Congratulations! … to the following grade 1 – 8 students participating in the 67th Annual Washington State Science & Engineering Fair. All grade 1 – 8 student projects were judged, and the following students earned First Place. Where you see a project title duplicated, it is because that was a team project. All students receive a participation and 1st, 2nd, 3rd or Honorable Mention placement ribbons with First Place receiving a trophy on-stage. All students receive judges’ comments with their 1st, 2nd, 3rd or Honorable Mention placement ribbons and participation ribbon in the mail.
FIRST NAME |
LAST NAME |
GRADE |
PROJECT TITLE |
| Sai Mohith | Adamala | 1 | Ice Melt Magic: The Surface Area Factor |
| Chaitra Hasini | Appani | 6 | Hydraulic Powered Lift Machine |
| Anusha | Arora | 8 | Dynamic Dexterity: Exploring Innovations in Robotic Arm Kinematics and Control for Multi-faceted Applications |
| Kapish | Arora | 5 | Building a better Breeze: Unleashing Wind Power Potential |
| Arya | Arun | 2 | CaseinCraft: Transforming Dairy into Sustainable Plastics |
| Nirbhuy | Arun | 3 | Navigating inversions in complex terrain of Washington via UAV-mounted mobile sensing devices for wind machine operations in early spring frost management for specialty fruit crops |
| Abhimanyu | Arvindh | 5 | Digging Deeper: Exploring the Culinary Preferences of Earthworms |
| Navneeth | Badhri | 8 | Respiro; Breath free and easy (Monitoring environmental pollutants) |
| Advait | Badrish | 8 | Posture Perfect |
| Sarina | Baig | 5 | Can plants help slow Soil Erosion |
| Jahnavi | Balaji | 7 | Investigating existing Unmanned Surface Vehicles for garbage removal from water bodies and proposing an improved USV design combined with eco-friendly waste disposal approaches |
| Meekaa | Balasubramanian | 3 | Ridebot |
| Mahika | Bansal | 8 | Creating a more effective way to preserve water in agriculture: Turning the waste from one industry into a product of another |
| Amaira | Beri | 2 | CaseinCraft: Transforming Dairy into Sustainable Plastics |
| Swapnil | Choudhury | 3 | Making Learning Robots inside Roblox Game Engine |
| Shivam | Chowdhary | 7 | Sensemaker |
| Marissa | Chung | 8 | Engineering an Aeroponics System |
| Chloe | Custodio | 7 | Can Laundry Greywater be Reused for Hydroponics? |
| Vedika | Devarajan | 7 | Project ASSURE: Using a ML (Machine Learning) Model to analyze Orexin-A levels and prevent misdiagnosis of ES (Epileptic Seizures) or PNES (Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizure) |
| Miyen | Edelman | 1 | Fun with Enzymes! |
| Tanishqa | Erattu | 5 | Digging Deeper: Exploring the Culinary Preferences of Earthworms |
| Ridhi | Erla | 5 | Effect of Glycerin Quantity on the Strength of Starch-Based Bioplastics |
| Audrey | Frans | 8 | Engineering an Aeroponics System |
| Aarin | Frias | 6 | Parkinson’s Hand Tremors: Independence with Adaptive utensils |
| Anahata | Guha | 6 | Past the peel – A comparative study of nutritional content, pesticide residue, bacterial content and taste perception between organic and non-organic Malus Domestica Gala |
| Madison | Gustafson | 6 | How Dirty Snowballs Prove a Young Universe |
| Sanvi | Hiremath | 6 | Study of egg-based Biostimulant for plants |
| Amrita | Iyer | 4 | Significance of anosmia on COVID-19 patients |
| Rasika | Iyer | 7 | Sensemaker |
| Lunden | Johnson | 2 | Drone |
| Aadya | Karanam | 3 | Going Green with Fishy Friends |
| Neal | Kedia | 8 | Nut Alert |
| Dhiya | Kumaraguru | 4 | Evaluating the Efficacy of Diverse Stress Alleviation Techniques: A Comprehensive Study in Children and Adults |
| Shriya | Kutty | 7 | ScaNose: Development of a non-invasive electronic device for estimation of diabetes and COPD risk |
| Anika | Lal | 2 | Blooming Trouble – Investigation of Algae Growth in Water |
| Aaria | Lankireddy | 6 | Can Bolivian Pink Salt & Himalayan Pink Salt Gum Reduce Dental Plaque Without Impacting Blood Pressure? |
| Taneesh Kumar | Lokesh Kumar | 4 | Can you delay ripening of banana using household items? |
| Thanishka | Lokesh Kumar | 4 | Can you delay ripening of banana using household items? |
| Lilian | Ma | 8 | Engineering an Aeroponics System |
| Ashley | Mahajan | 8 | Preventative Medicine: The Effects of Ayurveda on the Symptoms of Infection |
