2024 PRSEF Winners
Sponsor Awards |
Aerotech |
| Avyukt Iyer – North Allegheny High School An Automated Robot to Assist in Material Handling and Putaway to Reduce Human Error and Inconveniences |
| Param Thawani – Fox Chapel Area High School Engineering Limb Movement Tracking System for Medical Diagnosis and Treatment |
Air & Waste Management Association |
| Arya Prasad – North Allegheny High School How can plastics be decomposed faster and in an eco-friendlier way? |
| Isabella Muthler – Seneca Valley High School Dyeing Microplastics |
Allegheny County Medical Society Foundation |
| Andrew Li – North Allegheny High School A Study of Diversity and Abundance in Nasal Microbiome Transcriptomic Profiles Among Asthmatic Individuals |
| James Xiao – North Allegheny High School EyeSpeak: A Real-Time Non-Invasive Tear Test for Detection of Major Depressive Disorder |
Allegheny County Health Department |
| Rishabh Krishnamurthy – Dorseyville Middle School Can Crowdsourced Weather Monitoring Work? |
| Piper Munyon – Gateway Middle School Who’s Lichen the Air Quality Around Here? |
| Ava Apjok – Indiana Area Senior High School Plants Response to Resources Surrounding U.S. Steel |
| Luke Vinoski – Yough Senior High School Wind Turbine Replacements – Extraordinary Pollution Reduction |
American Chemical Society Pittsburgh Chapter |
| Audrey Zheng – North Allegheny High School Conjugation of Antibodies to Magnetic Beads for Cancer Detection |
| Ethan Vitale – Central Catholic High School Optimizing Process Parameters for the Manufacturing of Anti-HSV Films |
American Society of Civil Engineers, Pittsburgh Section |
| Piper Munyon – Gateway Middle School Who’s Lichen the Air Quality Around Here? |
| Deetya Aluguvelli – Ingomar Middle School Can plants help stop soil erosion? |
ATI Metals |
| Cam Calcara – Queen of Angels Catholic School What Baseball Bat Hits the Farthest? |
| Ethan Kang – Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy How does string material affect the tone of an electric guitar? |
| Avyukt Iyer – North Allegheny High School An Automated Robot to Assist in Material Handling and Putaway to Reduce Human Error and Inconveniences |
| Max Kant Zajac – North Allegheny High School Development of a Low-Cost 3D Printed Violin |
Bayer |
| Lucy Pu – North Allegheny High School A Synthetic Approach for Mucus Plug Identification on CT Images to Evaluate Treatment Efficacy |
| Param Thawani – Fox Chapel Area High School Engineering Limb Movement Tracking System for Medical Diagnosis and Treatment |
| James Xiao – North Allegheny High School EyeSpeak: A Real-Time Non-Invasive Tear Test for Detection of Major Depressive Disorder |
Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corporation/Fluor Marine Propulsion |
| Solvei Islam – Winchester Thurston School Forced Flow of Newtonian Fluids into Bingham Plastics |
| Ashley Jang – North Allegheny High School The development of low-cost solar-lunar panels to harvest electricity at night and increase efficiency of solar panels using thermoelectric generators |
| Yuki Qian – North Allegheny High School The development of low-cost solar-lunar panels to harvest electricity at night and increase efficiency of solar panels using thermoelectric generators |
Broadcom Foundation |
| Currence Bigham – Pittsburgh Colfax K-8 Adding Computer Vision to Statistically Understand the the Dangers of a Busy Intersection |
| Ibrahim Manush – Falk Laboratory School An application that assists a visually challenged person in reading |
| Ethan Vaiz – Marshall Middle School A Data-driven Predictive Model to Assess the Correlation Between Electronic Media Usage and Sleep Stage Dynamics |
| Aarush Muthukrishnan – Marshall Middle School DermAI – Detection of Skin Cancer Using Machine Learning |
| Mariam Khan-Afridi – Afridi Homeschool Water conservation by measuring soil moisture with Raspberry Pi |
| Ayana Singh – Marshall Middle School Inside the Spectrum: Well-Being and Sensory Journal |
CMU Department of Biological Sciences |
| Thrisha Kalpatthi – North Allegheny High School RhoA Signaling is a Convergence Point for Nogo Receptor and Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor for Synapse Stabilization |
