Winners

Category Award Name School Title
Animal Sciences AND Plant Sciences 1st Sarah Kathryn Schubel (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East Loss of NMDA Receptor Signaling Results in Excess Proliferation of CNS and Neural Crest-Derived Cells
1st Soyoun Moon (Commack High School) Commack High School Exploring Sexual Dimorphism and Sex Hormone Receptor Expression in the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis (BNST) in the Monogamous Prairie Vole
2nd Madison Elias (Seaford High School) Seaford High School Can Green Tea Extend the Memory for Extinction Training in the Great Pond Snail (Lymnaea stagnalis)?
3rd Rehan Mujahid Mian (Smithtown High School West) Smithtown High School West A study on the structure, function, and evolution of the ꞵ1 and ꞵ2 adrenoceptors in Nematostella vectensis, the starlet sea anemone.
H.M Mariam Nadeem Hassan (Half Hollow Hills West) Half Hollow Hills West Effects of CCDC11 on Caudal Fin Regeneration in Danio rerio
H.M Chelsea Paige Russo (Seaford High School) Seaford High School The Effects of the Non-Nutritive Sweeteners Acesulfame Potassium and Neotame on Anxiety in Planaria (Dugesia dorotocephala).​
H.M Michelle Betty Brown (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School The Concurrent Effects of Metformin and Dietary Restriction on Parkinson's Disease in a Drosophila melanogaster Model
Behavioral and Social Sciences 1st Han Byur (Hailee) Youn (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Why We Vote: How Positive Descriptive Norms and Holding a Minority Political Viewpoint Increase Citizens' Intention and Responsibility to Vote
1st Jacob Aaron Leshnower (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Music and Emotion: The Intervallic Fallacy of the Major-Minor Dichotomy
1st Kyle Arjun Kavully (Plainedge High School) Plainedge High School American Dream or American Myth? A Linear Regression Analysis of American Attitudes as a Factor of Race and Ideology
2nd Angelina Marie Livigni (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Bad Medicine? An Analysis of Self-Advocacy Regarding Medical Malpractice Scenarios by High School Students
2nd Leigh Baratta (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder: The Impact of Beauty on Proliferation of Invasive Insect Species Lycorma delicatula, the Spotted Lanternfly
3rd Emily Yeh (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School The Effect of Genetically Modified Labeling of Plant and Animal Products on Consumer Perceptions
3rd Eli Weseley-Jones (North Shore High School) North Shore High School Numeracy and the Communication of Medical Risk
3rd Gabrielle Joy Oliva (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School The Impact of Ascribed Gender Stereotypes on Public Perceptions of Sexual Assault Victims
H.M Katherine Yuan Wang (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Assessing the Correlation between Perceived Parent-Child Relationship Quality and Executive Functioning in Early Adolescents
H.M Siddharth Sandeep Desai (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Resting-state functional connectivity of the medial dorsal nucleus in First-Episode Psychosis and its role in working memory
H.M Sabrina Guo (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Efficacy of Mask Use in Reducing SARS-CoV-2 Infection Rates
H.M Abigail Lev (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School The Inadvertent Detrimental Effects of Caucasian Performative Activism on the Perceived Societal Marginalization of the African American Population
H.M Hannah Paulina Brooks (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School “The War in Words”: Effects of Demographic and Personal Differences on Reactions to Semantically Bleached Nazi Compounds
H.M Olivia Ives Bailey (Garden City High School) Garden City High School Machine Learning Prediction and Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccine Rates by State
Biochemistry AND Microbiology 1st Lakxshanna Raveendran (Commack High School) Commack High School Characterizing the Secretion of the Francisella tularensis Protein FTL_1123
2nd Collin Steve Lung (Lynbrook High School) Lynbrook High School In Silico Studies of Neonicotinoids with CYPs and nAChRs - Opportunities for the Design of Selective Pesticides
3rd Tyler Daniel Nagosky (Smithtown High School West) Smithtown High School West Using Cnidarian nerve nets to visualize the excitotoxic effects of BMAA
