Winners

Category Award Name School Title
Animal Sciences 1st Alexandra Claire D'Alessio (Half Hollow Hills West) Half Hollow Hills West The Adverse Effects of Hunting on the Length of Bellows of American and Canadian Bison During Rut
2nd Nicholas Borruso (Westhampton Beach High School) Westhampton Beach High School Assessment of the Behavioral Impacts of PFAS on Danio rerio
2nd Jack Ryan Levitt (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School The Supplementation of Probiotics via Yogurt Ameliorates Parkinson's Disease Phenotypes in a Drosophila melanogaster Model
3rd Ishana Chadha (Commack High School) Commack High School The Role of Oligophrenin1 and Pacsin2 in Modulating Radial Migration of Pyramidal Neurons During Brain Development
3rd Evelyn Taylor Caputo (Wantagh High School) Wantagh High School A Survival Analysis into the Interactions between Cardenolide-Toxic Milkweed and the Invasive Spotted Lanternfly
H.M Emilia Marie Miranda (West Islip High School) West Islip High School Analyzing Microplastic Quantity and Chemical Composition in Farm-Raised vs Wild-Caught Shrimp for Human Consumption Using Infrared Spectroscopy
H.M Emaan Tehseen (Elmont Memorial) Elmont Memorial Genetic interactions characterizing gene functions downstream of oncogenic GNAQ signaling in Uveal Melanoma using Drosophila melanogaster
H.M Jasmine Liu (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Analysis of the Flavonoid Corylin's Impact on Aging in C. elegans
Behavioral and Social Sciences 1st Chloe Yerin Lee (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Exploring the Effects of Cannabidiol-Medium Chain Triglyceride Oil on Locomotion and Tap Withdrawal Response Using Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model for Alzheimer's Disease​
2nd Joshua Marc Kleyner (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Neural Correlates During Human-Canine Face to Face Interactions
2nd Michael Benjamin Lyakhov (John L. Miller Great Neck North High School) John L. Miller Great Neck North High School Predicting Schizophrenia via Cognitive Biomarkers: Development of a Machine Learning Algorithm for Early Diagnosis and Accessible Care
2nd Grace Chenxin Liu (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Evaluating Gender Disparities Due to Decision-Making Under Uncertainty in Entrepreneurship: A Panel Data Analysis
2nd Sadelle Gelman Poulsen (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Exploring the Content Themes and Engagement Strategies Employed by First-Time Voters on TikTok
3rd Nyra Steffini Mehra (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Bilingualism, Executive Functions, and COVID-19
3rd Sarah Nicole Fernbach (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Relationships Between Racial Socialization, Endorsement of a Racial Colorblind Ideology, and Perceptions of Race-Based Microaggressions Among Young Adults
3rd Gabriella Elliott (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School The Use of Diagnostic Coding Processes in the Analysis of Verbal Behaviors to Enhance Patient-Provider Connection
H.M Brice Chiu (New Hyde Park Memorial High School), Harmehar Kaur (Syosset High School) New Hyde Park Memorial High School Investigating the Impact of Social Connectivity on Self-Reported Cardiovascular, Cognitive, and Mental Health: A Survey-Based Study
H.M Ava Ramsey (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Clever or Conceited? Investigating the Effects of Gender and Self-Promotion on Perceptions of a Potential Employee
H.M Saswati Bhattacharya (Commack High School) Commack High School The Impact of Social Media on the Glorification of Mental Illness Across Age Groups
H.M Aleeza Dhillon (Valley Stream North High School) Valley Stream North High School Investigating the Impact of the Big 5 Personality Traits on Teacher Burnout and Job Satisfaction Among High School Educators
H.M Garrett Greenberg (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School A Novel Application of Machine Learning to Detect Indicators of Student Depression As a Tool for the Multi-tiered Systems of Support
Biochemistry 1st Natalie Osorio (H. Frank Carey) H. Frank Carey Biophysical Investigations Into the Structure and Function of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Nitric Oxide Signaling System
