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| Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award | |
| A trip to the Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm, Sweden and a $50,000 scholarship for the top 3 students of the Intel ISEF. Winners will also receive a high-performance computer. | |
| A trip to the Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm, Sweden, a scholarship of $50,000, and a high-performance computer. | |
| BE049 | A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: The Timing of
Guidance in Visual Search Nina Vasan, 18, Parkersburg High School, Parkersburg, West Virginia |
| CH021 | Nanoconstruction with Self-assembling DNA-PNA
Complexes Alexander C. Mittal, 17, Greenwich High School, Greenwich, Connecticut |
| PH016 | Bubble-based Resonance-Doppler Sensor for Liquid
Characterization Naveen Neil Sinha, 17, Los Alamos High School, Los Alamos, New Mexico |
| Scholarships are awarded in eight equal installments upon matriculation from high school. Students must have proof of registration and good standing from the university registrar each semester. | |
| European Union Contest for Young Scientists | |
| European Union Contest for Young Scientists | |
| BO308 | Increasing Crop Yields Through the Characterization of
ct2 and a QTL Analysis Laurie-Anne Daniele Haller, 17, Manhasset Junior-Senior High School, Manhasset, New York Upton Au, 16, Manhasset Junior-Senior High School, Manhasset, New York |
| For the top team project, an all-expense-paid trip to attendthe European Union Contest for Young Scientists. | |
| MILSET - Expo-Sciences Europe | |
| Trip to the Expo Science Europe 2002 in Bratislava, Slovakia in July of 2002. | |
| EN304 | SID (Self-sustained Induction Defferrer) Brendan Joseph Quinn, 19, Saint Patricks College, Maghera, County Derry, Northern Ireland Enda Young, 19, Saint Patricks College, Maghera, County Derry, Northern Ireland |
| Intel Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award | |
| Established to recognize science teaching excellence. Awarded to 5 teachers who demonstrated an innovative and inspirational method or program. | |
| A $20,000 grant to replicate the best known method, a $5,000 cash award and a high performance computer. | |
| Josette Biyo, Phillipine Science High School Western
Visayas, Iloilo, Phillipines | |
| Award of $3,500, all expense-paid trip to the Intel ISEF and a high-performance computer. | |
| Julie Grady, Blacksburg High School, Blacksburg, Virginia | |
| Ernest Schiller, Central Lee High School, Donnellson, Iowa | |
| Susie Stevens, Latta High School, Ada, Oklahoma | |
| Peiyu Ye, No. 2 Secondary School Attached to East China
Normal University, Shanghai, Republic of China | |
| Intel Foundation Achievement Awards | |
| For outstanding work in any field. | |
| Awards of $5,000 | |
| BI001 | Biochemical Insight of Hop2 into Mechanism of Homologous
Chromosome Synapsis During Meiosis Tony Hung, 17, Mcintosh High School, Peachtree City, Georgia |
| BI027 | Molecular Modeling and the Identification of Functional
Domains of a New Adhesive Molecule in Inflammatory Thrombosis Tahir Ahmed, 17, Midwood High School at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York |
| CH021 | Nanoconstruction with Self-assembling DNA-PNA
Complexes Alexander C. Mittal, 17, Greenwich High School, Greenwich, Connecticut |
| CH027 | Energy Transfer in the A2SIGMA+ Excited State of the
Hydroxyl Radical Brandi Michelle Cossairt, 17, Mast Academy, Key Biscayne, Florida |
| CS024 | Computer Recognition of Emotion in Speech Yindong Yu, 16, Shanghai, Shanghai, China |
| EN039 | Design and Fabrication of a Peristaltic
Micropump Mark William Knight, 18, Catlin Gabel School The, Portland, Oregon |
| EN064 | Improving Adhesion at Polymeric Interfaces Containing
Carbon Black Mordechai Joseph Bronner, 18, Rambam Mesivta, Lawrence, New York |
| EN065 | Fiber Optic Smart Skin Pencilla Lang, 14, London, Ontario, Canada |
| EV012 | Effects of Restoration Hydrology on the Nutrient Ecology
of Phytoplankton Communities in Biscayne Bay Jenna Lyanne Lewis, 17, Cooper City High School, Cooper City, Florida |
| MA021 | Gauss-Bonne Theorem for Closed Polylines with
Selfcrossings Alexandr V. Anosov, 17, School #332, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| MA304 | Description of Identity Basis of the Indicator
Semigroups S11, S21, S31 Mikhail Andreevich Berlin, 17, School #332, Saint Petersburg, Russia Anatoly Vladimirovich Burov, 16, School #332, Saint Petersburg, Russia Alexander Alexandrovich Denginov, 17, School #332, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| ME009 | The Cancer Vaccine Ian Roderick Gorovoy, 17, Fort Myers High School, Fort Myers, Florida |
| ME314 | I.D.E.A.L. Hospital Bed Jose Alberto Davis, 17, American Military Academy, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico Jorge Rafael Aviles, 16, American Military Academy, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico Omar Jose Figueroa, 16, American Military Academy, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico |
| ZO008 | Transgenic Transfer of Genetically Modified Bt Corn to
Mexican Maize by the Monarch Butterfly (Lepidoptera Danaidea
Plexippus) David G. Freund, 16, American Heritage School, Plantation, Florida |
| Behavioral and Social Sciences - Presented by Intel Foundation | |
| Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and a high-performance computer. Additionally, a $1,000 grant will be given to their school and the Intel ISEF Affiliated fair they represent. | |
| Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner | |
| BE049 | A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: The Timing of
Guidance in Visual Search Nina Vasan, 18, Parkersburg High School, Parkersburg, West Virginia |
| First Award of $3,000 | |
| BE049 | A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: The Timing of
Guidance in Visual Search Nina Vasan, 18, Parkersburg High School, Parkersburg, West Virginia |
| Second Award of $1,500 | |
| BE001 | Media Mayhem: Effects of Television Violence on
Children Natalie Rose Mergler, 17, Chaminade-Julienne High School, Dayton, Ohio |
| BE006 | Understanding Gender Differences in Achievement
Motivation in 6th-12th Grade Students Emma Essock-Burns, 17, duPont Manual Magnet High School, Louisville, Kentucky |
| BE041 | Retrieval Blocking Using Orthographically Related
Primes Rachel Nicole Denison, 17, Parkway Central High School, Chesterfield, Missouri |
| Third Award of $1,000 | |
| BE004 | Catching Liars: An Innovative Study in Infrared Lie
Detection John Scott Newman, 16, Yorktown High School, Arlington, Virginia |
| BE031 | Relationships Between Weight Locus of Control, Gender,
Weight Satisfaction and Self-esteem Allison Beth Pinchasick, 18, Roslyn High School, Roslyn Heights, New York |
| BE047 | Effects of 5-HT 2A, 2C Receptor Inhibition in the pBLA
on Ingestion and Ingestive Behavior Dipa Mayur Joshi, 17, Detroit Country Day School, Beverly Hills, Michigan |
| BE050 | Linguistic and Auditory Milestones of Spanish-speaking
Infants and Toddlers Jennifer Eve Shields, 18, Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua, New York |
| Fourth Award of $500 | |
| BE021 | Effects of Specific Motivational Strategies in
Conjunction with Locus of Control on Performance
Improvement Matthew Alexander Fitzpatrick, 18, Ossining High School, Ossining, New York |
| BE024 | Portable Infrared Navigational Aid for the
Blind Frank Gerald Aguilar, 17, Lane Technical High School, Chicago, Illinois |
| BE029 | The Eyes Have It: Visual Perception in Children with and
without Dyslexia, Phase II Stephanie A Williams, 16, Pacific Collegiate School, Santa Cruz, California |
| BE037 | Loss of Antipredatorial Behaviors in the Snail
Caracollus marginella from Illegal Wastelands as an Indicator of Heavy
Metal Pollution Noelys M. Feliciano-Flores, 14, Manuel Pimentel y Castro, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico |
| BE040 | Retention of Information as a Function of Presentation
Media Caleb Tyrell Gallemore, 17, Seneca High School, Seneca, Missouri |
| Biochemistry - Presented by Intel Foundation | |
| Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and a high-performance computer. Additionally, a $1,000 grant will be given to their school and the Intel ISEF Affiliated fair they represent. | |
| Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner | |
| BI035 | Active Site Convergence of BETA-Lactamases Predicts a
Novel Mechanism of Substrate Hydrolysis by Class B
Metallo-BETA-Lactamases Debarshi Mustafi, 17, Kenwood Academy, Chicago, Illinois |
| First Award of $3,000 | |
| BI027 | Molecular Modeling and the Identification of Functional
Domains of a New Adhesive Molecule in Inflammatory Thrombosis Tahir Ahmed, 17, Midwood High School at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York |
| BI035 | Active Site Convergence of BETA-Lactamases Predicts a
Novel Mechanism of Substrate Hydrolysis by Class B
Metallo-BETA-Lactamases Debarshi Mustafi, 17, Kenwood Academy, Chicago, Illinois |
| Second Award of $1,500 | |
| BI040 | From Food Preservation to Nanotechnology: Applications
of the Mucilage-creating Properties of Fenugreek (Trigonella
foenum-graecum) Kavita M. Shukla, 17, Centennial High School, Ellicott City, Maryland |
| BI045 | Engineering Tropism of Edmonston B Measles Vaccine Virus
to Target and Destroy Melanoma Cells Brandon Michael Palmen, 18, Mayo High School, Rochester, Minnesota |
| BI055 | Protein Profile Analysis: A New Application May
Streamline Structural Predictions Sukhjeet Singh Batth, 16, Fowler High School, Fowler, California |
| BI061 | Paranoid Genes Ashleigh Corrine Morris, 15, Unami Middle School, Chalfont, Pennsylvania |
| Third Award of $1,000 | |
| BI001 | Biochemical Insight of Hop2 into Mechanism of Homologous
Chromosome Synapsis During Meiosis Tony Hung, 17, Mcintosh High School, Peachtree City, Georgia |
| BI011 | Measuring Transcriptional States with a Highly Parallel
Single Molecular Resequencing Approach: Error Models, Probabilistic
Analysis and Algorithms Marcin Zbigniew Mejran, 16, Stuyvesant High School, New York, New York |
| BI022 | Fractal Classification of DNA Sequences Sasha V. Gusev, 17, Daniel Hand High School, Madison, Connecticut |
| BI031 | Construction of Novel Nanoprobes and Their Potential to
Analyze Engineered HIV-1 Proteins Brian Price Ruby, 18, John Jay High School, Katonah, New York |
| BI066 | Every Breath You Take: The Effects of Radon on
Biological Tissue - Damage and Immune Response Brian Andrew Camley, 16, Palmer High School, Colorado Springs, Colorado |
| Fourth Award of $500 | |
| BI032 | Zinc Induces Apoptosis in Tumor Cells by Activating
Caspases in a Unique Manner: Implications for Tumor
Therapy Xiaolong Zhou, 18, Miami Palmetto Senior High School, Miami, Florida |
| BI033 | Verifying the Origin of Gourmet Coffee
Beans Krista Patricia Taake, 18, Waterloo High School, Waterloo, Illinois |
| BI047 | Validating an Ancient Remedy: Inhibition of Tumor Cell
Proliferation In Vitro by Black Walnut Husk Extract (Juglans nigra L.)