H.M Anika G Petruccelli (East Hampton High School) East Hampton High School Assessing the Potential of Phage Therapy to Combat Antibiotic Resistance with Mycobacterium smegmatis
H.M Chloe Chang (Herricks High School) Herricks High School Investigating the Therapeutic Potential of Epigallocatechin Gallate and Theaflavin-3, 3′-digallate on Inhibiting ACE2-Spike Protein Binding and Mitigating Induced-Cellular Death by SARS-CoV-2
Biomedical and Health Sciences AND Biomedical Engineering 1st Griffin Hon (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Repurposed Cephalexin Causes Multifaceted Pro-cancer Effects by Way of Wnt Signaling Pathway
1st Christopher Prainito (John F. Kennedy High School) John F. Kennedy High School Development of a Polydiacetylene-Based Paper Biosensor for Naked-Eye Detection of COVID-19 in Saliva
1st Natalia Pahlavan (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Automatic Diagnosis of the 12-lead Electrocardiogram: Cardiac Arrhythmia Detection Using a Deep Learning Approach
2nd Maxx Yung (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Activation of the Mu-Opioid Receptor on the Renin-Angiotensin System and Its Role In SARS-CoV-2 Treatment and Pathology
2nd Karly Chan (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School A User-Friendly and Non-Invasive Vocal Therapy Progress Tracker
3rd Stanley Kong (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Dicaffeoylquinic Acids Inhibit SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein-Induced Apoptosis: An In Silico and In Vitro Implication of a Novel Treatment to Mitigate Infection and Vaccine Side Effects
3rd Nathan Thomas Han (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Elucidating the Molecular Mechanisms of Toxicarioside A and Sulforaphene-Induced Colorectal Cancer Cell Death
3rd Olivia May Platt (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Determining The Regulatory Role of UFD1 in MYCN-driven Neuroblastoma
H.M Annette Park (North Shore High School) North Shore High School SARS-CoV-2 Spike Proteins Induce a Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine Response in Macrophages
H.M Jessie Dong (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Luteolin Targets Neuroblastoma and Lymphoma via Mitochondrial Complex 1
H.M Julie Theresa Moehringer (Sanford H. Calhoun) Sanford H. Calhoun Retinal Ganglion Cell Functional Recovery After Intraocular Pressure Lowering Treatment Using Prostaglandin Analogs In Glaucoma Suspects
H.M Jeylin Elizabeth Lee (Herricks High School) Herricks High School The Effect of Prophylactically Prescribed Anticoagulants and Dose Regimen on Prevalence of Venous Thromboembolism After COVID-19 Diagnosis
H.M Michael Khalfin (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Hemodynamics Model Illustrating Transradial Delivery of Anti-Tau Nanoparticle For Prodromal Alzheimer's Disease Intervention
Cellular and Molecular Biology 1st Miah Christina Margiano (St Anthony's High School) St Anthony's High School LncRNAs as a Potential Therapeutic Target for Neuroblastoma
2nd Ethan Masyn Abelev (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School The Role of Irisin in Human Reproduction
3rd Andrew Lee (Jericho High School) Jericho High School A Cell-type-specific Expression and Protein Interaction Analysis to Identify Autism Risk Genes
3rd Ethan Wang (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Gut microbiota and Alzheimer's disease: Investigating the role of copper and CCL11 dysregulation
H.M Leo Zhang (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Investigation of Rutin on Benzene-treated U937: A Focus on TNF-α and Superoxides
H.M Anneliese Margot Baum (George W. Hewlett High School) George W. Hewlett High School Profiling pathway dysregulation in ovarian and pancreatic cell lines upon the loss of CUL4 E3 Ligase activity using novel inhibitor KH-4-43
H.M Benjamin Isaacson (Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School), Jane Brylewski (Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School), Fiona Schlegel (Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School) Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School Structural Determination of the Native form of tRNA Methyltransferase (TrmD) from Mycobacterium paratuberculosis subspecies avium
H.M Sinchana Venkatesh (Herricks High School) Herricks High School Assessing the Ability of Vitexin in Mitigating Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease.
