Please congratulate ALL students who competed at WSSEF - everyone worked so hard and deserves to be commended. Thanks to the U.S. Department of Energy for going the extra mile to make the National Science Bowl happen, and congratulations to the team! The judges took a moment on Friday to say a few words to the top 10 teams. Anjali Sreenivas received a bid to ISEF and CSRSEF, Druhin Bhowal/Arihant Singhalso received an ISEF bid at CSRSEF, and Evan Kim and Harish Krishna Kumarreceived ISEF bids at WSSEF. And after making it through the first two rounds of testing, our junior Evan Kim will attend the camp from June 6-17. The list of their awards follows: I have never seen a group of students work so diligently to polish their presentations and strengthen their team work right up until judging time as this group. Ekaansh Agrawal From Advisors Ms. Ryfka Schafer and Dr. Melissa Wrenchey: So happy to report how our students are doing in the LWSD Teen Startup Competition to-date. Their team was specifically advised and helped through the administrative processes by their teacher Mr. Matthew Travis. Tesla STEM High School Committee Chair Position Descriptions ACT/SAT Prep Plan and organize SAT/ACT test prep and related activities. Tesla STEM High School For Students & Families Links to Skyward, online payments, FinalForms and more Peachjar Eflyers School and community flyers from non-profit, charitable and civic organizations. Congratulations also to Pranav Teegavarapu, Evan Kim, and Sami Badal Khan, who organized the event, hosted it, and wrote the questions. The competition was fierce, the answers were approximate and, in the end, the food and fame made it all worthwhile, especially for the winners: 2nd Place: Kshitij Rao, Andy Pham& Steven He, 3rd Place: Kedar Venkatachalam, Jai Sainani& Shiven Abhyankar. Both efforts are succeeding, so far. (They award one national winner, five regional winners, and honorable mentions per age level.). Normally, an invitational is held in-person at the hosting school, and while the TSHS team made every effort to host a joint event for both in-person and online competitors, the Omicron variant of COVID-19 forced the invitational to be online-only. ISEF is the world largest 9-12 science and engineering fair that typically represents 80+ different countries and students compete for millions of dollars' worth of prizes. I keep waiting, Druhin Bhowal, Individual Documentary Sowing the Seeds of Progress: The Green Revolution and its Unintended Consequences, Arihant Singh, Ethan Yu, Teddy Dong, Ziang Chen, William Gong, Group Documentary From Atrocities to Accountability: The Nuremberg Trials as a Frontier in International Justice, Cindy Yang, Individual Exhibit Crossing the Western Frontier: Chinese Labor on the Transcontinental Railroad, Nakul Rajpal,Individual Exhibit The Frontier of Redlining in Seattle, Brooke North,Prakshi Shukla,Group ExhibitWords Were Her Weapon: Ida B Wells and the Fight Against Lynching, Saachi Sharma,Samantha Novitski,Group Performance In the Wasatch Valley: A Historical Fight for Women's Rights, John Bannon,Research PaperThe Seattle Jazz Frontier: The Success of the African American Communityin Shaping the American Identity, Anson Chen,Research PaperTaking on the Titan: the Progressive Era Pioneers whoBrought Down Rockefellers Standard Oil. Digital Video Production: 1st Place - Prakriti Shukla and Charlotte Conze; 2nd Place - Parum Misri, Varun Wescott and Aditya Gottumukkala; 5th Place - Jasarjan Singh and Kion Bidari. Additionally, for the first time ever, Tesla STEM had a record 8 of the 16projects (50%) pulled for further judging inconsideration for beingan ISEF Finalist at WSSEF!! These same students are also the ones who are working with other students across our district to encourage neighboring high schools to start Economics Clubs. Our Science Olympiad team was formed last year and, after a couple of very encouraging results, the Washington regional and state events were canceled due to COVID (as were similar events for so many of our other organizations). Competing against students from around the region, STEMUN students