arneson, 16, Rosholt High School, Rosholt,
South Dakota
|
| ZO053 |
Overo Lethal White Syndrome: Pedigree or
Genetic?
Amanda Dawn Cook, 18, Cody High School, Cody, Wyoming
|
| |
| All winners will also receive a plaque. |
| |
| Ashtavadhani Vidwan Ambati Subbaraya
Chetty (AVASC) Foundation |
| For projects that display outstanding creativity,
ingenuity and have the potential to alleviate the human
condition or mark a substantive advance in the scientific
field. |
| |
| Award of $1,000 U.S. Savings
Bond |
| MA021 |
A Combinatorial Proof of Seymour's Conjecture
for Regular Oriented Graphs With Almost Regular Outsets
O'a and O"a
Lester Wayne Mackey, 18, Half Hollow Hills High School West,
Dix Hills, New York
|
| ME092 |
Silencing Cancer With RNA
Anila Madiraju, 17, Marianopolis College, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada
|
| |
| Award of $500 U.S. Savings
Bond |
| BI017 |
Coconut Flower Extract as a Possible Remedy
in Stopping Excessive Uterine Hemorrhage
Maithili Prafulla Dalvi, 16, Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania
School, Thane, Maharashtra, India
|
| BO041 |
A Taxonomic Reassessment of the Phaeophyceaen
Orders Ectocarpales and Scytosiphonales Based on Ribosomal
Small Subunit (18S) DNA Sequences
Sudeep Banerjee, 16, Clovis West High School, Fresno, California
|
| BO303 |
Suppression of Branches in Eucalyptus Trees
Sharanya S, 16, Avila Convent Matriculation Higher Secondary
School, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Senthalir P, 16, Avila Convent Matriculation Higher Secondary
School, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
|
| CH028 |
A Novel Room Temperature Fuel Cell Utilizing
a Carbonate Ionic Liquid Electrolyte
Kunil Kaushik Raval, 17, Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy,
Saginaw, Michigan
|
| EV114 |
All in the Family: Using Phylogenetic Systematics
to Develop a Family of Arsenic Hyperaccumulators
Khaivchandra Ramjeawan, 17, Uniondale High School, Uniondale,
New York
|
| ME041 |
Sub-lethal Exposure of German Cockroaches
to Pesticides Contributes to Increased Expression of Bla
g 2, an Allergen Associated With Inner City Asthma
Yi-Chen Zhang, 17, The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx,
New York
|
| MI008 |
Characterization of the Secreted Aspartic
Proteinases of Candida albicans Using a Novel Combinatorial
Approach
Jamie Elyce Rubin, 16, Canterbury School, Fort Myers, Florida
|
| PH044 |
IV. Measurements of Internal Electrostatic
Confinement Electron Density using Microwave Interferometry
Tianhui Li, 18, Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, Oregon
|
| |
| Equivalent award available for non-U.S.
winners. AVASC is an educational and medical service foundation
dedicated to recognizing academic talent and providing
services to the needy. |
| |
| Association for Computing Machinery |
| First Award of $1,000 |
| CS017 |
Can Natural Arachnid Movement Be Used to
Model a Robot?
Rudy Daniel Sandoval, 16, Bartlesville High School, Bartlesville,
Oklahoma
|
| |
| Award of $500 |
| CS067 |
Genetic Algorithms: A New Approach to Controlled
Switched Networks
Jeff Thompson, 18, Kinkaid High School, Houston, Texas
|
| |
| Award of $300 |
| CS020 |
A New Method for 3-D Object Modeling and
Optical Data Recognition
Robert Earl Eunice, 18, Houston County High School, Warner
Robins, Georgia
|
| |
| Honorable Mention Award of
$200 |
| CS022 |
Computer Generated Hydrocarbon Analysis
Christopher John Mitchell, 17, Felix Varela Senior High,
Miami, Florida
|
| CS056 |
John Seth Thielemann's Operating System
(JOST OS)
John Seth Thielemann, 17, Cumberland Valley High School,
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
|
| CS059 |
Development of a Computer Language for
Children
Brittney Dyanne Black, 15, Black Homeschool, Williston, North
Dakota
|
| |
| All winners will receive complimentary ACM
Student Memberships (ACM's Student Portal Package which
also includes ACM's Digital Library) for the duration of
their undergraduate college careers (up to 5 years). |
| |
| Association for Women Geoscientists |
| Award winner will receive a $1000 scholarship. |
| |
| Award of $1,000 |
| EA029 |
Venus from the Outside in: Linking Surface
Features to Changing Mantle Convection Patterns
Carolyn Morgan Tewksbury, 17, Clinton Senior High School,
Clinton, New York
|
| |
| Honorable Mention Award of
$100 |
| EA021 |
Water on Mars: Where Was It, Where Is It
Now?
Erin Lynn Frey, 16, South River High School, Edgewater, Maryland
|
| EA034 |
Global Climate Change and Antarctica
Nicole Marie Hanney, 15, Saint Joseph's Academy, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana
|
| |
| All award winners will also receive AWG
t-shirt and a one year newsletter subscription. |
| |
| Bently Nevada, a GE Power Systems Company |
| For projects that demonstrate originality
in specifying a research problem or defining an engineering
project; as well as creativity in executing the project
and utilizing engineering principles/methods to solve the
problem. |
| |
| First Award of $1,000 |
| EN028 |
Wind Turbine Energy Output Enhancement
Using Electrohydrodynamic Principles
Arthur Joseph Petron, 17, Dallastown Area High School, Dallastown,
Pennsylvania
|
| |
| Second Award of $500 |
| EN078 |
A Non-photolithographic Approach to the
Construction of N-Type MOSFET Devices Using FIB Technology
Ryna Karnik, 16, Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, Oregon
|
| |
| Third Award of $250 |
| CS044 |
Non-deterministic Polynomial Time Complete
Calculations Using Synthetic Bubble Emulation
Daniel Lennard Kluesing, 17, Leigh High School, San Jose,
California
|
| |
| Caltech JPL |
| For outstanding projects in the areas of
science, technology and engineering that contribute to
Caltech and JPL's mission of robotic space exploration. |
| |
| Special Achievement Award of
$1,000 plus certificate |
| BI062 |
Protein Interactions Using Nano-Metallic
Barcodes
Zachary Philip Rice, 18, The Academy of Science & Technology,
Conroe, Texas
|
| CS051 |
Brain-Computer Interface for the Muscularly
Disabled
Elena Leah Glassman, 16, Central Bucks High School West,
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
|
| EA029 |
Venus from the Outside in: Linking Surface
Features to Changing Mantle Convection Patterns
Carolyn Morgan Tewksbury, 17, Clinton Senior High School,
Clinton, New York
|
| |
| Special Achievement Award Certificate |
| CH028 |
A Novel Room Temperature Fuel Cell Utilizing
a Carbonate Ionic Liquid Electrolyte
Kunil Kaushik Raval, 17, Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy,
Saginaw, Michigan
|
| CH031 |
Biomolecular Templating in the Growth of
Minerals
Thomas Henry Huynh, 17, Boston Latin Academy, Boston, Massachusetts
|
| EA021 |
Water on Mars: Where Was It, Where Is It
Now?
