Intel Talent Search
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Science and Engineering Fair
- Results from 2001-02, 02-03, 03-04, 04-05
- 04-05
- Finalists
- Arizona: Assessment of Equinoctial and Cross Quarter Alignments of Anasazi Origin in the Lomaki Pueblo of the Wupatki National Monument (9TH PLACE WINNER, earth and planetary science)
- California: Digitally-Enhanced Thin-Layer Chromatography: An Inexpensive, New Technique for Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis,
An Investigation into Multiple Sclerosis: Antibodies to CD44 and ALPHA 4 BETA 1 Differentially Affect Myelin-specific T Cell Responses
Autonomous Gyroscopic Ocean-Wave-powered Generator: Invention of a New Energy Conversion Technology
Comparative Structural and Functional Characterization of a New Z-DNA-dependent Protein Kinase (3RD PLACE WINNER, Biochemistry)
- Florida : Morphology and Geochemistry of the Southern Juan de Fuca Ridge: Evidence for Off-Axis Volcanism
The Effects of Warm Core Rings on Hurricane Intensification in the Gulf of Mexico (7TH PLACE WINNER, earth and planetary science)
Meristerm-Tip Culture Boosts Yield of an Important Sweet Potato Cultivar, 'Picadita'
The Effects of a Quark Matter Core on Neutron Star Cooling
- Georgia: Expressing Integers Using the Least Number of 1's
- Illinois: Coloring Finite Abelian Groups to Avoid Monochromatic Solutions to a Given Equation
The Photoelectric Effect Spectrophotometer
Picosecond Time-of-Flight Measurement for Colliders Using Cherenkov Light (2ND PLACE WINNER, Engineering)
Using Textiles to Date Sites in the Norte Chico, Peru (6TH PLACE WINNER, behavioral and social sciences)
- Maryland: A Novel Approach to Modeling pH-sensitive Regions Within Proteins (5TH PLACE WINNER, Bioinformatics and genomics, Baltimore Polytech)
(Montgomery Blair High School) Modeling the Distribution of Comets Around the Star IRC +10216
(Montgomery Blair High School) Automated Seizure Detection Using Statistical Analysis of EEG Time-Domain Signals
(Montgomery Blair High School) Capacitated Vehicle Routing and the k -Delivery n -Traveling Salesman Problem
- Massachusetts: Optimal Properties of Silica Nanofiber Loops
- Michigan: Classification of Determinantal Sequences
- Minnesota: Ring Around the Nitrogen: A Synthetic Pathway to a Class of Protecting Groups for Organic Synthesis
- New Mexico: Some Results on Inclusive and Exclusive Partitions of Complete Graphs (4TH PLACE WINNER, Mathematics)
- New York: Comparison of the Effect of Animal-Assisted Therapy, Human Interaction, and AIBO-Assisted Therapy on Long-Term Care Dementia Residents
Covalent Assembly of a Nanodot-based Neurotoxin Biosensor (FIRST PLACE WINNER - Materials Science)
Structural Studies of Metabolite-sensing Messenger RNA
Charged Particle Production in High Energy Nuclear Collisions
Hyperhomocysteinemia, A Cardiac Metabolic Disease: Role of Nitric Oxide and the p22 phox Subunit of NADPH Oxidase
On Super Calabi-Yau Manifolds
3-D Characterization of Deuterium Ice-Layer Imperfections in Cryogenic Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets
Mining the Past: Geochemical Analyses of Fossil Teeth and Sediment Illuminate Ancient Environments
Great Neck: A Step Closer to the Quantum Computer: Fabrication of Novel Superconducting Josephson Junctions to Couple Multiple Flux States of a Quantum Bit
The Dynamics of Demographic Differences in the Perceptions of Terrorism Prevention
Identification and Characterization of Six New Alternatively Spliced Variants from the Human Mu Opioid Receptor Gene, Oprm
