Please congratulate our your scholars who participated in the 62nd Annual Washington Science and Engineering Fair (WSSEF) at Bremerton High school last weekend. Impromptu Speaking: 1st Place - Siddharth Shende; Graphic Design: 3rd Place - Mikey Halim and Akshay Murthy; 5th Place - Karina Kejriwal, Divya Singh and Ameya Madhugiri, Word Processing: 3rd Place - Supriya Baskar, Business Calculations: 5th Place - Hrudai Thungathurthi, Business Communication: 2nd Place - Abhinav Diddee. You can see these awards and project titles listed below. All 40 finalists will be evaluated rigorously by judges to determine the top ten winners, competing for the top prize of $250,000. 1stplace: Cindy Chen, Facial and Emotional Recognition Among Caucasian and East Asian Adolescents, 2nd place: Aastha Shah,Evaluating the Relationship Between Stress and Impulsivity in a Mathematical Context, 3rdplace: Vijaya Sripada, Using Various Inputs of Smell to Reduce Depression Score in Alzheimer Patients, 4thplace:Praharsha Manda,Development of the Education Implicit Association Test (IAT), 1stplace:Rhea Kuppa, 3D Printing Bio-Inspired Heart Valves to Increase Efficiency of Perioperative Care, 2nd place:Aubrey Grove,Assessment of Yoga Therapy of Mindfulness-Based Therapy Interventions of Symptom Severity and Quality of life in a Cohort of Adults with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, 3rd place: David Gershony,Combatting Anxiety in Dental Offices Using Virtual Reality, 2ndplace: Edward Zhou,Dampening Phantom Shockware Jams in Mixed-Autonomy Traffic Via Deep-RL Control of Autonomous Vehicles, 1st place:Anjali Sreenivas,A Machine Learning Approach to Identifying Blood-Based Biomarkers for Differential Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease, 3rd place:Anya Vaish,Bioinformatic Analysis to Find a Universal Sequence from SARS-CoV-2 Genomes for the Potential Development of a Pancoronovirus Vaccine, 3rd place:Danyuan Wang,Using Machine Learning Methods to Estimate the Distribution of Harmful Invasive Phytoplankton, Chemistry, Earth, Environmental Sciences and Technology, 1stplace:Arihant Singh and Druhin Bhowal, It's Flaming Out: Using Artificial Intelligence to Emulate Critical Aspects of Wildfire Growth, 2nd place: Evan Kim,Utilizing a Generative Adversarial Network to Predict Hypothetical Superconductors, Biomedical, Molecular and Cellular Biology, 3rd place:Tanvi Sapar and Shivani Godse,Creating a Structural Model of SaSrtA-Inhibitor Complex to Predict Efficiency of Class A Sortase Enzyme Inhibitor Molecules, 1st place: Harish Krishnakumar,Analysis of Ring Galaxies Detected Using Deep Learning with Real and Simulated Data, 3rdplace: Anisha Vaish, Automated Pill-Dispenser to Improve Medication Compliance Efficiency and Accuracy, Regeneron Biomedical Sciences Award ($500):Anjali Sreenivas,A Machine Learning Approach to Identifying Blood-Based Biomarkers for Differential Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease, American Psychological Association (APA) Award:Karina Kejriwal, The Impact of Credibility When Hitting "Purchase Now", Materials Science special categoryAward:Evan Kim,Utilizing a Generative Adversarial Network to Predict Hypothetical Superconductors, American Meteorological Society Award:Suyash Mothukuri, Diagnosing Precipitation from IR Satellite Images, Stockholm Junior Water Prize:Siddhant Porwal,Predicting Waterfall Forms Through Feature Engineering and Model-Selection Machine Learning, Monisha Krothapalli, Engineering a Surface Flow Constructed Wetland to Evaluate Efficiency for Combatting Water Scarcity. Pranav Kannepalli Science Olympiad is a set of 23 events including biological, physical, chemical and earth sciences, as well as engineering, for teams of up to 15 students. Hats off to all the students who submitted an application from our school: Mehek Sathe, Adithya Vemulapalli, Josh Shergill, Leonardo Riberio de Brito, Alexander Potra, Mohammed Mendahawi, Saishree Devineni, Alex Mineeva, Hrudai Krishna Thungathurthi, Anisha Vaish! I'm a senior at Tesla STEM High School in Redmond, Washington interested in biomedical research and computer science. The team earned its place in NOSB by winning the ORCA Bowl, which is the regional ocean sciences bowl for Washington. https://globalyouth.wharton.upenn.edu/. Anika Ghelani ran and won the position for Washington State President Elect. Working off the same specifications, each team came up with something unique and creative. About 20% of the people who write the exam are selected for the next level, the National Astronomy Competition (NAC). The top team finished with 18.5. And a description of the program from Seattle Arts & Lectures is here: The Seattle Youth Poet Laureate (YPL) program aims to identify youth writers and leaders committed to poetry, performance, civic and community engagement, education, and equity across the Puget Soundregion. 