Winners

Category Award Name School Title
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 1st Suchir Misra (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Abstract Mining to Create Comprehensive Disease-disease Correlation Database
2nd Catherine Kim (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Co-administration of Atorvastatin Blocks CYP3A4: Exacerbated Risk of Interstitial Lung Disease
3rd Danielle Lauren Gruber (Great Neck North High School) Great Neck North High School A Game-Theoretic Model of Task-Positive Networks
H.M Alyssa Fong (East Meadow High School) East Meadow High School Analysis of APOBEC3 Hotspots in the Domains of Select Human Herpesvirus Immediate Early Proteins
H.M Siean Benson (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School The Role of Delayed Rectifier Potassium Currents in Human Ventricular Cardiomyocyte Arrhythmogenesis
Robotics and Intelligent Machines AND Embed. Sys. AND Sys. Software 1st Davesh Reddy Valagolam (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Monitoring and Diagnosing Pathological Tremors Through Mobile and Neural Network Technology
2nd Yash Gupta (Half Hollow Hills West), Collin Li (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School), Atreya Rawat (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills West A Proposal of Deep-learning-based Magic Mirror Modules to Identify Specific Health Aspects
3rd Christopher Hua Moore (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School Evaluating V-MAC: A Raspberry Pi Based Data-Centric MAC for Vehicular Video Transmission
H.M Kevin Douglas Gauld (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Optimizing Classification Efficacy of Image Classifiers Through the Usage of Neural Style Transfer in Image Preprocessing
H.M Abdullah Bin Nauman (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School Mitigating Communication Bottlenecks in MPI-Based Distributed Learning
Biomedical Engineering 1st Sejal Gupta (Hicksville Senior High School) Hicksville Senior High School Development of a Machine Learning Algorithm to Predict the Path of Joints for Gait Rehabilitation
2nd Jeremy Noah Bernstein (North Shore Hebrew Academy High School), Aaron Michael Baruch (North Shore Hebrew Academy High School), Joseph Abraham Masri (North Shore Hebrew Academy High School) North Shore Hebrew Academy High School Addressing SIDS: Analyzing the Respiratory Rate of Infants Using Image Processing Algorithm
3rd Somya Pathak (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Depth-of-Interaction Resolution Improvement via Directional Control of Scintillator Light
H.M Ike Zhang (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East Texture-based Radiomics of Peritumoral Tissue Predict Subsequent Progression into Cancer in Glioblastoma Multiforme
H.M Alice Zhaoyi Chen (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Estimating Rectal Cancer Response to Chemoradiation: Longitudinal MRI-based Radiomics
Plant Sciences 1st Emily Gan (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Insights into Biotic Light Manipulation: Microbial Characterization of Alkaline Model and Environmental Microalgae
2nd Sophia Seokyoung Jang (Syosset High School) Syosset High School The Interactions of the ECT2 and CRY2 Pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana
3rd Jude Kristoffer Ramos Tomas (George W. Hewlett High School), Kelvin Reid Cheng (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School Regulation of a Temperature-Induced Lipocalin (TIL) by Cold Stress and Epibrassinolide in the Gametophytes of Ceratopteris richardii
H.M Oscar A Murga (Central Islip Senior High School), Leslie Clarice Mejia (Central Islip Senior High School) Central Islip Senior High School The Effects of Rhizobacteria on Hydroponically Grown Arugula
Biochemistry 1st Melissa S Oz (Connetquot High School), Biproprosad Das (Connetquot High School), Anna Elizabeth Suske (Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School) Connetquot High School Utilizing Protein Crystallography and X-Ray Diffraction to Determine the Structure of TrmD (Co-Crystallized with SAH) From Mycobacterium abscessus and Discover Possible Inhibitors via AutoDock VINA
2nd Shourav Binayak Saha (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School The Role of YY1 in the Modulation of the Podocyte Molecular Phenotype in High Glucose Conditions
3rd Jonathan Aaron Lederer (Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaways), Abraham Balsam (Rambam Mesivta) Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaways The Effects of Graphene Oxide and Partially Reduced Graphene Oxide on the Enzymatic Activity of Thrombin
H.M Rishitha Kudaravalli (Half Hollow Hills West) Half Hollow Hills West GFP Tagged Mitochondrial IMG1 and BSCI Proteins Disrupt Normal Huntingtin Inclusion Body Formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
H.M Farihah Chowdhury (William Floyd High School) William Floyd High School Structural Resolution of a New Ligand with Human Insulin
Energy: Sustainable Materials & Design AND Materials Science 1st Samantha Chen (Manhasset High School), Emma Wang (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School The Creation and Optimization of a Plant Microbial Fuel Cell for Energy Generation with Brassica rapa
2nd Sanjna Kedia (Manhasset High School), Emily Ma (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Remediation of Wastewater Using a Microbial Fuel Cell with Optimized Electricity Generatioa and an Algae Bioreactor
3rd Abdullah Ali (Valley Stream South High School) Valley Stream South High School Flammabiltiy and Water Absorption of Banana Stem Fiber Reinforced Green Composites
H.M Bhawan Kaur Sandhu (Lawrence High School), Christine Kong (Commack High School) Lawrence High School A Novel Nafion-free Proton Transport Membrane for the Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell
Engineering Mechanics 1st Ian Carlson Bailey (Garden City High School) Garden City High School CAD Modeling, Simulation, and Prototyping of a Wave Energy Generation System for USVs
2nd Theresa Thulasidas (Bethpage High School), Ava Elizabeth Zingone (Bethpage High School) Bethpage High School Dye Sensitized v.s. Monocrystalline: Most Cost Efficient Method for Energy Production
3rd Atif Khan (Connetquot High School) Connetquot High School Using Polarized Light to Create a Cost-Effective Landmine Detector for Use in War-Torn Countries
H.M Alex Tang (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School Validation of High-Order Theories for Sandwich Beam Behavior Using Direct Image Correlation (DIC) Techniques
H.M Rachel Catherine Williams (Kings Park High School) Kings Park High School The Design and Construction of a Stamping Die to Improve the Accuracy of Bending Orthopedic Implants
Earth & Environmental AND Environmental Engineering 1st Rithika Narayan (Elwood - John H. Glenn) Elwood - John H. Glenn Coral Grief: Machine Learning on Crowd-sourced Data to Highlight an Ecological Crisis
1st Maya Lillian Maciel-Seidman (Bethpage High School), Ruchitha Channapatna (Bethpage High School), Suchitha Channapatna (Bethpage High School) Bethpage High School Soil Moisture Sensing Robot: A Novel Agricultural Device
2nd William Hu (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Modeling Environmental Effects on Gulf of Maine Atlantic Herring (Clupea harengus) Using Generalized Additive Models
2nd Katherine Zhang (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Dialdehyde Cellulose Nanocrystal Hydrogel Synthesis for Antibiotic Remediation
3rd Kyra Jamieson McCreery (North Shore High School) North Shore High School Associations between the Slowdown in North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Translation Speed and Intensifying Storm Precipitation
3rd Ethan Jacob Sontarp (Commack High School) Commack High School Modeling Uranium Uptake in Fossilized Teeth and Bones: Insight into Potential for Long-Term Uranium Waste Storage in Phosphates
H.M Andrew John Brinton (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School Marsh Restoration: Ribbed Mussels (Geukenisa demissa) as a Revival Mechanism to Rebuild the Coastal Salt Marshes of Long Island, New York
H.M Caitlin Jean Wilkinson (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East Rates and Traits: The Potential for Utlizing Above-ground Plant Traits to Predict Denitrification in Long Island Salt Marshes
H.M Yuktha Chiguripati (W. Tresper Clarke High School) W. Tresper Clarke High School Pretreatment of Arachis hyogaea Seeds with a Coating of Trichoderma harzianum and Polymer 1 or Trichoderma harzianum and Chitosan Induces Greater Tolerance to Drought Condititons
H.M Blake Charles Lippman (George W. Hewlett High School), Tyler Bissoondial (John F. Kennedy High School) George W. Hewlett High School Investigating the Use of Ceratopteris richardii as a Model Plant for the Phytoremediation of Cadmium
H.M Emma Michelle Foster (Sachem High School East), Julia Ashley Nadolne (Sachem High School East) Sachem High School East Use of Mycorrhizal Fungi to Improve Soil Conditions for Agricultural Use
H.M Serena Zhao (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Targeting Marine Plastic Pollution with Numerical Data Modeling: Predicting Plastic Transport in Massachusetts Bay Through Flow Map Composition
Biomedical and Health Sciences 1st Jacqueline Rose Albert (Syosset High School) Syosset High School The Use of Curcumin to Mitigate the Inclusion of Alpha-synuclein in Transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans
1st Nabiha Subzwari (Valley Stream South High School) Valley Stream South High School Identifying Functional Disease Drivers in Lupus Nephritis Associated with Glomerular Remodeling
2nd Min Jee Kim (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Analysis of Pore Formation and Control in Gluconacetobacter Xylinus Through Organic Additives
2nd Chelsea Pan (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School Dysregulation of Dopamine-2 Receptor with Neuronal Deficits Underlies Loss of Control in Cocaine Addiction
3rd Arpie Bakhshian (Lynbrook High School) Lynbrook High School The Development of a CRISPR/Cas9 System with Nanoblades in Order to Study IBD-Related Genes in an in vitro Model
3rd Joelle Siong Sin (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Understanding the Role of Microbes in the Pathogenesis of Intestinal Tumor Development
H.M Angelica Abbondandolo (North Shore High School) North Shore High School Elucidating the Role of Tenomodulin on IVD Homeostasis and Biomechanical Function
H.M Tristan Daniel Tran (West Islip High School) West Islip High School Examining the Paracrine Effects of Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells in a Bovine Model of Osteoarthritis
H.M Kallista Zhuang (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Xenoestrogen Bisphenol-A's Neurotoxicity via Estrogenic Activity and Resulting Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis
H.M Enyo V Okeoma (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School Semen Extracellular Vesicles (SEVs) Contain Proteins that Inhibit HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase RNA-dependent DNA Polymerization in vitro
H.M Antonia Mirra Pavek (Sachem High School East), Yousuf Suleman (Sachem High School East) Sachem High School East The Effects of Ganoderma lingzhi and Lentinula edodes on the Longevity of Drosophila melanogaster and Regeneration Rates of Lumbriculus variegatus
H.M Seunguk John Baek (Herricks High School) Herricks High School The Evaluation of the Therapeautic Potential of Orlistat on a Mouse Model of Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT)
Cellular and Molecular Biology 1st Vyom Shah (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Linking Diet and Cancer: Arachidonic Acid Augments Canonical Wnt Signaling to Enhance Stemness
2nd Kevin Chen (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East A Toxic Lunar Environment: Adverse Effects of a Lunar Soil Simulant (JSC-1A) on Alveolar Cellular Health and Genomic Integrity
3rd Damien Doran Edele (Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School), Christopher Matthew Jannotta (Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School), Danielle Levanti (Northport High School) Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School The Complete Structural Refinement and Analysis of the Protein Anaplasma phagocytophilum tRNA (guanine-N1)-methyltransferase
H.M Evan Joesph Miller (Valley Stream South High School) Valley Stream South High School Protein X: A Novel Protein in Enhancing Anti PD-1 and Treating Cancer
H.M Nicole Julia Blattman (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Optimized Methods for Personalized Detection of ctDNA in Plasma
H.M Maxline Delorme (Elmont Memorial) Elmont Memorial Expression of Insulin Growth Factor 2 mRNA Binding Protein on the Regulation of Fidgetin Like 2
H.M Benjamin Levi Goldfried (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Enhanced Cholinergic Interneuron Striatal Density Demonstrated in a SAPAP3 Knockout: An Indirect Quantification of Elevated Acetylcholine Levels in an OCD Mouse Model
H.M Ahmet Burak Buyukbayraktar (Sachem High School North) Sachem High School North Targeting Dihydroceramide Desaturase 1 (DES1) as a Method to Overcome Anoikis Resistance in Basal Breast Cancer
Translational Medical Science 1st Hailey Edelman (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Exploring the Role of Cannabidiol in a Caenorhabditis elegans Model
2nd Farah Kabir (Garden City High School) Garden City High School Integrated Expression Profiles of MiRNAs and GLUT1 in Murine Blood-Brain Barrier under Hyperglycemic Conditions
3rd Rachel Sydnie Bocian (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East A Novel Cationically Enframed High Density Aromatic Peptide, A2, Mitigates Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Promotes Cell Survival Via Reduction of ROS and Maintenance of Mitochondrial Inner Membrane Potential
Behavioral and Social Sciences 1st Abishek T Ravindran (W. Tresper Clarke High School) W. Tresper Clarke High School Implementation of Novel Sector Weight and Google Trends Data Objectives using MOEA/D Curtails Systematic Risk for Quintessential Investors
1st Megan Gole (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Analyzing the Foundation of Rhetorical Gender Inequality through Competitive High School Debating During Adolescence and the Connection to the Workplace
2nd James Zheng (Garden City High School) Garden City High School Microbiome Composition and Environmental pH Modulate the Behavioral Effects of SSRIs in Larval Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
2nd Kira Elyse Conte (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East Think Positive! The Effect of Growth Mindset Training on Academic Attitudes
3rd Mariam Zaheera Quraishi (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School The Effect of Sibling Status of Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder on Symptom Severity and Social Development
3rd Olivia Felice Viruet Quintero (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School The Effect of Accent and Accent Strength on Perceptions of Doctors
H.M Diya Kallimar Rai-Gersappe (Huntington High School), Ikshu Pandey (East Meadow High School) Huntington High School Development of Novel Cerebral Aneurysm Embolization Method via Injection of Pluronic F-127 Multiblock Copolymer Hydrogel
H.M Sanjana Ahmed (W. Tresper Clarke High School) W. Tresper Clarke High School Volumetric Measurements Offer a Differential Diagnosis of Schizophrenia from Related Disorders.
