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Computer Science and Modeling - Group 2


Place	Name(s)	School	Project

1	Arianna Pahlavan	Jericho High School	Solving Heterogeneities in Defibrillation for a Vascular Remodel of the Heart

2	Daniel Lee	Commack High School	Wind Field Estimation using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

3	David Xu	Jericho High School	Write Anywhere: Filtering low-cost IMU data for small-scale motion reproduction

3	Michael Wang	Syosset High School	Automated segmentation of multiple sclerosis brain lesions

M	Christopher Lo	Herricks High School	Advancing Password Storage Systems: Integrating Secure Two-Factor Authentication to Databases in Protected Processor Enclaves

M	Ankit Jain	Herricks High School	Support Vector Classification of Metabolic States from Vagal Activity in BALB/C Mice

M	Shiraz Johnson	Paul D. Schreiber High School	A Mathematical Model to Determine the Optimal Arrival Time in Airports

H	Aviya Litman	Great Neck North High School	A Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Exascale Resilience Model Based on Random Gossip Algorithms

Computer Science and Modeling - Group 1


Place	Name(s)	School	Project

1	Andrew Goldberg, Joshua Flashner	Roslyn High School	Man and Machine: Comparing Accuracy of Long-Bone Fracture Identification between Convolutional Neural Networks and Radiologists

2	Viraj Jayum	The Wheatley School	Projecting onto the Generalized n-Sphere via Stereographic Projections

M	Luke Botta	Southside High School	Provability of the Busy Beaver Function

H	Sean Pak, Kyle Spinelli	Commack High School	Deep Learning for Classification of Non-small Cell Lung Tumors in CT Scans

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Group 2


Place	Name(s)	School	Project

1	Shruthi Shekar	Jericho High School	Binding of SOX transcription factors (TF) and MALAT1 lncRNA to better understand breast cancer metastasis progression

2	Victoria Pensiero	Commack High School	Multiple Gene Deletion in C. albicans Wild Type Strain SC5314

2	Devika Rajeev	Jericho High School	HL-60 cell line: A novel system for creating in vitro neturophil extracellular DNA traps (NETs)

2	Hannah Philipose	Jericho High School	Retinal Regeneration: PA1 treatment upregulates PGC-1α

2	Ryan Siegel	Paul D. Schreiber High School	Engineering PLGA Nanoparticles with miRNA to Target Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma

3	Raphael Iskra	Commack High School	The Effects of Nitazoxanide on Bacterial Virulence Factor Assembly by the Chaperone/Usher Pathway

3	Caroline Yu	Jericho High School	Understanding diabetes: Olfr-78 and its role in insulin secretion insulin resistance

3	Caroline Katz	Paul D. Schreiber High School	Characterization and inhibitor design for the Cdc14 enzyme in Rhizoctonia solani

M	Ling Shi, Theodore Berger	Great Neck South High School	Glutamate is a Regulator of the Bone-derived Hormone Sclerostin: A Potential Cure for Bone Metabolism Diseases?

M	Joanna Lau, Christina Kim, Shifa Ali	Herricks High School	Effect of Bisphosphonates on Viability of EGFR-Driven Liver Cancer

M	Marc Huo	Jericho High School	Circumventing bottlenecks in RNAi-based therapeutics: pH-sensitive transferrin bound siACSL5-loaded nanoparticles

M	RuoXuan Wang, Irene Cokro	Jericho High School	Enhancing DNA molecular scaffolds: Enlarging rhombohedral cavity size for protein structure determination

M	Amy Liu	Manhasset High School	The Anticancer Reagent Cocktail for the Treatment of Colorectal Cancer Proliferation

H	Andrew Tsao	Great Neck South High School	A pilot study on the relationship of sarcopenia associated variants on survival among lung cancer patients.

H	Jessica Jiang	Great Neck South High School	The Role of NRBF2 in the Regulation of the ULK1 Kinase Complex

H	Madhav Subramanian	Jericho High School	Exploring the Vascular Function of Dedicator of Cytokinesis 6 (DOCK6)

H	Vani Kumar	The Wheatley School	Simulating the BRAF-D630045J12Ri Fusion in Hek-293t Cells Using the CRISPR/Cas9 Genetic Engineering System

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Group 1


Place	Name(s)	School	Project

1	Timothy Qi	Great Neck South High School	The Effect of Polychlorinated Biphenyls on Gene Expression in HK2 cells in Relation to Chronic Kidney Disease