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. at Bremerton High schoollast weekend. r/teslastem: Welcome to the best (and only) Subreddit for Tesla STEM High School! Eight teams from the Tesla STEM Economics Club, which was founded by Aayush Sheth and Maxwell Soh in 2020 and is advised by Mrs. Ryfka Schafer, competed in the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business Global Stock Market Challenge. This position begins July 1, 2023. . Twelve teams competed. The IOAA is an annual competition for the top astrophysics students from over 40 countries. All students selected as finalists will also be invited to be part of a year-long cohort of poets working together in workshops, on collaborative print projects, and at public readings. You can view the awards ceremony here. Emailwghs-invcomp@wharton.upenn.edu. We're very proud of all the students who attended. Anson Chen, Senior Historical Paper: Lines in the Sand: Failures and Consequences of the Partition of the Ottoman Empire (2nd Place), Alec Rothkowitz, Benjamin Moskalensky, Connor ORourke, David Soto, Senior Group Exhibit: Forming New Frontiers in Seattle: The Debate for Fair Employment in Boeing from 1935-1949. When you see these students, please congratulate them and the teachers that inspire them. 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. 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. There will be a special Awards Ceremony available to join online (same link as above):Sunday, June 12 10:00 AM-11:30 AM, 1st Place: Cameron Yetzer (art attached abovethe actual 3D sculpture is in my classroom ), Film 9th-12th Grade: (yes, we swept the category! This Saturday past (5 March 2022), several Tesla STEM students were judged on their entries at the East Puget Sound NHD Regional Competition and they did very well. 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. Home. 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. HOSA had an exceptional weekend at the State Leadership Conference in Spokane, WA. A huge thank you to Michael Ivers and Matt Travis for their help chaperoning. The highlight was winning the Best Large Delegation Award, which goes to the entire team. Two of the four entries took first place and qualify for the National Competition in June, which, sadly, will be entirely remote this year. Daniel Rashevsky took the top prize with his Map Story on Homelessness and his project was submitted to the national competition. The top four automatically qualify for the National conference, places 5 10 could potentially move up if the people who placed ahead of them dont go. 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. Anusha Srivastava and Esther Wang finished 2nd in the Senior Group Documentary category, with their piece titled,Unfulfilled Promise: Emerging Conflicts Between Zionists and Arab Nationalists Shaped by British Policy in Post WWI Palestine. 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. Places 1-3 will compete at the National competition this summer. And in the observational round, the most studied for round, contestants must identify various astronomical objects by sight, on both star charts and in the night sky. The following students who placed 1st - 4th have the opportunity to go to Nationals in Orlando, FL from June 21-24 this year: Biomedical Debate: Anna Vasyura, Larry Wang and Gautam Krishnamoorthy - 2nd place, Creative Problem Solving: Rishika Veeramachaneni, Sunya Mohammed and Anika Ghelani- 2nd place, Amulya Param, Anna Vasyura, Katie Chalmers - 5th place, Veterinary Science: Agata Skarbek - 2nd place, Extemporaneous Health Poster: Aimee Roseberry - 3rd place, Forensic Medicine: Bella Filippini and Rose Matta - 4th place, Health Career Display: Bella Filippini and