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
1st--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition; Drone
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Joseph Tso Woodson High School V-MODE: Virtualized Microgrids for Optimizing Distributed Energy
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
Madeleine Ahrens Madison High School The Effect of Different Ion Thruster Designs on Thrust Production
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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
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
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
Nathan Vailikit Woodson High School Image Noise and Sub-Exposure Length in Astrophotography
Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition
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
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
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
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
AAUW McLean Area Branch STEM Excellence Award--Certificate, $100, and Invitation to May Luncheon
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
1st--Certificate and $300
Darren Nguyen Edison High School The Effect of Propeller Pitch on Sound
2nd--Certificate and $200
Shriya Jaddu Langley High School SeizAlert: A Deep Learning Powered System for Pre-Ictal Seizure Prediction
3rd--Certificate and $100
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
1st--Student membership in the AIAA, opportunity to attend NASA Goddard Space Experience, and $25
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
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
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
John Gundlach, Jackson Wedige Robinson Secondary School Stealth - A Material Approach

American Nuclear Society (DC-ANS)

Award Students School Project Title
1st--Certificate and $100 check
Mihika Dusad Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Solving the Admissibility Problem: Radon Algorithms to Minimize Radiation
2nd--Certificate and $75 check
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
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
Certificate and one-year complimentary student membership in APA
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
1st--Certificate and $20 Amazon Gift Card
Shumvobi Mitra Langley High School Detecting and Degrading Formaldehyde using Synthetic Biology and Engineering Techniques
2nd--Certificate and $15 Amazon gift card
Rohit Kamath Madison High School Hierarchical Prediction of Antibiotic Resistance in Neisseria Gonorrohea
3rd--Certificate and $10 Amazon gift card
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
Madeline Levorson Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Discovery of Medically Important Lytic Bacteriophages from the Environment
Honorable Mention--Certificate
Agata Colon Edison High School CHG Concentration's Effect on Bacterial Growth