2nd Kevin Liu (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Querying the Functional Properties of GEM Mutants Using in vitro FRET and NanoBiT Assays: Implications in Glucose Metabolism Disorders
3rd Ashka Shah (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Regulating Cancerous Hyperactive Wnt Signalling Through a Novel GID8 Mechanism in Drosophila and Human Embryonic Kidney Cells
H.M Alex Matthew Silbert (Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School), Logan Jack Silbert (Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School), William Steinacher (Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School) Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School Ballistic Barrage Against Beta Lactamases
H.M Gabrielle Victoria DeCapua (Connetquot High School), Michael Benedict Fabbri (Connetquot High School) Connetquot High School Biomolecular Dynamics of Perfluoroalkyl Pollutants in Complex with Bovine Serum Albumin
Biomedical and Health Sciences 1st Sophia Antonina Tarasenko (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Effects of Vitamin D Metabolites and Vitamin K2 on Menstrual Effluent-Derived Endometrial Stromal Cell Viability and Decidualization
2nd Leah Manshu Dong (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School The Role of Fe-S Cluster Biosynthesis in the Regulation of Fe-S Proteins, Fe-Metabolism, and Downstream Stress Responses In-Vivo
2nd Aryana Adur (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Larazotide Acetate as a Novel Approach to Mitigate Food Allergy-Induced Intestinal Epithelial Cell Lining Damage
3rd Grace Rose Nolan (St Anthony's High School) St Anthony's High School Cell-Type Contributions of the Myrf-1 Gene to Development in Caenorhabditis Elegans
3rd Ashna Muni (Herricks High School) Herricks High School Asymptomatic Intracranial Hemorrhages Correlate with Poor Patient Outcomes and NIHSS Predictivity: A Retrospective Analysis of Post-Thrombectomy Ischemic Stroke Patients
3rd Abigail Kavinal Rajan (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School A Novel Link Between Chemotherapy-Induced Ryanodine Receptor 2 (RyR2) Dysfunction and Alzheimer's Disease Pathology
H.M Emily Maria Podolska (West Islip High School) West Islip High School Evaluating Herbal Supplements through Mineral Content and DNA Analysis
H.M Paul Santy (Syosset High School) Syosset High School The Effect of Semaglutide Acetate on Lifespan and Reproductive Capacity in Caenorhabditis elegans
H.M Ryan Matthew Deegan (West Islip High School), Isabella Rose Tussie (West Islip High School) West Islip High School Analyzing C. elegans as a Cancer Model using Infrared Microspectroscopy
Biomedical Engineering 1st Sandeep Sawhney (Herricks High School) Herricks High School Gallium Mediated DNA Tensegrity Triangle Based Crystals: A Novel Prototype Facilitating Gallium Cancer Therapy
2nd Parshwa Shah (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School A Novel Unobtrusive Silent Speech Recognizer for Patients Suffering From Voice Disorders Using Machine Learning
3rd Hallie Lee (Herricks High School) Herricks High School A Novel Evaluation of Transcatheter Mitral Balloon Valvuloplasty Preprocedural Analysis in Rheumatic Stenosed Patients Broadens Eligibility Through Cardiac Imaging
H.M Sara Shamail (Garden City High School) Garden City High School Development of an Innovative Hydroxyapatite-Agarose Hydrogel Grid to Enhance Bone Stabilization and Regeneration
H.M Claudia Modica (Kings Park High School) Kings Park High School A Comparative Analysis of the Effects of Low Intensity Vibrations on the Tibial and Femoral Properties of a Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Mouse Model
Cellular and Molecular Biology 1st Daanish Bassi (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East Assessing Novel RIPK2-MKK7 Interaction Inhibitors in Prostate Cancer Cell Lines
2nd Lilly Sarah Horowitz (Jericho High School) Jericho High School The Effect of Histone Modifications Induced by Ack sRNAs on Ac Transposable Elements
3rd Aafia Ahmed (Elmont Memorial) Elmont Memorial The antioxidant role of JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway against methylmercury-induced toxicity in a mouse astrocyte neuronal C8-D1A cell line
H.M Alicia Imani Madjido (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Conditional elimination of a centriolar protein exhibits stage-specific cell cycle arrest in mouse embryonic fibroblasts.
