Bellmore John F. Kennedy High School

The Effects of Cytoskeletal Disrupting Agents in Gossypium hirsutum

∙Forth Place - Botany Grand Award ($500)

Kings Park High School

Functional Genomics: An Optimized Method for Fluorescent Tagging of Full-Length Gene Products of Unknown Function from Arabidopsis thaliana

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

Manhasset High School

Controlling the Growth of Carbon Nanotubes

∙First Place - US Army ($3,000)

∙First Place - Dupont Center for Collaborative Research & Education ($1,000)

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

Half Hollow Hills HS East

An Extension of the Dining Cryptographers Protocol to Multiparty, Simultaneous Sender-Recipient Anonymous Communication

∙Honorable Mention - Association for Computing Machinery ($200)

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

Ward Melville High School

Supercritial Fluids: A Novel Procedure for Increasing the Compatibility and Applications of Polymer Blends

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

Half Hollow Hills HS West

A Proof of Seymour's Conjecture for All Oriented Graphs

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

∙College Scholarship - Lewis & Clark College ($20,000)

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

Ward Melville High School

A Novel Technique for the Quantification of Trapping Force in Optical Tweezers

∙First Place - American Association of Physics Teachers/American Physical Society ($1,000)

∙Second Place - AVASC Foundation ($500)

∙First Place - InFocus Corp (InFocus Projector valued at approx $1,000)

∙Second Place - International Society for Optical Engineering ($200)

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

∙First Place - US Army ($3,000)

∙Second Place - US Air Force ($1,500)

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

∙Intel Foundation Achievement Award ($5,000)

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

Paul D. Schreiber High School

The Utilization of Rare SNPs within the Canine Genome as a Means of Breed Identification

∙Second Place - American Veterinary Medical Association ($700)

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

Manhasset High School

The Effects of Hsp70 Induction on the Neurodegeneration and Age of Onset of Parkinson's Disease in A30P a-synuclein and Parkin D. Melanogaster.

Manhasset High School

Designing a System for Versatile Semi-Autonomous Robots

∙Special Acievement Award - Caltech/ Jet Propulsion Labs

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

Half Hollow Hills HS East

Determining the Solubility Parameters of End-Grafted Polystyrene in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

Manhasset High School

The Effects of Exogenously Applied Taxol and Oryazalin on Cotton Fiber Quality in G. hirsutum, Variety MD51

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

Plainview Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School

Gap Junctions and GABAergic Interactions in Inspiratory Phase Fast Oscillatory Rhythms

Smithtown High School

THE IN VITRO INHIBITION OF HUMAN NEUTROPHIL ELASTASE BY URSOLIC ACID-IMPLICATIONS FOR TREATMENT OF CYSTIC FIBROSIS

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

Smithtown High School

Development of Porous Hyaluronan Scaffolds for Wound Healing Applications

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

Jericho High School

Using Nanoparticles to Enhance Polymer Properties for Improved Commercial Applications: Space Lubricants to Nanolithography

∙First Place - United Technologies (UT Common Stock valued at $2,000)

∙First Place - US Air Force ($3,000)

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