| Ayush | Mahajan | 2 | Global Warming and Climate Change |
| Theodore | Maier | 7 | The Best Shape for Ice Stupas |
| Laasya Priya | Mandavilli | 6 | Enriched Poultry Manure Pellets: A Golden Fertilizer for Agriculture |
| Lydia | Mathew | 5 | Vitamin C – Where are you? |
| Milo | Matsuda | 7 | Oyster Heat Reducing Cage |
| Darsh | mehrotra | 6 | Parkinson’s Hand Tremors: Independence with Adaptive utensils |
| Suhaas | Meka | 5 | Bamboozled |
| Saisha | Mittal | 8 | A Novel Approach to Oil Spill Cleanup: Merging Nanotechnology and Magnetism with Eco-friendly Sorbents |
| Vedant | Mittal | 3 | Green Momentum: The Power of Regenerative Brakes |
| Akshath | Motkuri | 8 | Nail Ninja AI: Detecting Disorders Digitally |
| Janaki | Nair | 5 | Impact of Soda, Coffee, Juice and energy drinks on teeth, bones, hair and nails |
| Sujit | Nair | 7 | Exoexplorer 3.0 – Study of Exoplanets in search of Earth-like habitable atmospheres |
| Manvith | Nallapu | 2 | Which Aeroplan design travels long? |
| Neel | Narayan | 8 | Autonomous Research Vessel |
| Tanmay | Naveena Sampige | 2 | H2-Oh No! Can Plants Survive a Salty Sip? |
| Lily | Nguyen | 8 | Efficient Encryption Using Large Primes for Secure Communication |
| Rohan | Nune | 8 | Powering the Future: Iron-Based Batteries for Sustainable Energy Storage |
| Adeline | Okada | 6 | Using Coding to Track Invasive Species in King County |
| Aryan | Patel | 8 | Autonomous Research Vessel |
| Chaitanya | Patil | 5 | Alert!!! Microplastics here…Proceed with Caution! |
| Aaratrika | Paul | 7 | Enriched Poultry Manure Pellets: A Golden Fertilizer for Agriculture |
| Venkata Siddharth | Pendyala | 8 | Autonomous Research Vessel |
| Mason | Qin | 4 | Dissolving Metals |
| Sarah | Radel | 2 | Mentos Soda Fountain |
| Rithesh | Rajagopal | 6 | Nut Alert |
| Hamsini | Ramanathan | 8 | Comparison of four large language models (LLMs) as middle school math tutoring assistants |
| Prathamesh | Ramanathan | 2 | Which has more calories: Marshmallows or Potato Chips? |
| Karandeep | Rathee | 4 | Optics and Lens |
| Sanjeev | Ravichandran | 2 | Experimental Analysis of the Efficacy of Different Sorbents in Cleaning Up Oil Spills From Water |
| Suhavi | Santhosh | 4 | Quality of commonly used drinking water |
| Jayapradha | Saravanakumar | 3 | Going Green with Fishy Friends |
| Sarabhesh | Saravanakumar | 6 | CRISPR Gene Editing: Enhancing Escherichia Coli for Streptomycin Resistance |
| Priyanka | Saravanan | 2 | Rain, Rain, Drain Away! |
| Sanvi | Senthil | 8 | Evolution of Curcumin resistance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| Hridhaan | Shah | 4 | Gravity Guru: Gravity’s Role in Space Exploration |
| Akshara | Sharan | 2 | CaseinCraft: Transforming Dairy into Sustainable Plastics |
| Nikhil | Sharma | 4 | FallSense: A Machine Learning-Driven Fall Detection and Response System |
| Darsh | Soin | 6 | Kelping the Seas: Neutralizing Ocean Acidification |
| Akshara | Srinivas | 8 | Integrating Hammerhead Shark Features into Vertical Wind Turbine Blade Design for Enhanced Performance |
| Shriyan | Srinivasan | 5 | Predicting Dementia for the Elderly Population Using Machine Learning |
| Rowan | Stephens-Smith | 3 | Pollution Effects on Daphnia Magna |
| Viaan Irya | Sunkesula | 2 | H2-Oh No! Can Plants Survive a Salty Sip? |
| Smriti | Suresh | 5 | Which material combination makes the best homemade water filter? |
| Aadya | Syal | 8 | Improving Diagnosis of Autoimmune Diseases |
| Tenzin | Tsundue | 8 | Carbon Dioxide Absorption by Different Types of Algae |
| Parthavi | Upreti | 7 | Diagnosing Eye Diseases Using Machine Learning |
| Harish | Uriti | 5 | Spark of Illumination: Unveiling the Electromagnetic Dance! |
| Sri | Vadlamannati | 3 | Decoding Dialysis: Kidney Health with Chemistry! |
| Nithilan | Venkatesan | 3 | Automatic Plant Watering System |
| Avni | Waghamare | 6 | CRISPR Gene Editing: Enhancing Escherichia Coli for Streptomycin Resistance |
| Samuel | Wang | 7 | Sonic Fire Suppression: Investigating the Impact of Low-Frequency Waves to Revolutionize Fire Mitigation |
| Peter | Wojtowicz | 8 | Smart Irrigation System; Integrating Weather Forecast, Predicted Evaporation, and Plant Consumption for Sustainable Water Management in Agriculture |
| Bella | York | 7 | Oyster Heat Reducing Cage |