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A Proud Supporter of the Montgomery County Science Fair
Springfield, VA | Rockville, MD | Frederick, MD | Sierra Vista, AZ | San Antonio, TX | Austin, TX
March 11, 12, & 13, 2016
Montgomery County Science Fair
Sponsors
2016
ELEMENTS OF SUPPORT
Pt-Platinum ($15,000+)
MedImmune
Ti-Titanium ($5,000-$9,999)
Information Innovations, Inc.
Northrop Grumman
United Therapeutics Corporation
Ag-Silver ($1,000-$4,999)
FDA Science Center
MRIGlobal
Cu-Copper ($500-$999)
Milton Axley, PhD
Ellen and Bill Kominers
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Rockville Science Center
Mary Shaffran
Technical Resources International, Inc.
Dongbo Wang, PhD
Fe-Iron ($150-$499) Kevin and Patricia Brady in thanks to Jim Douglas
Lerch, Early & Brewer, Chtd
Jan Linkenhoker, DVM, MSPH
Ram Narula
Friends of Eric Afoakwah, PhD
Sunil Lingayat, PhD
ScienceMONTGOMERY Nuray and Yavuz Anahtar
Yaguang Luo
(Up to $149)Angelique BosseAnne Merrell
Christopher CochranValerie Miller, PhD
David Hokey, PhDSomeet Narang, PhD
Laura Lee Johnson, PhDAprajita Srivastava
April Killikelly, PhDRaghavan Venkat, PhD
Shelley Kluska
Program Cover Art & Design
Design: Someet Narang, PhD
Image courtesy of the Materials Research Society (www.mrs.org)
Science as Art Competition and Yue Wang, University of California, Los Angeles
Description: An SEM image of a thin-sheet network composed of doped aniline oligomers. The
aggregated sheets in the upper right corner forms a cluster that mimics the look of a flower, whereas
other flexible sheets represents leaves and stems. Scientifically, this morphology combines high
surface area and electrical conductivity, rendering it ideal for organic supercapacitors and sensors.
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2016
Fair Schedule
www.ScienceMONTGOMERY.org
Food and Drug Administration, White Oak Campus,
10903 New Hampshire Ave.
Silver Spring, MD 20993
FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2016
4 PM–9 PMStudent Project Set-Up: Set-up display boards and go through Safety Inspection at
FDA White Oak Campus. Mentors, teachers, family members, and friends of Fair
Participants are welcome to view the projects.
SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 2016
9:30 AM–12:15 PM Judges Preview Period (No students present)
12:15 PM–1:00 PM Students admitted
1:00 PM–4:00 PM Student Interviews: All Judges, all grades;
Students must stay till end of all judging
4:00 PM–5:00 PM Project Removal: All projects must be removed by 5 PM
or they will be discarded.
SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 2016
2:00 PM–4:00 PMAwards Ceremony at Albert Einstein High School,
11135 Newport Mill Rd., Kensington, MD 20895
4:00 PM–5:00 PMMeeting with ScienceMONTGOMERY High School International Science and
Engineering Fair (ISEF) Winners and First Runner-up and their families, about
trip to Phoenix, AZ for ISEF, Albert Einstein High School Auditorium Stage
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Food and Drug Administration
(FDA)
Science Center
White Oak Campus,
Silver Spring, MD
Is A Proud Sponsor Of the
2016
MONTGOMERY County
Science Fair
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MRIGlobal:
Supporting Tomorrow’s Scientists Today
MRIGlobal is proud to support this year’s
Montgomery Area Science Fair and salutes the intelligence,
inventiveness, and ingenuity of all the participating students.
MRIGlobal is a not-for-profit research and development organization that delivers global solutions in national security
and defense, energy and environment, life and animal sciences, agriculture and food safety, and transportation.
Visit us at www.mriglobal.org.
1330 Piccard Drive, Suite 101 • Rockville, MD 20850-4337
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MONTGOMERY AREA SCIENCE FAIR ASSOCIATION
Welcome to the Montgomery County Science Fair!
ScienceMONTGOMERY congratulates and applauds the students who participated in the 2016 Montgomery County
Science Fair. We hope that conducting these science projects and presenting the hard work that went into them was an
enjoyable and valuable experience.
The Montgomery County Science Fair brings together scientists, engineers, mathematicians, educators, parents, and
young student scientists from Montgomery County. ScienceMONTGOMERY provides a venue for competition and
research presentation among hundreds of students from public, private, and home school affiliations in grades 6 through
12. We provide cash prizes for project excellence through our numerous Category Awards. Complementing these are a
large number of Community Awards generously provided by various business, scientific, professional, and educational
organizations, and US Government agencies. Students are competing for more than $40,000 worth of prizes in the form
of cash, scholarships, internships, travel, banquets, bonds, books, certificates, medals, and merchandise. As an affiliate
of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), ScienceMONTGOMERY also awards fully funded travel
scholarships to four projects to compete in the 2016 International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, AZ.
ScienceMONTGOMERY is a 501(c)3, nonprofit, all volunteer organization which relies on generous sponsors to fund the
county-wide fair competition each year. For the twelfth consecutive year, MedImmune serves as our premier sponsor,
for which we are most grateful. We also are thankful for the generous support of Information Innovation, Inc., Northrop
Grumman and the United Therapeutics Corporation. Other major sponsors are MRI Global, and the Food and Drug
Administration.
The all-volunteer ScienceMONTGOMERY Board of Directors wishes to thank each of the organizations and individuals
listed in this program for making the Fair possible. Every year, we are indebted to the more than 200 volunteer judges
who painstakingly evaluate projects and encourage students’ further pursuit of scientific understanding. All of our
sponsors, judges, and volunteers make the Fair possible, and we thank you.
I would like to personally thank and acknowledge the ScienceMONTGOMERY Board members who have contributed
significant talent, time, and resources late at night, after work, on weekends, and in good and bad weather to make the
Fair happen. I also want to thank the parents, teachers, mentors, and sponsors who supported and encouraged Fair
participants.
Finally, and most importantly, I want to thank all of the student participants for their hard work, dedication, enthusiasm,
passion for science, and willingness to be part of the Montgomery County Science Fair. I sincerely hope this has been a
rewarding, valuable, and unforgettable experience that you will carry with you in your careers.
Jan Linkenhoker, DVM, MSPH
Fair Director
March 2016
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OFFICE OF THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE
ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND 20850
Isiah Leggett
County Executive
February 8, 2016
Dr. Jan Linkenhoker
Fair Director
ScienceMONTGOMERY
Montgomery Area Science Association
10606 Sweepstakes Rd
Damascus, Maryland 20872
Dear Dr. Linkenhoker:
Montgomery County supports and applauds ScienceMONTGOMERY and your ongoing
efforts to encourage interest in science throughout our community. Programs like yours help
nurture Montgomery County’s longstanding national and international prominence in the life
sciences and technology fields. The countywide Science Fair annually attracts hundreds of
Montgomery County public and private school students and we are very proud to support your
mission to celebrate performance in science education throughout the County.
Now more than ever, Montgomery County is doing all it can to ensure a strong, vibrant
economy and healthy, sustainable communities for future generations. Maintaining one of the
nation’s highest performing public school systems is essential to these goals, and the talented and
dedicated students being recognized this year illustrate our success in this area.
I commend the important contributions you and ScienceMONTGOMERY make within
the community, and applaud those businesses that who have pledged their support to recognize
the talents and achievement of our youth.
