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65th Annual STS (2005-2006) Finalists

Alabama

 

Florence

Taylor, Jennifer Ann (Florence High School) Full Bio
Investigation of Prescription Antibiotics and Multidrug Resistant Pathogens in the Tennessee River

California

 

Palos Verdes Estates

Williams, Genevieve (Redondo Union High School) Full Bio
Foraging Behavior and Food Preferences of Argentine Ants

 

San Diego

Viscardi, Michael Anthony (Josan Academy) Full Bio
On the Solution of the Dirichlet Problem with Rational Boundary Data

 

San Jose

Sun, Yi (The Harker School) Full Bio
On the Expected Winding Number of a Random Walk on the Unit Lattice

Colorado

 

Colorado Springs

Sidman, Adam Daniel (William J. Palmer High School) Full Bio
A Handheld Multi-axis Camera Stabilization Device Utilizing MEMS Gyro Sensors

Connecticut

 

South Glastonbury

Pendri, Kiran Reddy (Choate Rosemary Hall) Full Bio
Macrocyclization Using Ring-Closing Olefin Metathesis: Synthesis of a 13-Member Dithiolactone

 

Westport

Sellon, Jonathan Blake (Staples High School) Full Bio
Modeling Auditory Attention by Implementing IHC Movement into Frequency Selectivity of the Inner Ear: A Novel Approach to Stimuli Separation

Florida

 

Coral Springs

Tell, Shoshana Sophie Rothman (Pine Crest School) Full Bio
Characterizing the Wnt/Beta-Catenin Signaling Pathway in Retinoblastoma

Idaho

 

Moscow

Moller, Lucas Edward (Moscow Senior High School) Full Bio
Micromechanics of Mars Dust on Round Surfaces: A Precursor Measurement for the Safe Human Exploration of Mars

Illinois

 

Chicago

Zhang, Letian (Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy) Full Bio
GLY Conjecture on Upper Estimate of Integral Points in Real Tetrahedra

 

Geneva

Wang, Xin (Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy) Full Bio
nm2608A : A New Naturally Arising Mouse Model for Human Autosomal Recessive Achromatopsia 2

 

Northbrook

Ranjan, Sukrit (Glenbrook North High School) Full Bio
The Influence of Topography on Martian Polar Clouds

Louisiana

 

Slidell

Lowry, Kate Elizabeth (Louisiana School for Math Science and the Arts) Full Bio
Gullies in the Northern Hemisphere of Mars: How Much Water Was Needed for Gully Formation?

Maryland

 

Baltimore

Davis, Myers Abraham (Baltimore Polytechnic Institute) Full Bio
Bounding Sphere Images: A Parametric Bounding Volume Hierarchy for Collision Detection on the GPU

 

Clarksville

Xing, Jeffrey Chunlong (River Hill High School) Full Bio
A Novel Single Nucleotide Polymorphism, T105G, in Intron 9 of the PIK3CA Gene Protects Against Follicular Thyroid Cancer

 

Rockville

Zhang, Yuan (Montgomery Blair High School) Full Bio
Oxidized LDL Metabolites Upregulate Expression of the Adhesion Molecule CX3CL1 in Primary Coronary Artery Smooth Muscle Cells

 

Silver Spring

Huynh-Le, Minh-Phuong (Montgomery Blair High School) Full Bio
Toward Understanding the Global Carbon Cycle: The Response of Soil Organic Matter to Changes in Forest Density and Flora

Massachusetts

 

Wellesley

Scott, Kimberly Megan (Wellesley High School) Full Bio
A Partial Characterization of Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse Games on Fields and Vector Spaces

Michigan

 

Northville

Zhou, John Cong (Detroit Country Day School) Full Bio
Synthesis of Polyaniline-based Conducto-Magnetic Polymers as Nanotransducers in Biosensor Design

New York

 

Armonk

Vellone, Joseph Daniel (Byram Hills High School) Full Bio
An Investigation into the Effectiveness of Novel Water Removal Methods Applied to the MEMS-based Gas Diffusion Media of a Passive Micro PEM Fuel Cell