Optimizing the Properties of Hyaluronic Acid (HA) Hydrogel Scaffolds for Wound Healing and Tissue Engineering
Discovery and Structure Elucidation of Scoriosin, a Novel Antibiotic Compound Derived from the Sooty Mold Scorias spongiosa
- Ohio: Acoustic Excitation for Enhancing Interfacial Dynamics of Mesobubbles
- Texas: Development of Frequency Scaling Factors for DFT Functionals in Combination with the Correlation Consistent Basis Sets
Improving Cancer Treatment Through Telomerase Inhibition
- Washington: Toward Self-Assembling Nanocircuitry Using Liquid Crystal Solvents (8TH PLACE WINNER, chemistry)
- Wisconsin: Closure Properties of D 2p in Finite Groups (10TH PLACE WINNER, mathematics)
- O3-04 (1 CS semifinalist)
- Finalists
- California: Modeling of Predicted Tyrosine Sulfation Sites in Seven-Transmembrane Receptors
A New Spin on the Haasnoot-Altona Equation: Determination of THETA by Variable Solvent 1 H and Variable Temperature 13 C and 1 H NMR
Translatability of Gene Function Between Plant Species: From Arabidopsis thaliana to Nicotiana tabacum
- Connecticut: A Rapid, Accurate Method of Determining the Distance to Near-Earth Asteroids
- District of Columbia: (Banneker HS) A Novel Algorithm for Computing the Minimum Distance Between Two Elliptical Orbits (9TH PLACE WINNER, earth and space sciences)
- Georgia: Minimal Deterministic Finite Automata (DFAs) for Testing Divisibility (2ND PLACE WINNER, Computer science)
- Indiana: H 2 and C 2 H 4 Elimination Pathways in the Y + C 2 H 6 Reaction (8TH PLACE WINNER, chemistry)
- Iowa: Comparative Bioassay of Bt Corn Pollen and Limestone Road Dust Environment Contaminantson Monarch Larvae Growth and Development
- Maryland: (Montgomery Blair High School) Microfluidic Device for Rapid Isolation of Pure Leukocyte Populations
Optimization of the Location for Two Drawpoint Holes in Conical Stockpiles (7TH PLACE WINNER, engineering)
(The Learning Community International) Analysis of Generalized Factorial Functions
(Montgomery Blair High School) The Effects of Economic Globalization on Income Inequality in Post-Mao China (10TH PLACE WINNER, behavioral and socail science)
- Massachusetts: Mouse Homologs of Human Retroposed Genes
An Efficient, Functional Telomerase Activity Assay (FIRST PLACE WINNER, biochemistry)
- Michigan: Removing All Edges from the Complete Graph and the Complete Bipartite Graph
- Minnesota: Quantitative Trait Loci Modulating Corpus Callosum Size in Mouse Brain
- New York: The Primal Catalanian Conjecture Generalized to Quadratic Fields
An Exposition of the Cognitive Development in Toddlers Using Pretend Play (6TH PLACE WINNER, behavioral and social sciences)
Crossing the Divide: Using Acoustics and Geographic Location to Determine the Differences Between North and South American Frog and Toad Species
Age Determination and Size Reconstruction of North Atlantic Codfish ( Gadus morhua )from Akurvik, NW Iceland
Uncovering the African American Experience in the Hudson Valley: The Guinea Community Archaeology Project
The Effects of Manipulating Body Core Temperature on Performance and Naps in Humans
An Extension of the Dining Cryptographers Protocol to Multiparty, Simultaneous Sender-Recipient Anonymous Communication
Molecular Analysis of Breast Cancer by cDNA Microarrays: Developing a Better Diagnosis and a Potential Cure
New Exact Solutions to Einstein's Equations (5TH PLACE WINNER, physics)
An Evaluation of the 1868 El Nino
Radio Detection of Meteors
Cell Motility Using Actin Polymerization Driven Protrusion with Electrostatic Interactions
Blueberry Pie: Friend or Foe?