H.M Madeline Yang (Great Neck North High School) Great Neck North High School Hyperscanning via fNIRS Reveals Eye Contact Engages Specific Neural Responses Within and Across Brains
H.M Kreena Totala (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School A Novel Predictive Paradigm for Pediatric ADHD Behavior Through Thalamocortical White Matter Analysis
H.M Feyi Sayo Rufai (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Does That Make Me Crazy? The Effects of Type of Psychological Disorder and Treatment Sought on Person Perception
H.M Alyssa Dioguardi (W.C. Mepham High School) W.C. Mepham High School An Investigation of Hoodies on the Perception of Character
H.M Ryan Joseph Pittman (W.C. Mepham High School) W.C. Mepham High School The Financial Literacy of High School Students
H.M Tyler John Ruvolo (Plainedge High School) Plainedge High School A Regression Based Investigation Into Presidential Public Approval as a Factor of Political and Economic Policy
H.M Feiyang Dai (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Predicting Major Depressive Disorder Treatment Response: Examining Pretreatment Biomarkers GABA and Glx
Chemistry 1st Tong Ye (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Investigations into the Significance of Epidermal Fatty Acid Binding Protein (FABP5) in Breast Cancer Survival and Design of Novel FABP5 Inhibitors
2nd Riya Patel (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Next Generation Ultrafiltration for Wastewater Treatment: Characterization and Performance of Fouling-Resistant Polymeric and Lyocell Cellulose Nanofiber Membranes
3rd Celina Ma (Kings Park High School) Kings Park High School The Synthesis of a Novel Streptogramin A-Benzoxaborole Conjugate and Its Potential as a Bivalent Ribosomal Inhibitor Against Staphylococcus aureus
H.M Bryce Alexander Vitulli (Huntington High School), Ryan Terence Knowles (Huntington High School) Huntington High School The Effect of Fruit-Based Super Absorbent Polymers on the Moisture Retention of Topsoil
H.M Michelle Zeng (Great Neck North High School) Great Neck North High School Addition of Cost Effective Common Materials for a More Accessible Method of Solar Distillation
H.M Emma Yeung (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Synthesis and Temperature-dependent Phase Behavior of a Dendritic Dipeptide
H.M Raymond Lin (Great Neck North High School) Great Neck North High School Formation of Bilayer Sustainable Food Packaging Films
Animal Sciences 1st William Hong Sun (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School Lipid Droplets in the Aging Brain
1st Katherine June St George (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School The Ketogenic Diet Ameliorates the Effects of Caffeine in Seizure Susceptible Drosophila melanogaster
2nd Maiya Ali Raghu (Syosset High School) Syosset High School The Effect of Blue Light on Oxidative Stress in C. elegans
2nd Mahnoor Ayaz (Valley Stream South High School) Valley Stream South High School The Use of Curcumin to Mitigate the Negative Effects of Nicotine on Diabetic Fruit Flies
3rd Madison Marie Elias (Seaford High School) Seaford High School Can Green Tea Alleviate the Effects of Stress Related to the Learning and Long-Term Memory of the Great Pond Snail?
3rd Ashley Cammiso (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School The Effect of Cell-Cell Communication on the Polarization of Hair Cells on the Lateral Line of Zebrafish
H.M Michael Chacon (Commack High School), Defne Aktuna (Commack High School) Commack High School Aversive Conditioning and Scent Discrimination in the Green Crab (Carcinus maenas)
H.M Mir Zayid Alam (Manhasset High School), Taylor Geeta Fox (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Relating Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) to Circadian Signaling in Drosophila melanogaster
H.M Kayleigh Elizabeth O'Melia (Kings Park High School) Kings Park High School Grooming Behavior and Social Hierarchy among Adult Female Trachypithecus phayrei (Phayre's leaf monkey)
H.M Saniya J Gaitonde (W. Tresper Clarke High School) W. Tresper Clarke High School Bioinformatic Investigation of the Peculiarities of Long Intron Splicing in Hominidae
Mathematics AND Physics and Astronomy 1st Ella Rose Wesson (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Engineering One Layer of a Two-Dimensional Acoustic Band Gap Material and Reconstructing the Sound Pressure Field Using Acoustic Holography
2nd Richard Hui Ren (Jericho High School) Jericho High School An S-polarized Scattering Near-field Microscopy Probe Design for Nanoscale Dielectric Anisotropy Analysis
3rd Caitlin Alexandra Leodis (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East Solving the Neighboring Borders Problem: Conceptualizing a Mathematical Model with Number Sets
H.M Michael Galardi (Plainedge High School) Plainedge High School A Regression-Based Analysis of Salary as a Function of Indivdual Performance in Major League Baseball
H.M Rohan Nagavardhan (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School Identifying Exoplanet Companions using Radial Velocity Data with Deep Learning
Microbiology 1st Poojan Pandya (Half Hollow Hills West), Leo Takemaru (Ward Melville High School) Half Hollow Hills West CHMP2A and TSG101 Interact with the Novel ESCRT-III Recruiter CCDC11 in HIV-1 Viral Budding
2nd Marvia Jozie Pressoir (Elmont Memorial) Elmont Memorial The Individual and Synergistic Effect of Combined Heavy Metal Exposure On Dopaminergic Neurodegeneration and Associated Behaviors in C. elegans as a Model for Parkinson's Disease
3rd Giselle Leah Rasquinha (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Lipid-Conjugated Anti-HIV Fusion Inhibitor Exhibits Enhanced Potency and Stability
H.M Katherine (Lulu) Grace Morse (Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaways) Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaways Prevention of Shiga-Toxin-Producing E.coli Outbreaks in Flour: The Elimination of E.faecium in Ruminant Probiotics
H.M Christopher Edward Alexander (Elmont Memorial) Elmont Memorial Characterizing the Oncolytic Properties of the Avian Paramyxovirus Serotype 4 (APMV-4) in Comparison to Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV): Developing Oncolytic Therapies Based on Viral Cell Death
H.M Sarah Flynn Moran (North Shore High School) North Shore High School Antiviral Capabilities of DABCO-hydrocarbon Molecules
Animal Sciences 1st Maiya Ali Raghu (Syosset High School) Syosset High School The Effect of EGCG on Oxidative Stress in C. elegans
2nd Jordyn Paige Krinsky (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School The Combinatorial Effects of Diet and Caffeine Mitigate Parkinson's Disease in a Drosophila melanogaster System
3rd Julia Mary Levine (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School Reduced Fasciclin 2 Expression in Drosophila melanogaster Leads to Impaired Locomotor Function and Abnormal Stress Response Following Dietary Alterations of Carbohydrates in a Celiac Disease Model
H.M Mary Helen Menger (Sacred Heart Academy) Sacred Heart Academy Canaries in the Coalmine: Evaluating the Effect of Petrochemical Contamination on the Cardiovascular Health of Daphnia Magna
Behavioral and Social Sciences 1st Isabella Souza (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Seeing Through the Scan: The Impact of fMRI Evidence on Juror Satisfaction and Verdicts
1st Nethmi Withanage (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East The Analysis of the Use of Color in Pandemic Artwork Using Digital Quantifications
1st Carly Sara Friedman (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Education During a Pandemic: Exploring the Effectiveness of Synchronous versus Asynchronous E-learning From A Teacher's Perspective
2nd Aaliyah Naomi Bullen (Half Hollow Hills West) Half Hollow Hills West The Prevalence of Energy Intake Methods in New York State Obesity Prevention Policies
3rd Erin Lynn Ye (Huntington High School) Huntington High School Desde Casa: Examining the Correlation between Perception of Learning in a Virtual Model and Bilingual Vocabulary Knowledge in Spanish-Speaking ENL Students
H.M Jennie Dapice (Syosset High School) Syosset High School The Influence of Political Party on the Extent of State E-cigarette Regulation
H.M Elianna Michelle Rivera (W. Tresper Clarke High School) W. Tresper Clarke High School Measuring Opportunity for Immigrants Through the Creation of a Political Index: A Longitudinal Study
Biomedical and Health Sciences 1st Samantha Rose Radinsky (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School The role of bone lineage cells during digit tip regeneration in adult mice
1st Yifang Zha (The Wheatley School) The Wheatley School Curcumin and Capsaicin Synergistically Suppress Neuroblastoma Tumor Development
2nd Natalia Pahlavan (Jericho High School) Jericho High School AcuRe: Third-Generation Machine Learning Cancer Detection Model Using Nanopore Read Alignments
3rd Akshay Malhotra (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School Impact of Body Mass Index on Clinical Presentation, Management, and Outcomes in Adults with Cardiac Arrest Undergoing Coronary Angiogram
H.M Rhea Rasquinha (Herricks High School) Herricks High School Identifying the Prognostic, Tumor-suppressive and Immunologic Roles of IRF5 in Breast Cancer
H.M Andrew Khanin (Cold Spring Harbor High School) Cold Spring Harbor High School Testing the Effects of Flavorant Propylene Glycol Acetals on the Locomotor Behavior of Drosophila Melanogaster Using the Rapid Iterative Negative Geotaxis (RING) Assay
Cellular and Molecular Biology AND BioChemistry 1st Neil Mehta (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School The Effect of IL-22 Stimulation on Paneth Cell Granule Morphology and Epithelial Cell Proliferation
2nd Kyle Pinzon (Herricks High School) Herricks High School Screening and Modifying DEDDh Exonuclease Inhibitors for Targeting the SARS-CoV-2 nsp14 ExoN Catalytic Site
3rd Miah Christina Margiano (St Anthony's High School) St Anthony's High School Synergy of Treatment: Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in Small Cell Lung Cancer
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 1st Danielle Lauren Gruber (Great Neck North High School) Great Neck North High School A Game Theoretic Model of the Resting State Brain
1st Catherine Kim (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Novel Prediction of Adverse Drug Reactions and Underlying Pathological Mechanisms via Hierarchical Classification
2nd Reid Fleishman (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Creation of a Machine Learning App to Facilitate Pancreatic Cancer Prediction
3rd Mir Zayid Alam (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Identification of Genetic Biomarkers for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using an Automated Microarray-Based Pipeline and Pathway Enrichment
H.M Chapin Luke Zerner (Commack High School) Commack High School Using Machine Learning to Predict Features Related to the Adaptive Immune Response in COVID-19
H.M Michael Chu (Syosset High School) Syosset High School CoronaXNet: Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Automate the Detection of COVID-19 from Chest X-Ray Images
Earth and Environmental Sciences 1st Ashley Katherine Roth (Lynbrook High School) Lynbrook High School Aquatic Habitat Nitrate Levels on Long Island: The Effect of High Nitrate Levels on Anuran Species Abundance
1st Rithika Narayan (Elwood - John H. Glenn) Elwood - John H. Glenn Harnessing Deep Learning to Assess Coral Reef Health through Crowd-sourced Efforts
2nd Brianna Han (Commack High School) Commack High School Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for estimating rainfall rate from dual-polarization weather radar
3rd Blessycicilia Sebastian (W. Tresper Clarke High School) W. Tresper Clarke High School Analyzing the Effect of Silver Nanoparticles on Aquatic Daphnia Magna
H.M Rebecca Cho (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Associations between the North Atlantic Subtropical High and Tropical Cyclone Movement and Precipitation
H.M Noel F Manalil (East Meadow High School), Jayden Abraham (East Meadow High School) East Meadow High School The Effects of Media and Hydraulic Retention time on Nitrogen Retention in Bioreactors for Wastewater Treatment
Embedded Systems AND Engineering Mechanics 1st Margaret Anne Gates (Wantagh High School) Wantagh High School Autonomous Wildfire Detection and Containment System
2nd Ryan WIlliam Menier (Kings Park High School) Kings Park High School The Electron Ion Collider and the Evaluation of Steering Magnets for the Polarized Electron Source Prototype
Translational Medical Science AND Biomedical Engineering 1st Janice Kirti Rateshwar (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Molecular Mechanisms of Direct Inhibition of NF-κB Subunits by 9-chloro-8-(hexyloxy)-2H-chromeno[2,3-d] pyrimidine-2,4(3H)-dione (IT-848)
2nd Alice Zhaoyi Chen (Jericho High School) Jericho High School MRgRT and delta radiomics: Early prediction of survival in pancreatic cancer
Systems Software 1st James Connor (Northport High School) Northport High School Attributing State-backed Information Operations on Twitter through Machine Learning
2nd Steven Anthony Cayea (St Anthony's High School) St Anthony's High School Efficiency of Data Compression Algorithms for Low-Cost Laser Transceivers
Chemistry AND Material Science AND Energy:Sustainable Materials & Design 1st Brian Insuhp Lee (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Evaluating the efficacy of repurposed and modified traditional eastern medicinal compounds on Coronavirus Family specific target structures.
2nd Nishanth Chinnadurai (East Meadow High School), Udithi Kothapalli (St Anthony's High School), Hugo Patrick Onghai (Earl L. Vandermeulen High School/Port Jefferson UFSD) East Meadow High School Molecular-Imprinted Biosensor for SARS-CoV-2 Detection
3rd Benjamin Alex Sherman (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School Size Optimization of Gold Nanoparticles Functionalized on PEMFC Interfaces to Increase Power Efficiency
Robotics and Intelligent Machines 1st Ethan Horowitz (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School CET-CNN: Modular Hierarchical Image Classification Using Conditional-Execution Tree CNNs
2nd Mark Shapiro (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Analysis of Neural Network Community Structure: a Network-Theoretic Approach
Microbiology 1st Giselle Leah Rasquinha (Syosset High School) Syosset High School FD028: A Bifunctional HIV-1 Inactivator Acts Before Host Cell Entry
2nd Christopher Edward Alexander (Elmont Memorial) Elmont Memorial Avian Paramyxovirus Serotype 4 (APMV-4) Promotes Apoptotic Cell Death & Stimulated Immune Responses in Malignant Melanoma and Relapse Cancers in respect to Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV): Characterization of a Novel Oncolytic Virus
Plant Sciences 1st Blake Charles Lippman (George W. Hewlett High School), Tyler Logan Bissoondial (John F. Kennedy High School) George W. Hewlett High School Lipopolysaccharide and Galactose Induce Cell Death in Prothallial Cells of Gametophytes of Ceratopteris richardii
2nd Leena Alzafarani (Brentwood High School) Brentwood High School TURN TO NATURE: THE USE OF SALT WATER FOR THE MITIGATION AND CONTROL OF JAPANESE KNOTWEED, REYNOUTRIA JAPONICA
Math AND Physics & Astronomy 1st Kathryn Elizabeth Postiglione (Lynbrook High School) Lynbrook High School Analyzing the Photometry of Star Cluster Messier 39: Creation of Color Magnitude Diagram, Age Calculation, and Distance Measurement
2nd Uma Arengo (Long Beach High School) Long Beach High School Using Box-Counting Dimension to Quantify the Progressive Stages of Diabetic Retinopathy
3rd Sameer Singh (Valley Stream South High School) Valley Stream South High School Exo2: An Investigation into a Novel Characterization Model for Transit Photometry
Environmental Engineering 1st Julius Yoh (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School The Optimization of Desalination and Ion-Removal Rate Through the Engineering of Novel Turbulent Modular Designs in an Electrodialysis System
2nd Maya Lillian Maciel-Seidman (Bethpage High School), Suchitha Channapatna (Bethpage High School), Ruchitha Channapatna (Bethpage High School) Bethpage High School Solar-Powered Soil Sensing Robot: A Novel Agricultural Device for Monitoring Moisture and pH
Animal Sciences AND Plant Sciences 1st Sarah Kathryn Schubel (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East Loss of NMDA Receptor Signaling Results in Excess Proliferation of CNS and Neural Crest-Derived Cells
1st Soyoun Moon (Commack High School) Commack High School Exploring Sexual Dimorphism and Sex Hormone Receptor Expression in the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis (BNST) in the Monogamous Prairie Vole
2nd Madison Elias (Seaford High School) Seaford High School Can Green Tea Extend the Memory for Extinction Training in the Great Pond Snail (Lymnaea stagnalis)?
3rd Rehan Mujahid Mian (Smithtown High School West) Smithtown High School West A study on the structure, function, and evolution of the ꞵ1 and ꞵ2 adrenoceptors in Nematostella vectensis, the starlet sea anemone.
