Congratulations! to the following high school students participating in the 63rd Annual Washington State Science & Engineering Fair. All high school students were judged and the following students earned First Place. Where you see a project title duplicated, it is because that was a team project. Due to COVId-19, they were safely judged “virtually” and will receive their First Place WSSEF award ribbon rosettes and trophies in the mail.
| FIRST NAME | LAST NAME | GRADE | PROJECT NAME |
| Shaheer | Arif | 11 | Thermal Alkaline Pretreatment of Yard Trimmings for Enhanced Anaerobic Digestion |
| Ryan | Bagaason | 12 | Effect of Plastic in Concrete |
| Abhinav | Bandari | 12 | Non-contact Exercise Sensing and Recognition Through the Smartphone Using Doppler Ultrasound |
| Shrilekha | Bhat | 11 | Ergonomically designed backpack that reduces postural strain compared to other commercial backpacks |
| Sayan | Bhatia | 10 | Driver Vision |
| Sohil | Bhatia | 9 | Driver Vision |
| Nikhita | Bontha | 10 | A novel process to fabricate whole-pore bipolar membranes for fuel cells: Method improvements and fuel cell performance results |
| Joseph | Boucher | 11 | |
| Nathan | Carter | 12 | the effects of captive rearing on gene expression in ramshorn snails |
| Isabela | Ceniceros | 11 | Analysis of Air Inlets on Ion Engine Performance |
| Nicholas | Chang | 11 | #ShotsFired: A Linguistic Analysis of Trauma Following Mass Shootings |
| Jake | Chung | 10 | Biomimetic cilia-powered, energy-efficient boat with added mass effect-based resonance |
| Anika | Consul | 11 | Using Machine Learning to Create A Universal Chronic Social Defeat Stress Classifier |
| Wyatt | Corrigan | 12 | The Effects of N-52 Magnets on Drosophila Melanogaster |
| Soliyana | Dagne | 11 | Testing The effects of alcohol on The Effectiveness Of Hericium erinaceous As An Anti-dementia Substance Using Drosophila melanogaster As A Model For Alzheimer’s |
| Aadi | Dalia | 10 | A System Utilizing Convolutional Neural Networks and Generative Adversarial Networks to Predict Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy |
| Brady | Decker | 11 | HDPE as an Additive in Concrete |
| Bella | Dekker | 9 | Will Algae and Euglena Efficiently remove Nitrates and Phosphates from contaminated water? |
| Dominick | D’Emilio | 11 | HDPE as an Additive in Concrete |
| Nikhil | Devanathan | 12 | Kinecting the Dots: 3-Dimensional Mapping with a Scalable Drone Infrastructure |
| An | Doan | 11 | Autonomous Drones for Search and Rescue Operations |
| Noak | Duggan Erickson | 12 | Intelligent Parking Garage Vehicle Control and Commuter Information |
| Eashver | Elango | 11 | Fabrication of Pomegranate Peel loaded nanofibers for adsorption of dyes in waste water samples |
| Erica | Fajardo | 10 | What Effect Do Different Types of Pollutants Have on the Hill Reaction? |
| Michelle | Ferina | 11 | The Effect of Testing Site and Tide on Phosphate Levels in and around Vancouver Lake |
| Seth | Forbess | 9 | Peltier Heat Hat |
| Ananya | Ganapathi | 11 | The Correlation Between The Phase of Water And The Presence of Organic Compounds on Near-Earth Objects |
| Fabian | Garcia | 11 | Effects of Microplastics From Facial Cleansers on Freshwater Ecosystems. |
| Mitchell | Givens | 12 | Improvements for Pedestrian Safety and Traffic Flow at Mountlake Terrace High School |
| Gigi | Gonzales | 11 | Ability of Synthesized Bacteria from the Wax Moth Galleria Mellonella to Bio-degrade Polyethylene Plastic |
| Rishi | Gorrepati | 11 | Investigating Racial Bias and Teen Violence in Adolescents through Implicit Association |
| Audrey | Gruian | 10 | ALV+IN: An Intelligent Stereoscopic Olfactory System for Autonomous Localization of Volatile Organic Compounds |
| Daniel | Han | 11 | Exploring the Use of Graphene to Strengthen Resins for Flywheel Energy Storage System Rotors |
| Abigail | Hanson | 12 | Performance of Algae-Infused Hydrogel Pearls Versus Algae-Based Biochar in Removing Heavy Metals from Wastewater |
| Sankar | Harilal | 10 | Classification of Geological Rocks by Emission Spectroscopy of Laser-Ablation Plumes |
| Rishi | Hazra | 9 | Prediction of Molecular Energy Using Coulomb Matrix and Graph Neural Network |
| Meredith | Hillier | 10 | The Effect of Obstructions on Radio Wave Propagation |
| Luke | Hongel | 11 | Self-Releasing Water Catch Generator |
| David | Hyun | 11 | Disaster Supply Robot V2 |