Multicolor Photometry of the RR Lyrae Star CQ Bootis
Dietary Polyphenolic Compounds Inhibit the Fibrillization of Amyloid BETA-Protein: Structure-Activity Relationship and Preventive Implications for Alzheimer's Disease
A Novel Simulation Method for Protein Structure Prediction
DNA Microarray Analysis of Shewanella oneidensis Grown for Fuel Cell Use
Implicit Math Cognition
- Oregon: A Non-Photo Lithographic Approach to the Construction of N-Type MOSFET Devices Using FIB Technology (3RD PLACE WINNER, engineering)
Selective Preservation of White Matter in Long-Term Estrogen Replacement Therapy: A Quantitative MRI Analysis Using a Novel Methodology
- Texas: Repairing Damaged Heart by Cell Fusion and Transdifferentiation of Peripheral Blood Stem Cells
- Vermont: Timelike Hypersurfaces in de Sitter Space
- Virginia: (Maggie Walker Governor's School) Investigations of the Number Derivative (4TH PLACE WINNER, mathematics)
(Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology) Connecting the Macro-Scale to the Nano-Scale: New Insights into the Kinetics of the Myosin-Actin Molecular Biomotor System
- Semifinalists 03-04 (Virginia - TJ)
- Jacokes, Michael Brian (17)
An Improved Quantum Algorithm for Ordered Search
- Nettimi, Divya (17)
Connecting the Macro-Scale to the Nano-Scale: New Insights into the Kinetics of the Myosin-Actin Molecular Biomotor System
- Finalists 03-04
- Nettimi, Divya (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology) Connecting the Macro-Scale to the Nano-Scale: New Insights into the Kinetics of the Myosin-Actin Molecular Biomotor System
- Winners 03-04
- 02-03 (1 CS semifinalist)
- Finalists
- California: Structure and Stability of Sulfur Trioxide-Ammonia Clusters with Water: Implications on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (4TH PLACE WINNER, chemistry)
Induction of Drosophila melanogaster Immune Response by the Parasitic Nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora and Its Bacterial Symbiont, Photorhabdus luminescens
- Connecticut: Nanoconstruction with Self-assembling DNA-PNA Complexes
The Quantification of the Physical Properties Impacting the Effective Implementation of Acoustic Larvicide Systems
- District of Columbia: An Assessment of Linear and Accelerated Motion in Double Stars
- Florida: Characterization of the Secreted Aspartic Proteinases of Candida albicans Using a Novel Combinatorial Technique (FIRST PLACE WINNER, biochemistry)
A Transgenic Screening Approach to the Development of Arabidopsis Mutants Deficient in the Synthesis of Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase Kinase
Prevention of Biofilm Formation on Intravascular and Urinary Catheters: Development of Novel and Cost-effective Antibacterial Coatings
A Novel Stat3 Inhibitor: Resveratrol, a Phytoalexin in Grapes
Neuronal Expression of CD22
- Hawaii: On Initial Orbit Determination Accuracy
- Maryland: (Montgomery Blair High School) Computation of Quandle Cocycle Knot Invariants (3RD PLACE WINNER, mathematics)
- Massachusetts: Poset-Game Periodicity
- Michigan: Continued Fractions of Quadratic Laurent Series
- Minnesota: Inferring Surface Lattice Structure from Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Measurements of the High-temperature Superconductor Bi 2 Sr 2 Ca 2 CuO 8+Gamma (10TH PLACE WINNER, physics)
- New Mexico: Bubble-based Resonance-Doppler Technique of Liquid Characterization (5TH PLACE WINNER, physics)
- New York: Apoptosis of Protozoan Oyster Pathogen ( Perkinsus marinus ) in vivo and in vitro
Mathematical Model of Enzyme Replacement Therapy in Type 1 Gaucher Disease
Size as a Factor in the Development of the Deer Tick, Ixodes scapularis
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 (9TH PLACE WINNER, behavioral and social sciences)
Analysis of a Vector Game
The "Blackberry" Cluster: Thermodynamic Equilibrium and Potential Medical Applications of Giant Nanoscale Inorganic Molecules in Solution
Collapse of the Pasom-mana Tessera Region, Venus: Implications for the Evolutionof Crustal Plateaus (7TH PLACE WINNER, earth and space sciences)
The Effect of Supercritical Fluids on Polymer Thin Films
(The Bronx High School of Science) Sub-lethal Exposure of German Cockroaches to Pesticides Contributes to Increased Expressionof Bla g 2, a Cockroach Allergen Associated with Inner City Asthma (8TH PLACE WINNER, medicine and health)
Deaf, Not Dumb: Dispelling the Myth of the Apparent Mathematics Deficit Among Deaf Students
Discovery of Low-current Second-spike Winners in Models of Neuron Pairs
Multiple-tripler Broad-bandwidth Frequency Conversion for Laser Fusion
Optical Analysis of a Flowing Soap Film
Do Pay Raises Affect Measured Performance and Inferred Motivation in Professional Baseball Players?
