Search past science fair projects

Genetic Variations Associated With Dyslexia and ADHD: A Comparative GWAS Study

Mathematics

This project looked at two prevalent neurodevelopment disorders that often exhibit overlapping symptoms, ADHD and Dyslexia. The purpose of this project was to find out if these two disorders…

GenLSDD: A Deep Generative Approach to Ligand and Structure-Based Drug Design

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award

Deep learning, particularly generative models, have shown promise to expedite the drug discovery process by generating novel molecules with desirable properties/bioactivity. Current research…

Geometric Self-Supervised Learning: A Novel AI Framework Towards Quantitative and Explainable Diabetic Retinopathy Detection

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of blindness among working-age adults. Early detection is crucial to reducing DR-related vision loss risk but is filled with challenges. Manual…

Geometric Self-Supervised Learning: A Novel AI Framework Towards Quantitative and Explainable Diabetic Retinopathy Detection

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of blindness among working -age adults. Early detection is crucial to reducing DR -related vision loss risk but is filled with challenges. Manu…

Germination Characteristics and Metal Tolerance of Atriplex lentiformis and Atriplex canescens Seeds Under Zinc Stress

Plant Sciences

There are 500,000 abandoned mine sites in the United States. Mine tailings cause land to remain un-vegetated for decades, characterized by low pH, high salinity, low organic matter, and effl…

Ginger Root Bioactive Compounds Specifically Inhibits Growth of Colon Cancer Cells in Culture

Colon cancer is affluent and greatly impacts the lives of many. Ginger is a common food, yet its health benefits as a whole food and 6-gingerol, as one of its bioactive compounds in preventi…

Ginsenoside CK and RK1’s Effect on High Intensity Social Behaviors of Aggression in a Tauopathy Model of Alzheimer’s Disease in Drosophila melanogaster

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, which causes memory loss and cognitive decline, and often leads to behavioral changes, increasing levels of agitation, a…

Giving Robot Hands a Feeling

Embedded Systems

Grasping is a critical function for human-like robots to automate human labor. Currently, robotic grasping is limited by robotic hands' inability to precisely set grasping conditions before…

GIVS: A Novel, Generative Artificial Intelligence Vision System for the Visually Impaired

Embedded Systems Fourth Award

Vision is one of the most crucial senses. However, visual impairment - the inability to properly correct eyesight - has grown to affect more than 253 million people worldwide, with lifelong…

GlaucoScreen: A Novel Deep Learning-Based System for Glaucoma Detection and Progression Monitoring

Biomedical Engineering

Glaucoma, an eye disease that causes damage to the optic nerve, is the second-leading cause of blindness worldwide. Swift diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma is crucial to prevent any glauco…

Global Carbon Sinks: Remote Sensing for Peatland Restoration

Environmental Engineering First Award

Peatland ecosystems are the largest natural terrestrial carbon store on earth. Healthy peatlands act as carbon sinks, trapping atmospheric CO2 as soil organic matter. However, anthropogenic…

Global Microplastic Pollution - The Emerging Health Crisis: The Ecotoxicological Effects of Microplastics on Aquatic Organisms and Translating to Humans via A.I. Machine Learning & a Novel Low-Cost Water Filtration System

Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award

The escalating scale of “Global Plastic Pollution” is leading to the omnipresence of Microplastics (MPs), negatively impacting the environment, world's water quality, aquatic organisms, and…

Global Pesticide Use and Parkinson's Disease Incidence: Using Data Science to Optimize Pesticide Regulations and Linking Glyphosate Exposure to Neural Inflammation

Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award

In this study, I use data science principles to analyze pesticide use and Parkinson's Disease (PD) incidence, internationally. Countries were clustered using DBSCANs, the k-means method, and…

Global Soil Respiration Insights Through Machine Learning: Projections and Future Climate Change Implications

Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award

Global soil carbon stock contains more than twice the amount of carbon found in Earth’s atmosphere. Soil respiration (Rs) is the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) from soil microorganisms and…

G.L.O.W.: A Novel Hybrid Neural Network Approach for Glioblastoma Localization Using Carcinogenic Oxidative Stress Biomarkers

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Oxidative stress is a precursor to numerous cancers, including the Grade IV glioblastoma, affecting >300,000 people annually. However, the identification of oxidative stress markers remains…

Glowing, Glowing, Gone!