Through Apoptosis John Bennett Ball Korman, 18, Riverside High School, Greer, South Carolina |
| BI056 | The Use of Yeast Artificial Chromosomes to Mimic the
Natural Setting of the Human BETA-Globin Locus Parmita Pradip Dalal, 17, Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, Shawnee Mission, Kansas |
| BI057 | Will Excessive Concentrations of Antioxidants Prevent
Programmed Cell Death in Caenorhabditis elegans? Liang Wang, 17, Waiakea High School, Hilo, Hawaii |
| BI060 | Investigation of Drug Binding to Human Serum
Albumin David Andrew Thaisrivongs, 17, Kalamazoo Area Mathematics and Science Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan |
| BI064 | Mutational Analysis of the CBF1 DNA Binding Domain:
Phase II Nathan Dale Lord, 18, Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy, Saginaw, Michigan |
| Botany - Presented by Intel Foundation | |
| Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and a high-performance computer. Additionally, a $1,000 grant will be given to their school and the Intel ISEF Affiliated fair they represent. | |
| Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner | |
| BO037 | Bactericidal Activity in vitro of Chihuahuan Desert
Plants and a Synergistic Approach to Overcoming Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic
Resistance Kevin Kuan Gao, 17, John Connally High School, Austin, Texas |
| First Award of $3,000 | |
| BO028 | Generating a Population of Arabidopsis Mutants Altered
in the Function of Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase Kinase Using a
Transgenic Screening Approach Bryan Armando Lemus, 16, Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School, Miami, Florida |
| BO037 | Bactericidal Activity in vitro of Chihuahuan Desert
Plants and a Synergistic Approach to Overcoming Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic
Resistance Kevin Kuan Gao, 17, John Connally High School, Austin, Texas |
| Second Award of $1,500 | |
| BO004 | Photoperiod and Cytogenetics: Are They the Key to
Successful Selective Breeding for Desired Traits in Bahiagrass
cultivars? Aaron Cole Richardson, 17, Walton High School, DeFuniak Springs, Florida |
| BO006 | Auxin and Photoperiod on in vitro Somatic Embryogenesis
of Arachis hypogaea Christopher William Ammen, 18, Palm Bay High School, Melbourne, Florida |
| BO008 | Azadirachta indica: The Unique Properties of a
Biological Superstore Thai Thanh Doan, 16, Coon Rapids Senior High School, Coon Rapids, Minnesota |
| BO061 | Flammability of the Needles and Scales of Seven Species
of Western Montana Conifers Josh Michael Schwartzman, 18, Big Sky High School, Missoula, Montana |
| Third Award of $1,000 | |
| BO013 | Effect of SA, MSA and Jasmonic Acid on Disease
Resistance in Plants Jason Lee Aramburu, 16, Keystone School, San Antonio, Texas |
| BO014 | Electromagnetic Fields on Lactuca sativa: Phase
III Heather K LeFleur, 17, Stuart-Menlo High School, Stuart, Iowa |
| BO020 | Phytoremediation of Salinised Soils Andrew McLeod, 16, North Sydney Boys High School, Crows Nest, New South Wales, Australia |
| BO043 | Characterization of New Auxin-resistant Mutants of
Arabidopsis thaliana Michael Jacob Wagner, 17, John F. Kennedy High School, Bellmore, New York |
| BO049 | The Truth Stinks! Paul Vincent Birinyi, 17, Plano East Senior High School, Plano, Texas |
| BO057 | Preservation of Plant Genetic Resources by Keeping
Explants in Rosette-like Form in vitro Tetsuya Yamada, 18, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Fourth Award of $500 | |
| BO001 | Investigation of Percent Transmittance Rates and Cross
Protection Phenomenon in Cabbage Leaf Curl Virus Rachel Lauren Zelkowitz, 16, Lake Brantley High School, Altamonte Springs, Florida |
| BO015 | Growth Regulators of Agrobacterium tumefaciens: Phase
II Sara Jo Weirather, 17, Central Lee High School, Donnellson, Iowa |
| BO032 | Detecting Low-complexity Oligonucleotide Repeats in
Theobroma cacao and Other Plant Species Benjamin Jeremy Cole, 17, Coral Reef Senior High School, Miami, Florida |
| BO033 | Reassessing the Distribution of Volatile and
Non-volatile Substances in Cottonwood Populus balsamifera Michael James Risse, 18, West Valley High School, Fairbanks, Alaska |
| BO050 | Interactive Effects of Soil Nutrients, Natural
Fertilizer, and Flumetsulam on the Emergence and Maturation of Wheat and
Wild Mustard in a Competition: Phase V Adam Richard Wohl, 17, Minot Senior High School, Minot, North Dakota |
| BO060 | L-Glutathione: Countering the Effects of Ultraviolet
Radiation on Plants, Phase II Alaa A Ishak, 18, La Cueva High School, Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| BO064 | The Maize Plant: Genetic Influence on the Stem Vascular
Development and Its Aerodynamic Responses Wayne Yuen Cheng, 17, Williamsville High School East, East Amherst, New York |
| Chemistry - Presented by Intel Foundation | |
| Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and a high-performance computer. Additionally, a $1,000 grant will be given to their school and the Intel ISEF Affiliated fair they represent. | |
| Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner | |
| CH021 | Nanoconstruction with Self-assembling DNA-PNA
Complexes Alexander C. Mittal, 17, Greenwich High School, Greenwich, Connecticut |
| First Award of $3,000 | |
| CH021 | Nanoconstruction with Self-assembling DNA-PNA
Complexes Alexander C. Mittal, 17, Greenwich High School, Greenwich, Connecticut |
| CH053 | Biocatalytic Composite Electrodes for Biofuel Cell
Applications Daniel Clayton Appel, 15, Eldorado High School, Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| Second Award $1,500 | |
| CH026 | Synthesis of the Unusual ALPHA-Amino Acids by Alkylation
of Ni(II) Complexes of Glycine Dmitry A. Borkin, 17, Moscow Chemical Lyceum, Moscow, Russia |
| CH039 | Oxidation of Substituted Phosphines with Singlet Oxygen:
Intra- vs. Inter- Molecular Pathways Timothy Allen Dong, 17, Alhambra High School, Alhambra, California |
| CH042 | Selective Oxidative Transformations in Water Using a
Novel Hypervalent Iodine Reagent Arun Poothatta Thottumkara, 15, Macomb High School, Macomb, Illinois |
| Third Award of $1,000 | |
| CH001 | Investigating Catalytic Amide Reduction Using
Silanes Nicholas Mark Edward Alexander Hayward, 18, Dover Grammar School for Boys, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom |
| CH012 | Improvement in the Oxidation Resistance of Titanium
Silicon Carbide Ceramics Rachel Elizabeth Maire, 17, Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland |
| CH027 | Energy Transfer in the A2SIGMA+ Excited State of the
Hydroxyl Radical Brandi Michelle Cossairt, 17, Mast Academy, Key Biscayne, Florida |
| CH030 | Sharp Platinum-Iridium Tips for Scanning Tunneling
Microscopy Chun Ghee Tan, 17, Raffles Junior College, Singapore |
| CH038 | Creation of a High-performance Polymer
Blend Edmund Francis Palermo, 17, Bay Shore High School, Bay Shore, New York |
| Fourth Award of $500 | |
| CH013 | Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Analysis of Organic
Disulfide Orientation on Silver Surfaces Cameron Sadegh, 17, Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology, Hackensack, New Jersey |
| CH018 | Effect of Pigment Size on UV-related Fading of Paint:
Phase II Emily Michele Kraft, 16, Evansville Day School, Evansville, Indiana |
| CH033 | Improving the Performance of Nanocrystalline Solar Cells
and the Discovery of a New Electrochemical Cell Allison Ruth Morris, 15, Notre Dame Academy, Covington, Kentucky |
| CH040 | Utilizing Room Temperature Ionic Liquids as the
Electrolyte in an Electrochemical Cell Kunil Kaushik Raval, 16, Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy, Saginaw, Michigan |
| CH043 | Specific Determination of Cysteine, Penicillamine and
Homocysteine Kapil Amarnath, 17, Brentwood High School, Brentwood, Tennessee |
| CH052 | Sunscreens: Analyzing Active Ingredients for UV