| Graham Whitacre – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Using Algae to capture carbon: The combined Influence of species choice and light duration/type |
CMU Gelfund Center |
| Jonah Goehrig-Brown – Falk Laboratory School Effects of Weather Conditions on LiDAR scans |
| Dwaipayan Prasad – Marshall Middle School Traffic light control optimization to reduce vehicle wait times and carbon emissions |
Clinical Research Strategies |
| Lucy Pu – North Allegheny High School A Synthetic Approach for Mucus Plug Identification on CT Images to Evaluate Treatment Efficacy |
| Tvesha Bhatt – South Fayette High School Utilizing Machine Learning for Euler Angle Analysis in Pediatric Facial Recognition to Identify Autism |
Cook MyoSite |
| Rose Marcus – Community Day School Fast Food Restaurants: How Dirty is their Ice? |
| Yaara Arbely – Community Day School Superbug: Which bacteria will survive? |
| Max Wendekier – Cambria Heights Senior High School No Action Today, No More Tomorrow |
| Samaira Bhat – North Allegheny High School Anti-fungal properties of spices |
| Juyoung Kwon – North Allegheny High School Improving cell viability by regulating molecular weight of alginate solutions |
| Julia Weber – Indiana Area Senior High School The Effects of Hand Sanitizer on Bacterial Growth |
Duquesne University School of Science and Engineering |
| Neil Porwal – North Allegheny High School Probabilistic Graphical Models Identify Transcriptomic and Clinical Markers for All-Cause Mortality in Moderate to Severe COPD |
| Anya Jain – Shady Side Academy Senior School A Comparison of Precipitated Silica in Clay-Rich Soil to Other Soil Amendments |
HATCH |
| Alia Arnold – Community Day School The Magnetic Pull of Solenoids: Engineering a Magnetically Propelled Train |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| Anirudh Garimella – South Fayette Township Middle School Rapid Detection of Pneumonia in Chest X-rays Using Convolutional Neural Networks |
| Ameya Parnerkar – South Fayette Township Middle School Rapid Detection of Pneumonia in Chest X-rays Using Convolutional Neural Networks |
| Aarav Shah – South Fayette Township Middle School Rapid Detection of Pneumonia in Chest X-rays Using Convolutional Neural Networks |
| Thomas Aldous – Developing an Autonomous Robot for Litter Collection Pittsburgh Allderdice High School |
JLG Industries |
| Avyukt Iyer – North Allegheny High School An Automated Robot to Assist in Material Handling and Putaway to Reduce Human Error and Inconveniences |
| Sofia Galati – Avonworth High School The Impact of Winglet Design on Air Resistance |
Kennametal Foundation |
| Alexander Wang – Sewickley Academy Utilizing Machine Learning to Model Interdependency of Bulk Molecular Weight, Concentration, and Thickness of Spin Coated Polymer Thin Films for Predictive Applications in Materials Engineering |
| Max Kant Zajac – North Allegheny High School Development of a Low-Cost 3D Printed Violin |
| Nina Cranor – Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy An Empirical Evaluation of Textiles for Reusable Menstrual Pads |
Naval Nuclear Lab |
| Sophia Babichenko – Community Day School Stronger Grasp: Comparing Efficiencies of Hydraulic & Servo Motor Driven Prosthetic Fingers |
| Evan Hartman – Hampton Middle School Propeller Shape vs. Boat Speed: What’s the Relationship? |
| Solvei Islam – Winchester Thurston School Forced Flow of Newtonian Fluids into Bingham Plastics |
| Ashley Jang – North Allegheny High School The development of low-cost solar-lunar panels to harvest electricity at night and increase efficiency of solar panels using thermoelectric generators |
| LabYuki Qian – North Allegheny High School The development of low-cost solar-lunar panels to harvest electricity at night and increase efficiency of solar panels using thermoelectric generators |
NIOSH/NPPTL |
| Mehar Jain – Marshall Middle School Arduino Device for Early Wildfire Detection |
| Madison Ronge – Freeport Area Senior High School Heat Protectant – Bust or Must? |
Pittsburgh Area Chapter of the American Concrete Institute |
| Solvei Islam – Winchester Thurston School Forced Flow of Newtonian Fluids into Bingham Plastics |
