AJAS Annual Meeting 2021

The American Junior Academy of Sciences (AJAS) is a national honor society recognizing outstanding scientific research by high school students across the U.S. AJAS meets annually in conjunction with The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest scientific organization in the world. AJAS delegates are exposed to cutting-edge research and have the opportunity to interact with world renowned scientists.

The following HTHS students attended the 2021 AJAS/AAAS Annual meeting as delegates from the New Jersey Academy of Science:

Emily Guan &
Kate Monroe

Project Title: Voice Pitch is a Source of Subconscious Bias in Marketing Measurable by Affordable EEG

Apollo Lee

Project Title: Ginger chemical compounds inhibit baker's yeast growth, suggesting chemopreventive properties

Megan Lu

Project Title: LED Lights Encourage Healthier Root Growth Over Fluorescent Lights

Bradley Miller

Project Title: Melatonin may be able to increase the amount of growth exhibited by mung bean sprouts

Abhay Rao

Project Title: Nitric Oxide (NO) Production from Beta vulgaris Decreases Respiration Rates in Lumbricina

Sidharth Srivastava

Project Title: Improving the Design and Power Output of Bacteria Powered Batteries

Marissa Teitelbaum

Project Title: Wider surface area novel bicycle handle bar grip reduces effects of impact in simulated injury

Arya Tschand

Project Title: A Novel Semi-Supervised Machine Learning Model for Autonomous Irrigation Optimization

Bradley Xu

Project Title: An Application That Utilizes Object Detection To Aid The Blind In Street Crossings