2024 Science Fair - Special Awards
These are the winners of the Special Awards at the 2024 Fairfax County Regional Science and Engineering Fair.
The Aerospace Corporation
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition; Drone
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Rohan Kalahasty | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Learned Plasticity: Adaptive, Carbon-Conscious Artificial Intelligence via Prefrontal Cortex Inspired Meta Learning |
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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Mihika Dusad | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Solving the Admissibility Problem: Radon Algorithms to Minimize Radiation |
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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Soham Jain | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | EyeLS: A Novel, Accessible Gaze-Tracking Application to Revolutionize Non-Verbal Communication for Patients |
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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Samuel Stankiewicz | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | A Novel Blockchain System and Low-Cost Device for Air Quality Aggregation |
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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Manav Gagvani | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Multi-Agent Robotic Path Planning via Particle-based Belief Propagation |
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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Seoyoung Jun | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Integrated Assistive Technology for the Visually Impaired – 3D Scanner with a Tactile Display and Machine Learning |
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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Sritan Motati, Anant Khandelwal, Siddhant Sood | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Diffusion-Based Conditional Mesh Synthesis for Efficient 3D Prototyping |
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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Arjun Ganesan | Centreville High School | The Effect of Kinematic Sensors on the Accuracy of an Autonomous Robot |
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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Veera Anand | Langley High School | D.O.T.S. - Debris Orbital Tracking System Using Kepler's Laws and Machine Learning |
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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Aryav Gogia | McLean High School | Evaluating Automatic Segmentation and Labeling of Multispectral Datasets for Drone-based Applications |
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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Shrey Desai | Marshall High School | Drought Shield: A machine learning-based approach to drought forecasting using remote sensing data |
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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Joseph Tso | Woodson High School | V-MODE: Virtualized Microgrids for Optimizing Distributed Energy |
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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Madeleine Ahrens | Madison High School | The Effect of Different Ion Thruster Designs on Thrust Production |
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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Brian Zhou | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Novel Inverse Control Methods to Optimize Multiple Objectives on Constrained Autonomous Systems |
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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Anusha Agarwal | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Identifying Future Asteroid Mining Targets using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network |
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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Ryan Kim | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Hybrid Quantum-Classical Machine Learning for Dementia Detection |
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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Nathan Vailikit | Woodson High School | Image Noise and Sub-Exposure Length in Astrophotography |
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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Risha Krishnan | Chantilly High School | Maximizing Computational Efficiency of Chemical Simulation Using the VQE and Classical Machine Learning |
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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Danna Jia | Langley High School | The Relation Between Supermassive Black Hole Mass and Active Galactic Nuclei Luminosity |
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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Nora French | Madison High School | The Effect of Propellant Ratio on the Efficiency of Solid Core Sugar Rockets |
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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Christopher Han, Kyle Chen | Robinson Secondary School | The Effects of Nozzle Diameter on the Total Impulse of a Solid Rocket Engine |
American Association of University Women, McLean Area Branch (AAUW)
Award | Student | School | Project Title |
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AAUW McLean Area Branch STEM Excellence Award--Certificate, $100, and Invitation to May Luncheon
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Gabriela Konde | Marshall High School | Optimal Sound Frequencies for Targeted E. coli Biofilm Eradication on Medical Devices |
American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA)
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st--Certificate and $300
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Darren Nguyen | Edison High School | The Effect of Propeller Pitch on Sound |
2nd--Certificate and $200
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Shriya Jaddu | Langley High School | SeizAlert: A Deep Learning Powered System for Pre-Ictal Seizure Prediction |
3rd--Certificate and $100
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Mihika Dusad | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Solving the Admissibility Problem: Radon Algorithms to Minimize Radiation |
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Capital Section (AIAA-NCS)
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st--Student membership in the AIAA, opportunity to attend NASA Goddard Space Experience, and $25
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Madeleine Ahrens | Madison High School | The Effect of Different Ion Thruster Designs on Thrust Production |
1st--Student membership in the AIAA, opportunity to attend NASA Goddard Space Experience, and $25
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Brian Zhou | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Novel Inverse Control Methods to Optimize Multiple Objectives on Constrained Autonomous Systems |
1st--Student membership in the AIAA, opportunity to attend NASA Goddard Space Experience, and $25
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Matthew Lee, Benjamin Hall, Austin Cui | Woodson High School | Designing an AI-Guided Ultra Versatile Unmanned Aircraft for Wartime Humanitarian Aid |
1st--Student membership in the AIAA, opportunity to attend NASA Goddard Space Experience, and $25
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John Gundlach, Jackson Wedige | Robinson Secondary School | Stealth - A Material Approach |
American Nuclear Society (DC-ANS)
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st--Certificate and $100 check
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Mihika Dusad | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Solving the Admissibility Problem: Radon Algorithms to Minimize Radiation |
2nd--Certificate and $75 check
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Arnav Jadhav | Chantilly High School | 3D U-Net: A Novel Approach to Enhanced Glioblastoma Multiforme Segmentation for Radiation Therapy Planning |
3rd--Certificate and $50 check
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Valeria Novoa | Madison High School | Optimizing Graphitic Carbon Nitride to Create a Safe, Effective, and Economic form of Hydrogen Storage. |
American Psychological Association (APA)
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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Certificate and one-year complimentary student membership in APA
