High School Projects by School

BotaniScan: AI Driven Plant Disease Identification Tool

Anish Kumar

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

Energy From Our Oceans

Abhijith Sivaprakash

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

Spot the Flaw: Using a Deep Learning Convolutional Neural Network for Detection of Solar Panel Defects

Pritha Sankar

🏅First Place; OCSEF

C.R.I.S.P.R. Cas9 Goes Online: Modeling Gene Editing through Machine Learning

Neil Dedhia & Shrey Mehta

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

Can the Addition of Biodegradable Hydrogels Help Soil Retain Moisture and Accelerate Seed Germination Time?

Sharanya Rao

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Glutathione Role in Alzheimer’s Defense

Ashton Truong

🏅Honorable Mention

Optimizing Model Architectures for the Classification of Suicide and Depression on Social Media

Lakshmi Chakka

🏅First Place; OCSEF

Identification of Endometriosis from Transcriptomic Data using Machine Learning  

Alexis Low

🏅Honorable Mention

Semi-Automated Quantification and Grading of Puccinia triticina urediniospores: Advancing Disease Monitoring through Machine Learning and Image Analysis

Lauren Low

🏅Honorable Mention

A Smaller Scale of Energy Harvesting In Lighting Systems Through Piezoelectric Tiles

Ashwath Saravanan

🏅Honorable Mention

The Haptic Glove

Aryan Jain

🏅First Place; OCSEF

A Novel Approach to the Detection of Stegomalware using Kolmogorov Complexity

Sebastian Alexis

🏅First Place; OCSEF

Real-Time ASL Detection

Amish Singh

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

Design and Characterization of Novel Imatinib-Loaded Nanoparticles for Localized Immunomodulation

Nathan Kang

🏅First Place; OCSEF

ALSync: A Cost-Effective and Modular BCI for Assistive ALS Communication

Philip Park

🏅First Place; OCSEF

Effect of Ocean Acidification on the Hatching Rate of Brine Shrimp

Sol Hwang

🏅Honorable Mention

Stimulating B cells to express Regulatory Cytokines to combat Type 1 Diabetes

Angela Su

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

Microbial Mosaics: A bioinformatics study of the influence of gut microbiota on the HIPPO pathway and an insight into the link between microbiota and cancer

Anika Kurup

🏅Honorable Mention

Mussels as Aquatic Canaries: Investigating Sunscreen's Environmental Impact 

Kaden Kwak

🏅Honorable Mention

Utilizing the Helianthus Annuus to Organically Treat Human Epidermal Cells and Extract ADH with PBS for Plant Protection

Parsa Jokar & Nika Namiri

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

A Prospective Interference of Inflammation on T-lymphocytes

Kavi Shrivastava

🏅Honorable Mention

Optimization of B-Cell Differentiation In-Vitro

Olivia Luebcke

🏅Honorable Mention

Aerodynamics to help Fuel Efficiency

Dhruv Panchagatti

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

Effect of Moment of Inertia on the Stability of Construction Beams

William Hong

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

Adaptive Search Engine by AI for Anatomical Variations

Hannah Rhim

🏅Honorable Mention

AI Powered Ebike Real-Time Alert System

Winsley Tsai

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

BioWorks

Thuvaarakan Sivaruban, Jake Hsu, & Tyler Temeki

🏅Honorable Mention

Affordability for Amputees

Tyler Kim

🏅First Place; OCSEF

Deep Learning for Brain Tumor Detection

Ryan Yi

🏅First Place; OCSEF

Incorporating improvements to existing animal overpasses to improve usage and efficiency.

Kaden Chiu

🏅Honorable Mention

Leveraging Open Source Intelligence, Sentiment Analysis, and Machine Learning for Financial Forecasting

Andrew Zhang

🏅First Place; OCSEF

Crazy Concrete Crystals

Zephyr Low

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

FarmWatch - IIoT for Effective Pest Detection and Control

Avnit Kaur

🏅First Place; OCSEF

Vulpefti: Converting sound waves into electricity

Kashvi Logu

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

Ayurvedic Allies Against AMR: Which Herb Reigns Supreme in Inhibiting E. coli?

Nimishii Sharma

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

Ecological Influences on Procyonidae Morphology

Luna Moon

🏅Honorable Mention

How Termite Mounds Beat the Heat

Hrishi Gopalakrishna

🏅Honorable Mention

Waters in Peril: Detecting and Analyzing Microplastic Contaminants

Jiwon Kim

🏅Honorable Mention

Analysis of Liver Enzyme Function in High Salt, Sugar, and Fat-Simulated Diets

Rachel Kim

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

A new vision in the operation room: The impact of robotic surgical technology on operations success rate.