Erin Lynn Frey, 16, South River High School, Edgewater, Maryland
|
| EN023 |
Testing Solar Cells for Space Applications:
Phase I
Ernestine Chaco, 18, Navajo Preparatory School, Farmington,
New Mexico
|
| PH002 |
MEMS: Optimization of a Novel Application
of KOH Silicon Etching to the Construction of Single Degree
of Freedom Optical Micromirrors
Steven Christopher Seidel, 17, Astronaut High School, Titusville,
Florida
|
| PH040 |
Magnetoplasmadynamics: Ionization and Magnetic
Field
Ray Chengchuan He, 19, Hempfield High School, Landisville,
Pennsylvania
|
| PH054 |
Electron-Phonon Interactions in Carbon
Nanotubes
Edward Joesph Su, 18, William G. Enloe High School, Raleigh,
North Carolina
|
| |
| Case Western Reserve University |
| Scholarship award which includes full tuition
and room and board fees, renewable for each of four years
of undergraduate study at CWRU. This scholarship will include
an annual stipend of $2000 to support the awardee's participation
in approved research projects. |
| |
| Full scholarship tuition plus
stipend |
| EN073 |
Don't Waste Energy Stopping
Adam James Leiferman, 17, Kimball High School, Kimball, South
Dakota
|
| |
| Cleveland State University |
| Awarded to a rising senior, this scholarship
award will be for $5000 per year for 4 years. |
| |
| The recipient must have achieved a 3.5 cumulative
GPA or rank in the top 10% of their high school class.
This recipient must also maintain GPA of 3.0 at CSU in
order for the scholarship to be renewed each year. |
| |
| Drexel University |
| For projects in the categories of Behavioral
and Social Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering,
Environmental Science, Mathematics, Medicine and Health
and Physics. |
| |
| Full-tuition scholarships |
| BE038 |
A Strategic Approach to Multiple-winner
Elections: Augmenting Voter Impact Through a Clever Strategy
Brian Jeffrey Pepper, 16, Middletown High School, Middletown,
Maryland
|
| CH040 |
Synthesis and Evaluation of a Molecularly
Imprinted Polymer for the Enantiomeric Resolution of L-
and D- Phenylalanine
Yvonne Joy Yamanaka, 17, Oregon Episcopal School, Portland,
Oregon
|
| CS005 |
Ternary vs. Binary
Natasha Rustom Irani, 17, Lake Highland Preparatory School,
Orlando, Florida
|
| EN033 |
The Effect of an Induced Airflow on the
Amount of Lift Produced by a Wing
Paul Briede, 17, James Wood High School, Winchester, Virginia
|
| EV108 |
Bioluminescence: The Role of ATP in Detecting
Biocontamination
Iyen Abdon Acosta, 16, Oxon Hill High School, Oxon Hill,
Maryland
|
| MA034 |
Data Detectives: A Second Year Study of
CRC Generator Polynomials, 32-bit
Alice Wan Chai, 16, Plano Senior High School, Plano, Texas
|
| ME045 |
Restraining Restenosis: Combating Vascular
Disease, Year Three
Julian C. Hong, 17, Ronald Reagan High School, San Antonio,
Texas
|
| PH052 |
Is the Wind Predictable?
Nolan Herman Reis, 16, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto,
California
|
| |
| Scholarships are renewable for up to 5 years
pending maintenance of a 3.0 GPA and full-time status.
Each scholarship is valued at $73,625. Winners of these
scholarships will be given preferential consideration during
the application process. |
| |
| Eastman Kodak Company |
| For the best use of photography to gather
data, solve a problem, or to clearly explain the essence
of their science project. |
| |
| First Award of $1,000 |
| CS025 |
TensorFaces: A Multilinear Model for Computerized
Face Recognition and Image Processing
Tonislav Ivanov Ivanov, 19, Stuyvesant High School, New York,
New York
|
| EA005 |
A Rapid, Accurate Method of Determining
the Distance to Near Earth Asteroids
Lisa Doreen Glukhovsky, 17, New Milford High School, New
Milford, Connecticut
|
| MA305 |
Investigating Geometry of Gothic Window
Lobes
Lucie Lammelova, 19, Secondary School of Civil Engineering,
Valasske Mezirici, Novy Jicin, Czech Republic
Jana Svobodova, 19, Secondary School of Civil Engineering,
Valasske Mezirici, Novy Jicin, Czech Republic
|
| ME037 |
Is It Possible to Detect Color Deficiency
Through the Consensual Pupillary Response?
Andrew Allen Lenoir, 16, Gulliver Preparatory School, Miami,
Florida
|
| ZO048 |
Morphological Differences in Feather Microstructure
Richard Winston Larson, 15, Springville Junior High School,
Springville, Utah
|
| |
| Second Award of $500 |
| BE006 |
Human Perception of Image Manipulation:
Original vs. Real
John David Hays, 17, Wilcox High School, Wilcox, Nebraska
|
| CH010 |
Organic Chemistry Without Solvents
Amber Victoria Irish Hess, 16, Robert Lewis Stevenson School,
Pebble Beach, California
|
| CS049 |
Dynamically Displaying Data: Presenting
Information Based Upon a User's Facial Reactions
Saagar Bhupendrakumar Patel, 17, Celebration School, Celebration,
Florida
|
| EA021 |
Water on Mars: Where Was It, Where Is It
Now?
