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March 11, 12, & 13, 2016 Montgomery County Science Fair

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Sponsors2016ELEMENTS 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, PhDScienceMONTGOMERY Nuray and Yavuz Anahtar Yaguang Luo(Up to $149) Angelique Bosse Anne Merrell Christopher Cochran Valerie Miller, PhD David Hokey, PhD Someet Narang, PhD Laura Lee Johnson, PhD Aprajita Srivastava April Killikelly, PhD Raghavan 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.

Montgomery County Science Fair March 11, 12, & 13, 2016

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2016 Fair Schedulewww.ScienceMONTGOMERY.org

Food and Drug Administration, White Oak Campus, 10903 New Hampshire Ave.

Silver Spring, MD 20993

FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 20164 PM–9 PM Student 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, 20169:30 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, 20162:00 PM–4:00 PM Awards Ceremony at Albert Einstein High School,

11135 Newport Mill Rd., Kensington, MD 20895

4:00 PM–5:00 PM Meeting 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’sMontgomery Area Science Fair and salutes the intelligence,

inventiveness, and ingenuity of all the participating students.

1330 Piccard Drive, Suite 101 • Rockville, MD 20850-4337

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.


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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, MSPHFair DirectorMarch 2016


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OFFICE OF THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE

ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND 20850

Isiah Leggett C o u n t y E x e c u t i v e

www.montgomerycountymd.gov

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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Persons interested in joining the Science MONTGOMERY Board should contact [email protected]

MONTGOMERY AREA SCIENCE FAIR ASSOCIATION60TH 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. NIST Aeras

Fair Director: Jan Linkenhoker, DVM, MSPH, DACLAM Treasurer: Christopher Cochran NIH Walter Johnson High School

BOARD MEMBERS

Nuray Anahtar, AIANOA Architects

Yavuz Anahtar, RANOA Architects

Milton Axley, Ph.D.MedImmune

Angelique BosseMontgomery Blair High School

David Hokey, Ph.D.Aeras

Laura Lee Johnson, Ph.D.FDA

April Killikelly, Ph.D.NIH, NIAID, VRC

Shelley KluskaNorthrop Grumman

Sunil Lingayat, Ph.D.Northrop Grumman

Anne MerrellRidgeview Middle School

Valerie Miller, Ph.D.NIH

Someet Narang, Ph.D.MedImmune

Ram NarulaNarula Energy and Environmental Consultants

Mary ShaffranNorthrop Grumman

Aprajita SrivastavaNetransform LLC

Raghavan Venkat, Ph.D.MedImmune


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AWARDS PROGRAM2:00 P. M.

Sunday, March 13, 2016Albert Einstein High School Auditorium

Opening of Awards Program and Jan Linkenhoker, Fair DirectorWelcome to ScienceMontgomery Dongbo Wang, President

Presentation of Category Awards* Jan Linkenhoker, Fair Director Dongbo Wang, President Raghavan Venkat, Board Member

Presentation of Community Awards* Jan Linkenhoker, Fair Director Dongbo Wang, President Raghavan Venkat, Board Member

Presentation of Broadcom and ISEF Awards** Dongbo Wang, President

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 KillikellyWebsite Oversight Jan Linkenhoker, April KillikellyCategory Awards Sunil Lingayat Community Awards Nuray Anahtar, Yavuz Anahtar Co-Chairs Outreach Chair Someet Narang Program Raghavan Venkat Display and Safety Committee Anne MerrellFund Raising Dongbo WangData Entry Eric Afoakwah T-Shirts and Check-In Aprajita SrivastavaScientific Review Committee Laura Lee Johnson, ChairMembers Eric 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 Delegation Milton Axley, Angelique Bosse, Laura Lee Johnson, Jan Linkenhoker,

Patricia Miller


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Community Organizations Presenting Awards–2016

Achievers League USA LLC

Aerospace Corporation

American Industrial Hygiene Society—Potomac Section

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics-National Capital Chapter sience

American Meteorological Society—DC Chapter

American Nuclear Society, Washington, DC Section

American Psychological Association

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASM Materials Education Foundation—DC Chapter

Association for Women Geoscientists

ASU Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives

Bethesda Magazine

Biophysical Society

Broadcom MASTERS Competition

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

Lockheed Martin

MdBioLab

MIT Club of Washington DC

MedImmune

Metro Bethesda Rotary Club

MBHS Magnet Class of 2004 Science Fair Award

MRIGlobal

Mu Alpha Theta

National Capital Area Chapter – Society of Toxicology (NCAC-SOT)

National Capital Astronomers

NASA EARTH System Science Award

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Office of Naval Research (U.S. Navy/ U.S. Marine Corps)

Optical Society of America, National Capital Section/IEEE Phototonics

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 UpdateCongratulations 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 InformaticsEric 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 GanesanI-SWEEEP: Honorable Mention (Energy): Anusha DixitDiscovery Education 3M Young Scientist 2015 Challenge: Finalist: Iris GuptaGoogle Science Fair: Global Finalist and Winner of the Lego Education Builder Award: Anurudh GanesanMaryland Innovate 4 Health Challenge: Winner: Anurudh GanesanGoldwater Scholar: Eric KeenBroadcom MASTERS: Semifinalists: Mahna Habib, Shreeya Khurana, Shabarish NairSiemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology: Semifinalist: Caroline LengWashington, DC Regional Hispanic Heritage Youth Awards (Innovation & Technology Gold): Zuriel HerranCoca-Cola Foundation Scholars Semifinalist: Zuriel HerranIntel 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 BrizzolaraKuo-Kai Chin • Re-I Chin

Stephanie Douglas • Taylor Douglas Jeremy Fallick • Maddie Golding

Maggie Glaudemans • Jacob Hurwitz Phanna Iamlek • Sneha Kannan

Eric KeenMatthew Kinnard • Josh KlontzPaul Kominers • Scott Kominers

Kyle Le • Emily Levine • Daniel Liss Nina Jessica Lu • Reethika Maddenini

Gyyoung Oh • Jason QianSikandar Porter-Gill • Kenny Rosenberg

Nathan Schilling • James SheperdsonReid 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 [email protected]


