R.P.I. Scholarship
Senior Division
Allison Wu
Emma Willard School
VoiceAD: A Multilingual Speech Based Classifier for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease
S-TMED-001
Senior Grand Prizes
First Place
Senior Division
Lilly Mertzlufft
Burnt Hills – Ballston Lake CSD
An Investigation of Jet Assisted Surface Mounted Actuators in Laminar and Turbulent Boundary Layers
S-ETSD-005
Second Place
Senior Division
Tarun Jacob
Niskayuna High School
TonoSense: A Novel Device for Intraocular Pressure Measurement
S-ENBM-001
Third Place
Senior Division
Allison Wu
Emma Willard School
VoiceAD: A Multilingual Speech Based Classifier for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease
S-TMED-001
First Honorable Mention
Senior Division
Pavithra Jayakumar
Shaker High School
The Application of Graphene Oxide and Methyltrimethoxysilane Hydrophobic Aerogels on the Adsorption of Oil Spills
S-ETSD-004
Second Honorable Mention
Senior Division
Hridaanshu Gusain
Shaker High School
Nuclei Segmentation Using Deep Learning and Hyperspectral Imaging for High Accuracy
S-CBIO-002
Third Honorable Mention
Senior Division
James Lian Jason Lian
Niskayuna High School
LegiBERT: Applying Abstractive Text Summarization to Legislative Texts
S-SOFT-001T
Junior Grand Prizes
First Place
Junior Division
Tejas Jacob
Van Antwerp Middle School
Improving the Aerodynamic Efficiency of Airplanes Using a Nature-Inspired Adaptive Wing
J-ETSD-002
Second Place Junior division award
Junior Division
Mya Saunders
Greenwich Central School District
The Good Gut: The Effect of Lactobacillus and E. Coli on Pathogenic Bacteria Population Growth
J-MCRO-002
Third Place
Junior Division
Kenadee Culver
Greenwich Central School District
pH v.s. Painkillers The effect of pH on the solubility of Advil
J-BMED-001
First Honorable Mention
Junior Division
Cameron Boardman
Greenwich Central School District
My Plants Be-Leaf In Me
J-PLNT-002
Second Place Junior Division Honorable Mention
Junior Division
Ella Celani
Greenwich Central School District
Vacation Or Evacuation. Is There A Way To Prevent Erosion Or Runoff?
J-ENEV-001
Third Honorable Mention
Junior Division
Leia Cannon Amelia Cripps
Greenwich Central School District
Raving Roaches in your Residence!
J-ANIM-001T
ISEF Awards
Department of Defense (DoD) STEM Leadership Prize
Junior Division
Tejas Jacob
Van Antwerp Middle School
Improving the Aerodynamic Efficiency of Airplanes Using a Nature-Inspired Adaptive Wing
J-ETSD-002
U.S. Air Force 1 of 2
Junior Division
Cameron Boardman
Greenwich Central School District
My Plants Be-Leaf In Me
J-PLNT-002
U.S. Air Force 2 of 2
Junior Division
Tejas Jacob
Van Antwerp Middle School
Improving the Aerodynamic Efficiency of Airplanes Using a Nature-Inspired Adaptive Wing
J-ETSD-002
U.S. Air 1 of 2
Senior Division
Lucy Ray
Hudson Falls Central School District
Sensory stimulation as an academic Intervention in High school students
S-BEHA-009
U.S. Air Force 2 of 2
Senior Division
Lilly Mertzlufft
Burnt Hills – Ballston Lake CSD
An Investigation of Jet Assisted Surface Mounted Actuators in Laminar and Turbulent Boundary Layers
S-ETSD-005
U.S. Navy Office of Research 1 of 2
Junior Division
Claire Fowler
Greenwich Central School District
The Impact of Partial vs. Full Discharge on AA Lithium-Ion Battery Longevity
J-EGSD-001
U.S. Navy Office of Research 2 of 2
Junior Division
Mya Saunders
Greenwich Central School District
The Good Gut: The Effect of Lactobacillus and E. Coli on Pathogenic Bacteria Population Growth
J-MCRO-002
U.S. Navy Office of Research 1 of 3
Senior Division
Lilly Mertzlufft
Burnt Hills – Ballston Lake CSD
An Investigation of Jet Assisted Surface Mounted Actuators in Laminar and Turbulent Boundary Layers
S-ETSD-005
U.S. Navy Office of Research 2 of 3
Senior Division
Hridaanshu Gusain
Shaker High School
Nuclei Segmentation Using Deep Learning and Hyperspectral Imaging for High Accuracy
S-CBIO-002
U.S. Navy Office of Research 3 of 3
Senior Division
Aaditya Ojha
Bethlehem Central High School
Development of a Bioinformatics Pipeline for Serogroup Identification in Neisseria meningitidis
S-CBIO-004
American Psychological Association (APA)
Senior Division
Alexandria Conway
Taconic Hills High School
Using Expressive Art in the Form of Mandalas to Reduce Teachers Stress at Taconic Hills CSD, Caryville, NY
S-BEHA-005
Association for Women Geoscientists
Junior Division
Claire Smith
Greenwich Central School District
The Effect of microorganisms on removing Nitrates from Wastewater.
