2004 Portland Intel ISEF Grand Award Winners

Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award
The winners of this award are the top three students at the Intel ISEF. They receive a $50,000 scholarship award.

A scholarship of $50,000.
CS038	Real-Time Remeshing with Optimally Adapting Domain: A New Scheme for View-Dependent Continuous Levels-of-Detail Mesh Rendering Yuanchen Zhu, 19, Shanghai Foreign Language School, Shanghai, China
EA002	Petrology, Morphology, and Geochemistry of the Southern Juan de Fuca Ridge: Evidence for Off-Axis Volcanism Sarah Rose Langberg, 17, Canterbury School, Fort Myers, Florida
PH026	Low-cost Scanning Tunneling Microscope Uwe Treske, 18, Paul Gerhardt Gymnasium, Grafenhainichen, Sachsen Anhalt, Germany

The scholarship is 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.

Seaborg SIYSS Award
All expense-paid trip awarded to three senior finalists to attend the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar during the Nobel Prize Ceremonies in December.

The SIYSS is a multi-disciplinary seminar highlighting some of the most remarkable achievements by young scientists from around the world. The students have the opportunity to visit scientific institutes, attend the Nobel lectures and press conferences, learn more about Sweden and experience the extravagance of the Nobel festivities.
BE036	Counting Features: Quantifying Discrete Parts in Visual Object Identification Henny Admoni, 18, John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School, Great Neck, New York
CS038	Real-Time Remeshing with Optimally Adapting Domain: A New Scheme for View-Dependent Continuous Levels-of-Detail Mesh Rendering Yuanchen Zhu, 19, Shanghai Foreign Language School, Shanghai, China
PH026	Low-cost Scanning Tunneling Microscope Uwe Treske, 18, Paul Gerhardt Gymnasium, Grafenhainichen, Sachsen Anhalt, Germany

The SIYSS will be held in Stockholm, Sweden in December, 2004. Students must meet the 18-year age requirement to be considered. The history of SIYSS began as early as 1976 when the first seminar was organized by the Swedish Federation of Young Scientists together with the Nobel Foundation, with inspiration from Society for Science & the Public in the United States.

European Union Contest for Young Scientists
For a top team project, an all-expense paid trip to attend the 16th European Union Contest for Young Scientists held in Dublin, Ireland September 25-29 2004.

European Union Contest for Young Scientists
EN308	Increased Channel Capacity in Fiber Optics Through Transmission of Multiplexed Orbital Angular Momentum States Christopher Michael Alexander Verlinden, 17, School of Science and Technology, Beaverton, Oregon Philip Alejandro Munoz, 17, School of Science and Technology, Beaverton, Oregon

The EU Contest for Young Scientists was set up to promote the ideals of co-operation and interchange between young scientists. The Contest is the annual showcase of the best of European student scientific achievement. (The team project must pass the EU Contest jury review prior to attending.)

MILSET - EXPO-Science Europe
For a team project, an all-expense paid trip to the European Youth Science Exhibition ESE 2004 to be held in Dresden, Germany July 9-16.

Trip to European Youth Science Exhibition "ESE 2004"
PH307	Nanoconductance: The Quantization of Conductance in Metallic Wires Si Yue Guo, 16, College Regina Assumpta, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Raphael Gervais, 16, Ecole Secondaire Pierre-Laporte, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

International Movement for Leisure in Science and Technology (MILSET) was founded in 1987 in Quebec. MILSET unites youth organizations, research associations and clubs from more than 60 countries. Expo-Science Exhibition is a non-political event, contributing to peace, respect and better knowledge of all people.

Intel Foundation Achievement Awards
For outstanding work in any field.

Award of $5,000
BI050	Characterization of Mus81/Mms4's Role in Homologous DNA Repair During S-Phase Mitotic Cellular Division Shamsher Singh Samra, 17, Clovis West High School, Fresno, California
BO048	Effects of Nitrate on the Circadian Photosynthetic Rhythm in Cyanothece SP.8801, A Unicellelar Diazotrophic Cyanobacterium Uan-Chen Yen, 17, The Affiliated Senior High School of NKNU, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Chinese Taipei
CH014	A New Method for the Synthesis of Substituted 3-alpha-haloalkyl-5,6-dihydro-[4H]-1,2-oxazines Michael Sergeevich Klenov, 16, Moscow Chemical Lyceum, Moscow, Russia
CS013	PESDOC: A Farmer Friendly Software for Pest Diagnosis of Crops Kanishka Raajkumar, 14, Shreerang Vidyalaya, English Medium, Thane, Maharashtra, India
EN070	Noise-Proof Headphone Jiayao Zhou, 18, Shanghai Jinyuan High School, Shanghai, China
EN082	Stem Cell Tissue Engineering with a Nanowire-Hydrogel Matrix Mitali Thakor, 16, River Hill High School, Clarksville, Maryland
EN308	Increased Channel Capacity in Fiber Optics Through Transmission of Multiplexed Orbital Angular Momentum States Christopher Michael Alexander Verlinden, 17, School of Science and Technology, Beaverton, Oregon Philip Alejandro Munoz, 17, School of Science and Technology, Beaverton, Oregon
EV319	Theory and Practice on Ecological Restoration in Small Shallow Eutrophic Waters Chen Lin, 19, Wusong High School, Shanghai, China Yi Zhang, 18, Wusong High School, Shanghai, China Yajia Lu, 19, Wusong High School, Shanghai, China
MA016	A Novel Set of Representations of the Two-Component Link Group and Consequent Link Invariants Sam Jay Lewallen, 17, Stuyvesant High School, New York City, New York
MA039	The Snake Lemma and Its Applications to Graph Theory Allison Paige Berke, 15, Mira Loma High School, Sacramento, California
ME019	A Novel Method of Enhancing Prostate Cancer Radiosensitization by Natural Compound Curcumin David Nima Meigooni, 17, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, Lexington, Kentucky
ME095	Stem Cell Proteomic and Genomic Signatures from a Tumor Suppressor Gene Mutation that Predisposes to Colon Cancer Mazell Tetruashvily, 18, Cherokee High School, Marlton, New Jersey
PH026	Low-cost Scanning Tunneling Microscope Uwe Treske, 18, Paul Gerhardt Gymnasium, Grafenhainichen, Sachsen Anhalt, Germany
PH052	A Novel Technique for the Quantification of Trapping Forces in Optical Tweezers Yiyi Deng, 17, Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, New York

Each winner will receive a $5,000 scholarship award.

Behavioral and Social Sciences - Presented by Intel Foundation
Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and Intel(R) Centrino(tm) mobile technology-based notebook 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
BE036	Counting Features: Quantifying Discrete Parts in Visual Object Identification Henny Admoni, 18, John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School, Great Neck, New York

First Award of $3,000
BE002	Improving Cognitive Function After Chronic Brain Injury with Hyperbaric Oxygen Zarabeth Lehr Golden, 17, Blanche Ely High School, Pompano Beach, Florida
BE036	Counting Features: Quantifying Discrete Parts in Visual Object Identification Henny Admoni, 18, John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School, Great Neck, New York

Second Award of $1,500
BE021	How Does Learning Sign Language Affect Visual Perception? Elizabeth Rose Kolod, 17, Midwood High School, Brooklyn, New York
BE025	*The Chimpanzee (Pan* troglodytes) Vocalization Project: Rediscovering a Lost Form of Communication** Elizabeth Anne Baker, 16, University High School, Tucson, Arizona
BE035	Modeling Presidential Character: Institutional and Non-Institutional Factors Jarett Scott Goldman, 17, Syosset High School, Syosset, New York

Third Award of $1,000
BE013	How Does Learning Modality Predict SAT Scores? Ilang Mae Guiroy, 16, York School, Monterey, California
BE026	The Development of Political Thought Casey King Hogle, 18, Elko High School, Elko, Nevada
BE034	The Effect of Visual Images and Power Phrases on Contributions to a Hunger Prevention Charity Michael Jason Sloyer, 18, Roslyn High School, Roslyn Heights, New York
BE038	GPS Navigation Means of Travel for the Blind Ameen Abdulrasool, 16, Lane Technical High School, Chicago, Illinois
BE044	The Effect of Relational and Overt Aggression on Social Acceptance and Self-Esteem in High School Emily R. O'Neill, 18, Poughkeepsie High School, Poughkeepsie, New York

Fourth Award of $500
BE008	The Effects of Serial Position on Visual Working Memory Recall Tasks Bhargav Katikaneni, 17, Ossining High School, Ossining, New York
BE009	Racial Bias by Physicians Providing Prenatal Care Tamiko Bianca Younge, 17, White Plains High School, White Plains, New York
BE020	A Comparative Analysis of the Health Related Quality of Life of Breast Cancer Patients and Survivors Antonio Javier Pietrantoni, 15, Academia del Perpetuo Socorro, San Juan, Puerto Rico
BE030	The Peer Pressure Effect Cristina Maria Costantini, 15, University School of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
BE032	More to Reading than Meets the Eye Carrie Ann Kreimier, 15, Rifle High School, Rifle, Colorado
BE037	Analysis of the Influence of Education on Household Food Security in Rural Africa Megan Lakshmi Srinivas, 16, Fort Dodge High School, Ft Dodge, Iowa

Biochemistry - Presented by Intel Foundation
Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and an Intel(R) Centrino(tm) mobile technology-based notebook 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
BI031	Directed Evolution of Hydrocarbon Utilizing Bacteria Vladislav Igorevich Lavrovsky, 17, Queen Elizabeth Senior High School, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