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2016 Category and ISEF Awards Judges

Ms. Katherine Adams University of MarylandMs. Abolade Adepiti Mrs. Tosin Adetoro IBSS Corp.Dr. Malini Ahuja NIHMs. Maya Aleshnick FDA (ORISE fellow)Dr. Fatima Ali-Rahmani Dr. Luigi Alvarado NIHDr. Kyle Anderson NISTMr. Yezdi Antia Hughes Network SystemsMr. Diego Arenas FDADr. Gunjan Arora NIHMs. Elisa Arthofer NIHDr. Smriti Aryal A C NIHDr. Tatjana Atanasijevic NIHMr. John Bagnoli MRIGlobalDr. Kate Baldwin Retired - Howard UniversityMr. Dallas Banks University of Maryland Dr. Mrigendra Bastola Ms. Heysol Bermudez CabreaDr. Rukmini Bhardwaj FDAMr. Gerald Blum retiredDr. Chanelle Borden NIHDr. Wayne Breslyn MCPS (Gaithersburg High School)Ms. Kate Brien NIH, NIAIDMr. Keith Bullock The Foundation SchoolsMs. Amelia Burch NIHDr. Jeffrey Burke Ms. Allyson Byrd NIHDr. Thomas Calder NIHMs. Meghana Chalasani FDAMr. Justin Chang Dr. Gouri Chattopadhyay FDADr. Shu Hui Chen NIHMs. Paola Chrysostomou NIH/NICHDDr. Jessica Chu NIHDr. Tatiana Claro da Silva Ms. Jean Clement Dr. Tami Collum University of Maryland Mr. Jonathan Collum BIPAC/Political ConsultingDr. Kevin Connolly Retired Biotech researcherDr. Richard Conroy NIHDr. Michael Constantinides NIHDr. Melissa Coughlin MedImmune/AstraZenecaMr. Kenan Courtney Ms. Tina Crosby FDADr. Suresh Dadiboyena FDAMr. George Daniello Mr. Salil Das Prince Georges Community CollegeDr. Chelsea Davis Dr. Sarah Davis NIH-NIAIDDr. Marciela DeGrace NIHMr. Jose Delgado Mrs. Lora Deuitch NIHMr. Ashutosh Dhanesha Self-employed IT consultantMr. Nachiket Dharker Dr. Lena Diaw NHLBI/NIHDr. Garry Didinsky Orbital ATKDr. Douglas Dluzen NIH Dr. Mohibullah Durrani Montgomery CollegeMs. Merina Elahi FDADr. Mehdi Farokhnia Ms. Sarah Faxel NIHMr. John Fenimore Dr. Gisela Ferreira MedImmuneMs. Catherine Feuille FDADr. Keisha Findley FDAMs. Sarah Friedrich

Dr. Qiong Fu NCIDr. Salina Gairhe NIHMrs. Mary Galloway FDAMr. Sudip Gangopadhyay MedImmune/AstraZenecaDr. Narayana Garimella FDAMr. Anirudh Gaur Georgetown UniversityMr. Alvin George Mr. Alex George NIHDr. Jeffy George USUHSDr. Amalendu Ghosh NIHMr. Nicholas Giangreco NIHDr. Richard Gieseck NIH/NIAIDDr. Eleanor Gillette NISTDr. Paul Gilmore RetiredMs. Nicole Giordano FDAMs. Sofia Girald Mr. Mitchell Goheen NIHDr. Scott Goldie FDAMs. Megan Goldring NIHMr. Zifan Gong University of MarylandMs. Portia Gough NIH/NIAIDMr. Jon Griffin Dr. Jonathan Hardis NISTMr. Jonathan Ho Dr. J Terrell Hoffeld U.S. Public Health Service (Retired)Mr. Larry Hothem US Geological Survey/DOIMr. Alan Huynh NRCMs. Deborah Jack NIHMs. Charelle Jeffries DC Public SchoolsMr. Jordan Jensen NIHMs. Symone Jordan NIHDr. Swati Joshi NIHDr. Smita Kakar Achievers League USA LLCMs. Patricia Kamdem Dr. Priya Kannan MedimmuneMr. Prateek Katti NIHDr. Sukhbir Kaur NIHDr. Bharat Khurana FDAMs. Ezechielle Kiessu NIHDr. Edward Kim NIHDr. Anthony Kluk Ms. Alanna Koehler NHGRI, NIHDr. David Kosub NIHDr. Joseph Kulinski NIHMr. Che-Ying Kuo University of Maryland College Park; Children’s National Medical CenterDr. Courtney Kurtyka Dr. Serena Kurumety Valley Forge Military CollegeMs. Brenna LaBarre NIHDr. Cedric Lane FDADr. Jeansun Lee FDADr. Young Lee NISTMs. Julia Licholai Dr. Dawei Lin NIHMr. Norman Lo Carr Astronautics Ms. Heidi Lovett NOAA Fisheries ServiceDr. Subha Madhavan Georgetown UniversityMs. Kelli Malott National Institute on AgingMr. Stephen Mason Johns Hopkins UniversityMr. Christian Mayfield NIHMr. Joseph McKennan Ms. Barbara Medvar Dr. Emily Messina The Catholic University of AmericaMs. Chun-yan Mi Dr. Linda Miallau DoDDr. Mayumi Miller NIHDr. Sarah Morgan NIH

