North Shore High School

Self-Assembling Nanostructures Using Conductive DNA: A New Approach to Post-Silicon Computer Processor Technology

∙First Place - American Chemical Society ($1,000)

∙Third Place - Chemistry Grand Award ($1,000)

Great Neck South High School

Modeling the Ecological Success of Decision Rules Using Variants of the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma

∙American Association for Artificial Intelligence ($500)

∙Fourth Place - Computer Science Grand Award ($500)

Kings Park High School

A sensing system based on Laser intensity changes due to optical fiber vibration

∙Best Naval Related Research - US Navy & Marine Corp ($8,000)

∙Best Research Related to NASA's Mission - National Aeronautics & Space Administration (all expense trip to NASA Space Camp)

∙Merit - Society of Exploration Geophysicists ($250)

∙Honorable Mention - Optical Society of America

Paul D. Schreiber High School

The Effects of Pubertal Exposure to Estradiol on Epididymal Sperm Counts: Genetic Differences in Sensitivity to Endocrine Disruption

∙Third Place - Environmental Sciences Grand Award ($1,000)

John L. Miller Great Neck North High School

Detection of surface antigen mutants in the a determinant region of children that failed neonatal hepatitis B prophylaxis

∙Fourth Place - Medicine & Health Grand Award ($500)

Lawrence High School

Inhibition of Cisplatin-Induced Apoptosis by AKT2: Implication of AKT2 in Chemoresistance

∙College Scholarship - University of the Sciences in Philadelphia ($42,000)

∙Honorable Mention - Endocrine Society

∙Fourth Place - Medicine & Health Grand Award ($500)

Half Hollow Hills HS West

A Combinatorial Proof of Seymour's Conjecture for Regular Oriented Graphs with Almost Regular Outsets O'a and O''a

∙Top Prize - US Army ($300 + all expense paid trip to Operation Cherry Blossom - Tokyo, Japan)

∙First Place - US Army ($3,000 Savings Bond)

∙First Place - AVASC Foundation ($1,000 Savings Bond)

∙Third Place - American Mathematics Society ($250)

∙Second Place - Mathematics Grand Award ($1,500)

Paul D. Schreiber High School

Identifying Bacterial Genes via Neural Networks

∙Best in Category - Microbiology Grand Award ($5,000)

∙First Place - Microbiology Grand Award ($3,000)

Commack High School

The "Blackberry" Cluster: Thermodynamic Equilibrium and Potential Medical Applications of Giant Nanoscale Inorganic Molecules in Solution

∙ALTERNATE for Top Prize - US Army (all expense paid trip to London International Youth Forum)

∙First Place - US Army ($3,000 Savings Bond)

∙First Place - US Navy & Marine Corp ($8,000)

∙First Place - US Patent & Trademark Office ($200)

∙Third Place - Physics Grand Award ($1,000)

Manhasset High School

The Effect Sea Star Coelomocytes have on Asteroidea Regeneration in vivo and Lumbricus terrestris Brain Cellular Proliferation in vitro

∙Honorable Mention - Eastman Kodak Company ($250)

∙First Place - Zoology Grand Award ($3,000)

Half Hollow Hills HS East

The Effect of Density Fluctuations on Polymer Interfaces

Manhasset High School

Sub-Nuclear Localization of the Unknown Protein Muo10.12 and the Chromatin Remodeling Factor HirA in Arabidopsis Thaliana

∙First Place - Team Projects Grand Award ($3,000)

Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys

Improving Thermal Stability of PMMA Resins by Melt Blending with Modified Organoclays

∙Fourth Place - Team Projects Grand Award ($500)

Manhasset High School

Controlling the Crystallization Properties of Poly[ethylene oxide] Thin Films

∙Third Place - Team Projects Grand Award ($1,000)

Northport High School

Lipoic Acid Inhibits CREB Gene Expression in Regenerating Hydra

∙First Place - Team Projects Grand Award ($3,000)

Stella K. Abraham HS for Girls

Using Nanoparticle Fillers to Enhance the Properties of Polymer Thin-Film Lubricants

Manhasset High School

Evauluating the Effects of Various Oxidative Stressors on Hormesis in Caenorhabditis elegans

The Wheatley School

DNA Electrophoresis on Modified Silicon Surfaces in the Presence of Electroosmotic Flow

∙Third Place - Team Projects Grand Award ($1,000)