First Award of $3,000
BI031	Directed Evolution of Hydrocarbon Utilizing Bacteria Vladislav Igorevich Lavrovsky, 17, Queen Elizabeth Senior High School, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
BI050	Characterization of Mus81/Mms4's Role in Homologous DNA Repair During S-Phase Mitotic Cellular Division Shamsher Singh Samra, 17, Clovis West High School, Fresno, California

Second Award of $1,500
BI025	Bean Beacons Janet Michelle Freilich, 16, Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School, Vancouver, BC, Canada
BI034	*A Comparative Anatomy of the Effect of Permethrin Concentrations on Lumbricus sp.* Using Photomicrography** Ryan Michael Wisnoski, 17, Crescent City High School, Crescent City, Florida
BI056	The Effect of Plant Polyphenols Ameliorating Oxidative Stress in NGF-Beta Differentiated PC-12 Cells Daniel Shing-shun Tse, 18, David H. Hickman High School, Columbia, Missouri
BI067	R-Cognin Mediates Aggregation via Free Cell Surface Sulfhydryls Shantanu Kadir Gaur, 17, Bethel Park Senior High School, Bethel Park, Pennsylvania

Third Award of $1,000
BI004	The Characterization of Human Epidermal Stem Cells Stefan Vitorovic, 19, Blanche Ely High School, Pompano Beach, Florida
BI006	Designing Organic Blockers Which Mitigate Protein Ligand Binding Between HIV-1 and CD4+T Cells Frank Michael Selb, 16, Astronaut High School, Titusville, Florida
BI018	Uridine Phosphorylase Substrate Specificity: New Methods and Prospects Alexandra N. Zakharova, 16, Moscow Chemical Lyceum #1303, Moscow, Russia
BI053	SmartGEN siRNA Libraries: Bridging the Gap Between RNAi Technology and Human Gene Therapy Josh Max Silverman, 16, North Shore High School, Glen Head, New York
BI060	The Effects of Amphipathic Esters of Ticrynafen on Intraocular Pressure Ishani Sud, 17, North Carolina School of Science and Math, Durham, North Carolina
BI061	Isolating Regions of Amino Acids in Proteins with Significant Structural Backbone Flexibility Tarak Jagdish Upadhyaya, 17, Southside High School, Greenville, South Carolina
BI066	The Role of Brassinosteroids in Root-Cell Differentiation in Arabidopsis thaliana Edith Adriana Pierre-Jerome, 17, Mount Miguel High School, Spring Valley, California

Fourth Award of $500
BI010	Indole-3-Carbinol Protects Normal Neuronal Cells (HCN-1) and Kills Brain Cancer Cells (SK-N) by Downregulating Clyclooxygenase-2 and Nuclear Factor KAPPA B: In vitro Analyses Lascelles Ewen Lyn-Cook, 18, Little Rock Hall High School, Little Rock, Arkansas
BI016	Screening HIV Reverse Transcriptase(RT) Inhibitors from Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms Jianbin Wang, 18, High School Attached to Peking University, Beijing, Beijing, China
BI022	An Evaluation of the Effects of Temperature Increase and High Energy Photon Beams on Drosophila melanogaster Parijata Desiree Mackey, 16, Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School, Miami, Florida
BI023	Pre-emergent Stress on Sorghum Halepense Seed Adam Kenneth Judy, 16, Moorefield High School, Moorefield, West Virginia
BI027	A Rapid Immunoassay for Denatured b-lactoglobulin: An Indicator for the Quality Control of Processed Milk Tzu Yi Peng, 16, National Hsinchu Girls High School, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Taiwan
BI037	Bioluminescence of Dinoflagellates Austin Andrew Chick, 17, Hanford High School, Richland, Washington
BI040	Proliferation and Differentiation of Adult Rat Bone Marrow Stem Cells When Co-cultured with Rat Hepatocytes Joanne Ming-Li Ho, 18, Raffles Junior College, Singapore, Singapore
BI051	3D Structural Physiology of Immune Synapses as Determined by Electron Tomography and Computational Image Analysis David Aaron Germain, 16, Winston Churchill High School, Potomac, Maryland

Botany - Presented by Intel Foundation
Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and an Intel(R) Centrino(tm) mobile technology-based notebook 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
BO010	*Treatment of Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria* Induced Bacterial Blight with UV-altered Bacteriophages** Lauren Marie Smith, 17, Rampart High School, Colorado Springs, Colorado

First Award of $3,000
BO006	Effectiveness of Biofumigants vs. Natural Antagonists for Meloidogyne incognita Management in Lycopersicon esculentum Matthew Jess Richardson, 16, Walton High School, DeFuniak Springs, Florida
BO010	*Treatment of Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria* Induced Bacterial Blight with UV-altered Bacteriophages** Lauren Marie Smith, 17, Rampart High School, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Second Award of $1,500
BO038	A Study on the Anti-Aging Effects of Portulaca Chen Ling, 18, JinCai Senior High School, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
BO039	Functional Genomics: An Optimized Method for Fluorescent Tagging of Full-Length Gene Products of Unknown Function from Arabidopsis thaliana Michelle Louie, 17, Kings Park High School, Kings Park, New York
BO048	Effects of Nitrate on the Circadian Photosynthetic Rhythm in Cyanothece SP.8801, A Unicellelar Diazotrophic Cyanobacterium Uan-Chen Yen, 17, The Affiliated Senior High School of NKNU, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Chinese Taipei

Third Award of $1,000
BO026	*Relationships Among Environment, Duration and Nutrients Used in the Root Initiation of the Solanaceae/Solanum tuberosum* (White Potato): Phase III** Lee Ellen Carter, 18, Central High School, Macon, Georgia
BO032	Investigation of Vertical Transmission Potential of Cabbage Leaf Curl Virus: A Three-Year Study Rachel Lauren Zelkowitz, 18, Lake Brantley High School, Altamonte Springs, Florida
BO033	Determination of the Most Efficient Construct for Insertion of the GusA Gene into BMS Maize Cells: Optimizing Conditions for Protein Production in Transgenic Sweet Maize A. Noel Suri, 17, Harding High School, Saint Paul, Minnesota
BO042	*Inoculation Studies with Gaeumannomyces* graminis Variety graminis on Zoysiagrass Varieties** Alexander Kenneth Biholar, 17, Plano High School, Plano, Texas
BO049	The Pesticidal Attributes of Noxious Weeds Andrew John Friskop, 17, Hankinson Public School, Hankinson, North Dakota

Fourth Award of $500
BO005	Sun and Shade Acclimation of the Photosynthetic Apparatus in Gymnostomum aeruginosum Adam Douglas Yock, 18, Breck School, Minneapolis, Minnesota
BO007	Green Manure vs. Meloidogyne chitwoodi Heather Renae Messick, 17, Sargent High School, Monte Vista, Colorado
BO012	*Revolutionary Expression of Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinases from Arabidopsis* thaliana Using Site-Specific Recombination** Ravi Bharat Parikh, 16, Lecanto High School, Lecanto, Florida
BO031	*Phytoremediation of Trichloroethylene Using Lemna* gibba: Phase II** Blake Robert Wilde, 17, Fremont High School, Plain City, Utah
BO041	The Effects of Cytoskeletal Disrupting Agents in Gossypium hirsutum Carol Margaret Eisenstat, 17, John F. Kennedy High School, Bellmore, New York
BO057	Does Burning Matter?, Phase II: The Effect of Post-Harvest Burning on Sugarcane Yields Under Stressful Conditions Tate Benton-Michael Guillotte, 16, Catholic High School, New Iberia, Louisiana

Chemistry - Presented by Honeywell
Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and an Intel(R) Centrino(tm) mobile technology-based notebook 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
CH028	Mechanistic Investigations of Oxidative Transformations Using Water-Soluble Hypervalent Iodine Reagents Arun Poothatta Thottumkara, 18, Macomb High School, Macomb, Illinois

First Award of $3,000
CH028	Mechanistic Investigations of Oxidative Transformations Using Water-Soluble Hypervalent Iodine Reagents Arun Poothatta Thottumkara, 18, Macomb High School, Macomb, Illinois

Second Award $1,500
CH014	A New Method for the Synthesis of Substituted 3-alpha-haloalkyl-5,6-dihydro-[4H]-1,2-oxazines Michael Sergeevich Klenov, 16, Moscow Chemical Lyceum, Moscow, Russia
CH016	The Challenging NMR Puzzle: Three Novel Antigenic Structures Elucidation Ivan S. Bushmarinov, 16, Mocsow Chemical Lyceum, Moscow, Russia

Third Award of $1,000
CH005	Metallic Monomer Ligation of Manganese Complexes and a Novel Synthetic Route to [Mn₄O₂(O₂CR)₆(bipy)₂] Brian Andrew Sparling, 18, Blanche Ely High School, Pompano Beach, Florida
CH015	Crystal Splicing: An Investigation of the Chemical Composition of Double Salt Crystals Simon Chiu, 16, Sydney Technical High School, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
CH021	New Findings: Chemical Oscillation Using Iron Wire Ayaka Iwami, 17, Urawa Daiichi Girls High School, Saitama, Japan
CH030	Controlling the Growth of Carbon Nanotubes Kunal Nilesh Shah, 17, Manhasset High School, Manhasset, New York

Fourth Award of $500
CH006	Suzuki Coupling: Aqueous and Anhydrous Synthesis of Ferrocene-Capped Thiophene William Stuart Mitchell, 18, Breck School, Minneapolis, Minnesota
CH019	Isotactic Polypropylene Superhydrophobic Coatings on Fabric Substrates Melissa Ann Barber, 18, Dekalb High School, Waterloo, Indiana
CH026	The Effect of Heating Methods on the Production and Residue Build-up of Acrylamide: Phase II Emily Michele Kraft, 18, Signature School, Evansville, Indiana
CH034	Catalyst Improvement for Carbon Nanotube Synthesis by Chemical Vapor Deposition Qilei Hang, 18, Allegany High School, Cumberland, Maryland

