2023 Student Projects
Xiang Shi
Emma Willard School
Project Title: A Study of The Gender Pay Gap in U.S. with Data Analysis and Machine Learning
Category: MATH – Mathematics
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Julia Lee
Monroe-Woodbury High School
Project Title: How Academic Stress Can Affect the Development of Acne Vulgaris in Adolescents
Category: BEHA – Behavioral and Social Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Audrey Whitfield
Monroe-Woodbury High School
Project Title: The Presence of Peripheral Biomarkers of ACL Injury and Recovery in Cadets Attending the United States Military Academy at West Point
Category: CELL – Cellular and Molecular Biology
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Isabella Rogozinski
Monroe-Woodbury High School
Project Title: Comparing the Rates of Anxiety in Common Everyday Scenarios in Alzheimer’s Patients and Canine Cognitive Dysfunction Patients
Category: BEHA – Behavioral and Social Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Natalie Rock
Saratoga Springs High School
Project Title: The Effect of Acute Stressors on the Mushroom Body Health of Drosophila Melanogaster
Category: BMED – Biomedical and Health Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Visakhi Miriyapalli
Monroe-Woodbury High School
Project Title: The Effect of Different Genres of Music on Tics in Tourette’s Syndrome Subjects
Category: BMED – Biomedical and Health Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Avery Timmins
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: Can Bedrock fix it? A study on which type of bedrock can raise pH after acid rain has lowered it
Category: EAEV – Earth and Environmental Sciences
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Samuel Magowan
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: The Effect of styrofoam on plant growth
Category: PLNT – Plant Sciences
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Andrew Zhang
Iroquois Middle School
Project Title: Building a Wind Tunnel To Study Aerodynamic Performances of Model Cars
Category: PHYS – Physics and Astronomy
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Hridaanshu Gusain
Shaker High School
Project Title: Nuclei Segmentation for Cancer Detection in Prostate Cells using UNET architecture
Category: CBIO – Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Simran Utturkar
Niskayuna High School
Project Title: Ventilation-based variable conductance approach for residential cooling energy reduction
Category: EGSD – Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Charlotte Collins
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: The effect of Greywater on radish seed germination
Category: PLNT – Plant Sciences
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Carson Reynolds
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: Normal Dish Soap vs. Antibacterial Dish Soap. What’s better?
Category: MCRO – Microbiology
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Cameron Boardman
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: Plan, Plant, Save
Category: PLNT – Plant Sciences
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Samuel Dixson
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: Field Of streams: creating a Self Sustainable Farm on Water
Category: PLNT – Plant Sciences
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Salma Ibrahim
Taconic Hills High School
Project Title: A Multiple Case Study of the commonalities that influence people to do food justice work and how these commonalities relate to food insecurity
Category: BEHA – Behavioral and Social Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Owen Compani
Broadalbin-Perth High School
Project Title: Ready or Not: An Analysis of Consumer Acceptance of Electric Vehicles
Category: BEHA – Behavioral and Social Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Leanne Fernandes
Monroe-Woodbury High School
Project Title: The effect of the big 5 personality traits on physical activity among adults
Category: BEHA – Behavioral and Social Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Anthony Kaminskiy
Monroe-Woodbury High School
Project Title: Assessing The Infection Rate of Otitis Externa In Patients Who Swam In Chlorine Treated Waters of Natural Lakewater
Category: BMED – Biomedical and Health Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Jamie Calub
Monroe-Woodbury High School
Project Title: Effectiveness of an iPhone Digital Art Activity on Reducing Perceived Stress Levels in Healthcare Workers
Category: BEHA – Behavioral and Social Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Jason Lian
Iroquois Middle School
Project Title: Building a Wind Tunnel To Study Aerodynamic Performances of Model Cars
Category: ENMC – Engineering Mechanics
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Emily Taveras
Monroe-Woodbury High School
Project Title: Evaluating Moringa Oleifera in an f-sand Filter Along with Solar Disinfection for Drinking Water and its Adaptability in the Point-of-Use Setting
Category: ENEV – Environmental Engineering
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Brian Sun
Iroquois Middle School
Project Title: Building a Wind Tunnel To Study Aerodynamic Performances of Model Cars
Category: PHYS – Physics and Astronomy
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Kate Henry
Saratoga Springs High School
Project Title: A comparative analysis Of the granulocyte Concentration in the blood of humans, monkeys, and dogs through time after acute irradiation
Category: PHYS – Physics and Astronomy
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Ashok Sathiyamoorthy
Monroe-Woodbury High School
Project Title: The Effects of Automated Parameter Selection in Cohort Intelligence – A Self-Adaptive Learning Behavior
Category: ROBO – Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Abigail Connolly
Monroe-Woodbury High School
Project Title: How Moral Injury Impacts Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures (PNES) in U.S. Combat Veterans
Category: BEHA – Behavioral and Social Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Olivia Miller
Monroe-Woodbury High School