J-MCRO-003
Lemelson Early Inventor Prize
Junior Division
Keagan Wert
Greenwich Central School District
Getting the Oil out of your soil the study of mycoremediation
J-EAEV-001
NASA Earth System Science Award
Senior Division
Maeve McCarthy
Bethlehem Central High School
Crustal Thickness and Vp/Vs Ratios in Western Canada through H-k Stacking of P-wave Receiver Functions
S-EAEV-007
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) “Taking the Pulse of the Planet” Award
Senior Division
Saad Ashar
Shaker High School
Machine Learning Model for Cloud Classification Using NYS Mesonet Images
S-EAEV-001
Regeneron Biomedical Science Award
Senior Division
Kaitlin Munro
Saratoga Springs High School
Known and proposed role of peripheral myelin protein 2 in schwann cells during myelination
S-CELL-004
Regional Ricoh Sustainable Development Award
Senior Division
Hyunseo Kim
Shaker High School
Effectiveness and Assessment of Aerogel and Light Variability on Thermal Collection
S-EGSD-001
USAID From the American People
Senior Division
Luke Kotsides
Rondout Valley High School
An Observational Study Investigating the Association Between Regional Socioeconomic Status and Availability of COVID-19 Testing in Upstate New York Counties
S-BMED-005
Yale Science and Engineering Association Inc.
Senior Division
Pavithra Jayakumar
Shaker High School
The Application of Graphene Oxide and Methyltrimethoxysilane Hydrophobic Aerogels on the Adsorption of Oil Spills
S-ETSD-004
U.S. Metric Association
Junior Division
Brennen Michel
Greenwich Central School District
The effect of cover crops on soil erosion
J-PLNT-004
U.S. Metric Association
Senior Division
Tarun Jacob
Niskayuna High School
TonoSense: A Novel Device for Intraocular Pressure Measurement
S-ENBM-001
Regional Awards
American Society for Microbiology, Eastern New York Branch
Junior Division
Juno Catlin
Greenwich Central School District
Do acne cleansers really work?
J-MCRO-001
American Society for Microbiology, Eastern New York Branch
Senior Division
Paul Shannon
Hudson Falls Central School District
Rhizofiltration of an induced Microcystis bloom using the common water hyacinth (E. crassipes) within a constructed wetland model
S-EAEV-009
Brown League Sports Science Award
Senior Division
Thomas Bundy
Saratoga Springs High School
Proof of Concept: Analyzing the Structure and Durability of an Autonomy-Supportive Skiing Aid.
