2024 Science Fair - Special Awards
These are the winners of the Special Awards at the 2024 Fairfax County Regional Science and Engineering Fair.
The Aerospace Corporation
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition | Rohan Kalahasty | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Learned Plasticity: Adaptive, Carbon-Conscious Artificial Intelligence via Prefrontal Cortex Inspired Meta Learning |
| Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition | Mihika Dusad | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Solving the Admissibility Problem: Radon Algorithms to Minimize Radiation |
| Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition | Soham Jain | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | EyeLS: A Novel, Accessible Gaze-Tracking Application to Revolutionize Non-Verbal Communication for Patients |
| Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition | Samuel Stankiewicz | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | A Novel Blockchain System and Low-Cost Device for Air Quality Aggregation |
| Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition | Manav Gagvani | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Multi-Agent Robotic Path Planning via Particle-based Belief Propagation |
| Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition | Seoyoung Jun | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Integrated Assistive Technology for the Visually Impaired – 3D Scanner with a Tactile Display and Machine Learning |
| Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition | Sritan Motati, Anant Khandelwal, Siddhant Sood | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Diffusion-Based Conditional Mesh Synthesis for Efficient 3D Prototyping |
| Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition | Arjun Ganesan | Centreville High School | The Effect of Kinematic Sensors on the Accuracy of an Autonomous Robot |
| Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition | Veera Anand | Langley High School | D.O.T.S. - Debris Orbital Tracking System Using Kepler's Laws and Machine Learning |
| Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition | Aryav Gogia | McLean High School | Evaluating Automatic Segmentation and Labeling of Multispectral Datasets for Drone-based Applications |
| Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition | Shrey Desai | Marshall High School | Drought Shield: A machine learning-based approach to drought forecasting using remote sensing data |
| Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition | Joseph Tso | Woodson High School | V-MODE: Virtualized Microgrids for Optimizing Distributed Energy |
| Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition | Madeleine Ahrens | Madison High School | The Effect of Different Ion Thruster Designs on Thrust Production |
| Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition | Brian Zhou | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Novel Inverse Control Methods to Optimize Multiple Objectives on Constrained Autonomous Systems |
| Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition | Anusha Agarwal | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Identifying Future Asteroid Mining Targets using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network |
| Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition | Ryan Kim | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Hybrid Quantum-Classical Machine Learning for Dementia Detection |
| Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition | Nathan Vailikit | Woodson High School | Image Noise and Sub-Exposure Length in Astrophotography |
| Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition | Risha Krishnan | Chantilly High School | Maximizing Computational Efficiency of Chemical Simulation Using the VQE and Classical Machine Learning |
| Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition | Danna Jia | Langley High School | The Relation Between Supermassive Black Hole Mass and Active Galactic Nuclei Luminosity |
| Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition | Nora French | Madison High School | The Effect of Propellant Ratio on the Efficiency of Solid Core Sugar Rockets |
| Honorable Mention--Invitation to Robert Herndon Science Competition | Christopher Han, Kyle Chen | Robinson Secondary School | The Effects of Nozzle Diameter on the Total Impulse of a Solid Rocket Engine |
American Association of University Women, McLean Area Branch (AAUW)
| Award | Student | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| AAUW McLean Area Branch STEM Excellence Award--Certificate, $100, and Invitation to May Luncheon | Gabriela Konde | Marshall High School | Optimal Sound Frequencies for Targeted E. coli Biofilm Eradication on Medical Devices |
American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA)
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Certificate and $300 | Darren Nguyen | Edison High School | The Effect of Propeller Pitch on Sound |
| 2nd--Certificate and $200 | Shriya Jaddu | Langley High School | SeizAlert: A Deep Learning Powered System for Pre-Ictal Seizure Prediction |
| 3rd--Certificate and $100 | Mihika Dusad | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Solving the Admissibility Problem: Radon Algorithms to Minimize Radiation |
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Capital Section (AIAA-NCS)
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Student membership in the AIAA, opportunity to attend NASA Goddard Space Experience, and $25 | Madeleine Ahrens | Madison High School | The Effect of Different Ion Thruster Designs on Thrust Production |
| 1st--Student membership in the AIAA, opportunity to attend NASA Goddard Space Experience, and $25 | Brian Zhou | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Novel Inverse Control Methods to Optimize Multiple Objectives on Constrained Autonomous Systems |
| 1st--Student membership in the AIAA, opportunity to attend NASA Goddard Space Experience, and $25 | Matthew Lee, Benjamin Hall, Austin Cui | Woodson High School | Designing an AI-Guided Ultra Versatile Unmanned Aircraft for Wartime Humanitarian Aid |
| 1st--Student membership in the AIAA, opportunity to attend NASA Goddard Space Experience, and $25 | John Gundlach, Jackson Wedige | Robinson Secondary School | Stealth - A Material Approach |
American Nuclear Society (DC-ANS)
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Certificate and $100 check | Mihika Dusad | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Solving the Admissibility Problem: Radon Algorithms to Minimize Radiation |
| 2nd--Certificate and $75 check | Arnav Jadhav | Chantilly High School | 3D U-Net: A Novel Approach to Enhanced Glioblastoma Multiforme Segmentation for Radiation Therapy Planning |