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Mr. Jack Morgan Mrs. Marissa Msefya ACCDr. Sivaranjani Namasivayam NIHMr. Qimin Ng NHLBI/NIHMs. Mandy Ng AcademiaDr. Kapinga Ngalula Ms. Joan Ngwuta Ms. Stephine Oparaugo Healthcare ManagementDr. Veera Padmanabhan MedImmune/AstraZenecaDr. Randi Parks Ms. Jaya Parulekar NIHDr. Anna Pasetto NIHMr. Keval Patel Dr. Vinay Patil NIHMs. Emily Pelto FDADr. Robert Peters Dr. Norman Peterson MedImmuneMs. Rahel Petros Mr. Kade Pettie NIHDr. Adam Pintar NISTMs. Ashley Pitt Johns Hopkins UniversityMs. Kira Podolsky NIHDr. Savelas Rabb NISTMs. Jani Radhakrishnan UNC Chapel HillMr. Jonathan Rajaseelan NIHDr. Melissa Ray FDAMs. Sonia Razaqyar NIHMrs. Sara Reynolds NIHMs. Christine Ricci MedImmune Ms. Rachael Rodriguez FDAMr. Paul Rohr Retired Westinghouse Nuclear EngineerMs. Carolina Rojas Ramirez NIHMs. Jessica Root National Institutes of Deafness and Communication DisordersDr. Laura Rose FDAMs. Marci Rosenberg NIHMs. Sage Roth Medpace/Clinical ResearchMr. Benjamin Rush MedImmuneDr. Andaleeb Sajid NIHMr. Krishna Samavedam Hughes Network SystemsDr. Tamika Samuel University of MarylandMs. Aimeeta Sangtani Dr. Elizabeth Schoenfeld FDAMr. Jeremy Schreier FDA/ORISE

Dr. Sherri-Gae Scott FASEBMs. Hira Shabbir NICHDMr. Anuj Sharma University of Maryland Ms. Aricia Shen Ms. Margi Sheth AstraZenecaMs. Marina Shumakovich University of MarylandMs. Nicole Shyong ORAU/FDA/CFSANMs. Sheena Sikka NIHDr. Robert Silverberg NASA/Goddard Space Flight CenterMs. Joanna Silverman NHLBIDr. Pushpendra Singh Johns Hopkins UniversityMr. Daniel Sologuren Northrop GrummanMs. Sarah Speed NIHMr. Karthik Sreedhara NIHDr. Corey Stambaugh NISTMrs. Damilola Sunmola Mr. cyrus tang Northrop GrummanDr. Heather Teague NIH/NHLBIDr. Rok Tkavc USUHS, post-doctoral fellowMr. John Tracey NIHMs. Kristina Trotta ERT, contracted to NMFSMr. Lap Truong Dr. Wojtek Tutak ADA Foundation Mr. Ezigbobiara (Ezii) Umejiego NIHMr. Kendall Umstead NIHDr. Raghavan Venkat MedImmuneMs. Saunam Vij NIHDr. Bandana Ajay Vishwakarma USUHSDr. Vijay Walia NIHMs. Hailey Walters NIHMs. Sylvia Wandu Dr. Jane Wang NCIDr. David Wei NCI Mr. David Wilson NIH Ms. Katherine Wolf NIH Ms. Jocelyn Wu NIHMr. Ravi Chandra Yada NIHMs. Jing Yan University of MarylandDr. Hongliang Yang NIHMs. Habibeh Yekehtaz Mr. Wyatt Yelverton Ms. Pomi Yun NIHDr. Tong Zhou

2015 Category and ISEF Awards Judges (continued)

ScienceMONTGOMERY Participating Schools-2016

NAME AFFILIATION NAME AFFILIATION

School AbbrevEinstein High School AEHArgyle Middle School AGMMontgomery Blair High School BLHBullis School BUSChurchill High School CHHClarksburg High School CHSForcey Christian Middle School FCMSGaithersburg High School GBHGeorgetown Day School GDSGeorgetown Preparatory School GPSHoly Cross School HCSHoover Middle School HHMHolton-Arms School HOAHome Schooled HSCharles E. Smith Jewish Day School JDS

School AbbrevJulius West Middle School JWMKingsview Middle School KIMLakelands Park Middle School LPMMuslim Community School MCSNorth Bethesda Middle School NBMNorthwest High School NWHOther OTHParkland Middle School PLMPoolesville High School POHPotomac Ridge School PRSPyle Middle School PYMQuince Orchard High School QOHRoberto Clemente Middle School RCMChurch of the Redeemer Christian School RCSRobert Frost Middle School RFM

School AbbrevRidgeview Middle School RIMRichard Montgomery High School RMHRocky Hill Middle School ROMSt. Andrew Apostle School SAASpringbrook High School SBHShady Grove Middle School SGMSeneca Valley High School SVHSherwood High School SWHTakoma Park Middle School TPMWheaton High School WHHThomas Wootton High School WHOWalter Johnson High School WJHWalt Whitman High School WWH


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Congratulations to ScienceMONTGOMERY 2013

Best Wishes from the Kominers Family: Ellen, Bill,

Scott (ScienceMONTGOMERY 2005), and Paul

(ScienceMONTGOMERY 2006-2008)

Congratulations to ScienceMONTGOMERY 2016

Best Wishes from the Kominers Family:

Ellen, Bill,

Scott (ScienceMONTGOMERY 2005), and

Paul (ScienceMONTGOMERY 2006-2008)

Interested in next year’s Science Fair? Are you supporting students with projects?

Check out the Intel ISEF Document Library for 2017 Rules, Guidelines, and Resources! Documents are usually updated by the end of May for the coming year.

Email ScienceMONTGOMERY’s Scientific Review Committee [email protected] any time with questions or to ask for comments on a proposed research plan.


