Award Ceremony
2025
Hosted
by
Welcome and Introduction
Ms. Suzanne Stickley, HS Region IV Director
Keynote Speech
Ms Mary Harutyunyan, Region IV Alum
Special Recognition Awards
American Psychological Association Recognition Award
American Psychological Association Recognition Award
Reet Saini
“Gendered Dimensions: Analyzing Gender Disparities in Spatial Reasoning Variances and Cognitive Processing”
Association for Women Geoscientists Recognition Award
Association for Women Geoscientists Recognition Award
Vanessa Steinmeyer, Quinlan Kelly, and Helena Brain
“Precipitation’s Effect on Ipswich River Solute Concentrations With Analysis Into Potential Effects on Local Organisms”
NASA Earth System Science Award
NASA Earth System Science Award
Aakash Stewart
“Analyzing the Effects of Locational and Weather Changes on Air Quality”
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Mission Award
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Mission Award
Suma Bhiravarasa and Emma Lu
“Incorporating Aquaponics into Fish Farms to Increase Efficiency”
Ricoh USA Recognition Award
Ricoh USA Recognition Award
Kathy Lin
“AI-Driven Drone Surface Damage Detection for Wind Turbines”
Society for In Vitro Biology Recognition Award
Society for In Vitro Biology Recognition Award
Yoyo Wu, Nandita Ganesh, and Deepika Bhardwaj
“Effects of non-nicotinic e-liquid and nicotinic e-liquid exposure and ameliorating properties of hesperidin on locomotion in C. elegans”
U.S. Metric Association Recognition Award
U.S. Metric Association Recognition Award
Yubo Liu
“Innovative Robotic Rescue System for Avalanche Situations”
Water Environment Federation / Stockholm Junior Water Prize
Water Environment Federation / Stockholm Junior Water Prize
Nida Khan
“Analyzing River Water Quality and Its Impact on Aquatic Wildlife”
Yale Science and Engineering Association Award
Yale Science and Engineering Association Award
Yuze Cai and Rodolfo Wang
“ViSA: Virtual Swashplate Aircraft—Design and implementation of a novel control surface-less fixed-wing aircraft”
Region IV Category Awards
Outstanding Accessibility and Public Health Project
Outstanding Accessibility and Public Health Project
Yaejoon Jung
“Designing a Novel Bamboo-Inspired Lattice Structure for 3D-printed Total Knee Arthroplasty Implants: Finite Element Method and Machine Learning-based Optimization Approach”
Outstanding Application of Mathematics or Computer Science Project
Outstanding Application of Mathematics or Computer Science Project
Zachary Medjamia
“Estimating Periodic Solutions to Pendulum-like Chaotic Dynamical Systems”
Outstanding Behavioral Science Project
Outstanding Behavioral Science Project
Lathika Kannan and Elif Sayar
“How Noise Affects Eye to Hand Coordination”
Outstanding Cellular, Molecular, or Microbiology Project
Outstanding Cellular, Molecular, or Microbiology Project
Ayaan Garg
“Assessing Goldenrod Extract as a Potential Antibiotic: The Effects on Bacteria and Eukaryotic Cell Viability”
Outstanding Earth and Space Science Project
Outstanding Earth and Space Science Project
Lily Swilling
“Space Food: Growing Eruca sativa in a Soilless Hydroponic System with Lunar Regolith”
Outstanding Environmental Science Project
Outstanding Environmental Science Project
Caitlin Stimpson, Lasya Muthyala
“Assessing Ascophyllum nodosum as a Natural Solution for Coastal Erosion Mitigation”
Joseph F. Tarello Outstanding Chemistry Project
Joseph F. Tarello Outstanding Chemistry Project
Congqing Yang
“Tuning the Electronic and Optical Properties of Crystalline Anthracene by Doping and Pressure for Photovoltaic Applications”
New Scientist’s Innovation Award
New Scientist’s Innovation Award
Yanlin Zheng
“AeroClimatic Explorer: An Anti-Collision ROS drone with SLAM Navigation for Air Quality Monitoring”
The Top Medford HS Project
The Top Medford HS Project
Benjamin Wirz, Tanzerul Azam, and Scott(Joseph) Campbell
“Analyzing The Efficacy of Different Probes for Electromagnetic Fault Injection”
Major Category Awards
AMD Engineering Excellence Award
AMD Engineering Excellence Award
Amber (Xuhong) Ding
“UV treatment of vitiligo based on Deep Learning and 6-DOF Robotics Arm”
Alnylam BioScience Excellence Award
Alnylam BioScience Excellence Award
Adrita Samanta
“Inference of Cell-Cell Communication to Understand the Molecular Mechanisms of Alzheimer’s Disease”
Massachusetts Life Science Center Trailblazer Award
Massachusetts Life Science Center Trailblazer Award
Manal Mahfudh
"Which Non-Absorbable Suture is the Strongest?”
MCTA Chemistry Excellence Award
MCTA Chemistry Excellence Award
Zayaan Mamun and Melissa Panaligan
“Don’t Be Salty: Temperature-Responsive Coating for Controlled Release of Road Salt to Minimize Environmental Impact”
MITRE Computer Science & Technology Excellence Award
MITRE Computer Science & Technology Excellence Award
Iris Yu
“Inequality in the Age of AI: An Agent-Based, Machine Learning Approach to Explore AI and Economic Inequity”
Major Awards
The Third Place Prizes
The Third Place Prize (1 of 4)
Juhi Kundu
“Making Mobile Homes Amphibious: A Flood Avoidance System”
The Third Place Prize (2 of 4)
Lillian Graham and Gigi Malvi
“The effect of B12 on lifespan of Bombyx mori fed a high glucose diet”
The Third Place Prize (3 of 4)
Mrigank Dhingra
“Refining AI Models for Brain Tumor Classification: A Data-Driven Approach Using MRI Scans”
The Third Place Prize (4 of 4)
Samyak Jain
“Entanglement Sudden Death in Interacting Quantum Circuits”
The Second Place Prizes
The Second Place Prize (1 of 3)
Adrita Samanta
“Inference of Cell-Cell Communication to Understand the Molecular Mechanisms of Alzheimer’s Disease”
The Second Place Prize (2 of 3)
Juwon Lee
“Automated Prediction of Autism Spectrum Disorder Severity using Retinal Photograph based on Feature Aggregation with Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation”
The Second Place Prize (3 of 3)
Shreya Jha
“Patient-centered radiology reports regarding glioblastomas with generative artificial intelligence”
The First Place Prizes
The First Place Prize (1 of 3)
Anika Jacob
“The Effects of Environmental Concentrations of Caffeine on the Neurobehavioral and Neurobiological development of Zebrafish Embryos”
The First Place Prize (2 of 3)
Iris Yu
“Inequality in the Age of AI: An Agent-Based, Machine Learning Approach to Explore AI and Economic Inequity”
The First Place Prize (3 of 3)
Amber (Xuhong) Ding
“UV treatment of vitiligo based on Deep Learning and 6-DOF Robotics Arm”
The Sanofi Grand Prize
The Sanofi Grand Prize
Ethan Yan
“Empowering Low-Resource Settings with RetinAI: An AI System with Wearable Headset and Retinal Imaging for Eye Tumor Home-Screening”
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