Ashiana Dhanani - 3rd place, Public Health: Rahul Srivastava and Ashiana Dhanani - 1st place, Larry Wang, Anna Vasyura, Christine Pham and Caylynn Berosik - 5th place, Healthy Lifestyle: Claire Yang - 1st place, Prepared Spelling: Afeef Sheikh - 2nd place, Medical Innovation: Ayeshi and Reetika Kudallur- 3rd place, Behavioral Health, Knowledge test: Vaishnavi Phadnis - 1st place, Pathophysiology, Knowledge test: Varsha Veeramacheneni - 1st place, Nutrition, Knowledge test: Salil Kanade- 2nd place, Transcultural Healthcare, Knowledge test: Varsha Veeramacheneni - 1st. Congratulations to the followingstudents, who placed in the top 10% nationwide! You can see all the results of their division here:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13sWf3XgjRrGyfxNyV4YgYt5F3IJZ9l_W40ulqgLGccI/edit#gid=0. 2 Tesla STEM Scholars named to Top 300 in Regeneron Science Talent Search, Science Olympiad: Results from Four Invitationals, Washington State High School Chess Championships, 2023 Pacific Northwest Regional Science Bowl, American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME), Central Sound Regional Science & Engineering Fair (CSRSEF), National Economics Challenge: Washington State Competition, Washington Music Educators Association Honors, 2023 Washington State Technology Student Association Competition, 2023 Washington State National History Day, Wharton School of Business Global High School Investment Competition, Tesla STEM Science Olympiad: Boyceville, Bird & Southern California Invitationals, Tesla STEM High School 2022 Division B Science Olympiad Invitational, 2022 NCWIT Awards for Aspirations in Computing, 2022 National History Day: Regional Competition, 2022 Pacific Northwest Regional Science Bowl, Central Sound Regional Science and Engineering Fair, 2022 Washington Science Olympiad: Northwest Regional, 2022 Washington State National History Day (NHD), 2022 ArcGIS Washington State Map Story Contest, 2022 Washington State Science and Engineering Fair, 2022 International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), Tesla STEM student named Seattle Youth Poet Laureate, Seattle Times Features Tesla STEM Student work for Day of Remembrance, AYLUS President's Volunteer Service Award, 2022 USA Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad, Giants of the Puget Sound: The Southern Resident Orca Whales (arcgis.com), Seattle area teens that won awards at ISEF, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bxsn-P1LYP4BsR1X2j33VyyP_BhM53zx/view, Science Olympiad: Four 1st Semester Invitationals (UGASO, Camas, SOLVI, UCSO), 2021 American Mathematics Competition (AMC), 2021 USA Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad, 2021 Central Sound Regional Science and Engineering Fair (CSRSEF), 2021 Washington State Science and Engineering Fair (WSSEF), 2021 Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State Leadership Conference, 2021 Pacific Northwest Regional Science Bowl, 2021 Washington Science Olympiad: Regional Tournament, Washington Science Olympiad: State Tournament, https://kwhs.wharton.upenn.edu/news/mr-investments-first-place-2021-investment-competition/, Wharton Global High School Investment Competition, https://braininitiative.nih.gov/News-Events/event/announcement-brain-initiative-challenge-winners, https://ninds.ideascalegov.com/a/campaign-home/1110, Future Business Leaders of America Region Winter Conference, 2020 Wash. State Science & Engineering Fair, 2020 Future Business Leaders of America State Leadership Conference, 2020 Pacific Northwest Regional High School Science Bowl, 2020 ArcGIS Washington State Map Story Contest, 2020 NCWIT Awards for Aspirations in Computing, 2020 Holocaust Center for Humanity Contest, https://wssef.org/2020-wssef-first-place-trophy/, https://teslahs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=d408e68a6b7f4987bdd3186adf1ec0f1, https://holocaustcenterseattle.org/programs-events/writing-art-film-contest, 2019 Pacific Northwest Regional High School Science Bowl, 2019 Wash. State Science & Engineering Fair (WSSEF), 2019 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing, 2019 Tech. This is by far the most students we have had qualify. Brayden Brackett won first place in the Washington State Map Story Contest and will move on to the National Competition. She won