demonstrated skills in diplomacy, negotiation, critical thinking, compromise, and public speaking. Please congratulate our young scholars who participated in the 62nd Annual Washington Science and Engineering Fair (WSSEF) at Bremerton High schoollast weekend. They present their work in a variety of formats, from historical papers to scripted performances. About 20% of the people who write the exam are selected for the next level, the National Astronomy Competition (NAC). AashrayChegu Vijay. Washington State is very competitive and they might not win every year, but I am confident that they will have friendship, kindness, support, samosas, and Can-Am pizza for years to come. Since school began, the Tesla STEM Science Olympiad team has participated in four invitational events: I have listed the event and individual winners below. 4thplace Charlotte Conze, Ria Rajan, Introduction to Business Presentation: ree Tesla STEM students participated in the Washington State National History Day contest in an attempt to qualify for the National competition in June. The Exhibit, on the subject of the first African Americans hired at Boeing is titled, Forming New Frontiers in Seattle: The Debate for Fair Employment at Boeing from 1935 1949, Senior Group Documentary:William Gong, Teddy Dong, Ethan Yu, Arihant Singh and Ziang Chen, Their Documentary is titled, A Welcome Beacon in the Dark Night: How Debate and Diplomacy in Czechoslovakia Sparked the Passage of the Marshall Plan, Title of his Paper: Lines in the Sand; Failures and Consequences of the Partition of the Ottoman Empire. 32 teams competed in the State Tournament of the Science Olympiad. Congratulate (and wish good luck) to: TheAmerican Mathematics Competitions(AMC)is the first of a series of three challenging competitions in high schoolmathematicsthat determine the United States team for theInternational Mathematical Olympiad(IMO). Unlike many teachers, including many at Tesla STEM, Allender requires science fair participation for her STEM lab concentration class. 11) finished 1st in the Senior Individual Documentary category with her work on female animators at Walt Disney Studios, and Anusha Srivastava and Esther Wang (gr. On Saturday April 30, the Washington State National History Day competition washeld at Lake Washington High School with over 500 students in attendance. 1st place and qualify for Nationals, also won $100 award for best use of local archives. Students at ISEFare awarded the opportunity to showcase their independent research and compete for on average$5 million in prizes. She won with her watercolor piece titled, "The Suffering of the Great". Please congratulate these students: This past Saturday (March 4) was the Regional National History Day competition, held at Evergreen Middle school, and attended by 23 of our students who produced 12 different projects. Wehadtwostudents take home ISEF bids and place in the top six best projectsof the whole fair and they will begoing to Phoenixfor the International Science and Engineering Fair in May. Registration for the 2021-2022 Wharton Global High School Investment Competition begins June 1! I have no doubt that what happened in the last 24 hours before the competition produced several of our first place awards. It truly is a team effort to help these students accomplish such amazing research. This year we had 18 students from the math club participated in the AMC, 6 students qualify for AIME (top 10%), and 3 students were awarded the Certificate of Distinction which signifies that they were in the top 5% nationally. Computational Analysis of Methanogen Metabolism Processes in Autotrophic Cyanobacteria for Carbon-Neutral Photosynthetic Methane Production. The competition was deliberately difficult and featured 40 of the best teams in the country. 