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STUDENTS IN THE JUNIOR FAIR

BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES M101 Video Game Concentration Evan Blakely HCSM102 Kids vs. Adults Jan Haro HCSM103 Where is Air Pollution? Justin Pham RCMM104 Remember This: Encoding in Humans Deeksha Sesha PLMM105 Does the Day of the Week Affect Morning School Drop-Off Patterns? Mira Thomas SAAM106 Does Taste Have a Price Tag? Katherine Zalewski HCSM107 Does This Make You Happy? Madeline Zalewski HCS

BIOLOGY M201 Soil Erosion: Do Plants Really Help It? Anna Anand RCMM202 The Effects on Saccharomyces cerevisiae’s Growth Using Various Carbon Sources Lana Anderson TPMM203 Free Radical Elimination: A Juicy Secret Ajeetha Arudchandran RCMM204 Preventing Mold Growth on Strawberries Siya Behl RCMM205 Botanical Gardens Sarah Briggs SAAM206 The Effect of Environmental Radiation on the Number of People Mary Chang TPM Who Develop Cancer Emily Chen TPM Kaylen Pak TPMM207 How Does the Color of Light Affect Plant Growth? Simon Chervenak TPM Jacob Palosky TPMM208 Slipping on Banana Peels or Plastic Bags Faith Cheung HHMM209 Effect of Radiation on Yeast Sophia Costa SAAM210 The Effectiveness of the Current Vaccination Creation Process Gautom Das TPMM211 Disinfecting Water Sadhana Dasari PLMM212 What is the Woolly Mammoth’s Closest Living Relative? Sapna David HHMM213 New Uses for Old Drugs Michael Gan RCMM214 Five Second Rule? Sohan Ganatra RCMM215 How Does Different Colored Light Affect Plant Growth? Matthew Garay RCMM216 Let’s Get Moldy!! Akshaj Gaur RCMM217 The Effect of UV Rays on Yeast Chloe Godfrey TPM Margaret Fang TPMM218 Beans, Water and Temperature Matthew Gu RCMM219 Will I Go Extinct? Garrett Gularson RCM Isaac Wang RCMM220 E-Target : A Novel Method to Mitigate Allergies Iris Gupta RFMM221 The Effects of Different Fungi on Basil Plants Joseph Jubilee RCMM222 How Does Mold Grow? Eric Jung RCMM223 Lettuce Seed Bioassays Abhinav Karthikeyan RCMM224 What Soil Condition is Best for the Growth of Kale? Jacob Kiwanuka SAA Devin Vaughan SAAM225 The Real Iceman Divya Koganti PLMM226 The Effect of Different Cooking and Thawing Methods Liang Lin TPM on the Bacterial Count in Meat

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M227 Soil Capillarity Saanika Mahashetty RCMM228 Natural Foods and the Effects with Macular Degeneration Mikala Marville AGMM229 Efficiency of Bacterial Transformation Tarun Mattikalli TPMM230 How Do Substances in Water Affect Plant Growth? Teryn Mitchell RCMM231 Oh My! This Much Sugar in My Breakfast! Ipsa Mittra JWMM232 Investigating C. elegans Mortality Under Exposure to UV Radiation Dhruv Pai TPM Joshua Wolfson TPMM233 Which Type of Plant is Most Efficient in Photosynthesis Michael Pan RCMM234 The Effect of Various Pesticides on Nitrogen-fixing Bacteria, Rhizobium spp, Meghna Pandey PLM Found in the Root Nodules of Leguminous Plants M235 How Does Microwave Radiation Affect Plant Growth? Roshini Parameswaran PLMM236 A Family of Super-tasters: Can I demonstrate any correlation between Anne Paxton HCS three generations of family and the amount of papillaeM237 Regeneration: Do Planarians Really Do it? Srisrujan Penikelapati RCMM238 Establishment of the Nitrogen Cycle in Aquaria Kathleen Pryor HOAM239 Cell to Cell: Direct Reprogramming Rathna Ramesh PLM Jason Marshak PLMM240 Does Neck Strength Reduce the Risk of Concussions in Soccer? Jorge Rodriguez-Arraiz SAAM241 The Effect of Different Dietary Additives on the Lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans Ryan Santhoshkumar PLMM242 Computational Exploration of Protein Function Anagha Shastry RCMM243 How Impurities in Tap Water Affect Plant Growth Jerry Shen RCMM244 Plants and Oil Spills Eashan Siddalingaiah RCMM245 Growing Plants in a Martian Environment Christopher Stallard RCMM246 Lung Cancer Severity Prediction Using Supervised Learning Michelle Tang TPM with Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases M247 Biowarfare: Experiment with Viruses that Destroy Bacteria Nathan Tang RCMM248 Snails and Aquariums Isabella Terhune HOAM249 The Effect of Painkillers on Plant Growth Zach Teselko RCMM250 Magnetism and Plant Growth Jason Wu RCMM251 Does the Type of Liquid Being Absorbed by a Plant Affect its Brian Xiang RCM Growth and/or Development?M252 The Effect of Worms on Plant Growth Dan Xu RCMM253 Stopping Yeast with Antifungal Medicines Andrew Zhong RCM Charlie Shou RCM

CHEMISTRY M301 Cleaning Coins Katia Calix Mejia AGM Jesica Argueta AGMM302 Growing Crystals Ishita Chatterjee RCM Megha Tummalapalli RCMM303 Navigating Negatives Landon Chesney HSM304 The Effect Acid Rain Has on Plants and How We Can Reduce It Max Chiu RCMM305 The Effect of Freezing on Cells Apurva Choudhary RCMM306 Calculating Calories using Calorimetry Serena Choy RCMM307 How Do Different Types of Acids Affect the Rate of Corrosion on Metals Timothy Chu RCMM308 What Are Certain Liquids Evaporation Rate? Jacqueline Davila RCM


