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Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
First Award
Objectives/Goals My project is an alternative source of electricity that can help slow down global warming. My objective was to build a fuel cell that could generate useful electricity with…
Fourth Award
As we know from the literature, multi-core processors do not achieve as high performance as one could expect. Unfortunately, there is no straightforward linear relationships between processo…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
According to the traditional VSEPR theory, the calculation method of the number of central atom’s valence shell electron pair is limited. When studying the geometry of molecule (ion), people…
Organic semiconductors attract the attention thanks to the supply of more material varieties compared to inorganic semiconductors and their ability for being turned into thin film. In our re…
The recently developed Lithium-Sulfur (Li-S) primary battery technology possess theoretical efficiencies of of 2.5V and a capacity of 1000 mAh g-1; however, these batteries are only limited…
Fourth Award
Electric and hybrid electric vehicles are the state of the art in the automotive industry because they increase efficiency and reduce the negative environmental impacts of burning fossil fue…
Gout is a purine metabolism disorder caused by accumulated urate crystals in joints. Extremely severe pain is felt since such crystals affect joints, and lower the life quality of patients s…
Systems Software
Dietary restriction (DR) studies have shown that decreasing caloric intake is beneficial in numerous organisms ranging from yeast to mammals, and genetic manipulation of the target of rapamy…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Solar cells are traditionally made of silicon, which is expensive to fabricate. Organic molecules are much cheaper to fabricate but are also less efficient than silicon in converting solar e…
The three typically-recognized sources of sensory input relevant to the human balance system are the eyes, nerves in muscles and joints, and the vestibular system. This project set out to de…
First Award
In this project, a smart hybrid solar cell using self-powered adaptive temperature control is developed. Active temperature regulation is implemented using thermoelectric cooling modules and…
Environmental Engineering
First Award
Objectives/Goals Access to clean water is becoming an increasingly dire issue worldwide, due to rising populations, industrialization, higher living standards, and localized drought. Solar p…
First Award
Engineering Goals/ Questions:The project is attempting to create a hybrid inkjet 3D printer that utilizes two inkjet cartridges and traditional fused filament deposition methods to create em…
Some natural processes, such as droughts, deprive people from having the appropriate amount of water, which can lead to dehydration, diseases or infections. “Drought is an insidious natural…
Microbiology (General)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to develop an effective, low-cost, energy-efficient hospital room disinfection system, to target outbreak-causing Gram-negative bacteria such as CRE. This…
Fourth Award
Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1B (PTP1B), a predominant member of the Protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) family of enzymes, serves as a negative regulator of the insulin signal transduction p…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by loss of medium spiny neurons (MSN) in the striatum due to mutation in the Htt gene. The mutant Htt…
Second Award
Atherosclerosis and subsequent cardiovascular disease causes nearly one-third of all deaths in the world. Unfortunately, atherosclerosis commonly remains asymptomatic for decades, and is pro…
Gold nanorods were synthesized via the seed growth method and characterized with Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) to create an algorithm to determine the distribution of their lengths. DLS mea…
Events over the past decade have demonstrated the need for more efficient security screening and substance detection against increasing numbers of threats.This project develops a special sen…
The purpose of my project is to develop a cheap and simple thermoelectric generator (TEG) for use in an impoverished area. A TEG can be made by relying on the Seebeck effect, a phenomenon in…
Fourth Award
The need for a facile, fast, and sensitive sensor remains as current methodologies to detect toxic heavy metal ions in drinking water require extensive laboratory equipment. In this project,…
Fourth Award
Lactose intolerance affects millions of people worldwide. It is caused by the inability to produce a digestive enzyme called lactase or beta-galactosidase, responsible for the breakdown of l…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With the booming technological improvements in electronics market, whether it be consumer electronics and/ or electronic vehicles, the advantageous qualities of lithium-ion batteries (LIB) m…
As the prevalence of Type II Diabetes (T2D) has increased, the need to further examine underlying features of the disorder as well as potential modes of treatment has likewise risen. This in…
Wastewater contaminated with heavy metals from the industries is an environmental concern in an urbanizing world. Lead (Pb) is hazardous waste commonly found in electronic factories. As Thai…
Second Award
Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics serves to deliver rapid and robust results in resource poor settings; however, current tests have been hindered by qualitative “yes-or-no” results. The purpos…
Speech impairment has long been linked to Parkinson's disease. Individuals with Parkinson's are often unable to produce sustained phonations and suffer from vocal tremor, hoarseness, and bre…
Semiconducting ternary chalcogenide glasses are used in many important technological applications such as optical data storage, waveguides, optical amplifiers etc. However, development of ma…
Nitrate (NO3-) ions pose a serious threat due to eutrophication and health issues such as blue baby syndrome, cancers, and diabetes; however, methods for sustainable denitrification have yet…