Erin Lynn Frey, 16, South River High School, Edgewater, Maryland
|
| PH027 |
Effect of Static Electricity to "Rebound" of
Droplets Against a Water Surface
Hokuto Sunago, 18, Toyama-Tyubu High School, Toyama, Toyama,
Japan
|
| |
| Honorable Mention Award of
$250 |
| BI019 |
A Novel Approach for Determining Nucleic
Acid Structure
Alexander Chow Mittal, 18, Greenwich High School, Greenwich,
Connecticut
|
| EN021 |
Surface Modification Using High Voltage,
Low Current, Cold Plasma
Trevor Elliot Powers, 16, Christian Academy of Louisville,
Louisville, Kentucky
|
| PH305 |
Toner Particles on an OHP Transparency
Sheet as a Grating for Diffraction
Mai Ikeda, 17, Niihama West High School, Niihama, Ehime,
Japan
Natsumi Kamioka, 18, Niihama West High School, Niihama, Ehime,
Japan
|
| ZO021 |
The Effect Sea Star Coelomocytes Have on
Asteroidea Regeneration in vivo and Lumbricus
terrestris Brain Cellular Proliferation in vitro
Gregory Amend, 17, Manhasset High School, Manhasset, New
York
|
| ZO057 |
The Role of Leukocytes in the Exacerbation
of Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Hypercholesterolemic
Mice
John Louis Gehrig, 18, Caddo Parish Magnet High School, Shreveport,
Louisiana
|
| |
| In addition, each of these students and
his/her sponsoring teachers will receive a one-year subscription
to "Science News", a Society for Science & the Public publication and a
Photo Kit containing an award certificate, information
and tips on photography and Kodak cameras, films and systems
which enable students and teachers to experience the leading
edge of current imaging technology. |
| |
| Endocrine Society |
| First Award of $1,000 |
| ME051 |
Bioinformatic Analysis of Breast Cancer
Associated Missense Mutations in the Carboxyl-terminal
Domains of BRCA-1
Meaghan Alexandra Figge, 14, Albany Academy for Girls, Albany,
New York
|
| |
| Second Award of $500 |
| ME068 |
Determining a Correlation Between Salivary
Cortisol Concentrations, Socio-Economic Classes and At-Risk
School-aged Children
Chelsea Ray Keeney, 18, School of the Osage, Kaiser, Missouri
|
| |
| Honorable Mention Award |
| BI017 |
Coconut Flower Extract as a Possible Remedy
in Stopping Excessive Uterine Hemorrhage
Maithili Prafulla Dalvi, 16, Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania
School, Thane, Maharashtra, India
|
| BI053 |
Endocrine Control of Transaminases Glutamic
Oxaloacetic Transaminase (GOT) and Glutamic Pyruvic Transaminase
(GPT) in the Blue Claw Crab
Vaidehita Vindhya Rajamani, 17, Riverdale High School, Jefferson,
Louisiana
|
| CS046 |
Mr. Fatty: A Knowledge-based Obesity Curing
and Monitoring System Using Constitutional Medicine
SeungKyun Ryu, 15, Jang Young Sil Science High School, Busan,
Busan, South Korea
|
| EN077 |
Design and Fabrication of Planar Glucose
Sensor Arrays
Parvathy Rama Menon, 16, Westview High School, Portland,
Oregon
|
| GN015 |
The Determination of a Correlation Between
Diabetes Mellitus and Bone Mineral Density Loss in Senior
Non-Black Women via Analysis of the Calcaneus and Radius
Richard Edwin Taylor, 17, Port Huron High School, Port Huron,
Michigan
|
| ME022 |
INGAP Peptide: New Therapeutic Approach
for Diabetes
Anand Athiviraham, 17, Saint Thomas High School, Pte Claire,
Canada
|
| ME031 |
Determining the Effects of Bioactive Cinnamon
Components on Blood Glucose Levels in Mus musculus
Heather Nicole Wood, 18, Brookside High School, Sheffield,
Ohio
|
| ME042 |
Effect of ACTH on Chondrogenesis
Jennifer Tze-Heng Choy, 17, Benjamin N. Cardozo High School,
Bayside, New York
|
| ME048 |
Inhibition of Cisplatin-induced Apoptosis
by AKT2: Implication of AKT2 in Chemoresistance
Gene Everett Sussman, 16, Lawrence High School, Cedarhurst,
New York
|
| ME061 |
Alternative Medicine: A Relief for Diabetes
John Z. Luo, 15, Bishop Hendricken High School, Warwick,
Rhode Island
|
| ME065 |
Potential Role of the PPAR-GAMMA-2 Pro12Ala
Polymorphism in Coronary Artery Disease
Nikhil Atul Shukla, 16, White Station High School, Memphis,
Tennessee
|
| ME321 |
Effect of Exam Stress on Student Cortisol
Levels
Rhea L. Edelman, 17, West Linn High School, West Linn, Oregon
Erin Leigh Frantz, 17, West Linn High School, West Linn,
Oregon
|
| |
| All winners will receive a certificate,
a book on the Endocrine System and a t-shirt. |
| |
| Florida Institute of Technology |
| Tuition Scholarships of $10,000 per year
for four years, renewable annually, to be used at Florida
Institute of Technology |
| |
| $10,000 per year scholarships,
renewable annually |
| BE020 |
The Influence of Physical and Neurological
Trauma on Personality
Zarabeth Lehr Golden, 16, Blanche Ely High School, Pompano
Beach, Florida
|
| BI001 |
Inhibition of Bacteria by Chemicals in
Herbs
Ekta A. Solanki, 18, Lake Brantley High School, Altamonte
Springs, Florida
|
| CS054 |
Training Neural Networks With Genetic Alogrithms
Nhan Duy Nguyen, 15, Southside High School, Greenville, South
Carolina
|
| EA042 |
Determining the Quantitative Characteristics
of the Eclipsing Binary Star System V508 Ophiuchus Using
Observational Astrometry
Alan Nathan Calfee, 17, Folsom High School, Folsom, California
|
| EN014 |
Developing a Microsensor Array for the
Monitoring of Glucose and Ketone Levels in Diabetics
Kristin L. Butler, 17, Hathaway Brown School, Shaker Heights,
Ohio
|
| EV029 |
The Effect of Different Types of Animal
Waste on the Composition of Biogas
Sherri Michelle Cook, 17, James Wood High School, Winchester,
Virginia
|
| EV098 |
Coral Propagation 3: The Effects of Water
Temperature on the Growth of Actinodiscus Mushroom Anemones
Lindsay Marine Quandt, 17, Algonac High School, Algonac,
Michigan
|
| EV104 |
Artificial Reefs
Mariela E. Lugo, 16, Colegio Radians, Cayey, Puerto Rico
|
| PH004 |
The Photoelectric Effect: A Second Year
Study
Paul McMillan Braswell, 17, Hedgesville High School, Hedgesville,
West Virginia
|
| ZO003 |
The Effects of cAMP and Light on the Biochemical
Anatomy of Photoreceptors
Kristin Suzanne Alligood, 17, Pedro Menendez High School,
St. Augustine, Florida
|
| |
| Hiram College |
| Scholarship award of $8,000
per year for four years. |
| CH037 |
Stronger than Pain!
Sara Wells Applegate, 16, Beach High School, Beach, North
Dakota
|
| CS017 |
Can Natural Arachnid Movement Be Used to
Model a Robot?