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Samad Quraishi | Marshall High School | The Effect of Nicotine on Fertilization in C. elegans: How Vaping Affects Human Reproduction |
American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C. Branch (ASM)
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st--Certificate and $20 Amazon Gift Card
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Shumvobi Mitra | Langley High School | Detecting and Degrading Formaldehyde using Synthetic Biology and Engineering Techniques |
2nd--Certificate and $15 Amazon gift card
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Rohit Kamath | Madison High School | Hierarchical Prediction of Antibiotic Resistance in Neisseria Gonorrohea |
3rd--Certificate and $10 Amazon gift card
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Kriesh Tivare | Langley High School | Bacterial Modulation Strategy Using Compound Magnetic Fields to Manipulate the Antimicrobial Resistance and Growth Behaviors of E. coli |
Honorable Mention--Certificate
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Madeline Levorson | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Discovery of Medically Important Lytic Bacteriophages from the Environment |
Honorable Mention--Certificate
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Agata Colon | Edison High School | CHG Concentration's Effect on Bacterial Growth |
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st Place--Excellence in Engineering Certificate, $100, and Invitation to Awards Dinner with Parent(s)/Guardian(s)
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Valeria Novoa | Madison High School | Optimizing Graphitic Carbon Nitride to Create a Safe, Effective, and Economic form of Hydrogen Storage. |
2nd place--Excellence in Engineering Certificate, $75, and Invitation to Awards Dinner with Parent(s)/Guardian(s)
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Isha Joshi | Langley High School | ezPD: ez Parkinson's Disease Detection and Tracking Symptom Progression with a Mobile App |
3rd place--Excellence in Engineering Certificate and $50
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Arjun Ganesan | Centreville High School | The Effect of Kinematic Sensors on the Accuracy of an Autonomous Robot |
Honorable Mention--Excellence in Engineering Certificate
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Madeleine Ahrens | Madison High School | The Effect of Different Ion Thruster Designs on Thrust Production |
Honorable Mention--Excellence in Engineering Certificate
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Ksenia Koltovich | Madison High School | Fueling the World: The Production of Biodiesel From Used Cooking Oil |
American Water Works Association, Virginia Section (VA AWWA)
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st--Certificate and $200
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Aayush Shivashankar | Chantilly High School | The Effect of Common Halogens (ppm) on the Phytoremediation Rate in Mycorrhizal Lemna minor |
2nd--Certificate and $100
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Maya Moses | Woodson High School | Wood Species and Water Purification: The Effect of Species of Wood on Xylem Water Filters |
3rd--Certificate and $50
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Labeed Zaib | South Lakes High School | The Spatial Correlation Analysis of Microplastics Concentrations in Northern Virginia Geographic Regions |
Honorable Mention--Certificate
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Aum Patel, Grayson White, Sydharth Pant | Fairfax High School | DIY Water Filter |
Honorable Mention--Certificate
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Sean Esen, Angelina Taimouri | Falls Church High School | The Effect of Water Purification Method on Bacterial Growth in Water |
Honorable Mention--Certificate
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Steffi Forde, Makenna Murphy | Falls Church High School | The Effect of Water Source Location Before and After Treatment on Level of Pollution |
Animal Education and Rescue Organization (A.E.R.O.)
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st--Certificate, Wildlife Trophy, and $50
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Sirichandana Yakkala, Ananya Nissi Peterson, Aarna Bhamidipati | Chantilly High School | The Effect of Color Variation on Drosophila melanogaster Inclination |
2nd--Certificate, Wildlife Trophy, and $30
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Alexander Yu, Albert Zhu | Oakton High School | The Effect of Increasing Salinity on Daphnia magna Viability |
3rd--Certificate, Wildlife Trophy, and $20
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Evelyne You, Lillian Voyer | Robinson Secondary School | The Effect of Climate Phenomena on Seed Physiology |
Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, Northern VA Chapter (AFCEA NOVA)
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition
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Manav Gagvani | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Multi-Agent Robotic Path Planning via Particle-based Belief Propagation |
1st--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition
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Victor Wang | Marshall High School | Impact of Electric Vehicle Adoption on Electricity Rates and Infrastructure |
1st--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition
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Matthew Lee, Benjamin Hall, Austin Cui | Woodson High School | Designing an AI-Guided Ultra Versatile Unmanned Aircraft for Wartime Humanitarian Aid |
1st--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition
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Kush Desai | Marshall High School | Defying Gravity with the Magic of Sound: How Does Phase Changing Signal Time Affect the Displacement of Styrofoam? |
2nd Place--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition
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Alexander Hughes, Fox Burton | Falls Church High School | The Effect of Wind Turbine Blade Count on Electricity Produced |
2nd Place--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition
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Aryav Gogia | McLean High School | Evaluating Automatic Segmentation and Labeling of Multispectral Datasets for Drone-based Applications |
2nd Place--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition
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Jack Dova, Madison Pflug | Mount Vernon High School | The Design of Augmented Reality Translation Glasses |
2nd Place--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition
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Madison Pflug | Mount Vernon High School | The Design of Augmented Reality Translation Glasses |
2nd Place--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition
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Risha Krishnan | Chantilly High School | Maximizing Computational Efficiency of Chemical Simulation Using the VQE and Classical Machine Learning |
3rd Place--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition
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William Lu | Madison High School | Bridging Data Gaps: An AI-Driven Approach for Generating Low-Income Fine-Scale Maps |
3rd Place--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition
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Joseph Frisk | Marshall High School | Turning Turbines: Investigating the Relationship Between Blade Number and Wind Turbine RPM |
3rd Place--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition
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Arjun Ganesan | Centreville High School | The Effect of Kinematic Sensors on the Accuracy of an Autonomous Robot |
3rd Place--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition
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Nathan Vailikit | Woodson High School | Image Noise and Sub-Exposure Length in Astrophotography |
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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Julie Xu, Claire Zhang, Mihika Dusad | Oakton High School | Combining Machine Learning Algorithm with Structured Motion Data for ASL Motion Recognition |
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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Sritan Motati, Anant Khandelwal, Siddhant Sood | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Diffusion-Based Conditional Mesh Synthesis for Efficient 3D Prototyping |