H.M Mariam Nadeem Hassan (Half Hollow Hills West) Half Hollow Hills West Effects of CCDC11 on Caudal Fin Regeneration in Danio rerio
H.M Chelsea Paige Russo (Seaford High School) Seaford High School The Effects of the Non-Nutritive Sweeteners Acesulfame Potassium and Neotame on Anxiety in Planaria (Dugesia dorotocephala).​
H.M Michelle Betty Brown (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School The Concurrent Effects of Metformin and Dietary Restriction on Parkinson's Disease in a Drosophila melanogaster Model
Behavioral and Social Sciences 1st Han Byur (Hailee) Youn (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Why We Vote: How Positive Descriptive Norms and Holding a Minority Political Viewpoint Increase Citizens' Intention and Responsibility to Vote
1st Jacob Aaron Leshnower (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Music and Emotion: The Intervallic Fallacy of the Major-Minor Dichotomy
1st Kyle Arjun Kavully (Plainedge High School) Plainedge High School American Dream or American Myth? A Linear Regression Analysis of American Attitudes as a Factor of Race and Ideology
2nd Angelina Marie Livigni (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Bad Medicine? An Analysis of Self-Advocacy Regarding Medical Malpractice Scenarios by High School Students
2nd Leigh Baratta (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder: The Impact of Beauty on Proliferation of Invasive Insect Species Lycorma delicatula, the Spotted Lanternfly
3rd Emily Yeh (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School The Effect of Genetically Modified Labeling of Plant and Animal Products on Consumer Perceptions
3rd Eli Weseley-Jones (North Shore High School) North Shore High School Numeracy and the Communication of Medical Risk
3rd Gabrielle Joy Oliva (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School The Impact of Ascribed Gender Stereotypes on Public Perceptions of Sexual Assault Victims
H.M Katherine Yuan Wang (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Assessing the Correlation between Perceived Parent-Child Relationship Quality and Executive Functioning in Early Adolescents
H.M Siddharth Sandeep Desai (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Resting-state functional connectivity of the medial dorsal nucleus in First-Episode Psychosis and its role in working memory
H.M Sabrina Guo (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Efficacy of Mask Use in Reducing SARS-CoV-2 Infection Rates
H.M Abigail Lev (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School The Inadvertent Detrimental Effects of Caucasian Performative Activism on the Perceived Societal Marginalization of the African American Population
H.M Hannah Paulina Brooks (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School “The War in Words”: Effects of Demographic and Personal Differences on Reactions to Semantically Bleached Nazi Compounds
H.M Olivia Ives Bailey (Garden City High School) Garden City High School Machine Learning Prediction and Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccine Rates by State
Biochemistry AND Microbiology 1st Lakxshanna Raveendran (Commack High School) Commack High School Characterizing the Secretion of the Francisella tularensis Protein FTL_1123
2nd Collin Steve Lung (Lynbrook High School) Lynbrook High School In Silico Studies of Neonicotinoids with CYPs and nAChRs - Opportunities for the Design of Selective Pesticides
3rd Tyler Daniel Nagosky (Smithtown High School West) Smithtown High School West Using Cnidarian nerve nets to visualize the excitotoxic effects of BMAA
H.M Chloe Chang (Herricks High School) Herricks High School Investigating the Therapeutic Potential of Epigallocatechin Gallate and Theaflavin-3, 3′-digallate on Inhibiting ACE2-Spike Protein Binding and Mitigating Induced-Cellular Death by SARS-CoV-2
H.M Anika G Petruccelli (East Hampton High School) East Hampton High School Assessing the Potential of Phage Therapy to Combat Antibiotic Resistance with Mycobacterium smegmatis
Biomedical and Health Sciences AND Biomedical Engineering 1st Griffin Hon (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Repurposed Cephalexin Causes Multifaceted Pro-cancer Effects by Way of Wnt Signaling Pathway
1st Christopher Prainito (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School Development of a Polydiacetylene-Based Paper Biosensor for Naked-Eye Detection of COVID-19 in Saliva
1st Natalia Pahlavan (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Automatic Diagnosis of the 12-lead Electrocardiogram: Cardiac Arrhythmia Detection Using a Deep Learning Approach
2nd Maxx Yung (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Activation of the Mu-Opioid Receptor on the Renin-Angiotensin System and Its Role In SARS-CoV-2 Treatment and Pathology
2nd Karly Chan (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School A User-Friendly and Non-Invasive Vocal Therapy Progress Tracker
3rd Stanley Kong (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Dicaffeoylquinic Acids Inhibit SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein-Induced Apoptosis: An In Silico and In Vitro Implication of a Novel Treatment to Mitigate Infection and Vaccine Side Effects
3rd Nathan Thomas Han (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Elucidating the Molecular Mechanisms of Toxicarioside A and Sulforaphene-Induced Colorectal Cancer Cell Death
3rd Olivia May Platt (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Determining The Regulatory Role of UFD1 in MYCN-driven Neuroblastoma
H.M Annette Park (North Shore High School) North Shore High School SARS-CoV-2 Spike Proteins Induce a Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine Response in Macrophages
H.M Jessie Dong (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Luteolin Targets Neuroblastoma and Lymphoma via Mitochondrial Complex 1
H.M Julie Theresa Moehringer (Sanford H. Calhoun) Sanford H. Calhoun Retinal Ganglion Cell Functional Recovery After Intraocular Pressure Lowering Treatment Using Prostaglandin Analogs In Glaucoma Suspects
H.M Jeylin Elizabeth Lee (Herricks High School) Herricks High School The Effect of Prophylactically Prescribed Anticoagulants and Dose Regimen on Prevalence of Venous Thromboembolism After COVID-19 Diagnosis
H.M Michael Khalfin (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Hemodynamics Model Illustrating Transradial Delivery of Anti-Tau Nanoparticle For Prodromal Alzheimer's Disease Intervention
Cellular and Molecular Biology 1st Miah Christina Margiano (St Anthony's High School) St Anthony's High School LncRNAs as a Potential Therapeutic Target for Neuroblastoma
2nd Ethan Masyn Abelev (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School The Role of Irisin in Human Reproduction
3rd Andrew Lee (Jericho High School) Jericho High School A Cell-type-specific Expression and Protein Interaction Analysis to Identify Autism Risk Genes
3rd Ethan Wang (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Gut microbiota and Alzheimer's disease: Investigating the role of copper and CCL11 dysregulation
H.M Leo Zhang (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Investigation of Rutin on Benzene-treated U937: A Focus on TNF-α and Superoxides
H.M Anneliese Margot Baum (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School Profiling pathway dysregulation in ovarian and pancreatic cell lines upon the loss of CUL4 E3 Ligase activity using novel inhibitor KH-4-43
H.M Benjamin Isaacson (Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School), Jane Brylewski (Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School), Fiona Schlegel (Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School) Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School Structural Determination of the Native form of tRNA Methyltransferase (TrmD) from Mycobacterium paratuberculosis subspecies avium
H.M Sinchana Venkatesh (Herricks High School) Herricks High School Assessing the Ability of Vitexin in Mitigating Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease.
Chemistry AND Materials Science 1st Alex Lin Wang (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Computational Assessment of Macrocyclic Host-Guest Ion-Dipole Interactions with Negative Pores
2nd Erin Yim (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Rationalization of Simple Ring Intermolecular π−π Stacking Interactions Investigated with DFT-d
3rd Cathrine Efsun Sakin (Walter G. O'Connell Copiague High School) Walter G. O'Connell Copiague High School The Efficacy of Chitosan on the Construction and Function of Compostable Wind Turbine Blades
H.M Paul Vincent Pillitteri (West Islip High School) West Islip High School Compositional Analysis of Oyster Shells Using Submicron Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy
H.M Samuel Philip Jacobson (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School The Effectiveness of Self-Oscillating, Catalyzed Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) Gel in Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics AND System Software 1st Kevin Zhu (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Investigating Recurrent Repeat Contractions in 10 Human Cancers
1st Amber Kaixin Luo (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School RiboBayes: Assessing the Transcriptome-wide Expression of Ribosome Pause Sites in Ribosome Profiling Data With Bayesian Wavelet Thresholding
2nd Aaquib Ahmed Syed (Smithtown High School West) Smithtown High School West Non-invasively Guiding Breast Cancer Chemotherapy Using Machine Learning with GLCM Textural Analysis
3rd David Liang (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School Beyond the Scales: A physics-informed machine learning approach for more efficient modeling of SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein
3rd Shreya Kannan (Half Hollow Hills West), Bethany Siegel (Half Hollow Hills West), Marlene McKinney (Half Hollow Hills West) Half Hollow Hills West Development of a Chromotherapy-based Mobile Game for Stress and Mood Management
H.M Chloe Chan (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Support Vector Machine for Autism Spectrum Characterization: Exploiting Brain Connectivities from fMRI, DWI, and a Combination of Both Modalities for Improved Diagnostic Accuracy
H.M Wafiq Khondkar (Herricks High School) Herricks High School A Novel Framework for Evaluation and Parameter Tuning of Missing Value Imputation
H.M Brian Song (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Detection of Northern Leaf Blight in Natural Environment Using Optimized YOLOv3
Earth and Environmental Sciences 1st Rebecca Cho (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Reconstruction modeling using tectonics and climate of western North America
1st Tarunika Sasikumar (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Assessing the Efficacy of the U.S Endangered Species Act through the Novel Quantification of Species Charisma and Respective Population Trends
2nd Dylan Maxwell D'Agate (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Climatological Impact of Sudden Stratospheric Warming Events on the Atmospheric Circulation and Nature of Extratropical Cyclones over Eastern North America
3rd roberto Antonio Lopez (Brentwood High School) Brentwood High School EVALUATING PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS WRACK ACCUMULATION IN A LONG ISLAND SALT MARSH ECOSYSTEM AND ASSESSING ITS EFFECT ON CARBON SEQUESTRATION, THE NITROGEN CYCLE, AND SEDIMENT BIOTA
H.M Ricardo Lopez (Brentwood High School) Brentwood High School EVALUATING SALT MARSH RESTORATION AT SUNKEN MEADOW: ANALYSIS OF SEDIMENT LOSS AND ACCRETION.     
H.M Kiera McKenna Darnell (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Modelling coastal erosion using future hurricane scenarios
H.M Kayla J Sohn (Herricks High School) Herricks High School Biologically Inspired Material Design for Selective Removal of Estradiol Water Contaminants
Energy: Sustainable Materials & Design AND Engineering Technology AND Environmental Engineering 1st Ava Malysa (Manhasset High School), Samantha Palmadessa (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Electrocoagulation with Aluminum, Copper, and Zinc Electrodes for Aqueous Methylene Blue Dye Remediation and Sustainable Energy Production
1st Emily Kim (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Synergistic removal of RB5 by activated carbon under UV irradiation
2nd Aavi Lund (East Meadow High School) East Meadow High School The Utilization of a Tilt-rotor Mechanism to Minimize Forward Flight Drag of an H-shaped Quadcopter for Delivery Drone Applications
3rd Emily Theodosopoulos (Manhasset High School), Adam De Leeuw (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Engineering the optimal dye-sensitized solar cell by comparing anthocyanin and chlorophyll dyes, dye immersion time, and counter electrodes.
H.M Ericka Lai (Manhasset High School), Christian Kim (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Simultaneous Azo Dye Removal and Bioelectricity Generation by an Up-Flow Constructed Wetland-Microbial Fuel Cell with Biochar Substrate
H.M Allison Zhang (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Design of a Soft Robotic Gripper Inspired by the Seahorse Skeleton
Embedded Systems AND Robotics and Intelligent Machines 1st James Nagler (Garden City High School) Garden City High School Project Vision - Virtual environment through AI recognition
2nd Samay Lakhani (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Applying Spatiotemporal Attention to Identify Distracted and Drowsy Driving with Vision Transformers
3rd Chigozirim Nodebechukwu Ifebi (Elmont Memorial) Elmont Memorial How to Train Your Multi-view Cloth Classifier
H.M Kevin Holden Taylor (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Creating a “Third Eye” for the Visually Impaired with Object Detection
H.M Sreenand Mallisetty (Hauppauge High School) Hauppauge High School Creating an Algorithm for a Handwritten Digit Recognition - Convolutional Neural Network Model by Optimizing Momentum, Weights, and Biases.
Mathematics AND Physics and Astronomy 1st Daniel Salkinder (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East nxnxn Rubik's Cubes and God's Number
2nd Kailly Elizabeth Nocera (Seaford High School) Seaford High School Glacial and Fluvial Activity During Periods of High Obliquity in Arabia Terra
3rd Alice Tianxin Wang (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East A magic condition monochromator design for implementation at the NSLS-II
H.M Zachary Finger (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East Rare Isotope Production at the Electron Ion Collider
H.M Katherine Ranjbar (Earl L. Vandermeulen High School (Port Jefferson)) Earl L. Vandermeulen High School (Port Jefferson) Impact of Imperfection Spin Resonance Strength on Depolarization in RHIC
Translational Medical Science 1st Collin Li (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School SmartClick: A Novel Automated Segmentation Tool for Medical Images with Interactive Optimization Capabilities Designed for Liver Cysts
2nd Ethan Anthony Chiu (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Developing a Self-Formed Ectodermal Autonomous Multi-Zone Organoid Model using Human Stem Cells to Examine the Effect of Doxycycline Treatment on Uveal Melanoma.
3rd Janice Rateshwar (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Novel Small Molecule IT-848* Treatment of Hematological Malignancies: IT-848-based Direct Inhibition of NF-κB and Combination Treatments
H.M Jessica Guo (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School Piperlongumine and Piperlonguminine Mitigate Rotenone Induced Neurotoxicity: Implications for a Novel Parkinson's Disease Treatment
H.M Sana Saleem Nabi (Herricks High School) Herricks High School A Novel Assessment of Splenic Tissue Following Electrical Stimulation of the Dorsal Motor Nucleus of the Vagus in Murine Endotoxemia
Animal Sciences 1st Ibrahim Syed Qadri (Valley Stream South High School) Valley Stream South High School The Ability of Vitamin E to Improve the Locomotor Fitness, Reproduction, and Metabolic Respiration of Nicotine-Induced D. melanogaster
2nd Jennifer Zhong (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East A Larval Zebrafish Model for the Developmental Effects of Hypoxia on Survival and Behavior
3rd Hiral Milind Chavre (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School NMDA Receptor Mutation and KCC2 Inhibition Induce Changes in Brain Development Associated with Neurodevelopmental Diseases
H.M JIn Ko (Commack High School) Commack High School Behavioral Analysis on the discrepancies in Circadian Rhythms of Drosophila melanogaster and its mutational counterparts
H.M Devaanshi Kawatra (Bethpage High School) Bethpage High School Investigating the Role of Sunlight in Regenerating Planarians
Behavioral and Social Sciences 1st Mikayla Schwartz (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Occupational Stress and Mental Health Outcomes among the Emergency Medical Services Population
1st Elif Koch (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Impacts of Levodopa and Traditional Medicines on the Locomotion of Alpha-Synuclein Caenorhabditis elegans
1st Holy Mary Zaher (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East The Correlation Between Peroxisome Levels and Short-Term Memory Loss in a PINK1 -/- Rat Model of Parkinson's Disease
2nd Zachary David Kam (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Transformative Transactions: An Analysis of Factors Affecting ESG and Impact Investing Behaviors
2nd Sabrina Guo (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Differential Emergency Contraceptive Use Among Young Women in the United States from 2006 to 2019
2nd Jacob Aaron Leshnower (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Employing the Open Fifth to Determine Emotional Bias in Music's Major-Minor Dichotomy
3rd Jonathan Zhang (Commack High School) Commack High School Differential Diagnosis of Sleep Disorder Subtypes with Neural Aperiodic Components
3rd Margaret H. Lin (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School The Effect of Eco-Labeling Methods on Food Packaging on Consumer Health Halos
3rd Sara Rosenbaum (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School The Effect of Image Manipulation on Social Comparison, Body Satisfaction, and Self-Esteem
H.M Sydney Flisser (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Verb Learning With and Without Modifiers in Autistic Toddlers
H.M Rena Geula (John L. Miller Great Neck North High School) John L. Miller Great Neck North High School Comparison of Human Social Brain Activity During Eye-Contact With Another Human and a Humanoid Robot
H.M Samantha Altieri (Valley Stream North High School) Valley Stream North High School Analyzing Adult Political Opinion Through Alternative Characterizations of the January 6th, 2021, Capitol Attack
H.M Zainab Razia (Valley Stream South High School) Valley Stream South High School Differences in the Emotional Interpretation of Whole-Body Expressions based on Immigrant Status and the Role of Cognitive and Affective Empathy.