| Rohan | Jain | 11 | Investigating Racial Bias and Teen Violence in Adolescents through Implicit Association |
| Pinakin | Kanade | 11 | A Machine Learning Approach to Detecting and Predicting the Location of Induced Seismicity from Seismic Waveforms |
| Sahil | Kancherla | 11 | Investigating Biofuel Growth Inhibition and Product Toxicity with Short-Chain Alcohols in Synechococcus Elongatus |
| Samarjit | Kaushik | 11 | Investigating the effect of Fibulin-2 on NF-κB pathway activity and proliferation of pediatric gliomas |
| Cameron | Knapp | 12 | Low-Profile Haptic Feedback Glove for use with Virtual Environments |
| Friederike | Kornstaedt | 11 | Testing woodruff and neem oil as nontoxic (to humans) botanical alternatives to pest control for taxidermy |
| Nidhi | Krishna Kumar | 9 | AID: Real Time Early Identification of Malus domestica Leaf Diseases Using AlexNet |
| Jonathan | Kwong | 12 | Testing Effectiveness of Auxin-augmented Arabidopsis thaliana in Phytoremediation of Floodwater Contaminants |
| Angel | Lee | 10 | Dash with Mass |
| Rohith | Leeladharan | 11 | A Novel Approach to Quorum Sensing Inhibition using aiiA-Transformed Bacteria in Mixed Culture |
| Anne | Lewis | 12 | Analysis of genetic susceptibility of chronic wasting disease in mule deer in Washington state |
| Amanda | Li | 11 | Crosstalk Between the Innate and Adaptive Immune Response During a Placental Infection: An Analysis of Group G Streptococcus Infection in Nonhuman Primate Models |
| Henry | Liao | 11 | Implementation of Deep Learning Through Haptic Feedback in the Driver’s Seat to Reduce Driver Recognition Error |
| Eric | Liu | 10 | Developing a compact Fabry-Perot Fourier Transform imaging spectrometer |
| Luna | Longoria | 10 | How does cleaning feathers after oil spills affect the physical structure of feathers? |
| Conan | Lu | 10 | Musical Style Transfer with Generative Adversarial Networks |
| Daksha | Magesh | 11 | Examining Correlation Between the Genre of Music Present & Increased Academic Performance Through Beta Wave Measurement |
| Lukas | Malins | 12 | Effect of Plastic in Concrete |
| Mahathi | Mangipudi | 11 | A Novel Approach to Study and Analyze Calcite Cements in the Subsurface to Better Understand Subsurface Resources and Fluid Conditions using Clumped Isothermometry and Trace-Element Mapping |
| Amaya | Martin | 12 | Analyzing the Gut Microbiota Species within SwHi and SwLo Rats |
| Blake | Maxwell | 12 | Evaluation of a Triple-Bound Cell Design for Use in a Long-Cycle, Solid-State, Lithium-Sulfur Battery |
| Ainsley | McCollum | 11 | Ultraviolet is the New Green! EBFP2 Blue Fluorescent Protein and GFP for Solar Energy Production |
| Shreya | Mehta | 10 | Quantifying CO2 Flux From Decomposition of Soil Organic Matter and Grass During the Winter Season |
| Ankita | Menon | 11 | Survival Analysis of Pediatric Neuroblastoma Patients Using Gene Expression Data: Identification of Surival Related Biomarkers |
| Benjamin | Mercer | 9 | Reinventing the Wheel: Wheel 2.0 |
| Ethan | Moore | 12 | Low-Profile Haptic Feedback Glove for use with Virtual Environments |
| Kristina | Mullukatte | 10 | AID: Real Time Early Identification of Malus domestica Leaf Diseases Using AlexNet |
| Natasha | Murugan | 10 | Analyzing Immunoadsorption Proteins for Treatment of Dilated Cardiomyopathy |
| Russell | Myers | 11 | A Study of Release and Receive of Neuromodulatory Signals, and Their Impacts on Animal Behavior |
| Sathvik | Nallamalli | 11 | BrainAI: A Portable Machine Learning Based Detection and Classification System of Brain Cancer Using Neural Network Based Algorithms |
| Ananya | Nandula | 11 | Extracting Nickel and Cobalt from Lithium Ion Battery Cathodes |
| Raunak | Narula | 10 | Ticcer: A Smartphone App for Treating Tourette Syndrome |
| Runjeet | Narula | 10 | Ticcer: A Smartphone App for Treating Tourette Syndrome |
| Brandon | Nguyen | 12 | Effect of Plastic in Concrete |
| Samantha | Odem | 11 | The Effect of Testing Site and Tide on Phosphate Levels in and around Vancouver Lake |
| Joshua | Oliver | 11 | What are the Effects of Theobromine on Drosophila melanogaster? |
| Heer | Patel | 11 | 3D Printing Mini Wind Turbines to Generate Renewable Energy From Wind |
| Justine | Pendergraft | 11 | Implementing visible and thermal imaging techniques for Disease and invasive species analysis in forestry. |
| Jay | Pierce | 11 | The Effects of Different Routes of Administration on Libido in Trans Men |