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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Sara El-Ghazali | Mount Vernon High School | Sign Speak AI: ASL to Text Conversion |
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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Veera Anand | Langley High School | D.O.T.S. - Debris Orbital Tracking System Using Kepler's Laws and Machine Learning |
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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Vikas Kotla | South Lakes High School | The Effect of the Number of Blades on the Power Output of a Wind Turbine |
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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Brennan McCulloch, Ritvik Kanchetty | South Lakes High School | Effect of Coil Count on Electromagnetic Motor RPM |
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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Emma Cummings-Sulmistras | Woodson High School | Translating Nervous Energy into Electricity |
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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Isabelle Ky, Riya Reddy | South County High School | The Effect of Blade Design on Wind Turbine Efficiency |
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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Khang Nguyen | Edison High School | How the Number of Blades Affects the Efficiency of Wind Turbines |
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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Srithan Bobbala, Victor Moldoveanu, Jackson Fuller | Chantilly High School | The Effect of Materials on the Power Output and Flexural Strength of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Blades |
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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Madeleine Ahrens | Madison High School | The Effect of Different Ion Thruster Designs on Thrust Production |
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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Victoria Sun, Kaila Le | Centreville High School | The Efficiency of Energy Generated by Wind Turbines |
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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Prithul Baveja, Roshan Ram, Nishanth Kolakalapudi | Westfield High School | Integrating Directional Command Interpretation and Dynamic Pathfinding in UAV |
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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Anusha Agarwal | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Identifying Future Asteroid Mining Targets using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network |
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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Ryan Kim | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Hybrid Quantum-Classical Machine Learning for Dementia Detection |
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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Miles Nousain | Woodson High School | The Effect of the Transformer Core on the Average Total Harmonic Distortion |
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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Ethan Masci | South Lakes High School | The Effect of Time on the Frequency of a Ukulele String |
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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Emmy Leong | Marshall High School | Demagnetizing Samarium Cobalt Magnets Through Exposure to an External Magnetic Field |
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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Samantha Cowen | Edison High School | How Will Laser Color Affect Voltage Induced in a Conductor? |
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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Sebastian Sejas | Marshall High School | The Effect of Wall Thickness on Radio Wave Attenuation for Wireless Networks |
Association for Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine (ADLM)
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st--Certificate and $200
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Camille Jo | Woodson High School | Lactobacillus acidophilus Concentration Effectivity |
2nd--Certificate and $100
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Rachel DeWitt | Fairfax High School | Water Testing Using A Spectrometer |
3rd--Certificate and $50 (split between team members)
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Tyler Wang, Alex Kim, Kevin Kim | Centreville High School | The Detection of Replicative DNA in COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines |
HM--Certificate
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Meredith Andre, Charlie Meidlinger | South Lakes High School | The Effect of Catalase Temperature on Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide |
HM--Certificate
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Viraj Luthra | Chantilly High School | On the Synthesis of Hydroxyapatite from Eggshells |
HM--Certificate
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Sophia Milausnic | South Lakes High School | The Effect of Various Antibiotic Agents on the Bacterial Growth of E. coli |
Association For Women Geoscientists (AWG)
Award | Student | School | Project Title |
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"Student Award of Geoscience Excellence"--Certificate
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Rachel Ku | Langley High School | Drought Monitoring in the Horn of Africa with NASA MODIS ET and NDVI Products |
"Student Award of Geoscience Excellence"--Certificate
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Valeria Novoa | Madison High School | Optimizing Graphitic Carbon Nitride to Create a Safe, Effective, and Economic form of Hydrogen Storage. |
"Student Award of Geoscience Excellence"--Certificate
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Phoebe Pan | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | AirWise: A Deep Learning Framework for High-Resolution PM2.5 Prediction |
Biophysical Society
Award | Student | School | Project Title |
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1st--Certificate and $100 Check
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Kate Choi | The Potomac School | Improving Racial Equity in Skin Cancer Detection via Artificial Intelligence |
BrainPOP
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
---|---|---|---|
1st--Certificate and $200 gift card (split between team members)
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Manini Dhingra, Vidhi Reddy | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | TheraLink: Detecting Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Utilizing 3D Convolutional Neural Networks MRI Analysis and Advancing Repurposed Targeted Therapeutics |
2nd--Certificate and $100 gift card (split between team members)
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Natalie Robertson, Ethan Wolf | Fairfax High School | The Effect of Different Ratios of Mango Juice to Water, Used for Cooking, on the Vitamin C Levels in Yams |
3rd--Certificate and $50 gift card (split between team members)
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Andine Boisseau, Juan Garcia | South County High School | The Effect of Caffeine on Daphnia |
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st Place--Certificate, Coin, and $100
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Samad Quraishi | Marshall High School | The Effect of Nicotine on Fertilization in C. elegans: How Vaping Affects Human Reproduction |
1st Place- Certificate, Coin, and $100
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NJ Borders, Connor Geraghty | Woodson High School | Deafblind Accessible Computers |
1st Place- Certificate, Coin, and $100
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Jack Dova, Madison Pflug | Mount Vernon High School | The Design of Augmented Reality Translation Glasses |
Honorable Mention-- Certificate and Coin
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Maggie Sun, Pelin Sayar | Chantilly High School | A Novel and Cost-effective Method for the Colorimetric Determination of Phytic Acid Concentration |
Honorable Mention-- Certificate and Coin
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William Lu | Madison High School | Bridging Data Gaps: An AI-Driven Approach for Generating Low-Income Fine-Scale Maps |
Honorable Mention-- Certificate and Coin