Bio Chemistry and Bio Medial Engineering 1st Natalia Pahlavan (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Bidirectional 12-lead Electrocardiogram and Electrogram Reconstruction Using a Cycle Generative Adversarial Network
2nd Alex L Wang (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Spatially Multiplexed Gold Leaf Electrodes for Affordable Pathogenic Detection
3rd Amber Sun (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Neuroprotective Effects of Red Raspberry Extract and Broussoflavonol B in Alzheimer's Disease Models
H.M Abigail Smith (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Skin Cancer Detection with Raspberry Pi and TensorFlow
H.M Alice Tianxin Wang (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East A novel general method for in-liquid atomic force microscopy and near-field optical microscopy of photosensitive proteins
Biomedical and Health Sciences 1st Jake Ethan Konigsberg (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Investigating the Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Famotidine
1st Natasha Kulviwat (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Claudin-5: A Novel Biomarker of Blood-Brain Barrier Breakdown to Predict and Prevent Suicide
2nd Andria Chen (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Investigating Genetic and Biological Differences between African American and Caucasian Endometrial Cancer Patients
2nd Benjamin Nyein Punzalan (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Crosstalk between Alzheimer's disease and SARS-CoV-2 infection is mitigated by ginkgolides A and B in HTB-11 and U937 cell models
3rd Alexis Lauren Alfasi (Oceanside High School) Oceanside High School The Effects of Mevastatin on 3p Loss and 3q Chromosome Gain
3rd Emelie Jada Nguyen (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Global DNA Methylation Profiles of WTC-Associated Breast and Prostate Cancer Tissue
H.M Amanda Gail Liswood (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Effects of Cytokines on Lacrimal Gland Myoepithelial Cell Contractile Ability
H.M Grace Motta (Elwood - John H. Glenn), Alexandra Nicole Ebanks (Harborfields High School) Elwood - John H. Glenn Examining the Relationship between gC1qR and the PD-1/PD-L1 Axis in Hepatitis-C, HIV-1, and Cancer Cells.
H.M Aleeza Naeem Mughal (Plainedge High School) Plainedge High School An Examination of the American Smile: An Analysis of Dental Attendance Disparity Factors
Cellular and Molecular Biology 1st Lucas Evan Sher (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Rethinking Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) Prognosis: Analysis of KRAS-dependent Biomarkers Across Subtypes
2nd Miah Margiano (St Anthony's High School) St Anthony's High School Spontaneous Regression in Neuroblastoma: Analysis of Prognostic LncRNAs
3rd Dana Kagan (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Employing CRISPR Cas9 editing to correct the ΔF508 mutation of the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Gene
H.M Addison Miles Klebanov (John L. Miller Great Neck North High School) John L. Miller Great Neck North High School Evaluating the Effect of βII Spectrin Knockout on Pyruvate Kinase Molecule 2 Expression and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Development
H.M Amelia Ilyse Abell (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Analyzing the interaction between HRAS, STAT3 and LRPPRC in the mitochondria
Chemistry and Material Science 1st Vincent W. Huang (Syosset High School) Syosset High School An advanced computer app for simulating white-beam diffraction Laue patterns ​in modern X-ray crystallography​
2nd Jolene Hanying Cao (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East Periodic Arrays of PDMS for Light-Driven Reversible Printing and Encryption
3rd Ericka Lai (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Phosphorylation of Cellulose Nanofibers for Ammonium Adsorption
H.M Asfar Chaudhry (West Islip High School) West Islip High School Elemental Analysis of Lichens Through Tender Energy X-ray Spectroscopy
H.M Hannah Helen Van Son (Cold Spring Harbor High School) Cold Spring Harbor High School The Mechanosynthesis of Yb3+ Doped CsPbCl3.
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 1st Kevin Zhu (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Micro-Changing Short Tandem Repeats: Investigating A Novel Genomic Factor of Polymorphism in 10 Human Cancers
2nd Camryn Marisa Neches (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School The Identification and Analysis of Novel TP53 Hotspots and p53 Protein Structures
3rd Alexandre Tourneux (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School The Annotation of Novel Datasets for the Training of Cellori (Cell Origin) Spots, a Deep Learning Algorithm for RNA FISH Spot Detection
H.M Reed Matthew Paltrow (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Online Machine Learning of Platelet Dynamics via Massive Multiscale Modeling
H.M Amit Saha (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Deep Learning Accelerated Lattice-Boltzmann Simulations for Multiscale Modeling of Thrombosis
Earth and Environmental Sciences 1st Joseph Daniel Sciotto (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School Laboratory studies of X-ray amorphous phases: Constraining the amorphous components in Martian Soils and Rocks
1st Kevin Mauricio Leal (Brentwood High School) Brentwood High School Cost-Effective Air Quality Monitoring Using Readily Available Programming Interfaces
1st Emma D Fallon (West Islip High School) West Islip High School Analysis of Microplastic Compositions in Salt and Freshwater on the South Shore of Long Island
2nd Christina Ziccardi (Kings Park High School) Kings Park High School Projected spatial overlap of Brevoortia tyrannus with BOEM Wind Farm Lease Areas in the NewYork Bight as influenced by time and water temperature changes
2nd Megan Cheng (Herricks High School) Herricks High School Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and Gross Primary Productivity: Predicting Biogenic Carbon Fluxes in the New York City Metropolitan Area
2nd Gabrielle Hope Geller (Lynbrook Senior High School) Lynbrook Senior High School The Effects of Ocean Acidification and Different Plastic Substrates on the Abundance of Pathogenic Vibrio in the Plastisphere
3rd Sophia Davis Marchioli (North Shore High School) North Shore High School The Morning Cup of Joe is in Danger: A climate assessment of Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda in relation to coffee
3rd Zoe Naree Chinda (Bethpage High School) Bethpage High School Minimizing Nitrogen Fertilizer Use for Residential Lawns
3rd Michelle Yu (North Shore High School) North Shore High School Don't Count Your Styela plicata Eggs Before They Hatch: The Impact of Salinity on Fertilization
H.M Skye Louise Tanzmann (East Hampton High School) East Hampton High School Estimating Oyser Reef Clearance Rates and Evaluating Reef Mortality
H.M Ryan Matthew Guzman (Kings Park High School) Kings Park High School Using Artemia salina as a model to observe the effect of acidification on a marine ecosystem.
H.M Parisa Pitiranggon (Bethpage High School) Bethpage High School The Effects of Fertilizers with Different Levels of Element Content on Soil pH
Embedded Systems, Robotics and Intellectual Machines and System Software 1st Imran Karim Gangat (Syosset High School) Syosset High School A Novel Reinforcement Learning-Based Neural Network for Stock Portfolio Management
2nd Samay Lakhani (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Fusing ConvNeXt and Histogram of Oriented Gradients (CNHOG) for Modular and Efficient Driver Distraction Detection
3rd James Nagler (Garden City High School) Garden City High School Project Shadow - Custom Wireless Student Safety Tracker For Schools
H.M Anagh Gupta (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East Computational Modeling of Pedestrian Traffic Flow in a Suburban High School
H.M Mannat Vikramaditya Jain (Garden City High School) Garden City High School Using Machine Learning to Translate Sign Language Gestures into Text and Speech
Engineering: Sustainable Energy and Engineering Technology 1st Emily Theodosopoulos (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Production of Plasma-Enhanced SiO2 films for optimizing photovoltaic cells
2nd Egan Robert Barzilay (East Hampton High School) East Hampton High School Time-Averaged Flow Field Prediction Of Wind Turbine Wakes Using Autoencoder Convolutional Neural Networks
3rd Manav Gupta (Manhasset High School), William Charles Wesson (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Application of Piezoelectrics to Solar Cells to Optimize Energy Harvesting Abilities via Exposure to Varying Weather Conditions
H.M Chelsea Lim (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Optimizing the Conversion Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Using Chlorophyll and Anthocyanins
H.M ivy li (The Stony Brook School) The Stony Brook School Analysis and Design of Biomorphic Snake Robot
Environmental Engineering 1st Sofia Eliza Maciel-Seidman (Bethpage High School), Riya Saha (Bethpage High School), Joy Kim (Bethpage High School) Bethpage High School Developing a Hydroponic System With The Incorporation of an Arduino Uno Powered pH Sensor
2nd Ankur Raghavan (Bethpage High School) Bethpage High School Reduction of Agricultural Water Consumption through the Utilization of a Wireless Sensor Array
3rd Ashley Lam (Herricks High School) Herricks High School Novel Zinc Oxide/Nanocellulose Composite as a Low-Cost Photocatalyst for Water Purification
H.M Dylan Yoon (Manhasset High School), Emily Zhao (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Sustainable Sargassum Supercapacitive Microbial Desalination Fuel Cell for Improved Bioelectricity Production and Simultaneous Desalination
H.M Shaan Merchant (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Plant Guardian: Hybrid Drone System and Deep Learning Approach to Plant Disease Classification
Math, Physics and Astromony 1st Yida Pan (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School), Luke Huang (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School VaSt-ID: Novel Application for Variable Star Identification and Classification using Machine Learning
2nd Kailly Elizabeth Nocera (Seaford High School) Seaford High School An Analysis of Exoplanets WASP-33b, WASP-3b, CoRot-8b, and HAT-P-32b Using the Transit Method
3rd Brandon David Berkoff (Commack High School) Commack High School Lunar Water Content as Determined by Crater Feature Analysis
H.M Miraj Ketan Shah (Bethpage High School) Bethpage High School The Impact of New Base Size on Major League Baseball Outcomes
H.M Viti Chandra (Half Hollow Hills West) Half Hollow Hills West Quantum Computing for Rotating, Charged, de Sitter, and String Black Holes
Microbiology 1st Sammer Soliman (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School Pioneering Microbial Communities and Biofilm Succession on Plastic in a New York City Waterway
2nd Jacob Tyler Gross (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School In Vitro Analysis Reveals Synergistic Interactions Among SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizing Antibodies
3rd Riley J Fowler (Lynbrook Senior High School) Lynbrook Senior High School Establishing the Connection Between the Twin-Arginine Translocation A1 and Twin-Arginine Translocation A2 Protein Pathways in Acinetobacter baylyi as a Model Organism
H.M Grace YS Na (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Antibacterial Activity of Spice Essential Oils Against Escherichia coli
H.M Cooper Alan Ceva (East Hampton High School) East Hampton High School The Effect of pH on Growth and Hydrocarbon Metabolism of Alcanivorax Borkumensis sk2
Plant Sciences 1st Jack C Schultz (Westhampton Beach High School) Westhampton Beach High School Alteration in Concentration and Spatial Distribution of Selenium, Copper, and Essential Physiological Micronutrients in Saccharina Latissima in a Dose-Response to Carbon Dioxide.
2nd Tyler Logan Bissoondial (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School Isolation and Characterization of a Class III High-Affinity Potassium Transporter (HKT) in the Seedless Vascular Fern Ceratopteris richardii
3rd Landon Asher D'Agate (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Seed Priming with Melatonin Improves Drought Tolerance in Maize
H.M Jessica Donna Penna (Smithtown High School East), Sanjivani Singh (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East Reducing Nitrogen Pollution from Chemical Fertilizers Through the Implementation of Nitrogen-Fixation-Inducing Bacillus subtilis
H.M Mikayla Joseph (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School Orthologue of Root Hair Defective 3 (RHD3) in Ceratopteris richardii is affected by DNA Methylation and Regulates Rhizoid Development in Gametophytes
Translational Medical Science 1st Yifu Zuo (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School), Richard Li Xu (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School FetA.I.: A novel fetal health classification program using soft voting with deep and ensemble learning
2nd Ty Michael Gelman (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School The Concurrent Effects of Dietary Restriction and Exercise on a Drosophila melanogaster Model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy
3rd Rhea Sakaria (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Identifying a Potent Wnt Compound to Enhance Stemness Post-Radiation through Activating the Canonical Wnt Signaling Pathway
H.M Anna Louise Rohring (Commack High School) Commack High School ssPERG Parameters Associated with Visual Field Global Indices and OCT Thickness Measurements in Glaucoma Suspects
H.M Xinyi Zhang (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Alpha-lipoic acid treatment of Drosophila melanogaster as a novel therapeutic method targeting mTOR-associated cognitive deficits in Fragile X Syndrome
Plant Sciences 1st Leah Irene Fromm (East Hampton High School) East Hampton High School Growth promotion of hydroponic Lactuca sativa var. capitata and microgreen Raphanus sativus when exposed to Pseudomonas psychrotolerans consistently throughout the growth period
2nd Jessica Mary Curran (Westhampton Beach High School) Westhampton Beach High School The Efficacy of Rhodophyta as a Seaweed Liquid Fertilizer through Okra and Arabidopsis Growth, Pigment Concentration, and Macronutrient/Micronutrient Distribution Using Tender Energy Spectroscopy
2nd Lilly Sarah Horowitz (Jericho High School) Jericho High School The Role of DNA Methylation as an Epigenetic Silencing Mechanism of Ds1 and Ds2 Transposition in Maize
3rd Ariella Joy Golbin (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School Regulation of Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Kinase 7 (MKK7) affects salt tolerance in the gametophytes of Ceratopteris richardii​
3rd Meredith Margaret Browne (East Hampton High School) East Hampton High School Influence of mycorrhizal inoculants on mass, and water uptake in Lactuca sativa var. capitata under salt stress
H.M Samuel Hsu (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School A Matrix Metalloproteinase (MMP) Regulated By Salicylic Acid (SA) And Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) Plays An Integral Role In Prothallial Development Of Gametophytes Of Ceratopteris richardii
H.M Cameron Oliver Mitchell (East Hampton High School) East Hampton High School Influence of common chemical phosphorus and nitrogen fertilizers with mycorrhizal fungi Rhizophagus and Glomus families on the growth of Pisum sativum legumes.
Animal Sciences 1st Kaitlin Kaiting Ho (North Shore High School) North Shore High School Cocoa's Cognitive Triumph: The Rescue of the Alzheimer's Model of Drosophila melanogaster with Theobroma cacao Supplementation
1st Katherine Lee (Jericho High School) Jericho High School C-Fos and Reelin Protein Localization: Brain Fluorescence Imaging of Activity Pathways in Mice During Sensory Behavior Tasks
2nd Nicole Lynn Yeroushalmi (John L. Miller Great Neck North High School) John L. Miller Great Neck North High School The Effect of Diet on Galleria mellonella Larvae's Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis
3rd Kayla Palumbo (Sacred Heart Academy) Sacred Heart Academy CAN MODERN BLUE LIGHT-BLOCKING TECHNOLOGY EFFECTIVELY SHIELD DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER FROM HARM?
