Meena Jagadeesanich, 18Naperville, ILMathematics: “The Exchange Graphs of Weakly Separated Collections”
Christopher Lindsay, 17Honolulu, HIScience: “Kahakai to Hohonukai*: Environmental Studies of Marine Biota Using Underwater Time-Lapse Photography and Multiple Camera Arrays at Various Depths.”
Sriharshita Munsunuri, 16Mill Creek, WAScience: “Application of Tetrahedrite and Magnesium Silicide in a Novel Thermoelectric Unicouple to Generate Electricity from Industrial Waste Heat”
Nicolas Poux, 17Palo Alto, CAScience: “Development of a High-Resolution Multi-color Fluorescent Reporter for Clonal Analysis”
Michael Du, 17Houston, TXScience: “Nifurtimox Limits Cell Proliferation in Glioblastoma Multiforme in vitro”
Anurudh Ganesan, 16Clarksburg, MDEngineering: “VAXXWAGON: An Innovative Eco-Friendly 'No Ice, No Electric' Active Refrigeration System for Last-Leg Vaccine Transportation”
Raghav Ganesh, 14San Jose, CATechnology: “Serene: An Assistive Biomedical System for Autism Spectrum Disorder”
Ellis Hamilton, 17Fort Sam Houston, TXMusic: “The Music in Me”
Katherine Hudek, 17Grafton, MAScience: “Quacee: A New Quantum Programming Language for Specifying Quantum Computations”
Wyatt Pontius, 18Sterling, VAScience: “Reinventing the leaf: A novel biohybrid photosynthetic system”
Maya Varma, 18Cupertino, CAEngineering: “A Wireless Smartphone-Based System for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Illnesses”
Jaelynn Walls, 17Pearland, TXLiterature: “Humanity On-Screen: Engendering Positive Self-Perception and Political Activism in Persons With Marginalized Identities”
Christopher Huh, 17Germantown, MDLiterature: “History's Lessons”
Justine Izah, 18Crown Point, INOutside the Box: “An Examination of Black Liberation, Stereotypes, Healthcare and Education Through the Eyes of a Black Woman”
Noah Lee, 16Oakland, NJMusic: “Changing the world begins with a single person feeling valued.”
Surabhi Mundada, 17Olympia, WATechnology: “MyGlove: Assisting Hand Movements, Grip, and Tremor”
Isabel Séguin, 18Boston, MAOutside the Box: “The Cycle of Uighur Discontent”
Kavita Selva, 16Houston, TXScience: “From Nano Defects to Mega Power: Heavily-Zirconium-Doped Trapped Field (Gd,Y)BaCuO Superconductor Tapes for High Power Wind Turbine Generators”
Clifford Soloway, 18Cortland Manor, NYScience: “Reprogramming of Metabolism in Cancer Cells Through Lysine Succinylation”
Josephine Yu, 17Potomac, MDScience: “Lattice and Continuum Models of Solitons and Vortices in Bilayer Graphene”
Miss Brooke MartinSpokane, WAEngineering: iCPooch - Video Chat With Your Dog And Deliver Them A Treat From Anywhere In The World
Miss Annie OstojicMunster, IndianaEngineering: A Novel Rectellipse Microwave Cavity Design Using Cylindrical Parabolic Reflectors to Optimize Energy Efficiency
Mr. Asher WillnerLos Angeles, CAEngineering: Experimental Demonstration of 20 Gbit/s Efficient Data Encoding and 2 ns Network Channel Hopping using Orbital-Angular-Momentum Spatial Mode Patterns
Mr. Aidan ForsterTaylors, CALiterature: Boyscape: On Queerness and the Uses of the Body
Miss Audrey SpensleyAvon Lake, OHLiterature: How to Light a Match: Contextualizing Societal Power Dynamics through Narrative
Mr. Spencer SheenIrvine, CAMathematics: A Study of Coordinate Descent Algorithms for Matrix Factorization and Applications
Miss Rachel ZhangBallwin, MOMathematics: The Statistics of Intersections of Curves on Surfaces
Mr. Charlie LiuPrinceton, NJ Music: Rescue Music: Coloring the World with Black and White
Miss Olivia MarckxBellevue, WAMusic: Striving for Ordinary, Embracing Uniqueness: A Musical Journey
Mr. Parker RuthBellevue, WAOutside the Box: Paper Cup Construction
Miss Muskaan AggarwalFolsom, CAScience: Activation of TMEM16A Calcium Activated Chloride Channel by Divalent Cations
Miss Kavya AnjurAurora, ILScience: Secondary Structure Changes caused by ADAR in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Leukemia, and Schizophrenia
Mr. Nikhil GopalBelle Mead, NJScience: Plasmodium Aldolase Detection Using a Smart Phone and a Microfluidic Chip: Electricity-Free ELISA for Malaria Monitoring
Miss Olivia HalliseyGreenwich, CTScience: Temperature-Independent, Portable, and Rapid Field Detection of Ebola via a Silk-Derived Lateral-Flow System
Miss Swathi SrinivasanBeachwood, OHScience: Evaluating The Epigenetic Relationships Between Chemicals in Spices and Alzheimer’s Disease Through Bioinformatics and Chemical Approaches
Mr. Vamsi VaranasikApex, NCScience: Longitudinal Alignment and Optical Characterization of Gold Nanostars in Electrospun Fibers
Miss Katherine YangChapel Hill, NCScience: Developing Cellularly Active Inhibitors of CARM1 for New Anti-cancer Treatment
Mr. Michael YouAlexandria, VAScience: Two-degree-of-freedom Bubble Oscillations in Elastic Vessels and its Application in Sonar-induced Marine Mammal Injuries
Mr. Michael EarleOssining, NYTechnology: Two Dimensional Mapping of Energy Transfer in Graphene/MoS2 Photodetectors
Mr. Eli MathieuColchester, CTTechnology: Listen4Me
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