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M309 A Method of Detecting Ozone in Different Locations Efe Eroz RCM Frank Horrigan RCMM310 Pure or Hazardous? Christine Gong RCM Lydia Ruan RCMM311 Solar-powered Chemistry: Study Chemical Reaction Rates in Ultraviolet Beads Shreya Gunda RCMM312 Reaction Between Tea and Iron in Drinks Jason Hu RCMM313 Alkaline Water Pragya Jha RCMM314 pH-Based Expiration Labels (with Corresponding Applications) Joshua Kalampanayil AGMM315 Effect of Temperature on the Separation of Oil and Water Alexander Kalomiris RCMM316 Rain, Rain in Sligo Creek Caroline Killian HCSM317 The Effect of the Type of Fruit on the Glucose Concentration Hae Rin Kim TPMM318 pH Power: The impact of household chemicals on pH of solutions Mark Kokiyelov TPMM319 Is Tap Water Better than Bottled Water Ezequiel Lazo-Salvador AGMM320 Electrolyte Challenge Daniel Lopez AGM Yomiyu Mekonnen AGMM321 Pulp Fiction? PULP FACT Charlotte McNamee HSM322 The Effects of Common Kitchen Substances on the Stability of Egg White Proteins Michio Morizono TPMM323 The Water Clock, An Experiment in Energy Production Isaiah Morris HSM324 Antacid Potency Angela Mu RCM Tanaya Jha RCMM325 Quality of Bodies of Water Shabarish Nair RCMM326 Filtration of Water Using Household Materials Namya Nanda RCMM327 Can You Really Trust Luminol? Tete Narh-Mensah AGM Cameron Coleman AGM Iyanu Brown AGMM328 Rainbow Fire Sareet Nayak RCMM329 Keeping Your Carrots Fresh: To Blanch or Not to Blanch Celine Paul SAAM330 The Gift of Clean Water Jasmine Pham RCMM331 Which Type of Battery is Better Suited for a Flashlight? Arjun Rakheja RCMM332 Cost Effective Water Impurity Detection and Measurement Anjali Samavedam RFMM333 Expect the Unexpected - The Magic of Mpemba Effect! Kush Savsani RCMM334 Wood Damage From Household Liquids Haaken Schofer RCMM335 Vitamin C Loss While Boiling Yashvi Shah AGMM336 Effects of Temperature on the Brightness of the Luminal Reaction Shreya Shete PLMM337 Creamy Crack Tsige Solomon PLM Joyce Milandu PLMM338 How Does Boiling Citrus Fruit Juice Affect Its pH Level? Shreyas Soma RCMM339 Power Comparison of Alkaline and Non-Alkaline Batteries Carl Stahlberg RCMM340 Pills vs. Injections Michael Sun RCMM341 The Effect of Temperature on Luminal Chemiluminesence Steven Tan RCM Eric Yi RCMM342 Gelatin - How Macho! Esther Tang TPM Shruti Chauhan TPMM343 Effects of Vinegar on Structural Materials Sanjit Thangarasu RCMM344 The Effect of the Amount of Ferro Fluid on the Efficiency Srish Udayakumar TPM of Cleaning up an Oil Spill


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M345 Contrasting Concentrated and Diluted Vinegar with a Penny Alexander Yang RCMM346 Comparing Electrolytes in Orange Juice and Sports Drinks Eileen Zhang RCMM347 Does 100% Fruit Juice Have More Vitamin C than Juice Eric Zhang RCM With Artificial Ingredients?

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS M401 Conservation of Energy Yashwanth Byreddy KIMM402 The Effect of Text Length on Author Identification Michael Chu TPMM403 Most Effective Internet Browser and Configuration to Prevent Interceptions Roma Dhingra RCMM404 The Effect of Different Types of Long-Term Injuries on a Pitcher’s Performance Prayag Gordy TPM Sarthak Bhatnagar TPMM405 Building a Computer Program to Identify Proteins Coded by DNA Tejas Guha RCMM406 A Mathematical Model of the Card Game, Magic: the Gathering Kaan Kayaalp TPMM407 How Easily Can Your Password Be Hacked? Samar Marwah AGMM408 Improved Lower Bounds for van der Waerden Numbers Daniel Monroe TPMM409 Effect of Gain and Speed on a Robot’s Straight Motion Enabled by a Gyro Sensor Arjun Oberoi TPMM410 A Novel Stylometric Data Extraction Tool for Authorship Verification Safiullah Rifai AGM Using TetragramsM411 Align and Conquer: When CRISPR/Cas 9 edits, our app resolves! Valentina Simon RFM Lennnard Poliakov SGMM412 Using Artificial Intelligence to Solve Chess Games Sabrina Su RCMM413 Eye Vision Project Ishaan Verma AGM Surafel Tsadik AGM

ENGINEERING M501 Building an Automatic Plant Watering System Vinamra Adikehithilu RCMM502 Rain Detector Avani Ahuja GDSM503 Wind Turbines Rohan Aluka RCMM504 Amplitude and Water Density on Wave Power Generation Brian Aniya RCMM505 Recon-Bot Dev Bhardwaj RCMM506 Effect of Temperature on Battery Life Ameya Deshmukh RFMM507 Can a Hydrogen Powered Car Carry a Payload and Remain Efficient? Aidan Douglas RCMM508 Magnetic Acceleration Michael Edwards RCMM509 Does the Length of an Airplane Wing Affect the Flight? Chinasa Ejiofor AGM Suzanne Tamrakar AGMM510 Building a Hydraulic Arm Varun Gangadharan RCM Elias Izmirlian RCMM511 An Engineering Automation and Logistics Based Project to Solve the Sanjana Gangishetty ROM Environmental Problem Posed by Non-degradable Single Serve K-cups Om Desai RCM Skanda Veda RCMM513 Wood Strength Dinal Gunaratne RCM Rakshan Joshi RCMM514 Virtual Eye: A Device to Aid the Visually Impaired Pranav Hegde RCMM515 The Ultimate Energy Source Sri Kanipakala RFMM516 Effect of Varying Distances on the Accuracy of Different Sensors Anaum Khan PLMM517 How Bright and Loud is The Traffic Control Device? Nicholas Kiwanuka SAA Axel Tasong SAAM518 Where Do I Put My Shot? James Kmetz SAA


