Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2014 Finalist
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Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2014 Finalist Directory Table of Contents Acknowledgments and Special Award Organizations ............................................................................. 2 Animal Sciences ....................................................................................................................................................... 3 Behavioral & Social Sciences .............................................................................................................................. 6 Biochemistry ............................................................................................................................................................. 8 Cellular & Molecular Biology ..............................................................................................................................11 Chemistry ...................................................................................................................................................................14 Computer Science....................................................................................................................................................17 Earth & Planetary Sciences ..................................................................................................................................21 Engineering - Electrical & Mechanical .............................................................................................................22 Engineering - Materials & Bioengineering ....................................................................................................26 Energy & Transportation .......................................................................................................................................30 Environmental Management ...............................................................................................................................33 Environmental Sciences .......................................................................................................................................36 Mathematical Sciences .........................................................................................................................................39 Medicine & Health ...................................................................................................................................................41 Microbiology ..............................................................................................................................................................46 Physics & Astronomy .............................................................................................................................................49 Plant Sciences ..........................................................................................................................................................52 Intel ISEF 2014 Finalist Directory Page 1 Intel ISEF 2014 Special Award Organizations provide education scholarships, cash awards, summer internships, scientific field trips, and equipment grants. Intel and SSP thank the following organizations for their support of the Intel ISEF. Acoustical Society of America K. Soumyanath Memorial Award ADA Foundation K. T. Li Foundation Special Award Alcoa Foundation King Abdul-Aziz & his Companions Foundation American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists for Giftedness and Creativity American Association of Physics Teachers London International Youth Science Forum – and the American Physical Society The Philip V. Streich Memorial Award American Chemical Society Monsanto Company American Committee for the Mu Alpha Theta, National High School Weizmann Institute of Science and Two-Year College Mathematics Honor Society American Geosciences Institute National Aeronautics and Space Administration American Intellectual Property Law Association National Anti-Vivisection Society American Mathematical Society National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes American Meteorological Society of Health and the Friends of NIDA American Physiological Society National Oceanic and Atmospheric American Psychological Association Administration – NOAA American Society for Horticultural Science Office of Naval Research on behalf of American Society for Microbiology the United States Navy and Marine Corps American Statistical Association Patent and Trademark Office Society American Veterinary Medical Association Psi Chi, The International Honor Society Arizona State University in Psychology Ashtavadhani Vidwan Ambati Subbaraya Ricoh Americas Corporation Chetty Foundation Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society Association for Computing Machinery SmartAmerica Challenge Association for the Advancement of Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc. Artificial Intelligence Society of Experimental Test Pilots Astronomical Society of the Pacific Society of Exploration Geophysicists and the American Astronomical Society SpaceX ASU Rob and Melani Walton SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics Sustainability Solutions Initiatives United Airlines Foundation Charity Foundation - Open Hearts of Ukraine U.S. Agency for International Development China Association for Science and Technology – CAST U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Coalition for Plasma Science – CPS United Technologies Corporation Consortium for Ocean Leadership University of the Sciences in Philadelphia Drexel Smart House West Virginia University Drexel University Wolfram Research, Inc. European Organization for Nuclear Research – CERN World Economic Forum Florida Institute of Technology Fondazione Bruno Kessler Visit student.societyforscience.org/special-awards- Fundació Víctor Grífols i Lucas organizations to learn more about each GoDaddy Cares Special Award Organization. Google IEEE Foundation IEEE Computer Society Intel Foundation Intel® Open Source Technology Center International Council on Systems Engineering – INCOSE Page 2 Intel ISEF 2014 Finalist Directory Animal Sciences AS016 Haplotype Variation in Banded Sunfish (Enneacanthus AS001 Distribution and Patterns of Movement of the Weevil obesus) from the Peconic River, Long Island, New York Diaprepes abbreviatus in Eucalyptus (Corymbia Allison Mary Murphy, 16, Junior, Sayville High School, West torelliana), a Fast-Growing Biofuel Crop Sayville, New York AS017 Deer’s Preference: Trophy Rock or Bio Rock # # Evan MacKay, 17, Junior, Vero Beach High School, Reese Nelson King, 16, Sophomore, Home School affiliated with Vero Beach, Florida Palmetto Independent Educators, Aiken, South Carolina AS002 The Use of Quantitative PCR to Determine the Impact of AS018 The Compositional and Hormonal Difference between Zygosity (Hemizygotes vs. Homozygotes) on the Fitness Organic and Conventional Meat, Year II and Impact in the Wild of Transgenic Fluorescent Sarah Elise Wanjura, 17, Senior, Christ the King Cathedral Zebrafish School, Lubbock, Texas Adrianna Danielle Pollak, 17, Senior, Cloquet Senior High School, AS019 Optimal Equine Balance: Application of Biophysics to Cloquet, Minnesota Assess and Reduce Equine Injury, Phase II AS003 Evaluation of Physiological Conditions that Influence # # Erika Nicole Mueller, 16, Junior, Clearfield High School, Emerging Rate on Small Hive Beetles Clearfield, Utah Enoch Park, 17, Junior, Pulaski Academy, Little Rock, Arkansas AS020 Effect of Turmeric on Memory Curves of Planarians: An AS004 Autism in Fruit Flies II: Behavior of Drosophila mGluR Investigation into Chemical Memory Pathway Mutants # Supraja Chittari, 17, Senior, George C. Marshall High School, # Elise Nicole Paietta, 15, Sophomore, Carroll High School, Falls Church, Virginia Dayton, Ohio AS021 A Three Month Analysis of the Desert Bighorn Sheep AS005 Environmentally Induced Epigenetic Transgenerational (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) Translocation Project in the Inheritance and Gender Dominance in Locomotory Santa Catalina Mountain Range Behavior of D. melanogaster # Meagan Alanna Bethel, 16, Junior, Tucson Magnet High School, # # # Hannah Pagels, 17, Senior, Grove High School, Grove, Oklahoma Tucson, Arizona AS006 Hot Biology: Use of Thermal Imaging to Detect Nesting AS022 The Ipomoea batatas Leaf: Isolation and Identification of Behaviors of the Endangered Hawaiian Coot Its Mosquito Larvicidal Agent # Sarah 'Alohilani Jenkins, 16, Junior, Molokai High School, # Margaret Donovan Doyle, 17, Junior, Yorktown High School, Ho'olehua, Hawaii Arlington, Virginia AS007 Genetic Differentiation of Capelin (Mallotus villosus) in the AS023 Developmental Effects of Correlated Color Temperature of Bering Strait and Southeast Alaska Artificial Lights on Painted Lady Butterflies Vanessa cardui Raven Ward, 14, Freshman, Juneau-Douglas High School, Simiao You, 19, Senior, Holyoke Catholic High School, Chicopee, Juneau, Alaska Massachusetts AS008 Improving Apis mellifera Hive Immunity through AS024 Toward Understanding the Neural Circuitry Regulating Environment Manipulation Cold Sensitivity in C. elegans, a Two-Year Study Rebecca Layman, 18, Senior, Southmoore High School, # Michael Shao, 17, Junior, Detroit Country Day Upper School, Moore, Oklahoma Beverly Hills, Michigan AS009 The Effects of Allium sativum on the Development and AS025 The Effect of D. reticulatum Mucus as a Deterrent Meat Quality of Gallus domesticus to Other Slugs # Chrysta Noelle Beck, 18, Senior, Pettisville High School, Katie Gwaltney, 15, Freshman, Union Grove High School, Pettisville, Ohio McDonough,