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Anant Khandelwal, Sritan Motati, Siddhant Sood | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Diffusion-Based Conditional Mesh Synthesis for Efficient 3D Prototyping |
Honorable Mention-- Certificate and Coin
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Isha Joshi | Langley High School | ezPD: ez Parkinson's Disease Detection and Tracking Symptom Progression with a Mobile App |
Clean Air Partners MWCOG
Award | Student | School | Project Title |
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1st--Certificate and $50 gift card
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Samuel Stankiewicz | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | A Novel Blockchain System and Low-Cost Device for Air Quality Aggregation |
1st--Certificate and $50 gift card
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Phoebe Pan | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | AirWise: A Deep Learning Framework for High-Resolution PM2.5 Prediction |
Clean Fairfax
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st--Certificate and Swag Bag
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Aaron Chen, Ashley Chen | Oakton High School | The Potential of Chlorophyll as an Eco-Friendly Power Source |
2nd--Certificate and Swag Bag
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Mia Ramos | Woodson High School | Effect of Aspergillus oryzae on Decomposition of Starch-Based Bioplastics |
3rd--Certificate and Swag Bag
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Gabrielle Antoine, Stella Yun | Madison High School | Reducing Plastic Waste with Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate 3D Print Filament |
Commissioned Officer Association, U. S. Public Health Services, District of Columbia Branch (DC-COA)
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st Distinguishing Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal
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Amy Key | Langley High School | A Comprehensive and Affordable Machine Learning Based Mobile Application for the Early Detection of Parkinson’s Disease |
2nd Distinguishing Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal
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Khartik Uppalapati, Viraj Kamath | Oakton High School | BSEPv2: Designing a Novel Protein Utilizing AI-Assisted Predictions of Molecular Evolution for Treatment of PFIC |
3rd Distinguishing Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal
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Tyler Wang, Alex Kim, Kevin Kim | Centreville High School | The Detection of Replicative DNA in COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines |
HM Meritorious Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal
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Kate Choi | The Potomac School | Improving Racial Equity in Skin Cancer Detection via Artificial Intelligence |
HM Meritorious Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal
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Anvith Kakkera, Aneesh Kalla | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Cytological Evaluation of Thyroid Carcinoma: Machine Learning Analysis of Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsies |
HM Meritorious Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal
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Sampurna Chakravorty | Chantilly High School | Harnessing AI for Medical Image Analysis |
HM Meritorious Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal
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Mahsa Jawaid, Vivian Weszelovszky | Edison High School | The Effect of UV Light and Antioxidants on Caenorhabditis elegans |
HM Meritorious Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal
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Salban Nithilaselvan | Westfield High School | Tumor Immune Microenvironment Centered Multimodal Deep Learning Approaches to Colorectal Cancer Survival Analysis |
HM Meritorious Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal
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Rashmika Omtri, Arunika Awula, Sua Kim | Chantilly High School | The Effect of Prebiotics on the Growth of Lactobacillus |
HM Meritorious Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal
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Sarah Li | McLean High School | Splicing Factor Genes in Lupus Patient Stratification |
Dominion Energy
Award | Student | School | Project Title |
---|---|---|---|
1st--$100 gift card and Certificate
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Joseph Tso | Woodson High School | V-MODE: Virtualized Microgrids for Optimizing Distributed Energy |
2nd--$75 gift card and Certificate
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Thomas Sparling | Oakton High School | A Closed Loop Pumped Hydro-Power System vs. Commercial Batteries |
HM--$50 gift card and Certificate
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Rishi Jagarlapudi, Nishanth Vadlamani, Aryan Raj | Chantilly High School | Minimizing Wildfire Costs Through Quantum Enhanced Controlled Burns |
Geological Society of Washington
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st--Certificate, ribbon, and invitation to present at a Geological Society of Washington meeting in May
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Wesley Kang | Madison High School | A Novel Mathematical Model To Predict Wastewater Induced Earthquakes |
2nd--Certificate and ribbon
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Andrew Kim, Jamie Kim | Woodson High School | Utilizing Remote Sensing and Deep Neural Networks to Predict Biochemical Oxygen Demand in the Chesapeake Bay |
3rd--Certificate and ribbon
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Rachel Ku | Langley High School | Drought Monitoring in the Horn of Africa with NASA MODIS ET and NDVI Products |
HM--Certificate
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Sanchali Banerjee | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | A Novel Framework Using GANs to Create Land Resource Management Strategy |
George Mason University Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science
Award | Student | School | Project Title |
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1st--Certificate and Drone
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Rachel Ku | Langley High School | Drought Monitoring in the Horn of Africa with NASA MODIS ET and NDVI Products |
George Mason University Department of Mechanical Engineering
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st Place--Certificate and GMU Swag Bag
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Kent Fruchtman, Ashwin Potluri | Oakton High School | Constructing a Robot to Aid the Elderly and Mobility Impaired in Everyday Tasks |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Northern Virginia Section
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st in Technology Innovation--Certificate and $50
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Danial Syed, Isabel Aysa-Lastra | Hayfield Secondary School | Robee: A Novel Autonomous Pollinator |
2nd in Technology Excellence--Certificate and $50
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Soham Jain | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | EyeLS: A Novel, Accessible Gaze-Tracking Application to Revolutionize Non-Verbal Communication for Patients |
2nd in Technology Excellence--Certificate and $50
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Manav Gagvani | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Multi-Agent Robotic Path Planning via Particle-based Belief Propagation |
2nd in Technology Excellence--Certificate and $50
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Seoyoung Jun | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Integrated Assistive Technology for the Visually Impaired – 3D Scanner with a Tactile Display and Machine Learning |
3rd in Technology Achievement--Certificate
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Samuel Stankiewicz | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | A Novel Blockchain System and Low-Cost Device for Air Quality Aggregation |
3rd in Technology Achievement--Certificate
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NJ Borders, Connor Geraghty | Woodson High School | Deafblind Accessible Computers |
3rd in Technology Achievement--Certificate
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Jack Dova, Madison Pflug | Mount Vernon High School | The Design of Augmented Reality Translation Glasses |