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Award Students School Project Title
1st Place--Excellence in Engineering Certificate, $100, and Invitation to Awards Dinner with Parent(s)/Guardian(s)
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)
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
Arjun Ganesan Centreville High School The Effect of Kinematic Sensors on the Accuracy of an Autonomous Robot
Honorable Mention--Excellence in Engineering Certificate
Madeleine Ahrens Madison High School The Effect of Different Ion Thruster Designs on Thrust Production
Honorable Mention--Excellence in Engineering Certificate
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
1st--Certificate and $200
Aayush Shivashankar Chantilly High School The Effect of Common Halogens (ppm) on the Phytoremediation Rate in Mycorrhizal Lemna minor
2nd--Certificate and $100
Maya Moses Woodson High School Wood Species and Water Purification: The Effect of Species of Wood on Xylem Water Filters
3rd--Certificate and $50
Labeed Zaib South Lakes High School The Spatial Correlation Analysis of Microplastics Concentrations in Northern Virginia Geographic Regions
Honorable Mention--Certificate
Aum Patel, Grayson White, Sydharth Pant Fairfax High School DIY Water Filter
Honorable Mention--Certificate
Sean Esen, Angelina Taimouri Falls Church High School The Effect of Water Purification Method on Bacterial Growth in Water
Honorable Mention--Certificate
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
1st--Certificate, Wildlife Trophy, and $50
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
Alexander Yu, Albert Zhu Oakton High School The Effect of Increasing Salinity on Daphnia magna Viability
3rd--Certificate, Wildlife Trophy, and $20
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
1st--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition
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
Victor Wang Marshall High School Impact of Electric Vehicle Adoption on Electricity Rates and Infrastructure
1st--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition
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
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
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
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
Jack Dova, Madison Pflug Mount Vernon High School The Design of Augmented Reality Translation Glasses
2nd Place--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition
Madison Pflug Mount Vernon High School The Design of Augmented Reality Translation Glasses
2nd Place--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition
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
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
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
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
Nathan Vailikit Woodson High School Image Noise and Sub-Exposure Length in Astrophotography
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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
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
Sara El-Ghazali Mount Vernon High School Sign Speak AI: ASL to Text Conversion
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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
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
Brennan McCulloch, Ritvik Kanchetty South Lakes High School Effect of Coil Count on Electromagnetic Motor RPM
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
Emma Cummings-Sulmistras Woodson High School Translating Nervous Energy into Electricity
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
Isabelle Ky, Riya Reddy South County High School The Effect of Blade Design on Wind Turbine Efficiency
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
Khang Nguyen Edison High School How the Number of Blades Affects the Efficiency of Wind Turbines
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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
Madeleine Ahrens Madison High School The Effect of Different Ion Thruster Designs on Thrust Production
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
Victoria Sun, Kaila Le Centreville High School The Efficiency of Energy Generated by Wind Turbines
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
Prithul Baveja, Roshan Ram, Nishanth Kolakalapudi Westfield High School Integrating Directional Command Interpretation and Dynamic Pathfinding in UAV
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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
Ryan Kim Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Hybrid Quantum-Classical Machine Learning for Dementia Detection
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
Miles Nousain Woodson High School The Effect of the Transformer Core on the Average Total Harmonic Distortion
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
Ethan Masci South Lakes High School The Effect of Time on the Frequency of a Ukulele String
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
Emmy Leong Marshall High School Demagnetizing Samarium Cobalt Magnets Through Exposure to an External Magnetic Field
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
Samantha Cowen Edison High School How Will Laser Color Affect Voltage Induced in a Conductor?
Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition
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
1st--Certificate and $200
Camille Jo Woodson High School Lactobacillus acidophilus Concentration Effectivity
2nd--Certificate and $100
Rachel DeWitt Fairfax High School Water Testing Using A Spectrometer
3rd--Certificate and $50 (split between team members)
Tyler Wang, Alex Kim, Kevin Kim Centreville High School The Detection of Replicative DNA in COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines
HM--Certificate
Meredith Andre, Charlie Meidlinger South Lakes High School The Effect of Catalase Temperature on Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide
HM--Certificate
Viraj Luthra Chantilly High School On the Synthesis of Hydroxyapatite from Eggshells
HM--Certificate
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
"Student Award of Geoscience Excellence"--Certificate
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
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
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
1st--Certificate and $100 Check
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)
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)
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)
Andine Boisseau, Juan Garcia South County High School The Effect of Caffeine on Daphnia

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Award Students School Project Title
1st Place--Certificate, Coin, and $100
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
NJ Borders, Connor Geraghty Woodson High School Deafblind Accessible Computers
1st Place- Certificate, Coin, and $100
Jack Dova, Madison Pflug Mount Vernon High School The Design of Augmented Reality Translation Glasses
Honorable Mention-- Certificate and Coin
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
William Lu Madison High School Bridging Data Gaps: An AI-Driven Approach for Generating Low-Income Fine-Scale Maps
Honorable Mention-- Certificate and Coin
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
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
1st--Certificate and $50 gift card
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
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
1st--Certificate and Swag Bag
Aaron Chen, Ashley Chen Oakton High School The Potential of Chlorophyll as an Eco-Friendly Power Source
2nd--Certificate and Swag Bag
Mia Ramos Woodson High School Effect of Aspergillus oryzae on Decomposition of Starch-Based Bioplastics
3rd--Certificate and Swag Bag
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
1st Distinguishing Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal
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
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
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
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
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
Sampurna Chakravorty Chantilly High School Harnessing AI for Medical Image Analysis
HM Meritorious Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal
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
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
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
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
Joseph Tso Woodson High School V-MODE: Virtualized Microgrids for Optimizing Distributed Energy
2nd--$75 gift card and Certificate
Thomas Sparling Oakton High School A Closed Loop Pumped Hydro-Power System vs. Commercial Batteries
HM--$50 gift card and Certificate
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
1st--Certificate, ribbon, and invitation to present at a Geological Society of Washington meeting in May
Wesley Kang Madison High School A Novel Mathematical Model To Predict Wastewater Induced Earthquakes
2nd--Certificate and ribbon
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
Rachel Ku Langley High School Drought Monitoring in the Horn of Africa with NASA MODIS ET and NDVI Products
HM--Certificate
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
1st--Certificate and Drone
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
1st Place--Certificate and GMU Swag Bag
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
1st in Technology Innovation--Certificate and $50
Danial Syed, Isabel Aysa-Lastra Hayfield Secondary School Robee: A Novel Autonomous Pollinator
2nd in Technology Excellence--Certificate and $50
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
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
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
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
NJ Borders, Connor Geraghty Woodson High School Deafblind Accessible Computers
3rd in Technology Achievement--Certificate
Jack Dova, Madison Pflug Mount Vernon High School The Design of Augmented Reality Translation Glasses