3rd Yasmeen Antonia Muñoz (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Host Preference of the Spotted Lanternfly, Lycorma delicatula (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae), Throughout its Life Cycle: A Citizen Science Observational Analysis
H.M Margit Tess Romero (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Estimating the Density of the Endangered Agile Gibbon (Hylobates agilis) Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring
H.M Brenton Lee (Syosset High School) Syosset High School The Effects of Astragalus membranaceus Derivatives on the Prevention of Neuron Degeneration Caused by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in C. elegans and Computational Protein Software
Embedded, Technology Arts, Technology Engineering, and Energy Sustainability 1st Michelle Luo (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Anisotropic Ion Transport Properties of Thin-Film Solid Polymer Electrolytes
1st James Nagler (Garden City High School) Garden City High School Project Vision - Assisted Navigation & Waypoint Positioning through 3D Mapping
2nd Dylan Ann Cashin (East Hampton High School) East Hampton High School Saccharina latissima in biofuel production: Identifying the ideal water conditions and their effect in biofuel production through a chemical extraction method
3rd Sarah Phinney (Garden City High School) Garden City High School Using an Intraoral Scanner to Extract and Evaluate Contours of Oboe Reeds
H.M Vincent W. Huang (Syosset High School) Syosset High School An Aerodynamic Analysis of Blended-Wing Body Aircraft with Nonplanar Wing Geometry
Earth and Environment with Environmental Engineering 1st Yoav Zeev Muscal (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Using Machine Learning Species Distribution Modeling as a Novel Approach to Efficiently Predict Forest Development Suitability
1st Dylan Yoon (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School The Enhancement of a Novel 3D-Printed Electrodialysis Device through the Implementation and Optimization of Spacer Designs
1st Manfred Lim (Jericho High School) Jericho High School From Data to Insights: Understanding Global Soil Respiration Through Machine Learning
2nd Allison Chen (Herricks High School) Herricks High School The Accelerated Retreat of Andean Glaciers: Using Google Earth Engine and Landsat Satellite Imagery to Quantify the Imminent Threat to Water Security in Andean Communities
2nd Shuewei Chen (Manhasset High School), Sonali Patel (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Adapted Algae-Powered Photovoltaic Cells Remediate Microplastics From Water: A Cost-Effective and Sustainable Solution
2nd Gunoo Shin (Smithtown High School West) Smithtown High School West Erosia: A Fully Digitally Focused Application to Accurately Compute Soil Erosion in a Raster Format via GIS Based on the Universal Soil Loss Equation.
2nd Bradley Scott Kelton (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School Geochronologic and Dynamic Constraints on the Topographic Evolution and Critical Mineral Deposits of the Southwestern United States
3rd Andrew Michael Falco (Walter G. O'Connell Copiague High School) Walter G. O'Connell Copiague High School The Use of Pueraria montana in the Production of a Biodegradable Low Density Polyethylene Plastic
3rd Emily Zhao (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Novel Eutrophication Remediation Turbine For Piezocatalytic Inactivation Of Anabaena In Optimized Turbulent Flow
3rd Dylan Jinghong Shen (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East A Novel Algorithm for Measuring Forest Incursions Using Pixelated Remote Sensing Data
3rd Tej Jonah Parekh (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Utilizing Artificial Intelligence for Categorizing Wildfire Origins through Satellite Image Analysis
3rd Yujay An (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School Understanding the Predictability of the U.S. Seasonal Surface Temperature with Convolutional Neural Networks Trained on CESM2 LENS
H.M Oscar Wang (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Scale-Invariance of Trait Distribution Patterns in Tropical Trees: Consistency Across Spatial Scales
H.M Alenna Lin (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School AOP (Advanced Oxidation Process)/ARP (Advanced Reduction Process) for PFAS in Water Systems
H.M Grace Kathryn Orr (Westhampton Beach High School) Westhampton Beach High School Calcium Hydroxide Enhances the Adaptive Ability of Coral Species E. Ancora, D. Actinodiscus, and M. Capricornis, Exposed to Decreased pH and Elevated Temperatures in an Ocean Simulated Environment
H.M Bethany Marie Kosinski (Valley Stream South High School) Valley Stream South High School The Effect of Increased Oxygen and Temperature on Microalgae's Ability to Remove Phosphorous and Nitrogen From Water Samples
Cellular and Molecular Biology with Biomedical Engineering 1st Ava Brooke Goldsmith (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School Targeting of Epichaperome Downregulates HCFC1 Mediated Transcription of Oncogenes: Implications in Breast Cancer Therapy
1st Rishi Aravind (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East A Novel Role for aIIbB3 in the Development of Procoagulant Platelets via Phosphatidylserine (PS) Exposure
2nd Madeline Ella Rong (The Wheatley School) The Wheatley School Investigating the Impacts of Dasatinib, Resveratrol and Gallic Acid on Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Cell Proliferation
2nd Anjali Anand (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Fli1 and Galectin-3: Targets to Reduce Collagen Accumulation in Scleroderma.
3rd Hannah Rubin (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Assessing the quality of 5% GelMA bioink
3rd Aasiya Zehra Zaidi (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Reading the Book of Life, One Palindrome at a Time: Creating Novel Short Palindromic Sequence Detectors and High-Resolution Conservation Tools to Identify Important Sequence in C. elegans
H.M Sahil Nilesh Patel (St Anthony's High School) St Anthony's High School Unraveling a Circrna-Mirna-Mrna Axis: A Potential Therapeutic Target for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
H.M Aafia Ahmed (Elmont Memorial) Elmont Memorial Investigating the JAK2/STAT3 Signaling Pathway in Methylmercury-Induced Toxicity in Mouse Astrocyte Neuronal C8-d1a Cell Line
H.M Ishana Chadha (Commack High School) Commack High School The Effect of Metal Toxicity Induced mtDNA Mutations on Parkinson's Disease Pathology in Model Organism C. elegans
Behavioral and Social Sciences 1st Stasya Selizhuk (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Design of Generic Epinephrine Auto-Injector Minimizes Administration Error and Fingerstick Injury
1st Syon Khatter (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Investigating Impacts of Sucralose on Hedonic Feeding Behaviors in C. elegans as a Model for Prevention and Treatment of Obesity and Eating Disorders
2nd Ryan Joon Yong Lee (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Investigating the Effects of Emotional Parent-Child Communication and Perceived Parental Acculturation on the Coping-Self Efficacy of Adolescents
2nd Ashley-Ann Vinece Francis (Valley Stream South High School) Valley Stream South High School Childhood Environment & Maternal vs. Paternal Role in Food Addiction Development: A Cross-Cultural Study
3rd Matthew Wang (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Elucidating Adolescent Mental Health via Social Determinants of Mental Health Clusters
3rd Holly Rae Sternlicht (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Investigating the Influence of Closed Captions on Viewers' Advertisement Experience
3rd Eli Joshua Weseley-Jones (North Shore High School) North Shore High School Improving Understanding of Conditional Probability in Medical Screening Tests
H.M Damariz Irene McCrae (Plainedge High School) Plainedge High School Predicting GOP Voter Preferences Through Sentiment, Polarity, and Word Cloud analyses of Political Rhetoric from The 2023 GOP Primaries; Implications on the Democratic Process
H.M Hannah Isabelle Rosenberg (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Christian Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and Attitudes Toward the War in Ukraine
Microbiology and Biochemistry 1st Mehek Kaur Sawhney (Commack High School) Commack High School Secretion of the Francisella tularensis Protein FTL_1123 by Escherichia coli Containing the HlyBD Operon
2nd Kiran Kaur Johar (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Determination and Analysis of Apolipoprotein-L1 Binding Site Nature with Partnering Isoforms to Treat APOL1-Mediated Kidney Dysfunction
3rd Jayden Tucker Simon (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School The Utilization of Metagenomics to Determine the Effects of Plastic Polymer Types and a Temporal Gradient on Microbial Communities
H.M Zoe Naree Chinda (Bethpage High School) Bethpage High School Evaluating the Effects of Plasmid Copy Number and Size on Bacterial Host Cell Fitness
H.M Nicole Kiaei (John L. Miller Great Neck North High School) John L. Miller Great Neck North High School The Binding Affinity of Python-Derived 16α-Hydroxylated Bile Acid ‘Pythocholic Acid' to Human Bile Acid Receptors TGR5, FXR, and VDR
Robotics, Intelligent Machines and Software 1st Milan Lustig (Cold Spring Harbor High School) Cold Spring Harbor High School A Configurable Compiled Programming Language With Integrated Transpilation
2nd Marcus Wu (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Optimizing Measurement Error Mitigation to Account for Cross-Talk Errors in Superconducting Quantum Computers
3rd Alexander Y Xu (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School CARe-BERT: BERT-Powered Graph Augmentation for Context-Aware Radiology Report Retrieval
H.M Zabelle Bobelian (Cold Spring Harbor High School) Cold Spring Harbor High School Deep Neural Nets for Imaging Systems
H.M Alex Lu (Manhasset High School), Johnny Liu (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Context Is All You Need: Learning Context-Based Emotional Nuances From Uncontextualized Labels
Math, Physics and Astronomy 1st Arav Chand (Half Hollow Hills West) Half Hollow Hills West Extensions of Legendre's Formula and Fine's Theorem to the Fibonacci Factorial
2nd Nora Kathleen Kane (Lynbrook Senior High School) Lynbrook Senior High School Analysis of Fourier Transforms Using a Combined Encoder-Decoder and Deep Neural Network Model: A Novel Method for Determining Chromaticity
3rd Cayden Shen (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Using an Inexpensive Night Vision Camera as a Detector in NIR Spectroscopy
3rd Benjamin Hongxuan Zhang (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School Emulating Quenching in Galaxy Groups Using High-Resolution Cosmological Simulations
H.M Ethan Cole Berkowitz (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School The Strength of p-Coloring as a Knot Invariant
H.M Tiffany Zhang (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Resolving the Constraints Imposed by Chiral Effective Field Theory and Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics on the Neutron Star Equation of State
Chemistry and Material Science 1st Samyra Mahiba (Jericho High School) Jericho High School DNA Crystallography: Exploring Small-Molecule Interactions With DNA for Nanoscale Drug Delivery
2nd Jolene Hanying Cao (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East Synthesis of Stable and Magnetically Tunable Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots by Nano-Encapsulation
3rd Derek Zhang (The Wheatley School), Ashley Huang (Syosset High School) The Wheatley School The Impact of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles on Keratinacyte Proliferation and Differentiation
H.M Dylan Dale Butler (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School Synthesis of N2, N4-Disubstituted quinazoline-2,4-diamine Derivatives as inhibitors of Adenosine/Guanosine Nucleoside Hydrolase in Trichomoniasis
H.M Aman Thawani (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Computational Solution of the Time-Independent Schroedinger Equation via a Finite Legendre Polynomial-based Spectral Expansion
Translational Medical Science 1st Sophia Antonina Tarasenko (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Effects of Calcitriol on Menstrual Effluent-Derived Endometrial Stromal Cell Viability, Decidualization, and Proliferation
2nd Caden Li (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Automated Volumetric Biomarker Segmentation and Combination for Superior ADPKD Progression Prediction using Machine Learning
3rd Alex Chen (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Evaluating the Neuroprotective Effects of Spearmint Oil in the Caenorhabditis elegans Model of Alzheimer's Disease
H.M Amy Hong Xiao (Garden City High School) Garden City High School A Novel Approach to Characterizing Pathogenicity of SLC25A13 Variants in Patients with Citrin Deficiency
H.M Jonathan Zhu (Carle Place High School) Carle Place High School ​​Exploring the Potential Synergistic Antitumor Effect of L-Se-Methylselenocysteine and Sulforaphane on Human Cancer Cell Lines
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 1st Tessla Chan (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Utilizing Deep-Learning to Facilitate Diagnosis of Look-Alike Leukemia Subtypes
2nd Mannat V. Jain (Garden City High School) Garden City High School A Deep Learning Algorithm to Identify and Predict Tissue Abnormality in Fetal Ultrasounds.
3rd Michael Ren (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Elucidating Resistance Mechanisms in Staphylococcus epidermidis: A High-Performing MALDI-TOF MS-Based Proteomic Approach for Predictive Modeling
H.M Erin Wong (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Predicting Lobula Columnar Cell Responses in Drosophila
H.M Matt Yang (W.C. Mepham High School) W.C. Mepham High School MultiFormer: Single-Cell ATAC to RNA Prediction Framework
Biomedical and Health Sciences 1st Natasha Kulviwat (Jericho High School) Jericho High School CLDN5 Downregulation and Albumin: Investigating Hallmarks of Blood-Brain Barrier Breakdown as Novel Biomarkers of Suicide Neuropathology
1st Alena Tsai (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Integrated In-silico and In-vitro Experimental Strategies for the Application of Carbon Quantum Dots in Alzheimer's Research
2nd Griffin Hon (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Evaluating Differential Nutritional Regulation of Stem Cell Plasticity
2nd Hiuyi Cheng (Herricks High School) Herricks High School Evaluating Border Associated Macrophages: A Novel Approach to Investigating Cerebral Blood Flow Dysregulation in APOE4 Mice
3rd Alaina Brooke Pinto (The Wheatley School) The Wheatley School Microscopy of Claudin and Occludin Internalization in Brain Endothelial Cells After IL-32 Stimulation.