| 3rd--Certificate and $50 check | Valeria Novoa | Madison High School | Optimizing Graphitic Carbon Nitride to Create a Safe, Effective, and Economic form of Hydrogen Storage. |
American Psychological Association (APA)
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Certificate and one-year complimentary student membership in APA | Samad Quraishi | Marshall High School | The Effect of Nicotine on Fertilization in C. elegans: How Vaping Affects Human Reproduction |
American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C. Branch (ASM)
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Certificate and $20 Amazon Gift Card | Shumvobi Mitra | Langley High School | Detecting and Degrading Formaldehyde using Synthetic Biology and Engineering Techniques |
| 2nd--Certificate and $15 Amazon gift card | Rohit Kamath | Madison High School | Hierarchical Prediction of Antibiotic Resistance in Neisseria Gonorrohea |
| 3rd--Certificate and $10 Amazon gift card | Kriesh Tivare | Langley High School | Bacterial Modulation Strategy Using Compound Magnetic Fields to Manipulate the Antimicrobial Resistance and Growth Behaviors of E. coli |
| Honorable Mention--Certificate | Madeline Levorson | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Discovery of Medically Important Lytic Bacteriophages from the Environment |
| Honorable Mention--Certificate | Agata Colon | Edison High School | CHG Concentration's Effect on Bacterial Growth |
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Place--Excellence in Engineering Certificate, $100, and Invitation to Awards Dinner with Parent(s)/Guardian(s) | Valeria Novoa | Madison High School | Optimizing Graphitic Carbon Nitride to Create a Safe, Effective, and Economic form of Hydrogen Storage. |
| 2nd place--Excellence in Engineering Certificate, $75, and Invitation to Awards Dinner with Parent(s)/Guardian(s) | Isha Joshi | Langley High School | ezPD: ez Parkinson's Disease Detection and Tracking Symptom Progression with a Mobile App |
| 3rd place--Excellence in Engineering Certificate and $50 | Arjun Ganesan | Centreville High School | The Effect of Kinematic Sensors on the Accuracy of an Autonomous Robot |
| Honorable Mention--Excellence in Engineering Certificate | Madeleine Ahrens | Madison High School | The Effect of Different Ion Thruster Designs on Thrust Production |
| Honorable Mention--Excellence in Engineering Certificate | Ksenia Koltovich | Madison High School | Fueling the World: The Production of Biodiesel From Used Cooking Oil |
American Water Works Association, Virginia Section (VA AWWA)
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Certificate and $200 | Aayush Shivashankar | Chantilly High School | The Effect of Common Halogens (ppm) on the Phytoremediation Rate in Mycorrhizal Lemna minor |
| 2nd--Certificate and $100 | Maya Moses | Woodson High School | Wood Species and Water Purification: The Effect of Species of Wood on Xylem Water Filters |
| 3rd--Certificate and $50 | Labeed Zaib | South Lakes High School | The Spatial Correlation Analysis of Microplastics Concentrations in Northern Virginia Geographic Regions |
| Honorable Mention--Certificate | Aum Patel, Grayson White, Sydharth Pant | Fairfax High School | DIY Water Filter |
| Honorable Mention--Certificate | Sean Esen, Angelina Taimouri | Falls Church High School | The Effect of Water Purification Method on Bacterial Growth in Water |
| Honorable Mention--Certificate | Steffi Forde, Makenna Murphy | Falls Church High School | The Effect of Water Source Location Before and After Treatment on Level of Pollution |
Animal Education and Rescue Organization (A.E.R.O.)
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Certificate, Wildlife Trophy, and $50 | Sirichandana Yakkala, Ananya Nissi Peterson, Aarna Bhamidipati | Chantilly High School | The Effect of Color Variation on Drosophila melanogaster Inclination |
| 2nd--Certificate, Wildlife Trophy, and $30 | Alexander Yu, Albert Zhu | Oakton High School | The Effect of Increasing Salinity on Daphnia magna Viability |
| 3rd--Certificate, Wildlife Trophy, and $20 | Evelyne You, Lillian Voyer | Robinson Secondary School | The Effect of Climate Phenomena on Seed Physiology |
Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, Northern VA Chapter (AFCEA NOVA)
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition | Manav Gagvani | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Multi-Agent Robotic Path Planning via Particle-based Belief Propagation |
| 1st--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition | Victor Wang | Marshall High School | Impact of Electric Vehicle Adoption on Electricity Rates and Infrastructure |
| 1st--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition | Matthew Lee, Benjamin Hall, Austin Cui | Woodson High School | Designing an AI-Guided Ultra Versatile Unmanned Aircraft for Wartime Humanitarian Aid |
| 1st--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition | Kush Desai | Marshall High School | Defying Gravity with the Magic of Sound: How Does Phase Changing Signal Time Affect the Displacement of Styrofoam? |
| 2nd Place--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition | Alexander Hughes, Fox Burton | Falls Church High School | The Effect of Wind Turbine Blade Count on Electricity Produced |
| 2nd Place--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition | Aryav Gogia | McLean High School | Evaluating Automatic Segmentation and Labeling of Multispectral Datasets for Drone-based Applications |
| 2nd Place--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition | Jack Dova, Madison Pflug | Mount Vernon High School | The Design of Augmented Reality Translation Glasses |
| 2nd Place--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition | Madison Pflug | Mount Vernon High School | The Design of Augmented Reality Translation Glasses |
| 2nd Place--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition | Risha Krishnan | Chantilly High School | Maximizing Computational Efficiency of Chemical Simulation Using the VQE and Classical Machine Learning |
| 3rd Place--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition | William Lu | Madison High School | Bridging Data Gaps: An AI-Driven Approach for Generating Low-Income Fine-Scale Maps |
| 3rd Place--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition | Joseph Frisk | Marshall High School | Turning Turbines: Investigating the Relationship Between Blade Number and Wind Turbine RPM |
| 3rd Place--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition | Arjun Ganesan | Centreville High School | The Effect of Kinematic Sensors on the Accuracy of an Autonomous Robot |
| 3rd Place--Scholarship (amount TBD) and Letter of Recognition | Nathan Vailikit | Woodson High School | Image Noise and Sub-Exposure Length in Astrophotography |
| Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition | Julie Xu, Claire Zhang, Mihika Dusad | Oakton High School | Combining Machine Learning Algorithm with Structured Motion Data for ASL Motion Recognition |
| Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition | Sritan Motati, Anant Khandelwal, Siddhant Sood | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Diffusion-Based Conditional Mesh Synthesis for Efficient 3D Prototyping |
| Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition | Sara El-Ghazali | Mount Vernon High School | Sign Speak AI: ASL to Text Conversion |
| Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition | Veera Anand | Langley High School | D.O.T.S. - Debris Orbital Tracking System Using Kepler's Laws and Machine Learning |
| Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition | Vikas Kotla | South Lakes High School | The Effect of the Number of Blades on the Power Output of a Wind Turbine |
| Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition | Brennan McCulloch, Ritvik Kanchetty | South Lakes High School | Effect of Coil Count on Electromagnetic Motor RPM |
| Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition | Emma Cummings-Sulmistras | Woodson High School | Translating Nervous Energy into Electricity |
| Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition | Isabelle Ky, Riya Reddy | South County High School | The Effect of Blade Design on Wind Turbine Efficiency |
| Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition | Khang Nguyen | Edison High School | How the Number of Blades Affects the Efficiency of Wind Turbines |
| Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition | Srithan Bobbala, Victor Moldoveanu, Jackson Fuller | Chantilly High School | The Effect of Materials on the Power Output and Flexural Strength of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Blades |
| Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition | Madeleine Ahrens | Madison High School | The Effect of Different Ion Thruster Designs on Thrust Production |
| Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition | Victoria Sun, Kaila Le | Centreville High School | The Efficiency of Energy Generated by Wind Turbines |
| Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition | Prithul Baveja, Roshan Ram, Nishanth Kolakalapudi | Westfield High School | Integrating Directional Command Interpretation and Dynamic Pathfinding in UAV |
| Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition | Anusha Agarwal | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Identifying Future Asteroid Mining Targets using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network |
| Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition | Ryan Kim | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Hybrid Quantum-Classical Machine Learning for Dementia Detection |
| Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition | Miles Nousain | Woodson High School | The Effect of the Transformer Core on the Average Total Harmonic Distortion |
| Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition | Ethan Masci | South Lakes High School | The Effect of Time on the Frequency of a Ukulele String |
| Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition | Emmy Leong | Marshall High School | Demagnetizing Samarium Cobalt Magnets Through Exposure to an External Magnetic Field |
| Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition | Samantha Cowen | Edison High School | How Will Laser Color Affect Voltage Induced in a Conductor? |
| Honorable Mention--Letter of Recognition | Sebastian Sejas | Marshall High School | The Effect of Wall Thickness on Radio Wave Attenuation for Wireless Networks |
Association for Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine (ADLM)
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Certificate and $200 | Camille Jo | Woodson High School | Lactobacillus acidophilus Concentration Effectivity |
| 2nd--Certificate and $100 | Rachel DeWitt | Fairfax High School | Water Testing Using A Spectrometer |
| 3rd--Certificate and $50 (split between team members) | Tyler Wang, Alex Kim, Kevin Kim | Centreville High School | The Detection of Replicative DNA in COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines |
| HM--Certificate | Meredith Andre, Charlie Meidlinger | South Lakes High School | The Effect of Catalase Temperature on Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide |
| HM--Certificate | Viraj Luthra | Chantilly High School | On the Synthesis of Hydroxyapatite from Eggshells |
| HM--Certificate | Sophia Milausnic | South Lakes High School | The Effect of Various Antibiotic Agents on the Bacterial Growth of E. coli |
Association For Women Geoscientists (AWG)
| Award | Student | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Student Award of Geoscience Excellence"--Certificate | Rachel Ku | Langley High School | Drought Monitoring in the Horn of Africa with NASA MODIS ET and NDVI Products |
| "Student Award of Geoscience Excellence"--Certificate | Valeria Novoa | Madison High School | Optimizing Graphitic Carbon Nitride to Create a Safe, Effective, and Economic form of Hydrogen Storage. |
| "Student Award of Geoscience Excellence"--Certificate | Phoebe Pan | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | AirWise: A Deep Learning Framework for High-Resolution PM2.5 Prediction |
Biophysical Society
| Award | Student | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Certificate and $100 Check | Kate Choi | The Potomac School | Improving Racial Equity in Skin Cancer Detection via Artificial Intelligence |
BrainPOP
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Certificate and $200 gift card (split between team members) | Manini Dhingra, Vidhi Reddy | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | TheraLink: Detecting Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Utilizing 3D Convolutional Neural Networks MRI Analysis and Advancing Repurposed Targeted Therapeutics |
| 2nd--Certificate and $100 gift card (split between team members) | Natalie Robertson, Ethan Wolf | Fairfax High School | The Effect of Different Ratios of Mango Juice to Water, Used for Cooking, on the Vitamin C Levels in Yams |
| 3rd--Certificate and $50 gift card (split between team members) | Andine Boisseau, Juan Garcia | South County High School | The Effect of Caffeine on Daphnia |
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Place--Certificate, Coin, and $100 | Samad Quraishi | Marshall High School | The Effect of Nicotine on Fertilization in C. elegans: How Vaping Affects Human Reproduction |
| 1st Place- Certificate, Coin, and $100 | NJ Borders, Connor Geraghty | Woodson High School | Deafblind Accessible Computers |
| 1st Place- Certificate, Coin, and $100 | Jack Dova, Madison Pflug | Mount Vernon High School | The Design of Augmented Reality Translation Glasses |
| Honorable Mention-- Certificate and Coin | Maggie Sun, Pelin Sayar | Chantilly High School | A Novel and Cost-effective Method for the Colorimetric Determination of Phytic Acid Concentration |