Chemistry AND Materials Science 1st Alex Lin Wang (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Computational Assessment of Macrocyclic Host-Guest Ion-Dipole Interactions with Negative Pores
2nd Erin Yim (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Rationalization of Simple Ring Intermolecular π−π Stacking Interactions Investigated with DFT-d
3rd Cathrine Efsun Sakin (Walter G. O'Connell Copiague High School) Walter G. O'Connell Copiague High School The Efficacy of Chitosan on the Construction and Function of Compostable Wind Turbine Blades
H.M Paul Vincent Pillitteri (West Islip High School) West Islip High School Compositional Analysis of Oyster Shells Using Submicron Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy
H.M Samuel Philip Jacobson (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School The Effectiveness of Self-Oscillating, Catalyzed Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) Gel in Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics AND System Software 1st Kevin Zhu (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Investigating Recurrent Repeat Contractions in 10 Human Cancers
1st Amber Kaixin Luo (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School RiboBayes: Assessing the Transcriptome-wide Expression of Ribosome Pause Sites in Ribosome Profiling Data With Bayesian Wavelet Thresholding
2nd Aaquib Ahmed Syed (Smithtown High School West) Smithtown High School West Non-invasively Guiding Breast Cancer Chemotherapy Using Machine Learning with GLCM Textural Analysis
3rd David Liang (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School Beyond the Scales: A physics-informed machine learning approach for more efficient modeling of SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein
3rd Shreya Kannan (Half Hollow Hills West), Bethany Siegel (Half Hollow Hills West), Marlene McKinney (Half Hollow Hills West) Half Hollow Hills West Development of a Chromotherapy-based Mobile Game for Stress and Mood Management
H.M Chloe Chan (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School Support Vector Machine for Autism Spectrum Characterization: Exploiting Brain Connectivities from fMRI, DWI, and a Combination of Both Modalities for Improved Diagnostic Accuracy
H.M Wafiq Khondkar (Herricks High School) Herricks High School A Novel Framework for Evaluation and Parameter Tuning of Missing Value Imputation
H.M Brian Song (Roslyn High School) Roslyn High School Detection of Northern Leaf Blight in Natural Environment Using Optimized YOLOv3
Earth and Environmental Sciences 1st Rebecca Cho (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Reconstruction modeling using tectonics and climate of western North America
1st Tarunika Sasikumar (Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School) Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Assessing the Efficacy of the U.S Endangered Species Act through the Novel Quantification of Species Charisma and Respective Population Trends
2nd Dylan Maxwell D'Agate (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East Climatological Impact of Sudden Stratospheric Warming Events on the Atmospheric Circulation and Nature of Extratropical Cyclones over Eastern North America
3rd roberto Antonio Lopez (Brentwood High School) Brentwood High School EVALUATING PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS WRACK ACCUMULATION IN A LONG ISLAND SALT MARSH ECOSYSTEM AND ASSESSING ITS EFFECT ON CARBON SEQUESTRATION, THE NITROGEN CYCLE, AND SEDIMENT BIOTA
H.M Ricardo Lopez (Brentwood High School) Brentwood High School EVALUATING SALT MARSH RESTORATION AT SUNKEN MEADOW: ANALYSIS OF SEDIMENT LOSS AND ACCRETION.     