Sincerely,
Isiah Leggett
County Executive
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www.montgomerycountymd.gov
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MONTGOMERY AREA SCIENCE FAIR ASSOCIATION
60TH Montgomery Area Science Fair–2016
FDA Science Center, White Oak Campus, 10903 New Hampshire Ave, Silver Spring, MD
OFFICERS AND BOARD, MONTGOMERY AREA SCIENCE FAIR ASSOCIATION
President: Dongbo Wang, Ph.D.
Secretary:
Eric Afoakwah, Ph.D.
NISTAeras
Fair Director: Jan Linkenhoker, DVM, MSPH, DACLAM
Treasurer: NIH
Christopher Cochran
Walter Johnson High School
BOARD MEMBERS
Nuray Anahtar, AIA
NOA Architects
Sunil Lingayat, Ph.D.
Northrop Grumman
Yavuz Anahtar, RA
NOA Architects
Anne Merrell
Ridgeview Middle School
Milton Axley, Ph.D.
MedImmune
Valerie Miller, Ph.D.
NIH
Angelique Bosse
Montgomery Blair High School
Someet Narang, Ph.D.
MedImmune
David Hokey, Ph.D.
Aeras
Ram Narula
Narula Energy and Environmental Consultants
Laura Lee Johnson, Ph.D.
FDA
Mary Shaffran
Northrop Grumman
April Killikelly, Ph.D.
NIH, NIAID, VRC
Aprajita Srivastava
Netransform LLC
Shelley Kluska
Northrop Grumman
Raghavan Venkat, Ph.D.
MedImmune
Persons interested in joining the Science MONTGOMERY Board should contact FairDirector@sciencemontgomery.org
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AWARDS PROGRAM
2:00 P. M.
Sunday, March 13, 2016
Albert Einstein High School Auditorium
Opening of Awards Program and Welcome to ScienceMontgomery
Jan Linkenhoker, Fair Director
Dongbo Wang, President
Presentation of Category Awards*
Raghavan Venkat, Board Member
Presentation of Community Awards*
Raghavan Venkat, Board Member
Presentation of Broadcom and ISEF Awards**
Thank you and Adjournment Jan Linkenhoker, Fair Director
ISEF Award Winners Meeting 4:00 PM-5:00 PM
ISEF Committee and ISEF finalists and parents
*When called on stage for awards, students will shake hands with board members on stage, receive placeholder award, and then follow
arrows to exchange placeholder for actual award.
*Please hold applause until all awardees for a given category or community award are presented.
**Broadcom winners will be announced and asked to come onto the stage for Broadcom packets and group photo. After Broadcom
winners are dismissed from the stage, the ISEF award winners will be announced and asked to come onto the stage for a group photo.
SPECIAL FAIR RESPONSIBILITIES:
Venue and Food Jan Linkenhoker, April Killikelly
Website Oversight Jan Linkenhoker, April Killikelly
Category Awards Sunil Lingayat
Community Awards Nuray Anahtar, Yavuz Anahtar Co-Chairs
Outreach Chair Someet Narang
Program Raghavan Venkat
Display and Safety Committee Anne Merrell
Fund Raising Dongbo Wang
Data Entry Eric Afoakwah
T-Shirts and Check-In Aprajita Srivastava
Scientific Review Committee Laura Lee Johnson, Chair
MembersEric Afoakwah, Milton Axley, Kate Baldwin, Susan Baker, Robyn Bent,
Donna Blaney, Angelique Bosse, Christopher Cochran, Kevin Connolly,
James Douglas, Deborah Pober Haase, David Hokey, Michelle Kluska, Jan
Linkenhoker, Cathryne Manner, Stephen Mason, Anne Merrell, Patricia
Miller, Valerie Miller, Mary Shaffran, Elizabeth Vincent, Dongbo Wang
SRC Data Management Adam Berger, Megan Brady, Taylor Douglas, Maggie Glaudemans
ISEF DelegationMilton Axley, Angelique Bosse, Laura Lee Johnson, Jan Linkenhoker,
Patricia Miller
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Community Organizations Presenting Awards–2016
Achievers League USA LLC
Lockheed Martin
Aerospace Corporation
MdBioLab
American Industrial Hygiene Society—Potomac Section
MIT Club of Washington DC
American Institute of Aeronautics and AstronauticsNational Capital Chapter sience
MedImmune
American Meteorological Society—DC Chapter
American Nuclear Society, Washington, DC Section
American Psychological Association
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Metro Bethesda Rotary Club
MBHS Magnet Class of 2004 Science Fair Award
MRIGlobal
Mu Alpha Theta
ASM Materials Education Foundation—DC Chapter
National Capital Area Chapter – Society of Toxicology
(NCAC-SOT)
Association for Women Geoscientists
National Capital Astronomers
ASU Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives
NASA EARTH System Science Award
Bethesda Magazine
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Biophysical Society
Office of Naval Research (U.S. Navy/ U.S. Marine Corps)
Broadcom MASTERS Competition
Optical Society of America, National Capital Section/IEEE
Phototonics
Central Intelligence Agency
Clean Air Partners
DC Water
Federal Water Quality Association
Friends of Agricultural Research-Beltsville (FAR-B)
GENIUS Olympiad—SUNY Oswego
Geological Society of Washington
Graduate Women in Science
Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson’s “Excellence in Science” Award
IEEE Washington Section
Intel Excellence in Computer Science
Intel Science Talent Search
I-SWEEEP
KJW Young Scientists Association
Ricoh Americas Corporation
Rockville Science Center
Sigma Xi—FDA Chapter
Sigma Xi—NIST Chapter
Society for In Vitro Biology
Stockholm Junior Water Prize
U.S. Air Force
United States Metric Association
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
U.S. Public Health Service
United States Public Health Service--Commissioned Officers
Association, D.C.
Washington Statistical Society
Yale Science and Engineering Association, Inc.
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ScienceMONTGOMERY 2016 Update
Congratulations to our 2015 ScienceMONTGOMERY Grand (ISEF) Prize Winners:
Biology: Sreejan Kumar (Poolesville HS) and Parth Shah (Mission Viejo HS, California):
“Mathematical Modeling and Brain Activations Characterize Differences in
Human Pattern Recognition under Conditions of Ambiguous Feedback”
Computer Science and Mathematics: Cherry Zou (Poolesville HS):
“Development of an Authorship Identification Algorithm for Twitter
using Stylometric Techniques”
Computer Science and Mathematics: Eric Neyman (Montgomery Blair HS):
“Cylindric Young Tableaux and Their Properties”
Engineering: Elina Kapoor (Winston Churchill HS):
“Automatic Detection of Vascular Lesions of the Retina
Using a Localized Adaptive Thresholding Approach”
Alternate: Physics: Jared Marx-Kuo (Montgomery Blair HS):
“Measuring the Superconducting Energy Gap in Tunnel Junctions
through Capacitive Coupling”
We Proudly Announce that our ISEF Finalists were recognized
with these Awards at ISEF 2015 (Pittsburgh):
Elina Kapoor: Fourth Place Grand Award in Computational Biology and Informatics
Eric Neyman: American Mathematical Society (Third Place)
Cherry Zou: NSA Research Directorate (Second Place)
Kudos to These Members of our ScienceMONTGOMERY Family
For Their Wonderful Accomplishments in the Past Year:
NBC Today Show “Make the Future” Award: Anurudh Ganesan
I-SWEEEP: Honorable Mention (Energy): Anusha Dixit
Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist 2015 Challenge: Finalist: Iris Gupta
Google Science Fair: Global Finalist and Winner of the Lego Education Builder Award: Anurudh Ganesan
Maryland Innovate 4 Health Challenge: Winner: Anurudh Ganesan
Goldwater Scholar: Eric Keen
Broadcom MASTERS: Semifinalists: Mahna Habib, Shreeya Khurana, Shabarish Nair
Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology: Semifinalist: Caroline Leng
Washington, DC Regional Hispanic Heritage Youth Awards (Innovation & Technology Gold): Zuriel Herran
Coca-Cola Foundation Scholars Semifinalist: Zuriel Herran
Intel Science Talent Search Semifinalists: Rohan Dixit, Sanna Madan, Emily Wang
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Each year, ScienceMONTGOMERY alumni return to volunteer at our Fair.
