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Science Fair winners receive awards at 2006 International
Science Fair – Eight Students from
In a total of three award
ceremonies, eight students from the Detroit Metro area won numerous prestigious
awards at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair held in
Alexander Chernyak, 18,
and Pavel V. Chvykov, 15, Lincoln Consolidated High School,
Project title: “Development of Multipass Pulse Cleaner for Ultrafast High-power Lasers”
Category Award – Team Project – First Award of $3,000
Amardeep Singh Grewal, 17,
Project title: “A New Spin on Wound Healing Scaffolds: Physical and Molecular Optimization”
Ashtavadhani
Vidwan Ambati Subbaraya Chetty (AVASC) Foundation – First Award of $1,000
“For projects that displays outstanding
creativity, ingenuity and have the potential to alleviate the human condition
or mark a substantive advance in the scientific field.”
Category Award – Biochemistry – Fourth Award of $500
Zane Sami Hatahet, 15,
Project title: “A Comparitive Analysis of Quantum Dot Nanotechnology and Standard Fluorophores”
Jessica Lynn Laviolette, 18,
Project title. “Optimizing Ethanol Production Efficiency”
Vacuum Technology Division of the American Vacuum
Society –
“The
school science department of each winner will receive $750. The winner’s advisor will receive $250. Both the winner and their advisor will also
receive a vacuum technology text”
Category Award – Engineering – First Award of $3,000
Sohan Venkat Mikkilineni,
17,
Project title: “A Finiteness Property for Integral Points in a Family of Conics”
American
Mathematics Society –
“Karl Menger Award of Excellence”
Nadia N Naja, 17, Dearborn Center for Math, Science & Technology, Dearborn Heights, Michigan.
Project title: “Java Based Algorithm Automated Prescription Reminder and Renewal”
“Each winner will receive a plaque and
certificate of recognition; the teacher of each individual and team project
will receive a grant in the amount of $300.”
Category Award – Computer Science – Third Award of $1,000
Meelap Vijay Shah, 17,
Project title: “Extended Falut Tolerance of Hyper-star Graphs”
American Mathematics Society – Honorable Mention Award
“Karl Menger Award of Excellence”
“Each winner will receive a plaque and
certificate of recognition; the teacher of each individual and team project
will receive a grant in the amount of $300.”
Category Award – Mathematics – Third Award of $1,000
Other winners from the
State of
Elizabeth Blair Laing, 17,
Project title: “Shake and Bake: It’s Not Just for Dinner Anymore. The Effects of SV40 Large T-Antigen on Skin Phenotype in VDR-null Mice”
Category Award – Medicine and Health – Fourth Award of $500
Ana Marie Lyons, 16, Mecosta Osceola Math, Science & Technology Center, Big Rapids, Michigan.
Project title: “The Effects of A. planipennis Habitat Destruction on the Populations of Limno-Terrestrial Tardigrades Residing on the Lichens of F. pennsylavanica
Category Award – Zoology - Second Award of $1,500
Aaron Thomas Maturen, 17,
and Pascal Anthony Carole, 17,
and Remy Gerald Carole, 17,
Project title: “Socially Integrated Robots: Sustainable Robotic Cognition in a Socioeconomic Model”
Category Award – Team Projests – Fourth Award of $500
Ripal Hiren Patel, 17,
and Erin N McCormick, 17,
Project title: “Competition Between Co-Extensive Homologous Efferent Terminals During Synapse Maturation”
Category Award – Team Projests – Third Award of $1,000
Sameem S. Qazi, 16,
Project title: “Mutagenic Effect of Tobacco on Microorganisms”
Andrea Lynn Sims, 15, Mecosta Osceola Math, Science & Technology Center, Big Rapids, Michigan.
Project title: “Development of a Functional Knee Brace for Patients with Medial or Lateral Compartment Syndrome Caused by Osteoarthritis”
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