McGraw Hill

Award Students School Project Title
1st--Certificate and $50 Gift Card each
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
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
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
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
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
MIT Club of Washington DC Award of Excellence
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
Danial Syed, Isabel Aysa-Lastra Hayfield Secondary School Robee: A Novel Autonomous Pollinator
MIT Club of Washington DC Award of Excellence
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
Certificate and Invitation to a Webinar with NASA Scientist
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
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
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
Taking The Pulse of the Planet Award -- Certificate and Letter
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
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
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
1st--Certificate, $100 Gift Card, and 1-year NOVAC Membership
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
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
Nora French Madison High School The Effect of Propellant Ratio on the Efficiency of Solid Core Sugar Rockets
Honorable Mention; 1-year NOVAC Membership
Nathan Vailikit Woodson High School Image Noise and Sub-Exposure Length in Astrophotography
Honorable Mention; 1-year NOVAC Membership
Julia Sites, Amelia Johnson South County High School The Effect of Artificial Light on Skyglow
Honorable Mention; 1-year NOVAC Membership
Stephen Aiello, Rohan Gottesman Hayfield Secondary School Effect of Stellar Surface Temperature on the Color of a Star
Honorable Mention; 1-year NOVAC Membership
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
1st--Certificate of Merit and $100 Cash Award
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
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
Mia Solomon Marshall High School The Effects of Antioxidant and UV Radiation on Drosophila melanogaster Fertility
HM--Certificate of Merit
Jason Shin Oakton High School The Effect of Hydrogen Peroxide/Sodium Alginate Ice Balls on the Purification of Algae Water
HM--Certificate of Merit
Camille Jo Woodson High School Lactobacillus acidophilus Concentration Effectivity
HM--Certificate of Merit
Vittoria Garcia, Logan Lin, Lillian Ingraham South Lakes High School The Effect of Different Toothpastes on Teeth Whitening
HM--Certificate of Merit
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
1st--Certificate, Book: What If? by Randall Munroe, $100 gift card
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
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
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
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
$50 Gift Card, Certificate, and Medal
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
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
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
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
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
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
1st--Certificate and $100 gift card per team member
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Outstanding Achievement--Certificate
Rachel Dewitt Fairfax High School Water Testing Using A Spectrometer
Outstanding Achievement--Certificate
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
Samantha Cowen Edison High School How Will Laser Color Affect Voltage Induced in a Conductor?
Notable Achievement--Certificate
Marley Peterson Hayfield Secondary School Using Spectrophotometry for Dyeing Fabrics to Measure Absorption
Notable Achievement--Certificate
Nathan Vailikit Woodson High School Image Noise and Sub-Exposure Length in Astrophotography
Notable Achievement--Certificate
Sachika Mann, Griffith Knowlton South Lakes High School The Effect of Sugar Concentration on the Refractive Index
Notable Achievement--Certificate
Julia Sites, Amelia Johnson South County High School The Effect of Artificial Light on Skyglow
Notable Achievement--Certificate
Stephen Aiello, Rohan Gottesman Hayfield Secondary School Effect of Stellar Surface Temperature on the Color of a Star
Notable Achievement--Certificate
Chloe Leiterman Mount Vernon High School Proving Malus's Law

Patent and Trademark Office Society (PTO Society)