| Kaartic Muralidharan – North Allegheny High School Optimizing Pervious Concrete for Both Strength and Water Permeability |
Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association |
| Annika Sandholm – Shady Side Academy Senior School Culturally Expansive AI Music Recommender System |
| James Xiao – North Allegheny High School EyeSpeak: A Real-Time Non-Invasive Tear Test for Detection of Major Depressive Disorder |
Princeton Alumni Association of Western Pennsylvania |
| Yashas Singh – North Allegheny High School Skin cancer detection using machine learning |
| Thomas Aldous – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Developing an Autonomous Robot for Litter Collection |
Pittsburgh Geological Society |
| Henry Aldous – Pittsburgh Colfax K-8 What is the best way to fix a sinkhole? |
| Deetya Aluguvelli – Ingomar Middle School Can plants help stop soil erosion? |
Slippery Rock University |
| Dahnay Sunseri – Cambria Heights Senior High School The Aging Brain and Peer Pressure |
| Vania Ali – Indiana Area Senior High School The Effect of Dark Chocolate on Alzheimer’s Progression |
Society of Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration |
| Ariya Nahata – Shady Side Academy Senior School Assessing Health of Lowber Treatment Site Runoff Water through Macroinvertebrates |
Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh/Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh |
| Benjamin Lin – Hampton Middle School Optimization of the Fermentation Process for Making Sweet Rice Wine by the Response Surface Methodology |
| Jonah Goehrig-Brown – Falk Laboratory School Effects of Weather Conditions on LiDAR scans |
| Dominic Farabaugh – St. Kilian Catholic School Which Fruit and Vegetable Contains the Most Vitamin C? |
| Mehar Jain – Arduino Device for Early Wildfire Detection |
| Alexander Wang – Sewickley Academy Utilizing Machine Learning to Model Interdependency of Bulk Molecular Weight, Concentration, and Thickness of Spin Coated Polymer Thin Films for Predictive Applications in Materials Engineering |
| Angela Wei – North Allegheny High School Impact of Sucrose Concentration on Escherichia coli Growth |
Thermo Fisher Scientific |
| Ashley Jang – North Allegheny High School The development of low-cost solar-lunar panels to harvest electricity at night and increase efficiency of solar panels using thermoelectric generators |
| Yuki Qian – North Allegheny High School The development of low-cost solar-lunar panels to harvest electricity at night and increase efficiency of solar panels using thermoelectric generators |
| Andrew Li – North Allegheny High School A Study of Diversity and Abundance in Nasal Microbiome Transcriptomic Profiles Among Asthmatic Individuals |
| James Xiao – North Allegheny High School EyeSpeak: A Real-Time Non-Invasive Tear Test for Detection of Major Depressive Disorder |
| James Terrell – Sewickley Academy Application of Blackbody Radiation in En Masse Advanced Habitability Assessment of Exoplanets |
Vesuvius |
| Mehar Jain – Marshall Middle School Arduino Device for Early Wildfire Detection |
| Thomas Aldous – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Developing an Autonomous Robot for Litter Collection |
Webb Law Firm |
| Alex Claditis – Freeport Area Middle School Hammer time! Work Hardening of Metals |
| Jack Lehman – Indiana Area Senior High School Trekking Pole Generator |
Affiliated Sponsor Awards |
Broadcom Coding with Commitment Award |
| Felicity Aldous – Pittsburgh Colfax K-8 How has the Covid-19 pandemic impacted hesitancy for various vaccines? |
Lemelson Early Inventor |
| Aayush Iyer – Marshall Middle School (RPPF) Recyclable 3D printing Press Filament |
NASA Earth Science System |
| Piper Munyon – Gateway Middle School Who’s Lichen the Air Quality Around Here? |
National Geographic Society |
| Ava Apjok – Indiana Area Senior High School Plants Response to Resources Surrounding U.S. Steel |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| Noor Ashfaq – Ashfaq Homeschool Fertilizer Runoff and Algal Blooms |
Office of Naval Research |
| Rishabh Krishnamurthy – Dorseyville Middle School Can Crowdsourced Weather Monitoring Work? |
