Embedded Systems
Third Award
Today’s world of 5G and IOT devices means increasingly crowded frequency spectrums with multiple devices talking on the same frequency at the same time. To gain an advantage, it is becoming…
Chemistry
Third Award
Nowadays, the air transportation market and air transport infrastructure are experiencing another cycle of transformations and modernizations. The global trend in air travel is aimed at subs…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Abstract The improper disposal of plastic waste has led to an abundance of plastics in the oceans, introducing a wide range of toxins along with a potential global health crisis. However, th…
Engineering Mechanics
Third Award
The goal of my paper was to manufacture a rotor for DJI’s Mavic Pro quadcopter. Using the laws of the Propeller Theory by Betz and Schmitz, I examined the aerodynamic characteristics of exis…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) are carcinogenic chemicals found in heat, stain, and water-resistant consumer products, including Teflon. Like pharmaceuticals (PPCPs), these “forever…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Third Award
The current mainstream idea for oxygen production on Mars is an electrolysis system, which produces a dangerous byproduct of hydrogen and relies on water which is scarce in space. Alternativ…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Asthma is the most prevalent respiratory condition in the world, affecting over 340 million people, and remains one of the common underlying causes of death. Yet, one in three patients are m…
Translational Medical Science
Third Award
With rapidly increasing COVID-19 cases, patients with mild and moderate symptoms are being asked to home-isolate themselves to save hospital resources for more severe patients. Such patients…
Chemistry
Third Award
The purpose of this experiment was to determine the diffusion coefficient of Pu+3 through MX-80 clay, alongside the interference of the SR-270-PW brine solution of sedimentary rock formation…
Mathematics
Third Award
In Alzer, Horst and Luca’s paper it is shown that the Diophantine equation (k!)^n+k^n= (n!)^k+n^k only has the trivial solution n=k, and (k!)^n- k^n= (n!)^k- n^k only has the solutions n=k,…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Superhydrophobicity, a high degree of water repellency, is characterized by a large static contact angle between a liquid bead and a surface. Last year's project successfully treated fabrics…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Due to increased urbanization and climate change, there has been an increase in bank erosion and destruction of riparian zones. Riparian zones are vegetative areas of land bordering streams…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Third Award
Finding new and more efficient forms of clean energy is necessary for humanity to survive the coming centuries, and although current methods of nuclear fusion are promising, they also produc…
Systems Software
Third Award
While computers play an increasingly important role in every aspect of our lives, their inability to understand what tasks users are physically performing makes a wide range of applications,…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Over 1.7 million people in the United States alone are currently living with limb loss. Estimates show that 185,000 amputations are performed each year, with that number expected to double i…
Animal Sciences
Third Award
Green crabs (Carcinus maenas) are an invasive species in Maine that have severely impacted marine environments and decimated commercially-significant bivalve populations, including the blue…
Microbiology
Third Award
For decades, food wastes have been a global concern with 1.3 billion tons of food wasted annually costing 2.6 trillion USD. Besides, the outbreak of pathogenic bacteria causes almost 9 milli…
Chemistry
Third Award
Background: Elevated serum uric acid (UA) is associated with obesity, hypertension, and metabolic syndrome. The goal of this research was to determine if a low-cost chemosensor-strip fabrica…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Computationally determining protein structure and function is promising, but researchers currently lack a complete end-to-end open-source tool capable of sequence alignment, de novo protein…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
Performing arts organizations have been tremendously affected by this pandemic; many have shut down, with revenue loss for NYC dance organizations alone estimated at $24 million. As a dancer…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Third Award
Portable electronics, such as mobile phones and biomedical devices, have been integrated into the lifestyle of many people and are growing rapidly. These technologies rely heavily on batteri…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Myopathies are skeletal muscle disorders characterized by chronic muscle weakness, which are frequently diagnosed using electromyography (EMG) studies. Automating the diagnosis of myopathies…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
Dementia cases are rapidly increasing with a projection of over 150 million people globally by the year 2050, a 300% increase from the current 50 million cases. Despite the prevalence of Dem…
Systems Software
Third Award
Quantum computing is an emerging technology that, with its exponential computational speedup, will allow us to solve a new level of hard problems. From rapid vaccine development, efficient d…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
Down syndrome (DS) is the most common genetic disorder in humans. It is known that trisomy of chromosome 21 causes DS, but how this chromosomal gain produces the complex DS phenotype, includ…
Engineering Mechanics
Third Award
To improve the aerodynamic efficiency of a Formula One (F1) in Schools race car, the original model of the car is evaluated and compared with a new design. The ideas behind the new design ar…
Translational Medical Science
Third Award
Parkinson’s Disease (PD), the second most common neurodegenerative disease, is caused by the depletion of dopamine as a result of toxic aggregates formed by a protein called alpha-synuclein…
Systems Software
Third Award
The process of registering intra-procedural prostate magnetic resonance images (MRI) with corresponding pre-procedural images improves the accuracy of certain surgeries, such as a prostate b…
Mathematics
Third Award
Topdrops, a mapping of permutations first introduced by John Horton Conway, is examined. Topdrops has so far been under-researched compared to the similar topswops variant. A proof that the…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Parkinson’s Disease is a neurodegenerative disease manifested through tremors, which start with a limb and then gradually spreads across entire body. While this disease has no permanent cure…