 

Bedford

Gardner, Allison Mae (Byram Hills High School) Full Bio
Mosquito Populations and Arboviral Vectors Associated with Equines

 

Bellmore

Solomon, Adam Ross (John F. Kennedy High School) Full Bio
The Effects of Age on Brown Dwarf Spectral Features in the Near-Infrared

 

Centereach

Zaitseva, Irina Vladimirovna (Centereach High School) Full Bio
Stability of Sunscreen to UV Radiation and Reduction of Photocatalytic Activity of Titanium Dioxide

 

East Setauket

Lieblich, Jerrold Alexander (Ward Melville High School) Full Bio
When the Brain Doesn't Hear What the Mind Does: A Lexical Approach to McGurk Adaptation

   

Zhang, Harley Huiyu (Ward Melville High School) Full Bio
Role of General Relativity in Core Collapse of Spherically Symmetric Supernovae

 

Highland

Kelley, David Bruce (Highland High School) Full Bio
Quantum Tunneling Effect of Electron Bubbles at the Liquid-Vapor Interface in Liquid Neon and Its Application to a Time Projection Chamber Neutrino Detector

 

Merrick

Russo, Brittany Nicole (Sanford H. Calhoun High School) Full Bio
Seeing Through the Ears

 

New York

Rapoport, Sarah Kate (Horace Mann School) Full Bio
How the Brain and Body Learn Right from Left: Revealing Embryonic Symmetry-Breaking Mechanisms through in vitro and Mathematical Models

 

Northport

Meyerowitz, Eric Allan (Northport High School) Full Bio
Probing the Confirmation and Dynamics of Allatostatin Neuropeptides: A Structural Model for Functional Differences

 

Port Washington

Schickler, Carmiel Effron (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Full Bio
Creating a Conflict Alert System: Leadership Change, Violence and the Cycle of Relative Power

 

Suffern

Krishnan, Sheela (Suffern High School) Full Bio
Isolation and Characterization of a Potential Probiotic Cocktail for the Control of American Foulbrood in Domestic Honeybees

 

Syosset

Choi, Diane Jeehea (Syosset High School) Full Bio
Measuring Passive Love: Amae and Japanese Uniqueness

North Carolina

 

Pinehurst

Gawlik, Evan Scott (Texas Academy of Mathematics & Science) Full Bio
A Computational Study on New Krypton- and Argon-Bonded Molecules

Ohio

 

Bellbrook

Moore, John Pease (Dayton Christian High School) Full Bio
Low Reynolds Number Aerodynamics: Development and Optimization of a Micro Air Vehicle

Oregon

 

Portland

Hope, Elyse Autumn (Oregon Episcopal School) Full Bio
Creating a Novel Program for Determining the Three-Dimensional Movement Rates of Sunspots and Active Solar Magnetic Regions

 

West Linn

Zenisek, Sergio-Francis Mellejor (Oregon Episcopal School) Full Bio
The Recombination of RNA by Azoarcus Ribozyme in a Compartmentalized System: An Origin-of-Life Study

Utah

 

Highland

Babb, Shannon Lisa (American Fork High School) Full Bio
Troubled Waters: A Six-Month Longitudinal Water Quality Study of the Spanish Fork River Drainage System

Virginia

 

Oakton

Solomon, Justin Moore (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology) Full Bio
Three-Dimensional Face Recognition from Video: Facial Surface Reconstruction and Analysis Using Tensor Algebra and Differential Geometry

Washington

 

Shoreline

Mork, Anna Jolene (Shorewood High School) Full Bio
Comparative Autofluorescence of a Unicellular to a Multicellular Plant: Acetabularia acetabulum vs. Arabidopsis thaliana

Wisconsin

 

Appleton

Wage, Nicholas Michael (Appleton High School East) Full Bio
Character Sums and Ramsey Properties of Generalized Paley Graphs

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