Congratulations! … to the following high school students participating in the 64th 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 pandemic precautions, they were safely judged “virtually.” All students receive 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Honorable Mention placement ribbons with First Place receiving a rosette ribbon and trophy. All awards will be mailed to students.
| FIRST NAME | LAST NAME | GRADE | PROJECT TITLE |
| Brianne | Abbott-Rogge | 12 | Feasibility Test of Designing a Low-Cost Wearable Accelerometer to Collect Real-Time Concussive and Sub-Concussive Impacts for Multiple Applications |
| Andrew | Allen | 10 | Harnessing Flight: Controlling Variables of a Model Rocket to Achieve Altitude Accuracy |
| Mackenzie | Arden | 11 | The Effect of Caffeine Anhydrous on pH Levels of Simulated Stomach Acid |
| Anna | Armstrong | 11 | Degradation of Bioplastics from Biomass Sources Used as an Alternative for Plastic Products |
| Claire | Atkinson | 11 | The Effect of Light Wavelength on the Angular Acceleration of a Crookes Radiometer |
| Aiden | Bai | 10 | Lucia |
| Ishan | Bansal | 11 | Understanding the effect of the microbiome upon infectious disease severity: A novel framework for developing COVID-19 therapeutics |
| Jenna | Barger | 10 | Detecting Frequencies Emitted by a Black Hole’s Accretion Disk |
| Alexandra | Batoukova | 11 | Computational modeling of human dentate gyrus: applications for epilepsy |
| Tayla | Belikoff | 11 | Instrument Addition to Robotic Arm to Allow Use of Digital Stethoscope for Safe Examination of Infectious Patients |
| Sayan | Bhatia | 11 | DenTest: AI-Enabled Cavity Detection |
| Sohil | Bhatia | 10 | DenTest: AI-Enabled Cavity Detection |
| Nikhita | Bontha | 11 | Modeling of Ion Uptake to Understand Molecular Level Interactions of Pyrrole/Nafion and Aniline/Nafion Bipolar Membranes For Fuel Cell Use |
| Alexia | Bravo | 9 | Examining Eclipsing Binary V453 Cephei |
| Bianca | Bucerzan | 12 | The Neptune By Hydrosolve |
| Hannah | Chen | 11 | Separating Microplastics from Sand using Terminal Velocity and Density Differences |
| Jake | Chung | 11 | Study and Application of a Biomimetic Caudal Fin for Energy-Efficient Propulsion |
| Isabela | Cook | 11 | The Possible Applications of Phones as Long Wavelength (625-670nm) Light Therapy Devices and Their Effect on Macular Health |
| Akaria | Crawford | 11 | Correlation between Implicit Bias and Microaggression toward African Americans |
| Jace | Creech | 12 | The Neptune By Hydrosolve |
| Aadi | Dalia | 11 | Utilizing U-Nets for CT Scan Segmentation and Convolutional Neural Networks to Predict Immunotherapy Response |
| Mia | Dang | 9 | Which Fruit Peel is the Best Natural Fertilizer for Growing Radishes? |
| Saketh | Dhulipalla | 11 | Predicting the Extent of Late Seasonal Wildfires in Washington Using the Correlation Between the Standardized Precipitation Index and Burned Area Data |
| Ajanna | Dizon | 12 | The Effect of Phosphorus, Nitrogen, and Potassium (The Big 3) on Daphnia Magna |
| Didi | Djatej | 12 | Evaluating the cause of Twinlakes Idaho not yet hosting the invasive species, Myriophyllum spicatum. |
| Augustin | Dulauroy | 11 | The “cinematic look”: a scientific exploration into what makes a movie look like a movie and the subsequent development of open source software to apply those characteristics. |
| Dan | Dumitrescu | 11 | Accident Replication Machine for Wearable Devices |
| Tiana | Dumitrescu | 9 | Accident Replication Machine for Wearable Devices |
| Aheli | Dutta | 11 | Extreme Gradient Boosted Classification and Regression Trees to Predict Outcomes in Patients With Monoclonal Gammopathies of Undetermined Significance |