Rudy Daniel Sandoval, 16, Bartlesville High School, Bartlesville,
Oklahoma
|
| MI052 |
Pathogens in the Public Setting
Travis Diaz, 17, Grants High School, Grants, New Mexico
|
| PH041 |
Alteration of Fabric Strength and Texture
by Exposure to Elevated Concentrations of Ozone
Angy Nabil Mounir, 17, Notre Dame Academy, Park Hills, Kentucky
|
| |
| IEEE Foundation |
| The IEEE Foundation, Presidents Scholarship
is awarded by the IEEE, which is the world's largest technical
professional society, with over 375,000 members in 150
countries. For outstanding achievement in the area of engineering,
this largest single special award is a $10,000 scholarship. |
| |
| The IEEE Foundation Presidents
Scholarship of $10,000 |
| EN027 |
A Magnetohydrodynamic Direct Current Transformer
Elizabeth Van Cortlandt Varela, 16, West Potomac High School,
Alexandria, Virginia
|
| |
| IEEE Foundation on behalf of
IEEE Region 2 and the Cleveland Section, an award of $750 |
| EN078 |
A Non-photolithographic Approach to the
Construction of N-Type MOSFET Devices Using FIB Technology
Ryna Karnik, 16, Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, Oregon
|
| |
| IEEE Foundation award on behalf
of IEEE Region 2 and the Cleveland Section, an award of
$250 |
| CS042 |
VLSI Design Automation
Colin Pearse Sprinkle, 18, Detroit Country Day School, Beverly
Hills, Michigan
|
| |
| The winner also receives an IEEE student
membership and an IEEE Society membership for the duration
of the scholarship, as well as an engraved brass and walnut
plaque and framed certificate. |
| |
| IEEE Computer Society |
| First Award of $700 |
| CS008 |
The Integrated Graphic Application (Stareditor)
Sergey Yu. Starkov, 17, Vyatka Humanitary Gymnasia, Kirov,
Russia
|
| |
| Second Award of $500 |
| CS016 |
Text Explorer
Sangameswaran Tejeshwar Tandon, 14, S.B.O.A Schools and Junior
College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
|
| CS056 |
John Seth Thielemann's Operating System
(JOST OS)
John Seth Thielemann, 17, Cumberland Valley High School,
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
|
| |
| Third Award of $350 |
| CS030 |
An Ultra High Speed Method for the Multiple
Comparison of 3-D Structures and Its Application to 3-D
Protein Structure Pattern Recognition
Kevin Chester Kuo, 18, Stuyvesant High School, New York,
New York
|
| CS051 |
Brain-Computer Interface for the Muscularly
Disabled
Elena Leah Glassman, 16, Central Bucks High School West,
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
|
| |
| Team First Award of $500 for
each team member |
| CS307 |
BEACON: Analytical Instrumentation Software
for Identifying Fluorescent Oligonucleotides Used in Encoded
Microbeads
Andrew Gerard Ascione, 18, Broadneck Senior High School,
Annapolis, Maryland
Aaron David Schulman, 17, Broadneck Senior High School, Annapolis,
Maryland
David Edwyn Bennett, 17, Broadneck Senior High School, Annapolis,
Maryland
|
| |
| Team Second Award of $400 for
each team member |
| CS314 |
Clash of the Algorithms: Complex Gaming
Strategies Simulated with Artificial Intelligence
Dietrich Ian Bachman, 18, APS Career Enrichment Center, Albuquerque,
New Mexico
Noah Michael Shepard, 17, APS Career Enrichment Center, Albuquerque,
New Mexico
Charles James Brock, 17, APS Career Enrichment Center, Albuquerque,
New Mexico
|
| |
| Winners will receive a framed certificate,
a gift certificate for a publication (up to $75 value)
from the CS catalog and a one-year free subscription to
the CS magazine of their choice. Winner's photo is also
published in an issue of "Computer" magazine. |
| |
| Indiana University |
| Partial tuition scholarships in the following
categories: Behavioral and Social Sciences, Biochemistry,
Botany, Chemistry, Computer Sciences, Earth and Space Sciences,
Environmental Sciences, Mathematics, Medicine and Health,
Microbiology, Physics and Zoology. |
| |
| Tuition scholarship of $5,000
per year for 4 years for a total value of $20,000 |
| BE011 |
What Happened Here?
Carson Alan Baughman, 17, White Pine County High School,
Ely, Nevada
|
| BI057 |
A Study of the Relationship Between Lymphocytes
With Lymphomatoid Papulosis and Mucosal Cells from a Subject
and Descendants Using PCR Identification
Samuel James Amberson Howell, 16, Saginaw Arts and Sciences
Academy, Saginaw, Michigan
|
| BO046 |
The Medicinal Effects of Devil's Club, Oplopanax horridum
Brittany Noel Hales, 17, Polaris K-12 School, Anchorage,
Alaska
|
| CH038 |
H2 And C2H4 Elimination
Pathways in the Y + C2H6 Reaction
Ann Chi, 16, Terre Haute South Vigo High School, Terre Haute,
Indiana
|
| CS017 |
Can Natural Arachnid Movement Be Used to
Model a Robot?
