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A Proud Supporter of the Montgomery County Science Fair

Springfield, VA | Rockville, MD | Frederick, MD | Sierra Vista, AZ | San Antonio, TX | Austin, TX March 11, 12, & 13, 2016 Montgomery County Science Fair

2016 Sponsors

ELEMENTS OF SUPPORT

Pt-Platinum ($15,000+) MedImmune

Ti-Titanium ($5,000-$9,999) Information Innovations, Inc. Northrop Grumman United Therapeutics Corporation

Ag-Silver ($1,000-$4,999) FDA Science Center MRIGlobal

Cu-Copper ($500-$999) Milton Axley, PhD Ellen and Bill Kominers Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Rockville Science Center Mary Shaffran Technical Resources International, Inc. Dongbo Wang, PhD

Fe-Iron ($150-$499) Kevin and Patricia Brady in thanks to Jim Douglas Lerch, Early & Brewer, Chtd Jan Linkenhoker, DVM, MSPH Ram Narula

Friends of Eric Afoakwah, PhD Sunil Lingayat, PhD ScienceMONTGOMERY Nuray and Yavuz Anahtar Yaguang Luo (Up to $149) Angelique 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.

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2016 Fair Schedule

www.ScienceMONTGOMERY.org

 Food and Drug Administration, White Oak Campus, 10903 New Hampshire Ave. Silver Spring, MD 20993

FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2016 4 PM–9 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, 2016 9:30 AM–12:15 PM Judges Preview Period (No students present)

12:15 PM–1:00 PM Students admitted

1:00 PM–4:00 PM Student Interviews: All Judges, all grades; Students must stay till end of all judging

4:00 PM–5:00 PM Project Removal: All projects must be removed by 5 PM or they will be discarded.

SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 2016 2:00 PM–4:00 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 is proud to support this year’s Montgomery Area Science Fair and salutes the intelligence, inventiveness, and ingenuity of all the participating students.

MRIGlobal is a not-for-profit research and development organization that delivers global solutions in national security and defense, energy and environment, life and animal sciences, agriculture and food safety, and transportation. Visit us at www.mriglobal.org. 1330 Piccard Drive, Suite 101 • Rockville, MD 20850-4337

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MONTGOMERY AREA SCIENCE FAIR ASSOCIATION

Welcome to the Montgomery County Science Fair!

ScienceMONTGOMERY congratulates and applauds the students who participated in the 2016 Montgomery County Science Fair. We hope that conducting these science projects and presenting the hard work that went into them was an enjoyable and valuable experience.

The Montgomery County Science Fair brings together scientists, engineers, mathematicians, educators, parents, and young student scientists from Montgomery County. ScienceMONTGOMERY provides a venue for competition and research presentation among hundreds of students from public, private, and home school affiliations in grades 6 through 12. We provide cash prizes for project excellence through our numerous Category Awards. Complementing these are a large number of Community Awards generously provided by various business, scientific, professional, and educational organizations, and US Government agencies. Students are competing for more than $40,000 worth of prizes in the form of cash, scholarships, internships, travel, banquets, bonds, books, certificates, medals, and merchandise. As an affiliate of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), ScienceMONTGOMERY also awards fully funded travel scholarships to four projects to compete in the 2016 International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, AZ.

ScienceMONTGOMERY is a 501(c)3, nonprofit, all volunteer organization which relies on generous sponsors to fund the county-wide fair competition each year. For the twelfth consecutive year, MedImmune serves as our premier sponsor, for which we are most grateful. We also are thankful for the generous support of Information Innovation, Inc., Northrop Grumman and the United Therapeutics Corporation. Other major sponsors are MRI Global, and the Food and Drug Administration.

The all-volunteer ScienceMONTGOMERY Board of Directors wishes to thank each of the organizations and individuals listed in this program for making the Fair possible. Every year, we are indebted to the more than 200 volunteer judges who painstakingly evaluate projects and encourage students’ further pursuit of scientific understanding. All of our sponsors, judges, and volunteers make the Fair possible, and we thank you.

I would like to personally thank and acknowledge the ScienceMONTGOMERY Board members who have contributed significant talent, time, and resources late at night, after work, on weekends, and in good and bad weather to make the Fair happen. I also want to thank the parents, teachers, mentors, and sponsors who supported and encouraged Fair participants.

Finally, and most importantly, I want to thank all of the student participants for their hard work, dedication, enthusiasm, passion for science, and willingness to be part of the Montgomery County Science Fair. I sincerely hope this has been a rewarding, valuable, and unforgettable experience that you will carry with you in your careers.

Jan Linkenhoker, DVM, MSPH Fair Director March 2016

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OFFICE OF THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND 20850 Isiah Leggett County Executive

February 8, 2016

Dr. Jan Linkenhoker Fair Director ScienceMONTGOMERY Montgomery Area Science Association 10606 Sweepstakes Rd Damascus, Maryland 20872

Dear Dr. Linkenhoker:

Montgomery County supports and applauds ScienceMONTGOMERY and your ongoing efforts to encourage interest in science throughout our community. Programs like yours help nurture Montgomery County’s longstanding national and international prominence in the life sciences and technology fields. The countywide Science Fair annually attracts hundreds of Montgomery County public and private school students and we are very proud to support your mission to celebrate performance in science education throughout the County.

Now more than ever, Montgomery County is doing all it can to ensure a strong, vibrant economy and healthy, sustainable communities for future generations. Maintaining one of the nation’s highest performing public school systems is essential to these goals, and the talented and dedicated students being recognized this year illustrate our success in this area.

I commend the important contributions you and ScienceMONTGOMERY make within the community, and applaud those businesses that who have pledged their support to recognize the talents and achievement of our youth.