McGraw Hill
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st--Certificate and $50 Gift Card each
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Sravya Tathicherla, Tejavi Kumar | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | CNN Identification of Abnormal Lung Sounds as a Potential Precursor of SIDS |
2nd--Certificate and $25 Gift Card
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Gabrielle Convery | Mount Vernon High School | The Effect of Different Insects and the Reactions that they Receive from People |
3rd--Certificate and $25 Gift Card each
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Riya Gonzales, Delaney Fleming, Abigail Daniel | Woodson High School | The Effect of Commonly Used School Surfaces on Bacterial Load Present in Phone Cases |
3rd--Certificate and $25 Gift Card each
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Delaney Fleming | Woodson High School | The Effect of Commonly Used School Surfaces on Bacterial Load Present in Phone Cases |
3rd--Certificate and $25 Gift Card each
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Abigail Daniel | Woodson High School | The Effect of Commonly Used School Surfaces on Bacterial Load Present in Phone Cases |
MIT Club of Washington DC
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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MIT Club of Washington DC Award of Excellence
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Phoebe Pan | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | AirWise: A Deep Learning Framework for High-Resolution PM2.5 Prediction |
MIT Club of Washington DC Award of Excellence
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Danial Syed, Isabel Aysa-Lastra | Hayfield Secondary School | Robee: A Novel Autonomous Pollinator |
MIT Club of Washington DC Award of Excellence
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Neha Chandran, Srimaye Peddinti | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Linear Polarization-based Entanglement of a Single Photon, 2-Qubit Spatial Mode System |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Award | Student | School | Project Title |
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Certificate and Invitation to a Webinar with NASA Scientist
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Sanchali Banerjee | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | A Novel Framework Using GANs to Create Land Resource Management Strategy |
Certificate and Invitation to a Webinar with NASA Scientist
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Brian Zhou | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Novel Inverse Control Methods to Optimize Multiple Objectives on Constrained Autonomous Systems |
Certificate and Invitation to a Webinar with NASA Scientist
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Phoebe Pan | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | AirWise: A Deep Learning Framework for High-Resolution PM2.5 Prediction |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Award | Student | School | Project Title |
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Taking The Pulse of the Planet Award -- Certificate and Letter
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Rishi Jagarlapudi, Nishanth Vadlamani, Aryan Raj | Chantilly High School | Minimizing Wildfire Costs Through Quantum Enhanced Controlled Burns |
Taking The Pulse of the Planet Award -- Certificate and Letter
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Andrew Kim, Jamie Kim | Woodson High School | Utilizing Remote Sensing and Deep Neural Networks to Predict Biochemical Oxygen Demand in the Chesapeake Bay |
Taking The Pulse of the Planet Award -- Certificate and Letter
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Sanchali Banerjee | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | A Novel Framework Using GANs to Create Land Resource Management Strategy |
Northern Virginia Astronomy Club (NOVAC)
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st--Certificate, $100 Gift Card, and 1-year NOVAC Membership
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Anusha Agarwal | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Identifying Future Asteroid Mining Targets using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network |
2nd--Certificate, $75 Gift Card, and 1-year NOVAC Membership
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Veera Anand | Langley High School | D.O.T.S. - Debris Orbital Tracking System Using Kepler's Laws and Machine Learning |
3rd place; Certificate, $75 Gift Card, and 1-year NOVAC Membership
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Nora French | Madison High School | The Effect of Propellant Ratio on the Efficiency of Solid Core Sugar Rockets |
Honorable Mention; 1-year NOVAC Membership
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Nathan Vailikit | Woodson High School | Image Noise and Sub-Exposure Length in Astrophotography |
Honorable Mention; 1-year NOVAC Membership
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Julia Sites, Amelia Johnson | South County High School | The Effect of Artificial Light on Skyglow |
Honorable Mention; 1-year NOVAC Membership
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Stephen Aiello, Rohan Gottesman | Hayfield Secondary School | Effect of Stellar Surface Temperature on the Color of a Star |
Honorable Mention; 1-year NOVAC Membership
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Christopher Han, Kyle Chen | Robinson Secondary School | The Effects of Nozzle Diameter on the Total Impulse of a Solid Rocket Engine |
Northern Virginia Dental Society (NVDS)
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st--Certificate of Merit and $100 Cash Award
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Sophia Milausnic | South Lakes High School | The Effect of Various Antibiotic Agents on the Bacterial Growth of E. coli |
2nd--Certificate of Merit and $50 Cash Award
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Soham Jain | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | EyeLS: A Novel, Accessible Gaze-Tracking Application to Revolutionize Non-Verbal Communication for Patients |
HM--Certificate of Merit
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Mia Solomon | Marshall High School | The Effects of Antioxidant and UV Radiation on Drosophila melanogaster Fertility |
HM--Certificate of Merit
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Jason Shin | Oakton High School | The Effect of Hydrogen Peroxide/Sodium Alginate Ice Balls on the Purification of Algae Water |
HM--Certificate of Merit
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Camille Jo | Woodson High School | Lactobacillus acidophilus Concentration Effectivity |
HM--Certificate of Merit
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Vittoria Garcia, Logan Lin, Lillian Ingraham | South Lakes High School | The Effect of Different Toothpastes on Teeth Whitening |
HM--Certificate of Merit
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Lillian Ingraham | South Lakes High School | The Effect of Different Toothpastes on Teeth Whitening |
Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District (NVSWCD)
Award | Student Names | School | Project Title |
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1st--Certificate, Book: What If? by Randall Munroe, $100 gift card
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Brooke Ehmann-Jones, Chloe Bernasconi, Danielle Ford-Lane | Justice High School | The Effect of Different Binding Agents on the Durability of Leaf Bricks |
2nd--Certificate, Book: What If? by Randall Munroe, $75 gift card
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Maya Moses | Woodson High School | Wood Species and Water Purification: The Effect of Species of Wood on Xylem Water Filters |
3rd--Certificate, Book: What If? by Randall Munroe, $50 gift card
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Samik Sidhu | Chantilly High School | The Effect of Organic Mulch on Soil Erosion and Water Retention |
3rd--Certificate, Book: What If? by Randall Munroe, $50 gift card
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Veronica Diamond | Fairfax High School | Four Corners: Tap Water's Effect on Radish Plants |
Office of Naval Research (US Navy)
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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$50 Gift Card, Certificate, and Medal
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Kyan Yang | Madison High School | System of Nonlinear ODEs for Michaelis-Menten Kinetics To Model EGFR-Triggered Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Cascades in Lung Carcinoma Cell Line |