3	Serena Zhao, Elizabeth Wu, Isabella Kosciusko	Manhasset High School	The Effects of Insulin Pathway Inhibition in Combination with Resveratrol and Lithium Chloride on Selenium, SOD1, and TDP-43 Induced Neuron Death in D. melanogaster and C. elegans

3	Ariel Blumenberg, Michael Bentivegna, Cooper Scher	Syosset High School	The Effect of the C60 + Dox Complex on Tumor Progression and Lipofuscin Concentration in gld1-null C. elegans

3	Karen Li, Victor Li	The Wheatley School	TP53 Mutations as Potential Prognostic Markers for Specific Cancers: Analysis of Data from The Cancer Genome Atlas and the International Agency for Research on Cancer TP53 Database

H	John Finnie-Maloney	Commack High School	Modification of RubisCO Active Sites in Order to Weaken CA1B Attraction

General Biology - Group 2


Place	Name(s)	School	Project

1	Amber Patrick	Jericho High School	Elucidating the role of T-cells in transfusion-dependent sickle cell disease alloimmunization

2	Jacqueline Slobin	Great Neck North High School	The Snow white Effect: Epigenetic Reactivation of a Long-Silenced white Transgene

3	Deniz Sinar	Commack High School	Understanding the Role of Bacteroidetes Species Isolated from the Beachgrass Rhizosphere in Plant Growth

3	Joshua Rothbaum	Great Neck North High School	The Effect of BIIB-021 Exposure and Concentration on Photoreceptor Growth and Shedding: An Investigation into the Molecular Mechanisms of Rod Outer Segment Renewal

3	Sahith Vadada, Rushikesh Patel, Vedant Singh	Herricks High School	Evaluating the Effects of Graphene-Loaded Poly(4-vinylpyridine) Electrospun Fibrous Scaffolds and Spun-cast Thin Films on the Proliferation and Differentiation of Dental Pulp Stem Cells in vitro

3	Gabriella Shayani	Jericho High School	FTO and SERCA2a: roles in cardiomyocyte viability and contractility

3	Dia Shah	Jericho High School	Low Intensity Focused Ultrasound (LOFU): Optimizing LOFU conditions to test tumor cell lethality

3	Hamza Malik	Jericho High School	Prostate Cancer Recurrence Prediction Test Utilizing Tissue Elasticity

3	Rebecca Muratore	Paul D. Schreiber High School	Lateralization of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis

3	Benjamin Huang	Syosset High School	Identifying a Novel Regulator of Myoblast Fusion in Drosophila melanogaster

M	Aivi Rahman	Herricks High School	Sex-Specific Role for LincRNA00473 in Anxiety and Depression

M	Jacky Lin	Jericho High School	Evolution of the mammalian neocortex: An analysis of bat species as a model organism

H	Justin Choi	Jericho High School	Role of seizures in cardiac structure and function in temporal lobe epilepsy patients

H	Dhruba Podder	Jericho High School	Therapeutic potential of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cell (AdMSC) exosomes in the intestinal epithelium

General Biology - Group 1


Place	Name(s)	School	Project

1	Dhiya Sani, Emma Klein	Paul D. Schreiber High School	The effect of Benzoyl Peroxide, Salicylic Acid, and Glycerin on Escherichia Coli K12 and skin irritation in an in-vitro skin substrate

1	Benjamin Goldstein, Edward Samowitz	Paul D. Schreiber High School	The effects of chokeberries vs. galantamine on Alzheimer’s disease in C. elegans & D. melanogaster

2	Bob Qian	Great Neck North High School	Associating mutations with nucleotide periodicity

2	Joelle Siong Sin, Trisha Minocha	Great Neck South High School	Salicylic Acid Treated Fusarium Infected Poa annua Under Abiotic Stress

2	Kendrick Tak, Grace Choi	Manhasset High School	EUK-8 an an Effective SOD and CAT Mimetic and an Aβ Toxicity Mediator

2	Melissa Pittard, Brittany Polevikov	Paul D. Schreiber High School	Effects of fiber rich herbs and their combinations on the growth of intestinal microbes with applications in allergic diseases

2	William Borges, Spencer Tsao	Roslyn High School	At The Heart of ASMR: A Study on the Effects of ASMR on Students

3	Charlson Kim	Commack High School	Dopamine Hypothesis in Neuropsychiatric Disorders: A Schizophrenia Model to Determine the Effect of Dopamine on Gene Expression and Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster

3	Branden Chen	Great Neck North High School	The Effect of Aspartame on the Activity and Lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans

3	Carolina Carneiro	Great Neck North High School	The Effects of Genetically Modified Corn on the Lifespan and Activity of C. Elegans