| Honorable Mention-- Certificate and Coin | William Lu | Madison High School | Bridging Data Gaps: An AI-Driven Approach for Generating Low-Income Fine-Scale Maps |
| Honorable Mention-- Certificate and Coin | Anant Khandelwal, Sritan Motati, Siddhant Sood | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Diffusion-Based Conditional Mesh Synthesis for Efficient 3D Prototyping |
| Honorable Mention-- Certificate and Coin | Isha Joshi | Langley High School | ezPD: ez Parkinson's Disease Detection and Tracking Symptom Progression with a Mobile App |
Clean Air Partners MWCOG
| Award | Student | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Certificate and $50 gift card | Samuel Stankiewicz | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | A Novel Blockchain System and Low-Cost Device for Air Quality Aggregation |
| 1st--Certificate and $50 gift card | Phoebe Pan | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | AirWise: A Deep Learning Framework for High-Resolution PM2.5 Prediction |
Clean Fairfax
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Certificate and Swag Bag | Aaron Chen, Ashley Chen | Oakton High School | The Potential of Chlorophyll as an Eco-Friendly Power Source |
| 2nd--Certificate and Swag Bag | Mia Ramos | Woodson High School | Effect of Aspergillus oryzae on Decomposition of Starch-Based Bioplastics |
| 3rd--Certificate and Swag Bag | Gabrielle Antoine, Stella Yun | Madison High School | Reducing Plastic Waste with Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate 3D Print Filament |
Commissioned Officer Association, U. S. Public Health Services, District of Columbia Branch (DC-COA)
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Distinguishing Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal | Amy Key | Langley High School | A Comprehensive and Affordable Machine Learning Based Mobile Application for the Early Detection of Parkinson’s Disease |
| 2nd Distinguishing Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal | Khartik Uppalapati, Viraj Kamath | Oakton High School | BSEPv2: Designing a Novel Protein Utilizing AI-Assisted Predictions of Molecular Evolution for Treatment of PFIC |
| 3rd Distinguishing Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal | Tyler Wang, Alex Kim, Kevin Kim | Centreville High School | The Detection of Replicative DNA in COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines |
| HM Meritorious Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal | Kate Choi | The Potomac School | Improving Racial Equity in Skin Cancer Detection via Artificial Intelligence |
| HM Meritorious Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal | Anvith Kakkera, Aneesh Kalla | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Cytological Evaluation of Thyroid Carcinoma: Machine Learning Analysis of Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsies |
| HM Meritorious Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal | Sampurna Chakravorty | Chantilly High School | Harnessing AI for Medical Image Analysis |
| HM Meritorious Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal | Mahsa Jawaid, Vivian Weszelovszky | Edison High School | The Effect of UV Light and Antioxidants on Caenorhabditis elegans |
| HM Meritorious Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal | Salban Nithilaselvan | Westfield High School | Tumor Immune Microenvironment Centered Multimodal Deep Learning Approaches to Colorectal Cancer Survival Analysis |
| HM Meritorious Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal | Rashmika Omtri, Arunika Awula, Sua Kim | Chantilly High School | The Effect of Prebiotics on the Growth of Lactobacillus |
| HM Meritorious Achievement Award in Medicine and Public Health--Certificate and Medal | Sarah Li | McLean High School | Splicing Factor Genes in Lupus Patient Stratification |
Dominion Energy
| Award | Student | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--$100 gift card and Certificate | Joseph Tso | Woodson High School | V-MODE: Virtualized Microgrids for Optimizing Distributed Energy |
| 2nd--$75 gift card and Certificate | Thomas Sparling | Oakton High School | A Closed Loop Pumped Hydro-Power System vs. Commercial Batteries |
| HM--$50 gift card and Certificate | Rishi Jagarlapudi, Nishanth Vadlamani, Aryan Raj | Chantilly High School | Minimizing Wildfire Costs Through Quantum Enhanced Controlled Burns |
Geological Society of Washington
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Certificate, ribbon, and invitation to present at a Geological Society of Washington meeting in May | Wesley Kang | Madison High School | A Novel Mathematical Model To Predict Wastewater Induced Earthquakes |
| 2nd--Certificate and ribbon | Andrew Kim, Jamie Kim | Woodson High School | Utilizing Remote Sensing and Deep Neural Networks to Predict Biochemical Oxygen Demand in the Chesapeake Bay |
| 3rd--Certificate and ribbon | Rachel Ku | Langley High School | Drought Monitoring in the Horn of Africa with NASA MODIS ET and NDVI Products |
| HM--Certificate | Sanchali Banerjee | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | A Novel Framework Using GANs to Create Land Resource Management Strategy |
George Mason University Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science
| Award | Student | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Certificate and Drone | Rachel Ku | Langley High School | Drought Monitoring in the Horn of Africa with NASA MODIS ET and NDVI Products |
George Mason University Department of Mechanical Engineering
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Place--Certificate and GMU Swag Bag | Kent Fruchtman, Ashwin Potluri | Oakton High School | Constructing a Robot to Aid the Elderly and Mobility Impaired in Everyday Tasks |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Northern Virginia Section
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st in Technology Innovation--Certificate and $50 | Danial Syed, Isabel Aysa-Lastra | Hayfield Secondary School | Robee: A Novel Autonomous Pollinator |
| 2nd in Technology Excellence--Certificate and $50 | Soham Jain | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | EyeLS: A Novel, Accessible Gaze-Tracking Application to Revolutionize Non-Verbal Communication for Patients |
| 2nd in Technology Excellence--Certificate and $50 | Manav Gagvani | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Multi-Agent Robotic Path Planning via Particle-based Belief Propagation |
| 2nd in Technology Excellence--Certificate and $50 | Seoyoung Jun | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Integrated Assistive Technology for the Visually Impaired – 3D Scanner with a Tactile Display and Machine Learning |
| 3rd in Technology Achievement--Certificate | Samuel Stankiewicz | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | A Novel Blockchain System and Low-Cost Device for Air Quality Aggregation |
