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CYSF · 2025

Healthy Chocolate: Taste The Goodness Embrase The Health

My partner and I are creating a healthy chocolate bar to help people and there health.

Healthy Gut! Healthy You!: Preclinical Validation of a Novel Enzyme Therapy for Improving Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Overall Gastrointestinal Health in Rattus norvegicus

Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award

As of 2022, 49% of U.S. adolescents and 25% of adults have psychological disorders, with 60% also experiencing gastrointestinal disorders. The aim of the current study is to determine whethe…

CYSF · 2025

Healthy Hair

This project shows all the hair types from 1-4C, hair porosity, dandruff, and build up. Our project captures the importance of taking care of your hair, why you take care of hair, and how to…

HeartGuard: A Model to Detect Heart Disease Using Machine Learning

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Heart disease is a broad term that encompasses various heart conditions. It is also the leading cause of death both in the United States and globally. This disease claims millions of lives e…

Heartland GDF15 and FGF21 Improve Glucose Metabolism in Mice Lacking OPA1 in Brown Adipose Tissue

Brown adipose tissue (BAT) has the potential to mitigate obesity and its complications via increased thermogenesis and the release of endocrine factors, which play a role in regulating syste…

Heat Exchanger Design and Optimization

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

The Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger is widely used in high-pressure industrial applications such as petrochemical processing and offshore oil rigs. This study examines the thermal performance…

Heat Exchanger Design and Optimization

The Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger is widely used in high -pressure industrial applications such as petrochemical processing and offshore oil rigs. This study examines the thermal performance…

CYSF · 2025

Heat Islands: Aggregate Size Analysis

Bronze Medal

My project investigates the thermal properties of aggregate sizes in concrete and the impact on the heat island effect.

HeatLeaf: A Small Scale Hybrid Renewable Energy System That Incorporates Biomimicry

Environmental Engineering

As global warming and climate change intensify, our planet continues to deteriorate. One of the most well-known ways of combating this problem is renewable energy sources. In many cases, ren…

Heat-Sensing Electrical Outlets With Thermochromic Paint for Early Hazard Detection

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

Electrical outlets can overheat due to faults or overloading, often without any visual warning before failure or fire. While thermochromic materials have been widely applied in temperature i…

Heavy Metal Analysis of Lichen at a Massachusetts Superfund Site Reveals Previously Overlooked Contamination

Heavy metals are toxic pollutants that persist in ecosystems and bioaccumulate, causing chronic health issues such as neurological damage and cardiovascular diseases. Many of these metals ar…

CYSF · 2025

Heavy Metal Contamination

Silver Medal

This project explores how heavy metals can affect plant germination and what implications results may have on many ecosystems, as well as our wellbeing

"HEA You, Stop That Radiation!" Polyimide-Taped High Entropy Alloys (HEAs) vs. Ionizing Radiation Shielding

Materials Science

The purpose of this project was to design polyimide-taped high entropy alloys (HEAs) to shield ionizing radiation. It was hypothesized that if the thickness of each HEA is increased, then th…

CYSF · 2025

Heliophysics: Decoding How the Sun Powers Our Solar System, and How We Can Use That to Our Advantage

The sun is a powerhouse of energy, and produces more energy in a second than Earth can use in hundreds of years. This project explores how the sun produces its energy, and how it can be used…

CYSF · 2025

Help! I Got Sucked Into Vacuum Fluctuations!

No empty space is ever truly empty; rather, it is filled with energy fluctuations, so-called vacuum fluctuations, where particles constantly appear and then disappear again. My project visua…

HemoLens: Mechanical Assessment of Native and Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessels

Biomedical Engineering (inferred)

Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in the United States. Severe CAD often necessitates the implantation of vascular grafts to redirect blood flow around blocked arte…

Hemostatic Application of Powdered Decellularized Extracellular Matrix From Porcine Liver

Materials Science Third Award

Excessive bleeding from trauma accounts for about 40% of major global mortality causes, showing the importance of effective bleeding control. Powdered hemostatic agents offer many advantages…

CYSF · 2025

Heron’s Fountain

Bronze Medal

I built a Heron’s Fountain to explore the hypothesis of which model (stacked versus side by side) would produce the most successful water spout.

Hertz to Volts: Optimal Utilization of Sound Energy to Produce Electricity

Sound, which is unlimited, free, and readily available, has yet to be effectively explored as an alternate energy source. I designed an innovative method that utilizes sound energy to produc…

Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Frenkel Excitonic Nanotubes: Unraveling the Role of pH-Induced Effects

Chemistry

As the climate crisis demands cleaner and more efficient energy systems, hierarchically self-assembled nanostructures are emerging as promising tools for sustainable technologies. Hierarchic…

High-Cadence Adaptive Reverberation Mapping of Variable Quasars to Resolve Light-Hour Accretion Disk Structures in Supermassive Black Holes

Physics and Astronomy Second Award

Supermassive black hole accretion disks, predicted to emit optical continuum from regions spanning light-hours, remain challenging to resolve via traditional reverberation mapping (RM) techn…

CYSF · 2025

Higher Dimensions

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High-Frequency BLDC Feedforward Control and Optimization for Motion Control

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award

Compared to common open-loop stepper motors, 3-Phase synchronous motors can deliver superior responsiveness, repeatability, and speed with minimal noise, wear, and heat. Brushless DC (BLDC)…

Highly Selective Carbon Nanosheets Decorated With Ag-Cu Nano Alloys for Enhanced Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to C2 Products

Chemistry

Electrochemical CO2 reduction to C2 hydrocarbons has been intensively studied as a promising approach for utilizing CO2 emissions and meeting the high demand for ethanol and ethylene as valu…

High-Performance Oxidizing Materials: Lithium Vanadium Oxide for Environmental Treatment Applications

Chemistry Second Award

One common environmental activity at school is collecting and sorting old batteries for recycling. However, it is just the first step of the treatment process for lithium-ion batteries, whic…

CYSF · 2025

Highway wind generator

Bronze Medal

It is a highway wind generator ,that turns polluted air into usable electricity.

Hinged Threading: A Novel Method to Deploy Convex Polyhedral Nets

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award

Some objects can transform between multiple geometric configurations when you interact with them. These systems, known as deployable structures, have significant applications in space techno…

Hippocampal Volume in Alzheimer's Disease: OASIS-1 Dataset Analysis

This study utilized data from the OASIS-1 database, comprising 416 right-handed subjects aged 18 to 96, with 3 -4 T1-weighted MRI scans per participant. The analysis focused on individuals o…

Historical Trauma in Displaced Palestinians Outside of Israel: A Generational Comparative Investigation

This study examined the levels of Historical Loss Symptoms (HLS) in different generations of displaced Palestinians outside of Israel. I hypothesized that the levels of Historical Loss would…

HM-Detect: Murmur Detection and Classification Methodology Using A Novel C^2-LSTM Architecture for Multi-Modal Signals

Systems Software First Award

Heart murmurs are abnormal sound signals generated by turbulent blood flow and are closely associated with specific structural heart disorders. Current murmur analysis methods only look towa…