with her watercolor piece titled, "The Suffering of the Great". In the theory round, contestants must answer a series of long answer questions analyzing astrophysical systems, ranging from eclipsing binaries to relativistic jets. On Saturday May 4, three Tesla STEM students participated in the Washington State National History Day contest in an attempt to qualify for the National competition in June. There were seven rounds (4 prelim and 3 elimination), played yesterday and today, and our small, brave band of 11th graders led from wire to wire, including a comfortable 103-88 victory over Newport HS in the final. This year Tesla STEM had 29 students participate, and 15 students qualified for the next round, the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) on February 7th. Wehad four students take home ISEF bids and place in the top seven best projectsof the whole fair!! Our scholars adapted so well to the change in the way the conference ran this year. Winston Zhou, 11th and 12th Grade Division Qualifiers: You can see their winning projects by clicking the links below. This year, Tesla STEM Science Olympiad participated in four invitationals, with excellent results: We have listed students results at each event below. These 100+ students focused their weekly meetings towards the State Leadership Conference led by Prakriti Shukla and Riya Kulkarni. Knowledge of or experience with mechanical engineering or manufacturing skills. The Washington State Chapter of the Technology Student Association held its competition in late March in SeaTac Washington. Victoria Alkin, Niranjan Sahi, Ryan Koshy and Ibi won first place in Music Production. A video of Adhya's Folklife reading is here; https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bxsn-P1LYP4BsR1X2j33VyyP_BhM53zx/view. Aashray earned an invitation to the USESO training camp, which is an event where top scholars learn from distinguished alumni (including Tesla STEM's own Yuchen Li, '22) and leading researchers in earth science. Additionally, of the 75 T-STEM students that competed at WSSEF, we had 27 1st place winners!! Director of Athletics and Activities, 425-936-1289, titleix@lwsd.org; and 504 Coordinator, Director of Special Services, 425-936-1407, section504@lwsd.org (16250 NE 74th Street, Redmond, WA . Water Waves to Light Waves, Apoorv Khandelwal. andcongratulationsto two of the five GRAND PRIZE WINNERS who won the extraordinary honor of competing at ISEF.Druhin Bhowal and Arihant Singhfor their project onIt's Flaming Out: Using Artificial Intelligence to Emulate Critical Aspects of Wildfire Growthand Anjali Sreenivasfor her investigation onA Machine Learning Approach to Identifying Blood-Based Biomarkers for Differential Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease. Yuchen likes rocks, big floating rocks, and fizzy bubbles. When I saw all the different presentations, I was truly amazed, said Yung. The USA Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad (USAAAO) test is the first test in a series of tests leading to representing the United States in the International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA). Please congratulate all students that participated at CSRSEF if you see them in the halls or in your classroom-there are other students who participated and even though they did not receive a prize, they put forth a tremendous amount of time and effort and some also produced award-winning, innovative research in my opinion. Singapore for Regions 1 and 2 and BTG Pactual for Region 4. The team of Sebi Kumar, Evan Kim, Sami Badal Khan, Yuchen Li, and Rohan Iyer had the highest score in each of the seven rounds and comfortably defeated Redmond HS in the final, 132-110. Of the 9 spots available to our students to go to ISEF, our students at T-STEM secured 1/3 of those!! Please congratulate the following students who competed and won awards and at WSSEF on March 25th. Yue (Beth) Ding Last month we had 15 students participate in the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME), and we just got our results back. 3rd place and $200 Graphic Design Akshay Murthy. The following students received Honorable Mention awards for the Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision contest. In addition, Sami Badal Khan won an All-Star designation by answering