| 3rd in Technology Achievement--Certificate | NJ Borders, Connor Geraghty | Woodson High School | Deafblind Accessible Computers |
| 3rd in Technology Achievement--Certificate | Jack Dova, Madison Pflug | Mount Vernon High School | The Design of Augmented Reality Translation Glasses |
McGraw Hill
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Certificate and $50 Gift Card each | Sravya Tathicherla, Tejavi Kumar | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | CNN Identification of Abnormal Lung Sounds as a Potential Precursor of SIDS |
| 2nd--Certificate and $25 Gift Card | Gabrielle Convery | Mount Vernon High School | The Effect of Different Insects and the Reactions that they Receive from People |
| 3rd--Certificate and $25 Gift Card each | Riya Gonzales, Delaney Fleming, Abigail Daniel | Woodson High School | The Effect of Commonly Used School Surfaces on Bacterial Load Present in Phone Cases |
| 3rd--Certificate and $25 Gift Card each | Delaney Fleming | Woodson High School | The Effect of Commonly Used School Surfaces on Bacterial Load Present in Phone Cases |
| 3rd--Certificate and $25 Gift Card each | Abigail Daniel | Woodson High School | The Effect of Commonly Used School Surfaces on Bacterial Load Present in Phone Cases |
MIT Club of Washington DC
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIT Club of Washington DC Award of Excellence | Phoebe Pan | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | AirWise: A Deep Learning Framework for High-Resolution PM2.5 Prediction |
| MIT Club of Washington DC Award of Excellence | Danial Syed, Isabel Aysa-Lastra | Hayfield Secondary School | Robee: A Novel Autonomous Pollinator |
| MIT Club of Washington DC Award of Excellence | Neha Chandran, Srimaye Peddinti | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Linear Polarization-based Entanglement of a Single Photon, 2-Qubit Spatial Mode System |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| Award | Student | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Certificate and Invitation to a Webinar with NASA Scientist | Sanchali Banerjee | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | A Novel Framework Using GANs to Create Land Resource Management Strategy |
| Certificate and Invitation to a Webinar with NASA Scientist | Brian Zhou | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Novel Inverse Control Methods to Optimize Multiple Objectives on Constrained Autonomous Systems |
| Certificate and Invitation to a Webinar with NASA Scientist | Phoebe Pan | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | AirWise: A Deep Learning Framework for High-Resolution PM2.5 Prediction |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
| Award | Student | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taking The Pulse of the Planet Award -- Certificate and Letter | Rishi Jagarlapudi, Nishanth Vadlamani, Aryan Raj | Chantilly High School | Minimizing Wildfire Costs Through Quantum Enhanced Controlled Burns |
| Taking The Pulse of the Planet Award -- Certificate and Letter | Andrew Kim, Jamie Kim | Woodson High School | Utilizing Remote Sensing and Deep Neural Networks to Predict Biochemical Oxygen Demand in the Chesapeake Bay |
| Taking The Pulse of the Planet Award -- Certificate and Letter | Sanchali Banerjee | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | A Novel Framework Using GANs to Create Land Resource Management Strategy |
Northern Virginia Astronomy Club (NOVAC)
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Certificate, $100 Gift Card, and 1-year NOVAC Membership | Anusha Agarwal | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Identifying Future Asteroid Mining Targets using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network |
| 2nd--Certificate, $75 Gift Card, and 1-year NOVAC Membership | Veera Anand | Langley High School | D.O.T.S. - Debris Orbital Tracking System Using Kepler's Laws and Machine Learning |
| 3rd place; Certificate, $75 Gift Card, and 1-year NOVAC Membership | Nora French | Madison High School | The Effect of Propellant Ratio on the Efficiency of Solid Core Sugar Rockets |
| Honorable Mention; 1-year NOVAC Membership | Nathan Vailikit | Woodson High School | Image Noise and Sub-Exposure Length in Astrophotography |
| Honorable Mention; 1-year NOVAC Membership | Julia Sites, Amelia Johnson | South County High School | The Effect of Artificial Light on Skyglow |
| Honorable Mention; 1-year NOVAC Membership | Stephen Aiello, Rohan Gottesman | Hayfield Secondary School | Effect of Stellar Surface Temperature on the Color of a Star |
| Honorable Mention; 1-year NOVAC Membership | Christopher Han, Kyle Chen | Robinson Secondary School | The Effects of Nozzle Diameter on the Total Impulse of a Solid Rocket Engine |
Northern Virginia Dental Society (NVDS)
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Certificate of Merit and $100 Cash Award | Sophia Milausnic | South Lakes High School | The Effect of Various Antibiotic Agents on the Bacterial Growth of E. coli |
| 2nd--Certificate of Merit and $50 Cash Award | Soham Jain | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | EyeLS: A Novel, Accessible Gaze-Tracking Application to Revolutionize Non-Verbal Communication for Patients |
| HM--Certificate of Merit | Mia Solomon | Marshall High School | The Effects of Antioxidant and UV Radiation on Drosophila melanogaster Fertility |
| HM--Certificate of Merit | Jason Shin | Oakton High School | The Effect of Hydrogen Peroxide/Sodium Alginate Ice Balls on the Purification of Algae Water |
| HM--Certificate of Merit | Camille Jo | Woodson High School | Lactobacillus acidophilus Concentration Effectivity |
| HM--Certificate of Merit | Vittoria Garcia, Logan Lin, Lillian Ingraham | South Lakes High School | The Effect of Different Toothpastes on Teeth Whitening |
| HM--Certificate of Merit | Lillian Ingraham | South Lakes High School | The Effect of Different Toothpastes on Teeth Whitening |
Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District (NVSWCD)
| Award | Student Names | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Certificate, Book: What If? by Randall Munroe, $100 gift card | Brooke Ehmann-Jones, Chloe Bernasconi, Danielle Ford-Lane | Justice High School | The Effect of Different Binding Agents on the Durability of Leaf Bricks |
| 2nd--Certificate, Book: What If? by Randall Munroe, $75 gift card | Maya Moses | Woodson High School | Wood Species and Water Purification: The Effect of Species of Wood on Xylem Water Filters |
| 3rd--Certificate, Book: What If? by Randall Munroe, $50 gift card | Samik Sidhu | Chantilly High School | The Effect of Organic Mulch on Soil Erosion and Water Retention |
| 3rd--Certificate, Book: What If? by Randall Munroe, $50 gift card | Veronica Diamond | Fairfax High School | Four Corners: Tap Water's Effect on Radish Plants |