3rd Rebecca Bover (Herricks High School) Herricks High School The Novel Effect of Rosuvastatin on Cholesterol 25-Hydroxylase (Ch25h) Oxysterol Metabolism and IL-6 in Response to LPS and ssRNA40 Stimulation
3rd Shayla Zheng (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Cell Fusion as a Novel Mechanism Behind JQ1 Resistance in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
H.M Ashna Muni (Herricks High School) Herricks High School A Novel Prognostic Assessment of an Anti-tumor Biomarker: An in silico Analysis of Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Melanoma
H.M Evalina Lentini (Sacred Heart Academy) Sacred Heart Academy Evaluation of Therapeutics to Target ​Stem Cell-Like Prostate Cancer
Behavioral and Social Sciences H.M Sarah Sun (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Cognitive Differences in the Optimization of Entrepreneurial Constructs and Opportunity Exploitation in Experienced vs. Novice Entrepreneurs
Earth and Environment with Environmental Engineering H.M Stephanie Pizano (Brentwood High School) Brentwood High School The Development and Assessment of Anionic Resins for the Use in Mitigating Nitrogen in Sewage Drains and Agricultural Runoff
Behavioral and Social Sciences H.M Alexandra Kanner (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School The Effect of Logo and Board Representation on Perceptions of Autism Advocacy Organizations
Biomedical and Health Sciences H.M Lillian Wu (John L. Miller Great Neck North High School) John L. Miller Great Neck North High School Developing an Organoid Model Using Mouse Intestinal Stem Cells To Examine the Effect of Retinoic Acid on Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Animal Sciences 1st Alexandra Claire D'Alessio (Half Hollow Hills West) Half Hollow Hills West The Adverse Effects of Hunting on the Length of Bellows of American and Canadian Bison During Rut
2nd Nicholas Borruso (Westhampton Beach High School) Westhampton Beach High School Assessment of the Behavioral Impacts of PFAS on Danio rerio
2nd Jack Ryan Levitt (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School The Supplementation of Probiotics via Yogurt Ameliorates Parkinson's Disease Phenotypes in a Drosophila melanogaster Model
3rd Ishana Chadha (Commack High School) Commack High School The Role of Oligophrenin1 and Pacsin2 in Modulating Radial Migration of Pyramidal Neurons During Brain Development
3rd Evelyn Taylor Caputo (Wantagh High School) Wantagh High School A Survival Analysis into the Interactions between Cardenolide-Toxic Milkweed and the Invasive Spotted Lanternfly
H.M Emilia Marie Miranda (West Islip High School) West Islip High School Analyzing Microplastic Quantity and Chemical Composition in Farm-Raised vs Wild-Caught Shrimp for Human Consumption Using Infrared Spectroscopy
H.M Emaan Tehseen (Elmont Memorial) Elmont Memorial Genetic interactions characterizing gene functions downstream of oncogenic GNAQ signaling in Uveal Melanoma using Drosophila melanogaster
H.M Jasmine Liu (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Analysis of the Flavonoid Corylin's Impact on Aging in C. elegans
Behavioral and Social Sciences 1st Chloe Yerin Lee (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Exploring the Effects of Cannabidiol-Medium Chain Triglyceride Oil on Locomotion and Tap Withdrawal Response Using Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model for Alzheimer's Disease​
2nd Joshua Marc Kleyner (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Neural Correlates During Human-Canine Face to Face Interactions
2nd Michael Benjamin Lyakhov (John L. Miller Great Neck North High School) John L. Miller Great Neck North High School Predicting Schizophrenia via Cognitive Biomarkers: Development of a Machine Learning Algorithm for Early Diagnosis and Accessible Care
2nd Grace Chenxin Liu (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Evaluating Gender Disparities Due to Decision-Making Under Uncertainty in Entrepreneurship: A Panel Data Analysis
2nd Sadelle Gelman Poulsen (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Exploring the Content Themes and Engagement Strategies Employed by First-Time Voters on TikTok
3rd Nyra Steffini Mehra (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Bilingualism, Executive Functions, and COVID-19
3rd Sarah Nicole Fernbach (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Relationships Between Racial Socialization, Endorsement of a Racial Colorblind Ideology, and Perceptions of Race-Based Microaggressions Among Young Adults
3rd Gabriella Elliott (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School The Use of Diagnostic Coding Processes in the Analysis of Verbal Behaviors to Enhance Patient-Provider Connection
H.M Brice Chiu (New Hyde Park Memorial High School), Harmehar Kaur (Syosset High School) New Hyde Park Memorial High School Investigating the Impact of Social Connectivity on Self-Reported Cardiovascular, Cognitive, and Mental Health: A Survey-Based Study
H.M Ava Ramsey (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Clever or Conceited? Investigating the Effects of Gender and Self-Promotion on Perceptions of a Potential Employee
H.M Saswati Bhattacharya (Commack High School) Commack High School The Impact of Social Media on the Glorification of Mental Illness Across Age Groups
H.M Aleeza Dhillon (Valley Stream North High School) Valley Stream North High School Investigating the Impact of the Big 5 Personality Traits on Teacher Burnout and Job Satisfaction Among High School Educators
H.M Garrett Greenberg (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School A Novel Application of Machine Learning to Detect Indicators of Student Depression As a Tool for the Multi-tiered Systems of Support
Biochemistry 1st Natalie Osorio (H. Frank Carey) H. Frank Carey Biophysical Investigations Into the Structure and Function of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Nitric Oxide Signaling System
2nd Kevin Liu (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Querying the Functional Properties of GEM Mutants Using in vitro FRET and NanoBiT Assays: Implications in Glucose Metabolism Disorders
3rd Ashka Shah (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Regulating Cancerous Hyperactive Wnt Signalling Through a Novel GID8 Mechanism in Drosophila and Human Embryonic Kidney Cells
H.M Alex Matthew Silbert (Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School), Logan Jack Silbert (Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School), William Steinacher (Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School) Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School Ballistic Barrage Against Beta Lactamases
H.M Gabrielle Victoria DeCapua (Connetquot High School), Michael Benedict Fabbri (Connetquot High School) Connetquot High School Biomolecular Dynamics of Perfluoroalkyl Pollutants in Complex with Bovine Serum Albumin
Biomedical and Health Sciences 1st Sophia Antonina Tarasenko (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Effects of Vitamin D Metabolites and Vitamin K2 on Menstrual Effluent-Derived Endometrial Stromal Cell Viability and Decidualization
2nd Leah Manshu Dong (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School The Role of Fe-S Cluster Biosynthesis in the Regulation of Fe-S Proteins, Fe-Metabolism, and Downstream Stress Responses In-Vivo
2nd Aryana Adur (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Larazotide Acetate as a Novel Approach to Mitigate Food Allergy-Induced Intestinal Epithelial Cell Lining Damage
3rd Grace Rose Nolan (St Anthony's High School) St Anthony's High School Cell-Type Contributions of the Myrf-1 Gene to Development in Caenorhabditis Elegans
3rd Ashna Muni (Herricks High School) Herricks High School Asymptomatic Intracranial Hemorrhages Correlate with Poor Patient Outcomes and NIHSS Predictivity: A Retrospective Analysis of Post-Thrombectomy Ischemic Stroke Patients
3rd Abigail Kavinal Rajan (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School A Novel Link Between Chemotherapy-Induced Ryanodine Receptor 2 (RyR2) Dysfunction and Alzheimer's Disease Pathology
H.M Emily Maria Podolska (West Islip High School) West Islip High School Evaluating Herbal Supplements through Mineral Content and DNA Analysis
H.M Paul Santy (Syosset High School) Syosset High School The Effect of Semaglutide Acetate on Lifespan and Reproductive Capacity in Caenorhabditis elegans
H.M Ryan Matthew Deegan (West Islip High School), Isabella Rose Tussie (West Islip High School) West Islip High School Analyzing C. elegans as a Cancer Model using Infrared Microspectroscopy
Biomedical Engineering 1st Sandeep Sawhney (Herricks High School) Herricks High School Gallium Mediated DNA Tensegrity Triangle Based Crystals: A Novel Prototype Facilitating Gallium Cancer Therapy
2nd Parshwa Shah (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School A Novel Unobtrusive Silent Speech Recognizer for Patients Suffering From Voice Disorders Using Machine Learning
3rd Hallie Lee (Herricks High School) Herricks High School A Novel Evaluation of Transcatheter Mitral Balloon Valvuloplasty Preprocedural Analysis in Rheumatic Stenosed Patients Broadens Eligibility Through Cardiac Imaging
H.M Sara Shamail (Garden City High School) Garden City High School Development of an Innovative Hydroxyapatite-Agarose Hydrogel Grid to Enhance Bone Stabilization and Regeneration
H.M Claudia Modica (Kings Park High School) Kings Park High School A Comparative Analysis of the Effects of Low Intensity Vibrations on the Tibial and Femoral Properties of a Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Mouse Model
Cellular and Molecular Biology 1st Daanish Bassi (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East Assessing Novel RIPK2-MKK7 Interaction Inhibitors in Prostate Cancer Cell Lines
2nd Lilly Sarah Horowitz (Jericho High School) Jericho High School The Effect of Histone Modifications Induced by Ack sRNAs on Ac Transposable Elements
3rd Aafia Ahmed (Elmont Memorial) Elmont Memorial The antioxidant role of JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway against methylmercury-induced toxicity in a mouse astrocyte neuronal C8-D1A cell line
H.M Alicia Imani Madjido (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Conditional elimination of a centriolar protein exhibits stage-specific cell cycle arrest in mouse embryonic fibroblasts.
H.M Serena J Chen (Herricks High School) Herricks High School The Novel Involvement of Peroxisomal Beta-Oxidation During Mitochondrial Inhibition in Catecholamine-Stimulated Acyl-Coenzyme A Oxidase 1 (ACOX1) Knockout White Adipocytes
Chemistry and Material Science 1st Lucienne Keyoung (Manhasset High School), Isabel Rose Gonzalez (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Ag-TiO2@HNT Nanotubes for Highly Efficient and Eco-Friendly Organic Pollutant Degradation
2nd Emily Rose Smukler (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School Aptamer-Mediated Biosensing using Self-Assembled DNA Nanomaterials
3rd Serin Jo (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Characterization of Novel Amyloid-β Peptide Coacervate Release Kinetics and Drug Loading for Doxorubicin
H.M Richard Chai (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East Optimizing the Nitro-Oxidation Process to Convert Lignocellulosic Waste into Fertilizers and Nanocellulosic Materials
H.M Julang Wang (Friends Academy) Friends Academy Magneto-optical effects induced by chiral lattice vibrations in two-dimensional materials
H.M Liza Sophie Zelkin (Commack High School) Commack High School The Antimicrobial Effects of Uniquely Coated Sutures on Staphylococcus epidermidis
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 1st Erin Wong (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School StAIR: Stepwise All-Atom Iterative Reconstruction of Large Coarse-Grained Protein Structures
2nd Melody Heeju Hong (General Douglas MacArthur High School) General Douglas MacArthur High School A Bayesian Exploration Into More Flexible trans-Methylation Quantitative Trait Locus Mapping
3rd Tessla Chan (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Investigating Synthetic Lethality as a Novel Treatment for 9p21.3 Deletion and MSI-H cancers
H.M Nicholas Tumelty (Waldorf School of Garden City) Waldorf School of Garden City Improving kNN: Downsampling & Bootstrapping
H.M Evan Matthew Kolberg (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School Identification of Excitatory and Inhibitory E18 Neurons for Frequency Regulation of Network Activity via HD-MEAs
Earth and Environmental Sciences 1st Winston Zhou (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Wavelet Based Parallel Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Forecasting El Nino-Southern Oscillation Cycles
1st Taylor Maguire (Garden City High School) Garden City High School Evaluating the Long Range UVA Blocking Abilities of an Eco-Friendly Sunscreen Substitute Derived From Musa acuminata on Girardia tigrina Locomotion and the Degree of UV-Induced Cellular Damage.
2nd Emily Zhao (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Integrated Geospatial and Socioeconomic Analysis Forecasting Food Insecurity Under Climate Change
2nd Samantha Ruano Leon (East Hampton High School) East Hampton High School Comparison of Microplastic Abundance and Composition Between Bivalves: Geukensia demissa, Mytilus edulis, Mercenaria mercenaria, Crassostrea virginica, and Argopecten irradians
2nd Tyler Michael Matukonis (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School Predictive Modeling of Vibrio Spp. Planktonic Growth and Biofilm Formation Under Environmental Stressors Using Machine Learning
3rd Kahela Jade Michel (Elmont Memorial) Elmont Memorial Coral Geochemistry Reconstruction Predicts South Pacific Convergence Zone Dynamics in a Changing Climate
3rd Zohia Tahir (Brentwood High School) Brentwood High School Assessing and Evaluating the Effects of Various Plastic Pollutants on Geukensia demissa Filtration Efficiency: An Investigation into Marine Pollution and Its Ecological Consequences
3rd Elizabeth Cruz (Brentwood High School) Brentwood High School Evaluating Microfiber Emission from Domestic Laundering and Their Effects on the Filtration Rate of Geukensia demissa
H.M Noah Ryan Berlin (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Evaluating the Relative Importance of the Causes of Hypoxia in the Eastern and Western Narrows Regions of the Long Island Sound
H.M Michelle E Leal (Brentwood High School) Brentwood High School Evaluating the Effects of Ocean Acidification on Argopecten Irradians Using Advanced Analytical Techniques and Shell Morphology
H.M Graelyn Mar LoRusso (Westhampton Beach High School) Westhampton Beach High School The Effects of Sunscreen Chemical Avobenzone in Seawater on the Development and Mortality of Juvenile M. mercenaria Shellfish
H.M Taylor Madison Carpentieri (Sayville High School), Adria Marina Vargas (Sayville High School) Sayville High School Testing the Efficacy of Biofiltration Media for Stormwater Nitrate Filtration and Reduction
Energy and Environmental Engeneering 1st Alexandra Eileen Gregory (Garden City High School) Garden City High School Novel Magnetic Device for Microplastic Capture via Van Der Waals Forces
2nd Kate H Adams (Walt Whitman High School) Walt Whitman High School The Development of a Low-Cost Lycorma Delicatula Trap
3rd Samantha Liu Stoneking (Manhasset High School), Kristina Theodosopoulos (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Enhancing Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Performance: The Role of Gelled Electrolytes and Natural Dye Co-Sensitization
H.M Ryan Tae (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Optimizing Silicon Anodes: Investigating Ultra-High Carboxyl Density Binders
H.M Sophie Hu (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Cost-efficient catalysis: Scaling and characterization of the SSZ-13 (CHA) zeolite synthesis process
Embedded, Technology Arts, Technology Engineering, and Energy Technology 1st Alexander Thomas Singer (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School Novel CMOS Level Shifting Topologies for Signal Transmission Between Chiplets of Different Voltages
2nd Bryan Cheng (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School), Yuhao (Henry) Xu (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Adaptive Optics Beam Steering System Utilizing Nematic Liquid Crystal & Machine-Learning Predictive Correction for Enhancing Fso Systems
3rd Abdullah Ahmed Ashrafi (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School Development of a Thermal Camera for Imaging Using Terahertz Radiation
H.M Noah Reid Kay (Half Hollow Hills East), Adithya Patnam (Herricks High School) Half Hollow Hills East Adaptive Haptic Feedback Device for Observing the Delivery of Information in Time-Critical Human-Machine Interfaces
H.M Sean Matthew Skinner (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Many-Objective Generative Design
H.M Daniel Sawicki (St Anthony's High School) St Anthony's High School Waterless technology to clean dust from photovoltaic cells using additive manufacturing of Indium Tin Oxide Electrodes
Microbiology 1st Mehek Kaur Sawhney (Commack High School) Commack High School Characterizing the Secretion Signal in the C-Terminus of the Francisella tularensis protein FTL_1123: Insights for Type 1 Secretion and Therapeutics
2nd Cody Cheng (Syosset High School) Syosset High School An analysis of truncated Sgs1 protein interactions with Mek1, Srs2, and Zip1 using the two-hybrid system in budding yeast
3rd Caitlin Avery Lee (Herricks High School) Herricks High School In vitro Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron JN.1 Subvariants with Spike S31 Deletion and Their Evasion of COVID-19 Therapies
H.M Alyssa Shuchen Huang (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Assessment of wastewater exposure and horseradish peroxidase on the removal of bisphenol A by Chlorella vulgaris
H.M Maroska Ishak (Walt Whitman High School), Elizabeth Hsiao (Roslyn High School), Claire Parks (Huntington High School) Walt Whitman High School The Effect of Glyphosate on Plant and Microbial Health