Many thanks to these Distinguished ScienceMONTGOMERY Alumni
for their key help in making the Fair happen:
Melis Anahtar • Melodi Anahtar
Adam Berger • Megan Brady
Katherine Brizzolara
Kuo-Kai Chin • Re-I Chin
Stephanie Douglas • Taylor Douglas
Jeremy Fallick • Maddie Golding
Maggie Glaudemans • Jacob Hurwitz
Phanna Iamlek • Sneha Kannan
Eric Keen
Matthew Kinnard • Josh Klontz
Paul Kominers • Scott Kominers
Kyle Le • Emily Levine • Daniel Liss
Nina Jessica Lu • Reethika Maddenini
Gyyoung Oh • Jason Qian
Sikandar Porter-Gill • Kenny Rosenberg
Nathan Schilling • James Sheperdson
Reid Simon • Mike Sousane
Haroula Tzamaras • Carmelita Ugarte
Jennifer Wang • Louis Wasserman
Claire Wortmann • Grace Young • David Zhang
We invite all ScienceMONTGOMERY alumni to join us as volunteers at future fairs.
To volunteer, email alumni@sciencemontgomery.org
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2016 Category and ISEF Awards Judges
NAMEAFFILIATION
Ms. Katherine Adams
Ms. Abolade Adepiti
Mrs. Tosin Adetoro
Dr. Malini Ahuja
Ms. Maya Aleshnick
Dr. Fatima Ali-Rahmani
Dr. Luigi Alvarado
Dr. Kyle Anderson
Mr. Yezdi Antia
Mr. Diego Arenas
Dr. Gunjan Arora
Ms. Elisa Arthofer
Dr. Smriti Aryal A C
Dr. Tatjana Atanasijevic
Mr. John Bagnoli
Dr. Kate Baldwin
Mr. Dallas Banks
Dr. Mrigendra Bastola
Ms. Heysol Bermudez Cabrea
Dr. Rukmini Bhardwaj
Mr. Gerald Blum
Dr. Chanelle Borden
Dr. Wayne Breslyn
Ms. Kate Brien
Mr. Keith Bullock
Ms. Amelia Burch
Dr. Jeffrey Burke
Ms. Allyson Byrd
Dr. Thomas Calder
Ms. Meghana Chalasani
Mr. Justin Chang
Dr. Gouri Chattopadhyay
Dr. Shu Hui Chen
Ms. Paola Chrysostomou
Dr. Jessica Chu
Dr. Tatiana Claro da Silva
Ms. Jean Clement
Dr. Tami Collum
Mr. Jonathan Collum
Dr. Kevin Connolly
Dr. Richard Conroy
Dr. Michael Constantinides
Dr. Melissa Coughlin
Mr. Kenan Courtney
Ms. Tina Crosby
Dr. Suresh Dadiboyena
Mr. George Daniello
Mr. Salil Das
Dr. Chelsea Davis
Dr. Sarah Davis
Dr. Marciela DeGrace
Mr. Jose Delgado
Mrs. Lora Deuitch
Mr. Ashutosh Dhanesha
Mr. Nachiket Dharker
Dr. Lena Diaw
Dr. Garry Didinsky
Dr. Douglas Dluzen
Dr. Mohibullah Durrani
Ms. Merina Elahi
Dr. Mehdi Farokhnia
Ms. Sarah Faxel
Mr. John Fenimore
Dr. Gisela Ferreira
Ms. Catherine Feuille
Dr. Keisha Findley
Ms. Sarah Friedrich
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University of Maryland
IBSS Corp.
NIH
FDA (ORISE fellow)
NIH
NIST
Hughes Network Systems
FDA
NIH
NIH
NIH
NIH
MRIGlobal
Retired - Howard University
FDA
retired
NIH
MCPS (Gaithersburg High School)
NIH, NIAID
The Foundation Schools
NIH
NIH
NIH
FDA
FDA
NIH
NIH/NICHD
NIH
BIPAC/Political Consulting
Retired Biotech researcher
NIH
NIH
MedImmune/AstraZeneca
FDA
FDA
Prince Georges Community College
NIH-NIAID
NIH
NIH
Self-employed IT consultant
NHLBI/NIH
Orbital ATK
NIH
Montgomery College
FDA
NIH
MedImmune
FDA
FDA
NAMEAFFILIATION
Dr. Qiong Fu
Dr. Salina Gairhe
Mrs. Mary Galloway
Mr. Sudip Gangopadhyay Dr. Narayana Garimella
Mr. Anirudh Gaur
Mr. Alvin George
Mr. Alex George
Dr. Jeffy George
Dr. Amalendu Ghosh
Mr. Nicholas Giangreco
Dr. Richard Gieseck
Dr. Eleanor Gillette
Dr. Paul Gilmore
Ms. Nicole Giordano
Ms. Sofia Girald
Mr. Mitchell Goheen
Dr. Scott Goldie
Ms. Megan Goldring
Mr. Zifan Gong
Ms. Portia Gough
Mr. Jon Griffin
Dr. Jonathan Hardis
Mr. Jonathan Ho
Dr. J Terrell Hoffeld
Mr. Larry Hothem
Mr. Alan Huynh
Ms. Deborah Jack
Ms. Charelle Jeffries
Mr. Jordan Jensen
Ms. Symone Jordan
Dr. Swati Joshi
Dr. Smita Kakar
Ms. Patricia Kamdem
Dr. Priya Kannan
Mr. Prateek Katti
Dr. Sukhbir Kaur
Dr. Bharat Khurana
Ms. Ezechielle Kiessu
Dr. Edward Kim
Dr. Anthony Kluk
Ms. Alanna Koehler
Dr. David Kosub
Dr. Joseph Kulinski
Mr. Che-Ying Kuo
Dr. Courtney Kurtyka
Dr. Serena Kurumety
Ms. Brenna LaBarre
Dr. Cedric Lane
Dr. Jeansun Lee
Dr. Young Lee
Ms. Julia Licholai
Dr. Dawei Lin
Mr. Norman Lo
Ms. Heidi Lovett
Dr. Subha Madhavan
Ms. Kelli Malott
Mr. Stephen Mason
Mr. Christian Mayfield
Mr. Joseph McKennan
Ms. Barbara Medvar
Dr. Emily Messina
Ms. Chun-yan Mi
Dr. Linda Miallau
Dr. Mayumi Miller
Dr. Sarah Morgan
NCI
NIH
FDA
FDA
Georgetown University
NIH
USUHS
NIH
NIH
NIH/NIAID
NIST
Retired
FDA
NIH
FDA
NIH
NIH/NIAID
NIST
U.S. Public Health Service (Retired)
US Geological Survey/DOI
NRC
NIH
DC Public Schools
NIH
NIH
NIH
Achievers League USA LLC
Medimmune
NIH
NIH
FDA
NIH
NIH
NHGRI, NIH
NIH
NIH
University of Maryland College Park;
Children’s National Medical Center
Valley Forge Military College
NIH
FDA
FDA
NIST
NIH
Carr Astronautics
NOAA Fisheries Service
Georgetown University
National Institute on Aging
Johns Hopkins University
NIH
The Catholic University of America
DoD
NIH
NIH
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2015 Category and ISEF Awards Judges (continued)
NAMEAFFILIATION
Mr. Jack Morgan
Mrs. Marissa Msefya
Dr. Sivaranjani Namasivayam
Mr. Qimin Ng
Ms. Mandy Ng
Dr. Kapinga Ngalula
Ms. Joan Ngwuta
Ms. Stephine Oparaugo
Dr. Veera Padmanabhan Dr. Randi Parks
Ms. Jaya Parulekar
Dr. Anna Pasetto