6thplace Anisha Karnik, Prakriti Shukla and Alexa Wirth, Desired. They compete in groups or 2 or 3 in every event. Our scholars conducted themselves maturely and played their matches very well. Driving 4301 228th Ave NE, Redmond, WA 98053, Contact Webmaster 1stplace Nathan Apfel, Spring Chenjp, An Doan and Oleg Ianchenko. Activities - Tesla STEM High Tesla STEM High School Home > Activities Activities 2022-23 Awards 2022 International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics American Mathematics Competition Regeneron Science Talent Search Finalist! Once details are worked out, she and a parent will be flown to Washington, DC, to attend a winner's reception. While everyone was well prepared and did an amazing job, some students were chosen by the judges to be highlighted. Im Sami and my favorite scientist is Wolfgang Pauli. Please congratulateYuchen Li,Aashray,Maxwell Soh, andAtharv Dixit. I dont know if we will ever be able to replicate this success again. All of our scholars brought their best work to their events and made their school proud. 4thplace Samarjit Kaushik, Aran Punniamoorthy, Shrey Srivastava, Social Media Campaign: The team conducted itself well, workingtogether to solve problems under extreme time pressure, and sharingthe burden of sitting out (since only 4 out of 5 get to play at one time). It is important to note that while ISEF bids are incredibly note-worthy, so are ALL research projects that students completed across the board during their junior year. 3rdplace Adi Gottumukkala, Samarjit Kaushik and Saanav Somani, Public Service Announcement: I am very grateful to Matt Travis, who once again has helped chaperone the trip this year. 5thplace Syed Aamir, Vinayak Ajmera, and Azhan Zaheer, Internship Program at Tesla. To put it in perspective, the series of examinations started with roughly 160,000 students taking the AMC, then only 6500 students qualified to take the AIME, and now these 3 are in the rare company of only 558 participants invited to take the USAMO. Utilizing Homovanillic Acid and Monoclonal Antibodies as a Novel Diagnostic Method for Schizophrenia and Parkinson's Diagnosis, Rishi Kavikondala, Rayan Krishnan and Sashwatha Shankar. Team 3, consisting of Colin Xie, Danyuan Wang, Vignesh Srinivasan, Anshu Aggarwal, and Arihant Singh, finished in the Top 12. If you see the following students please congratulate them: Kevin Zhang Certificate of Distinction (top 5%), Evan Kim Certificate of Distinction (top 5%), Sebastian Kumar Certificate of Distinction (top 5%). Pacific Northwest Regional High School Science Bowl, Please congratulate our young scholars who participated in the 62nd Annual Washington Science and Engineering Fair (. ) Please congratulate our young scholars who participated in the 65th Annual Washington Science and Engineering Fair (WSSEF) which was held remotely on Saturday and Sunday, March 26-27 as well a second round of finalist judging on April 2nd. Board Games: 4th place- Team of Shubhu Purohit, Aditya Balasubramanian, Rohan Anand, Yash Kulkarni, Aakash Ramachandran, Childrens Stories 4th place: QingHui Xie, Annie Denton, CAD 3D Engineering 3rd place Maxwell Wang, Engineering Design 3rd place-Team of Kevin Yap, Laila Kuhn, Rudy Banjeree, Annie Denton, 2nd place-Team of Dharini Sribalaskandarajah, Sashu Shankar and Ila Sharma, 1st place-Team of Jakob Bjorner, Devesh Sarda, Anirudh Iyer, Sebastian Wick and Mathias Foster, Fashion Design 2nd place-Team of Tichada Tantasirikorn and Annie Denton, Future Technology Teacher 1st place Samarjit Kaushik, Music Production 4th place-Amrutha Srikanth and Rachel Alwin, Robotics Challenge 2nd place Team of Brian Yao and Aakash Ramachandran, Software Development 3rd place Team of Aakash Ramachandran, Surya Gorantla, Varun Venkatesh, Aditi Balasubramanian, Devesh Sarda and Pranav Sukumar, Structural Engineering 3rd place-Team of Lahari Nidadavolu and Jakob Bjorner, Webmaster 4th place-Team of Mathias Foster, Akshay Murthy, Tristan Stevens, Ranveer Thind, Extemporaneous Speech 4th place-Ranveer Thind, Technology Problem Solving 1st place-Team of Tristan Stevens and Maxwell Wang, VEX Robotics 2nd place-Team of Tristan Stevens, Mathias Foster and Maxwell Wang, 1st place-Team of Brian Yao and Aakash Ramachandran. The AMC is one of the largest mathematics competitions in the nation with roughly 160,000 students participating, and we spend most of the year in math club preparing for it. These teams are performing well across all