$50 Gift Card, Certificate, and Medal
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Seoyoung Jun | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Integrated Assistive Technology for the Visually Impaired – 3D Scanner with a Tactile Display and Machine Learning |
$50 Gift Card, Certificate, and Medal
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Brian Zhou | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Novel Inverse Control Methods to Optimize Multiple Objectives on Constrained Autonomous Systems |
$50 Gift Card, Certificate, and Medal
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Phoebe Pan | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | AirWise: A Deep Learning Framework for High-Resolution PM2.5 Prediction |
$50 Gift Card, Certificate, and Medal
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Aaryan Sumesh | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | The Viability of PTCDA as an Active Cathode Material in Lithium-ion and Sodium-ion Batteries |
$50 Gift Card, Certificate, and Medal
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Anusha Agarwal | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Identifying Future Asteroid Mining Targets using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network |
Ofinno
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st--Certificate and $100 gift card per team member
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Sritan Motati, Anant Khandelwal, Siddhant Sood | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Diffusion-Based Conditional Mesh Synthesis for Efficient 3D Prototyping |
2nd--Certificate and $200 gift card
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Rohan Kalahasty | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Learned Plasticity: Adaptive, Carbon-Conscious Artificial Intelligence via Prefrontal Cortex Inspired Meta Learning |
2nd--Certificate and $200 gift card
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Mihika Dusad | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Solving the Admissibility Problem: Radon Algorithms to Minimize Radiation |
3rd--Certificate and $100 gift card
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Isha Joshi | Langley High School | ezPD: ez Parkinson's Disease Detection and Tracking Symptom Progression with a Mobile App |
HM--Certificate and $50 gift card
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Jinzhu Cui | Madison High School | A New Fire Grid Management System: The Impact of Different Mathematical Models |
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., Omicron Kappa Kappa Chapter
Award | Student | School | Project Title |
---|---|---|---|
Dr. Oscar J. Cooper, M.D., Award for Excellence in Biomedical and Health Sciences--Certificate and $50 gift card
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Sampurna Chakravorty | Chantilly High School | Harnessing AI for Medical Image Analysis |
Dr. Edgar A. Love Award for Excellence in Biomedical Engineering--Certificate and $50 gift card
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Aneesh Mandapati | South Lakes High School | Performing Nuclei Semantic Segmentation in Organ Tissue Images using AI |
Charles "Chuck" Smith Award for Excellence in Computer Science and Mathematics--Certificate and $50 gift card
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Manav Gagvani | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Multi-Agent Robotic Path Planning via Particle-based Belief Propagation |
Dr. Ernest Everett Just Award for Excellence in Biology--Certificate and $50 gift card
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Shumvobi Mitra | Langley High School | Detecting and Degrading Formaldehyde using Synthetic Biology and Engineering Techniques |
Professor Frank Coleman Award for Excellence in Physics--Certificate and $50 gift card
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Emmy Leong | Marshall High School | Demagnetizing Samarium Cobalt Magnets Through Exposure to an External Magnetic Field |
Optical Society of America, National Capital Section (OPTICA) and IEEE, Photonics Chapter
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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Outstanding Achievement--Certificate
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Rachel Dewitt | Fairfax High School | Water Testing Using A Spectrometer |
Outstanding Achievement--Certificate
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Neha Chandran, Srimaye Peddinti | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Linear Polarization-based Entanglement of a Single Photon, 2-Qubit Spatial Mode System |
Outstanding Achievement--Certificate
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Samantha Cowen | Edison High School | How Will Laser Color Affect Voltage Induced in a Conductor? |
Notable Achievement--Certificate
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Marley Peterson | Hayfield Secondary School | Using Spectrophotometry for Dyeing Fabrics to Measure Absorption |
Notable Achievement--Certificate
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Nathan Vailikit | Woodson High School | Image Noise and Sub-Exposure Length in Astrophotography |
Notable Achievement--Certificate
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Sachika Mann, Griffith Knowlton | South Lakes High School | The Effect of Sugar Concentration on the Refractive Index |
Notable Achievement--Certificate
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Julia Sites, Amelia Johnson | South County High School | The Effect of Artificial Light on Skyglow |
Notable Achievement--Certificate
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Stephen Aiello, Rohan Gottesman | Hayfield Secondary School | Effect of Stellar Surface Temperature on the Color of a Star |
Notable Achievement--Certificate
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Chloe Leiterman | Mount Vernon High School | Proving Malus's Law |
Patent and Trademark Office Society (PTO Society)
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st--Raspberry Pi Computer Kit and Certificate of Merit
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Phoebe Pan | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | AirWise: A Deep Learning Framework for High-Resolution PM2.5 Prediction |
1st--Certificate of Merit
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Soham Jain | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | EyeLS: A Novel, Accessible Gaze-Tracking Application to Revolutionize Non-Verbal Communication for Patients |
1st--Certificate of Merit
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Isha Joshi | Langley High School | ezPD: ez Parkinson's Disease Detection and Tracking Symptom Progression with a Mobile App |
1st--Certificate of Merit
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Maya Moses | Woodson High School | Wood Species and Water Purification: The Effect of Species of Wood on Xylem Water Filters |
1st--Certificate of Merit
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Wesley Kang | Madison High School | A Novel Mathematical Model To Predict Wastewater Induced Earthquakes |
1st--Certificate of Merit
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William Lu | Madison High School | Bridging Data Gaps: An AI-Driven Approach for Generating Low-Income Fine-Scale Maps |
1st--Certificate of Merit
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Aaryan Sumesh | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | The Viability of PTCDA as an Active Cathode Material in Lithium-ion and Sodium-ion Batteries |
1st--Certificate of Merit
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Anusha Agarwal | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Identifying Future Asteroid Mining Targets using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network |
1st--Certificate of Merit
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Alicia Yau | McLean High School | Is gravity a force? A study of gravity's force nature through biological entities |
2nd--Certificate of Merit
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Shubh Bhattacharya | Westfield High School | Plant Disease Detection using AI |
Regeneron Biomedical Science Award
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
---|---|---|---|
Regeneron Biomedical Science Award--Certificate and $375
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Shumvobi Mitra | Langley High School | Detecting and Degrading Formaldehyde using Synthetic Biology and Engineering Techniques |
Ricoh USA, Inc.