Computer Science - Presented by Intel Foundation
Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and an Intel(R) Centrino(tm) mobile technology-based notebook 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
CS038	Real-Time Remeshing with Optimally Adapting Domain: A New Scheme for View-Dependent Continuous Levels-of-Detail Mesh Rendering Yuanchen Zhu, 19, Shanghai Foreign Language School, Shanghai, China

First Award of $3,000
CS038	Real-Time Remeshing with Optimally Adapting Domain: A New Scheme for View-Dependent Continuous Levels-of-Detail Mesh Rendering Yuanchen Zhu, 19, Shanghai Foreign Language School, Shanghai, China
CS057	Brain-Computer Interface for the Muscularly Disabled Elena Leah Glassman, 17, Central Bucks High School West, Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Second Award of $1,500
CS020	Fault-Tolerant Behavior-Based Robots Laura Anne Wong, 17, Villa Victoria Academy, Ewing, New Jersey
CS028	LANCache: A Distributed and Co-operative Client Side Web Proxy Caching Architecture and Performance Yogesh V. Saletore, 16, Olympia High School, Olympia, Washington
CS041	Modular Peer-to-Peer Grid Computing Joseph Anthony Crivello, 16, University School of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
CS053	Artificial Visual Perception: An Integrated Approach to Neuroadaptive Modeling Kimberly Elise Reinhold, 16, Saint Joseph Junior-Senior High School, Hilo, Hawaii

Third Award of $1,000
CS014	An Algorithmic Approach to DNA-based Data Storage and Error Correction Ho Seung Ryu, 17, Pacific Grove High School, Pacific Grove, California
CS042	An Extension of the Dining Cryptographers Protocol to Multiparty, Simultaneous Sender-Recipient Anonymous Communication Bruce David Halperin, 17, Half Hollow Hills High School East, Dix Hills, New York
CS045	The Use of Computer Simulation to Investigate Hallway Congestion Jeffrey Robert Ferman, 17, Berkley High School, Berkley, Michigan
CS051	Invisible Cryptography: A Medical Application Anthony Paul Chiarelli, 15, St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary School, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
CS062	Chaotic Encryption Using Arnold's Cat Charles Harold Greenberg, 17, Suncoast Community High School, Riviera Beach, Florida
CS066	ISAN: A Multi Agent Framework for Secure, Anonymous and Efficient Interactions in Distributed Virtual Environements Davide Venturelli, 20, Liceo Scientifico statale "A.Tassoni", Modena, Modena, Italy

Fourth Award of $500
CS003	Autonomous Obstacle Evasion Robot Juan Carlos Villa, 16, Southwestern Educational Society, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
CS005	Can a Software Program Be Developed that Can Accurately Correlate Mouse Pointer Movement to the Human Eye? Darash Gayesh Desai, 17, Celebration High School, Celebration, Florida
CS007	Academic Network: Internet Homework Management for Teachers, Students and Parents Roger Warren Pincombe, 16, McIntosh High School, Peachtree City, Georgia
CS046	Collaborative Nurse Scheduling: A Novel Approach to Improve Utilization of Existing Nurse Resources Sonia Nijhawan, 15, duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Kentucky
CS048	Adaptive Interference Rejection in Wireless Networking Tarang Luthra, 16, Torrey Pines High School, San Diego, California
CS054	Digital Video Compression Enhancement with Reduced Psychovisual Redundancy Wooi Meng Chin, 18, Chung Ling High School, Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia
CS064	E-Canister: A Reliable Anti-spamming Server Based on Voting and Learning Sung-Jin Hong, 16, Daejon Science High School, Daejon, South Korea

Earth and Space Sciences - Presented by Intel Foundation
Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and an Intel(R) Centrino(tm) mobile technology-based notebook 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
EA002	Petrology, Morphology, and Geochemistry of the Southern Juan de Fuca Ridge: Evidence for Off-Axis Volcanism Sarah Rose Langberg, 17, Canterbury School, Fort Myers, Florida

First Award of $3,000
EA002	Petrology, Morphology, and Geochemistry of the Southern Juan de Fuca Ridge: Evidence for Off-Axis Volcanism Sarah Rose Langberg, 17, Canterbury School, Fort Myers, Florida
EA028	A Multi-Spectral Analysis of Atmospheric Transmission Aneesh Keshav Venkat, 18, York High School, Yorktown, Virginia

Second Award of $1,500
EA005	Transmission Electron Microscopy Investigations of Triggered-Lightning Oxide Fulgurites Britta Elyse Jones, 17, Eastside High School, Gainesville, Florida
EA015	*Age Determination and Size Reconstruction of 15th Century North Atlantic Codfish (Gadus* morhua L.) from Akurvik, NW Iceland** Shaye Storm, 17, Midwood High School, Brooklyn, New York
EA043	In Pursuit of Population III Julie Ann Krugler, 18, Grosse Pointe North High School, Grosse Pointe, Michigan

Third Award of $1,000
EA009	Suggested Transport Mechanisms of Large Erratics Along the Western Flank of the Bighorn Mountains, WY Casey Albert Lipp, 18, Greybull High School, Greybull, Wyoming
EA024	A Meteor Shower from the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2001 YB5 Huan Meng, 18, Beijing No. 80 High School, Beijing, China
EA038	Chaotic Terrain on Europa: Evidence for Hydrological Resurfacing Megan Middendorf Van Ness, 16, Salem, Oregon
EA049	Original and Compelling Evidence of Over 100 Years of Climatic Warming in Antarctica Matthew E. Peneston, 18, Phoenix High School, Phoenix, New York
EA052	Driving on the Beach: A Comparison of Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon Levels Cristina Theresa White, 17, Spruce Creek High School, Port Orange, Florida

Fourth Award of $500
EA012	Turning the Red Planet into a Green Planet: Modeling the Martian Greenhouse Effect Brian Anthony Geistwhite, 17, Farmington High School, Farmington, New Mexico
EA013	The Effect of Tropical Cyclones on Global Tropical Rainfall Monica Simo, 17, Maritime and Science Technology Academy, Miami, Florida
EA016	Water on Mars: How Much Then, How Much Now? Erin Lynn Frey, 17, South River High School, Edgewater, Maryland
EA032	The Relationship Between Sunspots and Solar Flares Eric M. Sauder, 16, Hempfield High School, Landisville, Pennsylvania
EA042	Asteroid Occultations: The Occultation and Description of the Asteroid 208-Lacrimosa Elizabeth English Turner, 15, Oak Ridge High School, Conroe, Texas
EA048	Electromagnetic Earthquake Precursors Rigel Ryan Smiroldo, 17, Leigh High School, San Jose, California

Engineering - Presented by Intel Foundation
Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and an Intel(R) Centrino(tm) mobile technology-based notebook 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
EN010	Acoustic Excitation for Enhancing Interfacial Dynamics of Mesobubbles Joline Marie Fan, 16, Upper Arlington High School, Upper Arlington, Ohio

First Award of $3,000
EN010	Acoustic Excitation for Enhancing Interfacial Dynamics of Mesobubbles Joline Marie Fan, 16, Upper Arlington High School, Upper Arlington, Ohio
EN025	Nanowire Synthesizer Trevor Elliot Powers, 17, James 1:5 Home School, Louisville, Kentucky
EN073	Microfluidic Device for Rapid Isolation of Pure Leukocyte Populations Melis Nuray Anahtar, 17, Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland
EN099	Autonomous Gyroscopic Ocean-Wave-Powered Generator: Invention of a New Energy Conversion Technology Aaron Sargent Goldin, 16, San Dieguito High School Academy, Encinitas, California

Second Award of $1,500
EN006	A Non-Photolithographic Approach to the Construction of N-Type MOSFET Devices Using Focused Ion Beam Technology Ryna Karnik, 17, Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, Oregon
EN017	Total Equip Yik Hei Chan, 14, CCC Tam Lee Lai Fun Memorial Secondary School, Hong Kong, China
EN024	A Faraday Effect Optical Modulator for Use in the Detection of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Waves Mark Philip Croce, 17, Langley High School, McLean, Virginia
EN082	Stem Cell Tissue Engineering with a Nanowire-Hydrogel Matrix Mitali Thakor, 16, River Hill High School, Clarksville, Maryland
EN083	Factors Affecting Cooperative Robotic Behavior: Year 2 Donald Eng, 16, Stanton College Preparatory School, Jacksonville, Florida
EN084	Supercritical Fluids: A Novel Procedure for Increasing the Compatibility and Applications of Polymer Blends Mitchell Stephen Fourman, 17, Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, New York
EN109	The Design and Evaluation of Multi-Freewing Aircraft Ryan Thomas Olson, 17, Giles High School, Pearisburg, Virginia
EN115	Nanocomposite Enzymatic Electrodes for Biofuel Cell Applications Daniel Clayton Appel, 17, Eldorado High School, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Third Award of $1,000
EN012	Autonomous Robots Collin David Arnold, 18, John Marshall High School, San Antonio, Texas
EN026	The Designing and Fabricating of a Linear Piezoelectrically Actuated Miniature Peristaltic Pump Arthur J. Kim, 18, duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Kentucky
EN039	Optical Tactile Sensors for Medical Palpation Pencilla Lang, 16, A.B. Lucas Secondary School, London, Ontario, Canada
EN049	Finding the Faulty Frays in Aircraft Wiring Brittany Baker, 18, Jordan High School, Sandy, Utah
EN055	Electromagnetic Reciprocating Pump Matthew James Mokler, 18, Tucson Magnet High School, Tucson, Arizona
EN074	Robosoccer++ Isak Willem du Preez, 17, Domino Servite, Kranskop, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
EN076	Energy for the Future Cassie Arien Lynn Abel, 15, Hobson Public School, Hobson, Montana
EN090	The Design and Fabrication of the Modiak G2: A Collapsible Kayak with Unified Skin and Skeleton Christopher Dipak Modi, 18, Yorktown High School, Yorktown Heights, New York
EN118	Building NEMO Caleb Lee Meeks, 17, Home School, Pioneer, Tennessee
EN127	Solar-Hydrogen Vehicle: Hydrogen Powered Internal Combustion Engine Truck Equipped with a Detachable Solar-Hydrogen Production Pod Soroush Farzin, 18, Central High School, Phoenix, Arizona
EN130	Flood Plug Jack Tovey, 17, Lancaster Royal Grammar School, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom

Fourth Award of $500
EN009	The Effects of Pre-stretching on the Performance of Electroactive Polymer Actuators Forrest Q. Friesen, 14, William J. Palmer High School, Colorado Springs, Colorado
EN016	Anti-Oscillation System: An Advanced Shock Absorber in Vehicles Ying Kit Ng, 19, TWGHs Wong Fut Nam College, Hong Kong, China
EN018	A Novel Soluble Pentacene Precursor: Synthesis and Application Garrett Nathaniel Traub, 18, Ossining High School, Ossining, New York
EN019	Effect of Automotive Exhausts on Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells Jonathan Brandon Burke Cross, 16, Robinson Secondary School, Fairfax, Virginia
EN021	The Effect of Various Electromagnet Voltages and Payload Weights on the Speed and Acceleration of an Urban Maglev Vehicle Michael John Fraser, 17, Yorktown High School, Arlington, Virginia
EN033	Continuously Variable Transmissions: An Efficient Alternative to the Modern Transmission, Phase III Brian James Beyt, 16, Catholic High School, New Iberia, Louisiana
EN037	Development and Construction of a Digital Inertial Sensor Andreas Neuzner, 18, Weidigschule Butzbach, Butzbach, Hesse, Germany
EN041	The Lift Assist: Second Edition Blake LaWayne Price, 17, Happy High School, Happy, Texas
EN043	Low Reynolds Number Aerodynamics, Phase 3: Micro Air Vehicle Airfoil, Aspect Ratio, and Platform Optimization John Pease Moore, IV, 16, Dayton Christian High School, Dayton, Ohio
EN054	Maximizing Power Density in Direct-Methanol Fuel Cells: The Development of a Novel Surface Layer Feature to Ease Methanol Crossover Douglas George Lavanture, 17, John Adams High School, South Bend, Indiana
EN057	Redeem Your Steam Adam James Leiferman, 18, Kimball High School, Kimball, South Dakota
EN096	Efficiency Enhancement of Plasma Loudspeaker Gabor Nemeth, 19, Palfy Janos Technical Secondary School, Szolnok, Jasz-Nagykun-Szolnok, Hungary
EN101	A Clean Break: A Polycarbonate-Clay Nanocomposite as a Glass Substitute Blake Allen Campbell, 17, Stevens High School, Rapid City, South Dakota
EN125	Tow & Go Fence Post Hammer Phil Alexander Cowan, 19, Yarm School, Cleveland, England, United Kingdom
EN133	Automatic Separating Garbage Can (A.S.G.C.) Won-Tae Kim, 19, Dae Jeon Dae Shin High School, Dae Jeon, South Korea

Environmental Sciences - Presented by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner
EV095	The Effect of Residential and Agricultural Run-off on the Microbiology of a Hawaiian Ahupua'a, Phase III: Molecular Microbial Ecology of Water Systems Kiana Laieikawai Frank, 17, Kamehameha Secondary School, Honolulu, Hawaii

First Award of $3,000
EV003	The Effect of Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles on Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) Toxicity in Cultured Brain Cells: Phase II Andrew Gordon Cook, 18, Lake Highland Preparatory School, Orlando, Florida
EV079	Elimination of Arsenic from Soil and Water: The Use of Hyperaccumulators to Phytoremediate Arsenic Salts Khaivchandra Ramjeawan, 18, Uniondale High School, Uniondale, New York
EV095	The Effect of Residential and Agricultural Run-off on the Microbiology of a Hawaiian Ahupua'a, Phase III: Molecular Microbial Ecology of Water Systems Kiana Laieikawai Frank, 17, Kamehameha Secondary School, Honolulu, Hawaii

Second Award of $1,500
EV020	*Artificial Wetlands: Can Carex* appressa Prevent Eutrophication in Australian Waterways?** Andrew James Stewart, 16, Karabar Distance Education Centre, Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
EV039	Troubled Waters: A Six Month Longitudinal Water Quality Study of the Spanish Fork River Drainage System and Remediation Strategies Shannon Lisa Babb, 16, American Fork High School, American Fork, Utah
EV041	The Role of Hormesis in the Toxicology of Copper in Rotifers Aakash Kaushik Shah, 16, Academy for Medical Science Technology, Hackensack, New Jersey
EV046	Filtering the Dangerous Effects of Road Salt Laura Kathleen Jones, 17, University School of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
EV066	The Conception of Double Safety Fertilizer and Its Experiments Xiaofeng Liu, 18, Fuzhou No.1 Middle School, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
EV090	Bioelectricity: The Microbial Fuel Cell - Production of Electricity Using Yeast and Anaerobic Sludge as Electron Mediators in a CMFC and MFC Built with Recyclable Materials Kartik Madiraju, 14, Centennial Regional High School, Greenfield Park, Quebec, Canada
EV109	Optimization of a Novel Process of Removal of Arsenic Residues from Drinking Water Treatment Waste Balaji V Sridhar, 16, Cherry Creek High School, Englewood, Colorado

Third Award of $1,000
EV022	Minimizing Arsenic Leaching from CCA Wood Stephen Goodwin Honan, 15, W.T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, Virginia
EV031	A Process for Making Used Expandable Polystyrene to Remove Copper Ions for Waste Water Treatment Yu Chen Cheng, 17, The Affiliated Senior High School of NKNU, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Chinese Taipei
EV037	Risk Characterization of Limestone Road Dust and Its Components on Monarch Larvae Growth and Development Rachael Theresa Collier, 17, Mediapolis High School, Mediapolis, Iowa
EV052	The Construction and Energy-Efficiency of Windows Kathryn Lee King, 16, McNary Senior High School, Keizer, Oregon
EV053	Determination of the Presence of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Due to Improper Disposal of Antibiotic in the Sewage System Jennifer Ann Taylor, 16, Bradshaw High School, Florence, Alabama
EV071	Carbon Exchange Dynamics Phase IV: Effects of Elevated CO₂ on the Productions of Ribulose-1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase and Chlorophyll Compounds in C3 and C4 Plants Kellen Marie Calinger, 16, Mount De Chantal Academy, Wheeling, West Virginia
EV088	*Effect of Nostoc* flagelliforme on the Structural Stability and Water Content of Arid Soil** Zixuan Hu, 18, Wuchang Experimental High School, Wuhan, Hubei, China
EV105	The Remediation of Chromium (VI) Katrina Esther Korhonen, 16, The Kinkaid School, Houston, Texas
EV114	Phosphorous Removal from Everglades Agricultural Area Farm Drainage Water: A Four Year Study Patrick Laurence Geer, 18, Wellington Community High School, Wellington, Florida
EV116	Stream Riparian Zone Influence on Terrestrial Invertebrates: Part II Christina Lynn Faust, 16, Cedar Shoals High School, Athens, Georgia

Fourth Award of $500
EV011	The Use of Barley Straw to Control Algal and Macrophyte Growth on Wild Rice Lake Elizabeth Jean Welsh, 16, Proctor Senior High School, Proctor, Minnesota
EV017	Reducing Sedimentary Run-off: A Study of Native Ground Surfaces and Their Relation to Sediment Movement Jason Fredrick Kniss, 17, Southridge High School, Beaverton, Oregon
EV035	Carbon Mining: Fertilizer Dressed in Black Dustin George Hughes, 15, Timmins High and Vocational School, Timmins, Ontario, Canada
EV050	Economical Removal Bacteria from Storm Water Reagan Laura Munn, 18, Weber High School, Pleasant View, Utah
EV051	Fungal Sampling in Indoor and Outdoor Environments: Identification and Differentiation Cortney Ann Timmons, 17, Byng High School, Ada, Oklahoma
EV058	Testing and Development of a Treatment Cell to Remove Arsenic from Drinking Water Douglas Calvin Naftz, 17, Park City High School, Park City, Utah
EV063	The Effectiveness of PAM for Wastewater Treatment in Swine Run-off Derrick Austin Helton, 18, Miller County R-III High School, Tuscumbia, Missouri
EV065	*Rapid Proteomic Identification of a Dioxin-Degrading Bacterium Sphingomonas* wittichii Strain RW1** Kalmykov Anna, 19, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
EV067	Eutrophication in Lake Loramie Watershed: Is Phosphorus a Concern? Mark Alan Flock, 18, Lehman Catholic High School, Sidney, Ohio
EV074	Analysis of Glass Polishing Wastewater: Phase II Kelly Lavian Kinzer, 18, Lakeview High School, Columbus, Nebraska
EV089	Does Inlet Relocation Improve Tidal Flushing in Adjacent Tidal Creeks? A Case Study of Mason Inlet Meredith Alana Parr, 17, Laney High School, Wilmington, North Carolina
EV106	*What Are the Effects of Antihistamines on Avoidance Behavior in Red Swamp Crayfish (Procambarus clarkii)?* William Patrick Jagoe, 16, A.R. Johnson Health, Augusta, Georgia
EV112	Algal Blooms: A Study of Zooplankton-Phytoplankton Interactions in Eagle Creek Reservoir Annette Marie Trierweiler, 18, Park Tudor School, Indianapolis, Indiana