events, with impressive results. In 2018, Tesla STEM High School students won recognition across multiple competition categories in each of the three challenges: the Itron Food, Energy, and Water Challenge; the Boeing Aerospace and Transportation Challenge; and the McKinstry Built Environment Challenge. Last week was the FBLA State Business Leadership Conference. STEM had their best year at Nationals last week. University of Georgia Science Olympiad (UGASO) (14 November 2020): Anatomy: 6th place, Rohan Iyer & Anjali Sreenivas, Astronomy: 1st place, Evan Kim & Yuchen Li, Chem Lab: 5th place, Saketh Dhulipalla & Yuchen Li, Circuit Lab: 3rd place, Evan Kim & Aayush Sheth, Codebusters: 8th place, Aayush Sheth, Phillip Araujo & Sahith Gorty, Designer Genes: 3rd place, Nikhil Mehta & Rohan Iyer, Disease Detectives: 3rd place, Maxwell Soh & Anjali Sreenivas, Dynamic Planet: 2nd place, Yuchen Li & Atharv Dixit, Fossils: 3rd place, Yuchen Li & Atharv Dixit, Machines: 6th place, Evan Kim & Aaditya Prasad, Ornithology: 6th place, Nikhil Mehta & Rohan Iyer, Protein Modeling: 3rd place, Rohan Iyer, Saketh Dhulipalla & Maxwell Soh, Sounds of Music: 4th place, Evan Kim & Phillip Araujo, Water Quality: 7th place, Maxwell Soh & Nikhil Mehta. Furthermore, of the 12 bids available to our students to go to ISEF, our students at T-STEM secured 50% of those spots!! Each group will receive a $100 gift card from Amazon. 10thplace Eesha Kunisetty, Keerthana Pilla, Divya Singh and Emily Zhao, Only the top 10% of AMC scores in the nation are invited. Two of those pieces of work qualified for the National competition, held at the University of Maryland, June 11-15. The last stage is the US Physics Team Training camp, where the top-20 scorers on the USAPhO are flown out to the University of Maryland for 10 days of grueling tests, lectures, and labs to determine the final 5. On 16 July 2020, the results for the FBLA National Leadership Experience were published. Congratulations toSiddhant Porwal and Druhin Bhowal, who were theWashington State High School Winners for the ArcGIS Online Competition for 2022! And, unlike the tech colossus nearby, the "Choice" school's just in its startup stage. It truly is a team effort to help these students accomplish such amazing research. The Company does not discriminate in any programs or activities on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender expression or . Introduction to Financial Math: 3rd Place - Siddhant Porwal; Introduction to Information Technology: 1st Place - Michael Yu; Organizational Leadership: 3rd Place Vani Daryani; Parliamentary Procedure: 1st Place - Team of Oleg Ianchenko, An Doan, Nathan Apfel, Spring Chenjp; 2nd Place - Team of Deveshi Thakur, Emily Zhao, Jessica Singh, Keerthana Pilla, For the first time ever, the Central Sound Regional Science and Engineering Fair (CSRSEF) was canceled, the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) has been canceled, and the Washington State Science and Engineering Fair (WSSEF) was held remotely via GoToMeeting. More than 250 students from 22 middle school teams across the country participated in this event, including LWSD teams from Redmond, and International Community School, and Evergreen middle schools, as well as teams from California, Michigan, and Alabama. The Congressional Art Competition began in 1982 as an opportunity for members of Congress to recognize and celebrate the artistic talents of their young constituents. They broke the 4 year winning streak of the previous winners, 1st Place Dharini Sribalaskandarajah, Ila Sharma, Sashwatha Shankar in Engineering Design, 6th place Biotechnology Victoria Alkin, Kushal Kedia, Jadrian Png, Thalia Tsai, Akshay Murthy won 9th place for Promotional Design. The following students received the followingawards: 1stplace:Prisha Agarwal,Self-esteem and Social Anxiety of South Asian Adolescents with Varying Acne Severity*, 2nd place: Pranay Nookala and Tejas Pakalapati, EEG-analysis of Brain Activity in Individuals with Varying Levels of Social Media Usage*, 3rdplace: Samantha Novitski, The Relationship Between Different Genres of Media Consumed to