Microbiology
Third Award
Each year, 2 million Americans acquire antibiotic-resistant infections and 23,000 die. Unfortunately, the scientific consensus is that no new classes of antibiotics are left to be discovered…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
Network states are prevalent in virtually all behaviors. In most cases, they are established by the actions of neuromodulators. To produce articulate behaviors, neuromodulators upregulate th…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Experiment Purpose Inside the earth’s mantle, chemical reactions take place between different rocks via a fluid-rock reactions which in turn influence their chemical properties. These reacti…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Type 1 and 2 diabetics typically require exogenous insulin to maintain normal blood glucose levels. Insulin pumps have been shown to significantly improve quality of life and diabetes manage…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
A plummet in the research productivity of drug discovery has been observed in recent decades, with higher costs, longer timelines, and lower success rates of drug candidates in clinical tria…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Malnutrition is the leading cause of child death and treatment reaches only a small fraction of those in need due to costly recipes and inefficient supply chains. Here we develop a three-com…
Energy: Chemical
Third Award
With global consumption of fossil fuels at an all-time high, climate change has catalyzed one of the greatest sustainability challenges facing the world today. At the cutting-edge of materia…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
With advancements in science and medicine, the population of older adults has grown around the world in recent years. As a result, fall detection systems are necessary for the wellbeing of o…
Engineering Mechanics
Third Award
A quantitative analysis comparing player’s perceived quality of cello bows and rosins, and string motion has been carried out using a novel optoelectronic cello. Novel optical sensors direct…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Third Award
Objectives Both of our grandparents suffer from dementia. Dementia is a broad category of brain diseases that cause a long-term and often gradual decrease in the ability to think and remembe…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Flood forecasting in India is carried out by the determination of the water level at flood forecasting stations. The level forecasts are issued once water levels in a station reach a predefi…
Engineering Mechanics
Third Award
Fatigue cracks are inevitable yet microscopic aircraft damages, often being the main factor leading to in-flight break-ups. Non-destructive testing (NDT) is generally used in detecting possi…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
According to UNICEF, Kenya has a very high prevalence of child mortality rate which is approximately 49/1000 live births. In 2017 Kenya had an estimated 502,860 children who had missed the r…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Antibiotic pollution in soils and groundwater is one of the world’s most pressing problems. There are 1.4 micrograms of antibiotics per liter of freshwater and 125,000 tons of antibiotics po…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Third Award
Objectives Human iPSC-derived brain organoids are human "mini-brains," consisting primarily of the cortex area of the brain and are similar to those of premature babies. As the organoids cur…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Cancer has two halves: malignant cells that initiate oncogenesis, and cancer stromal cells that form the tumor microenvironment. Isocitrate dehydrogenases (IDHs) are enzymes in normal cellul…
Chemistry
Third Award
Objectives In the United States one person dies from fire every three hours, and of those 80% of all fire related deaths are from smoke inhalation. Carbon monoxide is the element in smoke th…
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Third Award
Objectives As a gymnast, I use chalk to absorb the perspiration on my hands and feet before performing skills. For my science experiment, I asked the question Which liquid chalk product is b…
Zoology
Third Award
Objectives To determine whether mosquitoes prefer to lay their eggs in a specific colored oviposition trap. Methods Method: Set up and fill traps 2/3 of the way with water. Every day record…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
12% of the global population is impacted by undernutrition, the number one risk to health worldwide, affecting one in three children in developing countries. Fresh produce has large nutritio…
Microbiology
Third Award
The Chikungunya and Dengue viruses are arboviruses transmitted by the mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Co-circulation of Dengue and the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) make it diffic…
Mammalian Biology
Third Award
Objectives The purpose of this project was to determine if machine learning algorithms could predict the development of neurodegenerative lesions found in a subset of patients diagnosed with…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Studying B cell receptor (BCR) binding is crucial for understanding how the human adaptive immune system attacks cancer cells – information that can translate into targeted and more efficaci…
Engineering Mechanics
Third Award
Our engineering study aims to develop and create a transmission which alleviates all the current issues of the modern CVT, making it viable for usage on a majority of light duty vehicles, by…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Third Award
Objectives The goal is to build an auto rotation device that can achieve the slowest rate of descent and an accurate landing zone to deliver emergency supplies to firefighters in areas that…
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Objectives Mesozooplankton play an important role in the global ocean. They are intricately intertwined in the pelagic food web and are major contributors to biogeochemical element cycling t…
Embedded Systems
Third Award
Blindness affects nearly 40 million people worldwide—a value expected to double before 2050. The modern world is incredibly dense with visual information, and incidentally, a Blind Visually…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma(PDA) is one of the most malignant tumors, with an estimated 50,000 diagnoses and deaths per year. Current therapies have little effect on PDA due to the tumor’s lar…
Systems Software
Third Award
Nowadays, Virtual Prototyping and therefore simulation technology is an indispensable part of most product development cycles. The steadily increasing demand for better, cheaper and more rel…
Embedded Systems
Third Award
According to a World Health Organization report, every year natural disasters kill around 90,000 people and affect close to 160 million people worldwide. Natural disasters include earthquake…