Rudy Daniel Sandoval, 16, Bartlesville High School, Bartlesville,
Oklahoma
|
| EA004 |
Idaho Tornado Climatology
Paul Martin Hoffman, 17, Upper Arlington High School, Columbus,
Ohio
|
| EV018 |
A Comparison of Water Quality in Bear and
Buck Creek in Relationship to Phosphates, Dissolved Oxygen
and Turbidity
Dawn Nicole Dietrich, 17, Eastern High School, Pekin, Indiana
|
| MA003 |
The Order of Chaos
Jay Stewart Anderson, 17, Paint Valley High School, Bainbridge,
Ohio
|
| ME026 |
A Possible Breast Cancer Treatment: Interferon
Alpha Combined With Indole-3-Carbinol
Diane Laura Gumina, 17, Merino High School, Merino, Colorado
|
| MI048 |
The Effect of pH on Bioluminescent Dinoflagellates
Peter Douglas Clark, 17, Saint Andrew's Episcopal School,
Ridgeland, Mississippi
|
| PH003 |
The Newtonian Physics of Asymmetrical Capacitive
Propulsion
Evan Eric Frank, 16, duPont Manual Magnet High School, Louisville,
Kentucky
|
| ZO056 |
Crossing the Divide: Using Acoustics and
Geographic Location to Examine the Differences Between
North and South American Frog and Toad Species
Simeon McMillan, 17, Uniondale High School, Uniondale, New
York
|
| |
| Institute of Food Technologists |
| For projects in microbiology, food chemistry
or food engineering, with application to the food industry. |
| |
| First Award of $1,000 |
| MI011 |
Development of an Improved Enterovirus
Detection Protocol for Tomatoes: A Second Year Study
Hannah Mary Kaufman, 18, Newberry High School, Newberry,
Florida
|
| |
| Second Award of $600 |
| BO023 |
Natural Oils as Alternative Potato Sprout
Inhibitors
Dona Sarah Sharma, 17, Sunnyside Senior High School, Sunnyside,
Washington
|
| |
| Third Award of $400 |
| BO039 |
Effects of Corn Steep Liquor on Weed Seed
Germination
Jennifer Elizabeth Goedhart, 17, Unity Christian High School,
Orange City, Iowa
|
| |
| Honorable Mention Award Certificate
and a CD-Rom of the Journal of Food Science |
| MI306 |
The Efficiency of Poultry Irradiation
Danielle Lauren Butler, 16, Hilton Head Preparatory School,
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Carly Mills Rosser, 16, Hilton Head Preparatory School, Hilton
Head Island, South Carolina
|
| |
| Top three winners will also receive a certificate
and a one-year subscription to "Food Technology" magazine. |
| |
| Intel Foundation Women in Engineering
and Computational Sciences Award |
| Presented to a female finalist who has an
exceptional project in the engineering or computational
sciences categories. |
| |
| Award of $2,500 and a high-performance
computer |
| CS050 |
Artificial Intelligence: A Model of Perception
by the Visual System
Kimberly Elise Reinhold, 15, Saint Joseph Junior-Senior High
School, Hilo, Hawaii
|
| EN107 |
Nanoscopic Control of Protein Organization
Madelyn Meng-Ling Ho, 17, William P. Clements High School,
Sugar Land, Texas
|
| PH007 |
An Investigation of the Steam Production
in, and Extinction Limits of, Steady and Acoustically-strained
Counter-flow Diffusion Flames
Amy R. Kabaria, 17, Richlands High School, Richlands, Virginia
|
| |
| International Amateur-Professional Photoelectric
Photometry |
| The Richard D. Lines Award is given to a
student demonstrating outstanding research in astronomy. |
| |
| Scholarship award of $5,000 |
| EA025 |
Photometric Detection of an Extra-solar
Planetary Transit Across the Sun-like Star HD 209458
Ved Chirayath, 16, California Academy of Mathematics and
Science, Carson, California
|
| |
| In addition, the student's high school science
department will receive a $1,000 grant. The student will
also receive a certificate, a one-year membership in IAPPP,
which includes a one-year subscription to the "IAPPP Communications" and
an invitation to submit a paper on the winning research
project to be published in the "Communications". This award
is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. |
| |
| International Society for Optical Engineering |
| For the best project in the area of Optics
and Photonics Engineering. |
| |
| Award of $1000 |
| EN062 |
Creating a Three-dimensional Model of an
Object
Anthony David Liechty, 18, Leo Junior-Senior High School,
Leo, Indiana
|
| |
| Honorable Mention |
| CS020 |
A New Method for 3-D Object Modeling and
Optical Data Recognition
Robert Earl Eunice, 18, Houston County High School, Warner
Robins, Georgia
|
| |
| Winners will also receive a free student
membership and other items. |
| |
| John Carroll University |
| Kent State University |
| NACE Foundation |
| For projects in the areas of influencing
corrosion awareness and/or control. |
| |
| Each winner will also receive a certificate,
a one-year student membership in NACE and copies of NACE
publications. |
| |
| National Anti-Vivisection Society |
| For the project that best promotes scientific
advancement through methods that do not harm animals, that
work to replace live animals with non-animal methodologies
or for animal-based research that benefits animals using
non-invasive techniques or in an observational setting. |
| |
| Scholarship award of $5,000 |
| ME088 |
Histone Protein Promotion With Trichostatin
on Gene Expression of Human Bladder and Prostate Cancer
Cells
Samantha Megan Feingold, 17, Spanish River Community High
School, Boca Raton, Florida
|
| |
| Scholarship award of $2,000 |
| ME033 |
Disease Propagation Through Connective
Paths: Application of the Small World Theory to Epidemic
Modeling
Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, 16, Brewster High School, Brewster,
New York
|
| |
| Scholarship award of $1,000 |
| ME080 |
Using Bioinformatics to Analyze the Effects
of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms on Disease
Nicholas Paul Semenkovich, 16, Ladue Horton Watkins High
School, Ladue, Missouri
|
| |
| Below for press release only!! For more
information on the specific guidelines of this award, visit
the National Anti-Vivisection Society's web site. |
| |
| National Ground Water Association |
| First Award of $500 |
| EV082 |
Phytoremediation of Excess Nitrogen in
Groundwater: Common Cattail vs. Hard-stemmed Bulrush
Kristina Ann Ufer, 18, Bellarmine Preparatory School, Tacoma,
Washington
|
| |
| Second Award of $250 |
| EV084 |
A Study of the Phytoremediative Properties
of the Water Hyacinth
Jean Marie Folsom, 17, Yorktown High School, Arlington, Virginia
|
| |
| Third Award of $200 |
| EV044 |
Lose the Ooze!: The Effects of Selected
Bacteria on the Bioremediation of Heavy Metals
Sarah Renee Woods, 16, Miami High School, Miami, Oklahoma
|
| |
| Winners will receive a plaque, their abstract
published in the journal "Ground Water", a one-year student
membership and the school gets a matching grant ground
