Translational Medical Science
Third Award
Breast cancer recurrence rates reach up to 50%, yet existing clinical tools rely on single modality data or repeated medical check-ups. My model, OncoTwin, is a novel recurrence-risk predict…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology (Senior Division)
Third Award
Eczema, or atopic dermatitis, affects 30% of children and 10% of adults in the United States (NIH). While corticosteroids suppress inflammation, they weaken the skin barrier, causing recurre…
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Junior Division)
Third Award
To combat drought, runoff, and costly, synthetic commercial hydrogels, this project evaluates whether hydrogels derived from fruit waste, banana peels, orange peels, and apple pomace, serve…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
Orchids are plants with challenging propagation; therefore, in vitro cultivation is a viable alternative for seedling production, despite its high cost. Additionally, growth is slow, and the…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Nearly half of the world's population, 47%, has little to no access to diagnostic testing, which can delay care until conditions become critical. This gap in diagnostic access limits timely…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Fibromyalgia is a chronic disorder characterized by widespread pain, fatigue, and cognitive impairments. Current treatments primarily target symptoms rather than underlying pathology. Growin…
Materials Science
Third Award
Reducing carbon emissions in modern engineering has a critical tradeoff: materials must be lightweight to improve energy efficiency, yet strong enough to maintain structural integrity. Polye…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
An estimated 92 million tons of textiles are discarded annually, yet fabric-to-fabric recycling accounts for less than 1% of production due to quality degradation and financial barriers. Thi…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common malignant brain cancer in adults, and patient survival still remains low. However, 83% of GBM cases have Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase promoter (TERT…
Biochemistry
Third Award
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive primary brain tumor. It is associated with poor survival and frequent development of resistance to the first-line chemotherapeutic agent temozolomid…
Embedded Systems
Third Award
Wilderness search-and-rescue (SAR) operations across U.S. national parks exceed 4,000 to 4,500 incidents annually, with over 40,000 missions between 2015 and 2025. In August 2024, a multi-da…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Obstructive and restrictive respiratory diseases are major global health challenges and are associated with prolonged exposure to smoke and air pollution. Among these conditions, Chronic Obs…
Plant Biology (Senior Division)
Third Award
Soil salinization is a global issue affecting an estimated 20% of irrigated land and costing approximately $27 billion annually in lost productivity. Traditional monitoring relies on visual…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Autonomous drone research has become increasingly important, yet there are many burdens which make its access limited. Especially for autonomous drone racing, high-end motion-capture systems…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Purpose or Problem: Millions of people suffer from stammering, and adult severe stammering patients have a low chance of recovery. Other temporary alleviation methods are not consistent or a…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
The eastern oyster is critical for coastal habitats and provides biological benefits such as improved water quality, stabilization of shorelines, and increased estuarine biodiversity, yet oy…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
Sustained attention span is declining among adolescents, linked to weakened memory and reading comprehension, a significant barrier to academic/social success. This study tested and develope…
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division)
Third Award
ROCKET POWERED REFORESTATION: ENGINEERING A ROCKET-DEPLOYED AERIAL SEEDING DEVICE. Daniel Ahdoot and Ryan Pearlman. David Schmidt. Gaspar De Portola Highly Gifted Magnet, 18270 Linett Street…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Globally, 43 million blind and 295 million visually impaired individuals lack independent indoor mobility. Existing aids are either reactive (white canes), expensive (guide dogs), or ineffec…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
The incurable nature of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is compounded by a diagnostic lag, where symptoms emerge only after irreversible motor neuron attrition. Rather than viewing ALS s…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Whole-slide histopathology images(WSIs) form the backbone of AI development in cancer research. However, their high curation cost, gigapixel complexity, and limited availability across insti…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Third Award
When cables and wired power delivery present safety or practicality issues, such as in biomedical implants or robotics applications, Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) using metamaterials (engine…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Marine oil spills release toxic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and other compounds that harm organisms and bioaccumulate across food chains. Meanwhile, conventional remediation primarily r…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Third Award
While technology has revolutionised music education, visually impaired musicians remain marginalised due to the visual-centric design of existing practice platforms. To restore artistic inde…
Chemistry (Senior Division)
Third Award
Accurate and rapid analysis of amino acids is essential for metabolomics and disease related biomarker studies. ¹⁹F NMR spectroscopy offers high sensitivity and no biological background sign…
Chemistry
Third Award
Accurate and rapid analysis of amino acids is essential for metabolomics and disease related biomarker studies. 19F NMR spectroscopy offers high sensitivity and no biological background sign…
Chemistry
Third Award
In this project, uniform Sized SPIONs of various sizes were synthesized in a reverse micelles system under aerial conditions. The variation in size was achieved by varying the loading of iro…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Third Award
Electrochemical seawater splitting is one of the most promising methods for sustainable hydrogen production. However, its major challenge is the simultaneous chlorine evolution reaction (CER…
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
Third Award
Purpose/Design Goal and Background: I did the Talk to the Hand: Voice Controlled Robotic Hand project because I wanted to learn more about coding and working with the affordable Raspberry Pi…
Software Design
Third Award
Soil degradation affects over 1.7 billion people globally, yet long-term prediction of soil evolution remains fundamentally challenging because soil emerges from complex interactions among c…