Mr. Keval Patel
Dr. Vinay Patil
Ms. Emily Pelto
Dr. Robert Peters
Dr. Norman Peterson
Ms. Rahel Petros
Mr. Kade Pettie
Dr. Adam Pintar
Ms. Ashley Pitt
Ms. Kira Podolsky
Dr. Savelas Rabb
Ms. Jani Radhakrishnan
Mr. Jonathan Rajaseelan
Dr. Melissa Ray
Ms. Sonia Razaqyar
Mrs. Sara Reynolds
Ms. Christine Ricci
Ms. Rachael Rodriguez
Mr. Paul Rohr
Ms. Carolina Rojas Ramirez
Ms. Jessica Root
Dr. Laura Rose
Ms. Marci Rosenberg
Ms. Sage Roth
Mr. Benjamin Rush
Dr. Andaleeb Sajid
Mr. Krishna Samavedam
Dr. Tamika Samuel
Ms. Aimeeta Sangtani
Dr. Elizabeth Schoenfeld
Mr. Jeremy Schreier
ACC
NIH
NHLBI/NIH
Academia
Healthcare Management
NIH
NIH
NIH
FDA
MedImmune
NIH
NIST
NIH
NIST
UNC Chapel Hill
NIH
FDA
NIH
NIH
MedImmune
FDA
Retired Westinghouse Nuclear Engineer
NIH
National Institutes of Deafness
and Communication Disorders
FDA
NIH
Medpace/Clinical Research
MedImmune
NIH
Hughes Network Systems
FDA
FDA/ORISE
NAMEAFFILIATION
Dr. Sherri-Gae Scott
Ms. Hira Shabbir
Mr. Anuj Sharma
Ms. Aricia Shen
Ms. Margi Sheth
Ms. Marina Shumakovich
Ms. Nicole Shyong
Ms. Sheena Sikka
Dr. Robert Silverberg
Ms. Joanna Silverman
Dr. Pushpendra Singh
Mr. Daniel Sologuren
Ms. Sarah Speed
Mr. Karthik Sreedhara
Dr. Corey Stambaugh
Mrs. Damilola Sunmola
Mr. cyrus tang
Dr. Heather Teague
Dr. Rok Tkavc
Mr. John Tracey
Ms. Kristina Trotta
Mr. Lap Truong
Dr. Wojtek Tutak
Mr. Ezigbobiara (Ezii) Umejiego
Mr. Kendall Umstead
Dr. Raghavan Venkat
Ms. Saunam Vij
Dr. Bandana Ajay Vishwakarma
Dr. Vijay Walia
Ms. Hailey Walters
Ms. Sylvia Wandu
Dr. Jane Wang
Dr. David Wei
Mr. David Wilson
Ms. Katherine Wolf
Ms. Jocelyn Wu
Mr. Ravi Chandra Yada
Ms. Jing Yan Dr. Hongliang Yang
Ms. Habibeh Yekehtaz
Mr. Wyatt Yelverton
Ms. Pomi Yun
Dr. Tong Zhou
FASEB
NICHD
AstraZeneca
ORAU/FDA/CFSAN
NIH
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
NHLBI
Northrop Grumman
NIH
NIH
NIST
Northrop Grumman
NIH/NHLBI
USUHS, post-doctoral fellow
NIH
ERT, contracted to NMFS
ADA Foundation
NIH
NIH
MedImmune
NIH
USUHS
NIH
NIH
NCI
NCI
NIH
NIH
NIH
NIH
NIH
NIH
ScienceMONTGOMERY Participating Schools-2016
SchoolAbbrev SchoolAbbrev SchoolAbbrev
Einstein High School
Argyle Middle School
Montgomery Blair High School
Bullis School
Churchill High School
Clarksburg High School
Forcey Christian Middle School
Gaithersburg High School
Georgetown Day School
Georgetown Preparatory School
Holy Cross School
Hoover Middle School
Holton-Arms School
Home Schooled
Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School
AEH
AGM
BLH
BUS
CHH
CHS
FCMS
GBH
GDS
GPS
HCS
HHM
HOA
HS
JDS
Julius West Middle School
JWM
Kingsview Middle School
KIM
Lakelands Park Middle School
LPM
Muslim Community School
MCS
North Bethesda Middle School
NBM
Northwest High School
NWH
OtherOTH
Parkland Middle School
PLM
Poolesville High School
POH
Potomac Ridge School
PRS
Pyle Middle School
PYM
Quince Orchard High School
QOH
Roberto Clemente Middle School
RCM
Church of the Redeemer Christian SchoolRCS
Robert Frost Middle School
RFM
Ridgeview Middle School
Richard Montgomery High School
Rocky Hill Middle School
St. Andrew Apostle School
Springbrook High School
Shady Grove Middle School
Seneca Valley High School
Sherwood High School
Takoma Park Middle School
Wheaton High School
Thomas Wootton High School
Walter Johnson High School
Walt Whitman High School
RIM
RMH
ROM
SAA
SBH
SGM
SVH
SWH
TPM
WHH
WHO
WJH
WWH
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Congratulations to ScienceMONTGOMERY 2013
Congratulations
to ScienceMONTGOMERY 2016
Best Wishes from the Kominers Family: Ellen, Bill,
Best Wishes from the Kominers Family:
Scott (ScienceMONTGOMERY
Ellen, Bill, 2005), and Paul
Scott
(ScienceMONTGOMERY
2005), and
(ScienceMONTGOMERY
2006-2008)
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EXHIBITORS
STUDENTS IN THE JUNIOR FAIR
M101
M102
M103
M104
M105
M106
M107
BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Video Game Concentration
Kids vs. Adults
Where is Air Pollution?
Remember This: Encoding in Humans
Does the Day of the Week Affect Morning School Drop-Off Patterns?
Does Taste Have a Price Tag?
Does This Make You Happy?
BIOLOGY
M201 Soil Erosion: Do Plants Really Help It?
M202 The Effects on Saccharomyces cerevisiae’s Growth Using Various Carbon Sources
M203 Free Radical Elimination: A Juicy Secret
M204 Preventing Mold Growth on Strawberries
M205 Botanical Gardens
M206 The Effect of Environmental Radiation on the Number of People Who Develop Cancer
M207 How Does the Color of Light Affect Plant Growth?
M208 Slipping on Banana Peels or Plastic Bags
M209 Effect of Radiation on Yeast
M210 The Effectiveness of the Current Vaccination Creation Process
M211 Disinfecting Water
M212 What is the Woolly Mammoth’s Closest Living Relative?
M213 New Uses for Old Drugs
M214 Five Second Rule?
M215 How Does Different Colored Light Affect Plant Growth?
M216 Let’s Get Moldy!!
M217 The Effect of UV Rays on Yeast
M218 Beans, Water and Temperature
M219 Will I Go Extinct?
