Forty high-school seniors from across the United States were announced today as finalists in the country’s oldest and most prestigious pre-college science competition, the Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a program of Society for Science & the Public.
The Intel STS encourages students to help solve some of the world’s greatest challenges. Entrants are judged on the originality and creativity of their scientific research projects as well as their achievement and leadership both inside and outside the classroom. Finalists’ research spans from a mathematical model that can replicate cardiac arrhythmias to a fast-charging, low-cost energy-storage supercapacitor to innovative stem-cell research.
The 40 finalists will convene in Washington, D.C. from March 6 through 12 to compete for $630,000 in prize money provided by the Intel Foundation, including a grand prize of $100,000 that will be awarded to the first-place winner.
The 2014 Intel STS finalists are from 33 schools in 14 states. Finalist projects are distributed among 15 categories, including behavioral science, biochemistry, bioengineering, bioinformatics, chemistry, computer science, earth science, engineering, environmental science, materials science, mathematics, medicine, microbiology, physics, and space science.
These 40 finalists were narrowed down from nearly 1,800 entrants and 300 semifinalists:
Alec Vadim Arshavsky
East Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, NC
Automatic Characterization of Donor Tissue for Corneal Transplantation Surgery
Kathy Camenzind
California High School, San Ramon, CA
Quantifying Trapping Forces in a Simplified Optical Tweezers Setup
Eric S. Chen
Canyon Crest Academy, San Diego, CA
Computer-aided Discovery of Novel Influenza Endonuclease Inhibitors to Combat Flu Pandemic
Steven Chen
Westwood High School, Austin, TX
On the Surface Tension of Entropic Droplets in Dynamically Metastable Liquids
John Anthony Clarke
Regis High School, New York, NY
High-Energy X-ray Emission in the Jovian Magnetosphere: A Feasibility Study for the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)
Aron Coraor
Huntington High School, Huntington, NY
Pressure Dependent Azeotropic Melting Relations in the Mg2SiO4-Fe2SiO4-NaAlSi3O8-CaAl2Si2O8 System: a Critical Role in Lunar Highlands Formation?
Soham Daga
Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Using Google Trends to Enhance Predictive Models of Mortgage Delinquency to Mitigate Risk in the Loan Lending Process
Shaun Datta
Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD
Saturated Nuclear Matter in the Large Nc and Heavy Quark Limits of Quantum Chromodynamics
Neil Davey
Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD
Early Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Through the Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells Using Drop-Based Microfluidics
Benjamin Freed
Governor Thomas Johnson High School, Frederick, MD
Identification of Novel Regulatory Mechanisms of the K-Ras Oncoprotein
Anubhav Guha
Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua, NY
Discovery of Rare Earth Oxide Nanoparticles as Agents for Prolonging Fluorescence Imaging in Biological and Other Systems: Fluorescence Studies from Single Molecules and Dispersions
Yushi Homma
Carmel High School, Carmel, IN
Asymptotics of Two-Point Correlation Functions for the Zeros of Random Polynomials
Preeti Kakani
Jericho Senior High School, Jericho, NY
Differential Gene Expression Prior to Eye Opening in Mouse Superior Colliculus
Joyce Blossom Kang
Brentwood High School, Brentwood, TN
Development of a High-performance Hybrid Supercapacitor on CF Cloth Using 3D Nano-Architectured Electrodes Comprised of Aligned CNTs Coated with Pseudocapacitive MnO2 Nanoparticles
Angela Xiangyue Kong
Lynbrook High School, San Jose, CA
The Transcription Factor Bcl11b Regulates Mammary Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Quiescence Partially Through Cell Cycle Progression Inhibitor CDKN1a/p21
William Henry Kuszmaul
Lexington High School, Lexington, MA
A New Approach to Enumerating Statistics Modulo n
Kevin Lee
University High School, Irvine, CA
