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$10,000 President's Scholarship Prize
PH018
Conductance Quantization in Au Nanocontacts
Mariangela Lisanti, 17, Staples
High School, Westport, Connecticut
$500 Prize
CS012
Real-Time Continuous Levels of Detail
Terrain Rendering with Nested Splitting Space
Yuanchen Zhu, 16, Shanghai Foreign
Language School, Shanghai, China
CS037
Mining the Mind: Boundary Detection
in MR Brain Scans
Cambrian Yangshao Liu, 17, Baton
Rouge Senior High School, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
EN006
The Sign Translator
Ryan Randall Patterson, 17, Central
High School, Grand Junction, Colorado
Ryan Patterson was nicknamed the "glove boy" because of his demonstration
of using his glove project to translate the hand motions of a deaf into
alphanumeric characters on a PC screen. The glove had sensors built-in
to sense the hand muscle/tendon movements and transmit wireless to a PC.
Whenver he encountered an obstacle like learning assembly or C, he would
buy a book and jump into it.
EN088
Signal Dissection by Repetitive Smoothing
and Extraction
Elena Leah Glassman, 14, Lenape
Middle School, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Elena Glassman started out with a totally different project: how to get
her robot pet to respond to human voice commands. The first step
is analyzing the waveforms. This eventually became her project.
She used different methods of analyzing and deconstructing waveforms: pulse,sine
wave, square waves,etc. She was nicknamed the "signal girl".
EV027
Design of an Internet-based Soil
Hydration Sensor System
Michael Beroen Hart, 15, Alfred
M. Barbe High School, Lake Charles, Louisiana
Michael Hart designed a system to utilize GPS, the internet to monitor
and regulate when to appropriately turn on the sprinklers to maximize the
water savings measuring three factors: temperature, sun intensity, and
mositure in the soil. He also fly a minature human-powered airplane
to drop and test his apparatus.
EV045
Mosquito Control via Acoustic Larvicide:
Pesticide-free Solution
Michael H. Nyberg, 15, Lyme-Old
Lyme High School, Old Lyme, Connecticut
Michael Nyberg experimented using sound to kill mosquitoes. He tested
different frequencies in a controlled environment. It was interesting
to see the effects of sound blasting on mosquitoes. Maybe that's
why doctors recommend to not put on loud headphones. You just might
pop an ear drum.
PH001
A Novel Surface Tension Measuring
Method and Apparatus
Tai-Hsiang Huang, 17, Taipei
Municipal Chien-Kuo Senior High School, Taipei, Taiwan
PH037
Decoupling Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Spectra by Maximum Entropy Reconstruction
Andrew Chi, 17, Terre Haute South
Vigo High School, Terre Haute, Indiana
PH045
Effect of Varying Electric and Magnetic
Field Strengths on the Flow Rate of Saline Water in a
Magnetohydrodynamic Setup
Thomas Hall Ruscher, 15, Roanoke
Valley Governors School for Science and Technology,
Roanoke, Virginia
$100 Prize for Women and Minorities
EN040
Vapor Exchange/Pressure Control Wheelchair
Seat
Christina Lynn Adams, 16, Bartlesville
High School, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Christina Adams for outstanding pursuit of alleviating pain and discomfort
for wheelchair ridden patients. She used minature inflatable pockets
that created air gaps between the sitting person and the chair. Thus,
creating air circulation that reduced a) temperature and b) humidity between
the person and the chair. This would result in reduced sitting sores
on the derrierre of the persons. She has also applied for patents
on this apparatus.
EN324
Solar Vehicle Prototype
Oswaldo Mejia Bsiceno, 17, Padre
Iluminato, Lima, Lima, Peru
Hugo Eunogie, 18, Padre Iluminato, Lima,
Lima, Peru
Oswaldo Bsiceno for oustanding pursuit of utilizing solar power to power
buses in home country of Peru. He fashioned small solar panels from
calculators to envision what a solar-powered bus would look like.
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