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
---|---|---|---|
Sustainable Development Award--Certificate
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Sean Esen, Angelina Taimouri | Falls Church High School | The Effect of Water Purification Method on Bacterial Growth in Water |
Sustainable Development Award--Certificate
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Emma McRobbie | Woodson High School | The Effectiveness of Retaining Wall Variations on Shoreline Preservation |
Sustainable Development Award--Certificate
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Rachel Ku | Langley High School | Drought Monitoring in the Horn of Africa with NASA MODIS ET and NDVI Products |
SAE International, Washington DC Section
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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First Prize for Excellence in Mobility Engineering - Certificate and $100 Amazon Gift Card
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Jonathan Li | McLean High School | Effect of Advanced Vehicle Technologies on Occupant Protection Gaps between Males and Females in Non-fatal Crashes |
Second Prize for Excellence in Mobility Engineering - Certificate and $50 Amazon Gift Card
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Kent Fructman, Ashwin Potluri | Oakton High School | Constructing a Robot to Aid the Elderly and Mobility Impaired in Everyday Tasks |
Excellence in Mobility Engineering - Honorable Mention - Certificate
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Thomas Sparling | Oakton High School | A Closed Loop Pumped Hydro-Power System vs. Commercial Batteries |
Seraphim Life Sciences
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st Place Outstanding Effort in Biomedical Science and Technology--$100 (split between team members)
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Ram Dosibhatla, Anshul Yarlagadda, Himesh Ahuja | Chantilly High School | EyeDragon: A Novel Multi-Stage Deep Learning Classification Model for Characterizing Progression of Fundus Diseases |
2nd Place Outstanding Effort in Biomedical Science and Technology--$80 (split between team members)
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Sravya Tathicherla, Tejavi Kumar | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | CNN Identification of Abnormal Lung Sounds as a Potential Precursor of SIDS |
Society for In Vitro Biology
Award | Student | School | Project Title |
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Certificate of Outstanding Achievement for Ability and Creativity in In Vitro Biology
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Anghelina Graur | Robinson Secondary School | The Effect of Various Ethanol Concentrations on the Permeability of a Beet Root's Cell Membrane |
Certificate of Outstanding Achievement for Ability and Creativity in In Vitro Biology
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Tyler Wang, Alex Kim, Kevin Kim | Centreville High School | The Detection of Replicative DNA in COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines |
Certificate of Outstanding Achievement for Ability and Creativity in In Vitro Biology
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Archishma Marrapu, Ashrita Gandhari | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Combating Pediatric Leukemia using the Plant Compounds Quercetin and Vincristine |
Society of Women Engineers, Baltimore Washington Section (SWE-BWS)
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card
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Anna Olivares | Mount Vernon High School | The Effect of Varying Olaplex Application Time on Hair Tensile Strength |
Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card
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Sampurna Chakravorty | Chantilly High School | Harnessing AI for Medical Image Analysis |
Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card
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Samanvi Tummala | Chantilly High School | Rice-Cycle: Creating Biodegradable Starch-Based Materials from Rice Food Waste |
Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card
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Callie Liao | McLean High School | Multimodal Time Signature Determination for AI Generation of Original Music with Sentiment Analysis |
Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card
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Maya Moses | Woodson High School | Wood Species and Water Purification: The Effect of Species of Wood on Xylem Water Filters |
Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card
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Mia Ramos | Woodson High School | Effect of Aspergillus oryzae on Decomposition of Starch-Based Bioplastics |
Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card
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Shri Bala | Falls Church High School | Biomimetic Architecture: A Design Analysis of Hurricane-Resistant Residential Structures |
Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card
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Shumvobi Mitra | Langley High School | Detecting and Degrading Formaldehyde using Synthetic Biology and Engineering Techniques |
Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card
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Nora French | Madison High School | The Effect of Propellant Ratio on the Efficiency of Solid Core Sugar Rockets |
Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card
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Shriya Jaddu | Langley High School | SeizAlert: A Deep Learning Powered System for Pre-Ictal Seizure Prediction |
Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card
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Molly Hawkins | Woodson High School | The Effect of Chemically Modified SCGs on the Removal of Zinc from Water |
Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card
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Marley Peterson | Hayfield Secondary School | Using Spectrophotometry for Dyeing Fabrics to Measure Absorption |
Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card
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Isha Joshi | Langley High School | ezPD: ez Parkinson's Disease Detection and Tracking Symptom Progression with a Mobile App |
Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card
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Jinzhu Cui | Madison High School | A New Fire Grid Management System: The Impact of Different Mathematical Models |
Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card
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Rachel Ku | Langley High School | Drought Monitoring in the Horn of Africa with NASA MODIS ET and NDVI Products |
Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card
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Emma Cummings-Sulmistras | Woodson High School | Translating Nervous Energy into Electricity |
Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card