Award Students School Project Title
1st--Raspberry Pi Computer Kit and Certificate of Merit
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
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
Isha Joshi Langley High School ezPD: ez Parkinson's Disease Detection and Tracking Symptom Progression with a Mobile App
1st--Certificate of Merit
Maya Moses Woodson High School Wood Species and Water Purification: The Effect of Species of Wood on Xylem Water Filters
1st--Certificate of Merit
Wesley Kang Madison High School A Novel Mathematical Model To Predict Wastewater Induced Earthquakes
1st--Certificate of Merit
William Lu Madison High School Bridging Data Gaps: An AI-Driven Approach for Generating Low-Income Fine-Scale Maps
1st--Certificate of Merit
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
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
Alicia Yau McLean High School Is gravity a force? A study of gravity's force nature through biological entities
2nd--Certificate of Merit
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
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
Sean Esen, Angelina Taimouri Falls Church High School The Effect of Water Purification Method on Bacterial Growth in Water
Sustainable Development Award--Certificate
Emma McRobbie Woodson High School The Effectiveness of Retaining Wall Variations on Shoreline Preservation
Sustainable Development Award--Certificate
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
First Prize for Excellence in Mobility Engineering - Certificate and $100 Amazon Gift Card
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
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
Thomas Sparling Oakton High School A Closed Loop Pumped Hydro-Power System vs. Commercial Batteries

Seraphim Life Sciences

Award Students School Project Title
1st Place Outstanding Effort in Biomedical Science and Technology--$100 (split between team members)
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)
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
Certificate of Outstanding Achievement for Ability and Creativity in In Vitro Biology
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
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
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
Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card
Anna Olivares Mount Vernon High School The Effect of Varying Olaplex Application Time on Hair Tensile Strength
Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card
Sampurna Chakravorty Chantilly High School Harnessing AI for Medical Image Analysis
Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card
Samanvi Tummala Chantilly High School Rice-Cycle: Creating Biodegradable Starch-Based Materials from Rice Food Waste
Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card
Callie Liao McLean High School Multimodal Time Signature Determination for AI Generation of Original Music with Sentiment Analysis
Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card
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
Mia Ramos Woodson High School Effect of Aspergillus oryzae on Decomposition of Starch-Based Bioplastics
Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card
Shri Bala Falls Church High School Biomimetic Architecture: A Design Analysis of Hurricane-Resistant Residential Structures
Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card
Shumvobi Mitra Langley High School Detecting and Degrading Formaldehyde using Synthetic Biology and Engineering Techniques
Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card
Nora French Madison High School The Effect of Propellant Ratio on the Efficiency of Solid Core Sugar Rockets
Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card
Shriya Jaddu Langley High School SeizAlert: A Deep Learning Powered System for Pre-Ictal Seizure Prediction
Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card
Molly Hawkins Woodson High School The Effect of Chemically Modified SCGs on the Removal of Zinc from Water
Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card
Marley Peterson Hayfield Secondary School Using Spectrophotometry for Dyeing Fabrics to Measure Absorption
Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card
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
Jinzhu Cui Madison High School A New Fire Grid Management System: The Impact of Different Mathematical Models
Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card
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
Emma Cummings-Sulmistras Woodson High School Translating Nervous Energy into Electricity
Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card
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
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)
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)
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)
Taylor Jordan, Ella Pomaranski Hayfield Secondary School Dealing With Diabetes: Building an Artificial Pancreas
HM--Certificate
Gabrielle Convery Mount Vernon High School The Effect of Different Insects and the Reactions that they Receive from People
HM--Certificate
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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
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
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
Emma McRobbie Woodson High School The Effectiveness of Retaining Wall Variations on Shoreline Preservation

Virginia Water Environment Association (VWEA)

Award Students School Project Title
1st--Certificate, Entry into Virginia Stockholm Jr. Water Prize Competition, and $200
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
Wesley Kang Madison High School A Novel Mathematical Model To Predict Wastewater Induced Earthquakes

Washington Statistical Society (WSS)

Award Students School Project Title
1st--Letter from Organization
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
Wesley Kang Madison High School A Novel Mathematical Model To Predict Wastewater Induced Earthquakes
3rd--Letter from Organization
Quan Huynh, Marek Raynal Woodson High School A Model of Risk for Cesarean Delivery Based on Maternal Comorbidities
HM--Letter from Organization
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
Shrey Desai Marshall High School Drought Shield: A machine learning-based approach to drought forecasting using remote sensing data
HM--Letter from Organization
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
Most Outstanding Exhibit in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics--Certificate and Medallion
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