Gerontology - Presented by Intel Foundation
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Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner
GN004	Acetylcholine Chloride Use on Increasing Life Span of Caenorhabditis elegans Allison Bailey Hewlett, 17, Christian Academy of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky

First Place Award of $3,000
GN004	Acetylcholine Chloride Use on Increasing Life Span of Caenorhabditis elegans Allison Bailey Hewlett, 17, Christian Academy of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky

Second Place Award of $1,500
GN002	Cellular Senescence: Factors Regulating the Expression of Telomerase in Euplotes crassus and Saccharomyces cerevisiae Santhisri Kodali, 17, John B. Connally High School, Austin, Texas

Third place award of $1,000
GN001	The Effects of Ginseng on Longevity, Protein Synthesis, and DNA Protection in Drosophila Jennifer Rae Adams, 18, Miami High School, Miami, Oklahoma

Fourth Place Award of $500
GN009	*The Enhanced Regeneration of Dugesia* tigrina Utilizing 670nm LED Photobiomodulation** Keely Ann Goodgame, 15, Deming High School, Deming, New Mexico

Mathematics - Presented by Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company
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Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner
MA038	On the Properties of Jump Points in the Game of n-times Nim Brian Todd Rice, 17, Marion Senior High School, Marion, Virginia

First Award of $3,000
MA038	On the Properties of Jump Points in the Game of n-times Nim Brian Todd Rice, 17, Marion Senior High School, Marion, Virginia

Second Award of $1,500
MA031	A Quantum Algorithm for the Simultaneous Evaluation of Functions: A Combinatorics Solution with Fractal Properties Nimish P. Ramanlal, 15, Seminole High School, Sanford, Florida
MA032	A Proof of Seymour's Conjecture for All Oriented Graphs Brett Alexander Harrison, 15, Half Hollow Hills High School West, Dix Hills, New York
MA043	A Remarkable Property of the Geometric Center of Mass for Points on a Conic Section Boris L. Hanin, 16, Pittsford Sutherland High School, Pittsford, New York

Third Award of $1,000
MA019	The Membership Problem for Ideals in the Ring of Polynomials Over the Integers Z[x] Carlos Eduardo Arreche-Aguayo, 17, University Gardens High School, San Juan, Puerto Rico
MA026	Generalizations of Schur's Problem and the Search for S(5) Andrew Lewis Matteson, 18, Randall High School, Amarillo, Texas
MA039	The Snake Lemma and Its Applications to Graph Theory Allison Paige Berke, 15, Mira Loma High School, Sacramento, California
MA045	Simulating the Behavior of the SARS Virus Using the Monte Carlo Method Eileen Ke, 14, Germantown Academy, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania

Fourth Award of $500
MA016	A Novel Set of Representations of the Two-Component Link Group and Consequent Link Invariants Sam Jay Lewallen, 17, Stuyvesant High School, New York City, New York
MA022	mxn Admissible Boards Huan-Chun Yeh, 16, Taipei Municipal Junior High School, Taiwan, Taiwan
MA027	Pattern Recognition Using Computer Precision Errors in the Estimation of Fractal Dimension Igor Kreimerman, 18, Israel Arts and Science Academy, Jerusalem, Israel
MA034	Determinantal Sequences of Polynomials Samuel Mohun Bhagwat, 15, Winston Churchill High School, Livonia, Michigan
MA046	Self-numbers Nurzhas Makishev, 16, School Specialize in Physics and Mathematics, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Medicine and Health - Presented by Merck Research Laboratories
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Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner
ME090	Novel Nonpeptide Inhibitors of Caspase-3 for Neurodegenerative Diseases YunXiang Chu, 18, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, Saint Louis, Missouri

First Award of $3,000
ME032	*Immunostimulating Properties of a Herbal Polysaccharide from Tinospora* cordifolia for Biodense and Treatment** Reshma Ramachandran, 16, Coral Reef Senior High School, Miami, Florida
ME034	Detection of Anomalous Trichromasy Through Computer Assisted Analysis of the Consensual Pupillary Response to Different Wavelengths of Light Andrew A. Lenoir, 17, Gulliver Preparatory School, Miami, Florida
ME090	Novel Nonpeptide Inhibitors of Caspase-3 for Neurodegenerative Diseases YunXiang Chu, 18, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, Saint Louis, Missouri

Second Award of $1,500
ME008	The Holy Grail of Tissue Engineering: Rapid Angiogenesis for Effective Organ Perfusion Shiv Mukesh Gaglani, 15, West Shore High School, Melbourne, Florida
ME011	Epidemic Outcomes as a Function of Network Topography Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, 17, Brewster High School, Brewster, New York
ME072	The Effects of the Relaxin Hormone on the Laxity of Male and Female Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tissue, in vitro Allison Jaye Landstrom, 17, Southridge High School, Beaverton, Oregon
ME087	Migrating the TABU Assay to a Capillary Electrophoresis Platform: Accelerating the Search for Cancer Treatments Herbert Mason Hedberg, 17, North Attleboro High School, North Attleboro, Massachusetts
ME089	A Novel Approach to Identifying Putative Aging Genes with Comparative Genomics and Distributed Computing Nicholas Paul Semenkovich, 17, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, Saint Louis, Missouri
ME095	Stem Cell Proteomic and Genomic Signatures from a Tumor Suppressor Gene Mutation that Predisposes to Colon Cancer Mazell Tetruashvily, 18, Cherokee High School, Marlton, New Jersey

Third Award of $1,000
ME012	Analysis of Sugar Substitutes' Neurological and Mutagenic Effects via the Ames Test and Dugesia tigrina Kaleb Markus Naegeli, 16, Northwestern High School, Kokomo, Indiana
ME019	A Novel Method of Enhancing Prostate Cancer Radiosensitization by Natural Compound Curcumin David Nima Meigooni, 17, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, Lexington, Kentucky
ME035	Vitrification of Human Oocytes and Bovine Oocytes and Embryos Justin Huai Jin Tan, 17, Selwyn House School, Westmount, Quebec, Canada
ME043	Computer Modeling and Simulation of Smallpox Outbreaks and Assessment of Control and Intervention Measures Stephanie Iris Mok, 17, Mount Saint Mary Academy, Watchung, New Jersey
ME063	Accurate Diagnosis of Lymphoid Malignancies by Real-Time PCR Amplification of Clonal Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Gene Rearrangements Anita Mary Kulangara, 18, John Jay High School, Katonah, New York
ME069	*Structure Guided Drug Design Using Virtual Screening to Find an Inhibitor for M. tuberculosis* 6-hydroxymethyl-7,8-dihydropteroate Synthase** Kanya Balakrishna, 16, Lausanne Collegiate School, Memphis, Tennessee
ME078	Cytotoxic Effects of Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils in Malignant Glioblastoma Cells Carrie Elizabeth Shaw, 16, Mount Tabor High School, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
ME096	Determination of the Embryogenesis of OAVS Lisa Marie Saccomano, 18, Cherry Creek High School, Greenwood Village, Colorado

Fourth Award of $500
ME005	The Correlation Between Folic Acid, Homocysteine Levels and Blood Pressure: A Two-Year Study Tristan Emil Gonzalez-Sanz, 17, Dunbar High School, Fort Myers, Florida
ME020	Alternative Medicine: A Relief for Diabetes, Phase 3 John Zeqi Luo, 16, Bishop Hendricken High School, Warwick, Rhode Island
ME021	L-SIGN and DC-SIGN Mediate Trans-infection of Human Liver Cells by Hepatitis C Virus Catherine Griffith Manix, 17, Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale, New York
ME024	Artificial Muscles: A Simulation of Natural Finger Movement Using Silver Palladium Electroactive Polymers Sushma Chennubhotla, 16, duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Kentucky
ME026	*Biologically-Guided Isolation of the Antimicrobial Component on the Sea-Snake Laticauda* colubrina Schneider Venom** Joy Anne Lim Aquino, 15, E. Rodriguez Junior High School, Quezon City, Philippines
ME031	Hemodynamics, Hormones, and Heart Failure: Software Design, ICG Reliability Testing and Utilization; Year 1 Winston Harmon Messer, 17, Presbyterian Christian High School, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
ME038	Comparative Evolutionary Study of Mendelian Inherited Diseases Using Computational Analysis Jeffrey M. Bhasin, 17, Rocky River High School, Rocky River, Ohio
ME061	Analysis of Metformin's Effect on Brain Insulin Receptors Jason Scott Pellegrino, 17, Manhasset High School, Manhasset, New York
ME083	Context-Dependent Binding by the MYC Oncoprotein: The Cellular Basis for Sustainable Tumor Regression Michael Yu-horng Lin, 18, Saratoga High School, Saratoga, California
ME086	Y-Chromosomal Detection of Foreign Lymphocytes Residing in a Subject Afflicted with Lymphomatoid Papulosis Sam James Howell, 17, Saginaw Arts & Sciences Academy, Saginaw, Michigan
ME091	*Will Benzaldehyde as an Active Component of Cedrella ordorata* Act as a Contraceptive in Mus musculus?** Megan Nichole Griffin, 18, Chillicothe High School, Chillicothe, Missouri