water science library. |
| |
| North American Benthological Society |
| For projects related to the "benthos" -
organisms living at the bottom of streams, lakes, estuaries
and oceans. |
| |
| First Award of $500 |
| ZO004 |
The Effects of Increased Filtration Requirements
on Pacific Blue Mussel Byssal Thread Production
Carl Harold Brodersen, 18, Juneau-Douglas High School, Juneau,
Alaska
|
| |
| Second Award of $300 |
| ZO024 |
Habitat Feeding Preferences of Lagodon
rhomboides: A Field Study
Stephanie Anne Hanisak, 17, Vero Beach High School, Vero
Beach, Florida
|
| |
| Third Award of $200 |
| EV321 |
Development & Water Quality Impairment
Lydia Suzanne Weiskopf, 17, Ecole Secondaire Algonquin, North
Bay, Ontario, Canada
Rachelle Elizabeth Miron, 18, Ecole Secondaire Algonquin,
North Bay, Ontario, Canada
|
| |
| All winners receive a one-year membership
in the Society and a subscription to the "Journal of the
North American Benthological Society". |
| |
| Northeastern University |
| Notre Dame College |
| Scholarship award towards a first bachelors
degree in the area of Chemistry, Computer Science, Environmental
Science, Mathematics, or Psychology. |
| |
| These scholarships can be renewed 3 times,
for up to four total years, as long as the student maintains
a 3.00 cumulative GPA. |
| |
| Oberlin College |
| Scholarship award of $5,000
per year for four years |
| BO058 |
Proteolytic Enzyme Production in the Insectivorous
Plant Sundew (Drosera adalae) in Response to Prey
Stimulation
Samuel James Asarnow, 17, Oregon Episcopal School, Portland,
Oregon
|
| CH021 |
The Effect of Heating Elements on the Production
and Residue Build-up of Acrylamide
Emily Michele Kraft, 17, Signature School, Evansville, Indiana
|
| MA036 |
Generalized Expansions of the Fibonacci
Sequence and Their Covergents
Andrew Lewis Matteson, 17, Randall High School, Amarillo,
Texas
|
| |
| Ohio University |
| Undergraduate scholarship of
$5,000 per year for four years |
| EN014 |
Developing a Microsensor Array for the
Monitoring of Glucose and Ketone Levels in Diabetics
Kristin L. Butler, 17, Hathaway Brown School, Shaker Heights,
Ohio
|
| |
| Optical Society of America |
| First Award of $1,000 |
| EA041 |
Development of an Adaptively Controlled
Telescope with Star-Pattern Recognition Pointing
Jonathan Nicholas Sick, 17, Queen Elizabeth High School,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
|
| |
| Second Award of $500 |
| PH054 |
Electron-Phonon Interactions in Carbon
Nanotubes
Edward Joesph Su, 18, William G. Enloe High School, Raleigh,
North Carolina
|
| |
| Third Award of $200 |
| PH056 |
Beamed Energy Propulsion by Means of Target
Ablation
Benjamin Arthur Rosenberg, 14, Hilton Head High School, Hilton
Head Island, South Carolina
|
| |
| Honorable Mention Award |
| CS020 |
A New Method for 3-D Object Modeling and
Optical Data Recognition
Robert Earl Eunice, 18, Houston County High School, Warner
Robins, Georgia
|
| EN049 |
A Sensing System Based on Laser Intensity
Changes Due to Optical Fiber Vibration
Michelle Louie, 16, Kings Park High School, Kings Park, New
York
|
| EN062 |
Creating a Three-dimensional Model of an
Object
Anthony David Liechty, 18, Leo Junior-Senior High School,
Leo, Indiana
|
| |
| Winners receive one-year student memberships
in OSA plus a one-year subscription to "Physics Today" and "Optics
Photonics News". |
| |
| Schlumberger Excellence in Educational
Development |
| Presented to young scientists exhibiting
projects in the categories of Earth & Space Sciences, Engineering,
Chemistry, Physics and Computer Sciences, who demonstrate
exceptional creativity, independence and initiative in
problem selection, research design and project execution. |
| |
| Award of $1,000 and a trip
to meet Schlumberger scientists and an internship |
| EN027 |
A Magnetohydrodynamic Direct Current Transformer
Elizabeth Van Cortlandt Varela, 16, West Potomac High School,
Alexandria, Virginia
|
| EN113 |
Liquid Energy: Prototype For Generating
Electricity from Waves and Tidal Currents
Austin James Shelton, 16, Father Duenas Memorial School,
Agana, Guam
|
| |
| Award of $500 |
| CS005 |
Ternary vs. Binary
Natasha Rustom Irani, 17, Lake Highland Preparatory School,
Orlando, Florida
|
| CS050 |
Artificial Intelligence: A Model of Perception
by the Visual System
Kimberly Elise Reinhold, 15, Saint Joseph Junior-Senior High
School, Hilo, Hawaii
|
| EN022 |
Using Acetone Based Electrospun Nanofibers
to Produce Inexpensive Water Filtration Systems
Joseph Patrick Pudelka, 17, North Toole County High School,
Sunburst, Montana
|
| EN025 |
Microbubble Characterization for Drag Reduction
in Pipe Flow
Joline Marie Fan, 15, Upper Arlington High School, Upper
Arlington, Ohio
|
| |
| Team award of $1000 USD to
be divided among the team members |
| CS302 |
Software Framework for Creating Multi-agent
Systems
Vsevolod D. Ustinov, 17, Lyceum of Information Technologies,
#153, Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
Andrew S. Tatarinov, 16, Lyceum of Information Technologies,
#153, Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
Vasiliy G. Fedoseev, 16, Lyceum of Information Technologies,
#153, Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
|
| |
| Showboard, Inc. |
| For the best use of scientific method on
a project display board taking in to account structure,
scientific method, titles and overall appearance of project
display. |
| |
| First Award of $1,000 |
| BI055 |
Controlling Gene Expression Through RNA
Gene Therapy
Matthew John Woloszyn, 17, Oak Ridge High School, Conroe,
Texas
|
| |
| Second Award $100 |
| EV315 |
Cigarette Butts as Toxicity Indicators?
David Spencer Scoville, 17, American Fork High School, American
Fork, Utah
Tyler William Smith, 17, American Fork High School, American
Fork, Utah
|
| |
| Third Award $50 |
| CH016 |
Evaluation of Three Different Extraction
Techniques in the Quantitative Analysis of Benzodiazepines
in Postmortem Whole Blood
Nicole Marie Hennessy, 18, North Miami Beach Senior High
School, Miami, Florida
|
| |
| Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society |
| For the Team Projects that best exemplify
the interdisciplinary aspects of scientific and engineering
research. |
| |
| First Award of $1000 |
| EV325 |
Mass Production of Biodiesel, HySee 1005,
With use of Microbes; Bacillus thuringienes and Streptomyces
albus
Wesley Ryan Fuller, 17, Hamilton High School, Chandler, Arizona
Blair Elisabeth Kowalinski, 16, Hamilton High School, Chandler,
Arizona
Kyle Anthony Marsland, 18, Hamilton High School, Chandler,
Arizona
|
| |
| Second Award of $450 |
| CS304 |
Visualization of Tools for the Hearing