| Ayana Singh – Marshall Middle School Inside the Spectrum: Well-Being and Sensory Journal |
| Jonah Goehrig-Brown – Falk Laboratory School Effects of Weather Conditions on LiDAR scans |
| Sophia Babichenko – Community Day School Stronger Grasp: Comparing Efficiencies of Hydraulic & Servo Motor Driven Prosthetic Fingers |
| Jonah Goehrig-Brown – Falk Laboratory School Effects of Weather Conditions on LiDAR scans |
| Alia Arnold – Community Day School The Magnetic Pull of Solenoids: Engineering a Magnetically Propelled Train |
| Avyukt Iyer – North Allegheny High School An Automated Robot to Assist in Material Handling and Putaway to Reduce Human Error and Inconveniences |
| Sofia Galati – Avonworth High School The Impact of Winglet Design on Air Resistance |
| Solvei Islam – Winchester Thurston School Forced Flow of Newtonian Fluids into Bingham Plastics |
| Ruth Ayers – Hillman Academy Structural Modeling of Cytochrome P450 4F11, A Potienial Cancer Drug Target |
| Benjamin Fiedler – Fox Chapel Area High School PLA Fabricated Model Rocketry: Optimizing the Viability of Economical Miniature Spacecraft for the Uses of Asteroid Deflection, Seismic Documentation, and Water Detection on a Mass Scale |
Range Resources |
| Edmond Lin – Indiana Area Senior High School Far Field WPT |
| Aidan Hall – Mt Lebanon Senior High School Constructing a Hydrogen Battery by Means of Pressurized Alkaline Electrolysis and a Fuel Cell |
U.S. Jr. Stockholm Water |
| Alexander Du – North Allegheny High School Replacement of tertiary stage in WWM system with graphene oxide membrane |
| Beatrix Lim – Greensburg Central Catholic Jr-Sr High School How Do Weather and Precipitation Affect the Levels of Contaminants in Tap and Well Water? |
| Sameer Gosalia – North Allegheny High School An Electrolytic Approach to Sustainable Water Treatment in Developing Countries |
U.S. Metric Association |
| Henry Stiver – South Fayette Township Middle School Household Hydroelectrics: Can Waste-Water Work? |
Robert M. Thompson Jr., Fund |
| Malynn Jones – Hillman Academy The Life and Times of Annular Gap Junction Vesicles |
Diane V. Thompson Jr., Fund |
| Lea Omer – Hillman Academy The Exploration of the Activity of Calpain Released through the ABCA1 in Mast Cells |
Scholarship Awards |
Carlow University – Whalen Scholarship |
| Sydney Reiter – Norwin High School Aging Easily |
| Olivia Rigo – Norwin High School Should we be putting this in our ears? |
| Kevin Liu – Indiana Area Senior High School Adsorption vs Absorption in water treatment |
Chatham University |
| Vivan Poddar – Shady Side Academy Senior School CardioGuardian: An Novel Electrocardiogram Based AI Diagnostic Pathway for Early Detection of Contributory Factors to Sudden Cardiac Arrest |
| Thomas Wang – Shady Side Academy Senior School CardioGuardian: An Novel Electrocardiogram Based AI Diagnostic Pathway for Early Detection of Contributory Factors to Sudden Cardiac Arrest |
| Evan Xiang – Shady Side Academy Senior School CardioGuardian: An Novel Electrocardiogram Based AI Diagnostic Pathway for Early Detection of Contributory Factors to Sudden Cardiac Arrest |
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) |
| Camilla Zarour – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School The Effects of Artificial Sweeteners on B16 Melanoma and MC38 Sarcoma Tumor Cells |
| Grace Misra – Saint John Paul II Homeschool CO-OP The Effects of Activated Carbon on Contaminated Water |
Mount Aloysius College |
| Camilla Zarour – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School The Effects of Artificial Sweeteners on B16 Melanoma and MC38 Sarcoma Tumor Cells |
| Vijay Nagarajan – North Allegheny High School Using Machine Learning and Video Analysis for ASL Translation |
| Katherine Ding – Mt Lebanon Senior High School A Machine Learning Approach for the Early Diagnosis of ALS |
| Lea Omer – Hillman Academy The Exploration of the Activity of Calpain Released through the ABCA1 in Mast Cells |
| Ulyana Kubini – Fox Chapel Area High School The Impact of Oxidative Stress on Biofilm Formation in Serratia marcescens |
Point Park University |
| Madison Kifer – Norwin High School Designing a Glucagon Syringe |