Strongly Coupled Electromechanical Modeling of the Heart in Moving Domains Using the Phase-Field Method
Charles Xin Liu
Henry M. Gunn High School, Palo Alto, CA
Integrated Meta-analysis of 64 Diseases Identifies Novel Relationship Between Systemic Sclerosis and Systemic Lupus erythematosus
Esha Maiti
California High School, San Ramon, CA
Stochastic Monte Carlo Simulations to Determine Breast Cancer Metastasis Rates and Tumor Distribution from Patient Survival Data
Rahul Siddharth Mehta
The University of Chicago Laboratory High School, Chicago, IL
A New Max-Flow Algorithm for Sparse Networks
Joshua Abraham Meier
Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology, Hackensack, NJ
Control of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Aging by Modulation of Mitochondrial DNA Deletions
Anne Merrill
Greenwich High School, Greenwich, CT
Comparative Suppression of Soil-Borne Pathogens via Earthworm Bioturbation of Natural and Man-Made Biochars
Lisa P. Michaels
Plano West Senior High School, Plano, TX
Pan-Neuronal Over-Expression of the GCLc Gene to Mitigate Redox Stress and Mitochondrial ETC Complex Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease
Sreyas Misra
The Harker School, San Jose, CA
Design and Characterization of a Novel Single-headed and Hand-held PET Camera Using 511 keV Photon Collimation via Compton Scatter
Viola Mocz
Mililani High School, Mililani, HI
The Mass Ratio of Elementary Particles from Helicotoroidal Topology
Natalie Ng
Monta Vista High School, Cupertino, CA
Advancing Precision Medicine: MicroRNA Prognostic Signatures and Prediction Models for Distant Metastasis Free Survival in Breast Cancer
Emily Pang
Dougherty Valley High School, San Ramon, CA
The Opposing Roles of Tumor Suppressive cC1qR and Oncoprotein gC1qR as Mechanisms for Inhibiting Cancer Pathogenesis
Jiho Park
University High School, Irvine, CA
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Aromatase: Implications for Novel Drug Design
Ivan Spassimirov Paskov
Edgemont High School, Scarsdale, NY
Predicting Cancer Drug Response Using Nuclear Norm Multi-Task Learning
Brianna Pereira
Academy for Medical Science Technology, Hackensack, NJ
CXCR4/SDF-1α Signaling as a Target of Microenvironmental Regulation of Metastasis in NSCLC
Thabit Pulak
Richardson High School, Richardson, TX
Affordable Home-based Bio-sand Arsenic Water Filter and Rapid Arsenic Water Test Using Nanotechnology
Zarin Ibnat Rahman
Brookings High School, Brookings, SD
The At-Risk Maturing Brain: Effects of Stress Paradigms on Mood, Memory and Cognition in Adolescents and the Role of the Prefrontal Cortex
Ajay Saini
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School, Acton, MA
Predictive Modeling of Opinion and Connectivity Dynamics in Social Networks
Sara Sakowitz
The Brearley School, New York, NY
A Novel Approach for Metastatic Breast Cancer Therapy: Pharmacological Inhibition of EZH2 Histone Methyl Transferase Activity Suppresses Cancer Stem Cells and Induces Epithelial Phenotype
David Seong
Lexington High School, Lexington, MA
Novel Use of Mutant Huntingtin Haplotype 3′UTR Sequence to Discover miRNAs Targeting Mutant Huntingtin Gene Causing Huntington’s Disease
Vishnu Shankar
Monta Vista High School, Cupertino, CA
The 3D Structure of Human DP Prostaglandin G-protein Coupled Receptor Bound to Selective Antagonists from GEnSeMBLE Predictions
Jessica Shi
Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD
The Speeds of Families of Intersection Graphs
Kaitlyn Shin
Jericho Senior High School, Jericho, NY
Photon and Positron Emission from Primordial Black Hole Clusters
Anand Srinivasan
Roswell High School, Roswell, GA
RNNScan: Eukaryotic Gene Prediction via Recurrent Neural Networks Utilizing Local-Feature Extraction
Parth Thakker
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham, NC
Design, Assembly, and Optimization of Novel ZnxSeAgy Biocompatible Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells
Society for Science & the Public, a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to public engagement in scientific research and education, has owned and administered the Science Talent Search since its inception in 1942.
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