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M519 Human Height Growth Measurement Using Digital Imaging Heather Lin HHMM520 Strengths of Different Types of Truss Bridges Sadhana Lolla RCM Daria Chen RCMM521 Cooling a Dorm Without Air Conditioning Diego Lopez HCSM522 Heads-Up Tapejara and Dimorphodon Tyler Munson HCSM523 Jackpot: Which Wet Paper Towel Will Win the Most Money Alexa Noto SAAM524 Developing an Artificial Pancreas through Simulation and Electrical Resistance Emmanuel Ojamo TPMM525 Sun-seeking robot Michael O’Reilly HCSM526 Wind Power versus Solar Power Jennifer Owen RCMM527 Using Mechanical Advantage to Enable Data Collection on Recycling Rates Saurav Pandey RFM Ryan Kim TPM Arya Palan RFMM528 The Sustainability of Different Dome Structures Preethi Prakash RCMM529 The Effect of Temperature on Evaporative Desalination Rate Samantha Rodriguez TPMM530 How Different Angles of Incidence of Solar Rays Impact Ronoy Sarkar RCM the Performance of a Solar CellM531 MagLev Train Model Darius Scott RCMM532 The Effect of Specific Gravity of Detected Materials Jonathan Simak PLM on the Image Resolution of Boat SonarM533 It’s A Sturdy Slope! Ryan Simpson SAA Daniel Patino SAAM534 Super SumoBots Tom Stoughton RCM Adhvayith Sriram RCMM535 What is the Impact of Surface Tension on Us? Saahith Tupakula ROM Havish Gadde ROMM536 Dam Strength Visesh Uppoor RCM Noah Ferrara RCMM537 Affordable Batteries Ahun Vodela AGM Ranshika Fernando AGM Ethan Christian AGMM538 Effect of Atmospheric Temperature on Interior Car Temperature Sophia Weng TPMM539 Wind Turbine Blade Pitch Tony Wu RCMM540 Strength of Different Liquids in Hydraulics William Xu RCMM541 Strongest Bridge Ian Yu RCMM542 Hovercraft Design Christine Zhou RCMM543 Solar Powered Incubator Danesh Sivakumar RCMM544 Can Thermal Energy Generation Replace Solar Energy Nicholas Portwood AGM Ryan Halli AGMM545 ECO-SMART-VEHICLE Samuel Cho TPM Catherine Lo TPMM546 Improved Earthquake Resistant Building Maeve Smith RIM

PHYSICS M701 Which Type of Rock Fractures The Most When Frozen in Ice? Andrew Adams RCMM702 Solar Cycle Effect on Coronal Mass Ejection Speed Joy Anyanwu RCMM703 The Direct/Indirect Correlation Between Color and Heat’s Absorption of Light Nicholas ‘Nick’ Asante RCMM704 Finding the Right Best Design for a Solar Heat House Mykel Bailey HCS


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M705 Light Transmittance of Different Colors Hunter Bergstrom RCMM706 Is Speed of Light Constant Through Different Mediums? Arman Bolouri RCMM707 Speed of Light in Gelatin Owen Cochran AGMM708 Courts, Courts, Courts Chris Corry AGM Christian Marchello AGMM709 The Effect of Foam on the Force Received from an Impact Eli Crow TPMM710 What is the Effect of Temperature on Conductivity and Resistance? Dev Desai RCMM711 Forces and Tennis Balls Jose Diaz Ramirez AGM Zachary Diaz AGM Jacob Fadare AGMM712 Do You Hear What I Hear? Charlotte Doughty TPMM713 How does Stirring Tea Affect Temperature? Fang Du RCMM714 What is the Effect of Different Materials on Ice Melting Speeds? Aileen Foley RCMM715 The Effect of Density on Sound Volume Simon Glueck JDSM716 Dependence of Solar Cell Electric Current and Voltage Lucas Gonzalez-Rey RCM on Light Frequency and TemperatureM717 Geomagnetic Storms Shreeya Khurana TPMM718 Light Absorption and Wavelength by Color Christian Kim RCMM719 The Thermodynamics of Hurricanes Medha Kotti RCMM720 Does the Diameter of a Wire Affect the Flow of Electrons? Viruni Lewwandoowa PLMM721 How do Non-Newtonian Liquids React to Projectiles? Jason Liu RCMM722 Materials of Planets and Orbital Radius Gurshaan Mann RCMM723 Color and Cooking with a Solar Oven: Which Color is Best? Isabella Merino SAAM724 Asteroids Samarth Nayak RCMM725 20 MHz Emission from the Sun Rohan Ojha TPMM726 Piezoelectric Materials Timothy Qian TPM Bertrand Zhu TPMM727 Experimenting with Buoyancy Carter Rodia HCSM728 The Surprising Strength of an Eggshell Cole Rodia HCSM729 an-GOAL! Evelyn Scott LPMM730 Is There a Relationship between Coronal Mass Ejections Anika Seth TPM and High Energy Solar Radiation? Lara Ojha TPMM731 Mpemba effect Tanuj Shah RCMM732 Calculus Craze: Out of This World Abrar Sheikh RCMM733 Hydrophobicity and Hydrophilicity of Natural and Artificial Surfaces Sonia Stan RCMM734 What Makes a Gauss Rifle Shoot Farther? A parametric study on number of Steven Su TPM balls in each stage, inter-stage distance and number of stagesM735 Optimizing Optical Precision of an Image Using Curved Focal Plane Technology Sujay Swain TPMM736 Crash or Balance? Pranav Tippa RCMM737 Induce Voltage Kasra Torshizi RCMM738 How Accurate is Parallax? Sresth Viswanathan RCM Shishir Velma RCMM739 The Mpemba Effect Joy Wang RCMM740 Which Household Items Conduct the Most Static Electricity? Matthew Wong RCMM741 Luminescence Celina Wu RCM


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M742 Proving Boyle’s Law Jack Yang RCMM743 Effect of Frequency and Material on Sound Absorption Billy Zeng RCMM744 The Effect of the Type of Wood on Flammability Justin Zhang TPM Matthew Shu TPM Eric Hao TPM