Project Title: The Rate and Accuracy of Self-Diagnosis of Depression as affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic
Category: BEHA – Behavioral and Social Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Gia Patel
Shaker High School
Project Title: Chemical segregation measurements in photoresists
Category: MATS – Materials Science
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Hyunseo (Eric) Kim
Shaker High School
Project Title: Effectiveness of the use of aerogels in thermal collection
Category: EGSD – Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Kayla Crai
Nyack High School
Project Title: Inclusiveness Achieves More: Clinical Trial Diversity in Oncology and the state of the Post Marketing Requirements and commitments
Category: TMED – Translational Medical Science
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Daniel Anton
Nyack High School
Project Title: When to teach intellectual Humility? An investigation into high school and middle school students
Category: BEHA – Behavioral and Social Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Margaret Palmer
Nyack High School
Project Title: The Calm Before the Storm: The Effects of Sea Surface Temperature on Hurricane Precipitation and Storm Surge
Category: EAEV – Earth and Environmental Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Janice Yohannan
Nyack High School
Project Title: Getting to the Root: the effects of iron and light on avicennia germinans in drought
Category: PLNT – Plant Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Abby Bundy
Saratoga Springs High School
Project Title: The Effect of second language exposure on cultural tolerance
Category: BEHA – Behavioral and Social Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Lana Graves
Hudson Falls Central School District
Project Title: The Effects of Glyphosate and Roundup on Behavior and Replication in Brown Planarians
Category: EAEV – Earth and Environmental Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Logan Staunton
Hudson Falls Central School District
Project Title: The effects of acute beetroot juice ingestion on jumping ability, upper body muscular strength, and cardiorespiratory endurance on frequently training high school athletes: A double-blind randomized crossover
Category: BMED – Biomedical and Health Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Dorothy Choi
Emma Willard School
Project Title: Developing Sustainable Water and Electricity for impoverished regions using algae-based bio-photovoltaics
Category: EGSD – Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Maxwell Aierstok
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: Plastic paper with a zero net carbon footprint? A study evaluating the quality and possibilities of reusable hemp and plastic paper
Category: MATS – Materials Science
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Anum Amir
Mohonasen High School
Project Title: Lowering Fel D1 in Cats in order to Reduce Effects of Allergens
Category: ANIM – Animal Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Rohan Sonakya
Monroe-Woodbury High School
Project Title: CFD Analysis of Various Lengths of Front Splitters on Drag and Lift Coefficients of an Early 1990s Sedan
Category: ENMC – Engineering Mechanics
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Madeline Siebeneck
Saratoga Springs High School
Project Title: The Relationship between Generation and Environmental Awareness, Sustainable Consumption and Practice
Category: BEHA – Behavioral and Social Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Saurav Bavdekar
Shaker High School
Project Title: Fabrication and Characterization of Graphite-doped TMOS Aerogels at Elevated Temperatures
Category: MATS – Materials Science
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Madison Milla
Nyack High School
Project Title: Mysteries of the moon: Mineral composition of craters and volcanic mounds
Category: PHYS – Physics and Astronomy
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Mason Foster
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: which Light is Right
Category: PLNT – Plant Sciences
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Keagan Wert
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: The Effect of Greywater on plant growth
Category: PLNT – Plant Sciences
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Kenadee Culver
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: Freshwater Crisis and Why your land might have something to do with it
Category: ENEV – Environmental Engineering
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Alexa Jansen
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: Freshwater crisis and why your land might have Something to do about it
Category: EAEV – Earth and Environmental Sciences
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Harper McCarthy
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: The Effect Of Intensity Of UV Radiation On The Rate Of Bacterial Growth For Pseudomonas Aeruginosa and E. coli.
Category: MCRO – Microbiology
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Dominick Doyle
Hudson Falls Central School District
Project Title: Investigating the Effect of Shoe-Surface Interaction on Traction; Analyzing Different Athletic Playing Surfaces Using Footwear With a Possible Correlation to Non-Contact Injuries to the Lower Extremity
Category: PHYS – Physics and Astronomy
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Tarun Jacob
Niskayuna High School
Project Title: Viability of external reading of a flexible sphere’s internal fluid pressure and its application in measuring IOP
Category: ENBM – Biomedical Engineering
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Mya Saunders
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: Blooming Algae: The Effect of organic fertilizer on algae growth
Category: PLNT – Plant Sciences
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Claire Fowler
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: The Effect of Pumped Hydroelectric Energy
Category: ENEV – Environmental Engineering
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Claire Smith
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: The effect of food Preservatives on Microorganism growth.