M220 E-Target : A Novel Method to Mitigate Allergies M221 The Effects of Different Fungi on Basil Plants
M222 How Does Mold Grow?
M223 Lettuce Seed Bioassays
M224 What Soil Condition is Best for the Growth of Kale?
M225 The Real Iceman
M226 The Effect of Different Cooking and Thawing Methods
on the Bacterial Count in Meat
Evan Blakely
Jan Haro
Justin Pham
Deeksha Sesha
Mira Thomas
Katherine Zalewski
Madeline Zalewski
HCS
HCS
RCM
PLM
SAA
HCS
HCS
Anna Anand
RCM
Lana Anderson
TPM
Ajeetha ArudchandranRCM
Siya Behl
RCM
Sarah Briggs
SAA
Mary Chang
TPM
Emily Chen
TPM
Kaylen Pak
TPM
Simon Chervenak
TPM
Jacob Palosky
TPM
Faith Cheung
HHM
Sophia Costa
SAA
Gautom Das
TPM
Sadhana Dasari
PLM
Sapna David
HHM
Michael Gan
RCM
Sohan Ganatra
RCM
Matthew Garay
RCM
Akshaj Gaur
RCM
Chloe Godfrey
TPM
Margaret Fang
TPM
Matthew Gu
RCM
Garrett Gularson
RCM
Isaac Wang
RCM
Iris Gupta
RFM
Joseph Jubilee
RCM
Eric Jung
RCM
Abhinav Karthikeyan RCM
Jacob Kiwanuka
SAA
Devin Vaughan
SAA
Divya Koganti
PLM
Liang Lin
TPM
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M227 Soil Capillarity
M228 Natural Foods and the Effects with Macular Degeneration
M229 Efficiency of Bacterial Transformation
M230 How Do Substances in Water Affect Plant Growth?
M231 Oh My! This Much Sugar in My Breakfast!
M232 Investigating C. elegans Mortality Under Exposure to UV Radiation
M233 Which Type of Plant is Most Efficient in Photosynthesis
M234 The Effect of Various Pesticides on Nitrogen-fixing Bacteria, Rhizobium spp,
Found in the Root Nodules of Leguminous Plants
M235 How Does Microwave Radiation Affect Plant Growth?
M236 A Family of Super-tasters: Can I demonstrate any correlation between
three generations of family and the amount of papillae
M237 Regeneration: Do Planarians Really Do it?
M238 Establishment of the Nitrogen Cycle in Aquaria
M239 Cell to Cell: Direct Reprogramming
M240 Does Neck Strength Reduce the Risk of Concussions in Soccer? M241 The Effect of Different Dietary Additives on the Lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans
M242 Computational Exploration of Protein Function M243 How Impurities in Tap Water Affect Plant Growth
M244 Plants and Oil Spills
M245 Growing Plants in a Martian Environment
M246 Lung Cancer Severity Prediction Using Supervised Learning with Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases
M247 Biowarfare: Experiment with Viruses that Destroy Bacteria
M248 Snails and Aquariums
M249 The Effect of Painkillers on Plant Growth
M250 Magnetism and Plant Growth
M251 Does the Type of Liquid Being Absorbed by a Plant Affect its
Growth and/or Development?
M252 The Effect of Worms on Plant Growth
M253 Stopping Yeast with Antifungal Medicines
CHEMISTRY
M301 Cleaning Coins
M302 Growing Crystals
M303 Navigating Negatives
M304 The Effect Acid Rain Has on Plants and How We Can Reduce It
M305 The Effect of Freezing on Cells
M306 Calculating Calories using Calorimetry
M307 How Do Different Types of Acids Affect the Rate of Corrosion on Metals
M308 What Are Certain Liquids Evaporation Rate? 20
Saanika Mahashetty
Mikala Marville
Tarun Mattikalli
Teryn Mitchell
Ipsa Mittra
Dhruv Pai
Joshua Wolfson
Michael Pan
Meghna Pandey
RCM
AGM
TPM
RCM
JWM
TPM
TPM
RCM
PLM
Roshini Parameswaran PLM
Anne Paxton
HCS
Srisrujan Penikelapati RCM
Kathleen Pryor
HOA
Rathna Ramesh
PLM
Jason Marshak
PLM
Jorge Rodriguez-Arraiz SAA
Ryan Santhoshkumar PLM
Anagha Shastry
RCM
Jerry Shen
RCM
Eashan Siddalingaiah RCM
Christopher Stallard RCM
Michelle Tang
TPM
Nathan Tang
Isabella Terhune
Zach Teselko
Jason Wu
Brian Xiang
RCM
HOA
RCM
RCM
RCM
Dan Xu
Andrew Zhong
Charlie Shou
RCM
RCM
RCM
Katia Calix Mejia
Jesica Argueta
Ishita Chatterjee
Megha Tummalapalli
Landon Chesney
Max Chiu
Apurva Choudhary
Serena Choy
Timothy Chu
Jacqueline Davila
AGM
AGM
RCM
RCM
HS
RCM
RCM
RCM
RCM
RCM
March 11, 12, & 13, 2016
M309 A Method of Detecting Ozone in Different Locations
M310 Pure or Hazardous?
M311 Solar-powered Chemistry: Study Chemical Reaction Rates in Ultraviolet Beads
M312 Reaction Between Tea and Iron in Drinks
M313 Alkaline Water
M314 pH-Based Expiration Labels (with Corresponding Applications)
M315 Effect of Temperature on the Separation of Oil and Water
M316 Rain, Rain in Sligo Creek
M317 The Effect of the Type of Fruit on the Glucose Concentration
M318 pH Power: The impact of household chemicals on pH of solutions
M319 Is Tap Water Better than Bottled Water
M320 Electrolyte Challenge M321 Pulp Fiction? PULP FACT
M322 The Effects of Common Kitchen Substances on the Stability of Egg White Proteins
M323 The Water Clock, An Experiment in Energy Production M324 Antacid Potency
M325 Quality of Bodies of Water
M326 Filtration of Water Using Household Materials
M327 Can You Really Trust Luminol?
M328 Rainbow Fire
M329 Keeping Your Carrots Fresh: To Blanch or Not to Blanch
M330 The Gift of Clean Water
M331 Which Type of Battery is Better Suited for a Flashlight? M332 Cost Effective Water Impurity Detection and Measurement M333 Expect the Unexpected - The Magic of Mpemba Effect!
M334 Wood Damage From Household Liquids
M335 Vitamin C Loss While Boiling
M336 Effects of Temperature on the Brightness of the Luminal Reaction
M337 Creamy Crack
M338 How Does Boiling Citrus Fruit Juice Affect Its pH Level?
M339 Power Comparison of Alkaline and Non-Alkaline Batteries
M340 Pills vs. Injections
M341 The Effect of Temperature on Luminal Chemiluminesence
M342 Gelatin - How Macho!