Burnout Symptoms Reported, 4thplace:Saachi Sharma,Quantifying Depression: An art-based approach to reducing the self-report bias in diagnosing depression using Koch's Baum Test and color theory, Biomedical Engineering and Translational Health, 3rd place: Mitra Junu, Pollen Coated Microneedle Patch to Desensitize Patients to Pollen Allergies Using Immunotherapy, 4th place:Anushka (Annie) Adhikary, NEURAID: Identification of Postnatal Presymptomatic Neuroimaging Biomarkers for Autism Through Recurrent Neural Network-Based Image Analysis of Functional and Structural T1 MRI Data Towards Enhanced Autism Diagnosis, Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (COMP), 2nd place:Shivani Sama*, Reconnect: A Computational Approach to Using DBS to Combat Neurodegenerative Disease Through Induced Plasticity, 2nd place: Aditi Kalluru*, Impact of Vitamin C on Chemically Induced Mouse Tumor Cells of Squamous Cell Carcinoma, 3rd place:Eshaal Omar, Evaluation of horse discomfort in English and Western riding style tack, Environmental Sciences and Technology, Energy, Math & Design, 2nd place: Sophia Callo,Red Light for Sleep Quality and Performance in Gymnasts, 3rd place:Divij Aswinkumar, Using Machine Learning to Predict the Power Conversion Efficiency of Perovskite Solar Cells, 4th place:Aaryan Dhingra, Mycoremediation: Employing Aspergillus Niger to Remove Aluminum Ions From Soil Contaminated With Coal Incineration Fly Ash, 3rd place:Willem Magee, Predicting PM2.5 Concentrations using Meteorological Data, 4th place:Saraswathy Amjith, A Novel Multimodal Approach to Illegal Logging Detection, 1st place: Nikki Taleghani*, Carbon Dot and Cyanoacrylate Fuming Method for Latent Fingerprint Detection, 3rd place:Yutaro Urata, Generating Novel Bioplastics Using GAN, 4th place:Shriya Tiku, Ham Radio Antenna Communication Set-up for First Responder Communication during Disaster Relief, 2nd place: Nikhar Khamesra, Bio-flocculants in Microplastic Water Filtration, 2nd place: Ansh Bayappu*, An Everting Vine Robot with a Pneumatic Soft Gripper, 3rd place: John Karaca, Ensemble-Based Learning Model for Deepfake Detection, 4th place: Srikrishna Gurumurthy, Development of a Machine Learning Model To Predict the Presence of Advanced Liver Fibrosis in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, 2nd place: Krish Katre*, Virtual Reality for ADHD: Using Technology to Enhance Learning and Attention, 4thplace: Anisha Vaish,Automated Pill-Dispenser to Improve Medication Compliance Efficiency and Accuracy. Two students scored in the top 10% of all students taking the exam, and qualified for Semifinals which will take place on 3/21: We all congratulate them on making it this far! The Tesla STEM Science Bowl Team competed in the Pacific Northwest Regional Science Bowl on February 27, 2021. Ive attached a few pictures from the STEM Expo here, and I have extra programs (designed by recently graduated seniors, Katie Chan and Jasmine Ku) in a box in my mailbox if you want one! Each high school may send a maximum of two qualifying teams to the State Tournament; each state may send only one team to the National Science Olympiad. Im Evan Kim and my favorite scientist is Peter Saxby.. TheLake Washington School District does not discriminate in any programs or activities on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. Business Law: 1st Place - Deepayan Sanyal; Computer Problem Solving: 2nd Place - Michael Yu; Healthcare Administration: 2nd Place - Rohit Gupta. From instructor and advisor Ms. Kate Allender: Please congratulate our Tesla STEM scholars on a tremendous showing atCSRSEF over the weekend of March 11-12, which was a hybrid event. If he makes it through training camp, he'll represent the US at the 2022 Virtual IPhO! There are so many creative, talented young people in our region which always makes the art competition an exciting experience, said DelBene. There were 8 different projects, including research papers, documentaries, exhibits and a performance, and all but 2 of those made the finals round of judging. Ananya Soni: 10th Grade 6thplace An Doan, Shrey Srivastava and Claire Yang, He flew kids home