American Junior Academy of Sciences (AJAS) 2023 Washington State Delegates

Congratulations!  ... to the 2023 American Junior Academy of Science (AJAS) Washington State delegates being inducted in Denver, Colorado next February 2024 as AJAS Fellows! Click on their project titles to view their project boards. For more information: AJAS Awardees – Washington State Academy of Sciences (washacad.org)

Annie Adhikary	Tesla STEM High School	Identification of Novel Diagnostic Neuroimaging Biomarkers for Autism Spectrum Disorder Through Convolutional Neural Network-Based Analysis of Functional, Structural, and Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data Towards Enhanced Autism Diagnosis
Alessandra Azure	Newport High School	The Effects of Limiting Citrate-Derived Acetyl-CoA Synthesis on the Development of Exhaustion in CD8 T cells
Dhuruv Darbha	Redmond High School	Democratizing Produce Waste Reduction Using Hyperspectral Imaging with Low-Cost Home-Built Hyperspectral Cameras
Priya Emani	Olympia High School	Identifying Possible Biological Processes Affected By Non-Target Proteins of SARS-CoV-2
Rohak Jain	Interlake High School	Deciphering a Sleeping Pathogen: Uncovering Novel Transcriptional Regulators of Hypoxia-Induced Dormancy in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
Advaitha Motkuri	Richland High School	AmEyeDrunk? The Future of Intoxication Detection
Padmaja Senthil Kumar	Lewis & Clark High School	Structural Basis for the Allosteric Modulation of the GABAA Receptors by Diazepam
Zain Shariff	Curtis Junior High School	Microwave-Related Tissue Changes Using Ultrasound: Processing Images into Spectral Colors
Nikki Taleghani	Tesla STEM High School	Carbon Dot and Cyanoacrylate Fuming Method for Latent Fingerprint Detection
Kosha Upadhyay	Bellevue High School	MemSpark: An Artificially Intelligent Virtual Reality System for Non-Intrusive Cognition Therapy and Evaluation of Dementia
Jerry Yao	Walla Walla High School	CamVisors: A Low-Cost Smart Glass System Utilizing Computer Vision for the Blind