3	Christopher Lu	Great Neck North High School	Utilizing ArcGIS to Find Spatial Relationships Among Asthma Hospitalization Rates and Air Quality in New York City

3	Jooha Gha, Abigail Lee	Great Neck South High School	The Effect Curcumin has on Mitigating Immobility in Planaria Induced by Monoiodotyrosine

3	Barbara Timmerman	Manhasset High School	Drosophila melanogaster Preference for Artificial Sweeteners

3	Sean Lee, Cara Kurkjian	Manhasset High School	The Effects of Ambroxol Hydrocholrode and EDTA(Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) on Drosophila melanogaster induced with Huntington's Disease

3	Kaitlyn Clarke	Manhasset High School	The Impact of Meat and Plant Based Diets on Greenhouse Gas Levels in the Environment

3	Cheryl Chang, Micah Golan	Paul D. Schreiber High School	Effect of Monosodium Glutamate on Drosophila melanogaster Lifespan and Satiation

3	Eric Epstein, Adam Salzman	Paul D. Schreiber High School	Effects of Lycium barbarum berry extract and Vitis vinifera fruit skin extract on the Locomotion of Caenorhabditis elegans with Parkinson's Disease

3	Maddie Rubin, Lianna Friedman	Roslyn High School	The Effect of Resource pH on the Transgenerational Fitness of Drosophila melanogaster

M	Kallista Zhuang, Jinyeong Yu	Great Neck South High School	The Effect of Ascorbic Acid Treatment on the Degree of Neurotoxicity in Phagocata gracilis Exposed to Chronic Aluminum Sulfate Concentrations

M	Ryan Cheng, Rachel Pao	Great Neck South High School	The Response of Drosophila melanogaster to FlyNap Anesthesia upon Incorporation of Eicosapentaenoic Acid (EPA) and L-glutamic Acid into Diet

M	Josh De Leeuw	Manhasset High School	The Effect of Ethanol on Drosophila melanogaster Development, Preferences, and Behaviors

H	Shawn Uthup, Matthew Feigenbaum	Commack High School	The Effect of Heavy Metals on the Respiration Rate of Germinating Radish Seeds

H	Shourav Saha, Jonathan Rothbaum	Great Neck South High School	Analysis of the Ability of EGCG to Reverse Parkinsonian Symptoms Simulated Through Tyrosine Hydroxylase Inhibition

H	Michelle Zheng, Aryaa Karkare	Great Neck South High School	The Effect of Aloe-Infused Sundew-Simulated Hydrogel on Wound Healing in Drosophila melanogaster

H	Spyrithoula Xenopnontos	Manhasset High School	The effect of green tea extract on an eggshell model of tooth decay.

H	Mir Zayid Alam	Manhasset High School	The Effect of Punica granatum and Panax ginseng on the Lifespan and Locomotion of Drosophila melanogaster

H	Emma Wang	Manhasset High School	The Use of Daphnia magna as a Model to Find the Effect of Ethanol and Melatonin on Heart Rate

H	Madeline Competello, Lindsey Feinstein	Paul D. Schreiber High School	The Effects of L-Theanine rich green tea extract on Alzheimer’s Disease in Caenorhabditis Elegans

Behavioral and Social Science - Group 2


Place	Name(s)	School	Project

1	Johanna Kann	Roslyn High School	Black and Blue: Investigating the Role of Officer Race in Perceived Trust and Legitimacy

2	Joseph Melkonian	Paul D. Schreiber High School	Improving Player Value Approximation in Cooperative Transferable Utility Games

3	Amy Shteyman	Great Neck North High School	The Language of Facial Expressions: A neuroimaging study on how a smile is generated and perceived by another person

3	Asheena Siddiqui	Jericho High School	Electrophysiological Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease

M	Brooke Chen	Herricks High School	Contributions of hippocampus and striatum to memory-guided behavior in open field environment

M	Jasmine Berger	Roslyn High School	When Colorblind is Color Bias: Effect of Multicultural and Colorblind Racial Attitudes on Victim Blaming Tendencies

H	Aaron Geula	Great Neck North High School	Using fNIRS to Determine the Effects of Distractors on Neural Activity and Cross-Brain Coherence

H	Nicole Huang	Jericho High School	Reduced effectiveness in panic treatments for comorbid panic disorder and depression

Behavioral and Social Science - Group 1


Place	Name(s)	School	Project

1	Asher Bykov	Roslyn High School	The Effect of Power Posing, Gestures, and Gender on Credibility and Likability

1	Feyi Rufai, Olivia VIruet-Quintero	Roslyn High School	The Effects of Gender and Gendered Traits on Perceived Qualifications

2	Sophie Fries, Gabby Fries	Roslyn High School	Too Many Looks at Online Grade Books: The Relationship Between Frequency of Access to Online Grade Books with Student Motivation and Academic Stress

3	Seo Hyun Park, Do Yeon (Mia) Kim	Great Neck South High School	The Effect of Sounds of Names on Perceived Gender and Characteristics of Individuals and Hireability.