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Anusha Agarwal | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Identifying Future Asteroid Mining Targets using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network |
Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card
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Samantha Cowen | Edison High School | How Will Laser Color Affect Voltage Induced in a Conductor? |
STEMHouse
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
---|---|---|---|
1st--Certificate and $60 (split among team members)
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Manini Dhingra, Vidhi Reddy | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | TheraLink: Detecting Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Utilizing 3D Convolutional Neural Networks MRI Analysis and Advancing Repurposed Targeted Therapeutics |
2nd--Certificate and $40 (split among team members)
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Amy Key | Langley High School | A Comprehensive and Affordable Machine Learning Based Mobile Application for the Early Detection of Parkinson’s Disease |
3rd--Certificate and $30 (split among team members)
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Taylor Jordan, Ella Pomaranski | Hayfield Secondary School | Dealing With Diabetes: Building an Artificial Pancreas |
HM--Certificate
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Gabrielle Convery | Mount Vernon High School | The Effect of Different Insects and the Reactions that they Receive from People |
HM--Certificate
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Avinth Kakkera, Aneesh Kalla | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Cytological Evaluation of Thyroid Carcinoma: Machine Learning Analysis of Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsies |
US Agency for International Development (USAID)
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
---|---|---|---|
Science Champion Award--Certificate and Letter
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Labeed Zaib | South Lakes High School | The Spatial Correlation Analysis of Microplastics Concentrations in Northern Virginia Geographic Regions |
US Air Force
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
---|---|---|---|
Award Packet (Sling pack, Power Bank, USB Flash Memory Drive, USB Car Charger, and Official AF Certificate)
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Veera Anand | Langley High School | D.O.T.S. - Debris Orbital Tracking System Using Kepler's Laws and Machine Learning |
Award Packet (Sling pack, Power Bank, USB Flash Memory Drive, USB Car Charger, and Official AF Certificate)
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Aryav Gogia | McLean High School | Evaluating Automatic Segmentation and Labeling of Multispectral Datasets for Drone-based Applications |
Award Packet (Sling pack, Power Bank, USB Flash Memory Drive, USB Car Charger, and Official AF Certificate)
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Thomas Sparling | Oakton High School | A Closed Loop Pumped Hydro-Power System vs. Commercial Batteries |
Award Packet (Sling pack, Power Bank, USB Flash Memory Drive, USB Car Charger, and Official AF Certificate)
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Valeria Novoa | Madison High School | Optimizing Graphitic Carbon Nitride to Create a Safe, Effective, and Economic form of Hydrogen Storage. |
US Metric Association
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
---|---|---|---|
Certificate and 1 year membership in US Metric Association
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Colette Orwan | Robinson Secondary School | The Effect of Concentration of Hydrochloric Acid on the Moles of Carbon Dioxide Released in a Reaction |
Certificate and 1 year membership in US Metric Association
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Ray Zhang | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Biofilm Composition in Fungi Fusarium and Development of a Multi-targeted Antifungal Therapy to Inhibit Proliferation |
Certificate and 1 year membership in US Metric Association
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Emmy Leong | Marshall High School | Demagnetizing Samarium Cobalt Magnets Through Exposure to an External Magnetic Field |
Virginia Lakes and Watersheds Association (VLWA)
Award | Student | School | Project Title |
---|---|---|---|
Senior Award--Certificate and $150 Gift Card
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Emma McRobbie | Woodson High School | The Effectiveness of Retaining Wall Variations on Shoreline Preservation |
Virginia Water Environment Association (VWEA)
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st--Certificate, Entry into Virginia Stockholm Jr. Water Prize Competition, and $200
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Shrey Desai | Marshall High School | Drought Shield: A machine learning-based approach to drought forecasting using remote sensing data |
2nd--Certificate, Entry into Virginia Stockholm Jr. Water Prize Competition, and $100
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Wesley Kang | Madison High School | A Novel Mathematical Model To Predict Wastewater Induced Earthquakes |
Washington Statistical Society (WSS)
Award | Students | School | Project Title |
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1st--Letter from Organization
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Manini Dhingra, Vidhi Reddy | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | TheraLink: Detecting Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Utilizing 3D Convolutional Neural Networks MRI Analysis and Advancing Repurposed Targeted Therapeutics |
2nd--Letter from Organization
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Wesley Kang | Madison High School | A Novel Mathematical Model To Predict Wastewater Induced Earthquakes |
3rd--Letter from Organization
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Quan Huynh, Marek Raynal | Woodson High School | A Model of Risk for Cesarean Delivery Based on Maternal Comorbidities |
HM--Letter from Organization
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Annette Paik | Woodson High School | Unhealthy Food Consumption is a Driver of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Mortality in the U.S. |
HM--Letter from Organization
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Shrey Desai | Marshall High School | Drought Shield: A machine learning-based approach to drought forecasting using remote sensing data |
HM--Letter from Organization
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Ryan Kim | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Hybrid Quantum-Classical Machine Learning for Dementia Detection |
Yale Science and Engineering Association
Award | Student | School | Project Title |
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Most Outstanding Exhibit in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics--Certificate and Medallion
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Neha Chandran, Srimaye Peddinti | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Linear Polarization-based Entanglement of a Single Photon, 2-Qubit Spatial Mode System |