Sincerely,

Isiah Leggett County Executive

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MONTGOMERY AREA SCIENCE FAIR ASSOCIATION 60TH Montgomery Area Science Fair–2016 FDA Science Center, White Oak Campus, 10903 New Hampshire Ave, Silver Spring, MD

OFFICERS AND BOARD, MONTGOMERY AREA SCIENCE FAIR ASSOCIATION

President: Dongbo Wang, Ph.D. Secretary: Eric Afoakwah, Ph.D. NIST Aeras

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

BOARD MEMBERS

Nuray Anahtar, AIA Sunil Lingayat, Ph.D. NOA Architects Northrop Grumman Yavuz Anahtar, RA Anne Merrell NOA Architects Ridgeview Middle School Milton Axley, Ph.D. Valerie Miller, Ph.D. MedImmune NIH Angelique Bosse Someet Narang, Ph.D. Montgomery Blair High School MedImmune David Hokey, Ph.D. Ram Narula Aeras Narula Energy and Environmental Consultants Laura Lee Johnson, Ph.D. Mary Shaffran FDA Northrop Grumman April Killikelly, Ph.D. Aprajita Srivastava NIH, NIAID, VRC Netransform LLC Shelley Kluska Raghavan Venkat, Ph.D. Northrop Grumman MedImmune

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

9 Montgomery County Science Fair March 11, 12, & 13, 2016 AWARDS PROGRAM 2:00 P. M. Sunday, March 13, 2016 Albert Einstein High School Auditorium

Opening of Awards Program and Jan Linkenhoker, Fair Director Welcome 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 Killikelly Website Oversight Jan Linkenhoker, April Killikelly Category Awards Sunil Lingayat Community Awards Nuray Anahtar, Yavuz Anahtar Co-Chairs Outreach Chair Someet Narang Program Raghavan Venkat Display and Safety Committee Anne Merrell Fund Raising Dongbo Wang Data Entry Eric Afoakwah T-Shirts and Check-In Aprajita Srivastava Scientific Review Committee Laura Lee Johnson, Chair Members 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 10 March 11, 12, & 13, 2016 Montgomery County Science Fair

Community Organizations Presenting Awards–2016

Achievers League USA LLC Lockheed Martin

Aerospace Corporation MdBioLab

American Industrial Hygiene Society—Potomac Section MIT Club of Washington DC

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics- MedImmune National Capital Chapter sience Metro Bethesda Rotary Club American Meteorological Society—DC Chapter MBHS Magnet Class of 2004 Science Fair Award American Nuclear Society, Washington, DC Section MRIGlobal American Psychological Association Mu Alpha Theta American Society of Mechanical Engineers National Capital Area Chapter – Society of Toxicology ASM Materials Education Foundation—DC Chapter (NCAC-SOT)

Association for Women Geoscientists National Capital Astronomers

ASU Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives NASA EARTH System Science Award

Bethesda Magazine National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

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

Broadcom MASTERS Competition Optical Society of America, National Capital Section/IEEE Phototonics Central Intelligence Agency Ricoh Americas Corporation Clean Air Partners Rockville Science Center DC Water Sigma Xi—FDA Chapter Federal Water Quality Association Sigma Xi—NIST Chapter Friends of Agricultural Research-Beltsville (FAR-B) Society for In Vitro Biology GENIUS Olympiad—SUNY Oswego Stockholm Junior Water Prize Geological Society of Washington U.S. Air Force Graduate Women in Science United States Metric Association Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson’s “Excellence in Science” Award United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission IEEE Washington Section U.S. Public Health Service Intel Excellence in Computer Science United States Public Health Service--Commissioned Officers Intel Science Talent Search Association, D.C. I-SWEEEP Washington Statistical Society KJW Young Scientists Association Yale Science and Engineering Association, Inc.

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ScienceMONTGOMERY 2016 Update Congratulations to our 2015 ScienceMONTGOMERY Grand (ISEF) Prize Winners: Biology: Sreejan Kumar (Poolesville HS) and Parth Shah (Mission Viejo HS, California): “Mathematical Modeling and Brain Activations Characterize Differences in Human Pattern Recognition under Conditions of Ambiguous Feedback” Computer Science and Mathematics: Cherry Zou (Poolesville HS): “Development of an Authorship Identification Algorithm for Twitter using Stylometric Techniques” Computer Science and Mathematics: Eric Neyman (Montgomery Blair HS): “Cylindric Young Tableaux and Their Properties” Engineering: Elina Kapoor (Winston Churchill HS): “Automatic Detection of Vascular Lesions of the Retina Using a Localized Adaptive Thresholding Approach” Alternate: Physics: Jared Marx-Kuo (Montgomery Blair HS): “Measuring the Superconducting Energy Gap in Tunnel Junctions through Capacitive Coupling”

We Proudly Announce that our ISEF Finalists were recognized with these Awards at ISEF 2015 (Pittsburgh):

Elina Kapoor: Fourth Place Grand Award in Computational Biology and Informatics Eric Neyman: American Mathematical Society (Third Place) Cherry Zou: NSA Research Directorate (Second Place)

Kudos to These Members of our ScienceMONTGOMERY Family For Their Wonderful Accomplishments in the Past Year:

NBC Today Show “Make the Future” Award: Anurudh Ganesan I-SWEEEP: Honorable Mention (Energy): Anusha Dixit Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist 2015 Challenge: Finalist: Iris Gupta Google Science Fair: Global Finalist and Winner of the Lego Education Builder Award: Anurudh Ganesan Maryland Innovate 4 Health Challenge: Winner: Anurudh Ganesan Goldwater Scholar: Eric Keen Broadcom MASTERS: Semifinalists: Mahna Habib, Shreeya Khurana, Shabarish Nair Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology: Semifinalist: Caroline Leng Washington, DC Regional Hispanic Heritage Youth Awards (Innovation & Technology Gold): Zuriel Herran Coca-Cola Foundation Scholars Semifinalist: Zuriel Herran Intel Science Talent Search Semifinalists: Rohan Dixit, Sanna Madan, Emily Wang

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Each year, ScienceMONTGOMERY alumni return to volunteer at our Fair. Many thanks to these Distinguished ScienceMONTGOMERY Alumni for their key help in making the Fair happen:

Melis Anahtar • Melodi Anahtar Adam Berger • Megan Brady Katherine Brizzolara Kuo-Kai Chin • Re-I Chin Stephanie Douglas • Taylor Douglas Jeremy Fallick • Maddie Golding Maggie Glaudemans • Jacob Hurwitz Phanna Iamlek • Sneha Kannan Eric Keen Matthew Kinnard • Josh Klontz Paul Kominers • Scott Kominers Kyle Le • Emily Levine • Daniel Liss Nina Jessica Lu • Reethika Maddenini Gyyoung Oh • Jason Qian Sikandar Porter-Gill • Kenny Rosenberg Nathan Schilling • James Sheperdson Reid Simon • Mike Sousane Haroula Tzamaras • Carmelita Ugarte Jennifer Wang • Louis Wasserman Claire Wortmann • Grace Young • David Zhang

We invite all ScienceMONTGOMERY alumni to join us as volunteers at future fairs. To volunteer, email [email protected]

