WSSEF 2024 Grand Champion Awards

Washington State Science & Engineering Fair Grand Medalist Champions

Gold	Aryaman Rtunjay	ALS-SynAegis: A Molecular Dynamics Study on TDP-43 Aggregation to Prevent Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Onset
Silver	Isabella Pinto	How Magnetically Suspended Tires Utilizing High-Temperature Superconductivity and Electromagnetism Creates the Most Eco-Friendly Vehicle
Bronze	Ajeet Venkatesh	SpatioTemporal modeling of the Triple Negative breast cancer tumor microenvironment for in-silico testing of multi-immunosuppressive inhibitors for enhanced immunotherapy

Go WISE Team!

The top seven WSSEF projects (seven student / teams) will join finalists from the five WSSEF affiliated Regional Science & Engineering Fairs (Central Sound, Eastern Washington, Mid-Columbia, Discovery, Southwest Washington) to form the WISE Team (Washington International Science & Engineering Team).  Regeneron ISEF is the world’s largest pre-college science competition with 1,800 young entrepreneurs and innovators from 80+ countries worldwide.

WSSEF Finalists to Represent WSSEF at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair

FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	GRADE	PROJECT TITLE
Lakshmi	Agrawal	10	Clean Water: Analysis of Interfacial Tension
Alexia	Bravo	12	An Investigation of New Brown Dwarf Spectral Binary Candidates From the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Initiative
Keshav	Iyer	11	Understanding the Relationship between Gut Microbiomes and Leukemia Growth. Showcasing Propionate, a Derivative of Probiotic Gut Microbiomes, as a Novel Method to Enhance the Overall Efficacy of Leukemia Cancer Treatment
Richard	Li	12	Single Cell RNA-Sequencing of the Macaque Placenta
Kevin	Shen	12	Development and Analysis of a Variable-Sweep Oblique Wing Aircraft
Harini Vishal	Thiagarajan Yalla	12 11	Implementation of Convolutional Neural Network for Line Characterization in LIGO Continuous Gravitational Wave Searches
Ajeet	Venkatesh	11	SpatioTemporal modeling of the Triple Negative breast cancer tumor microenvironment for in-silico testing of multi-immunosuppressive inhibitors for enhanced immunotherapy

Meet the Regional Fair ISEF Finalists Comprising the WISE Team

Anson	Chen
Padmaja	Senthil Kumar
Shangqiu (David)	Li
Advaitha	Motkuri
Bhavyahshree	Navaneetha Krishnan
Amanda	Ngyuen
Mir	Park
Isabella	Pinto
Aanika	Rakesh Tangirala
Aryaman	Rtunjay
Nikki	Taleghani
Vedant	Srinivas
Matthew (Jerry)	Yao

Meet the Regional Fair ISEF Student Observers Comprising the WISE Team

Ava	Brattebo
Prayrona	Choudhury
Rowan	Hastings