Office of Naval Research (US Navy)
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| $50 Gift Card, Certificate, and Medal | Kyan Yang | Madison High School | System of Nonlinear ODEs for Michaelis-Menten Kinetics To Model EGFR-Triggered Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Cascades in Lung Carcinoma Cell Line |
| $50 Gift Card, Certificate, and Medal | Seoyoung Jun | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Integrated Assistive Technology for the Visually Impaired – 3D Scanner with a Tactile Display and Machine Learning |
| $50 Gift Card, Certificate, and Medal | Brian Zhou | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Novel Inverse Control Methods to Optimize Multiple Objectives on Constrained Autonomous Systems |
| $50 Gift Card, Certificate, and Medal | Phoebe Pan | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | AirWise: A Deep Learning Framework for High-Resolution PM2.5 Prediction |
| $50 Gift Card, Certificate, and Medal | Aaryan Sumesh | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | The Viability of PTCDA as an Active Cathode Material in Lithium-ion and Sodium-ion Batteries |
| $50 Gift Card, Certificate, and Medal | Anusha Agarwal | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Identifying Future Asteroid Mining Targets using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network |
Ofinno
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Certificate and $100 gift card per team member | Sritan Motati, Anant Khandelwal, Siddhant Sood | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Diffusion-Based Conditional Mesh Synthesis for Efficient 3D Prototyping |
| 2nd--Certificate and $200 gift card | Rohan Kalahasty | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Learned Plasticity: Adaptive, Carbon-Conscious Artificial Intelligence via Prefrontal Cortex Inspired Meta Learning |
| 2nd--Certificate and $200 gift card | Mihika Dusad | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Solving the Admissibility Problem: Radon Algorithms to Minimize Radiation |
| 3rd--Certificate and $100 gift card | Isha Joshi | Langley High School | ezPD: ez Parkinson's Disease Detection and Tracking Symptom Progression with a Mobile App |
| HM--Certificate and $50 gift card | Jinzhu Cui | Madison High School | A New Fire Grid Management System: The Impact of Different Mathematical Models |
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., Omicron Kappa Kappa Chapter
| Award | Student | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Oscar J. Cooper, M.D., Award for Excellence in Biomedical and Health Sciences--Certificate and $50 gift card | Sampurna Chakravorty | Chantilly High School | Harnessing AI for Medical Image Analysis |
| Dr. Edgar A. Love Award for Excellence in Biomedical Engineering--Certificate and $50 gift card | Aneesh Mandapati | South Lakes High School | Performing Nuclei Semantic Segmentation in Organ Tissue Images using AI |
| Charles "Chuck" Smith Award for Excellence in Computer Science and Mathematics--Certificate and $50 gift card | Manav Gagvani | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Multi-Agent Robotic Path Planning via Particle-based Belief Propagation |
| Dr. Ernest Everett Just Award for Excellence in Biology--Certificate and $50 gift card | Shumvobi Mitra | Langley High School | Detecting and Degrading Formaldehyde using Synthetic Biology and Engineering Techniques |
| Professor Frank Coleman Award for Excellence in Physics--Certificate and $50 gift card | Emmy Leong | Marshall High School | Demagnetizing Samarium Cobalt Magnets Through Exposure to an External Magnetic Field |
Optical Society of America, National Capital Section (OPTICA) and IEEE, Photonics Chapter
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outstanding Achievement--Certificate | Rachel Dewitt | Fairfax High School | Water Testing Using A Spectrometer |
| Outstanding Achievement--Certificate | Neha Chandran, Srimaye Peddinti | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Linear Polarization-based Entanglement of a Single Photon, 2-Qubit Spatial Mode System |
| Outstanding Achievement--Certificate | Samantha Cowen | Edison High School | How Will Laser Color Affect Voltage Induced in a Conductor? |
| Notable Achievement--Certificate | Marley Peterson | Hayfield Secondary School | Using Spectrophotometry for Dyeing Fabrics to Measure Absorption |
| Notable Achievement--Certificate | Nathan Vailikit | Woodson High School | Image Noise and Sub-Exposure Length in Astrophotography |
| Notable Achievement--Certificate | Sachika Mann, Griffith Knowlton | South Lakes High School | The Effect of Sugar Concentration on the Refractive Index |
| Notable Achievement--Certificate | Julia Sites, Amelia Johnson | South County High School | The Effect of Artificial Light on Skyglow |
| Notable Achievement--Certificate | Stephen Aiello, Rohan Gottesman | Hayfield Secondary School | Effect of Stellar Surface Temperature on the Color of a Star |
| Notable Achievement--Certificate | Chloe Leiterman | Mount Vernon High School | Proving Malus's Law |
Patent and Trademark Office Society (PTO Society)
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Raspberry Pi Computer Kit and Certificate of Merit | Phoebe Pan | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | AirWise: A Deep Learning Framework for High-Resolution PM2.5 Prediction |
| 1st--Certificate of Merit | Soham Jain | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | EyeLS: A Novel, Accessible Gaze-Tracking Application to Revolutionize Non-Verbal Communication for Patients |
| 1st--Certificate of Merit | Isha Joshi | Langley High School | ezPD: ez Parkinson's Disease Detection and Tracking Symptom Progression with a Mobile App |
| 1st--Certificate of Merit | Maya Moses | Woodson High School | Wood Species and Water Purification: The Effect of Species of Wood on Xylem Water Filters |
| 1st--Certificate of Merit | Wesley Kang | Madison High School | A Novel Mathematical Model To Predict Wastewater Induced Earthquakes |
| 1st--Certificate of Merit | William Lu | Madison High School | Bridging Data Gaps: An AI-Driven Approach for Generating Low-Income Fine-Scale Maps |
| 1st--Certificate of Merit | Aaryan Sumesh | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | The Viability of PTCDA as an Active Cathode Material in Lithium-ion and Sodium-ion Batteries |
| 1st--Certificate of Merit | Anusha Agarwal | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Identifying Future Asteroid Mining Targets using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network |
| 1st--Certificate of Merit | Alicia Yau | McLean High School | Is gravity a force? A study of gravity's force nature through biological entities |
| 2nd--Certificate of Merit | Shubh Bhattacharya | Westfield High School | Plant Disease Detection using AI |
Ricoh USA, Inc.
