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Prop-plane

Prop-plane is an absolutely unique flying vehicle. The idea is to combine advantages of a plane and a helicopter. Prop-plane is much faster, more maneuverable and more economical. Moreover,…

Protect Your Room!

When we were younger, our father taught us how to program. We became involved with programming using Arduino. It became a hobby of ours. We were able to create a color sensor, temperature se…

Protein Cages with Antibody Binding Capacity for Targeted Drug Delivery

Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology

Objectives/Goals The goal of the project is to successfully create viable HBV core-protein nano cages that incorporate new proteins with antibody binding domains to improve the targeting cap…

Protein Interface Targeted Aptamers Screened Using Competitive Selection

Fourth Award

Nucleic acid aptamers are single stranded DNA or RNA that bind targets ranging from large biomolecules to small chemicals, with affinities and specificities emulating antibodies, and provide…

Proto-Bot

The purpose of our experiment was to build a a robot that dispenses medicine to people using and image recognition sensor. To do this we used two programming codes called Windstorm EV3 and P…

Prototyping a Quadrotor Collision Avoidance System Using Ultrasonic Rangefinding with NodeJS and Arduino Platforms

Electronics & Electromagnetics

Objectives/Goals Make a collision avoidance system and algorithm that overrides user input to maneuver a quadrotor away from potential threats. Maneuver the drone in a variety of test cases…

Proximity-Induced Ferromagnetism on a Topological Insulator Surface: Bi2Se3/EuS Heterostructures

Topological insulators (TIs) are unique materials with novel quantum properties that arise from the existence of completely gapless surface states containing linear Dirac electronic dispersi…

Psychological Classification by Applying Deep Learning to Social Media Text

Second Award

Deep Learning has recently emerged as an effective machine learning technique that specializes in recognizing abstract patterns in large volumes of data. It has been very successful in vario…

Pulmonary Function and Intercostal Constriction by Sports Bras in Distance Runners

Biomedical Engineering

This research sought to determine a relationship between the force exerted on the thoracic region by a sports bra and the lung function of the wearer. This query was inspired by high school…

Pure2: A Low Cost, Portable, Microbe-Resistant Water Filtering System Powered by Solar Radiation

Environmental Engineering Second Award

Objectives/Goals This year, I focused on eliminating heavy pathogen from contaminated water, using methods besides boiling, which is inefficient and harms our environment. The overall theory…

Putative High-pIC50 SpDHBP Synthase Inhibitors against Multi-Drug Resistant S. pneumoniae

Second Award

Streptococcus pneumoniae (MDRSp) has become multi-drug resistant. WHO lists it as the leading cause of child mortality globally. In developing countries, MDRSp causes 25-30% of child deaths.…

Python Cubed

The purpose of this project is to create a computer program that will solve the Rubik’s Cube from any configuration in an efficient and logical fashion. I started by constructing an animated…

Quack Quack, What’s in My Water? What Effect Does the Concentration of Salicylic Acid (Aspirin) Have on the Growth of Lemna minor (Duckweed) While Under the Stress of Glyphosate (Roundup)?

Eighty percent of the streams around the country sampled contained residues of drugs (USGS, 1999). The question is: What effect does the concentration of salicylic acid have on the growth of…

Quakify: A Low-Cost, Crowdsourced, Real-Time Solution to Earthquake Early Warning

Second Award

The goal of this project is to design a low-cost earthquake early warning solution (Quakify) to provide adequate warning prior to hazardous ground shaking in a location. Harnessing the power…

Quantifying the Complexity of Conformational Transitions in the Partial and Biased Activations of GPCRs

Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Fourth Award

Objectives/Goals G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the targets of more than 40% of all marketed drugs. However, in many existing drugs, significant side effects arise as a result of th…

Quantifying the Extent to Which Traits of Extinct Species Can be Revived via the Bioengineering Method of De-extinction

Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology

Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to quantify the capacity the bioengineering method of de-extinction holds to restore the expressed traits of an extinct species. It aims…

Quantum Physics and Glow in the Dark: Observing Luminescent Radiation in Glow in the Dark Materials (Phosphorescence)

Physics & Astronomy

Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine if the brightness of light affect the luminescence of phosphors? And which phosphor (Zinc Sulfide or Strontium Aluminate) w…

Radiation Investigation: What's in YOUR Fish?

Environmental Science

Objectives/Goals The objective of my study is to determine whether the species and/or location of fish has an affect of the radiation levels found within. Methods/Materials Vernier Labpro, V…

Radiation Monitoring in Prince William Sound, Alaska, Year Three of a Four Year Study

Is it radioactive? That’s what everyone asks when I tell them that I test items from Prince William Sound (PWS) beaches with my family. I am concerned with what is, and what will be washed u…

Radiation Shielding: Testing Simple Radiation Shielding Methods in a Cloud Chamber

Physics & Astronomy

Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine what types of materials are most effective in blocking alpha and beta radiation. I hypothesized that all the tested materials wo…

Radiographies Recycling

This project arises from the following questions: Is it possible to recycle the radiographies? If so, can it be profitable and environmentally friendly? Our starting point is the hypothesis…

Radiologic Mutations of Brassica rapa Seeds

Deep space exploration requires that food will need to be grown/ harvested on board the spacecraft. Storage space is minimal and would not accommodate the amount of food required for the dur…

Radio Meteor Observing: Employing Algorithm to Increase the Reliability of Meteor Counting

Observing and analyzing meteors is essential for the research of the Earth orbit. However, few studies had analyzed the HROFFT(Ham-band Radio meteor Observation by Fast Fourier Transform) da…

RainCloud: Water Conserving Hand Sanitation Device

As a reaction to Behind the Beautiful Forevers, a narrative chronicling the lack of sanitation in Mumbai slums, I engineered RainCloud, a financially feasible water conserving hand sanitatio…

Random Lab Rules

The purpose of this app is to teach the rules of the lab in a fun and interactive way. My reasoning was when I started my BioComm class and we had to read 55 rules in for a science lab. It w…

Random Number Flow and Its Uses in Confidentiality and Encryption of Electronic Messages

Keeping information safe has been neither as vital nor urgent as it is now. Because of the worldwide problem of technological confidentiality, we were concerned and motivated to investigate…

Rapamycin as a Novel Therapeutic for Alzheimer's Disease: Prevention Assessed through Neuroimaging

Third Award

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the sixth leading cause of death in the nation. Although AD research is bustling, a concrete and effective treatment has yet to be found. The purpose of this proj…

Rapid Determination of Bacterial Growth via Calorimetry

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

In this work, experiments were conducted that used Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) on various bacterial samples with the goal of developing a method for the rapid determination of ba…

Reaction Rates: Does Temperature Affect the Iodine Clock Reaction?

Chemistry

Objectives/Goals The goal was to find out if temperature affected the rate of the iodine clock reaction. Methods/Materials Stopwatch, distilled water, Vitamin C tablets, 2% Iodine tincture,…

Reading Emotions in the Eyes: Age and Gender Differences in Empathy

Behavioral & Social Sciences

Objectives/Goals The purpose of my study was to determine if children or adults are better at identifying other people's emotions just by looking at their eyes. I hypothesized that children…