STUDENTS IN THE SENIOR FAIR

BIOLOGY H201 Characterizing the Spatiotemporal Processing of Retinal Ganglion Cells in Mice Deepti Agnihotri POHH202 Whole Genome Sequencing Reveals Extensive Heterogeneity in Lung Cancer Luckshika Arudchandran POH Affecting Targeted Treatment ResponseH203 Evaluating the Accuracy of 1000 Genomes Calls in Comparison Abby Beeler POH to NIST Reference Material on NA12878H204 Investigating Cost-Effective Soy-Based Famine Relief Foods Garyk Brixi CHH Reyna Choi RMHH205 Shots and Their Secrets Isabella Chang CHH Libba Lawrence CHHH206 Mechanical Manipulation of 3D Extracellular Matrix Ethan Chen BLH Stiffness Influences Cell BehaviorH207 The Effect of Mycorrhizal Fungi on Soybean Growth and Root Structure Amelia Cherian POH in Soils with Varying Nutrient Levels Kathryn Christensen POHH208 Modeling the Role of the Glymphatic Pathway in the Cornu Ammonis 1 Christian Coello BLH Hippocampus Region in Alzheimer’s diseaseH209 Ionic Strength Dependence of Factor 8 Protein: Improving Sanyukta Deshmukh WHO Prophylactic Hemophilia A TreatmentH210 The Effects of Water Content on the Mechanical Properties of Intervertebral Discs Xiaotian Fan POHH211 Isolation of Bacteriophages from Different Sources for Phage Therapy Sarah Gao BLH Gianna-Jade del Vecchio BLHH212 Human MicroRNA Sequence Analysis and Color Coding Tanya Ghosh QOH that Enables Better Data VisualizationH213 Long Term Effects of Spinal Cord Injury on Protein Production in Mice Calvin Godfrey BLHH214 Targeting the Survival of TFE3-fusion Kidney Cancer Cells Megha Guggari POHH215 Assessing Neuronal Activation Induced by Extinction of Palatable Food Seeking Roger Guitart POHH216 Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha Inhibits Mitochondrial Respiratory Function Sun-Bin Hwang WWH in Liver CellsH217 Development of Peptide-Based Cancer Drugs Targeting the Polo-Box Domain Jihoon Jang POH of Polo-like Kinase 1H218 Identifying if Splicing is Determined Locally in Eukaryotic DNA Albert Jiang POHH219 Clustering of Repetitive Genomic Sequences Emma Jin BLHH220 Defining the Mechanism of Malaria Parasite Egress from Merosomes Amber Liu POHH221 The Effect of Auditory Sounds of Tinnitus on the Directional Hearing Margaret Lo WHO of Female CricketsH222 Comparison of Random Forest to Structure Based Virtual Screening with Christopher Look POH the clk4 and dyrk1a ProteinH223 Effect of Ethanol on Associative Short and Long-term Memory Mengming Luo BLH of Caenorhabditis elegans Wendy Shi BLH


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H224 Computational Analysis of Driver Pathway Relationships across Sanna Madan POH Twelve Major Cancer TypesH225 Translocation Kinetics of Bacterial RNA Polymerase Gayane Matevosyan POHH226 The Effect of Meiotic Drive on the Remating Rate of Stalk-eyed Flies Thanuri Navarathna BLHH227 Intragenic SNP Haplotypes Associated with a Mutation in PROM1 in Two Howard Nicholson POH Pakistani Pedigrees with Autosomal Recessive Retinitis PigmentosaH228 Effect of Selective Activation of MAPK Signaling by a Biased Dopamine D1 Daniel Ovetsky POH Receptor Agonist on Locomotor Activity in Reserpinized MiceH229 Examining the Effect of Epigenetic Modifications on Transcription Factor Divya Rajagopal BLH Binding of the CEBP Family Using Protein Binding Microarray TechnologyH230 Development of an Automatic Chlorella Culturing System Using Arduino Seung Joon Rhee BLHH231 Combination and Monotherapy of Antibiotics Against Gram-Negative Nadia Roghani MCS and Gram-Positive BacteriaH232 How Can Domain Annotations of Human Disease-associated Proteins be Improved? Daniel Schaffer BLHH233 Role of Immune Tolerance in Drug Induced Liver Toxicity Soham Sen NWHH234 Using Recombinant Proteins to Represent Bispecific Antibodies to Target HCV Tanvi Shah POH Cells Through Recognition of the E1E2 Surface Glycoprotein in HCV CellsH235 Which Vitamin is More Preventive towards Bacteria? Melika Sizar MCSH236 Chemotactic Imprinting in Nematode Worms Zachary Sweeney GPS Sam Hunt GPS Justin Wells GPSH237 The Correlation Between Microwave Radiation and Lima Bean Height Abbie Tran WHOH238 Elucidating the Mechanism that Leads to Reduced Testes Size Aradhana Vyas POH in a Mouse Model of BRCA2H239 Effect of Exergaming on Energy Expenditure Emma Walter WJHH240 An Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) for Detecting and Emily Wang POH Differentiating Between H3N2v and Seasonal H3N2 Influenza VirusesH241 Determining the Animal Source of the 2012 Isiro, Democratic Republic of the Shirley Wolz POH Congo Ebola Outbreak with Satellite Images Obtained from LandSatH242 Improving Gene Repair by Different Inverted Terminal Repeats Jerry Wu RMH of Adeno-Associated VirusH243 Whole Genome Sequencing Analysis of Childhood Disintegrative Disorder Rona Yu BLH

CHEMISTRY H301 Purification and Crystallization of Kynurenine Pathway Enzymes Sylvana Aho POHH302 Pure and Simple Jessica Cleveland HSH303 Polymeric Structural Support Synthesis for the Catalytic Deactivation Mehana Daftary BLH of Chemical Warfare AgentsH304 From Waste To Energy! Shreya Khanna POH Thanushree Manjunath POHH305 Managing Diabetes: The Incredible Insulin Pump Varsha Krishnan WHOH306 Comparison of the Effectiveness of Coagulants in Sand Filtration David Yang CHH in Water Purification

