Arizona

Chandler

Ramakrishna, Smitha (Corona del Sol High School)
Analysis of the Chemical and Biological Degradation of Sucralose in Synthetic Wastewater

California

Cupertino

Deshmukh, Aniruddha Sandeep (Bellarmine College Preparatory School)
Revitalizing the Coastal Sage Scrub Ecosystem in Response to Cyanide Accumulation from High Intensity Wildfires

Fremont

Mao, Marianna Yuling (Mission San Jose High School)
Gravitational Radiation from Encounters with Compact Binaries in Globular Clusters

Fresno

Tripuraneni, Nilesh (Clovis West High School)
A Relativistic Generalization of the Navier-Stokes Equations to Quark-Gluon Plasmas

Irvine

Lakhanpal, Nitish (University High School)
An Investigation into the Folding of Beta Structures in a Class of Pathologically-Relevant Proteins: Computational Prediction of Secondary and Super-Secondary Structure from Primary Amino Acid Sequence

Menlo Park

Ransohoff, Julia Dory (Menlo Atherton High School)
The Gender Divide: Does Donor Gender Matter for Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation?

Connecticut

Glastonbury

Rajagopalan, Aditya (Choate Rosemary Hall)
Modeling Synergistic Cellulolytic-Hemicellulolytic Enzyme Complexes for Lignocellulosic Hydrolysis

Florida

Wimauma

Rabinovich, Maxim (Shorecrest Preparatory School)
The Scaling Limit of a Generalized Divisible Sandpile Model

Illinois

Chicago

Rao, Elizabeth Jie (Lincoln Park High School)
Building an Animal Model for Neurodegenerative Disease, Top-43 Proteinopathy

Naperville

Shyu, Eric (Illinois Mathematics & Science Academy)
Luminescent Cadmium Coordination Polymers with Diverse Structural Morphologies Constructed from Dicarboxylate and 4,4'-Dipyridylamine Ligands

Massachusetts

Lexington

Arbesfeld, Noah Maxwell (Lexington High School)
On the Structure of Lower Central Series Quotients of a Free Associative Algebra

Minnesota

Chaska

Trusheim, Stephen Walter (Breck School)
Designing and Validating Novel Infection-Surveillance Methods for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Edina

Cherkassky, Michael Sheng (Edina High School)
Application of Machine Learning Methods to Medical Diagnosis

Missouri

Chesterfield

Sun, William Jayang (Parkway Central High School)
Characterization of Golgicide A, a Highly Selective Novel Small-Molecule Inhibitor of Intracellular Transport Pathways

New Jersey

Livingston

Kratchmarov, Radomir (Livingston High School)
Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Nibbling and Maturation: A Novel Mechanism Linking Innate and Adaptive Immunity

Millburn

Metsky, Hayden Craig (Millburn High School)
Improving Statistical Machine Translation through Template-based Phrase-table Extensions

Tenafly

Chen, Doris (Tenafly High School)
MHBD: A Key Factor for Neuronal Survival in Parkinson's Disease

New York

Brooklyn

Sealfon, Adam Benjamin (Stuyvesant High School)
Complexity Gap between Adaptive and Nonadaptive Algorithms for Property Testing of Hypergraphs

Flushing

Li, Josepher (Bronx High School of Science)
Developing Molecular Markers for the Unfolded Protein Response

Katonah

Greene, Abigail Sara (John Jay High School)
The Inversion Effect and Acquired Facial Recognition Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease: Functional Analogs

New York

Chuang, Jocelyn (Bronx High School of Science)
Interaction of BDNF Gene and Hormones on Anxiety

Oakland Gardens

Mak, Anissa Yuenming (Stuyvesant High School)
A Certifying Algorithm for the Modular Decomposition of Undirected Graphs

Roslyn

Jurman, Chelsea Lynn (Roslyn High School)
Your Children May Pay More Attention than You Think: The Link between Teens' Perceptions of Parent Alcohol Use and Monitoring and Teen Alcohol Use and Acceptance

Setauket

Shah, Preya (Ward Melville High School)
Combating Cancer: Design and Synthesis of Dual-Warhead Tumor-Targeting Drug Conjugates

Shrock, Christine Lee (Ward Melville High School)
Effects of Lid Dynamics on the Binding of MDM2 to the Tumor Suppressor Protein p53: Implications for Cancer Therapeutics

Smithtown

Abejar, Patrick Jeffrey (Smithtown High School West)
Utilizing Boron Isotopic Secular Variation as a Proxy to Assess Climate Change

Ohio

Cleveland Heights

Coquillette, Elizabeth Charlotte (Hathaway Brown School)
Autonomous Human-Seeking Robot

Mason

Zhan, Tong (William Mason High School)
On Rainbow Solutions to Equations with Quadratic Terms

Rocky River

Mann, Caitlin Maureen (Hathaway Brown School)
The Development of a Method for the Detection of Creatine Kinase Using Micro Electrochemical Biosensors to Aid in the Diagnosis of Muscular Damage and Disease

Oklahoma

Bartlesville

Carvell, Melissa Nicole (Bartlesville High School)
Science Thwarts Insurgents, Part II: Improvements in Ceramic Armor Systems Design Using Composites for Tensile Reinforcement in Ceramic Plates

Oregon

Eugene

Larson, Eric Kerner (South Eugene High School)
The Classification of Certain Fusion Categories

Portland

Loy, Michael (Oregon Episcopal School)
Developing a Novel pH Buffer Methodology to Inhibit Concrete Corrosion

Pennsylvania

Audubon

Song, Janet (Methacton High School)
Development of a Urine Test for the Early Detection of Cancer

Texas

Denton

Chyan, Wen (Texas Academy of Mathematics & Science)
Versatile Antimicrobial Coatings from Pulse Plasma Deposited Hydrogels and Hydrogel Composites

Woodlands

Wham, Michael Tyler (Sterling Ridge Home School)
Computer-Assisted Analysis of Red-cockaded Woodpecker Vocalizations

Virginia

Burke

Tallapragada, Narendra Pundarik (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology)
Determining the Dielectric Function for Crystalline Solids from the "Bottom Up", Using Atomic, Ionic, and Molecular Properties

Fairfax

Kim, Alexander Mee-Woong (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology)
Morphological and Molecular Phylogeography of a Giant American River Prawn, Macrobrachium carcinus

Wisconsin

Madison

Farfan, Gabriela Aylin (West High School)
Micro- and Nano- Inclusions in Calcic Labradorite from the Dust Devil Mine, Oregon

Gunasekaran, Suvai (James Madison Memorial High School)
A New Approach to Biofilm Inhibition: Incorporation and Controlled Release of Synthetic N-Acylated Homoserine Lactone Compounds from Surfaces

Platteville

Streich, Philip Vidal (Home School)
Determining, Quantifying, and Maximizing Carbon Nanotubes' Thermodynamic Solubility: The Missing Link to Practical Supermaterials and Maximizing Solubilities in General