Physics and Astronomy 1st Gary Han (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Discovery of the First Double Exocomet Using an Automated Deep Learning Convolutional Neural Network
2nd Vivian Chen (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Probing Electron Spin Using Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance
3rd Mia Cavero (Sanford H. Calhoun) Sanford H. Calhoun Calibration of a Laboratory Version of the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover PIXL micro-XRF Instrument
H.M Tiffany Chung (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East Methods of Surfactant Purification for Large-Scale Water-based Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detection
H.M Zen Pinkenburg (Rocky Point HS), Om Patel (Rocky Point HS) Rocky Point HS Deep Learning on sPHENIX Calorimeter Waveform Fits
Plant Sciences 1st Dora Fields (Northport High School) Northport High School Effects of Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots on Germination and Growth in Solanum lycopersicum (tomatoes) Using Keratin-Based Hydroponic Substrates
2nd Ariel Sofia Greenberg (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School Identification and Characterization of a Mutant Tolerant to Na⁺ and Ag⁺ in Fern Ceratopteris richardii
3rd Kevin John Tritschler (Valley Stream South High School) Valley Stream South High School Natural Pesticides: Assessing the Influence of Salinity Stress and Mitigation via B. Subtilis Application on the Development of Lamiaceae Botanicals and their Impact on the Natural Predator H. convergens
H.M Mark Prainito (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School A Novel Evaluation of the Efficacy of Ulva spp. in Mitigating Ocean Acidification and Cochlodinium polykrikoides Toxicity in Mercenaria mercenaria and Crassostrea virginica Larvae
H.M Cassel Claire Koss (Long Beach High School) Long Beach High School Utilization of Bacillus megaterium and Pseudomonas fluorescens to Substitute Fertilizer Usage in the Hydroponic Cultivation of Lactuca Sativa
Robotics, Intelligent Machine, Software, and Math 1st Arav Chand (Half Hollow Hills West) Half Hollow Hills West Matrix Product Formulas for Generating Functions for p-adic Valuations of Generalized Binomial Coefficients
2nd Partap Singh Sidhu (Bethpage High School) Bethpage High School Low-Cost, High-Performance Humanoid Upper Body for Automating Hazardous Tasks with Quasi-Direct Drive Actuators and Machine Learning
2nd Michael Petrizzo (Commack High School) Commack High School Building a Conversational AI Medium to Enhance Psychotherapy Training with Virtual Patients
3rd Anish Pahari (Jericho High School) Jericho High School High-Rank Elliptic Curve Generation: A Novel Algorithm with Cryptographic Applications
3rd Mohammad Wasim (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Optimizing Quantum Support Vector Classifiers in Flood Prediction: Data Specific Quantum Kernel Training for Enhanced Feature Mapping Capabilities
H.M Alexandra Lindsay Miller (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Enhancing Policy Learning in Autonomous Robots through Multi-Perspective Visual Data Inputs via Imitation Learning
H.M Samvath Karanam (Hauppauge High School) Hauppauge High School Ear-ly Detection: A Machine Learning Approach to Identification of Ear Infections
H.M Dean Chen (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Improving the Precipitation Distribution Around Synthetic Tropical Cyclone Tracks Using Radar, P-CLIPER Precipitation Model, and Deep Learning
Translational Medical Science 1st Caden Li (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Automated Segmentation and Characterization of Hemorrhagic Cysts in Autosomal-Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease: A Comparative Study of PKD1 and PKD2 Genotypes
2nd Mahin Ryan Gupta (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Evaluating Readability Metrics in AI-Summarized Versus Standard Patient Education Materials: A Quantitative Analysis
3rd Ariel River (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School Characterizing miRNA Associated With Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
H.M Misha Gujja (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis of Human Dopaminergic Neurons and Breast Cancer Cells Co-cultured In Vitro: Implications for Perineural Invasion
H.M Emma Wen (John L. Miller Great Neck North High School) John L. Miller Great Neck North High School AUM-302, A Novel Triple PIM/PI3K/mTOR Inhibitor, Offers Promising Potential in Reducing the Growth of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Spheroids and Organoids
Animal Sciences 1st Alexandra Claire D'Alessio (Half Hollow Hills West) Half Hollow Hills West A Comparison of Ceramic and Wooden Mediums for Artificial Pollinator Habitats to Mitigate Thermal Shock and Fungal Spread
2nd Aleeza Akhtar (Valley Stream South High School) Valley Stream South High School Timing-Dependent Effects of Resveratrol on FASD and Diabetes-Induced Developmental Deficits in Drosophila Melanogaster
3rd Alexa Joy Kosinski (Valley Stream South High School) Valley Stream South High School Mitigating Implications of Glyphosate-based Herbicides on Earthworms Through Cyanobacteria (Spirulina) and Fungi (Trichoderma) Supplementation
3rd Anthony Richard Caiazza (St Anthony's High School) St Anthony's High School Optimizing DNA Extraction for Non-Invasive Tarantula (Theraphosidae) Exuviae DNA Barcoding, utilizing Oxford Nanopore Sequencing
3rd Naima Brown (Valley Stream South High School) Valley Stream South High School The Long Term Effect of Styrofoam Based Diets on Zophobas morios
H.M Kyle Wasserman (Bellmore John F. Kennedy High School) Bellmore John F. Kennedy High School The Synergistic Effect of Spermidine and Urolithin A on Muscle Degeneration in a Drosophila melanogaster Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Model
H.M Amanda Klein (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School The Impacts of Curcumin and Methylene Blue on the Rough Eye Phenotype of V337M Drosophila​.
H.M Salvatore LoBrutto (W.C. Mepham High School) W.C. Mepham High School Trabecular Bone Adaptation to Mechanical Forces in the Proximal and Distal Regions of Canine Fabellae
Behavioral and Social Sciences 1st Karina Sofia Rios (Long Beach Schools) Long Beach Schools Evaluating Behavioral Outcomes and Gut Microbiome Diversity in Drosophila melanogaster Following Exposure to Natural Versus Prescription ADHD Interventions
1st Daniel Lang Ming (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Digital Expressions of Discontent: A Computational Analysis of Anti-Work Reddit Communities and Evolving Work Narratives
1st Nikhil Shah (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Examining the Impact of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines on Racial Disparities in Federal Sentencing
2nd Kate Marianne Ragona (Long Beach Schools) Long Beach Schools Consumer Explicit vs. Implicit Attitudes and Taste Perception of Dairy and Plant-based Milks
2nd Sydney Pollux Bergstein (Long Beach Schools) Long Beach Schools The Impact of AI-Generated Social Media Photo Filters on Self Reported Confidence and the Efficacy of Media Literacy Interventions
2nd Yael Novak (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Broken Mass Index (BMI): Developing Inclusive Anthropometric Tools for Diverse Populations
2nd Elaine Liu (Syosset High School) Syosset High School The Effects of Apology Strategies on the Spread and Intensity of Cancel Culture Incidents
3rd Ruby Baik (Commack High School) Commack High School Effects of Dop1R Knockdown and Dop2R Overexpression on Addiction-Related Behavior in Drosophila
3rd Taylor Amber Fong (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Intersecting Impacts of Racial Identity and Ascribed Gender Stereotypes on Public Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence Victims
3rd Soha Jhaveri (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Evaluating the Effectiveness of Various Interpreter Modalities on the Behaviors of Medical Providers in a Clinical Setting
3rd Kkomal Dhllon (East Meadow High School) East Meadow High School Through Their Eyes: The Impact of 2D Simulations on Empathy and Attitudes Toward Schizophrenia
3rd Emily Zheng (East Meadow High School) East Meadow High School Facing Fears: Developing a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Based Mobile Application to Combat Adolescent Specific Phobia
3rd Maya Shiloh Stromer (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School The Role of the Implementation of the Multi-Tiered System of Supports on Teacher Effectiveness in Accommodating Student Mental Health Needs
H.M Leonora Bella Atmadjaja (North Shore High School) North Shore High School Questioning Rules: How Rule Relativity Beliefs Shape Human Responses to AI
H.M Asees Kaur Chhabra (W. Tresper Clarke High School) W. Tresper Clarke High School Environmental Stress Responses in Drosophila melanogaster: Implications for Human Disease Models
H.M Giana Carla Diaz (Plainedge High School) Plainedge High School TikTok Tics: Exploring the Outbreak of Functional Tics on TikTok
H.M Jia Ru Yang (Valley Stream South High School) Valley Stream South High School HOW DIFFERENT MOTIVATIONS OF PENPALLING AFFECT THE PERCEIVED QUALITY OF RELATIONSHIPS, COMPARED TO SOCIAL MEDIA
H.M Gianni Livigni (Paul D Schreiber High School) Paul D Schreiber High School The Effect of AI Content Labels on Music Consumption and Marketing
H.M Samaya Syali (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East How the long-term effects of Unemployment Insurance Generosity and Secondary Measures affect Opioid Overdose Mortality before and after the COVID-19 Pandemic (2018 to 2023)
Biology Related 1st Benson Lu Huang (Half Hollow Hills West) Half Hollow Hills West BLADE: Bioimpedance-Enabled Laparoscopic Articulated Dual-purpose EndoWrist for Force Sensing and Anomaly Detection in a Glove-Based Robotic Surgery Interface
1st Anchita Agrawal (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Characterizing Convergent Transcriptomic Impacts of Norepinephrine Across Breast Cancer Grades via Element AVITI-24
1st Tessla Chan (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Uncovering Mechanistic Insights into PELO Dependency Across Molecular Subtypes of Gastrointestinal Cancers
1st Nikita Kumar (Herricks High School) Herricks High School BRAINMAP-NET: A Multilayer Convolutional Neural Network-Based Tool for Clustering Glioma Mechanical Subregions Using Topological Modeling of MRE-Derived Stiffness Gradients and Curvature
2nd Taylor Maguire (Garden City High School) Garden City High School Dragon Gel: Exploring the Capabilities of a Dragon Fruit-Infused Wound Healing Hydrogel in the Mitigation of Oxidative Stress
2nd Austin Hanchi Jin (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School M-CATCH: A Multiplex Microparticle CRISPR Assay for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Characterization
2nd Samantha Liu Stoneking (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School CLECL1+ CLL Cells Drive Lymph Node Fibroblast Reprogramming via Lymphotoxin Secretion
2nd Alexandra LaBella (Bellmore John F. Kennedy High School) Bellmore John F. Kennedy High School The Effects of Adolescent Isolation on Social Behavior and Their Relationship with Neural Activity Utilizing Brain Tissue from TRAP2 Male Mice
2nd Rachel Sloane Braverman (Half Hollow Hills West) Half Hollow Hills West A Comparison of Deep Neural Networks and Random Forests in Binary Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Pathogenicity Classification
2nd Wenshu Wang (Herricks High School) Herricks High School Developing a Novel Hippocampus-Specific Epigenetic Clock Based on DNA Methylation Signatures of Late-Life Individuals
3rd Connor William Chiu (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Uncovering a Novel miR-6068–RSPO3 Axis Driving Hyperactive Wnt Signaling and Treatment Resistance in Glioblastoma
3rd Vanessa Rose Maltez (Long Beach Schools) Long Beach Schools Synthetic and Natural Food Dye- Induced Modulation of Probiotic Biofilm Formation, Viability, and Chemical Resistance in L. acidophilus
3rd Natalie Horioglu (Paul D Schreiber High School) Paul D Schreiber High School Effects of Post-Dauer Development on Longevity in miRNA-Deficient C. elegans
3rd Abigail Thomas (Herricks High School) Herricks High School Examining the Pathway of Rab8 Mediated Trafficking of GluA1-AMPARs in Response to In Vitro Chemical LTP Induction in Wildtype and Lrrk2G2019S Striatal and Cortical Neurons
3rd Kevin Liu (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Integrative Structural Modeling and Molecular Dynamics Simulations Reveal Novel Insights Into Autism SORCS3 Missense Mutations
3rd Ethan Y Wang (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School SPARK - Simulation Platform for Adaptive Resistance Kinetics
3rd Nathanial Ma (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Genome-Wide Mapping of Hyperhidrosis Vulnerability: Novel Loci and Mechanisms
H.M Isabel Rose Gonzalez (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Towards Highly Sensitive, Non-Invasive Liquid Biopsy-Based Cancer Detection: Evaluating The Stability of Frenkel Excitonic Supramolecular Nanoassemblies with Biological Systems
H.M Cathlyne Gabrielle Cueto (Lynbrook Senior High School) Lynbrook Senior High School Engineering a Microneedle-Mediated Transdermal Epinephrine Administration Platform for Prophylaxis Against Anaphylactic Immunological Responses
H.M Trisha Samanpure (Garden City High School) Garden City High School Transtibial Prosthetic Socket Engineering: A Closed-Loop Workflow Combining 3D Limb Reconstruction, Stereolithographic Fabrication, Mechanical Load Characterization, and Finite Element Analysis
H.M Kaylee Xinying Kuhr (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Embryonic Stage-Specific Localization and Enrichment of RhoGEFs in Drosophila PGCs Suggests Candidates for Therapeutic Metastatic Cancer Suppression
H.M Brendan Lo (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Blocking SERCA2a With Thapsigargin Induces Cytokinesis Failure in Cardiomyocytes
H.M Colin Davison (North Shore High School) North Shore High School Serine Threonine Kinase 25 (STK25) is an Integral Regulator of Basal Myeloid Cell Production
H.M Noa Karp (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Basal Type I Interferon Signaling Pre-Programs Effector Memory CD4⁺ T Cells in a Genetically Tunable IFNAR Model
H.M Sahil N Patel (St Anthony's High School) St Anthony's High School Direct Visualization and Comparative Analysis of Let-7 and Lin-4 Transcriptional Dynamics in C. elegans With MS2-MCP Signal Optimization
H.M Dominic Cyril (New Hyde Park Memorial High School) New Hyde Park Memorial High School Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Naproxen Sodium Combined With Cerium Oxide (CeO2) Nanoparticles on IL-1β-Inflamed Chondrocyte Cells
H.M Alan Shiheng Yu (Half Hollow Hills West) Half Hollow Hills West CEP164 as a Focused Full Cilia-Function Knockout for Neurodevelopment
H.M Varda Qudratullah (Elmont Memorial) Elmont Memorial Synergistic Toxicity of Manganese and MPP⁺ Through Oxidative and Metabolic Collapse in SH-SY5Y Cells in Parkinsons Disease
H.M Manasvi Dendukuri (Jericho High School) Jericho High School A Computational Ranking of Relapsed and Refractory Multiple Myeloma CAR-T Targets Using Antigen Stability Signals
H.M Liana Cheng (Smithtown High School West), Jacey Lin (Smithtown High School West), Gyuree Lee Kim (Bethpage High School) Smithtown High School West Comparative Study of Mucilaginibacter sp. AK6, Mucilaginibacter sp. AK15 and Pedobacter sp. AK17 on their Effect on Wheat Plant Health and Growth
Chem Related 1st Ryan Tae (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Unlocking a Tenfold Increase in Battery Performance: Poly(citric Acid) as a Novel Binder for Silicon Anode Batteries
2nd Lucienne Keyoung (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Tunable Morphology of Zero-Waste Cellulose Nanofiber Hydrogels via a Novel Gelatin-Mediated Ice Inhibition Mechanism for Sustainable Agriculture and Water Remediation
3rd Michelle Okonowicz (Commack High School) Commack High School New Approaches for Affordable, Earth Abundant Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Synthesis and Characterization of [Fe(CN)4(dppz)]2- and [Fe(CN)4(dppn)]2-
3rd Catherine Chen (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Preventive and Restorative Strategies for Multifunctional Concrete Using Hydrogel-Encapsulated Healing Agents and CNF: Integrated Wet-Lab and Computational Approaches
3rd Matthew Lin (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Using Bayesian Optimization to Design Conductive PEO-Based Mixed-Graft Block Copolymers
H.M Charlie Mastroberti (West Islip High School) West Islip High School Analysis of Microplastic and Chemical Filtration Through Different Water Filters
H.M Odelia Syrai Nugent (Elmont Memorial) Elmont Memorial Investigating the Effects of Graphite Particles on the Electrical Conductivity of Concrete
H.M Xiaowu Lai (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Printing the Future of Flight: Additive Manufacturing of Carbon Fiber/Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Reinforced Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) Composites using Selective Laser Sintering
Enviroment Related 1st Vedant Balani (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Hurricane Forecasting Using Comprehensive Multivariable Machine Learning Modeling with Atmospheric Temperatures, Polar Motion, and Sunspot Numbers
1st Sydney Grace Olivo (Long Beach Schools) Long Beach Schools Detection of Trifluoroacetic Acid in Commercial Water Filters and Its Toxicological Impacts on Keystone Aquatic Species
1st Rachel Olivia Master Huth (Huntington High School) Huntington High School Design and Evaluation of an Energy-Efficient CO₂ Capture System Utilizing Sodium Hydroxide for Ammonium Bicarbonate Fertilizer Synthesis
2nd Christina Jeannette Bayne (Elmont Memorial) Elmont Memorial Utilizing Foraminifera to Compare Temperature Changes in the Western Pacific Warm Pool Thermocline to Orbital Forcing.