the third-most toss-up questions across all of the six preliminary (round-robin) matches. Thanks to everyone who supported this effort, from ringleaders Yuchen Li, Anjali Sreenivas, and Katie Chan, to event supervisors and graders, including Evan Kim, Aayush Sheth, Olivia Wang, Sebi Kumar, Rithani Saravanakumar, Prerana Kota, Cheguvijay Aashray, Grace Zhao, Sahaana Sridhar, Saharsh Bhargava, Siddhant Porwal, Divij Aswinkumar, Harish Krishnakumar, Sami Badal Khan, Phillip Araujo, Shuhui Yang, and Maxwell Soh. Please join us in congratulating our ten outstanding young women who received 2020 NCWIT Awards for Aspirations in Computing: In June, the Tesla STEM Science Bowl team (Saketh Dhulipalla, Rohan Iyer, Evan Kim, Yuchen Li, and Vedantha Venkatapathy) participated in a completely-online National Science Bowl finals. 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). And wish them luck at the national event. For the 3rd year in a row, Tesla STEM's Model UN club (STEMUN) brought home multiple prizes from the Washington State MUN Conference held at the University of Washington, March 4 and 5. This was the first year we competed in this national competition hosted by the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health. Website Design: 3rd Place - Samarjit Kaushik, Aran Punniamoorthy and Shrey Srivastava; 5th Place - Sophia Ling and Kinner Parikh. Our students clearly set themselves apart with their outstanding leadership and professionalism. According to state test scores, 95% of students are at least proficient in math and 95% in reading. Listed at the end of this emailare the 1st place winners - and the following link can be used to see all 1st place winners:https://wssef.org/2020-wssef-first-place-trophy/. We have only had one other student ever make it this far. The Tesla STEM seniors who placed were: For this national competition, the students write an essay predicting how a current technology will evolve in ten years. 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! 8th place Public Service Announcement: Ranveer Thind and Aakash Ramanchandran Winning entries are posted on the Holocaust Center for Humanity website linked here. For information about sports offered and how to register, click on the appropriate link below, based on the attendance boundaries where you live. Students at ISEFare awarded the opportunity to showcase their independent research and compete for on average$5 million in prizes. Several students from Tesla STEM's newly-formed Astronomy club wrote the USAAAO exam, and one student, Harish Krishnakumar, qualified to the NAC which will take place virtually on March 20th, 2021. Please congratulate all of these students! For more information, see the press release at https://kwhs.wharton.upenn.edu/news/mr-investments-first-place-2021-investment-competition/ (and reproduced below). Delivers AI-driven batteries by adapting hardware from manufacturers including Tesla, Samsung, LG Stem's Athena is leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to optimize energy use between sources. Abhiram Yakkali. Yuchen Li, The AMC is one of the largest mathematics competitions in the nation, and we spend most of the year in math club preparing for it. Sarah Wen 8thplace Sahil Kancherla and Samarjit Kaushik, 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. He was even able to perform complex calculations on his head, which led his teachers to accuse him of cheating. Students raked in 24awardsincluding 2 grand prize winners who won bids to the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). The future is bright, though I am encouraging them to stock three full teams for next year. 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. Only the top 10% of AMC scores in the nation are invited. Im Evan Kim and my favorite scientist is Peter Saxby.. By winning the Regional, Team 1 qualified for the National Science Bowl finals in Washington, DC, at the end of April. Wow. Our Imagine Tomorrow students made us proud once again with their stellar performances at this weekend's competition in Pullman. This past Saturday 14 students from Tesla STEM competed in the State level competition for National History Day. This means that 3 projects from Tesla STEM will be going to ISEF. 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.