| Olivia Rigo – Norwin High School Should we be putting this in our ears? |
Saint Francis University |
| Ava Apjok – Indiana Area Senior High School Plants Response to Resources Surrounding U.S. Steel |
| Sydney Lucas – Norwin High School Effect of household laundry products on Luminol test |
| Avery Edmonds – Indiana Area Senior High School The Effect of Temperature on the Frequency of Supplemental Feeder Use |
| Lillian Stevens – Indiana Area Senior High School Studying the Role of Quiver in the Planaria |
Slippery Rock University |
| Vania Ali – Indiana Area Senior High School The Effect of Dark Chocolate on Alzheimer’s Progression |
| Rachael Schumann – St Joseph High School Cinnamomum zeylanicum Blume vs Agrobacterium tumefaciens |
| Avery Edmonds – Indiana Area Senior High School The Effect of Temperature on the Frequency of Supplemental Feeder Use |
| Hannah Cowburn – Indiana Area Senior High School Selecting Words to Teach Children During Storytime to Maximize Learning Opportunities |
| Megumi Kawabe – North Allegheny High School What Makes up American Identity? – A Teens’ Perspective |
| Matthew Blystone – Indiana Area Senior High School Comparing The Effects of Aspirin and Willow Bark |
| Alexis Reesman – Freeport Area Senior High School Cleaning Products’ Effects on Blood Forensics |
| Vega Mani – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Using Machine Learning Models to Predict Alzheimer’s Disease |
| Lukas Dimitroff – Norwin High School Logistic Regression Versus Reinforcement Learning in Stock Trading |
| Adelaide Kreutel – Oakland Catholic High School Protein Supplement Influence on Enzymatic Activity |
| Logan Polito – St. Joseph High School Climate Change and Seed Germination Rate |
Thiel College |
| Avery Edmonds – Indiana Area Senior High School The Effect of Temperature on the Frequency of Supplemental Feeder Use |
| Mikaela Dassanaike-Perera – North Allegheny High School Usage of EEG-Based BCI System for Emotion Regulation in Autism Spectrum Disorder |
| Logan Polito – St Joseph High School Change and Seed Germination Rate |
| Emma Luther – Avonworth High School Assessing the Impact of Exercise on Endometriosis-Related Symptoms |
University of Pittsburgh (Bradford) |
| Anya Jain – Shady Side Academy Senior School A Comparison of Precipitated Silica in Clay-Rich Soil to Other Soil Amendments |
| Ariya Nahata – Shady Side Academy Senior School Assessing Health of Lowber Treatment Site Runoff Water through Macroinvertebrates |
Washington and Jefferson College |
| Max Wendekier – Cambria Heights Senior High School No Action Today, No More Tomorrow |
| Ava Apjok – Indiana Area Senior High School Plants Response to Resources Surrounding U.S. Steel |
| Sydney Lucas – Norwin High School Effect of household laundry products on Luminol test |
| Alexa Wheeler – Indiana Area Senior High School The Frustrating Factors of Teamwork |
Junior Division Category Awards |
Behavioral & Consumer Science (JBC) |
First Place |
| Cora Good – Dorseyville Middle School What Baby Snack is Safest? |
Second Place |
| Madison Harinstein – Falk Laboratory School Perfume Preferences |
Third Place |
| Preston Gibbons – Gibbons Homeschool Globs of Glue: Which Adhesive is Strongest? |
Biological Sciences (JBI) |
First Place |
| Madeline McDonald – Queen of Angels Catholic School The Effect of Daily Food Amount on Feline Weight |
Second Place |
| Carter Fannie – Derry Area Middle School and Derry Area High School Propogation Problems |
Third Place |
| Thomas McCrady – Campus School of Carlow University Does ice, pouring water,or spraying water result in a radish growing faster? |
Chemistry (JCH) |
First Place |
| Claire Zurinsky – Derry Area Middle School and Derry Area High School Fecal Matter Matters |
Second Place |
| Ben Cheplic – Queen of Angels Catholic School Electric Fruit |
Third Place |
| Ireland Gottron – Queen of Angels Catholic School Which moisturizer is most effective at keeping skin hydrated? |
Physical Sciences & Engineering (JPE) |
First Place |
| Luca Kiefer – Falk Laboratory School Recycling Pencils into New Pencils |
Second Place |
