Hannah Larson, 18Eugene, OR Mathematics: “Classification of Some Fusion Categories of Rank 4”
Samantha Marquez, 18Midlothian, VAScience: “Celloidosomes®: A New Paradigm in the Bottom-up Assembly of Multicellular Architectures”
Ankita Ghoshal, 18Austin, TX Science: “Sustainable 100W Portable Generators for 24/7/365 Power Demand”
Harrison Li, 15Dix Hills, NY Science: “Determining Interannual and Spatial Trends in Convective Frequency over the Northeastern United States Based on Reanalysis of Convective Parameters”
Natalie Ng, 17Cupertino, CAScience: “MicroRNA Prognostic Signatures and Prediction Models for Distant Metastasis-Free Survival (DMFS) in Breast Cancer”
Lilia Popova, 18Ann Arbor, MIScience: “Elucidating Environmental and Genetic Mechanisms of Magnetically Altered Plant Growth”
David Steinberg, 16Rancho Palos Verdes, CAOutside the Box: “The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project”
Coleman Hughes, 17Montclair, NJMusic: “The Rhythm of Free Expression: Honoring the Great Jazz Masters”
Aashna Mago, 17Newtown, PA Science: “A Novel EZH2 Histone Methyltransferase Inhibitor: Potential Advancement in Epigenetic Cancer Therapy”
Kailee Pedersen, 17Lincoln, NELiterature: “The Transliteration of Flesh: Dismantling the Metanarrative”
Thabit Pulak, 17Richardson, TXScience: “Home-based Arsenic Bio-sane Water Filter and Rapid Arsenic Water Test using Nanotechnology”
Joshua Brakensiek, 17Phoenix, AZ Mathematics: “Bounds on the Size of Sound Monotone Switching Networks Accepting Permutation Sets of Directed Trees”
Michael Janner, 17Redlands, CA Science: “Magnetic Manipulation of Nanoscale Mirrors and Photonic Crystals”
William Kuszmaul, 17 Lexington, MA Mathematics: “Equivalence Classes of Permutations Created Under Pattern-Replacement Relations”
Jiayi Peng, 18Chappaqua, NY Science: “A Cellular Automaton Model for Critical Dynamics in Neuronal Networks”
Vaibhav Vavilala, 18Indianapolis, IN Science: “Neural Networks: Raising the Storage Capacity”
Ajay Krishnan, 17Portland, OREngineering: “Optimizing the Microbial Fuel Cell-Microbial Electrolysis Cell Coupled System for Sustainable Hydrogen Gas Production, Electricity Generation, and Improved Wastewater Treatment”
Emily Lipstein, 17Port Washington, NYScience: “An Analysis of the Genetic Variation of Monachus monachus and its Implications for Conservation”
Vinay Sriram, 17Boyds, MDTechnology: “Quantitative Modeling of Processing Cost and Energy Consumption for Cryptographically Enhanced Secure Internet Routing Protocol”
Mr. Arjun BalasingamSan Jose, CAEnhancing the Energy Harvested from the Wind-Induced Oscillations of a Fin Using Novel Bluff Configurations
Miss Hope WeinsteinBoulder, COZero Valent Iron Nanoparticle Embedded Polyethersulfone Membranes for Water Filtration and Remediation
Miss Natalie HappeMinnetonka, MNThe Three Silences
Mr. Joshua KimelmanMillburn, NJInheritance
Mr. Jacob McNamaraMaplewood, NJA Bound on the Norm of Shortest Vectors in Lattices Arising from CM Number Fields
Miss Kathryn AmaralElk Creek, VAFiddling from the Heart on the Crooked Road
Miss Lucy RossNew Hill, NCMorality and the State Beyond the Age of Belief
Miss Namrata BalasingamSan Jose, CAOn the Dynamics of Carbon Dioxide Plumes Sequestered in Saline Aquifers: A Physics-Based Assessment of the Risk of Leakage
Mr. Jordan CadleOrleans, INReprocessing Components of Milk from Foliar Application to Augment Protein Synthesis in Triticum aestivum
Miss Rachel CadleOrleans, INDetermining the Production and Economic Impact of Utilizing Ground Coverings on Solanum lycopersicum
Mr. Benjamin JinDavis, CADeveloping LymphoLab: Modeling Ionic Fluxes in T-Lymphocytes
Miss Aneri KinariwallaSayville, NYA Study of the Role of the ROCK Kinase Pathway in Dental Pulp Stem Cell Differentiation and Mineralization
Mr. Nathan KondamuriDyer, INThe Improved Efficiency of a Solar Cell Based on Modified Photosynthetic Pigments
Mr. Joshua MeierTeaneck, NJThe Missing Genome: Mitochondrial DNA Deletions in Stem Cells
Miss Meghan SheaWest Chester, PAOptimizing the Coagulating Property of Moringa oleifera Seeds: A Novel Approach to Water Purification Techniques in Impoverished Countries
Mr. Jesse ZhangBoulder, COLunar Tidal Winds in Earth's Atmosphere
Mr. Sunny ZhengPlainview, NYCellulose Nanowhiskers: Enzymatic Hydrolysis and Incorporation In Epoxidized Polymers
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