Microbiology - Presented by Intel Foundation
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Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner
MI019	A Novel Approach of Gene Knockdown in Zebrafish Through Targeted mRNA Cleavage Leslie Yee Ming Beh, 18, Raffles Junior College, Singapore, Singapore

First Award of $3,000
MI008	A Chromatographic Constituency Analysis of the Ethanolically Extracted Compounds of Raw Texan Propolis and Their Antimicrobial Effects Richard Joseph Romeo, 17, Douglas MacArthur High School, San Antonio, Texas
MI019	A Novel Approach of Gene Knockdown in Zebrafish Through Targeted mRNA Cleavage Leslie Yee Ming Beh, 18, Raffles Junior College, Singapore, Singapore

Second Award of $1,500
MI014	Studies of Purifying Culture Sewage of Decorative Fish by Fixed Photosynthetic Bacteria Rhodonspirillum sp. Rongfeng Cui, 18, The No.6 High School of Guangzhou, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
MI036	*DNA Microarray Analysis of Shewanella* oneidensis Grown in a Microbial Fuel Cell** Daniel C. Choi, 17, Syosset High School, Syosset, New York
MI045	Effects of Hazelnut Husk Extract on Bacteria Jennifer Elizabeth Goedhart, 18, Unity Christian High School, Orange City, Iowa

Third Award of $1,000
MI010	Identification of Drug Targets in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Using Phylogenomic Profiling Nimish Shukla, 17, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology, Alexandria, Virginia
MI013	Antibiotic Resistant Coliform Bacteria from Feces of Free-Range and Commercially Raised Chicken Charles Daniel Murin, 18, Oak Grove High School, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
MI020	Identification of New Regulatory Proteins for Transcriptional Control of Kdp (K+ Uptake Operon) in Salmonella typhimurium Brenton Daniel Goodman, 18, Jefferson High School, Lafayette, Indiana
MI026	Treatment of the Ultraviolet Radiations on Orange Juice Maria Eugenia Goya, 17, Instituto. Nuestra Senora. de los Angeles, Concordia, Entre Rios, Argentina
MI034	The VCE MDR Pump, Phase Two: Regulation of the VCE Operon in V. cholerae Amanda Dyann Dugan, 17, Rockdale County High School, Conyers, Georgia

Fourth Award of $500
MI004	*Characterization of the Proteome Response of Staphylococcus* aureus to Iron Limitation** Akash Kumar, 17, Wayzata High School, Plymouth, Minnesota
MI018	The Role of GCN5, a Chromatin Remodeling Gene, in DNA Damage and Repair Aditya Denduluri, 16, Saint Pius X, Albuquerque, New Mexico
MI028	Utilizing Bacterial Carpets for Bionanotechnology Applications Mahlet Kabtamu Woldemariam, 18, Deming High School, Deming, New Mexico
MI037	Dustbusters: An Analysis of Agricultural Dust Amanda Nicole Hartman, 17, China Spring High School, China Spring, Texas
MI040	Exploration of Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) Oncoprotein Latent Membrane Protein 1 (LMP-1) Interaction with Inhibitor {KAPPA}B Kinase{EPSILON} (IKK{EPSILON}) and TBK1 Shahriar Akbar Khan, 16, North Attleboro High School, North Attleboro, Massachusetts
MI048	*Microbial Contaminants in the Gross Anatomy Laboratory: Isolation of Geotrichum* sp. and Pseudomonas fluorescens in a Phenolic Waste Mop Bucket** Ewa Szymanska, 18, Utica Senior Academy, Utica, New York

Physics - Presented by Applied Materials
Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and an Intel(R) Centrino(tm) mobile technology-based notebook 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
PH026	Low-cost Scanning Tunneling Microscope Uwe Treske, 18, Paul Gerhardt Gymnasium, Grafenhainichen, Sachsen Anhalt, Germany

First Award of $3,000
PH026	Low-cost Scanning Tunneling Microscope Uwe Treske, 18, Paul Gerhardt Gymnasium, Grafenhainichen, Sachsen Anhalt, Germany
PH052	A Novel Technique for the Quantification of Trapping Forces in Optical Tweezers Yiyi Deng, 17, Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, New York

Second Award of $1,500
PH011	Antibubbles: The Search for Practical Use Michael J. Pizer, 15, University School of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
PH015	Thrust Optimization of Asymmetrical Capacitors Evan Eric Frank, 17, duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Kentucky
PH022	Centigrade 4.0: Turbulent Penetrative Convection in Chilled Water Meredith Ann MacGregor, 15, Fairview High School, Boulder, Colorado
PH038	Two Novel Capillary-based Fluid Viscometers Yu-hsuan Cheng, 19, Taipei Municipal Li Shan Senior High School, Taipei, Chinese Taipei

Third Award of $1,000
PH017	Laser Acoustic Materials Analysis Kevin E Claytor, 17, Los Alamos High School, Los Alamos, New Mexico
PH023	Superluminal Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in the Near-Field Stephen Harold Ingraham, 17, New Fairfield High School, New Fairfield, Connecticut
PH024	JavaPsi: Simulating and Visualizing Quantum Mechanics Marcel Schmittfull, 16, Celtis-Gymnasium, Schweinfurt, Bavaria, Germany
PH031	Tunable Refractive Index of Magnetic Fluid Films and Their Applications Yun-Hsin Chao, 17, Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo Senior High School, Taipei, Taiwan, Chinese Taipei
PH039	A Disturbance in the Force: A Study of the Impact of Moving Objects on the Earth's Electric Field Sean Thomas Malone, 15, Malone Homeschool, Edgewood, New Mexico
PH053	Electricity Production by Benthic Microorganisms in Freshwater Sediment Monica Mary Summe, 17, Notre Dame Academy, Covington, Kentucky

Fourth Award of $500
PH001	Discrimination of Violin Qualities Through Frequency Time Analysis Linden Ruth Webster, 17, Beeslack Community High School, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
PH003	Super Cool Super Strong Catherine Nicole Bewerse, 16, Satellite High School, Satellite Beach, Florida
PH007	Using Infared Technology to Map Air Velocity Acceleration Rates Over the Surface of the Slow-Flight Airfoil Drew A. Papke, 15, Wildwood High School, Wildwood, Florida
PH014	Novel Modeling of Crystalline Grains in Solar Cells Based on Thin Films of Silicon Ondrej Certik, 20, Gymnazium Christiana Dopplera, Prague, Czech Republic
PH020	Mechanical Wave Modulation and Its Applications Amruth Bagali Ravindranath, 17, Sadvidya Composite Pre-University College, Mysore, Karnataka, India
PH033	Generating Giant Pulses Through Intracavity Chopping William L. Hennessey, 17, Escola Americana de Campinas, Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brasil
PH055	A Novel Growth Method for Silicon Oxide Nanowires Michael Edward Coulter, 17, Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, Oregon
PH070	Effect of Methanol/Ethanol Ratios and Circuit Load on Fuel Cell Performance Mitcham Hudson Costley, 17, Rockdale Magnet School, Conyers, Georgia

Zoology - Presented by Intel Foundation
Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 scholarship and an Intel(R) Centrino(tm) mobile technology-based notebook 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
ZO049	The Buzz on Bees: The Effects of Alcohol and Nicotine on the Distribution of Biogenic Amines in the Brain of the Apis mellifera Russell Thomas Burrows, 15, Health Careers High School, San Antonio, Texas

First Award of $3,000
ZO013	Exploring the Role of Protein Tailoring in Mussel Adhesion Edwin Anthony Krumeich, 18, Croton-Harmon High School, Croton-on-Hudson, New York
ZO049	The Buzz on Bees: The Effects of Alcohol and Nicotine on the Distribution of Biogenic Amines in the Brain of the Apis mellifera Russell Thomas Burrows, 15, Health Careers High School, San Antonio, Texas

Second Award of $1,500
ZO005	As the Worm Turns Jon Roger Fichtelman, 17, Vero Beach High School, Vero Beach, Florida
ZO045	The Analysis of Natural Products on the Growth Rate of Turkeys Matthew David Muehler, 18, Hankinson Public School, Hankinson, North Dakota
ZO054	Do Sharks Favor a Color? Kyle William Beighle, 17, Conroe High School, Conroe, Texas

Third Award of $1,000
ZO009	Population and Species Diversity in Relationship to Location and Elevation: A Comparative Study of Costa Rican Tardigrades Clayton Benjamin Marshall, 18, Eastern High School, Pekin, Indiana
ZO026	Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave: The Effects of Alcohol on the Web Spinning Abilities of Orb Weaver Spiders Victor Edward Cross, 16, Central High School, Phenix City, Alabama
ZO033	*A Comparison of Habitat Suitability Index Models for Barred Owls (Strix* varia) in Loudoun County, Virginia, USA** Alexander Wilson Seebeck, 17, Loudoun Valley High School, Purcellville, Virginia
ZO034	*A Study of the Sensory Perception Skills of the Dermacentor* variabilis, Amblyomma americanum and Rhipecephalus sanguineus Tick Species** Chelsea Nicole Grigery, 17, Sikeston High School, Sikeston, Missouri
ZO050	The Effect of Melatonin on Disrupted Circadian Cycles in Hydra littoralis Jamie Katherine Sarbo Wagner, 16, Northwood High School, Pittsboro, North Carolina