Elena Thai

🏅Honorable Mention

Nutrient Impact on Iron Absorption

Raiva Desai

🏅Honorable Mention

Holy to Healing: Prying into the Phage Properties of River Ganges Against Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Driti Rajkumar

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

Energized: The Impact of Electrolyte-Carbohydrate Drinks on Heart Rate and Oxygen Saturation During Physical Exercise

Tanav Gopalakrishna

🏅Honorable Mention

Differentially methylated regions upregulate GATA-2 in fibroblasts of lung tissue in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Ethan Van

🏅Honorable Mention

Analyzing Potential Genetic Inversions in Lyme Disease Reservoir Species P. leucopus (White-Footed Deer Mouse) to Uncover Variations Correlated with Disease-Carrying Ability

Mahima Wuppalapati

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

A Multivariate Analysis on the Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Disease

Kelly Yeh & Hailey Kim

🏅Honorable Mention

Enhancing Binary Systems Pre-Merger Characteristics Predictions Through Gravitational Wave Ringdown Analysis

Aryush Aravind

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

Light carnival — extension of double slit experiment 

Xizhi Zhang & Xiyuan Zhang

🏅Honorable Mention

Frontiers in Window Technology

Bryan Woo

🏅Honorable Mention

Dielectrophoresis Based Electrokinetic Guidance of Microparticles 

Chloe Chen & Chloe Yang

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

Optimizing Carbon Sequestration

Aryaman Jain & Ishaan Multani

🏅Honorable Mention

Ripple in Time

Yuna Sun & William Kim

🏅Honorable Mention

Detecting Biosignatures on Exoplanets Using Transmission Spectra

Sandhya Shanmuga-Nathan

🏅Honorable Mention

Effects of Flapping-Wing Flight on Slow Flight in Thin Atmospheres

Karl Chen

🏅Honorable Mention

Order Doesn’t Matter: A Property of Word Embedding Models 

William Liang

🏅Honorable Mention

Exploring the Impact of Screen Time on Sleep Patterns

Amiya Sidhu, Elisa Hajrizaj, & Sanjana Pavaldi 

🏅Honorable Mention

Modeling, predicting, and preventing bullying in schools

Xiao Jiang

🏅First Place; OCSEF

Emotional Support App with an AI Chatbot and Integrated Self-Help Tools

Andrei Saramukov

🏅First Place; OCSEF

SkyOptimus: Optimizing the flight path of an aircraft for energy efficiency

Samriddho Bhowal

🏅First Place; OCSEF

Turning CO₂ Into Tomorrow’s Energy

Amaan Siddiqi

🏅First Place; OCSEF

MelodyLens

Suho Lee

🏅First Place; OCSEF

ErgO: The Ultimate Ergonomic Ring with Motion and Voice AI Assistance for Musculoskeletal Discomfort

Sophia Dai

🏅First Place; OCSEF

Social Media Sentiment Analysis With a Transformer Model

Amogh Khaparde

🏅First Place; OCSEF

Dependance of K-12 school performance on income in US school districts

Maria Wodarz

🏅Honorable Mention

Heart Attack Detection 

Sara Barakat

🏅Honorable Mention

Effect of Emetine HCl on Angiogenesis in Pancreatic Cancer

Nethra Iyer

🏅Honorable Mention

Scatter JAKs!

Theertha Hariharan Arulmozhi

🏅Honorable Mention

Cell Mechanosensing through ECM fibers: Evaluating the role of fiber microbuckling in cellular communication

Ishan Vannadil

🏅Honorable Mention

Toxicogenomics of Fresh Water Salinization Syndrome and Impacts on host infection susceptibility and Vibriosis Severity

Shreyan Chatterjee

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

DNA-Damage Vulnerability of Alpha and Beta cells in a Model of Type 2 Diabetes

Daniel Nam

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

Peroxynitrite biochemical signaling regulates miR21 activation of NLRP3 inflammasome and is key to PCOS severity

Annika Chatterjee

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

The Effects of Environmental and Socioeconomic Factors on the Prevalence of Alzheimer’s Disease 

Kaylee Shi

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

Comparative Analysis of Band Structure Prediction: Effect of Localized Density Approximation vs. Tight-Binding Model on the Computational Proof of the Topological Edge-States of Monolayer Graphene

Vaed Kamat

🏅Honorable Mention

A Comparative Investigation of Pro-oxidant and Starch Additives on the Degradation Kinetics of Plastics

Brianna Liu, Aryan Mukherjee, & Luca Valdevit

🏅Honorable Mention

Decoding Language: From Human Semantics to Machine Intelligence

Mark Menaker

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

Greener Pixels: Reducing Carbon Emissions in AI Image Generation  at the Inference Stage

Alvin Chen

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

Predicting Flood Risk and Optimizing Removal of Copper/Heavy Metal from Water

Ashvik Nacham

🏅Honorable Mention

Does Public Sentiment about Climate Change Influence Green Spending?

Joseph Bohman

🏅Honorable Mention

Automating the Generation of Coloured Subtitles

Saravanavasan Ramadass

🏅Honorable Mention

Predicting Heart Disease Using Machine Learning Models to Improve Diagnosis

Siyona Choudhry

🏅Second Place; OCSEF

MicroXtract

Kaining Yuan

🏅First Place; OCSEF

MEDALS: Machine-Learning-Driven Early Detection of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis via Biomarker Analysis 

James Vaisman, Aryan Panda, & Irfan Syed

🏅Second Place, OCSEF

A Cheaper Alternative To Refreshable Braille Display

Chris Franklin Michael Raj

🏅First Place; OCSEF

The Unseen Bias: An Analysis of the Psychology of Workplace Ageism

Abhimanyu Shridhar

🏅Honorable Mention

An AI-Enhanced Approach for De Novo Discovery of Novel eIF4E Inhibitors Targeting Drug-Resistant ER+ Breast Cancer

Audrey Huang & Marissa Huang

🏅Honorable Mention

Chokepoints in adenocarcinoma signaling pathways

Timothy Lim

🏅Honorable Mention

Fire Extinguishing Gliders

Tomoki Hiraoka

🏅Honorable Mention

Dielectrophoresis Based Electrokinetic Guidance of Microparticles 

Chloe Chen & Chloe Yang

🏅Second Place; OCSEF