| Sophia Babichenko – Community Day School Stronger Grasp: Comparing Efficiencies of Hydraulic & Servo Motor Driven Prosthetic Fingers |
Third Place |
| Luca Holderbaum – Queen of Angels Catholic School Wood on Wheels |
Biology (MBI) |
First Place |
| Isaiah Thomas – Blessed Francis Seelos Academy Effects of Oxybenzone on Drosophila Melanogaster |
Second Place |
| Kiaan Biswas – Pine-Richland Middle School The Dilution Dilemma: Killing Germs or Creating Superbugs |
Intermediate Division Category Awards |
Behavioral & Social Science (MBS) |
First Place |
| Adele WaltersVrabel – Springdale Junior/Senior High School The Room Makes the Grade |
Second Place |
| Nava Kass – Community Day School Superstition, Age & Anxiety |
Third Place |
| Ethan Vaiz – Marshall Middle School A Data-driven Predictive Model to Assess the Correlation Between Electronic Media Usage and Sleep Stage Dynamics |
Chemistry (MCH) |
First Place |
| Frederick Goellner – Campus School of Carlow University How does the recipe of biodiesel affect how hot and how long it burns? |
Second Place |
| Isaac Rothstein – Saint Ambrose Academy Normalizing Color Readings from Different Cameras for Point of Care Testing |
Third Place |
| Ethan Kana – Greensburg Central Catholic Jr-Sr High School Testing Electrolytes in Sports Drinks |
Computer Science / Math (MCM) |
First Place |
| Currence Bigham – Pittsburgh Colfax K-8 Adding Computer Vision to Statistically Understand the the Dangers of a Busy Intersection |
Second Place |
| Ibrahim Manush – Falk Laboratory School An application that assists a visually challenged person in reading |
Third Place |
| Aarush Muthukrishnan – Marshall Middle School DermAI – Detection of Skin Cancer Using Machine Learning |
Consumer Science (MCS) |
First Place |
| Divya Thirumala – Dorseyville Middle School The Comparative Analysis of Sunglass UV Blocking Performance |
Second Place |
| Annabella Gibbons – Gibbons Homeschool Keeping Your Body Warm: An Insulation Investigation, Part 3 |
Third Place |
| Tommy Stilley – Greensburg Central Catholic Jr-Sr High School Testing the Results of Different Field Conditioners on Baseball Fields |
Earth & Environment (MEE) |
First Place |
| Rishabh Krishnamurthy – Dorseyville Middle School Can Crowdsourced Weather Monitoring Work? |
Second Place |
| Piper Munyon – Gateway Middle School Who’s Lichen the Air Quality Around Here? |
Third Place |
| Maite Vergara Morales – Pittsburgh Colfax K-8 How prepared is the city of Pittsburgh for climate change?? |
Engineering / Robotics (MER) |
First Place |
| Anh Man – Pittsburgh Colfax K-8 Parachute Pandamonium |
Second Place |
| Anamaria Pomirleanu – Pine-Richland Middle School Picking Up Steam: Improving Microwave Oven Heating Performance |
Third Place |
| Benjamin Lin – Hampton Middle School Optimization of the Fermentation Process for Making Sweet Rice Wine by the Response Surface Methodology |
Medicine / Health / Microbiology (MMH) |
First Place |
| Medha Thirumala – Marshall Middle School Does nail polish affect pulse oximeter readings? |
Second Place |
| Felicity Aldous – Pittsburgh Colfax K-8 How has the Covid-19 pandemic impacted hesitancy for various vaccines? |
Third Place |
| Elliott Voight-Cherna – Community Day School Does plyometrics work? |
Physics & Astronomy (MPA) |
First Place |
| Alia Arnold – Community Day School The Magnetic Pull of Solenoids: Engineering a Magnetically Propelled Train |
Second Place |
| Sonaya Arora – Pine-Richland Middle School Cell Phones Radiation: Impact of Different Function |
Third Place |
| Shoshana Graver – Community Day School Magnetic Linear Accelerator |
Senior Division Category Awards |
Biology (SBI) |
First Place |
| Graham Whitacre – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Using Algae to capture carbon: The combined Influence of species choice and light duration/type |
Second Place |
| Neil Porwal – North Allegheny High School Probabilistic Graphical Models Identify Transcriptomic and Clinical Markers for All-Cause Mortality in Moderate to Severe COPD |
Third Place |
| David Thomas – North Catholic High School The Effects of L-glutamine on Drosophila melanogaster |
Behavioral & Social Science (SBS) |
First Place |