3	Drew Goldman	Roslyn High School	StriSynth vs PowerShell: The Measure of Efficiency

3	Jasmine Ting	Roslyn High School	The Effects of Priming on Memory and Response Structure of Bilingual Participants

M	Lauren Christenson	Roslyn High School	The Effect of Ethics Bowl Participation

M	Daleep Grewal, Daniella Futoran	Roslyn High School	The Influence of Maternal Employment on Children's Career Ambition and Perception of Gender Equality

M	Diya Chadha	Syosset High School	American Stock Market Reactions to Spontaneous and Premeditated Events

H	Anushka Gupta, Margaret Haykin	Great Neck North High School	Does mindfulness meditation help students adapt to the growth mindset?

H	Danielle Gruber	Great Neck North High School	The Relationship Between Phone Usage and Response to Cell Phone Stimul

H	Kushal Upadhyay	Paul D. Schreiber High School	Modeling the Syrian Refugee Crisis as a network model

H	Charlotte Levin, Isabel Antoniuk	Roslyn High School	Let There Be Light: Natural and Artifical light and the Affect on Cognitive Achievemnt

H	Jake Litvack, Jacob Stein	Roslyn High School	Stretching for Academic Opportunity: The Effect of Physical Activity on Academic Behavior

H	Ryan Chou, Alida Pahlevan, Sarah Klein, Katie Lam	Roslyn High School	The Effects of Location and Color on Recycling

H	Jake Stoller, Yasin Badawy	Roslyn High School	The Hidden Key to Your Diet? How Straw Size Affects Consumption

Chemistry - Group 2


Place	Name(s)	School	Project

1	Emma Gan	Jericho High School	Raman analysis of graphene: Elucidating defect dimensionality, doping, and strain during aging

2	Benjamin Wolgang, Melike Akoglu, Paul Moon	Commack High School	Synthesis and Analysis of N-Layered Perovskite Single Crystals

3	Eish Maheshwari	Herricks High School	Strategies for Tuning the Release Profile of Curcumin-Loaded Nanoparticles to Improve Drug Bioavailability and Optimize Sustainable Delivery

3	Angie Li	Jericho High School	Understanding cancer pharmacology: Interactions between novel third generation EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors and serum albumin

H	Ryan Hou	Herricks High School	Exploration of the Cation-π Interaction: Potential for a New Biomimetic Wet Adhesive

Chemistry - Group 1


Place	Name(s)	School	Project

1	Aden Horowitz, Kevin Gauld, Joseph Yoo	Manhasset High School	Analysis of Phaseolus Vulgaris as a Phytoremediant of Synthetic Textile Wastewater

Earth and Environmental Sciences - Group 2


Place	Name(s)	School	Project

1	Anoop Singh	Commack High School	A Multilinear Approach to Forecasting the El Nino Southern Oscillation

2	Mutahara Bhuiyan	Jericho High School	Sustainability in water treatment: Heavy metal remediation via nitro-oxidized carboxycellulose nanofibers

2	Saige Gitlin	Paul D. Schreiber High School	in vitro cultivation of the parasite Ribeiroia ondatrae

M	Jacob Keller	Paul D. Schreiber High School	Efficacy of Filtration of Storm Water Using Antimicrobial Surface Paint Applied to a Rock Matrix

M	Emma Levin	Paul D. Schreiber High School	Examining the Sensitivity and Impact of Anthropogenic Climate Change on North Atlantic Major Hurricane Landfall Drought and Activity

H	Hitangee Jain	The Wheatley School	Pretreatment of Brassica rapa with Pyrabactin Increases Tolerance to High Salinity

Earth and Environmental Sciences - Group 1


Place	Name(s)	School	Project

1	Nicole Blattman, Makenzie Komack	Roslyn High School	Erase the Waste! The Use of Daphnia Magna as an Indicator of Pollution and Toxicity in Manipulated and Local Surface Waters