M343 Effects of Vinegar on Structural Materials
M344 The Effect of the Amount of Ferro Fluid on the Efficiency of Cleaning up an Oil Spill
Efe Eroz
RCM
Frank Horrigan
RCM
Christine Gong
RCM
Lydia Ruan
RCM
Shreya Gunda
RCM
Jason Hu
RCM
Pragya Jha
RCM
Joshua Kalampanayil AGM
Alexander Kalomiris RCM
Caroline Killian
HCS
Hae Rin Kim
TPM
Mark Kokiyelov
TPM
Ezequiel Lazo-SalvadorAGM
Daniel Lopez
AGM
Yomiyu Mekonnen AGM
Charlotte McNamee
HS
Michio Morizono
TPM
Isaiah Morris
HS
Angela Mu
RCM
Tanaya Jha
RCM
Shabarish Nair
RCM
Namya Nanda
RCM
Tete Narh-Mensah AGM
Cameron Coleman AGM
Iyanu Brown
AGM
Sareet Nayak
RCM
Celine Paul
SAA
Jasmine Pham
RCM
Arjun Rakheja
RCM
Anjali Samavedam
RFM
Kush Savsani
RCM
Haaken Schofer
RCM
Yashvi Shah
AGM
Shreya Shete
PLM
Tsige Solomon
PLM
Joyce Milandu
PLM
Shreyas Soma
RCM
Carl Stahlberg
RCM
Michael Sun
RCM
Steven Tan
RCM
Eric Yi
RCM
Esther Tang
TPM
Shruti Chauhan
TPM
Sanjit Thangarasu
RCM
Srish Udayakumar
TPM
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M345
M346
M347
Contrasting Concentrated and Diluted Vinegar with a Penny
Comparing Electrolytes in Orange Juice and Sports Drinks
Does 100% Fruit Juice Have More Vitamin C than Juice
With Artificial Ingredients?
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS
M401 Conservation of Energy
M402 The Effect of Text Length on Author Identification
M403 Most Effective Internet Browser and Configuration to Prevent Interceptions
M404 The Effect of Different Types of Long-Term Injuries on a Pitcher’s Performance
M405 Building a Computer Program to Identify Proteins Coded by DNA
M406 A Mathematical Model of the Card Game, Magic: the Gathering
M407 How Easily Can Your Password Be Hacked?
M408 Improved Lower Bounds for van der Waerden Numbers
M409 Effect of Gain and Speed on a Robot’s Straight Motion Enabled by a Gyro Sensor
M410 A Novel Stylometric Data Extraction Tool for Authorship Verification
Using Tetragrams
M411 Align and Conquer: When CRISPR/Cas 9 edits, our app resolves!
M412 Using Artificial Intelligence to Solve Chess Games
M413 Eye Vision Project
ENGINEERING
M501 Building an Automatic Plant Watering System
M502 Rain Detector
M503 Wind Turbines
M504 Amplitude and Water Density on Wave Power Generation
M505 Recon-Bot
M506 Effect of Temperature on Battery Life
M507 Can a Hydrogen Powered Car Carry a Payload and Remain Efficient?
M508 Magnetic Acceleration
M509 Does the Length of an Airplane Wing Affect the Flight?
M510 Building a Hydraulic Arm
M511 An Engineering Automation and Logistics Based Project to Solve the
Environmental Problem Posed by Non-degradable Single Serve K-cups
M513 Wood Strength
M514 Virtual Eye: A Device to Aid the Visually Impaired M515 The Ultimate Energy Source
M516 Effect of Varying Distances on the Accuracy of Different Sensors M517 How Bright and Loud is The Traffic Control Device?
M518 Where Do I Put My Shot?
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Alexander Yang
Eileen Zhang
Eric Zhang
RCM
RCM
RCM
Yashwanth Byreddy
Michael Chu
Roma Dhingra
Prayag Gordy
Sarthak Bhatnagar
Tejas Guha
Kaan Kayaalp
Samar Marwah
Daniel Monroe
Arjun Oberoi
Safiullah Rifai
KIM
TPM
RCM
TPM
TPM
RCM
TPM
AGM
TPM
TPM
AGM
Valentina Simon
Lennnard Poliakov
Sabrina Su
Ishaan Verma
Surafel Tsadik
RFM
SGM
RCM
AGM
AGM
Vinamra Adikehithilu RCM
Avani Ahuja
GDS
Rohan Aluka
RCM
Brian Aniya
RCM
Dev Bhardwaj
RCM
Ameya Deshmukh RFM
Aidan Douglas
RCM
Michael Edwards
RCM
Chinasa Ejiofor
AGM
Suzanne Tamrakar AGM
Varun Gangadharan RCM
Elias Izmirlian
RCM
Sanjana Gangishetty ROM
Om Desai
RCM
Skanda Veda
RCM
Dinal Gunaratne
RCM
Rakshan Joshi
RCM
Pranav Hegde
RCM
Sri Kanipakala
RFM
Anaum Khan
PLM
Nicholas Kiwanuka
SAA
Axel Tasong
SAA
James Kmetz
SAA
March 11, 12, & 13, 2016
M519 Human Height Growth Measurement Using Digital Imaging M520 Strengths of Different Types of Truss Bridges
M521 Cooling a Dorm Without Air Conditioning
M522 Heads-Up Tapejara and Dimorphodon
M523 Jackpot: Which Wet Paper Towel Will Win the Most Money
M524 Developing an Artificial Pancreas through Simulation and Electrical Resistance
M525 Sun-seeking robot
M526 Wind Power versus Solar Power
M527 Using Mechanical Advantage to Enable Data Collection on Recycling Rates
M528 The Sustainability of Different Dome Structures
M529 The Effect of Temperature on Evaporative Desalination Rate
M530 How Different Angles of Incidence of Solar Rays Impact
the Performance of a Solar Cell
M531 MagLev Train Model
M532 The Effect of Specific Gravity of Detected Materials
on the Image Resolution of Boat Sonar
M533 It’s A Sturdy Slope!
M534 Super SumoBots
M535 What is the Impact of Surface Tension on Us?
M536 Dam Strength
M537 Affordable Batteries
M538 Effect of Atmospheric Temperature on Interior Car Temperature
M539 Wind Turbine Blade Pitch
M540 Strength of Different Liquids in Hydraulics
M541 Strongest Bridge
M542 Hovercraft Design
M543 Solar Powered Incubator
M544 Can Thermal Energy Generation Replace Solar Energy
M545 ECO-SMART-VEHICLE
M546 Improved Earthquake Resistant Building
PHYSICS
M701
M702
M703
M704
Which Type of Rock Fractures The Most When Frozen in Ice?
Solar Cycle Effect on Coronal Mass Ejection Speed
The Direct/Indirect Correlation Between Color and Heat’s Absorption of Light Finding the Right Best Design for a Solar Heat House
Heather Lin
HHM
Sadhana Lolla
RCM
Daria Chen
RCM
Diego Lopez
HCS
Tyler Munson
HCS
Alexa Noto
SAA
Emmanuel Ojamo
TPM
Michael O’Reilly
HCS
Jennifer Owen
RCM
Saurav Pandey
RFM
Ryan Kim
TPM
Arya Palan
RFM
Preethi Prakash
RCM
Samantha Rodriguez TPM
Ronoy Sarkar
RCM
Darius Scott
Jonathan Simak
RCM
PLM
Ryan Simpson
Daniel Patino
Tom Stoughton
Adhvayith Sriram
Saahith Tupakula
Havish Gadde
Visesh Uppoor
Noah Ferrara
Ahun Vodela
Ranshika Fernando
Ethan Christian
Sophia Weng
Tony Wu
William Xu
Ian Yu
Christine Zhou
Danesh Sivakumar
Nicholas Portwood
Ryan Halli
Samuel Cho
Catherine Lo
Maeve Smith
SAA
SAA
RCM
RCM
ROM
ROM
RCM
RCM
AGM
AGM
AGM
TPM
RCM
RCM
RCM
RCM
RCM
AGM
AGM
TPM
TPM
RIM
Andrew Adams
RCM
Joy Anyanwu
RCM
Nicholas ‘Nick’ AsanteRCM
Mykel Bailey
HCS
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M705 Light Transmittance of Different Colors
M706 Is Speed of Light Constant Through Different Mediums?