H.M Kiera McKenna Darnell (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Modelling coastal erosion using future hurricane scenarios
H.M Kayla J Sohn (Herricks High School) Herricks High School Biologically Inspired Material Design for Selective Removal of Estradiol Water Contaminants
Embedded Systems AND Robotics and Intelligent Machines 1st James Nagler (Garden City High School) Garden City High School Project Vision - Virtual environment through AI recognition
2nd Samay Lakhani (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Applying Spatiotemporal Attention to Identify Distracted and Drowsy Driving with Vision Transformers
3rd Chigozirim Nodebechukwu Ifebi (Elmont Memorial) Elmont Memorial How to Train Your Multi-view Cloth Classifier
H.M Kevin Holden Taylor (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Paul D. Schreiber High School Creating a “Third Eye” for the Visually Impaired with Object Detection
H.M Sreenand Mallisetty (Hauppauge High School) Hauppauge High School Creating an Algorithm for a Handwritten Digit Recognition - Convolutional Neural Network Model by Optimizing Momentum, Weights, and Biases.
Energy: Sustainable Materials & Design AND Engineering Technology AND Environmental Engineering 1st Ava Malysa (Manhasset High School), Samantha Palmadessa (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Electrocoagulation with Aluminum, Copper, and Zinc Electrodes for Aqueous Methylene Blue Dye Remediation and Sustainable Energy Production
1st Emily Kim (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Synergistic removal of RB5 by activated carbon under UV irradiation
2nd Aavi Lund (East Meadow High School) East Meadow High School The Utilization of a Tilt-rotor Mechanism to Minimize Forward Flight Drag of an H-shaped Quadcopter for Delivery Drone Applications
3rd Emily Theodosopoulos (Manhasset High School), Adam De Leeuw (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Engineering the optimal dye-sensitized solar cell by comparing anthocyanin and chlorophyll dyes, dye immersion time, and counter electrodes.
H.M Ericka Lai (Manhasset High School), Christian Kim (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Simultaneous Azo Dye Removal and Bioelectricity Generation by an Up-Flow Constructed Wetland-Microbial Fuel Cell with Biochar Substrate
H.M Allison Zhang (Manhasset High School) Manhasset High School Design of a Soft Robotic Gripper Inspired by the Seahorse Skeleton
Mathematics AND Physics and Astronomy 1st Daniel Salkinder (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East nxnxn Rubik's Cubes and God's Number
2nd Kailly Elizabeth Nocera (Seaford High School) Seaford High School Glacial and Fluvial Activity During Periods of High Obliquity in Arabia Terra
3rd Alice Tianxin Wang (Half Hollow Hills East) Half Hollow Hills East A magic condition monochromator design for implementation at the NSLS-II
H.M Zachary Finger (Smithtown High School East) Smithtown High School East Rare Isotope Production at the Electron Ion Collider
H.M Katherine Ranjbar (Earl L. Vandermeulen High School (Port Jefferson)) Earl L. Vandermeulen High School (Port Jefferson) Impact of Imperfection Spin Resonance Strength on Depolarization in RHIC
Translational Medical Science 1st Collin Li (William A. Shine Great Neck South High School) William A. Shine Great Neck South High School SmartClick: A Novel Automated Segmentation Tool for Medical Images with Interactive Optimization Capabilities Designed for Liver Cysts
2nd Ethan Anthony Chiu (Syosset High School) Syosset High School Developing a Self-Formed Ectodermal Autonomous Multi-Zone Organoid Model using Human Stem Cells to Examine the Effect of Doxycycline Treatment on Uveal Melanoma.
3rd Janice Rateshwar (Jericho High School) Jericho High School Novel Small Molecule IT-848* Treatment of Hematological Malignancies: IT-848-based Direct Inhibition of NF-κB and Combination Treatments
H.M Jessica Guo (Ward Melville High School) Ward Melville High School Piperlongumine and Piperlonguminine Mitigate Rotenone Induced Neurotoxicity: Implications for a Novel Parkinson's Disease Treatment
H.M Sana Saleem Nabi (Herricks High School) Herricks High School A Novel Assessment of Splenic Tissue Following Electrical Stimulation of the Dorsal Motor Nucleus of the Vagus in Murine Endotoxemia