2	Max Goldman	Paul D. Schreiber High School	Effects of PFOA on development in Vanessa cardui larvae

3	Ethan Osman	Great Neck South High School	Comparative Degradation of Aromatic Polymers by White-rot Fungi and Mealworms

3	Eric Bae, Joshua Liu	Great Neck South High School	Investigating plant bioprotection against Fusarium oxysporum and Alternaria alternata with interplant communication through Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi

3	Samantha Chen	Manhasset High School	Remediation of Indigo Dye from Water Using Various Plant Products

M	Richard Lee, Annie Miller	Manhasset High School	Multiple Comparisons of Combination Fuel Cell Designs with Biosensing Capabilities: Novel Approaches to Harvesting and Monitoring Energy Production from Agriculture in Microbe-Polluted Water

M	Gabriel Grullon, William Chen	Manhasset High School	The Effects of Rhodopseudomonas palustris, Eisenia fetida and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on the Phytoremediation Properties of the Brassica rapa Plant in Salt Contaminated Soils

H	Keena Yin, Elizabeth Louie	Great Neck South High School	The Effect of Duckweed on the Removal of Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen Concentrations in Bodies of Water

H	Alana Ginsburg, Wendy Qu	Manhasset High School	The Effect of Artificial Selection on Electrochemical Activity in Escherichia coli Generations and Photosynthetic Microbial Fuel Cell Performance

H	Alex ArbitalJacoby, Theodore Koutsoftas, Akiva Mohebban	The Wheatley School	The Effect of Silver, Gold, and Copper Nanoparticles on The Voltage Production in an S. Cerevisiae Microbial Fuel Cell

Physics and Astronomy - Groups 1 and 2


Place	Name(s)	School	Project

1	Gabriel Chan	Commack High School	An Identification of Forces Affecting Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) Development

1	Baokun Gu	Manhasset High School	A Statistical Search for Small-Strain Burst Sources Proliferating in Enhanced and Advanced LIGO Time Series Data

M	Jiaxuan Hu	Jericho High School	High Precision Radial Velocity Measurements: detecting Exo-Earth with double scrambler

M	Justin Schiavo	Roslyn High School	The Effect of an Aerospike Nozzle on the Hybrid Rocket Engine

H	Matthew Kiley	Manhasset High School	Optimizing the Probability of Detecting Habitable Planets by Investigating the Galactic Habitable Zone

Prototype Engineering - Group 2


Place	Name(s)	School	Project

1	Qingyuan Qian	Great Neck North High School	Developing a Compact Multi-Wire Proportional Chamber for Cosmic Ray Detection

M	Tasin Mashriqi	Jericho High School	Environmental Monitoring and Marine Exploration: Utilizing Hybrid Undulatory Swimming for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Design

H	Jamie Littman	Paul D. Schreiber High School	Analysis of Strain Gauges Embedded in Tidal Turbines

Prototype Engineering - Group 1


Place	Name(s)	School	Project

1	Jeffrey Yu	Roslyn High School	Developing A Low-Cost and Efficient Universal Liquid 3D Printer Apparatus

2	Paige Robinson, Brian Mokotoff, Adam Dubi	Commack High School	A Lightweight Device To Aid In The Folding Of Papers

3	Noah Hanover	Great Neck North High School	A Smarter Blind Cane: Combining Raspberry Pi and Sensors to Change the Lives of Blind People

3	Jaekeun Sung, Justin Hu	Great Neck South High School	Arm Exoskeleton Designed to Assist in Carrying Objects

3	Jason Wu	Manhasset High School	The Comparison of Energy Production of Piezoelectric Discs and Plates Using a Shoe Model

M	Gabi D'Agostino	Commack High School	Non-Newtonian Vehicle Side Impact Damage Reduction System

M	Somya Pathak	Great Neck South High School	The Effects of Co-sensitization on the Efficiency of Dye- Sensitized Solar Cells

M	Charlie Dash, Daniel Hart	Paul D. Schreiber High School	The study on the performance of novel Al-Air batteries vs. Al-Graphite batteries at varying temperatures

M	Jessica Fox, Ethan Wachsman, Alexander Tepedino	Roslyn High School	The Effect of Propellers on UAV Noise Output

H	Aria Eghbali, Yeil Kim	Commack High School	A Sensitive Wide-Band Antenna System to Detect RF Radiation of Various Frequencies and Polarizations with High Directionality

H	Jake Novello	Commack High School	The Design and Construction of a Novel Traction Splint

H	Jackson Tu	Manhasset High School	Improvement of Solar Cell efficiency through the use of natural Phase Change Materials

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