Translational Medical Science
Second Award
The goal of the project was to identify effective targeted drugs for inhibiting Protein Glucose Transporter 1 (GLUT1). Findings would be a big step towards curing cancer. GLUT1 transports gl…
Toxicology
Second Award
Objectives/Goals Parkinson's Disease (PD) is characterized by the death of dopaminergic (DA) neurons. The hallmark of PD is toxic aggregates of a-synuclein (a-syn) that induce degeneration o…
Third Award
Melanoma, the most lethal and common form of skin cancer, is a type of cancer that develops from the pigment-containing cells known as melanocytes. It has an estimated mortality rate of 63%…
Systems Software
Mosquito control is crucial to fighting diseases, such as zika, malaria, and dengue. Extensive research has been done on chemical-free control, such as the use of sound as a means of mosquit…
Multidrug-resistant (MDR) cancer decreases the effectiveness of chemotherapy. One primary cause is the overexpression of P-glycoprotein efflux pump (P-gp). Mitotane (MIT) is a very potent P-…
Since the discovery of laser by Maiman in 1960, it has been widely used in many fields, like, medicine, laboratory and military. While causing a great progress for the human society, it also…
Second Award
Cancer therapies have limitations of selectively delivering cancer-killing agents to cancer cells. After studying apoptosis reactions, I unearthed novel enzymes, Caspase-9 and Cytochrome-C,…
Iron oxide based superparamagnetic nanoparticles have the potential for revolutionary breakthroughs in applications such as selective drug delivery or cancer therapy because of the guidance…
Third Award
The emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria poses a grave threat to global health. This research aimed to inhibit one of the main cellular mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), ce…
Plant Biology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This affiliated research delves into genetic modification of the aquatic duckweeds Azolla caroliniana and Lemna minor in order to elevate triacylglycerol, diacylglycerol, wa…
Second Award
Invasive macroalgae impacts coasts, ecosystems, and communities on a global scale, but utilizing this wasteful substance can fulfill future demands and need for sustainable resources. The gr…
Wind turbines are currently being used as environmentally friendly source of energy and research continues as to how to make the wind turbines more efficient. However there has been an incre…
Waste Accumulation is a vast problem in our modern world, throwing away everything, from food waste to electronic waste, currently, some of this waste is Radioactive, from europium in CRT mo…
Fourth Award
The main purpose of this project is to further improve the models available for calculating the energy output of tidal barrages. This project will build on the previous year's project, which…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Cancer cells metabolize some basic nutrients, such as glucose, differently than normal cells do. Recently, investigation on cancer metabolism has increased due to the discovery of new metabo…
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of my project was to determine if I could create a nutritionally balanced meal in Midland, Texas using the allotments provided by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. I…
An intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) is a protein that lacks a stable tertiary structure. A key aspect of such a protein is that it goes against the traditional dogma that protein struc…
The goal of the project is to create an intellectual, socially oriented device, which can aid blind people to move avoiding obstacles. The newness of the device is a usage of casual hat equi…
After observing the devastating effect of natural disasters, such as super storms, flooding, and rising sea levels; an engineered pile driving design was created as a noise control acoustic…
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My hypothesis was that we can use the ocean's powerful tidal and wave action to produce renewable electricity to power homes, businesses and cars. Methods/Materials I began…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Oil spills have disastrous effects the ecosystem/environment on the environment and ecosystem. The objective of this project is to test the effectiveness of several agents,…
Aquatic fungi especially Saprolegnia sp. often cause infection in ornamental fish. Treating the infection is normally done by dissolving antifungal agent in the water, affecting the whole fi…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objectives were: To build a 2m and a 70cm one-quarter wavelength ground plane antenna; to determine their standing wave ratio (SWR) and resonant frequency to see how well…
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that kills 4,000 people a day worldwide. The bacteria that causes Tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, can easily mutate and develop drug resistanc…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Keratoconjuntivitis Sicca, the medical name for dry eyes is a common problem occurring in 10-20% of people.Patients experience itchy or a gritty or tired sensation and can h…
The paper deals with a Coding Theory problem known as the inverse football pool problem. It is about finding the minimal cardinality T(n) of a covering of Q_n={ 0,1,2} ^n. A covering is here…
When studying the methods and techniques of cryptography the topic of PKC or public key cryptography is often brought to mind. PKC allows for keys used in encryption and decryption to be pos…
The paper deals with finding unions of lines in n-dimensional vector spaces over finite fields which obey the Wolff axiom and have minimal size. We provide an extension of the constructions…
The goal of this project was to engineer a Home Automation system that was completely Open Source and centralized. Design constraints were the cost of the project, and also the method of con…
Metabolic reactions within organisms rely on enzyme pathways, which catalyze fundamental biochemical reactions within cells. Recent publications conclude that interenzyme distance plays a si…