COMPUTER SCIENCE H401 Quantum Computers and Qubits Helena Buarque de Macedo WWHH402 Investigating Deep Learning for Face Recognition Diwakar Ganesan POHH403 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 POH by Exhaustive Analysis of Partition ProbabilitiesH405 Improving the Efficacy of the Bumps Data Fitting and Uncertainty Estimation Kenneth Jiang POH Package on Reflectivity Analysis with an Optimized Variant of Parallel TemperingH406 Event Detection in Areas with Low-Resource Languages Suriya Kandaswamy POHH407 Clinical Telegaming Evaluation of Parkinson’s Disease Patients Stephan Loh BLH with Multisensory Testing Koby Taswell OtherH408 Analyzing Various Approaches to Data Representation of Large Data Sets Jacob Mathews BLH Specifically Patient-Reported OutcomesH409 Characterizing the Effect of Noise on Smart Image Analysis Techniques for in Jonathan Ni POH vitro Micronuclei Assays of Engineered NanoparticlesH410 Bink3 - An Autonomous Mobile Fire-Detection System Aneesha Sampath WHOH411 P-Secure Vaishnavi Sesetty POHH412 Cloud Based Monitoring of Customer Location and Preferences Devin Smedira POH to Eliminate Physical Lines Riley Wilburn POHH413 An Exploration of the Efficiency of Different Pathfinding Algorithms in 2D Kevin Su POHH414 Password Security Saiteja Tammali CHS Manav Mathur CHSH415 Possible Security Scheme for Big Data Access Control Systems Alexander Ting POHH416 The Data Behind the Words Aolin Yang WHOH417 Code-Switching Demystified Through Neural Networks Avanish Yendluri POH and Computational Models Amogh Narendra POH


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Rohit Chari POHH418 Efficient Algorithm Development for Modding Capabilities Seong Joon Yoo POHH419 Computer Efficiency of Hard-Drives Hassan Zaidi MCSH420 A Novel Stylometric Algorithm for Authorship Identification Cherry Zou POH over Online Social Networks

ENGINEERING H501 Detecting Electric Fields Yash Atitkar NWH Krishnan Guruvayurappan NWHH502 Life Support on a Budget Vera Bzhilyanskaya SVH Patrick Wang POHH503 Increasing Safety and Accuracy in Automation Systems Rohan Dixit POH with Real-Time Robot MonitoringH504 VAXXWAGON: An Innovative “No Ice, No Electric” Active Refrigeration Anurudh Ganesan CHS System for Last-Leg Vaccine TransportationH506 Correlation Yield Strength Velocities with Stress Concentrations on Nosepieces Alexander Ives POH of Flapping Wing Unmanned Aerial VehiclesH507 How to make a Stronger Truss for Bridges Erfan Jahanparast MCSH508 Powering the World with Piezoelectricity Pooja Keranahalli POHH509 Electricity for Third World Countries: With the Power of Vegetables Grace Kim POH Na Hye Kim POHH510 Increasing Lift of Flapping-Wing Air Vehicles By Adding Bi-Folding Wings Jason Kuldell POHH511 The Effect of Battery Chemistry on Battery Capacity Under Variable Load William McMillian BLHH512 The Effects of Materials on a Truss System Meghane Mombouli BUSH513 Development of Personal Transportation Device with Recharging Systems Ryan Needle CHHH514 Optimization of Magnetic Drug Delivery Systems to Inner Ear Disorders Dhruv Patel POHH515 Development of Temperature Responsive Mesoporous Gold Nanoshells for Rolane Qian POH an Enhanced Photothermal Effect and Controlled Drug DeliveryH516 Hydropower vs. Wind Power Mohammadreza Salimi MCSH517 Collaborative Maze Solving & Map Development via Gestural Communication Vineet Shah POH using Multiple Ground RobotsH518 Discovering and Modeling Traffic Lane-Changing Characteristics Stephanie Sun CHH for Autonomous VehiclesH519 A Python-based Software Tool to Conduct Time Dependent Alexander Tolstoy POH MOSFET Reliability TestsH520 Triphase Interphase Synthesis of Magnetic Gold Bellflowers as Cancer Bronte Wen BLH Theranostics for Dual-Modality Imaging and Photothermal TherapyH521 Autonomous and Tele-Op Robot Control Using Android Mobile Devices Frederick Xu RMHH522 Generation of Transparent Nanopaper from Sugarcane Waste Ariel Zhang BLH Caroline Leng POH

PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS H701 Classification of Conic Sections in Hyperbolic Geometry Patrick Chao BLHH702 The Effect of Varying Solar Cell Types on Solar Cell Efficiency Anusha Dixit POHH703 Relationship between Sunspot Group Area and Solar Flare X-ray Flux Kun Do WHOH704 Analyzing the Efficacy of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Using Various Natural Dyes Divya Gandla POH Aadya Bhaskaran POH


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H705 Analyzing the Differences in Subglacial Channel Formation from Supraglacial Sidney Geertsema BLH Lake Drainage on Different Regions of the Greenland Ice SheetH706 Investigation of Orthorhombic Distortions Due to Co2+ Ions Jean-Yong Kim POH in Tetragonal Spinel Mn3O4H707 Efficiency of a Nanofluid-based Solar Collector Shraeya Madhu POHH708 Automation of Swept-Wavelength Spectroscopy for Optical Microcavity Trishul Nagenalli POH Resonance DetectionH709 Using Fast Fourier Transform Techniques and Debye’s Asymptotic Expansion Jeremy Rubin POH to Accelerate Diffraction Calculations for Cylindrically Symmetrical SystemsH710 Novel Method for Characterization of Conjugated Quantum Sources Ankita Sharma POH via Multimode ReconstructionH711 Predicting Cosmic Ray Flux Sreya Vangara POHH712 The Physics of Music Claire Brizzolara WJH


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