Here are the Finalists at their Posters, representing WESEF at the INTEL International Science & Engineering Fair. In total there were close to 1800 student competitors from over 60 different countries across the globe!
- Matt Wrubel and Erik Santini Yorktown High School Project Title: Compressed Air Energy Storage
- Adam Illowsky Ossining High School Project Title: The MAPT H1 Haplotype is Associated with an Increased Clinical and Neuropathological Severity of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
- Xinxin Du Scarsdale High School Project Title: An Exploratory Investigation of miRNA Regulation of ACSL-4 in Androgen Deprivation Therapy Resistant Prostate Cancer
- Sam Goldman Pelham High School Project Title: Structural Snapshots of K lactis Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase trapped with Transition State Analog Inhibitors
- Liz Sobolik Sleepy Hollow High School Project Title: Generating iPSCs from Human Adipocyte Tissue for Differentiation into Nociceptive Neurons
- Ben Ross Ossining High School Project Title: An Optimized Analysis of Wind Flows in the Urban Environment and the Identification of Feasible Building Augmented Wind Turbine Sites
- Karan Desai Edgemont High School Project Title: Loss of TDP43 in Motor Neurons Leads to Deficits in Axonal RNAs in an Animal Model of ALS
- Charlotte Herber Fox Lane High School Project Title: Evidence of Toll-like Receptor Nine-Mediated Amelioration of Amyloid Pathology in a TgSwDI Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease
- Zhun Che, Julia Kavanagh, and Luke Hellum Pelham High School Project Title: Identification of Genes Involved in Metabolism and Toxicity of Host-Derived Toxin Methylglyoxal in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium smegmatis
- Alex Kaufman Horace Greeley High School Project Title: Constructing an HBV Reporter Virus
- Ari Kanevsky Ossining High School Project Title: Development of a Novel Machine Learning Algorithm to Monitor Vascular Tissue Transfers Using Speech Classification Techniques
- Ivan Paskov Edgemont High School Project Title: Predicting Cancer Drug Response using Nuclear Norm Multi-Task Learning
- Alyson Winter and Abigail Kamen Ossining High School Project Title: Psychosocial Variables Affecting Breast Cancer Quality of Life