Hemlock Decline Affects the Inoculum Potential of Red Oak ( Quercus rubra ) Seedlings to Below-ground Ectomycorrhizal Communities
Analyzing and Displaying Protein Motion: Variations in Interatomic Distancesand Crystallographic B-Factors
A Secure and Efficient Shuffle-based Identification and Signature Scheme
Ethos, Pathos, and Politics: Ramifications of a National Crisis
A Combinatorial Proof of Seymour's Conjecture for Regular Oriented Graphs with Almost Regular Outsets O' a and O" a (6TH PLACE WINNER, Mathematics)
The Majorana Description of Spin Tunneling
- North Carolina: Electron-Phonon Interactions in Carbon Nanotubes
- Oklahoma: Effects of Diffuse X-ray Radiation in the Galactic Center on Detection of X-ray Binaries by the Chandra X-ray Observatory
- Oregon: Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement Fusion: Three-year Study (2ND PLACE WINNER, physics)
- Texas: A Biological Treatment of Vibrio vulnificus in Ballast Water
- Semifinalists
(Virginia - TJ)
- Burakow, Alexandra Marie (18)
The Structure of the Nerve Net of Cnidarian Nematostella vectensis as a Means of Understanding Evolutionary Neurobiology
- Fried, Alexander (18)
Determining the k-Vector Within a Dielectric Joint
- Herbst, Daniel (17)
Adapting Ground-penetrating Radar for Analysis of Concrete Columns
- Lubsen, Julia Rose (17)
The Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen on Nrf2-regulated Gene Expression in Neuronal Cells
- Zhang, Yan (16)
A Quantum Model of Information Transmission and Compensation
- Finalists
(none from VA)
- Winners
- 01-02 (0 CS semifinalist, but 2 students were in CS and entered in different categories BIO and Astr)
- Semifinalists
(Virginia - TJ)
- Barusch, Margaret Camilla D (16)
NRL/USNO Infrared Supernovae Search
- Jang, Mee-Jung (17)
Synergistic Effects in Binary Solvent Mixtures as Evidenced by the Effect on the Rate of Ring Closing in a Spiropyran, Using These Results to Select the Most Appropriate Solvent Parameter
- Kim, Jina (17)
Effects of Estrogen on the Dendritic Spine Development of Mouse Hippocampal Neurons
- Lyu, Jee-Hyun (18)
Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Genes Associated with Breast Cancer
- Finalists
(none from VA)
- Winners
- 00-01 (2 CS Semifinalists, 1 CS Finalist)
- Semifinalists
- Seiler, Jennifer Anne (17)
Longitudinal Flow in Au+Au Collisions for 20-60 AMeV
- Bantayehu, Getinet (16)
H:SO3-vs. HOSO2-: Using Kinetics and Molecular Modeling to Determine which Isomer Is the More Likely Structure of Bisulfite
- Devereaux, Danielle Nicole (17)
Enhanced Rate of Hydrolysis of 5,5'-Dithiobis-(2-nitrobenzoate) by Micelles as a Model for Disulfide Bond Cleavage in Integral Proteins
- Harris, Jill Lauren (18)
Improvement of Oxidation Resistance of Niobium Diboride Ceramics
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Hufford, Kathy Ellen (17)
Using the Kinetics of Methylene Blue Reduction by Ascorbic Acid to Determine Vitamin C Content of Dietary Supplements and Fruit Drinks: A New Method
- Lin, Alvin Lai (17)
Computer Simulation of Algorithms for Creating Minimal Weight Redundant Trees in Edge-redundant Graphs
- Madduri, Parimalram Achintya (17)