2nd Anjali Ponugupati (Bethpage High School) Bethpage High School Effect of pH-Modified Dissolved Organic Matter On Per- and Polyfluoralkyl Substance Adsorption by Granular Activated Carbon
2nd Victoria Rose Sinnona (Long Beach Schools) Long Beach Schools Pilot Study: Low-Cost Removal of Polypropylene Microplastics Using Electrospun Biocompatible Fiber Mats
2nd Joshua Norman Fields (Northport High School) Northport High School Evaluating rGO/ZIF-67 Nanocomposites for Dye Remediation Using an Algal Photosynthesis Bioassay
3rd Alice Huang (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Advancing Ensemble Tropical Cyclone Forecasts with a Novel Integration of Atmospheric Physics-Aware Consistency Frameworks in Artificial Intelligence Weather Prediction Models
3rd Ella Marie Menu (East Hampton High School) East Hampton High School Ocean Wave Growth Measurements in Hurricane-Force Winds
3rd Vaibhavi Hegde (Hauppauge High School) Hauppauge High School Textile Recycling: Exploring Enzymatic and Anaerobic Methods for Blended Textile
3rd Humzah Syed Mohsin (Valley Stream South High School) Valley Stream South High School A Machine Learning–Powered Water Quality Prediction Model and Cost-Effective Iot Water Quality Monitoring Systema Machine Learning–Powered Water Quality Prediction Model and Cost-Effective Iot Water Quality Monitoring System.
3rd Cynthia Qian (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Computational Discovery of Marine Plastic-Degrading Enzymes Enhanced by Deep Eutectic Solvents
H.M Cynthia Zhang (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Evaluation of AI Weather Prediction Model on Extreme Eastern U.S. Extratropical Cyclones Using a Cyclone-Relative Approach
H.M Thomas James Fini (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Longitudinal Comparison of Microeukaryote Diversity in Contrasting Urban Reservoirs
H.M Robert Lu (Manhasset High School), Yu Xiang Lin (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Iron-Based Ferrofluids Enhance Chlorella vulgaris-Mediated Bioremediation of Sewage Water Contaminants
H.M Charlotte Avery Rothemich (St Anthony's High School) St Anthony's High School Examination of the Clearance Rate and Effects of Short-Term Exposure of Crassostrea virginica to Margalefidinium polykrikoides
H.M Gregorio Andres Bonetti (Bethpage High School), Sarah Oh (Bethpage High School), Aryaan Khalfan (Bethpage High School) Bethpage High School The Effect of the Proximity of a Salt Marsh to Urbanized Areas on the Presence of Heavy Metals
H.M Kahela Jade Michel (Elmont Memorial) Elmont Memorial A Geochemical Approach for Identification of Sea Surface Temperature Change: Using Coral Skeleton Temperature Proxies
H.M Sebastian Truong (Mineola High School) Mineola High School The Effect of Pseudomonas stutzeri on the Inhibition of Alexandrium tamutum: Exploring Biosurfactant (Rhamnolipid) Amplification
H.M Parker Eugene Molina (Hampton Bays High School) Hampton Bays High School Effects of Microplastic Pollution on Soil Microbial Communities in an Agricultural Soil.
H.M Ella Rose Trama (Sayville High School) Sayville High School A Novel Approach to Nutrient Removal in Shellfish Upwelling Systems Using Biofiltration
H.M Alexander James Keenan (Kings Park High School) Kings Park High School Streaming Potential: Enhanced Electrokinetic Energy Harvesting Using Wicking Materials
Math and Physics 1st Arav Chand (Half Hollow Hills West) Half Hollow Hills West Universal Matrices For Counting Fibo-Multinomial and C-Multinomial Coefficients With a Cryptographic Application
1st Gary Han (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Discovery of Previously Undetected Exocomets in Kepler Using ExoSeek, a Novel End-to-End Deep Learning Exocomet Detection Algorithm
2nd Michael Petrizzo (Commack High School) Commack High School SFDiff: An Accurate, Generalizable Diffusion Denoising Probabilistic Model (DDPM) for State Estimation of Nonlinear Systems
3rd Henry Zhang (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Information Geometry of Continuous-Variable Quantum Neural Networks
3rd Kristina Nicole Theodosopoulos (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Noise-Hardened BB84: Quantifying and Mitigating Environmental Noise to Restore Secure Keys in a Classroom-Scale QKD System
H.M Arjun Patel Sankran (The Wheatley School) The Wheatley School Optimizing the Freemium Model: Conversion Challenges and Opportunities
H.M Joaquin Charles Martin (Lynbrook Senior High School) Lynbrook Senior High School A Machine Learning Approach to Conduct Exoplanet Classification Based on Habitability Using Labeled and Unlabeled Data
H.M Adrianna Theresa Stucchio (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Quantifying a Limiting Factor in Closed Shell Effect Charge State Breeding: Approximating a Point Beyond Which Radiative Recombination Becomes Non-Negligible
H.M Brandon Li (John L. Miller Great Neck North High School) John L. Miller Great Neck North High School Analysis of Geomagnetic Storm Effects on Satellite Orbital Decay
H.M Ariana Summer Bridges (North Shore High School) North Shore High School A Silent Breakthrough: Improving Variational Quantum Eigensolver Accuracy Through Use of a Denoising Autoencoder
Medical Related 1st Noor Waqas Sohail (Westhampton Beach High School), Brady Charles Schultz (Westhampton Beach High School) Westhampton Beach High School An Experimental Analysis of the Effect of Dietary P. dactylifera Concentration on the Midguts and Memory in D. melanogaster Expressing the Amyloid Precursor Protein
1st Divya Jayam (The Wheatley School) The Wheatley School Cephalexin as a Potential Novel Treatment for Parkinson's Disease Through Modulation of Gut Inflammasome Activity and Neuroprotective Pathways
1st Jonathan Zachary Philip (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School The Impacts of Resveratrol and Escherichia Coli Dietary Restriction on the Behavioral and Pathological Aspects of Alzheimer's Disease using Caenorhabditis Elegans as a Model
2nd Aryana Adur (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Modulating a Novel Neuroepithelial Circuit in Food Allergy to Repair Barrier Dysfunction with Larazotide Acetate and Neuregulin-1
2nd Sia Kripalani (The Wheatley School) The Wheatley School Integrating Selenium into Mercury Risk Models for Fish Consumption
2nd Daniel Qiao Lin (Bellmore John F. Kennedy High School) Bellmore John F. Kennedy High School Liquid Lens-Based Automation of Accommodative Facility Testing in Myopia
2nd Angelina Liu (Herricks High School) Herricks High School Deglycosylated L1CAM Targeting Antibody Optimizes Ovarian Cancer Tumor Specificity in Immuno-PET Imaging
3rd Samantha Reese Heyman (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Beyond the Sideline: Gaps in Brain Region Coverage by Sideline Concussion Assessments
3rd Ella Rose Findling (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School Glucagon-like peptide-1 Receptor Agonists Reduce Hepatic Steatosis and Fibrosis in Pediatric Metabolic-dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver Disease
3rd Jennifer K Pyo (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Effect of Melatonin on the HMGB1-Inflammatory Pathway and Macrophage Polarization
3rd Chrysta Thomas (Oyster Bay High School) Oyster Bay High School Shaped by signals: Leveraging breast cancer nuclear morphology to elucidate regulatory pathways as therapeutic targets
3rd Alessandra Marchese (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School The Impact of Prickly Pear Extract on C. elegans Modeling Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
H.M Yena Hwang (St Anthony's High School) St Anthony's High School Mechanical Activity of Skeletal Muscle Suppresses Lung Cancer Migration Through Myokine-Mediated Pathways
H.M Olivia Z Zeng (The Wheatley School) The Wheatley School Co-Targeting NPFF, Metformin, and GSK-3β for Multi-Pathway Alzheimer's Therapy.
H.M September Chiang (Commack High School) Commack High School Evaluating the Effects of Curli Producing E.Coli on Alpha- Synuclien Aggregatiom in Dosophila
H.M Aleena Zaidi (Friends Academy), Anthony Yu (Friends Academy) Friends Academy Improving Enteral Tube Care: Testing Methods to Clear Nutritional Formula Blockages Against a Novel Approach
H.M Sophia Marie Stevenson (Long Beach Schools) Long Beach Schools Ultrasonographic Evidence of in Vivo Rouleaux Formation Induced by Cell Phone Radiation Exposure
H.M Rylee Elizabeth Varian (Long Beach Schools) Long Beach Schools A Novel Investigation of Metformin's Effects of Metabolic and Neurological Defects in a Pan-Neuronal Drosophila melanogaster Model of Huntington's Disease (elav-GAL4; UAS-Htt)
H.M Sophia Akmal (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Sargassum Pallidum Effects on the Alzheimer's Disease Model of Caenorhabditis elegans
H.M Michelle V. Evangelista (Seaford High School) Seaford High School The Effect of Nicotinamide Mononucleotide and Caffeine on the Proliferation of ΔSir2 Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Plant Sciences 1st Julia Igaunis (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School Epigenetic regulation of rhizoid and root hair development in Ceratopteris richardii
2nd Elizabeth Hsiao (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Restor-AI-tion Chamber: Integrating Machine Learning Detection and Ultraviolet C Therapy to Treat Xanthomonas Infections in Tomatoes and Bell Peppers
3rd Virginia Rose Levine (North Shore High School) North Shore High School Novel SbMATE Isoforms & Expression Patterns Under Aluminum Stress in Sorghum
3rd Valeria Camila Paez Martinez (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School Alternative Splicing and Retrotransposon-Linked Intron Expansion in a Ceratopteris richardii Phytochrome Gene Yields a Red Light Induced Truncated Isoform
H.M Jillian Kate Olfano (West Islip High School) West Islip High School Biopriming With Bacillus Probiotics: Effects on the Growth and Nutritional Value of Watercress
H.M Sophie Jane Lancashire (East Hampton High School) East Hampton High School The Effect of Calcium Nitrate Concentration on Growth and Leaf Expansion in Hydroponically Grown Butterhead Lettuce.
H.M Wilmer Steven Verdugo (East Hampton High School) East Hampton High School Evaluating the Effects of Pantoea Agglomerans, Endophytic Bacterium Strain PaKM, on the Growth and Nutrient Accumulation of Four Cultivars of Hydroponically Grown Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.)
Technology 1st Emma Elise Su (Herricks High School) Herricks High School Developing a Novel Adaptive Tuning Module for Real-Time Frequency Correction in Radiofrequency Coils During Concurrent TMS-fMRI
1st Partap Sidhu (Bethpage High School) Bethpage High School NeuroGait: A Low-Cost, Mind-Controlled Pneumatic Exoskeleton With CNN-Based Control for Individuals With Lower-Limb Mobility Impairments Using Brain Computer Interface
2nd Harrison Pearce Bernstein (Half Hollow Hills West), Galileo Solis (Half Hollow Hills West) Half Hollow Hills West Fire Resistant Drone That Uses Thermal, Radar, and Stereoscopic Vision Sensors to Navigate, Scan and Map Fires to Determine Location of Fire Victims
2nd Julia Xu (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School A Novel Market-Based Machine Learning Framework for Detecting ESG-Washing in Investment Funds
2nd Ethan Lin (New Hyde Park Memorial High School) New Hyde Park Memorial High School Development and Implementation of an Improved A*/FTG Hybrid Algorithm on a Differential Drive Mobile Robot Chassis
3rd Joyce Xu (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Developing an Affordable On-Device Animatronic Hand and Large Language Model Based Pipeline for Real-Time American Sign Language Conversation
3rd Eric Zheng (Herricks High School) Herricks High School Quiet as an Owl: A Biomimetic Study Utilizing Low Fidelity Computational Simulations To Assess Propeller Aerodynamic Performance and Aeroacoustic Noise
3rd Mohammad Wasim (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Automating Quantum Support Vector Classifier Feature Mapping: A Reinforcement Learning Based Approach to Data-Specific Optimization
3rd Mark Xu Li (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School), Hye-Seung Cho (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School NTStream: A Cross-Stack Hardware Compiler for the Structural Synthesis of Custom ASIC Accelerators From Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for Edge Computing Applications
H.M Jiacheng Huang (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Subwavelength Grating and Slot Waveguide Designs for Ultra-Compact Nonvolatile Silicon Photonic Phase Shifters
H.M Eric Todd Greene (South Side High School) South Side High School Accelerating k-Nearest Neighbors Classification by Creating Two Dataset Optimization Algorithms
H.M Ryan Yim (H. Frank Carey) H. Frank Carey Predicting Thyroid Cancer Recurrence Using Machine Learning Models With Feature Selection
H.M Ray Tang (Shoreham-Wading River High School) Shoreham-Wading River High School Kinematic Synthesis of Planar Leg Mechanisms through Large-Scale Dataset Generation, Geometric Filtering, and Optimization
H.M John M Ricci (Plainedge High School) Plainedge High School Optimizing the Locomotion System of an Eight-legged Robot Through Encoder-based Motors.
H.M Serin Jo (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Design of a Lightweight Peak Picking Algorithm for Noisy Mass Spectrometry Data
H.M Adithya Patnam (Herricks High School) Herricks High School Optimizing Information Delivery for Time-Critical Blind or Low Vision Navigation: Machine Learning vs. Heuristic Signaling in a Virtual Reality Obstacle Avoidance Task
H.M Denys Zagrebin (Seaford High School) Seaford High School Utilizing RSSI Ranging in a Smartwatch Application to Measure Sprint Performance
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