| Oluwagbemiga Odebode – Avonworth High School Are perceptual decisions influenced by working memory? |
Second Place |
| Justine Sullivan – Hampton High School Voting Theory in the Pennsylvania 2022 Senate Election |
Third Place |
| Alexa Wheeler – Indiana Area Senior High School The Frustrating Factors of Teamwork |
Chemistry (SCH) |
First Place |
| Ethan Vitale – Central Catholic High School Optimizing Process Parameters for the Manufacturing of Anti-HSV Films |
Second Place |
| Alexander Donihi – Central Catholic High School Capsaicin Content: One Chip Challenge vs Common Foods |
Third Place |
| Audrey Zheng – North Allegheny High School Conjugation of Antibodies to Magnetic Beads for Cancer Detection |
Computer Science / Math (SCM) |
First Place |
| Olina Mukherjee – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Reducing Bias Against Minorities in an Artificially Intelligent Skin Disease Detector Using Stable Diffusion |
Second Place |
| Lucy Pu – North Allegheny High School A Synthetic Approach for Mucus Plug Identification on CT Images to Evaluate Treatment Efficacy |
Third Place |
| Vivan Poddar – Shady Side Academy Senior School CardioGuardian: An Novel Electrocardiogram Based AI Diagnostic Pathway for Early Detection of Contributory Factors to Sudden Cardiac Arrest |
| Thomas Wang – Shady Side Academy Senior School CardioGuardian: An Novel Electrocardiogram Based AI Diagnostic Pathway for Early Detection of Contributory Factors to Sudden Cardiac Arrest |
| Evan Xiang – Shady Side Academy Senior School CardioGuardian: An Novel Electrocardiogram Based AI Diagnostic Pathway for Early Detection of Contributory Factors to Sudden Cardiac Arrest |
Earth & Environment (SEE) |
First Place |
| Anya Jain – Shady Side Academy Senior School A Comparison of Precipitated Silica in Clay-Rich Soil to Other Soil Amendments |
Second Place |
| Aayushi Vardhan – North Allegheny High School The Impact of Increased CO2 Exposure on Chickpea Growth |
Third Place |
| Julia Ghil – Mt Lebanon Senior High School Effects of Trace Sunscreen Contamination on Green Algae Growth Rate and Photosynthesis |
Engineering / Robotics (SER) |
First Place |
| Avyukt Iyer – North Allegheny High School An Automated Robot to Assist in Material Handling and Putaway to Reduce Human Error and Inconveniences |
Second Place |
| Thomas Aldous – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Developing an Autonomous Robot for Litter Collection |
Third Place |
| Sameer Gosalia – North Allegheny High School An Electrolytic Approach to Sustainable Water Treatment in Developing Countries |
Medicine / Health / Microbiology (SMH) |
First Place |
| Andrew Li – North Allegheny High School A Study of Diversity and Abundance in Nasal Microbiome Transcriptomic Profiles Among Asthmatic Individuals |
Second Place |
| James Xiao – North Allegheny High School EyeSpeak: A Real-Time Non-Invasive Tear Test for Detection of Major Depressive Disorder |
Third Place |
| Lea Omer – Hillman Academy The Exploration of the Activity of Calpain Released through the ABCA1 in Mast Cells |
Physics & Astronomy (SPA) |
First Place |
| Solvei Islam – Winchester Thurston School Forced Flow of Newtonian Fluids into Bingham Plastics |
Second Place |
| Rohit Velankar – Fox Chapel Area High School Exploring the Limits of Simple Off-the-Shelf Soft Robot Component Fabrication |
Third Place |
| Esme Offner – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Estimating the star cluster m34’s age using an HR Diagram |
Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) Finalists |
| Olina Mukherjee – Pittsburgh Alderdice High School Reducing Bias Against Minorities in an Artificially Intelligent Skin Disease Detector Using Stable Diffusion |
| Sritej Padmanabhan – North Allegheny High School EnViD: A Novel low-compute Predictive Vision Pipeline with Temporal Contrast for Single Object Tracking in Dynamic Visual Fields Embedded on GPU |
| Lucas Pu – North Allegheny High School Geometric Self-Supervised Learning: A Novel AI Framework Towards Quantitative and Explainable Diabetic Retinopathy Detection |
| James Xiao – North Allegheny High School EyeSpeak: A Real-Time Non-Invasive Tear Test for Detection of Major Depressive Disorder |