Absorption Sean Ismet Ahmed, 17, Detroit Country Day School, Beverly Hills, Michigan |
| Computer Science - Presented by Intel Foundation | |
| Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and a high-performance computer. Additionally, a $1,000 grant will be given to their school and the Intel ISEF Affiliated fair they represent. | |
| Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner | |
| CS010 | Pattern Detection in Quasi-periodic Waveforms:
Application to Speech Compression Ezra Jacob Rapoport, 18, Horace Mann School, Bronx, New York |
| First Award of $3,000 | |
| CS010 | Pattern Detection in Quasi-periodic Waveforms:
Application to Speech Compression Ezra Jacob Rapoport, 18, Horace Mann School, Bronx, New York |
| CS030 | Digital Audio Enhancement via Harmonic
Relationships Allan Chu, 17, Saratoga High School, Saratoga, California |
| Second Award of $1,500 | |
| CS014 | Automatic Packet Reporting System: Building a Large
Scale Geospatial Database James J Jefferson, 17, Winona Senior High School, Winona, Minnesota |
| CS039 | A Flexible Algorithm for Neurite Image Reconstruction
and Model Generation Vladislav Adzic, 17, Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, New York |
| CS054 | An Improved Algorithm for Meshing Large and Complex
Terrains Scott Andrew Bender, 16, Spring Valley High School, Columbia, South Carolina |
| Third Award of $1,000 | |
| CS013 | A. I. Vision: 3-D Stereoscopic Environment
Reconstruction Robert Earl Eunice, 17, Houston County High School, Warner Robins, Georgia |
| CS024 | Computer Recognition of Emotion in Speech Yindong Yu, 16, Shanghai, Shanghai, China |
| CS026 | Finding Solutions to the Problem that Is Indicated for
Last Twenty Years in IDA* Youngki Park, 16, Kyongnam Science High School, Jinju, Kyongsangnam-do, South Korea |
| CS048 | A Novel Calculus-based Cipher John Michael Tuley, 17, Penn-Trafford High School, Harrison City, Pennsylvania |
| CS049 | Interpretation of Tactile, Vision, and Hearing: A
Communication and Feedback Experience Alicia Lorraine Worley, 16, Keyser High School, Keyser, West Virginia |
| Fourth Award of $500 | |
| CS002 | EasyCreate: Web Pages Made Easy! Christopher Warren Putnam, 15, Brunswick High School, Brunswick, Georgia |
| CS007 | Automated Detection of Boundaries in Microstructure
Images Robert Kang Xing Jin, 17, Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland |
| CS009 | Like a Mouse to Cheese Pascal Tom Getreuer, 18, Palmer High School, Colorado Springs, Colorado |
| CS017 | Ceebler: An HTTP Proxy for Secure, Fine-grained Access
Control of Cookies Joshua Michael Hailpern, 18, John Jay High School, Katonah, New York |
| CS019 | Collision Determination and Response in the Third
Dimension Arya Mohammad Iranmanesh, 16, Roanoke Valley Governors School for Science and Technology, Roanoke, Virginia |
| CS025 | Where Am I? Minimizing Positional Error While Navigating
and Mapping Using a Cooperative Robotic System Laura Anne Wong, 15, Villa Victoria Academy, Ewing, New Jersey |
| Earth and Space Sciences - Presented by Intel Foundation | |
| Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and a high-performance computer. Additionally, a $1,000 grant will be given to their school and the Intel ISEF Affiliated fair they represent. | |
| Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner | |
| EA043 | Optical Divide: An Independent Assessment of a Subset of
Hipparcos and Tycho-2 Proper Motions: Phase III Sabrina Curie Snell, 16, School Without Walls, Washington, District of Columbia |
| First Award of $3,000 | |
| EA043 | Optical Divide: An Independent Assessment of a Subset of
Hipparcos and Tycho-2 Proper Motions: Phase III Sabrina Curie Snell, 16, School Without Walls, Washington, District of Columbia |
| Second Award of $1,500 | |
| EA006 | Geologic Determination of Native American Lithic Origins
in the Big Horn Basin, WY Casey Albert Lipp, 16, Greybull High School, Greybull, Wyoming |
| EA037 | Adaptive Telescope Control Using Star-Pattern
Recognition Jonathan Nicholas Sick, 16, Queen Elizabeth Sr High School, Calgary, Canada |
| EA038 | Tessera Rings on Venus: The Unrecognized Remnants of
Crustal Plateaus Carolyn Morgan Tewksbury, 16, Clinton Senior High School, Clinton, New York |
| Third Award of $1,000 | |
| EA007 | Effect of Observation Timing on Initial Orbit
Determination Accuracy Matthew Douglas Apau Jachowski, 16, Maui High School, Kahului, Hawaii |
| EA016 | A New Meteor Shower During the Leonids Huan Meng, 16, Beijing No. 80 High School, Beijing, China |
| EA018 | Investigating the Role of the Dynamic Pipe Effect in
Tornadogenesis Ashley Elizabeth Tidwell, 18, Westmoore High School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
| EA025 | Evolution in Motion: Orbital Optimization Using Genetic
Algorithms Ulyana N. Horodyskyj, 16, Padua Franciscan High School, Parma, Ohio |
| Fourth Award of $500 | |
| EA014 | A Survey of the Public Chandra Data Archive (CDA) in
Search of Serendipitous X-ray Pulsars Albert King Lin, 17, Saint Francis Preparatory School, Fresh Meadows, New York |
| EA028 | Is Furachoga Corona Misnamed? Original Geological
Analysis of a Previously Unmapped Region of Venus Matthew E. Peneston, 16, John C Birdlebough High School, Phoenix, New York |
| EA039 | Petrology of the Bilanga Meteorite: Magmatic Evolution
of Asteroid Serena Ellice Kolar, 18, Canyon Del Oro High School, Tucson, Arizona |
| EA042 | Mineral Fluorescence in the Near Infrared Amanda O. Henderson, 18, Grosse Pointe South High School, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan |
| EA044 | Tracking and Measuring Magnetic Storms with a
Magnetometer Stuart Earl Anderson, 17, Emmaus High School, Emmaus, Pennsylvania |
| Engineering - Presented by Intel Foundation | |
| Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and a high-performance computer. Additionally, a $1,000 grant will be given to their school and the Intel ISEF Affiliated fair they represent. | |
| Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner | |
| EN064 | Improving Adhesion at Polymeric Interfaces Containing
Carbon Black Mordechai Joseph Bronner, 18, Rambam Mesivta, Lawrence, New York |
| First Award of $3,000 | |
| EN039 | Design and Fabrication of a Peristaltic
Micropump Mark William Knight, 18, Catlin Gabel School The, Portland, Oregon |
| EN052 | Optimization of the Location for Two Drawpoint Holes in
Conical Stockpiles Qilei Hang, 16, Allegany High School, Cumberland, Maryland |
| EN064 | Improving Adhesion at Polymeric Interfaces Containing
Carbon Black Mordechai Joseph Bronner, 18, Rambam Mesivta, Lawrence, New York |
| Second Award of $1,500 | |
| EN011 | CEDRS (Cost Effective Digital Radiography
System) Christopher Bligh Komanski, 17, Lake Highland Preparatory School, Orlando, Florida |
| EN013 | Compact Disc Recycling Ryan William Riebel, 15, Loyola High School, Mankato, Minnesota |
| EN014 | Investigating Various Factors in Both a
Liquid-electrolyte and Polymer-electrolyte Membrane Direct-methanol Fuel
Cell to Maximize Total Power Output Douglas George Lavanture, 15, John Adams High School, South Bend, Indiana |
| EN025 | Emulating Serpentine Locomotion for Rescue and
Reconnaissance Seth Russell Heltsley, 18, Tullahoma High School, Tullahoma, Tennessee |
| EN031 | Design, Construction and Test of a Portable Nuclear
Fusion Reactor Adam Lee Parker, 18, Bradshaw High School, Florence, Alabama |
| EN066 | Tracking the Expansion of Neural Stem Cells in
Suspension Bioreactors Neha Datta, 17, Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Third Award of $1,000 | |
| EN004 | Recycled Plastic: The Building Blocks of Tomorrow, Phase
II Amanda Doylene Pyle, 15, Colquitt County High School, Moultrie, Georgia |
| EN010 | Cooperative Autonomous Robotics Utilizing Ant Pheromone
Behavior Joshua Brent Miller, 17, Eau Gallie High School, Melbourne, Florida |
| EN027 | Sweet PVC Rocketry Nigel Forest Reuel, 16, Rio Rancho High School Rio Rancho, New Mexico |