13 Montgomery County Science Fair March 11, 12, & 13, 2016 2016 Category and ISEF Awards Judges NAME AFFILIATION NAME AFFILIATION Ms. Katherine Adams University of Maryland Dr. Qiong Fu NCI Ms. Abolade Adepiti Dr. Salina Gairhe NIH Mrs. Tosin Adetoro IBSS Corp. Mrs. Mary Galloway FDA Dr. Malini Ahuja NIH Mr. Sudip Gangopadhyay MedImmune/AstraZeneca Ms. Maya Aleshnick FDA (ORISE fellow) Dr. Narayana Garimella FDA Dr. Fatima Ali-Rahmani Mr. Anirudh Gaur Georgetown University Dr. Luigi Alvarado NIH Mr. Alvin George Dr. Kyle Anderson NIST Mr. Alex George NIH Mr. Yezdi Antia Hughes Network Systems Dr. Jeffy George USUHS Mr. Diego Arenas FDA Dr. Amalendu Ghosh NIH Dr. Gunjan Arora NIH Mr. Nicholas Giangreco NIH Ms. Elisa Arthofer NIH Dr. Richard Gieseck NIH/NIAID Dr. Smriti Aryal A C NIH Dr. Eleanor Gillette NIST Dr. Tatjana Atanasijevic NIH Dr. Paul Gilmore Retired Mr. John Bagnoli MRIGlobal Ms. Nicole Giordano FDA Dr. Kate Baldwin Retired - Howard University Ms. Sofia Girald Mr. Dallas Banks University of Maryland Mr. Mitchell Goheen NIH Dr. Mrigendra Bastola Dr. Scott Goldie FDA Ms. Heysol Bermudez Cabrea Ms. Megan Goldring NIH Dr. Rukmini Bhardwaj FDA Mr. Zifan Gong University of Maryland Mr. Gerald Blum retired Ms. Portia Gough NIH/NIAID Dr. Chanelle Borden NIH Mr. Jon Griffin Dr. Wayne Breslyn MCPS (Gaithersburg High School) Dr. Jonathan Hardis NIST Ms. Kate Brien NIH, NIAID Mr. Jonathan Ho Mr. Keith Bullock The Foundation Schools Dr. J Terrell Hoffeld U.S. Public Health Service (Retired) Ms. Amelia Burch NIH Mr. Larry Hothem US Geological Survey/DOI Dr. Jeffrey Burke Mr. Alan Huynh NRC Ms. Allyson Byrd NIH Ms. Deborah Jack NIH Dr. Thomas Calder NIH Ms. Charelle Jeffries DC Public Schools Ms. Meghana Chalasani FDA Mr. Jordan Jensen NIH Mr. Justin Chang Ms. Symone Jordan NIH Dr. Gouri Chattopadhyay FDA Dr. Swati Joshi NIH Dr. Shu Hui Chen NIH Dr. Smita Kakar Achievers League USA LLC Ms. Paola Chrysostomou NIH/NICHD Ms. Patricia Kamdem Dr. Jessica Chu NIH Dr. Priya Kannan Medimmune Dr. Tatiana Claro da Silva Mr. Prateek Katti NIH Ms. Jean Clement Dr. Sukhbir Kaur NIH Dr. Tami Collum University of Maryland Dr. Bharat Khurana FDA Mr. Jonathan Collum BIPAC/Political Consulting Ms. Ezechielle Kiessu NIH Dr. Kevin Connolly Retired Biotech researcher Dr. Edward Kim NIH Dr. Richard Conroy NIH Dr. Anthony Kluk Dr. Michael Constantinides NIH Ms. Alanna Koehler NHGRI, NIH Dr. Melissa Coughlin MedImmune/AstraZeneca Dr. David Kosub NIH Mr. Kenan Courtney Dr. Joseph Kulinski NIH Ms. Tina Crosby FDA Mr. Che-Ying Kuo University of Maryland College Park; Dr. Suresh Dadiboyena FDA Children’s National Medical Center Mr. George Daniello Dr. Courtney Kurtyka Mr. Salil Das Prince Georges Community College Dr. Serena Kurumety Valley Forge Military College Dr. Chelsea Davis Ms. Brenna LaBarre NIH Dr. Sarah Davis NIH-NIAID Dr. Cedric Lane FDA Dr. Marciela DeGrace NIH Dr. Jeansun Lee FDA Mr. Jose Delgado Dr. Young Lee NIST Mrs. Lora Deuitch NIH Ms. Julia Licholai Mr. Ashutosh Dhanesha Self-employed IT consultant Dr. Dawei Lin NIH Mr. Nachiket Dharker Mr. Norman Lo Carr Astronautics Dr. Lena Diaw NHLBI/NIH Ms. Heidi Lovett NOAA Fisheries Service Dr. Garry Didinsky Orbital ATK Dr. Subha Madhavan Georgetown University Dr. Douglas Dluzen NIH Ms. Kelli Malott National Institute on Aging Dr. Mohibullah Durrani Montgomery College Mr. Stephen Mason Johns Hopkins University Ms. Merina Elahi FDA Mr. Christian Mayfield NIH Dr. Mehdi Farokhnia Mr. Joseph McKennan Ms. Sarah Faxel NIH Ms. Barbara Medvar Mr. John Fenimore Dr. Emily Messina The Catholic University of America Dr. Gisela Ferreira MedImmune Ms. Chun-yan Mi Ms. Catherine Feuille FDA Dr. Linda Miallau DoD Dr. Keisha Findley FDA Dr. Mayumi Miller NIH Ms. Sarah Friedrich Dr. Sarah Morgan NIH