H.M Serena J Chen (Herricks High School) Herricks High School The Novel Involvement of Peroxisomal Beta-Oxidation During Mitochondrial Inhibition in Catecholamine-Stimulated Acyl-Coenzyme A Oxidase 1 (ACOX1) Knockout White Adipocytes
Chemistry and Material Science 1st Lucienne Keyoung (Manhasset High School), Isabel Rose Gonzalez (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Ag-TiO2@HNT Nanotubes for Highly Efficient and Eco-Friendly Organic Pollutant Degradation
2nd Emily Rose Smukler (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School Aptamer-Mediated Biosensing using Self-Assembled DNA Nanomaterials
3rd Serin Jo (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Characterization of Novel Amyloid-β Peptide Coacervate Release Kinetics and Drug Loading for Doxorubicin
H.M Richard Chai (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East Optimizing the Nitro-Oxidation Process to Convert Lignocellulosic Waste into Fertilizers and Nanocellulosic Materials
H.M Julang Wang (Friends Academy) Friends Academy Magneto-optical effects induced by chiral lattice vibrations in two-dimensional materials
H.M Liza Sophie Zelkin (Commack High School) Commack High School The Antimicrobial Effects of Uniquely Coated Sutures on Staphylococcus epidermidis
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 1st Erin Wong (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School StAIR: Stepwise All-Atom Iterative Reconstruction of Large Coarse-Grained Protein Structures
2nd Melody Heeju Hong (General Douglas MacArthur High School) General Douglas MacArthur High School A Bayesian Exploration Into More Flexible trans-Methylation Quantitative Trait Locus Mapping
3rd Tessla Chan (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Investigating Synthetic Lethality as a Novel Treatment for 9p21.3 Deletion and MSI-H cancers
H.M Nicholas Tumelty (Waldorf School of Garden City) Waldorf School of Garden City Improving kNN: Downsampling & Bootstrapping
H.M Evan Matthew Kolberg (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School Identification of Excitatory and Inhibitory E18 Neurons for Frequency Regulation of Network Activity via HD-MEAs
Earth and Environmental Sciences 1st Winston Zhou (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Wavelet Based Parallel Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Forecasting El Nino-Southern Oscillation Cycles
1st Taylor Maguire (Garden City High School) Garden City High School Evaluating the Long Range UVA Blocking Abilities of an Eco-Friendly Sunscreen Substitute Derived From Musa acuminata on Girardia tigrina Locomotion and the Degree of UV-Induced Cellular Damage.