Fourth Award of $500
ZO019	Reproductive Strategies in the Monogynons and Polygynons of Spiny Weaver Ants, Polyrhachis dives Ying-Siou Chen, 17, Taipei First Girls' High School, Taipei City, Taiwan, Chinese Taipei
ZO029	*Investigating Qualitative Indicators of Relative Metabolic Rate in Phidippus* sp., Phase II: Establishing Validity Using Quantitative Methodology** Erin Louise Moulding, 16, Fremont High School, Plain City, Utah
ZO032	*Utilization of Spines vs.* Otoliths to Age Archosargus probatocephalus, Phase III** Christopher Jason Atkins, 16, Brunswick High School, Brunswick, Georgia
ZO047	Population Assessment and Control of the New Guinea Sugarcane Weevil on Guam Neeraj Nagarajan, 16, John F. Kennedy High School, Tamuning, Guam
ZO048	The Effects of Appetite Suppressants on the Nervous System of Drosophila Joshua Harold Wheeler, 16, Greenwood High School, Greenwood, Mississippi
ZO052	*Gene Expression and Regulation in Drosophila* melanogaster: An Analysis of the Promoter Targeting Sequence** Vipul Kumar, 16, Cherry Hill High School East, Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Team Projects - Presented by Science News
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Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner
EN308	Increased Channel Capacity in Fiber Optics Through Transmission of Multiplexed Orbital Angular Momentum States Christopher Michael Alexander Verlinden, 17, School of Science and Technology, Beaverton, Oregon Philip Alejandro Munoz, 17, School of Science and Technology, Beaverton, Oregon

First Award of $3,000
BI307	Assessing the Carcinogenicity of Unique Radiolytic Byproducts in Irradiated Poultry Stephen Ross Fuller, 17, Hilton Head Preparatory School, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina Danielle Lauren Butler, 17, Hilton Head Preparatory School, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina Carly Mills Rosser, 17, Hilton Head Preparatory School, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
BO310	*The Effects of Taxol and Oryzalin on Cotton Fiber Quality in G. hirsutum, Variety MD51* Amrit Kumar Das, 17, Manhasset High School, Manhasset, New York Nikhil Gupta, 16, Manhasset High School, Manhasset, New York
EN308	Increased Channel Capacity in Fiber Optics Through Transmission of Multiplexed Orbital Angular Momentum States Christopher Michael Alexander Verlinden, 17, School of Science and Technology, Beaverton, Oregon Philip Alejandro Munoz, 17, School of Science and Technology, Beaverton, Oregon
EV310	The Development of a Simple Microbalance for Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds in High School Ting-Nien Lin, 18, National Taoyuan Senior High School, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Chinese Taipei Ting-Chun Liu, 18, National Taoyuan Senior High School, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Chinese Taipei
MI304	*FISHing for Pseudomonas* aeruginosa via Sequencing and RFLP Analysis of 16s ssRNA Genes** Laura Anne Kaningher, 16, Centaurus High School, Lafayette, Colorado James Christopher Cronk, 17, Centaurus High School, Lafayette, Colorado
PH307	Nanoconductance: The Quantization of Conductance in Metallic Wires Si Yue Guo, 16, College Regina Assumpta, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Raphael Gervais, 16, Ecole Secondaire Pierre-Laporte, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Second Award of $1,500
BE319	Isolation and Evaluation of Native American Mitochondrial DNA Brice Alfred Bongiovanni, 16, Central High School, Macon, Georgia Sameer Gorav Gupta, 16, Central High School, Macon, Georgia
BI303	To Study the Effect of Biological Seed Dressing on the Growth and Yield of Crop Vrishikumar Mahavir Patil, 13, Shreerang Vidyalaya, English Medium, Thane, Maharashtra, India Zeeshan Ali Sayed, 14, Shreerang Vidyalaya, English Medium, Thane, Maharashtra, India
BI304	Systematic Probing Reveals Requirement of PI(3)K/Akt/mTOR Pathway in Genetic Signature of Muscle Hypertrophy Ashley Ali Amini, 18, Yorktown High School, Yorktown Heights, New York Ami Rebecca Amini, 18, Yorktown High School, Yorktown Heights, New York
BO302	Translocation of mRNA Through Grafting Glycine max Angelica Liu, 15, Upper Arlington High School, Upper Arlington, Ohio Laura D. Johnson, 16, Upper Arlington High School, Upper Arlington, Ohio
CS308	Human Venice Luis Eduardo Torre Duarte, 19, C.B.T.i.s. No. 168, Aguascalientes, Mexico Rodrigo Velasco Velasco, 18, C.B.T.i.s. No. 168, Aguascalientes, Mexico Jose Ramon Diaz Navarrete, 18, C.B.T.i.s. No. 168, Aguascalientes, Mexico
EA308	Monitoring Inland Water Quality Using Remote Sensing Spectral Information Junchao Xia, 17, Shanghai High School, Shanghai, China Chaohao Wang, 17, Shanghai High School, Shanghai, China
EN317	Designing a System for Versatile Semi-Autonomous Robots Ashish M. Bakshi, 15, Manhasset High School, Manhasset, New York Eshin Jolly, 15, Manhasset High School, Manhasset, New York
EV319	Theory and Practice on Ecological Restoration in Small Shallow Eutrophic Waters Chen Lin, 19, Wusong High School, Shanghai, China Yi Zhang, 18, Wusong High School, Shanghai, China Yajia Lu, 19, Wusong High School, Shanghai, China
GN302	*The Effects of Suppressing Genes in C. elegans* in Stressed Environments** Elise Marie Adcock, 15, Keystone School, San Antonio, Texas Elizabeth Nicole Monier, 15, Keystone School, San Antonio, Texas Marilynn Tedja, 16, Keystone School, San Antonio, Texas
MA304	Trigonometric Identities at the Intersection of Geometry, Algebra, Number Theory, and Recursion Yu-Lin Li, 17, Dominic High School, Kaoshung, TAIWAN, Chinese Taipei Tzu-Hao Kuo, 16, Dominic High School, Kaoshung, TAIWAN, Chinese Taipei
ME320	SARS: There Is a Cure! Arif Ali Awan, 16, Wagar High School, Cote St. Luc, Quebec, Canada Hamza Mohaimeen Bari, 17, Wagar High School, Cote St. Luc, Quebec, Canada
PH317	Self Organized Criticality in the Dynamics of Granular System Roisin McCloskey, 16, Lumen Christi College, Derry, Ulster, Ireland Breandan Mac Chnoic, 18, Lumen Christi College, Derry, Ulster, Ireland

Third Award of $1,000
BE310	Proving Piaget's Principle Pranali Chetan Koradia, 16, Detroit Country Day School, Beverly Hills, Michigan Asha Jaya Hosangadi, 16, Detroit Country Day School, Beverly Hills, Michigan
BO304	*Study on Drought Resistance of Agropyron desertorum* Under Osmotic Stress** Pu Ke, 16, Beijing No.8 Middle School, Beijing, China Ruo Si Wang, 14, Beijing No.8 Middle School, Beijing, China
BO313	Tradescantia zebrina: A New Organic Solution for Crops Antonio Jose Jimenez, 17, Liceo Experimental Bilingue, Turrialba, Cartago, Costa Rica Edgar Eduardo Vaglio Calvo, 17, Liceo Experimental Bilingue, Turrialba, Cartago, Costa Rica
CH305	*Development of a Chemically Modified Carbon Paste Electrode from Green Mussels (Perna viridis) for the Analysis of Lead (II) Through Voltammetry* Anne Margrette Contreras Velasquez, 16, Manila Science High School, Manila, Philippines Maria Katrina De Vera Rivera, 17, Manila Science High School, Manila, Philippines Alan Ray Escobido Gonzales, 17, Manila Science High School, Manila, Philippines
CS306	Resource Allocation by Integration of Dispatching Heuristics with Genetic Algorithms Yen Tung Yeh, 18, Avondale, Arizona Christina Grace Kwong, 18, Phoenix, Arizona Dean Wong Thongkham, 18, Mesa, Arizona
EN316	Understanding and Applying Nanofiber Technology in Air Filtration Applications Theodore John Rogers, 17, Hoover High School, North Canton, Ohio Albert Roberts Christian, 17, Hoover High School, North Canton, Ohio
EN318	Using Nanoparticles to Enhance Polymer Properties for Improved Commercial Applications: Space Lubricants to Nanolithography Sean Kshitij Mehra, 17, Jericho High School, Jericho, New York Jeffrey Scott Reitman, 17, Jericho High School, Jericho, New York
EV306	Paperwood- Paper from Wood? No, Wood from Paper! Shriram Jayaraman, 15, Modern English School, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Srividya Swaminathan, 15, Modern English School, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
EV311	Study on the Action of Pollutants and One-River-Two-Bank Eco-control Mode of Tributaries of the Pearl River, China Yugang Ou, 15, Tao Yuan Middle School, Fushan, Guangdong, China Yanyi Huang, 15, Tao Yuan Middle School, Fushan, Guangdong, China Ning Chen, 17, Tao Yuan Middle School, Fushan, Guangdong, China
MA307	Advances on Hadwiger's Conjecture Carlos Manuel Fonseca, 17, Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola, San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico Manuel Luis Rivera, 15, Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola, San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico
MA308	Analyzing Simple Linear Patterns in n-Dimensional k-Wrapping Space Aimee Ann Covert, 17, Battle Creek Area Math & Science Center, Battle Creek, Michigan Nathan James Hembroff-Formsma, 17, Battle Creek Area Math & Science Center, Battle Creek, Michigan
ME313	Development of Porous Hyaluronan Scaffolds for Wound Healing Applications Eric Steven Mansfield, 16, Smithtown High School, Smithtown, New York Ezra Katz, 16, Mesivta Ateres Yaakov of Greater Long Island, New York
ME323	The Tumor Suppressing Effects of Phytosterols on Agrobacterium tumefaciens Andrea Michelle Rucker, 17, Yazoo City High School, Yazoo City, Mississippi Tashika Denise Kirkland, 18, Yazoo City High School, Yazoo City, Mississippi Archie Cardell Taylor, 18, Yazoo City High School, Yazoo City, Mississippi
MI308	Diel Variations of Planktonic Bioluminiscence and Vertical Migration of Zooplankton in Puerto Mosquito Bay, Vieques, Puerto Rico Ramon L. Santos-Toledo, 17, Isidro A. Sanchez High School, Luquillo, Puerto Rico Esteban Hernandez-Bonilla, 15, Isidro A. Sanchez High School, Luquillo, Puerto Rico
MI309	*Optimizing Extreme Electroporation on E. coli* K12: Year 2** Lenny Boris Pekelis, 17, Monte Vista High School, Danville, California Jonathan Vinea, 18, Monte Vista High School, Danville, California
PH301	The Investigation into the Electric Response of a High-Velocity, Air-Suspended Piezoelectric Crystal Powder in a Magnetohydrodynamic Environment Ryan Paul Jones, 16, Astronaut High School, Titusville, Florida Eric Anthony Smith, 16, Astronaut High School, Titusville, Florida
PH306	Variation on a Theme by a Singing Wineglass Kuan-Wen Chen, 17, Private Hong Wen Senior High School, Taichung, Taiwan, Chinese Taipei Chih-Kai Wang, 17, Private Hong Wen Senior High School, Taichung, Taiwan, Chinese Taipei
ZO301	Engineered Sound Waves of Varying Frequencies and Their Effectiveness in Deterring Sharks Kaitlin Maria Luther, 16, Henry Perrine Baldwin High School, Wailuku, Hawaii Alana Marie Yurkanin, 16, Henry Perrine Baldwin High School, Wailuku, Hawaii
ZO304	The Effects of Antioxidants on Lifespan and Stress Response in Genetically Suppressed C. elegans Basil Harbi Shadfan, 17, Keystone School, San Antonio, Texas Khannan Kameshvaran Athreya, 17, Keystone School, San Antonio, Texas David Brooks Kaufman, 17, Keystone School, San Antonio, Texas