from Atlanta then turned around the next day and flew to Baltimore. School Schedules overview - Tesla STEM High. This team, Eva Jain, Danyuan Wang, Shuhui Yang, Aakarsh Balla, and Johan Karukayil, was the only third team to advance to the round of 7 teams (the quarterfinals). Room 217 Yogi Sunkara. In this cross-curricular STEM and language arts lesson, students learn about planets, stars and space missions and write STEM-inspired poetry to share their knowledge of or inspiration about these topics. The Rise of Science Fairs (And Why They Matter) | ParentMap The challenge occurred from September 2020 to January 19, 2021. College Planning Timeline and Activities by Grade Level 9th and 10th Grade 11th Grade 12th Grade ACT/SAT Prep & Registration SAT/ACT Prep Timelines and Registration Overview Of the 9 spots available to our students to go to ISEF, our students at T-STEM secured 1/3 of those!! The highest honor is Outstanding Delegate, achieved by two STEM Seniors and club officers: Neav Topaz (STEMUN President) and Patrick Mao (STEMUN Technology Officer.) Wesley Lu The following students received Honorable Mention awards for the Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision contest. This STEM School in Redmond Is One of the Country's Best And a huge thank you to Andrew Taylor for helping me chaperone both conferences. Claire Cho wrote a research paper titled World War I: Breaking and Remaking Barriers to War and finished 5th in the State competition. The next round is the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME). The top two entries in each of 5 categories at the State contestgo on to the National competition. Outside of Science Bowl, he is an avid science olympian, International Earth Science Olympiad gold medalist, mineral collector (@yl.min4), and clarinetist. 6th place Business Ethics Ila Sharma, Aashna Sheth and Amrita Narahamsin And of course, no judging experience is flawless, and there were some exceptional student projects which did not receive their due accolades, in my opinion. ALL of my students wrote compelling, well articulated letters that blew me away. The maturity level, the thoughtfulness and the amount of time and effort for each of you to do that on top of your studies as a high school student really is impressive., Added Aquino: You are already way ahead of the curve. Our students will be competing against the top mathematical teen minds in the country. Last month we had 15 students participate in the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME), and we just got our results back. Regeneron Science Talent Search Finalist! Congratulations to Maxwell Soh, Matthew Lam, Aadi Dalia, and Muhammad Masood, as they competed in the National History Bee and Bowl Competition that strives to promote history education throughout the United States and around the world. Please congratulate these students when you see them around. Our teams won medals for finishing in the Top 5, as follows: Astronomy: Evan Kim & Yuchen Li, 1st(Green), Harish Krishnakumar & Annanya Unnikrishnan, 4th (Magenta), Bridge: Marcin Anforowicz & Abhiram Yakkali, 4th (Magenta), Cell Biology: Rohan Iyer & Maxwell Soh, 1st(Green), Chemistry Lab: Sebi Kumar & Sami Badal Khan, 1st(Green), Code Analysis: Evan Kim & Aayush Sheth, 3rd(Green), Codebusters: Phillip Araujo, Aayush Sheth & Olivia Wang, 3rd (Green). Maybe some day they will thank you when they are giving their acceptance speech at the Oscars. 1st place:Madison Messina and Eden Netz,Assessing the Effects of Posting Publicly on Social Media in Correlation to Anxious Sleep Patterns in Teenagers, 2nd place: Roshni Srikanth, App to Improve the Mental Health of Refugees, 3rd place: Rachel Alwan and Anika Ghelani, A Behavioral and Neurophysiological Analysis of False Memories, Honorable Mention:Marton Teichner, Investigating the Effects of Education on the Impact of Astroturfing, Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Microbiology (CELL), 1st place:Mirra Chinta,Synergism or Antagonism between Docetaxel and Finasteride in Prostate Cancer Model, 2nd place: Anusha Srivastava, Assessing the Apoptotic Effect of the