2nd Emily Zhao (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Integrated Geospatial and Socioeconomic Analysis Forecasting Food Insecurity Under Climate Change
2nd Samantha Ruano Leon (East Hampton High School) East Hampton High School Comparison of Microplastic Abundance and Composition Between Bivalves: Geukensia demissa, Mytilus edulis, Mercenaria mercenaria, Crassostrea virginica, and Argopecten irradians
2nd Tyler Michael Matukonis (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School Predictive Modeling of Vibrio Spp. Planktonic Growth and Biofilm Formation Under Environmental Stressors Using Machine Learning
3rd Kahela Jade Michel (Elmont Memorial) Elmont Memorial Coral Geochemistry Reconstruction Predicts South Pacific Convergence Zone Dynamics in a Changing Climate
3rd Zohia Tahir (Brentwood High School) Brentwood High School Assessing and Evaluating the Effects of Various Plastic Pollutants on Geukensia demissa Filtration Efficiency: An Investigation into Marine Pollution and Its Ecological Consequences
3rd Elizabeth Cruz (Brentwood High School) Brentwood High School Evaluating Microfiber Emission from Domestic Laundering and Their Effects on the Filtration Rate of Geukensia demissa
H.M Noah Ryan Berlin (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Evaluating the Relative Importance of the Causes of Hypoxia in the Eastern and Western Narrows Regions of the Long Island Sound
H.M Michelle E Leal (Brentwood High School) Brentwood High School Evaluating the Effects of Ocean Acidification on Argopecten Irradians Using Advanced Analytical Techniques and Shell Morphology
H.M Graelyn Mar LoRusso (Westhampton Beach High School) Westhampton Beach High School The Effects of Sunscreen Chemical Avobenzone in Seawater on the Development and Mortality of Juvenile M. mercenaria Shellfish
H.M Taylor Madison Carpentieri (Sayville High School), Adria Marina Vargas (Sayville High School) Sayville High School Testing the Efficacy of Biofiltration Media for Stormwater Nitrate Filtration and Reduction
Embedded, Technology Arts, Technology Engineering, and Energy Technology 1st Alexander Thomas Singer (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School Novel CMOS Level Shifting Topologies for Signal Transmission Between Chiplets of Different Voltages
2nd Bryan Cheng (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School), Yuhao (Henry) Xu (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Adaptive Optics Beam Steering System Utilizing Nematic Liquid Crystal & Machine-Learning Predictive Correction for Enhancing Fso Systems
3rd Abdullah Ahmed Ashrafi (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School Development of a Thermal Camera for Imaging Using Terahertz Radiation
H.M Noah Reid Kay (Half Hollow Hills East), Adithya Patnam (Herricks High School) Half Hollow Hills East Adaptive Haptic Feedback Device for Observing the Delivery of Information in Time-Critical Human-Machine Interfaces
H.M Sean Matthew Skinner (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Many-Objective Generative Design
H.M Daniel Sawicki (St Anthony's High School) St Anthony's High School Waterless technology to clean dust from photovoltaic cells using additive manufacturing of Indium Tin Oxide Electrodes
Energy and Environmental Engeneering 1st Alexandra Eileen Gregory (Garden City High School) Garden City High School Novel Magnetic Device for Microplastic Capture via Van Der Waals Forces
2nd Kate H Adams (Walt Whitman High School) Walt Whitman High School The Development of a Low-Cost Lycorma Delicatula Trap
3rd Samantha Liu Stoneking (Manhasset High School), Kristina Theodosopoulos (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Enhancing Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Performance: The Role of Gelled Electrolytes and Natural Dye Co-Sensitization
H.M Ryan Tae (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Optimizing Silicon Anodes: Investigating Ultra-High Carboxyl Density Binders
H.M Sophie Hu (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Cost-efficient catalysis: Scaling and characterization of the SSZ-13 (CHA) zeolite synthesis process
Microbiology 1st Mehek Kaur Sawhney (Commack High School) Commack High School Characterizing the Secretion Signal in the C-Terminus of the Francisella tularensis protein FTL_1123: Insights for Type 1 Secretion and Therapeutics
2nd Cody Cheng (Syosset High School) Syosset High School An analysis of truncated Sgs1 protein interactions with Mek1, Srs2, and Zip1 using the two-hybrid system in budding yeast
3rd Caitlin Avery Lee (Herricks High School) Herricks High School In vitro Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron JN.1 Subvariants with Spike S31 Deletion and Their Evasion of COVID-19 Therapies
H.M Alyssa Shuchen Huang (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Assessment of wastewater exposure and horseradish peroxidase on the removal of bisphenol A by Chlorella vulgaris