| EN045 | Hybrid Rocket Motors: Design, Construction and
Flight Thomas Raymond Sanders, 17, Lake Havasu High School, Lake Havasu City, Arizona |
| EN058 | Effects of Spray Coated Fiber Reinforcement on the
Compressive Strength of Concrete: Year III Sarah Elizabeth Gutman, 15, Mount De Chantal Academy, Wheeling, West Virginia |
| EN062 | Vortex-induced Vibrations on Flexible
Cylinders Bryce Kittinger Campbell, 17, Academy of Science and Technology, Conroe, Texas |
| EN065 | Fiber Optic Smart Skin Pencilla Lang, 14, London, Ontario, Canada |
| EN079 | Building an Autonomous Search and Rescue
Robot Ryan M Wistort, 18, Peninsula High School, Gig Harbor, Washington |
| EN091 | Speech Imitation Through Analysis, Synthesis and
Optimization Elena Leah Glassman, 15, Central Bucks High School West, Doylestown, Pennsylvania |
| Fourth Award of $500 | |
| EN021 | Development of Precipitating and Filtering Techniques of
Nanoparticles by Electrochemical Method Jieh-Wen Tsung, 16, Taipei Municipal Li-Shan Senior High School, Taipei City, Chinese Taipei |
| EN028 | Heat Treatment Response of a Second Generation, Single
Crystal Ni-base Superalloy: CMSX-4 Ryan Lee Scott, 17, Newberry Junior Senior High School, Newberry, Florida |
| EN048 | Robotic Tactile Sensing Joshua C Kline, 15, Liverpool High School, Liverpool, New York |
| EN059 | Lift Factor: Application and Effect of a Variable Camber
Wing at Multiple Angles of Attack Paul Briede, 16, James Wood High School, Winchester, Virginia |
| EN067 | Forest Tree Density Estimating System Aaswath Raman, 16, Western Canada High School, Calgary, Canada |
| EN076 | Improved Crossing for Physically Impaired
Pedestrians Marian Park Chaffe, 17, Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science, Worcester, Massachusetts |
| EN077 | Water Mining: A Resource of the Future Spencer George Hughes, 16, South Porcupine, Ontario, Canada |
| EN083 | De-Miner Andrew Lawrence Murphy, 17, Plano West Senior High School, Plano, Texas |
| EN088 | Designing a Linear Peristaltic Pump Using
Ferrofluids Craig John Wright, 16, Woodlin School, Woodrow, Colorado |
| EN090 | Aerodynamic Advantages of the Seagull Wing Sean T. Conroy, 17, Pennsylvania Home Schoolers, Kittanning, Pennsylvania |
| EN103 | Temperature Regulated Charge Algorithms for Nickel Metal
Hydride Batteries Christopher Harrison, 17, Fox Lane High School, Bedford, New York |
| EN105 | Heat Transfer Enhancement of Drag Reducing Surfactants
Using Ultrasonic Energy Joline Marie Fan, 14, Upper Arlington High School, Upper Arlington, Ohio |
| Environmental Sciences - Presented by the Environmental Protection Agency | |
| Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and a high-performance computer. Additionally, a $1,000 grant will be given to their school and the Intel ISEF Affiliated fair they represent. | |
| Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner | |
| EV043 | Eutrophication Control with Calcium Carbonate Filters
and Denitrification Vijay Yanamadala, 15, Palos Verdes Peninsula High School, Rolling Hills Estates, California |
| First Award of $3,000 | |
| EV004 | Utilization of Electromagnetic Fields as a Nontoxic
Antifoulant Elizabeth Van Cortlandt Varela, 16, West Potomac High School, Alexandria, Virginia |
| EV015 | Functional Tolerance and Accumulation of Lead: A Novel
Approach to Understanding and Improving Uptake Marc Anthony Burrell, 18, Nicolet High School, Glendale, Wisconsin |
| EV043 | Eutrophication Control with Calcium Carbonate Filters
and Denitrification Vijay Yanamadala, 15, Palos Verdes Peninsula High School, Rolling Hills Estates, California |
| Second Award of $1,500 | |
| EV012 | Effects of Restoration Hydrology on the Nutrient Ecology
of Phytoplankton Communities in Biscayne Bay Jenna Lyanne Lewis, 17, Cooper City High School, Cooper City, Florida |
| EV045 | Pina Papaya Combo for a Safer Environment! Can a
Combination of Fruit Enzymes Create a More Effective Snail Control? Year
III Vaishali Kiran Grover, 14, Miami Coral Park Senior High School, Miami, Florida |
| EV056 | Effects of Elevated Levels of Fecal Coliform and Sewage
Effluent on Mytilus trossulus Natalie Adele Hale, 16, Juneau-Douglas High School, Juneau, Alaska |
| EV063 | Xenoestrogen Compounds from Plastic Container Bind to ER
ALPHA and ER BETA and Affect Breast Cancer Cell Proliferation Susan Kathrene Gray, 18, South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, Greenville, South Carolina |
| EV075 | Restoration of an Inland Bayou: Year IV Mary Elizabeth Worrel, 16, Mercy Cross High School, Biloxi, Mississippi |
| EV102 | The Effect of Time of Exposure and Concentration of CCA
Preservative on the Amount of Arsenic Absorbed into Chicken Skin from
Pressure-treated Lumber Katherine Douglas Van Schaik, 15, |
| Third Award of $1,000 | |
| EV003 | Nitrification Inhibition Using
Benzotriazoles Tanner M. Callender, 18, Wamego High School, Wamego, Kansas |
| EV013 | Identifying Bacteria that Have Crossed the Atlantic
Ocean in Clouds of African Dust Using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), DNA
Cloning and DNA Sequencing: Two-Year Study Timothy Calvin Borden, 16, Canterbury School, Fort Myers, Florida |
| EV023 | Effect of Capsaicin vs. Potassium and Silicon on Zebra
Mussel Substrate Adhesion Mark Edward Jackson, 17, Sheridan High School, Sheridan, Arkansas |
| EV040 | Automated Detection and Removal System for Industrial
Water Pollutants Elina Onitskansky, 17, Hathaway Brown School, Shaker Heights, Ohio |
| EV058 | Tongue River Project Zachary David Benson, 18, Colstrip High School, Colstrip, Montana |
| EV068 | Influence of Organic Nitrogen Species on Aureococcus
anophagefferens and Competing Phytoplankton Kristen Ann Goodrich, 17, West Islip High School, West Islip, New York |
| EV072 | Negative Cross-resistance to the Pesticides DDT and
Delta-methrin as a Method of Control in Drosophila
melanogaster Amber D. Meyerratken, 16, West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School, West Lafayette, Indiana |
| EV081 | Phototoxicity of Hypericin and Alpha-Terthienyl to
Tenebrio molitor, Drosophila melanogaster, and Saccharomyces
cerevisiae Adam Paul Rago, 16, Falmouth High School, Falmouth, Massachusetts |
| EV090 | Phosphorous Removal by Chara zeylanica and Eichhornia
crassipes from Everglades Agricultural Area Farm Drainage
Water Patrick Laurence Geer, 16, Wellington High School, Wellington, Florida |
| Fourth Award of $500 | |
| EV006 | Evaluating Designer Solids for Remediation of Heavy
Elements in Aqueous Waste Streams Jessica Dawn Caver, 17, Woodlin High School, Woodrow, Colorado |
| EV024 | The Phosphorus Loading Issue: Biosolids
III Jennifer Elizabeth Nuest, 17, Kouts Junior-Senior High School, Kouts, Indiana |
| EV025 | Comparative Bioassay of Bacillus thuringiensis Corn
Pollen to Non-Bt Corn Pollen, Rotenone and Carbaryl on Danaus plexippus
Larvae Rachael Theresa Collier, 15, Mediapolis High School, Mediapolis, Iowa |
| EV044 | Rainfall as a Vehicle of Pollution and Contamination in
Beaches and Recreational Waters Eddy Leal, 16, Academia Del Perpetuo Socorro, Miramar, Puerto Rico |
| EV048 | Creating Collagen Gelatin Aerosols Nathan Kyle Wright, 17, O'Donnell High School, O'Donnell, Texas |
| EV053 | What Is the Effect of dH20, 37%, 27%, and 17%
Formaldehyde Solution on the Biodegradability Rate of Casein-based
Plastics? Megan Marie Miskowski, 17, Ridgeview High School, Orange Park, Florida |
| EV060 | Hidden Consequences of Tire Wear: Two-Year
Study David A Joseph, 17, The Linsly School, Wheeling, West Virginia |
| EV061 | Pressurized Wood: Is It Environmentally Safe? Three-Year
Study Elizabeth Anne Harmon, 18, West Lauderdale High School, Collinsville, Mississippi |
| EV091 | Cleaning the Chesapeake Bay with
Oysters Katherine Frances Holt, 18, Bruton High School, Williamsburg, Virginia |