Physics and Astronomy

Luminol is a chemical used in forensic science that produces chemiluminescence in the presence of hemoglobin, allowing it to be used to detect blood. Previous studies on luminol have noted p…

GO-FeO Fluid: A Novel Method to Remove Microplastics

Environmental Engineering

Microplastic pollution is a severe threat to aquatic ecosystems, necessitating innovative approaches for efficient removal. This research introduces a method for eliminating microplastics by…

Go Green: A Better SAP for Plants

Plant Sciences

Erratic weather patterns, protracted droughts, and hazardous runoffs threaten the availability of sufficient water for food producers. One solution in combating this issue is using Superabso…

Grand Theft Transcription Factor: Reversing Tumor Cell Immortality by Transcription Factor Relocalization

Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most predominant malignant brain cancer in adults without prognosis improvement in decades (average survival interval of 14-17 months). Nevertheless, 83% of GBM cas…

Grand Theft Transcription Factor: Reversing Tumor Cell Immortality by Transcription Factor Relocalization

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most predominant malignant brain cancer in adults without prognosis improvement in decades (average survival interval of 14 -17 months). Nevertheless, 83% of GBM ca…

GraphChem: A Soft Graph Mixture of Experts Based Adversarial Variational Spectral Graph Autoencoder for De Novo Drug Design & Other Pharmacological Objectives

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Traditional drug discovery is costly, slow, and has low FDA approval rates. Deep learning models such as GAN, VAE, & reinforcement learning (RL) have emerged as a solution, using SMILES or g…

Great Plains Microplastic Floatation: A Novel Method to Analyze and Remove Microplastics

Microplastics are a growing environmental crisis, microplastic pollution was initially identified in 2004 as an issue that originated in the 1960’s. Microplastics are defined as plastics tha…

Green Synthesis of Black TiO2 Nanoparticles: A Promising Candidate for Solar-Driven Photocatalytic Water Decontamination

Chemistry

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) photocatalysis is an effective water purification method against rising rates of dye pollution, but the energy-consuming UV light it requires limits large-scale deplo…

Green Synthesis of Reduced Graphene Oxide/CoFe2O4/Fe Nanocomposite for the Photocatalytic and Fenton-Like Degradation of Glyphosate in Water

Materials Science

Herbicide overuse is alarmingly high today, particularly those containing substantial amounts of Glyphosate, or GLP (C3H8NO5P). GLP, commonly used for weed control, poses significant risks d…

Ground Truthing the Chesapeake Bay: Developing a Remotely Operated Vehicle With Water Sampling Capabilities

Environmental Engineering

Citizen science programs rely on volunteer collected data to assist in ground truthing of satellites. Ground truthing is comparing field samples with remotely sensed data from a satellite fo…

Groutiella apiculata: Hidden Treasure Against HCT116 Cells

Biomedical and Health Sciences

There are many studies that try to find an effective treatment to combat colon cancer using different types of plants in their research like moss. The research problem is willing the Groutie…

Growth Promotion of Hydroponic Lactuca sativa var. capitata and Microgreen Raphanus sativus When Exposed to Pseudomonas psychrotolerans Consistently Throughout the Growth Period

Plant Sciences Fourth Award

The fight to end global hunger in a sustainable fashion has been a struggle. There are still few agricultural technologies aiding the situation. Using the bacterial endophyte Pseudomonas psy…

Growth Rates: Annuals in Varied Humidity

Plant Sciences

Does an ideal humidity accelerate maturation in Geraniums and Petunias compared to native, relative humidity in their natural environments? My project compares and contrasts the intrinsic re…

Guiding Vector Field Implementation and Error Correction Analysis

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Robots that require smooth, precise, and robust movement along flat ground have become ubiquitous: warehouse operations, competitive robotics, and assistive robots in human spaces like offic…

Gut Microbiome-Cardiometabolic Disease Spectrum Association Analysis Using Machine Learning

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

The human microbiome is a term for the community of microorganisms living in the human body. The composition of the microbiome has the ability to influence the expression of various diseases…