| Kendra | Potratz | 12 | Performance of Algae-Infused Hydrogel Pearls Versus Algae-Based Biochar in Removing Heavy Metals from Wastewater |
| Aran | Punniamoorthy | 11 | Developing a malaria detection system through microscopy image classification by utilizing complex machine learning techniques |
| Alexander | Raring | 12 | Improving NASA’s Planetary Defense system via Gravitational Slingshot |
| Taylor | Rice | 11 | 3D printing an Intrauterine Device Specifically for Nulliparous Women, by Adjusting Size and Exterior Design |
| Austin | Robichaux | 11 | Combining Microcontroller-Based Solar Tracking with an Improved Floating Photovoltaic Platform |
| Hennessy | Rodriguez | 11 | How Do Plastics Affect the Clarity of Water? |
| Jacob | Satake | 12 | Analysis of KLF11 Sequence in Correlation to Type I Diabetes |
| Hailey | Schlosser | 10 | How Is Pollution Affecting The Photosynthesis Of Aquatic Plants? |
| Olivia | Schwartz | 12 | The Effect of Water Contaminated with Lead II Nitrate on Ceratophyllum demersum Including Possible Bioremediation using Pleurotus ostreatus |
| Marina | Sellers | 9 | Peltier Heat Hat |
| Andrew | Servey | 9 | Reinventing the Wheel: Wheel 2.0 |
| Harini | Shankar | 11 | Engineering a K-12 strain of Escherichia coli to secrete a Polyethylene terephthalate hydrolase |
| Jared | Sheehan | 9 | How does fertilizer runoff affect aquatic plants and invertabrates? |
| Aayush | Sheth | 10 | Using a Two-Layer Siamese Net to Recognize Spatial Patterns of Brain Abnormalities and Model the Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease |
| Lizbeth | Silva | 11 | How does the chemical composition of snow change in various locations? |
| Jasarjan | Singh | 11 | Simultaneous, Noninvasive, and Transdermal Extraction of Urea and Homocysteine, by Reverse Iontophoresis |
| Jessica | Singh | 11 | Early Holistic Prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Machine Learning Algorithms |
| Spencer | Socoloski | 12 | 7 Miles, 45 Minutes; Reducing Traffic from Bremerton, WA to Gorst, WA |
| Smriti | Somasundaram | 10 | Investigate Tin-based Perovskite structures using Ethylenediammonium as an Additive and Prediction of new potential perovskite using Machine Learning |
| James | Speedy | 12 | Low-Profile Haptic Feedback Glove for use with Virtual Environments |
| Shrey | Srivastava | 11 | Classifying Galaxies Based on Photometric Spectral Bands via Support Vector Machines |
| Thomas | Stahura | 12 | Using Artificial Intelligence to Optimize Plant Growth In a Climate Controlled Chamber |
| Gareth | Starratt | 11 | Implementing visible and thermal imaging techniques for Disease and invasive species analysis in forestry. |
| Tristyn | Struve | 11 | The Effect of Herbicides on Cognitive Deficit and Activity Levels in Drosophila Melanogaster |
| Theo | Sturgeon | 9 | Peltier Heat Hat |
| Tejas | Sudhakar | 11 | Using CFD Simulation to Optimize the Airfoil of a Mechanical-Morphing Wing |
| Zihan | Sun | 9 | Color Recognition Tennis Ball Collector |
| Laavan | Suresh | 10 | Ticcer: A Smartphone App for Treating Tourette Syndrome |
| Ananya | Suryadevara | 10 | Effect of Antibiotics on Planarian Regeneration |
| Hailey | Utzinger | 12 | The Effect of Water Contaminated with Lead II Nitrate on Ceratophyllum demersum Including Possible Bioremediation using Pleurotus ostreatus |
| Anya | Vaish | 9 | Smart Car Seat to prevent child death in hot car |
| Erick | Vergara | 11 | Do Cooking Oils Produce Quality Biodiesel? |
| Elliot | Wald | 12 | Using eDNA to estimate L. terrestris Populations |
| Madeline | Welborn | 11 | The Effects of Font and Color Scheme on Perceived Credibility of Websites. |
| Josie | Westmoreland | 12 | Delta 18-O in Dendrochronological Samples As An Indicator For Climate Change |
| Chloe | Winkler | 10 | Postharvest Canola Stalks for Cellulosic Ethanol Production |
| Claris | Winston | 12 | Detecting Driver Distraction Using Neural Decoding and AI |
| Cleah | Winston | 9 | Detecting Driver Distraction Using Neural Decoding and AI |
| Daniel | Yan | 11 | Examining Correlation Between the Genre of Music Present & Increased Academic Performance Through Beta Wave Measurement |
| Nathan | Yap | 10 | An Investigation of the Uricolytic Processes of Pogonomrymex Barbatus Worker Ant Endosymbiotic Bacteria |
| Christine | Ye | 10 | Novel Surveys of Substructure in Pulsar Glitch Morphology and Glitching Pulsar Populations |
| Thomas | Yim | 11 | American Sign Language Classifer |