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62nd Annual STS (2002-2003)
Finalists

California

 

Fullerton

Pawlowski, Peter Michal (Troy High School) Full Bio
Structure and Stability of Sulfur Trioxide-Ammonia Clusters with Water: Implications on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols

 

Pasadena

Rengarajan, Michelle (Westridge School) Full Bio
Induction of Drosophila melanogaster Immune Response by the Parasitic Nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora and Its Bacterial Symbiont, Photorhabdus luminescens

Connecticut

 

Cos Cob

Mittal, Alexander Chow (Greenwich High School) Full Bio
Nanoconstruction with Self-assembling DNA-PNA Complexes

 

Old Lyme

Nyberg, Michael Herbert (Lyme-Old Lyme High School) Full Bio
The Quantification of the Physical Properties Impacting the Effective Implementation of Acoustic Larvicide Systems

District of Columbia

 

Washington

Snell, Sabrina Curie (School Without Walls) Full Bio
An Assessment of Linear and Accelerated Motion in Double Stars

Florida

 

Fort Myers

Rubin, Jamie Elyce (Canterbury School) Full Bio
Characterization of the Secreted Aspartic Proteinases of Candida albicans Using a Novel Combinatorial Technique

 

Miami Lakes

Lemus, Bryan A. (Dr. Michael M. Krop High School) Full Bio
A Transgenic Screening Approach to the Development of Arabidopsis Mutants Deficient in the Synthesis of Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase Kinase

 

Niceville

Mohammed, Ibraheem Maqsood (Niceville High School) Full Bio
Prevention of Biofilm Formation on Intravascular and Urinary Catheters: Development of Novel and Cost-effective Antibacterial Coatings

 

Tampa

Kotha, Anupama (C. Leon King High School) Full Bio
A Novel Stat3 Inhibitor: Resveratrol, a Phytoalexin in Grapes

 

Titusville

Patel, Anant Ramesh (Astronaut High School) Full Bio
Neuronal Expression of CD22

Hawaii

 

Pukalani

Jachowski, Matthew Douglas Apau (Maui High School) Full Bio
On Initial Orbit Determination Accuracy

Maryland

 

Germantown

Preygel, Anatoly (Montgomery Blair High School) Full Bio
Computation of Quandle Cocycle Knot Invariants

Massachusetts

 

Lexington

Byrnes, Steven J.F. (The Roxbury Latin School) Full Bio
Poset-Game Periodicity

Michigan

 

Livonia

Street, Ethan James (Winston Churchill High School) Full Bio
Continued Fractions of Quadratic Laurent Series

Minnesota

 

Golden Valley

Schmidgall, Emma Rose (Robbinsdale Cooper High School) Full Bio
Inferring Surface Lattice Structure from Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Measurements of the High-temperature Superconductor Bi 2 Sr 2 Ca 2 CuO 8+Gamma

New Mexico

 

Los Alamos

Sinha, Naveen Neil (Los Alamos High School) Full Bio
Bubble-based Resonance-Doppler Technique of Liquid Characterization

New York

 

Armonk

Yee, Alison Kimberly (Byram Hills High School) Full Bio
Apoptosis of Protozoan Oyster Pathogen ( Perkinsus marinus ) in vivo and in vitro

 

Bayside

Narendra, Varun Kumar (Stuyvesant High School) Full Bio
Mathematical Model of Enzyme Replacement Therapy in Type 1 Gaucher Disease

 

Bedford

Kroll, Matthew Jay (Byram Hills High School) Full Bio
Size as a Factor in the Development of the Deer Tick, Ixodes scapularis

 

Brooklyn

Gekker, Anna (Brooklyn Technical High School) Full Bio
The Effect of Psychosocial Factors on Recovery Time and Level of Health Improvement Among Patients Suffering from Physical and/or Mental Disability in a Subacute Rehabilitation Setting

   

Lewis, Joel Brewster (Stuyvesant High School) Full Bio
Analysis of a Vector Game

 

Commack

Imber, Brandon Stuart (Commack High School) Full Bio
The "Blackberry" Cluster: Thermodynamic Equilibrium and Potential Medical Applications of Giant Nanoscale Inorganic Molecules in Solution

 

Deansboro

Tewksbury, Carolyn Morgan (Clinton High School) Full Bio
Collapse of the Pasom-mana Tessera Region, Venus: Implications for the Evolutionof Crustal Plateaus

 

Dix Hills

Choi, Hyeyeon (Half Hollow Hills High School East) Full Bio
The Effect of Supercritical Fluids on Polymer Thin Films

 

Forest Hills

Zhang, Yi-Chen (The Bronx High School of Science) Full Bio
Sub-lethal Exposure of German Cockroaches to Pesticides Contributes to Increased Expressionof Bla g 2, a Cockroach Allergen Associated with Inner City Asthma

 

Inwood

Vaughn, Casey Ann (Lawrence High School) Full Bio
Deaf, Not Dumb: Dispelling the Myth of the Apparent Mathematics Deficit Among Deaf Students

 

New Hyde Park

Wissner-Gross, Zachary Daniel (Great Neck South High School) Full Bio
Discovery of Low-current Second-spike Winners in Models of Neuron Pairs

 

Rochester

Rounds, Phoebe Robeson (Irondequoit High School) Full Bio
Multiple-tripler Broad-bandwidth Frequency Conversion for Laser Fusion

 

Rockville Centre

Fleischer, Hilary Caren (South Side High School) Full Bio
Optical Analysis of a Flowing Soap Film

   

Kardon, Alex (South Side High School) Full Bio
Do Pay Raises Affect Measured Performance and Inferred Motivation in Professional Baseball Players?

 

Rye Brook

Licitra, Jeffrey Lawrence (Blind Brook High School) Full Bio
Hemlock Decline Affects the Inoculum Potential of Red Oak ( Quercus rubra ) Seedlings to Below-ground Ectomycorrhizal Communities

 

Scarsdale

Gingold, Julian A. (New Rochelle High School) Full Bio
Analyzing and Displaying Protein Motion: Variations in Interatomic Distancesand Crystallographic B-Factors

 

Staten Island

Levin, Alex (Stuyvesant High School) Full Bio
A Secure and Efficient Shuffle-based Identification and Signature Scheme

 

Syosset

Malin, Adam Mikah (Syosset High School) Full Bio
Ethos, Pathos, and Politics: Ramifications of a National Crisis

 

Wheatley Heights

Mackey, Lester Wayne (Half Hollow Hills High School West) Full Bio
A Combinatorial Proof of Seymour's Conjecture for Regular Oriented Graphs with Almost Regular Outsets O' a and O" a

 

Woodbury

Ketover, Daniel Jacob (Syosset High School) Full Bio
The Majorana Description of Spin Tunneling

North Carolina

 

Cary

Su, Edward Joseph (William G. Enloe High School) Full Bio
Electron-Phonon Interactions in Carbon Nanotubes

Oklahoma

 

Stillwater

te Velde, Vera Louise (Oklahoma School of Science & Mathematics) Full Bio
Effects of Diffuse X-ray Radiation in the Galactic Center on Detection of X-ray Binaries by the Chandra X-ray Observatory

Oregon

 

Portland

Li, Tianhui (Oregon Episcopal School) Full Bio
Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement Fusion: Three-year Study

Texas

 

The Woodlands

Zeglin, Scott Bailey (Oak Ridge High School) Full Bio
A Biological Treatment of Vibrio vulnificus in Ballast Water

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