GENIUS Olympiad

CONGRATULATIONS! …. to the following Washington State students earning awards in the Science Category from GENIUS Olympiad 2023.

Hongyi (Ethan) Hu	Bronze	RESEARCH ON A MULTI-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM MODULAR SOFT SNAKE ROBOT
Rohak Jain	Bronze	DECIPHERING A SLEEPING PATHOGEN – UNCOVERING NOVEL TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATORS OF HYPOXIA-INDUCED DORMANCY IN MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS
Rebecca Kim	Bronze	A STUDY ON THE AGGRESSION OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTERS X CHROMOSOME MUTATION ACCORDING TO THE STRESS ENVIRONMENT
Ruth Wise Maldonado	Bronze	EFFECTS OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY SOUND POLLUTION ON C3 AND C4 PLANT ROOT PHYSIOLOGY AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Navaj Nune	Gold	INVESTIGATING THE QUALITY OF BIODIESEL SYNTHESIZED FROM USED COOKING OILS
Nicole Samaan	Participant	MICROPLASTICS IN FISH PLASTIC POLLUTION IN OUR PROTEIN
Om Shah	Silver	PREDICTING POVERTY IN AFRICA USING DEEP LEARNING AND SATELLITE IMAGERY

The following students received special invitations to participate in the 2023 GENIUS Olympiad.  When participating in the GENIUS Olympiad they represent the Washington State Science & Engineering Fair and all of Washington State.

GENIUS Olympiad – International Project Fair on the Environment	Farzad Hasan
	Navaj Nune
	Sophia Rodriguez
	Aryaman Rtunjay
	Om Shah
	Ruth Wise-Maldonado

GENIUS Olympiad is an international high school project competition about environmental issues. It is founded and organized by Terra Science and Education and hosted by the Rochester Institute of Technology. GENIUS Olympiad hosts projects in five general disciplines with an environmental focus.

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