Pressure Induced Transformations in Molecular Solids: N2O and CO2
- McConnell, Robert Puryear (18)
Proposal and Analysis of a Method for Producing Power Gain in Molecular Circuits
- Novakovski, Vladimir Sergei (15)
Optimal Hologram Design for Optoneural Computing
- Schleier-Smith, Monika Helene (17)
Proposed Bulk Process for the Separation of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes According to Their Chirality
- Schwartz, Robert Wilford (17)
Visualization Concepts: Investigating Discrimination of Coherent Structures Due to Isosurface Selection
- Zhou, Yi (18)
Kinetics of Reactions of Piperidine with Substituted Phenyl Ethers of 2,4-Dinitrophenol and the Use of Molecular Modeling in Understanding the Relative Rates
- Finalists
- Madduri, Parimalram Achintya (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology) Full Bio
Pressure Induced Transformations in Molecular Solids: N2O and CO2
- Novakovski, Vladimir Sergei (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology) Full Bio
Optimal Hologram Design for Optoneural Computing
- Winners
- 99-00 (1 CS Semifinalist, 2 in CS but entered in Optics, Physics)
- Semifinalists (Virginia TJ)
- Anthony, Peter Caton (17)
Inhibition of Matrix Proteolysis and Angiogenic Differentation and Proliferation of Human Endothelial Cells by Green Tea Constituent (-)-Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate
- Bakshi, Anita (17)
Transcriptional Mapping of Virulence Genes of Shigella flexneri
- Blair, Elizabeth Rachel (17)
Molecular Characterization of Purple Sulfur Bacteria from Microbial Mats Associated with Black Band Disease in Coral
- Glidden, Hilary K. (17)
Putative Role of M2 and M4 Receptors in Schizophrenia Is Supported by Reduced Binding of Tritium-AF-DX 384 in the Human Prefrontal Cortex of Subjects with Schizophrenia
- Gondarenko, Alexander Alekseevich (17)
Application of Genetic Algorithms for Optimization of a Lens Design
- Ji, Susan Yeyoung (18)
Differential Effects of Nicotine on Heart Rate: Evidence for Multiple Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Subtypes in the Heart
- Jones, Sara Bingham (17)
Molecular Characterization of Vibrio Bacteria from Microbial Mats Associated with Black Band Disease in Coral
- Kulesza, John Alexander (17)
Vector Quantization as a Method of Simultaneous Speech Training and Recognition
- Maciag, Karolina (18)
Loss of p15INK4b Expression in Murine Monocytic Leukemias
- Nandipati, Giridhar Prakash (17)
Simulating Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Window to the Inner Workings of the Human Brain
- Shukla, Ajita (17)
Cloning of Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase Homologs in Climacteric and Non-Climacteric Fruits
- Tripathi, Vinay Shankar (16)
Thigmonasty in Mimosa pudica: The Role of the Ionic Micro-Environment and Action Potential Transmission Inhibition
- Finalists
(none from VA)
- 98-99 (1 CS Semifinalist)
- Semifinalists (Virginia TJ)
- Koss, Catherine Anne Stimets (17)
Protein Screening and Molecular Analysis of Patients With Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome
- Casabianca, Leah Beck (17)
Ion Association in Aqueous Solutions of Quaternary Ammonium Salts by Conductance Measurements
