2020 WSSEF First Place Trophy

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  TITLE
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 Ability of Synthesized Bacteria from the Wax Moth Galleria Mellonella to Bio-degrade Polyethylene Plastic
Bridgette Bromell 11 Analysis of Diabetes Mellitus and Obese BMI as Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease and Vascular Dementia
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?
Archit Patankar 11 Application of Machine Learning Algorithms to Mass Spectrometry-Based Multiomics Data for the Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer
Heer Patel 11 3D Printing Mini Wind Turbines to Generate Renewable Energy From Wind
Justine Pendergraft 10 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