Impaired
Frank Emmanuel Block, 17, Little Rock Central High School,
Little Rock, Arkansas
Lee Taylor Perry, 18, Little Rock Central High School, Little
Rock, Arkansas
Satish Mahalingam, 17, Little Rock Central High School, Little
Rock, Arkansas
|
| |
| Third Award of $300 |
| ZO310 |
The Effect of Lumbricus terrestris on
Soil Bulk Density and Soil Nutrient Content in Worm Worked vs. Non-worm
Worked Soils
Kirsti Hakala, 16, Cloquet Senior High School, Cloquet, Minnesota
Jillian Rita Beaufeaux, 16, Cloquet Senior High School, Cloquet,
Minnesota
|
| |
| Each member of the winning team will receive
a Certificate of Recognition and a one-year subscription
to "American Scientist". The school library of each winning
team member will also receive a one-year subscription to "American
Scientist". |
| |
| Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration,
Inc. |
| First Award of $1000 |
| EA308 |
The Effects of Varying Mine Tailing and
Sand Ratios on the Structural Strength of Concrete
Laura C. Wysner, 17, Hamilton High School, Chandler, Arizona
Denver L. Smith, 17, Hamilton High School, Chandler, Arizona
|
| |
| Second Award of $250 |
| EA023 |
Analysis of Wave Characteristics of Seismic
Waves Produced by Mine Blasts
Christopher Michael Short, 18, Northview High School, Brazil,
Indiana
|
| |
| Third Award of $100 |
| EV307 |
A Study of Native Grass Growth in Contaminated
Milltown Dam Sediments: Missoula, Montana
Andrew B. Erickson, 17, Sentinel High School, Missoula, Montana
Graham Kyle Meng, 16, Sentinel High School, Missoula, Montana
|
| |
| Honorable Mention Awards of
$50 |
| EA008 |
Compositional Controls on Soil Strength
Under Static and Non-static Conditions
Sarah Evelyn Brophy, 17, Bloomington High School North, Bloomington,
Indiana
|
| EV024 |
Mercury Analysis of Coal Mining Leachates
in Unreclaimed and Reclaimed Locations in SW Indiana Using
Low Level Detection and Multiparameter Relationships
Aaron M. Ritter, 16, Bedford-North Lawrence High School,
Bedford, Indiana
|
| EV107 |
The Application of Alternanthera philoxeroides into
Acid Mine Drainage as an Economical Remediation Contrivance
of the Future
Mary Elizabeth Cole, 17, Demopolis High School, Demopolis,
Alabama
|
| |
| Winners will receive certificate and a one-year
subscription to "Mining Engineering". A feature article
highlighting the winners will appear in the August issue
of "Mining Engineering". The SME finalist's sponsoring
teacher will also receive a one-year subscription to "Mining
Engineering". |
| |
| Society for Technical Communication |
| Award of $500 for Distinguished
Technical Communication in a Written Report |
| PH053 |
Chaotic Fluids: An Examination of Phase
Transitions in Taylor-Couette Flow
Mairead Mary McCloskey, 17, Loreto College, Coleraine, Co
Derry, Northern Ireland
|
| |
| Award of $250 for Excellence
in a Written Report |
| MA035 |
Perfect Musical Harmony: A Mathematical
Analysis of Four Historical Tunings
Michael F. Page, 15, The Pingry School, Martinsville, New
Jersey
|
| |
| Award of $100 for Merit in
a Written Report |
| ME082 |
Gene Expression Analysis of Synovial Cells
in Response to Impulsive Shock
Irene Yuan Sun, 16, Ben Davis High School, Indianapolis,
Indiana
|
| |
| Award of $500 for Distinguished
Technical Communication in a Display Presentation |
| BO014 |
Investigations of the Fern Life Cycle and
Its Implications
Arie Anne Schiller, 17, Central Lee High School, Donnellson,
Iowa
|
| |
| Award of $250 for Excellence
in a Display Presentation |
| ZO019 |
Bucking a Trend: The Owls
Miyuki Mashiko, 16, Mito First High School, Mito, Ibaraki,
Japan
|
| |
| Award of $100 for Merit in
Display Presentation |
| EN020 |
The Power of Pitch II: Investigating the
Use of a Variable-pitch Wind Turbine to Optimize Power
Output Under Varying Wind Conditions
Galen Daniel Maly, 17, Yorktown High School, Arlington, Virginia
|
| |
| Distinguished Team Award of
$1,000 |
| MI303 |
Aloe barbadensis and Allium sativum as
Possible Bacteria Inhibitors on the Lids of Soft Drink
Cans
Jaime Eduardo Flores, 16, Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola,
Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
Fernando Javier Nido, 16, Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola,
Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
|
| |
| All winning students' high schools will
also receive a one-year subscription to "Intercom". |
| |
| Society of Environmental Toxicology and
Chemistry |
| Awards are given to the best projects in
environmental toxicology and chemistry. |
| |
| First Award of $500 |
| EV325 |
Mass Production of Biodiesel, HySee 1005,
With use of Microbes; Bacillus thuringienes and Streptomyces
albus
Wesley Ryan Fuller, 17, Hamilton High School, Chandler, Arizona
Blair Elisabeth Kowalinski, 16, Hamilton High School, Chandler,
Arizona
Kyle Anthony Marsland, 18, Hamilton High School, Chandler,
Arizona
|
| |
| Second Place Award of $250 |
| EV004 |
The Effect of Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles
on Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) Toxicity in Cultured
Brain Cells
Andrew Gordon Cook, 16, Lake Highland Preparatory School,
Orlando, Florida
|
| |
| Third Place Award of $100 |
| EV041 |
The Effects of Lead on Biological Models:
Enzyme Function, Cell Membrane Permeability and Cell Growth
Kristen Elaine Fenska, 15, Miami High School, Miami, Oklahoma
|
| |
| Student membership in SETAC |
| |
| Each winner will also receive a certificate
of recognition. |
| |
| Society of Exploration Geophysicists |
| For projects that display excellence related
to the geophysical sciences. |
| |
| Distinguished Achievement Award
of $1,000 and a trip to the SEG International Exposition
and Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas |
| EA008 |
Compositional Controls on Soil Strength
Under Static and Non-static Conditions
Sarah Evelyn Brophy, 17, Bloomington High School North, Bloomington,
Indiana
|
| |
| Award of Merit of $500 |
| EA027 |
Relation of Physical Properties of Sands
to the Water Pressure Needed to Produce Liquefaction
Jessica Lynn Otten, 16, Notre Dame Academy, Park Hills, Kentucky
|
| EN106 |
Taming the Quake's Shake: Using Magnetorheological
Fluids for Structural Support and Seismic Mitigation
Kyle Wilson Downum, 18, Welch High School, Welch, Oklahoma
|
| |
| Award of Merit of $250 |
| EA023 |
Analysis of Wave Characteristics of Seismic
Waves Produced by Mine Blasts
Christopher Michael Short, 18, Northview High School, Brazil,
Indiana
|
| EA043 |
Annual Modulation of Earthquakes in Yellowstone
National Park and Their Relation to Atmospheric Pressure
and Snow Load