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2015 Category and ISEF Awards Judges (continued) NAME AFFILIATION NAME AFFILIATION Mr. Jack Morgan Dr. Sherri-Gae Scott FASEB Mrs. Marissa Msefya ACC Ms. Hira Shabbir NICHD Dr. Sivaranjani Namasivayam NIH Mr. Anuj Sharma University of Maryland Mr. Qimin Ng NHLBI/NIH Ms. Aricia Shen Ms. Mandy Ng Academia Ms. Margi Sheth AstraZeneca Dr. Kapinga Ngalula Ms. Marina Shumakovich University of Maryland Ms. Joan Ngwuta Ms. Nicole Shyong ORAU/FDA/CFSAN Ms. Stephine Oparaugo Healthcare Management Ms. Sheena Sikka NIH Dr. Veera Padmanabhan MedImmune/AstraZeneca Dr. Robert Silverberg NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Dr. Randi Parks Ms. Joanna Silverman NHLBI Ms. Jaya Parulekar NIH Dr. Pushpendra Singh Johns Hopkins University Dr. Anna Pasetto NIH Mr. Daniel Sologuren Northrop Grumman Mr. Keval Patel Ms. Sarah Speed NIH Dr. Vinay Patil NIH Mr. Karthik Sreedhara NIH Ms. Emily Pelto FDA Dr. Corey Stambaugh NIST Dr. Robert Peters Mrs. Damilola Sunmola Dr. Norman Peterson MedImmune Mr. cyrus tang Northrop Grumman Ms. Rahel Petros Dr. Heather Teague NIH/NHLBI Mr. Kade Pettie NIH Dr. Rok Tkavc USUHS, post-doctoral fellow Dr. Adam Pintar NIST Mr. John Tracey NIH Ms. Ashley Pitt Johns Hopkins University Ms. Kristina Trotta ERT, contracted to NMFS Ms. Kira Podolsky NIH Mr. Lap Truong Dr. Savelas Rabb NIST Dr. Wojtek Tutak ADA Foundation Ms. Jani Radhakrishnan UNC Chapel Hill Mr. Ezigbobiara (Ezii) Umejiego NIH Mr. Jonathan Rajaseelan NIH Mr. Kendall Umstead NIH Dr. Melissa Ray FDA Dr. Raghavan Venkat MedImmune Ms. Sonia Razaqyar NIH Ms. Saunam Vij NIH Mrs. Sara Reynolds NIH Dr. Bandana Ajay Vishwakarma USUHS Ms. Christine Ricci MedImmune Dr. Vijay Walia NIH Ms. Rachael Rodriguez FDA Ms. Hailey Walters NIH Mr. Paul Rohr Retired Westinghouse Nuclear Engineer Ms. Sylvia Wandu Ms. Carolina Rojas Ramirez NIH Dr. Jane Wang NCI Ms. Jessica Root National Institutes of Deafness Dr. David Wei NCI and Communication Disorders Mr. David Wilson NIH Dr. Laura Rose FDA Ms. Katherine Wolf NIH Ms. Marci Rosenberg NIH Ms. Jocelyn Wu NIH Ms. Sage Roth Medpace/Clinical Research Mr. Ravi Chandra Yada NIH Mr. Benjamin Rush MedImmune Ms. Jing Yan University of Maryland Dr. Andaleeb Sajid NIH Dr. Hongliang Yang NIH Mr. Krishna Samavedam Hughes Network Systems Ms. Habibeh Yekehtaz Dr. Tamika Samuel University of Maryland Mr. Wyatt Yelverton Ms. Aimeeta Sangtani Ms. Pomi Yun NIH Dr. Elizabeth Schoenfeld FDA Dr. Tong Zhou Mr. Jeremy Schreier FDA/ORISE

ScienceMONTGOMERY Participating Schools-2016 School Abbrev School Abbrev School Abbrev Einstein High School AEH Julius West Middle School JWM Ridgeview Middle School RIM Argyle Middle School AGM Kingsview Middle School KIM Richard Montgomery High School RMH Montgomery Blair High School BLH Lakelands Park Middle School LPM Rocky Hill Middle School ROM Bullis School BUS Muslim Community School MCS St. Andrew Apostle School SAA Churchill High School CHH North Bethesda Middle School NBM Springbrook High School SBH Clarksburg High School CHS Northwest High School NWH Shady Grove Middle School SGM Forcey Christian Middle School FCMS Other OTH Seneca Valley High School SVH Gaithersburg High School GBH Parkland Middle School PLM Sherwood High School SWH Georgetown Day School GDS Poolesville High School POH Takoma Park Middle School TPM Georgetown Preparatory School GPS Potomac Ridge School PRS Wheaton High School WHH Holy Cross School HCS Pyle Middle School PYM Thomas Wootton High School WHO Hoover Middle School HHM Quince Orchard High School QOH Walter Johnson High School WJH Holton-Arms School HOA Roberto Clemente Middle School RCM Walt Whitman High School WWH Home Schooled HS Church of the Redeemer Christian School RCS Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School JDS Robert Frost Middle School RFM 15 Montgomery County Science Fair March 11, 12, & 13, 2016

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CongratulationsCongratulations to toScience ScienceMONTGOMERYMONTGOMERY 2013 2016 Best Wishes from the Kominers Family: Ellen, Bill, Best Wishes from the Kominers Family: Scott (ScienceMONTGOMERYEllen, Bill, 2005), and Paul

Scott(ScienceMONTGOMERY (ScienceMONTGOMERY 2006-2008) 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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18 March 11, 12, & 13, 2016 Montgomery County Science Fair EXHIBITORS STUDENTS IN THE JUNIOR FAIR

BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES M101 Video Game Concentration Evan Blakely HCS M102 Kids vs. Adults Jan Haro HCS M103 Where is Air Pollution? Justin Pham RCM M104 Remember This: Encoding in Humans Deeksha Sesha PLM M105 Does the Day of the Week Affect Morning School Drop-Off Patterns? Mira Thomas SAA M106 Does Taste Have a Price Tag? Katherine Zalewski HCS M107 Does This Make You Happy? Madeline Zalewski HCS BIOLOGY M201 Soil Erosion: Do Plants Really Help It? Anna Anand RCM M202 The Effects on Saccharomyces cerevisiae’s Growth Using Various Carbon Sources Lana Anderson TPM M203 Free Radical Elimination: A Juicy Secret Ajeetha Arudchandran RCM M204 Preventing Mold Growth on Strawberries Siya Behl RCM M205 Botanical Gardens Sarah Briggs SAA M206 The Effect of Environmental Radiation on the Number of People Mary Chang TPM Who Develop Cancer Emily Chen TPM Kaylen Pak TPM M207 How Does the Color of Light Affect Plant Growth? Simon Chervenak TPM Jacob Palosky TPM M208 Slipping on Banana Peels or Plastic Bags Faith Cheung HHM M209 Effect of Radiation on Yeast Sophia Costa SAA M210 The Effectiveness of the Current Vaccination Creation Process Gautom Das TPM M211 Disinfecting Water Sadhana Dasari PLM M212 What is the Woolly Mammoth’s Closest Living Relative? Sapna David HHM M213 New Uses for Old Drugs Michael Gan RCM M214 Five Second Rule? Sohan Ganatra RCM M215 How Does Different Colored Light Affect Plant Growth? Matthew Garay RCM M216 Let’s Get Moldy!! Akshaj Gaur RCM M217 The Effect of UV Rays on Yeast Chloe Godfrey TPM Margaret Fang TPM M218 Beans, Water and Temperature Matthew Gu RCM M219 Will I Go Extinct? Garrett Gularson RCM Isaac Wang RCM M220 E-Target : A Novel Method to Mitigate Allergies Iris Gupta RFM M221 The Effects of Different Fungi on Basil Plants Joseph Jubilee RCM M222 How Does Mold Grow? Eric Jung RCM M223 Lettuce Seed Bioassays Abhinav Karthikeyan RCM M224 What Soil Condition is Best for the Growth of Kale? Jacob Kiwanuka SAA Devin Vaughan SAA M225 The Real Iceman Divya Koganti PLM M226 The Effect of Different Cooking and Thawing Methods Liang Lin TPM on the Bacterial Count in Meat 19 Montgomery County Science Fair March 11, 12, & 13, 2016