M707 Speed of Light in Gelatin
M708 Courts, Courts, Courts
M709 The Effect of Foam on the Force Received from an Impact
M710 What is the Effect of Temperature on Conductivity and Resistance?
M711 Forces and Tennis Balls
M712 Do You Hear What I Hear?
M713 How does Stirring Tea Affect Temperature?
M714 What is the Effect of Different Materials on Ice Melting Speeds?
M715 The Effect of Density on Sound Volume
M716 Dependence of Solar Cell Electric Current and Voltage
on Light Frequency and Temperature
M717 Geomagnetic Storms
M718 Light Absorption and Wavelength by Color
M719 The Thermodynamics of Hurricanes
M720 Does the Diameter of a Wire Affect the Flow of Electrons?
M721 How do Non-Newtonian Liquids React to Projectiles?
M722 Materials of Planets and Orbital Radius
M723 Color and Cooking with a Solar Oven: Which Color is Best?
M724 Asteroids
M725 20 MHz Emission from the Sun
M726 Piezoelectric Materials
M727 Experimenting with Buoyancy
M728 The Surprising Strength of an Eggshell
M729 an-GOAL!
M730 Is There a Relationship between Coronal Mass Ejections
and High Energy Solar Radiation?
M731 Mpemba effect
M732 Calculus Craze: Out of This World
M733 Hydrophobicity and Hydrophilicity of Natural and Artificial Surfaces
M734 What Makes a Gauss Rifle Shoot Farther? A parametric study on number of
balls in each stage, inter-stage distance and number of stages
M735 Optimizing Optical Precision of an Image Using Curved Focal Plane Technology
M736 Crash or Balance?
M737 Induce Voltage
M738 How Accurate is Parallax?
M739 The Mpemba Effect
M740 Which Household Items Conduct the Most Static Electricity?
M741 Luminescence
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Hunter Bergstrom
Arman Bolouri
Owen Cochran
Chris Corry
Christian Marchello
Eli Crow
Dev Desai
Jose Diaz Ramirez
Zachary Diaz
Jacob Fadare
Charlotte Doughty
Fang Du
Aileen Foley
Simon Glueck
Lucas Gonzalez-Rey
RCM
RCM
AGM
AGM
AGM
TPM
RCM
AGM
AGM
AGM
TPM
RCM
RCM
JDS
RCM
Shreeya Khurana
TPM
Christian Kim
RCM
Medha Kotti
RCM
Viruni Lewwandoowa PLM
Jason Liu
RCM
Gurshaan Mann
RCM
Isabella Merino
SAA
Samarth Nayak
RCM
Rohan Ojha
TPM
Timothy Qian
TPM
Bertrand Zhu
TPM
Carter Rodia
HCS
Cole Rodia
HCS
Evelyn Scott
LPM
Anika Seth
TPM
Lara Ojha
TPM
Tanuj Shah
RCM
Abrar Sheikh
RCM
Sonia Stan
RCM
Steven Su
TPM
Sujay Swain
Pranav Tippa
Kasra Torshizi
Sresth Viswanathan
Shishir Velma
Joy Wang
Matthew Wong
Celina Wu
TPM
RCM
RCM
RCM
RCM
RCM
RCM
RCM
March 11, 12, & 13, 2016
M742 Proving Boyle’s Law
M743 Effect of Frequency and Material on Sound Absorption
M744 The Effect of the Type of Wood on Flammability
Jack Yang
Billy Zeng
Justin Zhang
Matthew Shu
Eric Hao
RCM
RCM
TPM
TPM
TPM
STUDENTS IN THE SENIOR FAIR
BIOLOGY
H201 Characterizing the Spatiotemporal Processing of Retinal Ganglion Cells in Mice
H202 Whole Genome Sequencing Reveals Extensive Heterogeneity in Lung Cancer Affecting Targeted Treatment Response
H203 Evaluating the Accuracy of 1000 Genomes Calls in Comparison
to NIST Reference Material on NA12878
H204 Investigating Cost-Effective Soy-Based Famine Relief Foods
H205 Shots and Their Secrets
H206 Mechanical Manipulation of 3D Extracellular Matrix
Stiffness Influences Cell Behavior
H207 The Effect of Mycorrhizal Fungi on Soybean Growth and Root Structure
in Soils with Varying Nutrient Levels
H208 Modeling the Role of the Glymphatic Pathway in the Cornu Ammonis 1 Hippocampus Region in Alzheimer’s disease
H209 Ionic Strength Dependence of Factor 8 Protein: Improving
Prophylactic Hemophilia A Treatment
H210 The Effects of Water Content on the Mechanical Properties of Intervertebral Discs
H211 Isolation of Bacteriophages from Different Sources for Phage Therapy
H212 Human MicroRNA Sequence Analysis and Color Coding
that Enables Better Data Visualization
H213 Long Term Effects of Spinal Cord Injury on Protein Production in Mice
H214 Targeting the Survival of TFE3-fusion Kidney Cancer Cells H215 Assessing Neuronal Activation Induced by Extinction of Palatable Food Seeking
H216 Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha Inhibits Mitochondrial Respiratory Function in Liver Cells
H217 Development of Peptide-Based Cancer Drugs Targeting the Polo-Box Domain
of Polo-like Kinase 1
H218 Identifying if Splicing is Determined Locally in Eukaryotic DNA
H219 Clustering of Repetitive Genomic Sequences
H220 Defining the Mechanism of Malaria Parasite Egress from Merosomes
H221 The Effect of Auditory Sounds of Tinnitus on the Directional Hearing
of Female Crickets
H222 Comparison of Random Forest to Structure Based Virtual Screening with
the clk4 and dyrk1a Protein
H223 Effect of Ethanol on Associative Short and Long-term Memory of Caenorhabditis elegans
Deepti Agnihotri
POH
Luckshika ArudchandranPOH
Abby Beeler
POH
Garyk Brixi
Reyna Choi
Isabella Chang
Libba Lawrence
Ethan Chen
CHH
RMH
CHH
CHH
BLH
Amelia Cherian
POH
Kathryn Christensen POH
Christian Coello
BLH
Sanyukta Deshmukh WHO
Xiaotian Fan
POH
Sarah Gao
BLH
Gianna-Jade del VecchioBLH
Tanya Ghosh
QOH
Calvin Godfrey
Megha Guggari
Roger Guitart
Sun-Bin Hwang
BLH
POH
POH
WWH
Jihoon Jang
POH
Albert Jiang
Emma Jin
Amber Liu
Margaret Lo
POH
BLH
POH
WHO
Christopher Look
POH
Mengming Luo
Wendy Shi
BLH
BLH
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H224 Computational Analysis of Driver Pathway Relationships across
Twelve Major Cancer Types
H225 Translocation Kinetics of Bacterial RNA Polymerase
H226 The Effect of Meiotic Drive on the Remating Rate of Stalk-eyed Flies
H227 Intragenic SNP Haplotypes Associated with a Mutation in PROM1 in Two Pakistani Pedigrees with Autosomal Recessive Retinitis Pigmentosa
H228 Effect of Selective Activation of MAPK Signaling by a Biased Dopamine D1
Receptor Agonist on Locomotor Activity in Reserpinized Mice
H229 Examining the Effect of Epigenetic Modifications on Transcription Factor
Binding of the CEBP Family Using Protein Binding Microarray Technology
H230 Development of an Automatic Chlorella Culturing System Using Arduino
H231 Combination and Monotherapy of Antibiotics Against Gram-Negative
and Gram-Positive Bacteria
H232 How Can Domain Annotations of Human Disease-associated Proteins be Improved?
