Winners

Category Award Name School Title
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