S-ETSD-001
Cullen Blake and Deena Mousa Excellence in Science Award
Junior Division
Claire Fowler
Greenwich Central School District
The Impact of Partial vs. Full Discharge on AA Lithium-Ion Battery Longevity
J-EGSD-001
Curia Global: Passion for Scientific Endeavors Award
Junior Division
Rogan Kelly
Greenwich Central School District
The Effect of Biodegradable Hydrogels on Plants During Farming
J-PLNT-003
Curia Global: Passion for Scientific Endeavors Award
Senior Division
Samuel Szerlip
Nyack High School
Saving the World: Effect of pH and axial stress on the hydration of MgO as an analog for the mineralization reaction of MgO
S-EAEV-010
Dudley Observatory Award
Senior Division
Jack Stuhlman
Burnt Hills – Ballston Lake CSD
N-body Simulation of a Binary Dwarf galaxy infall and applications to the sagittarius tidal stream
S-PHYS-005
GCRSEF Computer Science Award
Senior Division
Ethan Reyes
Burnt Hills – Ballston Lake CSD
An Algorithm for Edge Generation in Graphs of Real World Vertex Fields for Travel with Momentum Constraints
S-SOFT-002
Linda Austin DNA Science and Technology Award
Senior Division
Tehreem Fatima
Shaker High School
Identification of Key Long Non-Coding RNAs (LncRNAs) Effecting Alternative Splicing and Gene Expression in the Frontal Cortex of Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 Patients
S-CBIO-001
Momentive Performance Materials
Junior Division
Rogan Kelly
Greenwich Central School District
The Effect of Biodegradable Hydrogels on Plants During Farming
J-PLNT-003
Momentive Performance Materials:
Senior Division
Pavithra Jayakumar
Shaker High School
The Application of Graphene Oxide and Methyltrimethoxysilane Hydrophobic Aerogels on the Adsorption of Oil Spills
S-ETSD-004
National Association of Biology Teachers
Junior Division
Morgan Colby Isabel Pelech, Richard Coon, Jr.
Greenwich Central School District
Turn the lights down low
J-PLNT-001T
National Association of Biology Teachers
Senior Division
Django Accardi
Rondout Valley High School
Frequency-Dependent Batesian Mimicry in Northern Water Snakes (Nerodia sipedon) and Eastern Copperheads (Agkistrodon Contortrix) in Sympatric and Allopatric Regions of the Hudson Valley in New York State
S-ANIM-001
National Grid Award for Energy and the Environment
Junior Division
Jacob Lavoo Gabriel Radovich, Jake Davis-Barron
Greenwich Central School District
There’s an ex-plane-ation: The effect of the length of wings on how far airplanes fly
J-ETSD-001T
National Grid Award for Energy and the Environment
Senior Division
Hyunseo Kim
Shaker High School
Effectiveness and Assessment of Aerogel and Light Variability on Thermal Collection
S-EGSD-001
Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation Award in Memory of Jane Golub
Junior Division
Juno Catlin
Greenwich Central School District
Do acne cleansers really work?
J-MCRO-001
Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation Award in Memory of Jane Golub
Senior Division
Talia Co-Mided
Nyack High School
Drinking Forever Chemicals: Investigation of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Drinking Water in Rockland County
S-EAEV-005
Regeneron George Yancopoulos Award
Junior Division
Mya Saunders
Greenwich Central School District
The Good Gut: The Effect of Lactobacillus and E. Coli on Pathogenic Bacteria Population Growth
J-MCRO-002
Regeneron George Yancopoulos Award
Senior Division
Emily Pearson
Burnt Hills – Ballston Lake CSD
Neuroprotective Role of Focused Ultrasound of the Celiac Plexus in a Rat Model of Parkinson’s Disease
S-BMED-009
SI Group Smart Chemistry Award
Junior Division
Noah Speanburg
Greenwich Central School District
The Effect of ozone water vs topical disinfectant on bacteria
J-MCRO-004
SI Group Smart Chemistry Award
Senior Division
Pavithra Jayakumar
Shaker High School
The Application of Graphene Oxide and Methyltrimethoxysilane Hydrophobic Aerogels on the Adsorption of Oil Spills
S-ETSD-004
STANYS: Eleanor Miller Reed Science Research Award
Junior Division
Alexa Jansen
Greenwich Central School District
The effect of Tik Tok on self esteem
J-BEHA-001
STANYS: Eleanor Miller Reed Science Research Award
Senior Division
Maeve McCarthy
Bethlehem Central High School
Crustal Thickness and Vp/Vs Ratios in Western Canada through H-k Stacking of P-wave Receiver Functions
S-EAEV-007
UAlbany CNSE Design for Society Award
Senior Division
Arthur Leung Jad Richani
Niskayuna High School
An Artificially Intelligent Alternative for Visually Impaired Individuals
S-ROBO-001T
Walter Eppenstein Physics /Astronomy Award
Senior Division
Jocelyn Elphick
Saratoga Springs High School
Are Galaxy Tendrils Consistent with the Standard Model of Cosmology?
S-PHYS-002