- Pawlow, Lara Elizabeth (17)
Determining the Critical Micelle Concentration of a Surfactant Using a Comprehensive Study of the Tautomerism of Beta-Diketones
- Hayes, Andrew Paul (17)
Determining Electron Density of Solar Corona from Polarization-Brightness Product
- Jhee, John (17)
Synergistic Effect in the Concentration of the Polar State of 1,3,3-Trimethylindoline-2-spiro-6'-(2',3'-B-naphthapyran) in Binary Mixtures
- Braitsch, Leslie Meredith (18)
Wind Stress and Barometric Pressure at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel and Their Effect on the Prediction of Tidal Anomalies
- Kachachi, Bashar Joseph (17)
Investigation into Dominant Reaction Mechanism for Imidazole-Catalyzed Hydrolysis of p-Nitrophenyl Acetate
- Mitman, Kurt Elliott (16)
Short Time-Scale Variability in External Shock Model of Gamma Ray Bursts
- Sharma, Kavita (17)
Pulsed Shape Forming of Nanomaterials
- Taube, Andrew Garvin (17)
Inhibition of the Oxidation of Various Acyloins by Hexacyanoferrate (III) Ion in Basic Solution by Group 1 Metals
- Carlivati, Lisa Perrine (17)
Magnification of Double and Quadruple Image Gravitational Lens Systems
- Dandekar, Sangita Ramesh (17)
Human Computer Interaction: Development and Evaluation of a Foot Interface
- Montana, Michael Christopher (17)
Acellular Hemoglobin Degradation in the Presence of Glutathione
- Lin, Sandi Shih (17)
IR Analysis and Computational Modeling of Hydrogen Bonding in Various Benzyl Alcohols in Non-polar Solvent
- Spengler, Emily Ann (18)
Computational Molecular Modeling of the Differing Steric Requirements of the Pyridine and its Derivatives and Boron Containing Lewis Acids
- Finalists
- Mitman, Kurt Elliott (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology) Full Bio Personal Page
Short Time-Scale Variability in External Shock Model of Gamma Ray Bursts
- 97-98 (1 CS Semifinalist, 1 CS Finalist)
- Semifinalists
Virginia (TJ)
- Bracher, Paul Julius (17)
Para-Benzoate Counterion Structure on the Critical Micelle Concentration of Tetradecyltrimethylammonium (TTA+)
- Ford, Alexandra Caroline (17)
Role of Synthetic and Natural Antioxidants in Irradiated Human Lymphocytes
- Jain, Nisha B. (17)
Salinity-Controlled Virus Passage Through Charged Filters
- MacIsaac, Sean Joseph (17)
Cellular Automata for Use in Modeling Granular Physics
- Marcus, David Hayes (17)
Investigation of Heat Dissipation in Ultra-Dense Computer Architectures
- Matyskiela, Mary Ellen (18)
Mineral Redistribution by Refluxing Water in Artificial Fractures
- Munyan, Jason Walter (17)
Polarization Camera Development
- Stevens, Michael Louis (17)
Piezoelectric Actuator Response Using Capacitance-Based Displacement Calibration
- Finalists
- Bracher, Paul Julius (17) 7019 Haycock Road, Falls Church 22043
Para-Benzoate Counterion Structure on the Critical Micelle Concentration of Tetradecyltrimethylammonium (TTA+)
- Marcus, David Hayes (17) 5192 Kimscott Court, Annandale 22003
Investigation of Heat Dissipation in Ultra-Dense Computer Architectures
- Matyskiela, Mary Ellen (18) 11132 Flora Lee Drive, Fairfax Station 22039
Mineral Redistribution by Refluxing Water in Artificial Fractures