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sustainable Development Award--Certificate | Sean Esen, Angelina Taimouri | Falls Church High School | The Effect of Water Purification Method on Bacterial Growth in Water |
| Sustainable Development Award--Certificate | Emma McRobbie | Woodson High School | The Effectiveness of Retaining Wall Variations on Shoreline Preservation |
| Sustainable Development Award--Certificate | Rachel Ku | Langley High School | Drought Monitoring in the Horn of Africa with NASA MODIS ET and NDVI Products |
SAE International, Washington DC Section
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Prize for Excellence in Mobility Engineering - Certificate and $100 Amazon Gift Card | Jonathan Li | McLean High School | Effect of Advanced Vehicle Technologies on Occupant Protection Gaps between Males and Females in Non-fatal Crashes |
| Second Prize for Excellence in Mobility Engineering - Certificate and $50 Amazon Gift Card | Kent Fructman, Ashwin Potluri | Oakton High School | Constructing a Robot to Aid the Elderly and Mobility Impaired in Everyday Tasks |
| Excellence in Mobility Engineering - Honorable Mention - Certificate | Thomas Sparling | Oakton High School | A Closed Loop Pumped Hydro-Power System vs. Commercial Batteries |
Seraphim Life Sciences
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Place Outstanding Effort in Biomedical Science and Technology--$100 (split between team members) | Ram Dosibhatla, Anshul Yarlagadda, Himesh Ahuja | Chantilly High School | EyeDragon: A Novel Multi-Stage Deep Learning Classification Model for Characterizing Progression of Fundus Diseases |
| 2nd Place Outstanding Effort in Biomedical Science and Technology--$80 (split between team members) | Sravya Tathicherla, Tejavi Kumar | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | CNN Identification of Abnormal Lung Sounds as a Potential Precursor of SIDS |
Society for In Vitro Biology
| Award | Student | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Certificate of Outstanding Achievement for Ability and Creativity in In Vitro Biology | Anghelina Graur | Robinson Secondary School | The Effect of Various Ethanol Concentrations on the Permeability of a Beet Root's Cell Membrane |
| Certificate of Outstanding Achievement for Ability and Creativity in In Vitro Biology | Tyler Wang, Alex Kim, Kevin Kim | Centreville High School | The Detection of Replicative DNA in COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines |
| Certificate of Outstanding Achievement for Ability and Creativity in In Vitro Biology | Archishma Marrapu, Ashrita Gandhari | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Combating Pediatric Leukemia using the Plant Compounds Quercetin and Vincristine |
Society of Women Engineers, Baltimore Washington Section (SWE-BWS)
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card | Anna Olivares | Mount Vernon High School | The Effect of Varying Olaplex Application Time on Hair Tensile Strength |
| Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card | Sampurna Chakravorty | Chantilly High School | Harnessing AI for Medical Image Analysis |
| Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card | Samanvi Tummala | Chantilly High School | Rice-Cycle: Creating Biodegradable Starch-Based Materials from Rice Food Waste |
| Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card | Callie Liao | McLean High School | Multimodal Time Signature Determination for AI Generation of Original Music with Sentiment Analysis |
| Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card | Maya Moses | Woodson High School | Wood Species and Water Purification: The Effect of Species of Wood on Xylem Water Filters |
| Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card | Mia Ramos | Woodson High School | Effect of Aspergillus oryzae on Decomposition of Starch-Based Bioplastics |
| Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card | Shri Bala | Falls Church High School | Biomimetic Architecture: A Design Analysis of Hurricane-Resistant Residential Structures |
| Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card | Shumvobi Mitra | Langley High School | Detecting and Degrading Formaldehyde using Synthetic Biology and Engineering Techniques |
| Outstanding Engineer--$25 Amazon Gift Card | Nora French | Madison High School | The Effect of Propellant Ratio on the Efficiency of Solid Core Sugar Rockets |
| Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card | Shriya Jaddu | Langley High School | SeizAlert: A Deep Learning Powered System for Pre-Ictal Seizure Prediction |
| Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card | Molly Hawkins | Woodson High School | The Effect of Chemically Modified SCGs on the Removal of Zinc from Water |
| Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card | Marley Peterson | Hayfield Secondary School | Using Spectrophotometry for Dyeing Fabrics to Measure Absorption |
| Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card | Isha Joshi | Langley High School | ezPD: ez Parkinson's Disease Detection and Tracking Symptom Progression with a Mobile App |
| Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card | Jinzhu Cui | Madison High School | A New Fire Grid Management System: The Impact of Different Mathematical Models |
| Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card | Rachel Ku | Langley High School | Drought Monitoring in the Horn of Africa with NASA MODIS ET and NDVI Products |
| Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card | Emma Cummings-Sulmistras | Woodson High School | Translating Nervous Energy into Electricity |
| Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card | Anusha Agarwal | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Identifying Future Asteroid Mining Targets using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network |