H.M Maroska Ishak (Walt Whitman High School), Elizabeth Hsiao (Roslyn High School), Claire Parks (Huntington High School) Walt Whitman High School The Effect of Glyphosate on Plant and Microbial Health
Physics and Astronomy 1st Gary Han (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Discovery of the First Double Exocomet Using an Automated Deep Learning Convolutional Neural Network
2nd Vivian Chen (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Probing Electron Spin Using Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance
3rd Mia Cavero (Sanford H. Calhoun) Sanford H. Calhoun Calibration of a Laboratory Version of the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover PIXL micro-XRF Instrument
H.M Tiffany Chung (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East Methods of Surfactant Purification for Large-Scale Water-based Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detection
H.M Zen Pinkenburg (Rocky Point HS), Om Patel (Rocky Point HS) Rocky Point HS Deep Learning on sPHENIX Calorimeter Waveform Fits
Plant Sciences 1st Dora Fields (Northport High School) Northport High School Effects of Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots on Germination and Growth in Solanum lycopersicum (tomatoes) Using Keratin-Based Hydroponic Substrates
2nd Ariel Sofia Greenberg (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School Identification and Characterization of a Mutant Tolerant to Na⁺ and Ag⁺ in Fern Ceratopteris richardii
3rd Kevin John Tritschler (Valley Stream South High School) Valley Stream South High School Natural Pesticides: Assessing the Influence of Salinity Stress and Mitigation via B. Subtilis Application on the Development of Lamiaceae Botanicals and their Impact on the Natural Predator H. convergens
H.M Mark Prainito (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School A Novel Evaluation of the Efficacy of Ulva spp. in Mitigating Ocean Acidification and Cochlodinium polykrikoides Toxicity in Mercenaria mercenaria and Crassostrea virginica Larvae
H.M Cassel Claire Koss (Long Beach High School) Long Beach High School Utilization of Bacillus megaterium and Pseudomonas fluorescens to Substitute Fertilizer Usage in the Hydroponic Cultivation of Lactuca Sativa
Robotics, Intelligent Machine, Software, and Math 1st Arav Chand (Half Hollow Hills West) Half Hollow Hills West Matrix Product Formulas for Generating Functions for p-adic Valuations of Generalized Binomial Coefficients
2nd Partap Singh Sidhu (Bethpage High School) Bethpage High School Low-Cost, High-Performance Humanoid Upper Body for Automating Hazardous Tasks with Quasi-Direct Drive Actuators and Machine Learning
2nd Michael Petrizzo (Commack High School) Commack High School Building a Conversational AI Medium to Enhance Psychotherapy Training with Virtual Patients
3rd Anish Pahari (Jericho High School) Jericho High School High-Rank Elliptic Curve Generation: A Novel Algorithm with Cryptographic Applications
3rd Mohammad Wasim (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Optimizing Quantum Support Vector Classifiers in Flood Prediction: Data Specific Quantum Kernel Training for Enhanced Feature Mapping Capabilities
H.M Alexandra Lindsay Miller (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Enhancing Policy Learning in Autonomous Robots through Multi-Perspective Visual Data Inputs via Imitation Learning
H.M Samvath Karanam (Hauppauge High School) Hauppauge High School Ear-ly Detection: A Machine Learning Approach to Identification of Ear Infections
H.M Dean Chen (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Improving the Precipitation Distribution Around Synthetic Tropical Cyclone Tracks Using Radar, P-CLIPER Precipitation Model, and Deep Learning
Translational Medical Science 1st Caden Li (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Automated Segmentation and Characterization of Hemorrhagic Cysts in Autosomal-Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease: A Comparative Study of PKD1 and PKD2 Genotypes
2nd Mahin Ryan Gupta (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Evaluating Readability Metrics in AI-Summarized Versus Standard Patient Education Materials: A Quantitative Analysis
3rd Ariel River (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School Characterizing miRNA Associated With Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
H.M Misha Gujja (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis of Human Dopaminergic Neurons and Breast Cancer Cells Co-cultured In Vitro: Implications for Perineural Invasion
H.M Emma Wen (John L. Miller Great Neck North High School) John L. Miller Great Neck North High School AUM-302, A Novel Triple PIM/PI3K/mTOR Inhibitor, Offers Promising Potential in Reducing the Growth of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Spheroids and Organoids