Category: MCRO – Microbiology
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Ella Bagchi
Shaker Junior High School
Project Title: How does anthropogenic ocean noise affect marine life?
Category: EAEV – Earth and Environmental Sciences
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Castine Hardesty
Academy of Holy Names
Project Title: The Efficacy of Tetramethylammonium Chloride and BioStab PCR Optimizer as Proposed Treatments for the Elimination of PCR Mediated Recombination in Unintegrated HIV-1 pDNA
Category: CELL – Cellular and Molecular Biology
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Brennen Michel
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: How different Types of foods affect the productivity of Bio-Digester.
Category: EGSD – Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Tejas Jacob
Van Antwerp Middle School
Project Title: Understanding the physics of flight – building and testing models for aerodynamic lift
Category: PHYS – Physics and Astronomy
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Ella Celani
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: Cleanliness is Key! What Brand of Surface Cleaner Harbors the Least Bacteria?
Category: MCRO – Microbiology
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Allison Wu
Emma Willard School
Project Title: Breaking the Concrete Ceiling: Evidence from a Natural Experiment to examine the Gender Effect on Higher Education Leadership
Category: BEHA – Behavioral and Social Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Michael Wu
Shaker Junior High School
Project Title: Detecting Posture Quality with Real-Time Pose Estimation
Category: ROBO – Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Honora LaRock
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: Sexual selective behavior of Parhyale hawaiensis: A study comparing mate selection of males based on mate colouration
Category: ANIM – Animal Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Katelyn Regan-Boerner
Academy of Holy Names
Project Title: Variation in deception Detection Between Different Types of Questions in Adolescent Females
Category: BEHA – Behavioral and Social Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Arthur Leung
Niskayuna High School
Project Title: Smart Medication Dispense System
Category: ROBO – Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Karsen Rittner
Guilderland High School
Project Title: Structural and Biochemical Changes Correlate with Evolutionary Effect Scores in TBCK Gene Missense Variants of Uncertain Significance (VUS)
Category: BMED – Biomedical and Health Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Morgan Lawler
Academy of Holy Names
Project Title: A randomized Clinical Study Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of a New Sulfate-based Bowel Preparation Compared to PEG and Ascorbate Comparator in adult subjects undergoing Coloscopy
Category: BMED – Biomedical and Health Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Akshay Muppidi
Guilderland High School
Project Title: Novel Supervised High-Resolution Neural Networks For Speech Emotion Recognition
Category: ROBO – Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Melanie Richter
Academy of Holy Names
Project Title: The Incidence of Squeaking After Ceramic on Ceramic Total Hip Arthrolasty
Category: BMED – Biomedical and Health Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Arin Khare
Niskayuna High School
Project Title: The Rebalancing Act: A Geographical Community-based approach to computational gerrymandering analysis
Category: SOFT – Systems Software
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Gia Lee
Nyack High School
Project Title: Effects of various emulsification agents in fat emulsions for plant-based meat analogs
Category: MATS – Materials Science
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
James Lian
Niskayuna High School
Project Title: The Rebalancing Act: A Geographical Community-Based Approach to Computational Gerrymandering Analysis
Category: SOFT – Systems Software
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Hafsa Khan
Academy of Holy Names
Project Title: The pathogenesis of Friedreich’s Ataxia using the Proteomic analysis of dRG
Category: BMED – Biomedical and Health Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Makayla Mackey
Academy of Holy Names
Project Title: iron Deficiency in Heart Failure – A Quality Improvement project
Category: BMED – Biomedical and Health Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Rogan Kelly
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: Blooming Algae : The Effect of organic fertilizer on algae growth
Category: PLNT – Plant Sciences
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Noah Ballesteros
Saratoga Springs High School
Project Title: TiO2 Degradation of β-Carboline
Category: CHEM – Chemistry
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Juno Catlin
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: Plants Vs. Magnets
Category: PLNT – Plant Sciences
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Adriana Gleeson
Nyack High School
Project Title: Growing Up: The Correlation Between adverse childhood experiences and parenting styles
Category: BEHA – Behavioral and Social Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Zachary Booth
Columbia High School
Project Title: The Effects of Environmentally Realistic Concentrations of Caffeine on the Bioindicator Tetrahymena, and Testing of Caffeine in Local Waters