| Oliver | Easton | 12 | An Extensible File Feature Analysis and Storage Framework for Linux Systems |
| Nayeli | Espinoza | 9 | What drinks stain your teeth most? |
| Hanna | Faught | 11 | Bioremediation of PCBs- Monitoring the Change in Bacteria Consortiums |
| Summer | Fenton | 12 | Does Smoke and Ash Negatively or Positively Affect the Next Generation of Plants? |
| Triana | Fernando | 10 | Reverse Engineering the Amazon Padded Plastic Mailer Pouch |
| Stephen | Fewel | 10 | Harnessing Flight: Controlling Variables of a Model Rocket to Achieve Altitude Accuracy |
| Kaiden | Frank | 9 | Do different kinds of liquids affect plant growth? |
| Madison | Gass | 12 | What are the advantages and disadvantages of alternative front lawns compared to traditional grass ones? |
| Navaneet | Girikumar | 11 | Auditory Classical Conditioning of the Cockroach Periplaneta americana |
| Audrey | Gruian | 11 | Hydrodynamic and Acoustic Cavitation as a Novel, Energy-Efficient, Chemical-Free Means of Water Purification |
| Anika | Halappanavar | 10 | Analysis of COVID-19 Misinformation Origin and Cure Narratives |
| Noelle | Hall | 11 | Creating a Risk Metric for MRSA |
| Sankar | Harilal | 11 | A Novel Method to Study the Diffusion of Liquid Medications into the Bloodstream |
| Brittany | Harrell | 12 | Project Terms and Conditions |
| Maria | Herrera | 10 | Are Succulents Effective to Prevent Wildfire Spread? |
| Meredith | Hillier | 11 | Reinventing the Iron Lung: Improving Efficiency and Cost for Wider Accessibility |
| Maile | Hori | 11 | Effects of Music Lyrics on Heart Rate and Exercise Performance |
| Jennifer | Hu | 11 | Identification of Co-Expressed Genes to BDNF and trk-B as Major Depressive Disorder Related Biomarkers Using Microarray Data |
| Liyu | Huang | 12 | The Neptune By Hydrosolve |
| Harshini | Iyer | 11 | Determining Effective Reading Mediums for Reading Comprehension for Students with Learning Disabilities |
| Krish | Jain | 11 | Integrating a Live Programming Role into Games |
| Noah | Jorgensen | 12 | Data Representation for Visually Impaired |
| Taj | Khandekar | 9 | Predicting Nitrogen Contamination in the Gulf of Mexico |
| Arun | Khou | 12 | Aerodynamic Drone Cargo Container |
| Patrick | Kovis | 9 | Testing Microbial Fuel Cell Designs to Determine the Best Fuel Cell Configuration. |
| Nidhi | Krishna Kumar | 10 | MUSR: Low-Cost Multipurpose Sterilization Robot |
| Grace | Lane | 12 | Remote Controlled Vertically-Rotating Bookshelf |
| Ansel | LaPier | 11 | Engineering a Clinical Force Measuring Walker for Patients with Restricted Upper Extremity Weight Bearing |
| Talia | Leaver | 12 | The effect of simulated acid precipitation in combination with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on the growth of Solanum lycopersicum L. |
| Daniel | Li | 11 | Analyzing ACE2, the receptor for SARS-COV-2, across species to reduce virus susceptibility and mutation rates |
| Eric | Li | 11 | Computational Identification of Sex-biased Biomarker MicroRNAs & Genes Associated with Immune Infiltration in Breast Cancer |
| Richard | Li | 9 | Observing the Effect of Drought Conditions on Lightning Strikes in the Midwest Region |
| Yuchen | Li | 11 | Path Dependence of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Weakening: A Geostrophic Shear Approach |
| Pinyu | Liao | 10 | In-Silico Discovery and Design of Antisense PNAs for the Artificial Activation of the ccdAB Toxin-Antitoxin System to Combat Antibiotic Resistance |
| Julia | Liu | 11 | Predicting Cancer Stem Cell Markers With Machine Learning |