| EV092 | Degradation of Glycerol in HySee 100% Kyle Anthony Marsland, 17, Hamilton High School, Chandler, Arizona |
| EV093 | Macro-invertebrate Diversity in Stream
Bionetworks Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Krystosek, 17, Bagley Junior-Senior High School, Bagley, Minnesota |
| Gerontology - Presented by the AARP Andrus Foundation | |
| Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and a high-performance computer. Additionally, each winner will receive a copy of the Encyclopedia of the Aging, a $1,000 grant will be given to their school and the Intel ISEF Affiliated Fair they represent. | |
| Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner | |
| GN015 | Assessment of Risk Factors Contributing to Falls in
Elderly Swalpa Udit, 16, Humboldt High School, Humboldt, Nebraska |
| Second Place Award of $1,500 | |
| GN012 | Reduction of Intercellular Apurinic Endonuclease Levels
with Age: Predispostion to Oxidative Damage Allied Neuro-Degenerative
Disease Korri Ayn Thiessen, 16, Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, Oregon |
| GN013 | Relationship Between Metabolic Rate and
Lifespan Emily Patricia Norwood, 17, Keystone School, San Antonio, Texas |
| Third place award of $1,000 | |
| GN002 | Evaluating the Antioxidant Properties of Astragalus
membranaceus Extracts Related to Aging and Long Term
Efficacy Meng-meng Fu, 16, John Adams High School, South Bend, Indiana |
| GN010 | A New Fluorometric Method of Measuring Fibrillar Amyloid
Beta-Protein in Alzheimer's Disease Neha Chauhan, 15, Susan E. Wagner High School, Staten Island, New York |
| Fourth Place Award of $500 | |
| GN016 | Effectiveness of TFO to Control Fibrosis by Inhibiting
Collagen Type 1 Gene Transcription in the Infarcted Rat
Heart Reshma Shivaputrappa Patil, 16, White Station High School, Memphis, Tennessee |
| GN018 | Can a Telomere Be Extended by Foreign
Telomerase? Herbert Mason Hedberg, 16, North Attleboro High School, North Attleboro, Massachusetts |
| Mathematics - Presented by Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company | |
| Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and a high-performance computer. Additionally, a $1,000 grant will be given to their school and the Intel ISEF Affiliated fair they represent. | |
| Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner | |
| MA015 | Rainbow Ramsey Theory: Rainbow Arithmetic Progressions
and Anti-Ramsey Results Jacob Licht, 17, William Hall High School, West Hartford, Connecticut |
| First Award of $3,000 | |
| MA015 | Rainbow Ramsey Theory: Rainbow Arithmetic Progressions
and Anti-Ramsey Results Jacob Licht, 17, William Hall High School, West Hartford, Connecticut |
| Second Award of $1,500 | |
| MA009 | Nullhomotopic Knots in Real Projective
Space Nikita Rozenblyum, 18, Stuyvesant High School, New York, New York |
| MA036 | Data Detectives: A Study of CRC Polynomials Alice Wan Chai, 15, Jasper High School, Plano, Texas |
| Third Award of $1,000 | |
| MA011 | Winning Strategies for Games Played with
Chips Chun-Chen Yeh, 16, Taipei Municipal First Girls' Senior High School, Chinese Taipei |
| MA019 | When Do Operations with Functions Preserve
Periodicity? Yauhen Adolfovich Mirotsin, 16, Gomel City Lyceum #1, Gomel, Belarus |
| MA041 | Investigation of the Correlation Between Remarkable
Points of the Triangle and Tetrahedron Kuat Temirbolat Yesenov, 15, Pavlodar, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan |
| Fourth Award of $500 | |
| MA012 | Cryptography: How to Keep a Secret Using the
Moore-Penrose Generalized Inverse Over Finite Fields Matthew Tamayo-Rios, 16, Langley High School, McLean, Virginia |
| MA014 | Circle Packing Liang Chen, 18, El Cerrito High School, El Cerrito, California |
| MA017 | Crystallographic Restriction Theorem in the Euclidean
Plane Boris O. Figovsky, 18, Leo-Beck, Haifa, Israel |
| MA040 | Adyasuren's Inequality Anar Dauletovna Meirkhanova, 17, Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan |
| Medicine and Health - Presented by Merck Research Laboratories | |
| Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and a high-performance computer. Additionally, a $1,000 grant will be given to their school and the Intel ISEF Affiliated fair they represent. | |
| Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner | |
| ME079 | Inhibition of Programmed Cell Death by Purine-derivative
RPI-069 Eva Lily Vertes, 17, Highland Secondary School, Dundas, Canada |
| First Award of $3,000 | |
| ME033 | Action of Indole-3-carbinol in Breast
Cancer Jennifer Oakley Tschorn, 18, John Jay High School, Katonah, New York |
| ME066 | Regulation of Tumor Angiogenesis and Apoptosis via
Suppression of the Translation Initiation Factor eIF4E in Prostate
Cancer Rebecca Anne McGaha, 17, Caddo Parish Magnet High School, Shreveport, Louisiana |
| ME079 | Inhibition of Programmed Cell Death by Purine-derivative
RPI-069 Eva Lily Vertes, 17, Highland Secondary School, Dundas, Canada |
| Second Award of $1,500 | |
| ME024 | Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) Induces Human
Melanocyte Adhesion but Inhibits Melanoma Cell Attachment Mark Kaganovich, 17, Bloomington High School North, Bloomington, Indiana |
| ME058 | Inhibition of Membrane-bound Elastase as an
Anti-metastatic Strategy: In Vitro Study Ali John Zarrabi, 17, Northport High School, Northport, New York |
| ME063 | Determination of Inter-individual Variability in MDR1
Expression Using Real-time RT-PCR Nikhil Atul Shukla, 15, White Station High School, Memphis, Tennessee |
| ME075 | Inhibitory Effect of Resveratrol, a Phytoalexin in
Grapes, on Human Breast and Pancreatic Cancer Cells Anupama Kotha, 17, C. Leon King High School, Tampa, Florida |
| ME083 | Anti-thrombotic and Anti-cancer Efficacy of
Flavanoids Ahmed Shaker Mousa, 18, Avon Grove High School, West Grove, Pennsylvania |
| Third Award of $1,000 | |
| ME005 | Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Lipid Peroxidation: A
Potential Mechanism for Cancer Inhibition? Caroline Ann DuLaney, 16, Yorktown High School, Arlington, Virginia |
| ME010 | Validation of Residual Volumes as a Marker for
Aspiration Risk James Anthony Stefater, III, 18, duPont Manual Magnet High School, Louisville, Kentucky |
| ME019 | Effects of a Selected Protein Inhibitor on the Circadian
Rhythms of Drosophila melanogaster Sonya Victoria Iverson, 18, North Toole County High School, Sunburst, Montana |
| ME025 | Computer-aided Low-vision Training for Strong Visual
Disabled Children Frank Peter Schmitt, 20, Stiftsschule St. Johann, Amoneburg, Hessen, Germany |
| ME031 | Quantifying the Connective Capacity of White Matter Axon
Bundles Erik Mark Milosevic, 17, Staples High School, Westport, Connecticut |
| ME046 | Immuno-modulating Effects of Lactobacillus rhamnosus
Strain GG on Human Bladder Cancer in vitro Shan Cai, 18, Hwa Chong Junior College, Singapore, Singapore |
| ME057 | Endothelium-derived Relaxing Factors in Canine Pulmonary
and Mesenteric Arteries Irena Ilieva Yambolieva, 17, Earl Wooster High School, Reno, Nevada |
| ME064 | A Novel Pathogenic Diagnostic Computer Program:
Potential Weapon Against Bioterrorism Desmond Ngai, 16, Francis Libermann Catholic High School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Fourth Award of $500 | |
| ME023 | Estrogen and Progesterone Receptor Protein Expression in
Primary Peritoneal Carcinomas (PPC) in Women Candas Pinar, 17, Toll Gate High School, Warwick, Rhode Island |
| ME041 | Gene Expression in Liver of Rats Fed with Low and High
Fat Diets for 120 Days and Treated with Lipitor or Pravachol Tina Chiara Fregeolle, 17, Mast Academy, Key Biscayne, Florida |
| ME044 | Modulation of Glial Activation with Relevance to
Alzheimer's Disease Sehar Sultana Gafoor, 15, Lincoln Park High School, Chicago, Illinois |
| ME053 | Cardiovascular Stents with Shape Memory
Alloys Mark Mohan Mazumder, 17, Little Rock Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas |
| ME059 | A Novel Method for Identifying and Isolating Human Skin
Stem Cells Utilizing MXR-Pump Detection Zachary Daniel Wissner-Gross, 17, Great Neck South High School, Great Neck, New York |
| ME065 | Expression of Constitutively Active Oncogene, c-Src,
Disrupts Cell-cell Adhesion Ankita C Baxi, 16, Houston High School, Germantown, Tennessee |
| ME074 | Various Dosages of Dehydroepiandrosterone: Effects on
Cholesterol, Weight Loss and Liver Conditions Jessica Merrill Druce, 17, Episcopal High School of Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida |
| ME080 | Macular Degeneration and Short Wavelength Macular
Thresholds Victoria Elizabeth Clark, 16, Ware County Senior High School, Waycross, Georgia |
| ME085 | Genotyping Exotic and Domestic Feline Chemokine
Receptors Involved in Manifestations of Feline Immunodeficiency Virus
(FIV) Malini Priscilla Daniel, 17, Kalamazoo Area Mathematics and Science Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan |
| ME087 | Comparison of Citronella Oil Extracts as Mosquito
Repellents Joseph Brainerd Samilin, 16, Leone High School, Pago Pago, American Samoa |
| Microbiology - Presented by Intel Foundation | |
| Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and a high-performance computer. Additionally, a $1,000 grant will be given to their school and the Intel ISEF Affiliated fair they represent. | |
| Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner | |
| MI060 | Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus: Investigating the Role of
Heparin Binding in Retroviral Infection and Investigation of a Potential
Anti-viral Therapy Target Maria Elena De Obaldia, 15, Moorestown High School, Moorestown, New Jersey |
| First Award of $3,000 | |
| MI031 | Effects of Red-Spectrum Light on Cell
Growth Pratik Rohatgi, 18, R. Nelson Snider High School, Fort Wayne, Indiana |
| MI060 | Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus: Investigating the Role of
Heparin Binding in Retroviral Infection and Investigation of a Potential
Anti-viral Therapy Target Maria Elena De Obaldia, 15, Moorestown High School, Moorestown, New Jersey |
| Second Award of $1,500 | |
| MI004 | Survival of Triazine-degrading Wild-type Organisms and
Genetically-modified Microorganisms in Liquid Cultures Aparna Noel Suri, 15, Harding High School, Saint Paul, Minnesota |
| MI009 | Evolution of Nucleotide Skews and Chromosomal Inversions
in Bacterial Genomes Antardeb Guharay, 15, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Virginia |
| MI019 | Antibiotic Substance Obtained from the Parotid Gland
Secretions of the Toad (Bufo marinus) Prem Vilas Fortran Moso Rara, 17, Integrated Developmental School - MSU-IIT, Iligan, Lanao Del Norte, Philippines |
| MI057 | Upregulation of IL-2 Protein Expression in EL-4 T
Cells Jessica Elizabeth Ann Kaae, 17, Charles M Russell High School, Great Falls, Montana |
| Third Award of $1,000 | |
| MI013 | Effect of Magainin-2-Amide on Escherichia
coli Cory Tyson Carpenter, 16, Saint Joseph Central High School, Saint Joseph, Missouri |
| MI036 | Remediation of Berkeley Pit Water Using Genetically
Modified Extremophilic Yeast: Phase III Alexandra Hope Antonioli, 17, Butte High School, Butte, Montana |
| MI051 | Can Anti-sense Genes Reverse Antibiotic
Resistance? Shahriar Akbar Khan, 14, North Attleboro High School, North Attleboro, Massachusetts |
| MI054 | Effects of Sphingolipids on Yeast to Hyphal Transition
on Candida albicans Ewa Szymanska, 16, Utica Senior Academy, Utica, New York |
| MI061 | Crosstalk Between Maternal and Neonatal Immune
Response Jyothi Satish Chandra, 17, Central High School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Fourth Award of $500 | |
| MI012 | Effects of Neurotransmitters on the Growth of
Halobacterium salinarum Zachary Louis Newman, 15, Greencastle High School, Greencastle, Indiana |
| MI029 | Busting Biofilms: Antibiotic Flushing vs.
Antibiotic-impregnated Tubing Amber Ann Stout, 17, Miller County R-III High School, Tuscumbia, Missouri |
| MI038 | Avian Oral and Talon Bacteria: Year II Katie Leandra Dean, 17, Spring Creek High School, Spring Creek, Nevada |
| MI042 | Microwave Madness: Media Hype or Scientific
Fact? Amanda Nicole Hartman, 15, China Spring High School, China Spring, Texas |
| MI047 | Annotating and Analyzing 140Kbp Region of Newly
Identified Bacteria Yu-Tzu Liu, 17, Saint Andrew's Priory School, Honolulu, Hawaii |
| MI048 | Antioxidants: Effects on Microglial
Neurotoxicity Crystal Mary-Lou Pinto, 18, Francis Libermann Catholic High School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| MI059 | WGA Amplification and Thin Film Detection of Methicillin
Resistant/Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus Josh Daniel Haimes, 18, Boulder High School, Boulder, Colorado |
| Physics - Presented by Siemens | |
| Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and a high-performance computer. Additionally, a $1,000 grant will be given to their school and the Intel ISEF Affiliated fair they represent. | |
| Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner | |
| PH016 | Bubble-based Resonance-Doppler Sensor for Liquid
Characterization Naveen Neil Sinha, 17, Los Alamos High School, Los Alamos, New Mexico |
| First Award of $3,000 | |
| PH016 | Bubble-based Resonance-Doppler Sensor for Liquid
Characterization Naveen Neil Sinha, 17, Los Alamos High School, Los Alamos, New Mexico |
| PH036 | Relativity on the Desktop: Illustrative Models of
Einsteinian Physics Michael Henry Fischer, 16, Pacific Collegiate School, Santa Cruz, California |
| Second Award of $1,500 | |
| PH010 | A Characterization of the Fluorescence Spectrum and Gain
Capability of a Novel EDFA Erin Kathleen Riley, 18, Palm Bay High School, Melbourne, Florida |
| PH017 | Gyroscopic Precession vs. Rotational Speed Joseph Turner Graf Hove, 16, Solon Community Jr-Sr High Sch, Solon, Iowa |
| PH057 | Study of Single Crystal Carbon Nanotubes Saujan Venkat Sivaram, 17, Clear Brook High School, Friendswood, Texas |
| Third Award of $1,000 | |
| PH018 | Witnessing the Drops Evaporating Event Cheng-Hua Liu, 18, Kaohiung Municipal Tsoying Senior High School, Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei |
| PH021 | Characterisation of Laterally Structured Field Effect
Transistors Fabian Czerwinski, 18, Gymnasium Bad Nenndorf, Bad Nenndorf, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| PH029 | Surface-induced Coherence in Atomic Fluorescence Decay
Rates Suhan Li, 18, Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, New York |
| PH041 | Quantum Dots: Electronic Interactions and Other
Studies Aaron Jonathan Judah, 18, Marc Garneau Collegiate Inst, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| PH055 | Applied Thermography II German Horacio Sanguinetti, 18, Escuela de Educacion Tecnica No. 1, Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Fourth Award of $500 | |
| PH005 | Reduction of Protection from Laser Eyewear
Exposure Jacob Stolarski, 17, International School of the Americas, San Antonio, Texas |
| PH012 | Model Membrane Biophysics: An Atomic Force Microscopy
Study of Synaptic Vesicle Fusion Vinita Marie Alexander, 17, duPont Manual Magnet High School, Louisville, Kentucky |
| PH027 | Designing a Laser Jamin Interference Refractometer to
Measure Gas Refractive Index Stephen Harold Ingraham, 15, New Fairfield High School, New Fairfield, Connecticut |
| PH049 | Impact of Power Histories on Fission Gas Release in High
Burnup Nuclear Fuel Josanna Devi Weeks, 17, Canterbury School, Ft Wayne, Indiana |
| PH050 | Rotation of an Electrolytic Solution Without a Power
Supply Takayuki Shibata, 18, Chiba-Kenritsu Funabashi High School, Funabashi-City, Chiba-Ken, Japan |
| PH056 | Thrust Produced by Laser Ablation of Thin
Foils Kevin E. Claytor, 15, Los Alamos High School, Los Alamos, New Mexico |
| Zoology - Presented by Intel Foundation | |
| Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and a high-performance computer. Additionally, a $1,000 grant will be given to their school and the Intel ISEF Affiliated fair they represent. | |
| Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner | |
| ZO032 | Biology and Behaviors of Hydra in Chromium Polluted
Waters and Their Practical Application Mingzhi Qu, 16, High School Attached to Fudan University, Shanghai, China |
| First Award of $3,000 | |
| ZO032 | Biology and Behaviors of Hydra in Chromium Polluted
Waters and Their Practical Application Mingzhi Qu, 16, High School Attached to Fudan University, Shanghai, China |
| ZO047 | Determining the Extent of Hybridization Occurring
Between Oncorhynchus mykiss and Oncorhynchus clarki Populations at
Strawberry Reservoir Using a PCR RFLP Analysis Ryan L. Thueson, 18, Murray High School, Murray, Utah |
| Second Award of $1,500 | |
| ZO031 | Genetic Variation in Mountain Whitefish (Prosopium
williamsoni) Across the Continental Divide in Western Montana Julia Hazel Powers, 18, Big Sky High School, Missoula, Montana |
| ZO050 | Investigations of Capricious Gene Expression in
Drosophila Wing Development: Year II Michelle Sumako Itano, 17, Fairview High School, Boulder, Colorado |
| ZO054 | Variations in Leafhopper Populations with Location and
Temperature Therese Anne Catanach, 16, Bishop Lynch High School, Dallas, Texas |
| Third Award of $1,000 | |
| ZO007 | Effect of AICA Riboside and Okadaic Acid on Incompetent
Ooctyes: A Novel Pathway for Stimulating Meiosis Emily Elizabeth Rosene, 18, Nicolet High School, Glendale, Wisconsin |
| ZO030 | Three-dimensional Stochastic Model of Ca2+ Cycling
Within a Heart Cell Anton Valerievich Lukyanenko, 17, Lubbock High School, Lubbock, Texas |
| ZO041 | Mutant Flies and Brain Genes Mengfei Huang, 17, Bellaire Senior High School, Bellaire, Texas |
| ZO044 | Activation by Light of Plasticity-associated Protein
Calcium/Calmodulin-dependent Kinase II Neha Atul Mehta, 17, Great Neck South High School, Great Neck, New York |
| ZO059 | Soy Silage Christopher John Nelson, 18, West Central Valley High School, Stuart, Iowa |
| Fourth Award of $500 | |
| ZO002 | Controlling Fire Ants by Preventing the Molting
Process Melanie Elizabeth Pyle, 18, Colquitt County High School, Moultrie, Georgia |
| ZO006 | Examination of Sperm Morphology for Evidence of
Homozygosity of Sex-determination Alleles in Diadegma
insulare Sonali Rajendra Hippalgaonkar, 18, Lake Highland Preparatory School, Orlando, Florida |
| ZO025 | Inebriated Drosophila: Effects of Ethanol on Offspring,
Year II Claire Lianne Robertson, 16, Byng High School, Ada, Oklahoma |
| ZO035 | Effect of Varying Amounts of Calcium on the
Bioluminescence Mechanisms of Marine Dinoflagellates Daniel Zimardi, 16, Los Gatos High School, Los Gatos, California |
| ZO037 | Modulation of Capsaicin Channels by Calcium and Voltage
in Embryonic Rat DRGs Deborah Lynn Steffen, 17, Glenwood High School, Chatham, Illinois |
| ZO045 | Male Leaving Behavior as an Indicator of Cue Detection
in Caenorhabditis elegans Priya Bhatia, 17, Shawnee Mission West High School, Shawnee Mission, Kansas |
| Team Projects - Presented by Science News | |
| Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and a high-performance computer. Additionally, a $1,000 grant will be given to their school and the Intel ISEF Affiliated fair they represent. | |
| Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner | |
| EN304 | SID (Self-sustained Induction Defferrer) Brendan Joseph Quinn, 19, Saint Patricks College, Maghera, County Derry, Northern Ireland Enda Young, 19, Saint Patricks College, Maghera, County Derry, Northern Ireland |
| First Award of $3,000 | |
| BO308 | Increasing Crop Yields Through the Characterization of
ct2 and a QTL Analysis Laurie-Anne Daniele Haller, 17, Manhasset Junior-Senior High School, Manhasset, New York Upton Au, 16, Manhasset Junior-Senior High School, Manhasset, New York |
| EN304 | SID (Self-sustained Induction Defferrer) Brendan Joseph Quinn, 19, Saint Patricks College, Maghera, County Derry, Northern Ireland Enda Young, 19, Saint Patricks College, Maghera, County Derry, Northern Ireland |
| EV319 | Nitrification Inhibitors Bryan Christopher Tomm, 17, Delavan High School, Delavan, Illinois Erin Joy Lewis, 18, Delavan High School, Delavan, Illinois |
| PH306 | A Novel Application of Locally Formulated Cholestric
Liquid Crystals in Dosimetry Allan Noriel Estrella, 17, Manila Science High School, Manila, Philippines Jeric Valles Macalintal, 16, Manila Science High School, Manila, Philippines Richard Kristoffer Sanchez Manapat, 16, Manila Science High School, Manila, Philippines |
| PH312 | Magnetoplasmadynamics: Creating Ion
Propulsion Matthew Ryan Leonard, 18, Garland High School, Garland, Texas Erin Briann Jennings, 18, Garland High School, Garland, Texas Zachary Aaron Parvin, 17, Garland High School, Garland, Texas |
| Second Award of $1,500 | |
| EN302 | Big Array System: A New Technology for Directional
Hearing Aids Peter Alexander Lee, 17, The York School, Monterey, California Gabriel Elias Klapman, 17, The York School, Monterey, California |
| EN311 | Viscometer for Ultra Thin Films Dora Sosnowik, 17, Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls, Hewlett Bay Park, New York Shira Billet, 17, Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls, Hewlett Bay Park, New York |
| GN306 | Effects of ALPHA-Lipoic Acid on the Lifespan of N2 and
Daf-2 Caenorhabditis elegans Under UV-induced Stress Antonia Yunn Chan, 17, Manhasset Junior-Senior High School, Manhasset, New York Shama Patel, 15, Manhasset Junior-Senior High School, Manhasset, New York Hatty Hong, 16, |
| GN307 | Effect of Heat-induced Heat-shock Proteins on Longevity
in Drosophila melanogaster Lawrence Shieh, 16, Manhasset Junior-Senior High School, Manhasset, New York Mark Philip Santangelo, 16, Manhasset Junior-Senior High School, Manhasset, New York |
| MA306 | A Final Solution of Polya and Sege About Square-Root
Iteration Problem and a Generalization of Sine Iteration
Problem Alexey J. Volkov, 17, School #332, Saint Petersburg, Russia Nickolay M. Klishin, 17, School #332, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| ME301 | Overexpressed p35 Mediates ABETA-induced Tau
Phosphorylation: A Pharmaceutical Vector for the Treatment of Alzheimer's
Disease Anant Ramesh Patel, 17, Astronaut High School, Titusville, Florida Reed Hobby Shaffner, 16, Astronaut High School, Titusville, Florida |
| ME303 | Medicinal Properties of Sambucus canadensis and Achillea
millefolium Jesse Donald Ranney, 15, Catholic High School, New Iberia, Louisiana Kathryn Theresa Breaux, 16, Catholic High School, New Iberia, Louisiana |
| ME306 | Bioengineering of an Artificial Blood
Vessel Benjamin Steel Scruggs, 18, Caddo Parish Magnet High School, Shreveport, Louisiana Ryan Joseph Bienvenu, 18, Caddo Parish Magnet High School, Shreveport, Louisiana |
| MI314 | Investigation of the Effects of 60 Hz Extremely Low
Frequency Electromagnetic Radiation on T4 Bacteriophage Vectored pKK061
Transductions on E. coli Tony Insoo Park, 18, Syosset High School, Syosset, New York Jason Sun-hyung Park, 17, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts |
| PH301 | Motion of a Solid Object in Granular Media Lev Popov, 15, Herndon High School, Herndon, Virginia Uliana Popova, 18, Herndon High School, Herndon, Virginia |
| Third Award of $1,000 | |
| BE312 | Brain Function and Lying Through Pre-frontal Cortex
Imaging An Thien Vo, 17, Central High School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Alice Tang, 17, Central High School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| BI308 | An Investigation of Downregulation of Wild-Type p53 by
using a Dominant-Negative Mutant Allele Mira R Lalchandani, 18, Mira Loma High School, Sacramento, California Denton Hitoshi Sato, 18, Mira Loma High School, Sacramento, California |
| BO306 | Investigation of Cold Tolerance in Andropogon gerardii