| Promising Engineer--$15 Target Gift Card | Samantha Cowen | Edison High School | How Will Laser Color Affect Voltage Induced in a Conductor? |
STEMHouse
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Certificate and $60 (split among team members) | Manini Dhingra, Vidhi Reddy | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | TheraLink: Detecting Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Utilizing 3D Convolutional Neural Networks MRI Analysis and Advancing Repurposed Targeted Therapeutics |
| 2nd--Certificate and $40 (split among team members) | Amy Key | Langley High School | A Comprehensive and Affordable Machine Learning Based Mobile Application for the Early Detection of Parkinson’s Disease |
| 3rd--Certificate and $30 (split among team members) | Taylor Jordan, Ella Pomaranski | Hayfield Secondary School | Dealing With Diabetes: Building an Artificial Pancreas |
| HM--Certificate | Gabrielle Convery | Mount Vernon High School | The Effect of Different Insects and the Reactions that they Receive from People |
| HM--Certificate | Avinth Kakkera, Aneesh Kalla | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Cytological Evaluation of Thyroid Carcinoma: Machine Learning Analysis of Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsies |
US Agency for International Development (USAID)
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Science Champion Award--Certificate and Letter | Labeed Zaib | South Lakes High School | The Spatial Correlation Analysis of Microplastics Concentrations in Northern Virginia Geographic Regions |
US Air Force
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Award Packet (Sling pack, Power Bank, USB Flash Memory Drive, USB Car Charger, and Official AF Certificate) | Veera Anand | Langley High School | D.O.T.S. - Debris Orbital Tracking System Using Kepler's Laws and Machine Learning |
| Award Packet (Sling pack, Power Bank, USB Flash Memory Drive, USB Car Charger, and Official AF Certificate) | Aryav Gogia | McLean High School | Evaluating Automatic Segmentation and Labeling of Multispectral Datasets for Drone-based Applications |
| Award Packet (Sling pack, Power Bank, USB Flash Memory Drive, USB Car Charger, and Official AF Certificate) | Thomas Sparling | Oakton High School | A Closed Loop Pumped Hydro-Power System vs. Commercial Batteries |
| Award Packet (Sling pack, Power Bank, USB Flash Memory Drive, USB Car Charger, and Official AF Certificate) | Valeria Novoa | Madison High School | Optimizing Graphitic Carbon Nitride to Create a Safe, Effective, and Economic form of Hydrogen Storage. |
US Metric Association
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Certificate and 1 year membership in US Metric Association | Colette Orwan | Robinson Secondary School | The Effect of Concentration of Hydrochloric Acid on the Moles of Carbon Dioxide Released in a Reaction |
| Certificate and 1 year membership in US Metric Association | Ray Zhang | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Biofilm Composition in Fungi Fusarium and Development of a Multi-targeted Antifungal Therapy to Inhibit Proliferation |
| Certificate and 1 year membership in US Metric Association | Emmy Leong | Marshall High School | Demagnetizing Samarium Cobalt Magnets Through Exposure to an External Magnetic Field |
Virginia Lakes and Watersheds Association (VLWA)
| Award | Student | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Award--Certificate and $150 Gift Card | Emma McRobbie | Woodson High School | The Effectiveness of Retaining Wall Variations on Shoreline Preservation |
Virginia Water Environment Association (VWEA)
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Certificate, Entry into Virginia Stockholm Jr. Water Prize Competition, and $200 | Shrey Desai | Marshall High School | Drought Shield: A machine learning-based approach to drought forecasting using remote sensing data |
| 2nd--Certificate, Entry into Virginia Stockholm Jr. Water Prize Competition, and $100 | Wesley Kang | Madison High School | A Novel Mathematical Model To Predict Wastewater Induced Earthquakes |
Washington Statistical Society (WSS)
| Award | Students | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st--Letter from Organization | Manini Dhingra, Vidhi Reddy | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | TheraLink: Detecting Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Utilizing 3D Convolutional Neural Networks MRI Analysis and Advancing Repurposed Targeted Therapeutics |
| 2nd--Letter from Organization | Wesley Kang | Madison High School | A Novel Mathematical Model To Predict Wastewater Induced Earthquakes |
| 3rd--Letter from Organization | Quan Huynh, Marek Raynal | Woodson High School | A Model of Risk for Cesarean Delivery Based on Maternal Comorbidities |
| HM--Letter from Organization | Annette Paik | Woodson High School | Unhealthy Food Consumption is a Driver of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Mortality in the U.S. |
| HM--Letter from Organization | Shrey Desai | Marshall High School | Drought Shield: A machine learning-based approach to drought forecasting using remote sensing data |
| HM--Letter from Organization | Ryan Kim | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Hybrid Quantum-Classical Machine Learning for Dementia Detection |
Yale Science and Engineering Association
| Award | Student | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Most Outstanding Exhibit in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics--Certificate and Medallion | Neha Chandran, Srimaye Peddinti | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Linear Polarization-based Entanglement of a Single Photon, 2-Qubit Spatial Mode System |