Every finalist received at least $25,000. Names, schools, hometowns and project titles as published on the official finalist list.
Ayush AlagThe Harker School · San Jose, CAComputational DNA Methylation Analysis of Food Allergy Yields Novel 13-gene Signature to Diagnose Clinical Reactivity
Adam ArdeisharThomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology · Alexandria, VAExtreme Values of a Statistical Distribution Relating to the Coupon Collector Problem
Carolyn BeaumontPotomac School · McLean, VANew Analysis Reevaluates the Effect of Water on Silicate Melt Structures by Comparing FTIR and NMR Spectra of Water Interactions with Melts of Albite under Conditions Mimicking the Upper Mantle
Grace CaiMontgomery Blair High School · Silver Spring, MDAn Urgency Dependent Quorum Sensing Algorithm for N-Site Selection in Autonomous Swarms
Anjali ChadhaduPont Manual Magnet High School · Louisville, KYDevelopment of a Fully Automated 3D Printed IoT Sensor for Arsenic Detection in Groundwater
Lyron Co Ting KehCrescenta Valley High School · La Crescenta, CAHICCUP: A Novel Hierarchical Machine Learning Model for Cancer of Unknown Primary Classification
Samuel FergusonWest Windsor-Plainsboro High School South · Princeton Junction, NJDesign Study of a Blended Wing Body Aircraft
Vincent HuangPlano West Senior High School · Plano, TXModeling Refugee Migration: Mathematical and Algorithmic Models of Refugee Crises
Ana HumphreyT. C. Williams High School · Alexandria, VAFinding Exoplanets by Assessing the Dynamical Packing of Kepler Multi-Candidate Systems
Navami JainNorth Carolina School of Science and Mathematics · Durham, NCDevelopment of Integrated Ionic Liquid System for Simultaneous Pretreatment and Biomass Saccharification of Fermentable Sugars
Aayush KaranUniversity School of Milwaukee · Milwaukee, WIGenerating Set for Nonzero Determinant Links Under a Skein Relation
Ananya KarthikSt. Francis High School · Mountain View, CAUltrasonic Drug Uncaging from Polymeric Perfluoropentane Nanoparticles
Preeti KrishnamaniCharter School of Wilmington · Wilmington, DEEffects of Silicon Amendments on the Concentration and Adsorption Properties of Iron-Oxides in Rice Paddy Soils
Chirag KumarHorace Greeley High School · Chappaqua, NYA Machine Learning Approach to Estimating the Error in Satellite Sea Surface Temperature Measurements
Varun KumarBergen County Academies · Hackensack, NJDihydrotanshinone: A Pan-Therapeutic Treatment for Chemoresistance in Cancer
Thomas LamSyosset High School · Syosset, NYThe Number Rotation Puzzle
Gabrielle LiuRavenwood High School · Brentwood, TNWeight Friction: A Simple Method to Overcome Catastrophic Forgetting and Enable Transfer Learning in Neural Networks
Eish MaheshwariHerricks High School · New Hyde Park, NYDesign of a Red Blood Cell-Based Drug-Delivery Platform for Improving Curcumin Pharmacokinetics and Bioavailability via Reengineered Silica Nanoparticles
Sai MamidalaGarnet Valley High School · Glen Mills, PAElectrochemical Oxidation of Formate on a PdNi/C Nanoparticle Catalyst for Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage
Natasha ManiarThe Harker School · San Jose, CAMapAF: Deep Learning to Improve Therapy of Complex Human Heart Rhythm Abnormalities
Braden MilfordCascia Hall Preparatory School · Tulsa, OKDeveloping a Novel Heavy Metal Bioremediation System Utilizing Immobilized Mixed Alage Partnered with Heavy Metal Resistant Microbial Isolates Collected from Contaminated Superfund Mine Sites and Identified with a 16S Ribosomal Subunit Analysis
Emma MontgomeryOssining High School · Ossining, NYImproved Base Editors and a Novel Sensor Assay Advance Gene Editing Technology
Ahmad PerezBrentwood High School – Sonderling Center · Brentwood, NYAssessing Marsh Degradation in Two Long Island Salt Marshes and a Method for Restoration
Brent PerlmanByram Hills High School · Armonk, NYHuman photosynthesis: Functional chloroplast sequestration in human mesenchymal stem cells
Kevin QianMontgomery Blair High School · Silver Spring, MDHeisenberg-Scaling Measurement Protocol for Analytic Functions with Quantum Sensor Networks
Ronak RoyCanyon Crest Academy · San Diego, CASmartphone-Controlled Portable Phoropter Powered by Variable Focal Length Liquid Lens
Eshika SaxenaInterlake High School · Bellevue, WAHemaCam: A Computer Vision-Enhanced Mobile Phone Imaging System for Automated Screening of Hematological Diseases with Convolutional Neural Networks
Ruhi SayanaThe Harker School · San Jose, CAPrecision Care for Leukemia: Discovery of Novel Therapeutics for High-Risk ALL via Epigenetic and Computational Transcriptome Profiling
Daniel SchäfferMontgomery Blair High School · Silver Spring, MDEvolutionary Origins of Animal ER Calcium Signaling and a Proposed Role for the Channelopathy Protein Wolframin
Justin SchiavoRoslyn High School · Roslyn Heights, NYThe Effect of the Aerospike Nozzle on the Hybrid Rocket Engine
Rachel SeeversPaul Laurence Dunbar High School · Lexington, KYThe Virtual Winglet: A Novel Approach to Boundary Layer Manipulation and Wingtip Vortex Suppression
Aditi SinghHorace Greeley High School · Chappaqua, NYDescriptive and normative accounts of color localization performance in visual short-term memory
Amol SinghLynbrook High School · San Jose, CASTAC-STIC: Novel Computational Pipeline to Generate Digital Super-Resolution Static Representations of Pathology Slides
Julia SituCanyon Crest Academy · San Diego, CAIdentification and Functional Characterization of Circular RNAs in Drosophila Innate Immunity
Madhav SubramanianJericho Senior High School · Jericho, NYETM* is indispensable to endothelial behaviour during tumor angiogenesis
William WangOklahoma School of Science & Mathematics · Oklahoma City, OKRed photoluminescent Eu3+-doped Y2O3 nanospheres and nanosheets as photon down-converters for LED-phosphor applications: Synthesis and characterization
Zoe WeissLakeside High School · Atlanta, GANew Cell Type Detection via a Universal Single-Cell Gene Expression Algorithm
Samuel WeissmanHarriton High School of Lower Merion · Rosemont, PAMassive Longitudinal HIV Sequencing in Two Subjects on Antiretroviral Therapy Reveals Opposing Selection Pressures on the Treatment Resistant Reservoir and Suggests New Drug Targets
Frank XuBrookline High School · Brookline, MAA unique metalloproteinase complex: ADAM10-MMP14
Madeleine YangDetroit Country Day School · Beverly Hills, MIEnabling M2-incorporated Influenza Virus-like Particles (VLPs) as a Potential Universal Influenza Vaccine