Adam Orion Flaxman, 17, Massapequa High School, Massapequa,
New York
|
| EN049 |
A Sensing System Based on Laser Intensity
Changes Due to Optical Fiber Vibration
Michelle Louie, 16, Kings Park High School, Kings Park, New
York
|
| EV002 |
Mulch Ado About Nothing, Or Is It? A Quantitative
Analysis of Arsenic Levels in Landscape Mulch
Katharine Blaire Taylor, 14, Palatka High School, Palatka,
Florida
|
| |
| United Technologies Corporation |
| United Technologies Corporation recognizes
8 projects for excellence in science and engineering. Each
winning project will receive 30 shares of United Technologies
Corporation common stock with a total value of approximately
$2000. |
| |
| UTC Stock |
| CH302 |
A Two-state DNA Nanomechanical Motor Powered
by the Reversible Hybridization of a Unique DNA Strand
Trigger
Christopher Eric Kulawik, 16, Fox Lane High School, Bedford,
New York
Robert David Barish, 16, Fox Lane High School, Bedford, New
York
|
| CS051 |
Brain-Computer Interface for the Muscularly
Disabled
Elena Leah Glassman, 16, Central Bucks High School West,
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
|
| EN025 |
Microbubble Characterization for Drag Reduction
in Pipe Flow
Joline Marie Fan, 15, Upper Arlington High School, Upper
Arlington, Ohio
|
| EN027 |
A Magnetohydrodynamic Direct Current Transformer
Elizabeth Van Cortlandt Varela, 16, West Potomac High School,
Alexandria, Virginia
|
| EN327 |
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Tamsen Alicia Drew, 17, Amador Valley High School, Pleasanton,
California
Nicholas Dorian Rapp, 18, Amador Valley High School, Pleasanton,
California
|
| EV039 |
The Development of an Environmentally Friendly
Ezyme-based Antifouling System
Vaishali Kiran Grover, 15, Miami Coral Park Senior High School,
Miami, Florida
|
| PH040 |
Magnetoplasmadynamics: Ionization and Magnetic
Field
Ray Chengchuan He, 19, Hempfield High School, Landisville,
Pennsylvania
|
| PH053 |
Chaotic Fluids: An Examination of Phase
Transitions in Taylor-Couette Flow
Mairead Mary McCloskey, 17, Loreto College, Coleraine, Co
Derry, Northern Ireland
|
| |
| Each winner will also receive a plaque,
a pen, and the United Technologies Corporation Annual Report. |
| |
| University of Akron |
| Scholarship award of $5000
per year for four years |
| BE003 |
HSDQ: A Decade Added to Life
Elizabeth Fairchild Harding, 15, Lake Highland Preparatory
School, Orlando, Florida
|
| CH026 |
Death by Chocolate
Camilla Conette Burke, 18, Mount Vernon High School, Mt Vernon,
Ohio
|
| CS056 |
John Seth Thielemann's Operating System
(JOST OS)
John Seth Thielemann, 17, Cumberland Valley High School,
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
|
| EN057 |
Can the Formula for Aerodynamic Drag Be
Verified in Miniature?
Andrew Ryan Mizener, 17, Lehman Catholic High School, Sidney,
Ohio
|
| EN303 |
Space Flight Experiments to Evaluate Atomic
Oxygen Erosion and Ultra-violet Radiation Damage to Man-made
Materials in Low Earth Orbit
Christiane Alisa Youngstrom, 17, Hathaway Brown School, Shaker
Heights, Ohio
Allison Louise Rapoport, 15, Hathaway Brown School, Shaker
Heights, Ohio
Maura Catherine Lillis, 17, Hathaway Brown School, Shaker
Heights, Ohio
|
| MA003 |
The Order of Chaos
Jay Stewart Anderson, 17, Paint Valley High School, Bainbridge,
Ohio
|
| MI048 |
The Effect of pH on Bioluminescent Dinoflagellates
Peter Douglas Clark, 17, Saint Andrew's Episcopal School,
Ridgeland, Mississippi
|
| PH004 |
The Photoelectric Effect: A Second Year
Study
Paul McMillan Braswell, 17, Hedgesville High School, Hedgesville,
West Virginia
|
| |
| University of the Sciences in Philadelphia |
| Scholarships to students from the following
categories: Biochemistry, Botany, Chemistry, Environmental
Science, Medicine & Health, Microbiology or Zoology |
| |
| Scholarship award of $7,000
per year for four, five or six years depending upon the
degree program |
| BI049 |
Functional Analysis of Yeast Gene NOP14:
Phase II
Elizabeth Anne Germino, 16, Immaculata High School, Somerville,
New Jersey
|
| EV108 |
Bioluminescence: The Role of ATP in Detecting
Biocontamination
Iyen Abdon Acosta, 16, Oxon Hill High School, Oxon Hill,
Maryland
|
| ME048 |
Inhibition of Cisplatin-induced Apoptosis
by AKT2: Implication of AKT2 in Chemoresistance
Gene Everett Sussman, 16, Lawrence High School, Cedarhurst,
New York
|
| |
| Scholarships will go into effect upon the
recipient's admission to any one of the degree programs
offered at USP and are renewable for the length of the
degree program provided the recipient maintains a cumulative
GPA of 3.0. |
| |
| Vacuum Technology Division of the American
Vacuum Society |
| First Award of $750 |
| PH040 |
Magnetoplasmadynamics: Ionization and Magnetic
Field
Ray Chengchuan He, 19, Hempfield High School, Landisville,
Pennsylvania
|
| |
| Second Award of $500 |
| CH013 |
Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition
Brandon Emerson Powers, 18, Christian Academy of Louisville,
Louisville, Kentucky
|
| |
| Third Award of $250 |
| EN025 |
Microbubble Characterization for Drag Reduction
in Pipe Flow
Joline Marie Fan, 15, Upper Arlington High School, Upper
Arlington, Ohio
|
| |
| Each student will also receive a vacuum
technology text chosen by the Vacuum Technology Division
of the American Vacuum Society. The school science department
of each winner will receive $750. The advisor of each winner
will receive $250 and a vacuum technology text. |
| |
| Weed Science Society of America |
| First Award of $1,000 in the
area of Weed Science |
| BO315 |
Isolation and Characterization of Possible
Allelo-Chemicals in Buffalo Grass (Buchloe dactyloides)
and Ti(Cordyline terminalis), Second Year Study
Carrie Gemma Esaki, 15, Kapa'a High School, Kapa'a, Hawaii
Samuel Isaac Hunter Moats-Messing, 16, Kapa'a High School,
Kapa'a, Hawaii
Jeremy Keola Masami Albano, 16, Kapa'a High School, Kapa'a,
Hawaii
|
| |
| Second Award of $500 |
| BO039 |
Effects of Corn Steep Liquor on Weed Seed
Germination
Jennifer Elizabeth Goedhart, 17, Unity Christian High School,
Orange City, Iowa
|
| BO304 |
Allelopathy in the Rhizosphere of Slicornia viiginicia
Gwendolyn S. Reeve, 18, Savannah Country Day School, Savannah,
Georgia
Allison Margaret Gale, 17, Savannah Country Day School, Savannah,
Georgia
|
| |
| Ohio State University |
| All of the best of category grand award
winners announced in the Grand Award Ceremony are also
being offered a scholarship award of $5000 per year for
four years to Ohio State University. |
| |
| The Ohio State University will contact the
best of category award winners following the Intel ISEF. |
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