Applied Mechanics & Structures
Fourth Award
Objective: Air pollution, especially PM 2.5, affects the health of millions of people globally, causing premature death. Outdoor air pollutants impact indoor air quality by leaking inside. T…
Physics & Astronomy
Third Award
PURPOSE: Half of all strokes in golf are expected to be putts. If a player can make a more repeatable putting stroke, then they can reduce the total number of putts and achieve a better scor…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
First Award
As mRNA-based therapeutics like COVID-19 vaccines rapidly evolve, degradation remains a key limitation. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) possess a closed-loop structure, conferring enhanced stabilit…
Computational Systems & Analysis
Honorable_mention Award
This project, “Quantifying Size And Movement of Metal Organic Frameworks Using Computer Vision,” explores various computer vision techniques to quantify the size and movement of Metal Organi…
Physics & Astronomy
Second Award
Transistors themselves have not fundamentally changed in decades, with all advances in the field focused on merely decreasing the size of transistors. This is a problem as soon it will be im…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Third Award
Ethanol is a renewable, domestically produced transportation fuel. Overall, the transportation sector accounts for approximately 30% of total U.S. energy needs and 70% of U.S. petroleum cons…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
My science experiment is about Hermetia Illucens (a.k.a., “Black Soldier Fly”). The larvae (“BSFL”) from this fly can quickly eat food waste items and turn them into much needed protein and…
Mathematical Sciences
Third Award
This project is inspired from a personal experience of a delayed diagnosis and treatment of pneumonia, which partially resulted from an inconsistency in auscultation interpretation. This pro…
Computational Systems & Analysis
Third Award
Although digital calendars are prevalent, they often face limitations such as a rigid adherence to specific dates and inflexibility. Consequently, users may have to limit the variety and num…
Toxicology
Fourth Award
Objectives My objective was to see if the addition of a glyphosate-based herbicide, an endocrine disruptor, could decrease the gonad mass, this would show that the mussel has been feminized.…
Mathematical Sciences
Second Award
The Robinson-Schensted-Knuth (RSK) Correspondence is a mathematical mapping that takes a permutation and uniquely maps it to a pair of Young tableaux. This correspondence has been the subjec…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Second Award
The Sky Eye Link is a novel intelligent algorithmic software system that operates on a homemade unmanned aerial vehicle, designed to help emergency personnel surveil wildfires through a radi…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Third Award
Golf is gaining popularity during and post COVID, and golf practice ranges are often packed at peak hours. Making golf practice at home more effective and efficient will be beneficial to ten…
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
The goal of this project is to develop a tool that will help people who take a number of daily prescriptions, mostly aimed at the elderly, remember to take their medication. I constructed a…
Environmental Engineering
Honorable_mention Award
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Microbiology (General)
Honorable_mention Award
Background: Antibiotics have become a vital part of our society with many individuals relying on them for medical usage and building immunity within our bodies. However, due to the adaptabil…
Environmental Engineering
First Award
The world is being faced with the detrimental crisis of litter pollution. Clean-up attempts would require precious human effort and widespread usage of expensive energy. However, if a robot…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Second Award
SpiritSeat is a wheelchair seat mechanism designed to improve health and comfort for wheelchair users. The most significant side effect of wheelchair use is reduced blood circulation due to…
Physics & Astronomy
Honorable_mention Award
In this experiment I wanted to find out if the phase of the moon would affect how many stars you can see. My hypothesis was that when the phase of the moon was more complete there would not…
Toxicology
Third Award
Colon cancer is the third leading cause of cancer related deaths with over 940,000 deaths reported worldwide in 2020. The overexpression of certain membrane bound proteins, such as Sodium-de…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Honorable_mention Award
My project is a sun-tracking solar panel. The purpose is to get it to follow the sun across the sky, and generate more power than a static one. My procedure is to measure power with analyzer…
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Soil, the most extensive living system on this planet, contains billions of organisms within a few square inches. Each microbe works to sustain the lives of plants, supporting other lives, a…
Microbiology (General)
Second Award
Algae has shown promise in many industries; its growth efficiency and health benefits demonstrate the capacity to enhance human sustainability. Recent research by the National Aeronautical a…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Around 50% of cancers are only diagnosed at late stages, due to a lack of early cancer detection techniques. Quantum dots (QDs) have emerged as a new class of fluorescent labels for ultra hi…
Chemistry
First Award
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is one of the most common causes of cancer deaths. Many chemotherapeutic agents non-specifically target dividing cells, thus requiring a higher dosage to a…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
First Award
The utility of inexpensive radio-controlled drones has never been clearer than during the present conflict in Ukraine. Remote-controlled aircraft—quadcopters, small planes, and even balloons…
Mathematical Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Artificial intelligence will be the next great leap for mankind, and it will influence all of our lives. My objective was to create an artificial intelligence neural network that is capable…
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Obtaining clean water over the past century has become increasingly difficult due to climate change, drought, and overpopulation. This project aimed to uncover cost-efficient methods to puri…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by an obsessive adherence to repetitive motion, language, and behavior. Neuroligin, a trans-synaptic adhesion mo…
Earth & Environmental Sciences
First Award
Due to the inefficiencies of silicon solar cells, scientists developed perovskite solar cells that are 20% more effective. Unfortunately, they are environmentally harmful and contain lead io…