Noah Golowich, 17 Lexington, MA Mathematics: “Resolving a Conjecture on Degree of Regularity, With Some Novel Structural Results”
Swetha Shutthanandan, 17Richland, WAScience: “Next Generation Supercapacitors for Ultra-Fast Energy Storage and Harvesting”
Dhaivat Pandya, 17Appleton, WITechnology: “Algorithms for Minimum Cost Linear Network Coding Design for Networks with General Connections”
Michael Jon Bennett, 16New York, NY Music: “Connective Color: Innovating as Composer, Organist Pianist”
Saumya Keremane, 18Riverside, CAScience: “A Rapid Field Detection of Liberibacter Bacteria Associated with Potato Zebra Chip Disease Using Lateral Flow Technology”
Oriana Tang, 18Livingston, NJLiterature: “Writing Tears from the Stars: A Linguistic Revitalization of Human Empathy ”
Sreya Vemuri, 16Carmel, INScience: “Effect of Time-Dependent Gain and Los in a PT-Symmetric Lattice”
Phillip Yu, 18Plano, TXScience: “Using HDAC Inhibitor CI-944 to Enhance Progranulin Expression for Dementia Therapy”
Joy Jin, 17Palo Alto, CAScience: “Identification and Characterization of a Cancer Stem Cell Subpopulation in Lung Cancer”
Deepika Kurup, 17Nashua, NHEngineering: “Novel Photocatalytic Composites for Degrading Organics and Inactivating Bacteria in Water ”
Peter Tian, 18Hilliard, OHMathematics: “Extremal Functions of Forbidden Multidimensional Matrices”
Moshe Willner, 18Los Angeles, CAEngineering: “Reconfigurable Orbital-Angular-Momentum and Polarization Manipulation of 100-Gbit/s QPSK Data Channels”
Joe Broom, 18McLean, VA Music: “Music as Voice: Presenting the Mosaic of Life”
Jazz Munitz, 17Cortlandt Manor, NYScience: “Microfluidics-Facilitated Synthesis and Characterization of Apoptosis-Induscing Low-Cost Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapeutics”
Vineet Kosaraju, 16Saratoga, CAScience: “3D RNA Engineering in a Massive Open Laboratory”
Jenny Wang, 17Cary, NCTechnology: “Fully Automated Computational Brain Image Segmentation for Cross-Modality Analysis of Neurodegenerative Diseases ”
Augustine Chemparathy, 18San Ramon, CAScience: “Engineering the Electron Sink Behavior of Triacylglycerol to increase Algal Biodiesel Yield”
Samantha Koire, 18Sacramento, CAScience: “New Mechanism for Protonic Communication: pH Signaling Via 2D Sound Waves”
Grace Hong, 17Reno, NVLiterature: “The Spaces: Exploring Multi-Ethnic Identities of the Past, Present, and Future”
Emma Resmini, 15Fairfax Station, VAMusic: “The Exquisite Breath and Breadth of the Flute”
Mr. Samuel AndersonHernando, MSEngineering: “The Effects of Build Direction and Raster Orientation on the Tensile Properties of Fused Deposition Modeled ABS Plastic Specimens”
Mr. Brandon CuiSandy, UTEngineering: “Demonstration and Characterization of Split Ring Resonators as Terahertz Waveguides”
Miss Sahar KhashayarLaguna Niguel, CAEngineering: Wildfire Early Warning System Using Computer Science
Mr. Shashwat KishoreWest Chester, PAMathematics: Multiplicity Space Signatures and Applications in Tensor Products of sl2 Representations
Mr. Charlie LiuPrinceton, NJMusic: Music, by the People and for the People
Mr. Lucas StratmannNew York, NYMusic: Creating a Higher Purpose Though Music
Miss Annabel BarrySouthport, CT Outside the Box: A Terrible Beauty is Born: Litero-Historical Archival Analysis of Twentieth Century Irish Poetics and Implications for the Resolution of Nationalist Paradoxes
Miss Monica BeefermanGreat Neck, NYScience: Intracellular Crosstalk in Protein Aggregation of E. coli Cells: An Examination of the Proteostasis Network
Miss Beatrice BrownMerrick, NYScience: Forecasting Hurricane Hazards for the Long Island Area
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