| Yuyang | Lou | 10 | Hand Gesture Recognition-based Wheelchair Control System |
| Conan | Lu | 11 | ComposeGAN: A Multi-GAN Approach to Symbolic Music Style Transfer |
| Gabriella | Lui | 11 | Apply Machine Learning to Identify a Novel Biomarker Panel to Predict Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Progression and Treatment Monitoring of a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Patient Cohort; Develop a Paper Based Point-of-Care (POC) Dipstick Test with Identified Biomarker Panel as Assay Analytes for Rheumatoid Arthritis Prognosis. |
| Hariharan | Malmurugan | 10 | Eigenvalue Bucking Prediction of Aortic Aneurysm Failure in Ascending Aorta using Finite Element Analysis |
| Stephen | Malysh | 12 | Data Representation for Visually Impaired |
| Mahathi | Mangipudi | 12 | The Effects of Human Visitation and Temporal Patterns on Carbon Dioxide Levels in Carlsbad Cavern |
| Laura | Mangov | 11 | Training and Applying a Convolutional Neural Network to Identify COVID-19 in Chest CT Scans |
| Anna | Marko | 12 | Identification of Specific Microbial Enzymes Involved in the Degradation of Polyethylene in Galleria Mellonella |
| Ainsley | McCollum | 12 | The Use of Fluorescent Proteins GFP and EBFP2-BFP for Enhanced Solar Energy Production Through the Usage of Magnifiers |
| Jay | McGregor | 12 | Transforming Agricultural Waste Wheat Straw into Energy — Using Household Materials |
| Nikhil | Mehta | 11 | A Novel Implementation of Adversarial Networks Alongside Custom Identifiers Using Weighted Boxes Fusion for Diseased Crop Detection by UAVs |
| Jasmine | Meredith | 12 | A Comparison of Self-Esteem in Adolescents with and without Cleft Lip and/or Palate |
| Nidhi | Munikote | 11 | Diagnosing Breast Cancer Using Deep Learning |
| Natasha | Murugan | 11 | Analyzing miRNA Involvement in HSC Activation and Liver Fibrosis |
| Sujay | Nair | 11 | Optimizing exoplanet transit times in collaboration with citizen scientists |
| Runjeet | Narula | 11 | Ticcer: A Smartphone App for Treating Tourette Syndrome |
| Joshua | Oliver | 12 | Which chess opening gives you the greatest chances of winning? |
| Ishan | Panpaliya | 11 | Classification of Multiple COVID–19–like Diseases Using a Deep Learning Model Framework on Chest Radiographs and Principal Component Analysis of Extracted Image Features |
| Uma | Paul | 11 | Determining the prognostic value of the DNA methylation of the GYPC, NME1, and SLIT2 genes in human lung adenocarcinoma |
| Aaditya | Prasad | 11 | A Novel Implementation of Adversarial Networks Alongside Custom Identifiers Using Weighted Boxes Fusion for Diseased Crop Detection by UAVs |
| Fahmid | Rahman | 12 | Apoptotic Proteins |
| Ateeq | Ramlan | 11 | Ticcer: A Smartphone App for Treating Tourette Syndrome |
| Leonardo | Ribeiro de Brito | 11 | Training and Applying a Convolutional Neural Network to Identify COVID-19 in Chest CT Scans |
| Haley | Rodriguez | 11 | What natural materials can be used to make successful pigments? |
| Hennessy | Rodriguez | 12 | How Do Different Types Of Plastics Affect The Growth Of Radishes? |
| Samuel | Rodriguez | 11 | A Novel Software-Based Solution to Aid in the Detection and Prevention of Voice Phishing |
| Saloni | Sanger | 12 | Remote Controlled Vertically-Rotating Bookshelf |
| Meilin | Scott | 12 | Bioremediation of PCBs- Monitoring the Change in Bacteria Consortiums |
| Rebecca | Scott | 12 | What is the affect of adding lead and fluoride to the water sources of polypodiophyta and what concentrations of each substance does the polypodiophyta intake. |