Fourth Award of $500
BE314	Is Pesle-shaped Thumb Genetically Controlled? Songyue Zheng, 19, Zhengzhou Normal School, Zhengzhou, Henan, China Jie Geng, 18, Zhengzhou Normal School, Zhengzhou, Henan, China Ping Yang, 18, Zhengzhou Normal School, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
BI302	How pH Affects Initial Bioluminescence and Recovery of Bioluminescence in the Dinoflagellate Pyrocystis fusiformis Devon Daniel Smith Kibby, 15, Juneau Douglas High School, Juneau, Alaska Patrick Alexander Hoke, 17, Juneau Douglas High School, Juneau, Alaska
BI305	The Effect of Phytochemicals on the Expression of Cancer Metabolizing Enzymes Tabassum Ahamad Khan, 16, Chamblee High School, Chamblee, Georgia Payal Vasant Kenia, 16, Chamblee High School, Chamblee, Georgia
BO316	*How Fast Does the Bacterium Xylella fastidiosa* Move Throughout a Plant and Will It Move in the Opposite Direction?** Melanie Nicole Amerson, 16, Spalding High School, Griffin, Georgia Jenna Marie Grogan, 17, Spalding High School, Griffin, Georgia
CH303	Environmental Killer: Detergent Tat Wang Sze, 19, St. Pauls Convent School, Hong Kong, China Maggie Man Ki Yu, 18, St. Pauls Convent School, Hong Kong, China Felice Hoching Tsang, 18, St. Pauls Convent School, Hong Kong, China
CH304	*Cinnamon (Cinnamomun zeylaynicum): An Organic Phytopesticide for Chilean Agriculture* Felipe Alejandro Reyes, 16, Colegio De La Salle, Talca, VII Reion, Chile Nicolas Gustavo Cobo, 17, Colegio De La Salle, Talca, VII Reion, Chile
CH311	Atmospheric Chemical Instabilities Thomas Chen, 17, Skyview High School, Vancouver, Washington Sharat Ganapati, 17, Sunset High School, Portland, Oregon
EA306	*A Study of Natural Soil Amendments on Abelmoschus* esculentus: Nutrients, ph, and Shoot Height** Roderickis Deon Robinson, 17, Noxubee High School, Macon, Mississippi Darvin Jerrell Griffin, 17, Noxubee High School, Macon, Mississippi Brittaney Alicia Tate, 17, Noxubee High School, Macon, Mississippi
EA307	Violent Phenomena in Quasars Nicolas Aragon, 18, CEP No.5 Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Las Brenas, Chaco, Argentina Leandro Jose Augusto Salgueira, 18, CEP No.5 Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Las Brenas, Chaco, Argentina
EA309	The Influence of Non-Synchronous Rotation on Patterns in the Orientation of Ice Fractures on the Surface of Europa Emily Louise Ricq, 16, Red Mountain High School, Mesa, Arizona Kyle Robert Strom, 18, Red Mountain High School, Mesa, Arizona
EN302	Engineering and Testing a Hybrid Gasoline Electric Vehicle Ryan Marcus Young, 17, Winona Senior High School, Winona, Minnesota Elliott Hoveland Belden, 18, Winona Senior High School, Winona, Minnesota
EN312	Orthopedic Robotics Bed Jose Alejandro Riedel, 19, Technician School No.9 Ing. L.A. Huergo, Buenos Aires, Argentina Daniel Martin Rubino, 18, Technician School No.9 Ing. L.A. Huergo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
EN315	Synthesis and Characterization of Palladium Nanoparticles Cheryl Schonbrun, 17, Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls, Hewlett Bay Park, New York Michelle Forman, 17, Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls, Hewlett Bay Park, New York
EV304	Conversion of Carbon Dioxide and Sodium Borohydride Waste into Sources of Fuel William Kun Cheng, 18, Sylvania Southview High School, Sylvania, Ohio Henry John Foo, 17, Sylvania Southview High School, Sylvania, Ohio
EV307	Lumos: A Simple, Rapid, and Inexpensive Dissolved Oxygen Determination of Wastewater Samples Using the Tube Bioluminescence Extinction Method of Vibrio fischeri USTCMS 1063 Jayson Reggie Taruc Obos, 17, Quezon City Science High School, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines Trina Granada Napasindayao, 16, Quezon City Science High School, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines Melanie Cayanan Melchor, 16, Quezon City Science High School, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
GN305	The Nuclear Pore Complex in Alzheimer's Disease: A First Look at the Relationship of Nucleoporins to Neuropathological Features and Apoptosis Hayley Beth Miskiewicz, 18, Midwood High School, Brooklyn, New York Lindsey Blair Tannenbaum, 18, Midwood High School, Brooklyn, New York
MA301	The Sufficient Conditions for Riesz Bases Danila Alexandrovich Fandeev, 15, Center of Mathematical Education, St.Petersburg, Russia Daniil Victorovich Hritoshin, 16, Center of Mathematical Education, St.Petersburg, Russia Stepan Alexandrovich Ismakaev, 15, Center of Mathematical Education, St.Petersburg, Russia
ME314	*The in vitro* Inhibition of Human Neutrophil Elastase by Ursolic Acid: Implications for Treatment of Cystic Fibrosis** Storm Michael Liebling, 18, Smithtown High School, Smithtown, New York Kevin Kayvan Zarrabi, 17, Smithtown High School, Smithtown, New York Dustin Brand Liebling, 18, Smithtown High School, Smithtown, New York
ME318	The Effects of Aspartame Observed in the Mass of Mus musculus Elaine Adelman Hulteng, 16, Wilsonville High School, WILSONVILLE, Oregon Rachel Lynn Reitmeyer, 18, Wilsonville High School, WILSONVILLE, Oregon
MI316	*Effect of Antibiotic Feed Additives on Drug-resistant Escherichia* coli Levels in Consumer Meats** Anna Katharine Johns, 17, The Altamont School, Birmingham, Alabama Aja Maria Hazelhoff, 17, The Altamont School, Birmingham, Alabama Mary Elizabeth Griffin, 17, The Altamont School, Birmingham, Alabama
ZO302	The Effect of Exotic Earthworm Species on Forest Ecosystems in Northern Minnesota (Soil Bulk Density and Soil Nutrient Content) Kirsti Anna Hakala, 17, Cloquet Senior High School, Cloquet, Minnesota Jillian Rita Beaufeaux, 17, Cloquet Senior High School, Cloquet, Minnesota
ZO306	*A Study of Group Dynamics and Variation in the Beadlet Anemone (Actinia* equina)** Darran Joseph Treanor, 16, Abbey Grammar School, Newry, Ireland Fergal Daniel Garvey, 16, Abbey Grammar School, Newry, Ireland
ZO309	Ecology of the Intertidal Zone: A Study of the Impact of Mussels on the Biodiversity of Conspicuous Biota Sarah G Wood, 17, San Lorenzo Valley High School, Felton, California Michele L Lanctot, 17, San Lorenzo Valley High School, Felton, California
ZO310	Tentative Studies on the Effect of Blue-green Algae on Fish Zhaoming Peng, 18, No.1 High School Attached to CCNU, Wuhan, Hubei, China Xi Wang, 18, No.1 High School Attached to CCNU, Wuhan, Hubei, China Chun Li, 18, No.1 High School Attached to CCNU, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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