(Big Bluestem) Through the Elucidation of Pyruvate, Orthophosphate
Dikinase (PPDK) Katharine Charlotte Meinhover, 18, Perham High School, Perham, Minnesota Sarah Anne Wacker, 18, Perham High School, Perham, Minnesota |
| CS310 | Algorithms for Determining Sequence-Specific DNA Chip
Applied on Human Mitochondria DNA Austin Jerome Minnich, 17, Los Alamos High School, Los Alamos, New Mexico Milo Miaoyu Lin, 18, Los Alamos High School, Los Alamos, New Mexico |
| EA303 | Assessing Locale of Production of Corrugated Pottery
from the Sabino Canyon Ruin Site Using Temper Analysis Falina Enriquez, 18, University High School, Tucson, Arizona Esther Marae Wilch, 18, Tucson Magnet High School, Tucson, Arizona |
| EV303 | Zebra Mussel Size Dynamics Resulting from Mississippi
River Flooding Noelle Joan Oas, 17, Winona Senior High School, Winona, Minnesota Hillary Joan Oas, 15, Winona Senior High School, Winona, Minnesota |
| EV314 | Study of Treatment of Printing and Dyeing Wastewater by
Photocatalytic Method Cheng Li, 18, Jincai Senior High School, Shanghai, China Yulei Chen, 18, Jincai Senior High School, Shanghai, China Shiyi Lu, 18, Jincai Senior High School, Shanghai, China |
| EV315 | Bird Populations as Indicators of Gulf Coast
Environmental Quality Hanh My Thi Nguyen, 17, John B. Connally High School, Austin, Texas Samuel Scott Keyburn, 17, John B. Connally High School, Austin, Texas |
| MA303 | Heronian Polygons Yauheni Mihailavich Staraselski, 17, Liceum #1, Vitebsk, Belarus Stanislau Leanidavich Halauniou, 17, Liceum #1, Vitebsk, Belarus |
| MI310 | Suppression of Heat Shock Protein Increases Potency of
Tobacco Mosaic Virus Peter Nathan Starr, 18, Keystone School, San Antonio, Texas Vivek Kasinath, 17, Keystone School, San Antonio, Texas |
| PH303 | Low Cost Plasma Reactor Mark David Tappendorf, 16, Christian Academy Of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky Brandon E Powers, 17, Christian Academy Of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky |
| PH308 | Accommodating Non-resonant Transitions in the
Controlled-Not Gate of the Quantum Computer Prantik Kundu, 18, Stuyvesant High School, New York, New York Paras Hemant Shah, 17, Stuyvesant High School, New York, New York |
| PH309 | Drag Reduction Based Approaches for Steering Cavitation
Based Torpedoes John Patrick Bennett, 16, Manhasset Junior-Senior High School, Manhasset, New York Andy L Alkon, 15, Manhasset Junior-Senior High School, Manhasset, New York |
| ZO303 | Genetic Diversity and Resource Protection of
Branchiostoma balcheri Gray Ruoying Zhang, 17, Xiamen First High School, Xiamen, Fujian, China Yunying Ye, 16, Xiamen First High School, Xiamen, Fujian, China Fan Ye, 18, Xiamen First High School, Xiamen, Fujian, China |
| ZO312 | Eye Development of Drosophila
melanogaster Chelsey Lynn Barrett, 17, American Fork High School, American Fork, Utah Haylee Ferguson, 18, American Fork High School, American Fork, Utah |
| Fourth Award of $500 | |
| BE303 | Grading Disorder A Julia Ruby Baldwin, 16, Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, Oregon Chelsea B Gokcay, 16, Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, Oregon |
| BE304 | Representational Momentum: How Athletes Perceive
Motion Todd Andrew Ramsey, 17, Classen School of Advanced Studies, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Robert Tyler Elliott, 17, Classen School of Advanced Studies, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
| BO304 | Effects of Increased Natural Growth Stimulants on
Photobiological Processes in Sulfate-deprived C.
reinhardtii Patrick Andrew Gabbard, 18, duPont Manual Magnet High School, Louisville, Kentucky Edward Patrick Connelly, 18, duPont Manual Magnet High School, Louisville, Kentucky |
| BO309 | Effects of Bt Corn Cry1 and Cry3 Variations on
Non-targeted Coccinellids Amelia Madeleine Breyre, 16, Manhasset Junior-Senior High School, Manhasset, New York Carrie Jean Bodner, 16, Manhasset Junior-Senior High School, Manhasset, New York |
| CH305 | Application of Eco-friendly Natural Dyes on Natural
Fibres Srushti Mukesh Shah, 15, J.B. Vachha High School, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Shraddha Mangesh Teli, 14, J.B. Vachha High School, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| CS304 | Exploring 3-Dimensional Cellular
Automata Alexandr M. Ivlev, 17, Lyceum of Information Technologies, #1533, Moscow, Russia Mikhail A. Kozlov, 16, Lyceum of Information Technologies, #1533, Moscow, Russia |
| CS306 | Project Pathfinder: Development of a Genetic Navigation
Algorithm Devin Michael McCorry, 18, Centreville Secondary School, Clifton, Virginia Alexandre Petr Poliakov, 17, Centreville Secondary School, Clifton, Virginia Huy Hong Lam, 18, Centreville Secondary School, Clifton, Virginia |
| EN315 | "Alterbine" (Alternative Energy Turbine): A Clean and
Efficient Solution to Alternate Energy Jon Paul Czinder, 17, Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment, Fairfield, Iowa Daniel Susler Blum, 17, Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment, Fairfield, Iowa |
| EV310 | Allelopathic Content of Rhamnus cathartica on
Germination Characteristics of Lolium multiflorum: Second-Year
Study Kaonhou Her, 16, John A Johnson High School, St Paul, Minnesota PaCha Leena Yang, 16, John A Johnson High School, St Paul, Minnesota |
| EV317 | Biomonitoring: Using Benthic Macroinvertebrates to
Determine the Health of the San Lorenzo River Sara A Koehring, 15, San Lorenzo Valley High School, Felton, California Sarah E Abel, 17, San Lorenzo Valley High School, Felton, California |
| EV324 | Phytoremediation: Can a Plant Clean Up Contaminated
Soil? Teresa Marie Bryan, 17, Grenada High School, Grenada, Mississippi Misty Michelle Boyett, 16, Grenada High School, Grenada, Mississippi |
| GN301 | Pretreatment with Altered Gravity Affects HSP Formation
and Life Span Ross Bartlett Clements, 17, Keystone School, San Antonio, Texas Sean Patrick Leonard, 17, Keystone School, San Antonio, Texas |
| MA301 | Constructing Matrix Approaches to Intelligent
Information Retrieval Victoria Hsu, 14, West Shore Jr/Sr High School, Melbourne, Florida Ronald Hsu, 16, West Shore Jr/Sr High School, Melbourne, Florida |
| MA304 | Description of Identity Basis of the Indicator
Semigroups S11, S21, S31 Mikhail Andreevich Berlin, 17, School #332, Saint Petersburg, Russia Anatoly Vladimirovich Burov, 16, School #332, Saint Petersburg, Russia Alexander Alexandrovich Denginov, 17, School #332, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| MA307 | The Soundwaves of Music: A Comparative Mathematical
Analysis of Different Models of the Flute and Violin, Phase
II Heather Jennifer Rosenfeld, 18, Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School, Miami, Florida Xinning Liu, 17, Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School, Miami, Florida |
| ME314 | I.D.E.A.L. Hospital Bed Jose Alberto Davis, 17, American Military Academy, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico Jorge Rafael Aviles, 16, American Military Academy, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico Omar Jose Figueroa, 16, American Military Academy, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico |
| MI303 | Let It Glow Noma Villegas, 18, Deming High School, Deming, New Mexico Sal Lopez, 17, Deming High School, Deming, New Mexico |
| PH310 | Using Shielding to Decrease Non-ionizing Radiation in
Cellular Phones Benjamin Paul Saur, 18, Marlborough High School, Marlborough, Massachusetts Diana Marie Maichin, 18, Marlborough High School, Marlborough, Massachusetts |
| ZO304 | Stereotypic Behavior of Captive Giant Panda Peng Lei, 17, High School No. 7 Chengdu, Chengdu, Sichuan, China Yi Li, 17, High School No. 7 Chengdu, Chengdu, Sichuan, China Yangyang Pan, 17, High School No. 7 Chengdu, Chengdu, Sichuan, China |
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