Kyle Loh, 16Mendham, NJScience: “Chemical Reprogramming of Murine and Human Cells Into Pluripotent Stem Cells”
Yeeren Low, 13East Stroudsburg, PAMusic: “Art of Sound”
Jonathan Rajaseelan, 17Millersville, PAScience: “Novel Rhodium N-heterocyclic Carbene Complexes: Catalysts for Green Chemistry”
Eric Brooks, 16Hewlett, NY Science: “Transition from Indolent to Metastatic Prostate Cancer Characterized through the Health Disparity between African American and Caucasian American Men”
Damien Jiang, 17Raleigh, NC Mathematics: “On the Period Lengths of the Parallel Chip-Firing Game”
Laurie Rumker, 17Portland, ORScience: “Biodegradtion of Organoclay Surfactants by Straight-Chain Hydrocarbon-Degrading Microbial Isolates and Potential Implications for Treatment of Contaminated Sediments”
Benjamin Song, 16Audubon, PAScience: “Epigenetic Biomarker Assay for Urine DNA Based Screening for Colon Cancer”
James Ting, 17Holmdel, NJ Science: “Imaging and Electronic Characterization of Bismuth Nanowires”
John Michael Colón, 17Wayside, NJLiterature: “Art as Empathy: A Study of the Syncretic Potential of Literature”
Meredith Lehmann, 14 La Jolla, CA Science: “Transportation Networks and the Propagation of Novel H1N1 Swine Flu-Like Epidemics”
Anna Kornfeld Simpson, 17San Diego. CATechnology: “A Mobile Autonomous Chemical Detecting Robot”
Merry Sun, 16Chappaqua, NYScience: “Fighting Cancer with Sound: Activation of an Immune Response Against Tumor Cells Using Therapeutic Ultrasound”
Scott Boisvert, 17Chandler, AZ Science: “Growth of Amphibian Pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Response to the Chemical Properties of Aquatic Environments”
Janie Gu, 16Morganville, NJ Science: “Toward Improving the Precision of an Atomic Magnetometer”
Rebecca Jolitz, 15 Los Gatos, CA Science: “Rock with a High Albedo Scattering Experiment: A Determination of Likelihood for Martian Hypolithic Bacteria”
Jonathan Li, 17 Laguna Niguel, CA Mathematics: “Effects of Motility Contact Inhibition on Tumor Viability: A Discrete Simulation”
Alexander Gilbert, 16McLean, VATechnology: “A Quantitative T2 MRI Mapping at 1.5 Tesla”
Kevin Hu, 16Naperville, ILMusic: “Sociomusicology: Exploring and Sharing the Worlds of Music”
Sahil Khetpal, 17Plano, TXScience: “Carbon Nanotubes as a Cancer Drug Delivery System”
Gavin Ovsak, 16Hopkins, MNTechnology: “The Invention of a Highly Efficient and Cost Effective Alternative Computer Interface Using Embedded Circuitry”
Miss Meher AliBrookfield, WisconsinLiterature: The Loves We Have Lost
Miss Jacqueline HanBeachwood, OhioScience: Development of a Micro Eletrochemical Biosensor for the Detection of Pyruvate for Diagnosis of Lactic Acidosis
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