M227 Soil Capillarity Saanika Mahashetty RCM M228 Natural Foods and the Effects with Macular Degeneration Mikala Marville AGM M229 Efficiency of Bacterial Transformation Tarun Mattikalli TPM M230 How Do Substances in Water Affect Plant Growth? Teryn Mitchell RCM M231 Oh My! This Much Sugar in My Breakfast! Ipsa Mittra JWM M232 Investigating C. elegans Mortality Under Exposure to UV Radiation Dhruv Pai TPM Joshua Wolfson TPM M233 Which Type of Plant is Most Efficient in Photosynthesis Michael Pan RCM M234 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 PLM M236 A Family of Super-tasters: Can I demonstrate any correlation between Anne Paxton HCS three generations of family and the amount of papillae M237 Regeneration: Do Planarians Really Do it? Srisrujan Penikelapati RCM M238 Establishment of the Nitrogen Cycle in Aquaria Kathleen Pryor HOA M239 Cell to Cell: Direct Reprogramming Rathna Ramesh PLM Jason Marshak PLM M240 Does Neck Strength Reduce the Risk of Concussions in Soccer? Jorge Rodriguez-Arraiz SAA M241 The Effect of Different Dietary Additives on the Lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans Ryan Santhoshkumar PLM M242 Computational Exploration of Protein Function Anagha Shastry RCM M243 How Impurities in Tap Water Affect Plant Growth Jerry Shen RCM M244 Plants and Oil Spills Eashan Siddalingaiah RCM M245 Growing Plants in a Martian Environment Christopher Stallard RCM M246 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 RCM M248 Snails and Aquariums Isabella Terhune HOA M249 The Effect of Painkillers on Plant Growth Zach Teselko RCM M250 Magnetism and Plant Growth Jason Wu RCM M251 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 RCM M253 Stopping Yeast with Antifungal Medicines Andrew Zhong RCM Charlie Shou RCM CHEMISTRY M301 Cleaning Coins Katia Calix Mejia AGM Jesica Argueta AGM M302 Growing Crystals Ishita Chatterjee RCM Megha Tummalapalli RCM M303 Navigating Negatives Landon Chesney HS M304 The Effect Acid Rain Has on Plants and How We Can Reduce It Max Chiu RCM M305 The Effect of Freezing on Cells Apurva Choudhary RCM M306 Calculating Calories using Calorimetry Serena Choy RCM M307 How Do Different Types of Acids Affect the Rate of Corrosion on Metals Timothy Chu RCM M308 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 RCM M310 Pure or Hazardous? Christine Gong RCM Lydia Ruan RCM M311 Solar-powered Chemistry: Study Chemical Reaction Rates in Ultraviolet Beads Shreya Gunda RCM M312 Reaction Between Tea and Iron in Drinks Jason Hu RCM M313 Alkaline Water Pragya Jha RCM M314 pH-Based Expiration Labels (with Corresponding Applications) Joshua Kalampanayil AGM M315 Effect of Temperature on the Separation of Oil and Water Alexander Kalomiris RCM M316 Rain, Rain in Sligo Creek Caroline Killian HCS M317 The Effect of the Type of Fruit on the Glucose Concentration Hae Rin Kim TPM M318 pH Power: The impact of household chemicals on pH of solutions Mark Kokiyelov TPM M319 Is Tap Water Better than Bottled Water Ezequiel Lazo-Salvador AGM M320 Electrolyte Challenge Daniel Lopez AGM Yomiyu Mekonnen AGM M321 Pulp Fiction? PULP FACT Charlotte McNamee HS M322 The Effects of Common Kitchen Substances on the Stability of Egg White Proteins Michio Morizono TPM M323 The Water Clock, An Experiment in Energy Production Isaiah Morris HS M324 Antacid Potency Angela Mu RCM Tanaya Jha RCM M325 Quality of Bodies of Water Shabarish Nair RCM M326 Filtration of Water Using Household Materials Namya Nanda RCM M327 Can You Really Trust Luminol? Tete Narh-Mensah AGM Cameron Coleman AGM Iyanu Brown AGM M328 Rainbow Fire Sareet Nayak RCM M329 Keeping Your Carrots Fresh: To Blanch or Not to Blanch Celine Paul SAA M330 The Gift of Clean Water Jasmine Pham RCM M331 Which Type of Battery is Better Suited for a Flashlight? Arjun Rakheja RCM M332 Cost Effective Water Impurity Detection and Measurement Anjali Samavedam RFM M333 Expect the Unexpected - The Magic of Mpemba Effect! Kush Savsani RCM M334 Wood Damage From Household Liquids Haaken Schofer RCM M335 Vitamin C Loss While Boiling Yashvi Shah AGM M336 Effects of Temperature on the Brightness of the Luminal Reaction Shreya Shete PLM M337 Creamy Crack Tsige Solomon PLM Joyce Milandu PLM M338 How Does Boiling Citrus Fruit Juice Affect Its pH Level? Shreyas Soma RCM M339 Power Comparison of Alkaline and Non-Alkaline Batteries Carl Stahlberg RCM M340 Pills vs. Injections Michael Sun RCM M341 The Effect of Temperature on Luminal Chemiluminesence Steven Tan RCM Eric Yi RCM M342 Gelatin - How Macho! Esther Tang TPM Shruti Chauhan TPM M343 Effects of Vinegar on Structural Materials Sanjit Thangarasu RCM M344 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 RCM M346 Comparing Electrolytes in Orange Juice and Sports Drinks Eileen Zhang RCM M347 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 KIM M402 The Effect of Text Length on Author Identification Michael Chu TPM M403 Most Effective Internet Browser and Configuration to Prevent Interceptions Roma Dhingra RCM M404 The Effect of Different Types of Long-Term Injuries on a Pitcher’s Performance Prayag Gordy TPM Sarthak Bhatnagar TPM M405 Building a Computer Program to Identify Proteins Coded by DNA Tejas Guha RCM M406 A Mathematical Model of the Card Game, Magic: the Gathering Kaan Kayaalp TPM M407 How Easily Can Your Password Be Hacked? Samar Marwah AGM M408 Improved Lower Bounds for van der Waerden Numbers Daniel Monroe TPM M409 Effect of Gain and Speed on a Robot’s Straight Motion Enabled by a Gyro Sensor Arjun Oberoi TPM M410 A Novel Stylometric Data Extraction Tool for Authorship Verification Safiullah Rifai AGM Using Tetragrams M411 Align and Conquer: When CRISPR/Cas 9 edits, our app resolves! Valentina Simon RFM Lennnard Poliakov SGM M412 Using Artificial Intelligence to Solve Chess Games Sabrina Su RCM M413 Eye Vision Project Ishaan Verma AGM Surafel Tsadik AGM ENGINEERING M501 Building an Automatic Plant Watering System Vinamra Adikehithilu RCM M502 Rain Detector Avani Ahuja GDS M503 Wind Turbines Rohan Aluka RCM M504 Amplitude and Water Density on Wave Power Generation Brian Aniya RCM M505 Recon-Bot Dev Bhardwaj RCM M506 Effect of Temperature on Battery Life Ameya Deshmukh RFM M507 Can a Hydrogen Powered Car Carry a Payload and Remain Efficient? Aidan Douglas RCM M508 Magnetic Acceleration Michael Edwards RCM M509 Does the Length of an Airplane Wing Affect the Flight? Chinasa Ejiofor AGM Suzanne Tamrakar AGM M510 Building a Hydraulic Arm Varun Gangadharan RCM Elias Izmirlian RCM M511 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 RCM M513 Wood Strength Dinal Gunaratne RCM Rakshan Joshi RCM M514 Virtual Eye: A Device to Aid the Visually Impaired Pranav Hegde RCM M515 The Ultimate Energy Source Sri Kanipakala RFM M516 Effect of Varying Distances on the Accuracy of Different Sensors Anaum Khan PLM M517 How Bright and Loud is The Traffic Control Device? Nicholas Kiwanuka SAA Axel Tasong SAA M518 Where Do I Put My Shot? James Kmetz SAA 22 March 11, 12, & 13, 2016 Montgomery County Science Fair