| Ziya | Senoaji | 12 | Using Lysozyme-Based Coatings to Ease Surface Cleaning in a Disease-Ridden World |
| David | Sheppert | 12 | Project Terms and Conditions |
| Aayush | Sheth | 11 | Using A Multiple Timepoint Siamese Net With Grey Matter and White Matter Hyperintensity Volumes as Differentiating Metrics to Predict Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease |
| Jacqueline | Simpson | 11 | A Correlational Study on Gifted Burnout and Work Ethic |
| Vanshika | Singh | 11 | Auditory Classical Conditioning of the Cockroach Periplaneta americana |
| Ian | Sjöholm | 12 | Creating a block-based version of the Python programming language |
| Maxwell | Soh | 11 | Virtually Screening Structurally Similar Compounds to Known Human Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors as a Means of Discovering Cancer Therapeutics |
| Flor | Solis | 9 | How does the type of material affect thigmotactic responses in a Venus Flytrap and Mimosa? |
| Zachary | Song | 9 | Identifying the Ideal Body Location for COVID-19 Temperature Screening Using an Infrared Thermometer |
| Chloe | Sow | 9 | Maximizing the Healthspan through Environmental and Lifestyle Factors and their Impacts on Associated Diseases through Genetics and Epigenetics utilizing Statistical Models and Gene Expression data |
| Christen | Spadavecchia | 12 | An Extensible File Feature Analysis and Storage Framework for Linux Systems |
| Vedant | Srinivas | 9 | Ora – A Non Habituating Audiovisual Animal Warning System to Mitigate Roadkill |
| Carter | Steveson | 11 | wood gasification |
| Tristyn | Struve | 12 | The Effect of Caffeine on Epilepsy Susceptibility in Drosophila Melanogaster |
| Zihan | Sun | 10 | Machine Learning Image Recognition Table Tennis Trainer |
| Laavan | Suresh | 11 | Ticcer: A Smartphone App for Treating Tourette Syndrome |
| Ananya | Suryadevara | 11 | Effect of Probiotics on Planarian Regeneration |
| Leif | Swanson | 12 | Identification of Specific Microbial Enzymes Involved in the Degradation of Polyethylene in Galleria Mellonella |
| Haley | Toliver | 12 | Using Bioluminescence to Light a Cleaner Future |
| Kosha | Upadhyay | 9 | High Accuracy Neural Network Based Deep Learning Solution For Non-Intrusive Early Diagnosis of Dementia. |
| Anya | Vaish | 10 | Developing and testing an electronic system with integrated alerting and cooling mechanisms to save the life of an unattended child in a vehicle |
| Grace | VanderLouw | 12 | The Effect of Positive Affirmations on Teenagers Day to Day Stress Levels |
| Rishabh | Venkatesan | 11 | Remote controlled electro-mechanical mechanism to reduce risk of accidents when dispensing moss removal powder on roof |
| Sunny | Wang | 11 | MRI-based Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease using Deep Learning with CycleGAN for Data Augmentation |
| Shannon | Willis | 11 | The Effect of Phosphorus, Nitrogen, and Potassium (The Big 3) on Daphnia Magna |
| Chloe | Winkler | 11 | TiO2/UV based Photocatalytic Pretreatment of Post Harvest Canola Stalks for Cellulosic Ethanol Production |
| Cleah | Winston | 11 | Modeling the Human Haptic Code: A Deep Learning Approach to Neuroprosthetic Development |
| Steven | Wu | 10 | Harnessing Flight: Controlling Variables of a Model Rocket to Achieve Altitude Accuracy |
| Ian | Yang | 11 | The Study of the Effect of Different Areas of Shooting and Shots to Influence Goal Ratios |
| Nathan | Yap | 11 | Robotically Replicated Articulation from a Pose Estimation Algorithm |
| Christine | Ye | 11 | Data-Driven Approaches to Pulsar Glitch Triggers, Evolution, and Universality |
| Siqi | Zhao | 11 | Mean Variance Portfolio Optimization |