Bacteriocin Nisin on Metastatic Breast Cancer Cell Viability, 3rd place: Aditi Ekbote and Vidhi Jain, Drug Combinations with Antibiotics and Curcumin to Combat Antibiotic Drug Resistance, 3rdplace:Nitisha Gautam Arundhati (Diya) Basu,Genomic Differences Between E-cigarette Vapor and Cigarette Smoke and its Relation to Tumor Growth, Biomedical and Health Sciences(BMED), Translational Medicine (TMED), 1st place: Aditi Subramanyam, Identifying TEAD Proteins and Disrupting the YAP1/TEAD Complex to Inhibit Oncogenic YAP1 Fusion Proteins, Honorable Mention: Anirudh Iyer, Analyzing miRNA Expression in Glioblastoma Patients to Identify Candidate Markers, Chemistry; Chemical Energy; Material Sciences(Chem), 3rd place: Mintra Frazzini, Engineering Environmentally Friendly Sunscreen Using Metal Organic Frameworks, Honorable Mention:Saketh Dhulipalla and Yuchen Li, Access to Clean Potable Water Via Fog Harvesting, Software Systems;Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (COMP), Honorable Mention:Sunya Mohammed, Implementing Eye-Tracking Technology for the Advancement of Driver Training, Animal Sciences; Plant Sciences;Earth and Environmental Sciences (ERTH), 2nd place: Annie Denton,Forecasting the Effects of Climate Change on the Distribution of the Pacific Sideband Snail, 3rd place:Elisabeth Berger, Powering a Solid State Fermenter with Compost Cogeneration To Produce Spores for Use as a Myopesticide, 1stplace: Romanpreet Kaur,Menstrual Hygiene Period, 3rd place: Max Reisman, Solar Desalination System Utilizing Salt-Rejecting and Solar Absorber Technology for Quick and Efficient Technology, Honorable Mention:Kishan Baliga,Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Data to Create a Machine Learning Algorithm Capable of Identifying Oil Spills, Physics;Mathematics; Physical Energy; Embedded Systems (Phys), Honorable Mention:Akshay Murthy,Greet Sense: A Facial Recognition and Obstacle Detection Device for the Visually- Impaired and Blind, 2nd place: Tristan Stevens and Maxell Wang,Using a Bi-Layer Geogrid System to Decrease Vertical Stress and Deflection of Pavement Applications, 2nd place: Mathias Foster, Development of a Perpetual Solar-Powered Blimp to Aid Urban Search and Rescue, InspiringExcellence in Scientific Research:Roshni Srikanth,App to Improve the Mental Health of Refugees, American Psychological Association (APA) Award:Madison Messina and Eden Netz,Assessing the Effects of Posting Publicly on Social Media in Correlation to Anxious Sleep Patterns in Teenagers, Materials Science special categoryAward:Mintra Frazzini,Engineering Environmentally Friendly Sunscreen Using Metal Organic Frameworks, Excellence in bacteria research-environmental scienceAward:Anusha Srivastava,Assessing the Apoptotic Effect of the Bacteriocin Nisin on Metastatic Breast Cancer Cell Viability, WSSEF Award:Akshay Murthy,Greet Sense: A Facial Recognition and Obstacle Detection Device for the Visually- Impaired and Blind, American Chemical Society (ACS) Prize:Mintra Frazzini,Engineering Environmentally Friendly Sunscreen Using Metal Organic Frameworks, American Institute for Aeronautics and AstronauticsAward:Mathias Foster,Development of a Perpetual Solar-Powered Blimp to Aid Urban Search and Rescue, SupernovaAwards:Isha Murali, Exploration into Analyzing the Auditory Cortex in Relation to Attention as Measured by Alpha Waves, Parbeen Sekhon and Rhea Shinde, Setting Minutiae Standards in Forensic Odontology, Kristin Acheson, The Effects of Ascorbic Acid on the Binding of Collagen and Tannins, Tarini Srikanth, Modeling Potential Drug to Drug Interactions Targeted Towards Cardiovascular Systems, Manasvini Calmidi, Determining the Salt Concentration of Irrigation Water for Trichoderma to Confer Salt Tolerant Oryza sativa Plants, Marko Milovanovic and Denis Chelan, Water Purification Via Hand-Powered Pump, Ricoh Sustainable Environmental ScienceAward:Elisabeth Berger,Powering a Solid State Fermenter with Compost Cogeneration To Produce Spores for Use as a Myopesticide, Office of Naval Science ResearchAward:Sunya Mohammed,Implementing Eye-Tracking Technology for the Advancement of Driver Training.