M519 Human Height Growth Measurement Using Digital Imaging Heather Lin HHM M520 Strengths of Different Types of Truss Bridges Sadhana Lolla RCM Daria Chen RCM M521 Cooling a Dorm Without Air Conditioning Diego Lopez HCS M522 Heads-Up Tapejara and Dimorphodon Tyler Munson HCS M523 Jackpot: Which Wet Paper Towel Will Win the Most Money Alexa Noto SAA M524 Developing an Artificial Pancreas through Simulation and Electrical Resistance Emmanuel Ojamo TPM M525 Sun-seeking robot Michael O’Reilly HCS M526 Wind Power versus Solar Power Jennifer Owen RCM M527 Using Mechanical Advantage to Enable Data Collection on Recycling Rates Saurav Pandey RFM Ryan Kim TPM Arya Palan RFM M528 The Sustainability of Different Dome Structures Preethi Prakash RCM M529 The Effect of Temperature on Evaporative Desalination Rate Samantha Rodriguez TPM M530 How Different Angles of Incidence of Solar Rays Impact Ronoy Sarkar RCM the Performance of a Solar Cell M531 MagLev Train Model Darius Scott RCM M532 The Effect of Specific Gravity of Detected Materials Jonathan Simak PLM on the Image Resolution of Boat Sonar M533 It’s A Sturdy Slope! Ryan Simpson SAA Daniel Patino SAA M534 Super SumoBots Tom Stoughton RCM Adhvayith Sriram RCM M535 What is the Impact of Surface Tension on Us? Saahith Tupakula ROM Havish Gadde ROM M536 Dam Strength Visesh Uppoor RCM Noah Ferrara RCM M537 Affordable Batteries Ahun Vodela AGM Ranshika Fernando AGM Ethan Christian AGM M538 Effect of Atmospheric Temperature on Interior Car Temperature Sophia Weng TPM M539 Wind Turbine Blade Pitch Tony Wu RCM M540 Strength of Different Liquids in Hydraulics William Xu RCM M541 Strongest Bridge Ian Yu RCM M542 Hovercraft Design Christine Zhou RCM M543 Solar Powered Incubator Danesh Sivakumar RCM M544 Can Thermal Energy Generation Replace Solar Energy Nicholas Portwood AGM Ryan Halli AGM M545 ECO-SMART-VEHICLE Samuel Cho TPM Catherine Lo TPM M546 Improved Earthquake Resistant Building Maeve Smith RIM PHYSICS M701 Which Type of Rock Fractures The Most When Frozen in Ice? Andrew Adams RCM M702 Solar Cycle Effect on Coronal Mass Ejection Speed Joy Anyanwu RCM M703 The Direct/Indirect Correlation Between Color and Heat’s Absorption of Light Nicholas ‘Nick’ Asante RCM M704 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 RCM M706 Is Speed of Light Constant Through Different Mediums? Arman Bolouri RCM M707 Speed of Light in Gelatin Owen Cochran AGM M708 Courts, Courts, Courts Chris Corry AGM Christian Marchello AGM M709 The Effect of Foam on the Force Received from an Impact Eli Crow TPM M710 What is the Effect of Temperature on Conductivity and Resistance? Dev Desai RCM M711 Forces and Tennis Balls Jose Diaz Ramirez AGM Zachary Diaz AGM Jacob Fadare AGM M712 Do You Hear What I Hear? Charlotte Doughty TPM M713 How does Stirring Tea Affect Temperature? Fang Du RCM M714 What is the Effect of Different Materials on Ice Melting Speeds? Aileen Foley RCM M715 The Effect of Density on Sound Volume Simon Glueck JDS M716 Dependence of Solar Cell Electric Current and Voltage Lucas Gonzalez-Rey RCM on Light Frequency and Temperature M717 Geomagnetic Storms Shreeya Khurana TPM M718 Light Absorption and Wavelength by Color Christian Kim RCM M719 The Thermodynamics of Hurricanes Medha Kotti RCM M720 Does the Diameter of a Wire Affect the Flow of Electrons? Viruni Lewwandoowa PLM M721 How do Non-Newtonian Liquids React to Projectiles? Jason Liu RCM M722 Materials of Planets and Orbital Radius Gurshaan Mann RCM M723 Color and Cooking with a Solar Oven: Which Color is Best? Isabella Merino SAA M724 Asteroids Samarth Nayak RCM M725 20 MHz Emission from the Sun Rohan Ojha TPM M726 Piezoelectric Materials Timothy Qian TPM Bertrand Zhu TPM M727 Experimenting with Buoyancy Carter Rodia HCS M728 The Surprising Strength of an Eggshell Cole Rodia HCS M729 an-GOAL! Evelyn Scott LPM M730 Is There a Relationship between Coronal Mass Ejections Anika Seth TPM and High Energy Solar Radiation? Lara Ojha TPM M731 Mpemba effect Tanuj Shah RCM M732 Calculus Craze: Out of This World Abrar Sheikh RCM M733 Hydrophobicity and Hydrophilicity of Natural and Artificial Surfaces Sonia Stan RCM M734 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 stages M735 Optimizing Optical Precision of an Image Using Curved Focal Plane Technology Sujay Swain TPM M736 Crash or Balance? Pranav Tippa RCM M737 Induce Voltage Kasra Torshizi RCM M738 How Accurate is Parallax? Sresth Viswanathan RCM Shishir Velma RCM M739 The Mpemba Effect Joy Wang RCM M740 Which Household Items Conduct the Most Static Electricity? Matthew Wong RCM M741 Luminescence Celina Wu RCM