H233 Role of Immune Tolerance in Drug Induced Liver Toxicity H234 Using Recombinant Proteins to Represent Bispecific Antibodies to Target HCV
Cells Through Recognition of the E1E2 Surface Glycoprotein in HCV Cells
H235 Which Vitamin is More Preventive towards Bacteria?
H236 Chemotactic Imprinting in Nematode Worms
H237 The Correlation Between Microwave Radiation and Lima Bean Height
H238 Elucidating the Mechanism that Leads to Reduced Testes Size
in a Mouse Model of BRCA2
H239 Effect of Exergaming on Energy Expenditure
H240 An Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) for Detecting and
Differentiating Between H3N2v and Seasonal H3N2 Influenza Viruses
H241 Determining the Animal Source of the 2012 Isiro, Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola Outbreak with Satellite Images Obtained from LandSat
H242 Improving Gene Repair by Different Inverted Terminal Repeats of Adeno-Associated Virus
H243 Whole Genome Sequencing Analysis of Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
CHEMISTRY
H301 Purification and Crystallization of Kynurenine Pathway Enzymes
H302 Pure and Simple
H303 Polymeric Structural Support Synthesis for the Catalytic Deactivation
of Chemical Warfare Agents
H304 From Waste To Energy!
H305 Managing Diabetes: The Incredible Insulin Pump
H306 Comparison of the Effectiveness of Coagulants in Sand Filtration
in Water Purification
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Sanna Madan
POH
Gayane Matevosyan POH
Thanuri Navarathna BLH
Howard Nicholson POH
Daniel Ovetsky
POH
Divya Rajagopal
BLH
Seung Joon Rhee
Nadia Roghani
BLH
MCS
Daniel Schaffer
Soham Sen
Tanvi Shah
BLH
NWH
POH
Melika Sizar
Zachary Sweeney
Sam Hunt
Justin Wells
Abbie Tran
Aradhana Vyas
MCS
GPS
GPS
GPS
WHO
POH
Emma Walter
Emily Wang
WJH
POH
Shirley Wolz
POH
Jerry Wu
RMH
Rona Yu
BLH
Sylvana Aho
Jessica Cleveland
Mehana Daftary
POH
HS
BLH
Shreya Khanna
POH
Thanushree ManjunathPOH
Varsha Krishnan
WHO
David Yang
CHH
H401 Quantum Computers and Qubits
Helena Buarque de MacedoW WH
H402 Investigating Deep Learning for Face Recognition
Diwakar Ganesan
POH
H403 Using a Hidden Markov Model to predict CpG-island locations in a DNA sequence Christine Gao
BLH
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H404 Identification of Over- and Under-represented Nucleotide Subsequences
Erik Hung
by Exhaustive Analysis of Partition Probabilities
H405 Improving the Efficacy of the Bumps Data Fitting and Uncertainty Estimation Kenneth Jiang
Package on Reflectivity Analysis with an Optimized Variant of Parallel Tempering
H406 Event Detection in Areas with Low-Resource Languages
Suriya Kandaswamy
H407 Clinical Telegaming Evaluation of Parkinson’s Disease Patients
Stephan Loh
with Multisensory Testing
Koby Taswell
H408 Analyzing Various Approaches to Data Representation of Large Data Sets
Jacob Mathews
Specifically Patient-Reported Outcomes
H409 Characterizing the Effect of Noise on Smart Image Analysis Techniques for in Jonathan Ni
vitro Micronuclei Assays of Engineered Nanoparticles
H410 Bink3 - An Autonomous Mobile Fire-Detection System
Aneesha Sampath
H411 P-Secure
Vaishnavi Sesetty
H412 Cloud Based Monitoring of Customer Location and Preferences
Devin Smedira
to Eliminate Physical Lines
Riley Wilburn
H413 An Exploration of the Efficiency of Different Pathfinding Algorithms in 2D
Kevin Su
H414 Password Security
Saiteja Tammali
Manav Mathur H415 Possible Security Scheme for Big Data Access Control Systems
Alexander Ting
H416 The Data Behind the Words
Aolin Yang
H417 Code-Switching Demystified Through Neural Networks
Avanish Yendluri
and Computational Models
Amogh Narendra
POH
POH
POH
BLH
Other
BLH
POH
WHO
POH
POH
POH
POH
CHS
CHS
POH
WHO
POH
POH
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H418 Efficient Algorithm Development for Modding Capabilities
H419 Computer Efficiency of Hard-Drives H420 A Novel Stylometric Algorithm for Authorship Identification
over Online Social Networks
ENGINEERING
H501 Detecting Electric Fields
H502 Life Support on a Budget H503 Increasing Safety and Accuracy in Automation Systems
with Real-Time Robot Monitoring
H504 VAXXWAGON: An Innovative “No Ice, No Electric” Active Refrigeration
System for Last-Leg Vaccine Transportation
H506 Correlation Yield Strength Velocities with Stress Concentrations on Nosepieces
of Flapping Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
H507 How to make a Stronger Truss for Bridges
H508 Powering the World with Piezoelectricity
H509 Electricity for Third World Countries: With the Power of Vegetables
H510 Increasing Lift of Flapping-Wing Air Vehicles By Adding Bi-Folding Wings H511 The Effect of Battery Chemistry on Battery Capacity Under Variable Load
H512 The Effects of Materials on a Truss System
H513 Development of Personal Transportation Device with Recharging Systems
H514 Optimization of Magnetic Drug Delivery Systems to Inner Ear Disorders
H515 Development of Temperature Responsive Mesoporous Gold Nanoshells for
an Enhanced Photothermal Effect and Controlled Drug Delivery
H516 Hydropower vs. Wind Power
H517 Collaborative Maze Solving & Map Development via Gestural Communication
using Multiple Ground Robots
H518 Discovering and Modeling Traffic Lane-Changing Characteristics
for Autonomous Vehicles
H519 A Python-based Software Tool to Conduct Time Dependent
MOSFET Reliability Tests
H520 Triphase Interphase Synthesis of Magnetic Gold Bellflowers as Cancer
Theranostics for Dual-Modality Imaging and Photothermal Therapy
H521 Autonomous and Tele-Op Robot Control Using Android Mobile Devices H522 Generation of Transparent Nanopaper from Sugarcane Waste
PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS
H701 Classification of Conic Sections in Hyperbolic Geometry
H702 The Effect of Varying Solar Cell Types on Solar Cell Efficiency
H703 Relationship between Sunspot Group Area and Solar Flare X-ray Flux
H704 Analyzing the Efficacy of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Using Various Natural Dyes
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Hassan Zaidi
Cherry Zou
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Analyzing the Differences in Subglacial Channel Formation from Supraglacial Lake Drainage on Different Regions of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Investigation of Orthorhombic Distortions Due to Co2+ Ions
in Tetragonal Spinel Mn3O4
Efficiency of a Nanofluid-based Solar Collector
Automation of Swept-Wavelength Spectroscopy for Optical Microcavity
Resonance Detection
Using Fast Fourier Transform Techniques and Debye’s Asymptotic Expansion
to Accelerate Diffraction Calculations for Cylindrically Symmetrical Systems
Novel Method for Characterization of Conjugated Quantum Sources
via Multimode Reconstruction
Predicting Cosmic Ray Flux
The Physics of Music
Sidney Geertsema
BLH
Jean-Yong Kim
POH
Shraeya Madhu
Trishul Nagenalli
POH
POH
Jeremy Rubin
POH
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POH
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Claire Brizzolara
POH
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