Category: EAEV – Earth and Environmental Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Sanvi Gawad
Shaker High School
Project Title: Predicting 12-month Vocalization Frequency from 4-Month Vocalization Frequency
Category: BEHA – Behavioral and Social Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Jack Stuhlman
Burnt Hills – Ballston Lake CSD
Project Title: N-body simulation of a binary dwarf Galaxy infall
Category: PHYS – Physics and Astronomy
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Grace Herzog
Saratoga Springs High School
Project Title: The Relationship Between Sex Differences and Lower Body Negative Pressure with Very Short-Term Blood Pressure Variability with Acute Oral Capsaicin in Humans
Category: BMED – Biomedical and Health Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Alaina Marino
Columbia High School
Project Title: A Comparative Analysis of Microbial pathways in crohn’s disease patients with severe vs non-severe symptoms
Category: BMED – Biomedical and Health Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Jacob Baker
Columbia High School
Project Title: Evaluating Partisan Gerrymandering Within United States Congressional Districts
Category: BEHA – Behavioral and Social Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Shivangi Verma
Shaker High School
Project Title: Assessing the contribution of Individual binding domains in scFv-tau interactions
Category: CELL – Cellular and Molecular Biology
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Jerry Fan
Shaker High School
Project Title: Comparison of intrabody-mediated mutant Huntington (mHtt) protein degradation via the ODC degron pathway vs. the CL1 degron pathway
Category: CELL – Cellular and Molecular Biology
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Matthew Shakow
Saratoga Springs High School
Project Title: An investigation into the relationship between cognitive abilities and the theoretical accuracy of a prompted second move choice in tic-tac-toe measured by the trail-making test
Category: BEHA – Behavioral and Social Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Harry Shen
Shaker High School
Project Title: An Improvement on the AM-GM inequality
Category: MATH – Mathematics
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Noah Speanburg
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: Cleanliness is Key! What Kind of Surface Cleaner Harbors the Least Bacteria?
Category: MCRO – Microbiology
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Noah Ives
Greenwich Central School District
Project Title: Freshwater Crisis and Why your land might have something to do with it
Category: EAEV – Earth and Environmental Sciences
Division: Junior Division (Grades 6-8)
Nicholas Pugliese
Columbia High School
Project Title: determining the probability of potentially habitable Exoplanets discovered by the tESS mission
Category: PHYS – Physics and Astronomy
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Lilly Mertzlufft
Burnt Hills – Ballston Lake CSD
Project Title: Interaction of an angled finite-span synthetic jet with a steady vortex
Category: ENMC – Engineering Mechanics
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Bryan Chae
Shaker High School
Project Title: Resource- Explicit Interaction Models for Spatial Populations
Category: CBIO – Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Sophia Herzog
Saratoga Springs High School
Project Title: The effect of traumatic brain injury on aversive taste learning in CS and FMR1 Mutant Drosophila melanogaster
Category: BMED – Biomedical and Health Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Solomon Zweig
Rondout Valley High School
Project Title: A Block Self-Dual Renormalization Group Procedure for the 1-D Quasi-Periodically Driven Ising Model
Category: PHYS – Physics and Astronomy
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Emily Koenig
Columbia High School
Project Title: A Correlation Between Sleep Duration and anxiety in a group of high school juniors
Category: BEHA – Behavioral and Social Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Kate Lindley
Saratoga Springs High School
Project Title: The Effect Lake Crayfish Diet has on their Ability to Respond to Freshwater Acidification
Category: EAEV – Earth and Environmental Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Anya Kotkoskie
Burnt Hills – Ballston Lake CSD
Project Title: Effectiveness of Soil sorbent Modifications and Soybeans on N-EtFOSAA Transformation
Category: PLNT – Plant Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Carsyn Bonesteel
Burnt Hills – Ballston Lake CSD
Project Title: A Multifaceted Approach to Determine the Therapeutic Efficacy of ventral Pallidum deep brain stimulation for Epilepsy
Category: BMED – Biomedical and Health Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Maha Gillani
Saratoga Springs High School
Project Title: The Association Between Vitamin D, Overweight Status and Depression: A Retrospective Study
Category: BMED – Biomedical and Health Sciences
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Samantha Tennyson
Lake George Junior/Senior High School
Project Title: FGF2 Discs in media to produce quality induced pluripotent stem cell cultures
Category: CELL – Cellular and Molecular Biology
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)
Alexander Do
La Salle Institute
Project Title: Generating Synthetic Medical Images for deformable image registration with diffusion models
Category: ENBM – Biomedical Engineering
Division: Senior Division (Grades 9-12)