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M742 Proving Boyle’s Law Jack Yang RCM M743 Effect of Frequency and Material on Sound Absorption Billy Zeng RCM M744 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 POH H202 Whole Genome Sequencing Reveals Extensive Heterogeneity in Lung Cancer Luckshika Arudchandran POH Affecting Targeted Treatment Response H203 Evaluating the Accuracy of 1000 Genomes Calls in Comparison Abby Beeler POH to NIST Reference Material on NA12878 H204 Investigating Cost-Effective Soy-Based Famine Relief Foods Garyk Brixi CHH Reyna Choi RMH H205 Shots and Their Secrets Isabella Chang CHH Libba Lawrence CHH H206 Mechanical Manipulation of 3D Extracellular Matrix Ethan Chen BLH Stiffness Influences Cell Behavior H207 The Effect of Mycorrhizal Fungi on Soybean Growth and Root Structure Amelia Cherian POH in Soils with Varying Nutrient Levels Kathryn Christensen POH H208 Modeling the Role of the Glymphatic Pathway in the Cornu Ammonis 1 Christian Coello BLH Hippocampus Region in Alzheimer’s disease H209 Ionic Strength Dependence of Factor 8 Protein: Improving Sanyukta Deshmukh WHO Prophylactic Hemophilia A Treatment H210 The Effects of Water Content on the Mechanical Properties of Intervertebral Discs Xiaotian Fan POH H211 Isolation of Bacteriophages from Different Sources for Phage Therapy Sarah Gao BLH Gianna-Jade del Vecchio BLH H212 Human MicroRNA Sequence Analysis and Color Coding Tanya Ghosh QOH that Enables Better Data Visualization H213 Long Term Effects of Spinal Cord Injury on Protein Production in Mice Calvin Godfrey BLH H214 Targeting the Survival of TFE3-fusion Kidney Cancer Cells Megha Guggari POH H215 Assessing Neuronal Activation Induced by Extinction of Palatable Food Seeking Roger Guitart POH H216 Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha Inhibits Mitochondrial Respiratory Function Sun-Bin Hwang WWH in Liver Cells H217 Development of Peptide-Based Cancer Drugs Targeting the Polo-Box Domain Jihoon Jang POH of Polo-like Kinase 1 H218 Identifying if Splicing is Determined Locally in Eukaryotic DNA Albert Jiang POH H219 Clustering of Repetitive Genomic Sequences Emma Jin BLH H220 Defining the Mechanism of Malaria Parasite Egress from Merosomes Amber Liu POH H221 The Effect of Auditory Sounds of Tinnitus on the Directional Hearing Margaret Lo WHO of Female Crickets H222 Comparison of Random Forest to Structure Based Virtual Screening with Christopher Look POH the clk4 and dyrk1a Protein H223 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 Types H225 Translocation Kinetics of Bacterial RNA Polymerase Gayane Matevosyan POH H226 The Effect of Meiotic Drive on the Remating Rate of Stalk-eyed Flies Thanuri Navarathna BLH H227 Intragenic SNP Haplotypes Associated with a Mutation in PROM1 in Two Howard Nicholson POH Pakistani Pedigrees with Autosomal Recessive Retinitis Pigmentosa H228 Effect of Selective Activation of MAPK Signaling by a Biased Dopamine D1 Daniel Ovetsky POH Receptor Agonist on Locomotor Activity in Reserpinized Mice H229 Examining the Effect of Epigenetic Modifications on Transcription Factor Divya Rajagopal BLH Binding of the CEBP Family Using Protein Binding Microarray Technology H230 Development of an Automatic Chlorella Culturing System Using Arduino Seung Joon Rhee BLH H231 Combination and Monotherapy of Antibiotics Against Gram-Negative Nadia Roghani MCS and Gram-Positive Bacteria H232 How Can Domain Annotations of Human Disease-associated Proteins be Improved? Daniel Schaffer BLH H233 Role of Immune Tolerance in Drug Induced Liver Toxicity Soham Sen NWH H234 Using Recombinant Proteins to Represent Bispecific Antibodies to Target HCV Tanvi Shah POH Cells Through Recognition of the E1E2 Surface Glycoprotein in HCV Cells H235 Which Vitamin is More Preventive towards Bacteria? Melika Sizar MCS H236 Chemotactic Imprinting in Nematode Worms Zachary Sweeney GPS Sam Hunt GPS Justin Wells GPS H237 The Correlation Between Microwave Radiation and Lima Bean Height Abbie Tran WHO H238 Elucidating the Mechanism that Leads to Reduced Testes Size Aradhana Vyas POH in a Mouse Model of BRCA2 H239 Effect of Exergaming on Energy Expenditure Emma Walter WJH H240 An Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) for Detecting and Emily Wang POH Differentiating Between H3N2v and Seasonal H3N2 Influenza Viruses H241 Determining the Animal Source of the 2012 Isiro, Democratic Republic of the Shirley Wolz POH Congo Ebola Outbreak with Satellite Images Obtained from LandSat H242 Improving Gene Repair by Different Inverted Terminal Repeats Jerry Wu RMH of Adeno-Associated Virus H243 Whole Genome Sequencing Analysis of Childhood Disintegrative Disorder Rona Yu BLH CHEMISTRY H301 Purification and Crystallization of Kynurenine Pathway Enzymes Sylvana Aho POH H302 Pure and Simple Jessica Cleveland HS H303 Polymeric Structural Support Synthesis for the Catalytic Deactivation Mehana Daftary BLH of Chemical Warfare Agents H304 From Waste To Energy! Shreya Khanna POH Thanushree Manjunath POH H305 Managing Diabetes: The Incredible Insulin Pump Varsha Krishnan WHO H306 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 WWH H402 Investigating Deep Learning for Face Recognition Diwakar Ganesan POH H403 Using a Hidden Markov Model to predict CpG-island locations in a DNA sequence Christine Gao BLH

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H404 Identification of Over- and Under-represented Nucleotide Subsequences Erik Hung POH by Exhaustive Analysis of Partition Probabilities H405 Improving the Efficacy of the Bumps Data Fitting and Uncertainty Estimation Kenneth Jiang POH Package on Reflectivity Analysis with an Optimized Variant of Parallel Tempering H406 Event Detection in Areas with Low-Resource Languages Suriya Kandaswamy POH H407 Clinical Telegaming Evaluation of Parkinson’s Disease Patients Stephan Loh BLH with Multisensory Testing Koby Taswell Other H408 Analyzing Various Approaches to Data Representation of Large Data Sets Jacob Mathews BLH Specifically Patient-Reported Outcomes H409 Characterizing the Effect of Noise on Smart Image Analysis Techniques for in Jonathan Ni POH vitro Micronuclei Assays of Engineered Nanoparticles H410 Bink3 - An Autonomous Mobile Fire-Detection System Aneesha Sampath WHO H411 P-Secure Vaishnavi Sesetty POH H412 Cloud Based Monitoring of Customer Location and Preferences Devin Smedira POH to Eliminate Physical Lines Riley Wilburn POH H413 An Exploration of the Efficiency of Different Pathfinding Algorithms in 2D Kevin Su POH H414 Password Security Saiteja Tammali CHS Manav Mathur CHS H415 Possible Security Scheme for Big Data Access Control Systems Alexander Ting POH H416 The Data Behind the Words Aolin Yang WHO H417 Code-Switching Demystified Through Neural Networks Avanish Yendluri POH and Computational Models Amogh Narendra POH

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Rohit Chari POH H418 Efficient Algorithm Development for Modding Capabilities Seong Joon Yoo POH H419 Computer Efficiency of Hard-Drives Hassan Zaidi MCS H420 A Novel Stylometric Algorithm for Authorship Identification Cherry Zou POH over Online Social Networks ENGINEERING H501 Detecting Electric Fields Yash Atitkar NWH Krishnan Guruvayurappan NWH H502 Life Support on a Budget Vera Bzhilyanskaya SVH Patrick Wang POH H503 Increasing Safety and Accuracy in Automation Systems Rohan Dixit POH with Real-Time Robot Monitoring H504 VAXXWAGON: An Innovative “No Ice, No Electric” Active Refrigeration Anurudh Ganesan CHS System for Last-Leg Vaccine Transportation H506 Correlation Yield Strength Velocities with Stress Concentrations on Nosepieces Alexander Ives POH of Flapping Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles H507 How to make a Stronger Truss for Bridges Erfan Jahanparast MCS H508 Powering the World with Piezoelectricity Pooja Keranahalli POH H509 Electricity for Third World Countries: With the Power of Vegetables Grace Kim POH Na Hye Kim POH H510 Increasing Lift of Flapping-Wing Air Vehicles By Adding Bi-Folding Wings Jason Kuldell POH H511 The Effect of Battery Chemistry on Battery Capacity Under Variable Load William McMillian BLH H512 The Effects of Materials on a Truss System Meghane Mombouli BUS H513 Development of Personal Transportation Device with Recharging Systems Ryan Needle CHH H514 Optimization of Magnetic Drug Delivery Systems to Inner Ear Disorders Dhruv Patel POH H515 Development of Temperature Responsive Mesoporous Gold Nanoshells for Rolane Qian POH an Enhanced Photothermal Effect and Controlled Drug Delivery H516 Hydropower vs. Wind Power Mohammadreza Salimi MCS H517 Collaborative Maze Solving & Map Development via Gestural Communication Vineet Shah POH using Multiple Ground Robots H518 Discovering and Modeling Traffic Lane-Changing Characteristics Stephanie Sun CHH for Autonomous Vehicles H519 A Python-based Software Tool to Conduct Time Dependent Alexander Tolstoy POH MOSFET Reliability Tests H520 Triphase Interphase Synthesis of Magnetic Gold Bellflowers as Cancer Bronte Wen BLH Theranostics for Dual-Modality Imaging and Photothermal Therapy H521 Autonomous and Tele-Op Robot Control Using Android Mobile Devices Frederick Xu RMH H522 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 BLH H702 The Effect of Varying Solar Cell Types on Solar Cell Efficiency Anusha Dixit POH H703 Relationship between Sunspot Group Area and Solar Flare X-ray Flux Kun Do WHO H704 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 Sheet H706 Investigation of Orthorhombic Distortions Due to Co2+ Ions Jean-Yong Kim POH in Tetragonal Spinel Mn3O4 H707 Efficiency of a Nanofluid-based Solar Collector Shraeya Madhu POH H708 Automation of Swept-Wavelength Spectroscopy for Optical Microcavity Trishul Nagenalli POH Resonance Detection H709 Using Fast Fourier Transform Techniques and Debye’s Asymptotic Expansion Jeremy Rubin POH to Accelerate Diffraction Calculations for Cylindrically Symmetrical Systems H710 Novel Method for Characterization of Conjugated Quantum Sources Ankita Sharma POH via Multimode Reconstruction H711 Predicting Cosmic Ray Flux Sreya Vangara POH H712 The Physics of Music Claire Brizzolara WJH

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