I-SWEEEP 2009 Category Awards PDF Print E-mail

SENIOR DIVISION

JUNIOR DIVISION

Gold Medalists received $1,000.00 award.
Silver Medalists received $750.00 award.
Bronze Medalists received $500.00 award.
Honorable Mention $200.00 award.
Gold Medalists received $500.00 award.
Silver Medalists received $300.00 award.
Bronze Medalists received $200.00 award.
Honorable Mention $100.00 award.

Grand Award Winners

GRAND AWARD WINNERS
Category Country State Contestants Project Title
Senior Energy UNITED STATES New York Sujay Tyle The Sustainable Development of Ethanol from Biomass via Genes of Clostridia
Senior Engineering CHINA   Zhangxiaowen Gong A Vehicle Biker Detection System
Senior Environment UNITED STATES Minnesota Xin Li Verification and characterization of sugar-response Arabidopsis mutant gte4 for higher biofuel and soy protein production
Junior Energy UNITED STATES Connecticut Bridget Oei Piezoelectric Tiles: A Novel Approach to Harvesting Vibrations as a Renewable Energy Source
Junior Engineering UNITED STATES Texas Faiza Tayyab Sound Economics
Junior Environment UNITED STATES Oregon Naomi Shah Sustainable Indoor Air Quality: The Impact of Airborne Particulate Matter, Carbon Monoxide, Carbon Dioxide, and Volatile Organic Compound levels on the Peak Expiratory Flow of Asthmatic Subjects

Senior Energy

GOLD MEDAL WINNERS
Country State Contestant(s) Project Title
UNITED STATES New York Sujay Tyle The Sustainable Development of Ethanol from Biomass via Genes of Clostridia
UNITED STATES Texas Qingliu Yang,  Elisa Lin It's (Not) Easy Being Green: A Novel Approach to Enhance Efficiencies and Performance of Organic Solar Cells and OLEDs by Incorporating Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes
UNITED STATES Washington Jennifer Kang Improving the Hydrolysis Process for Making Cellulosic Ethanol
UNITED STATES New York Maximilian Epstein Converting Levulinic Acid from Cellulosic Waste into a Biofuel
UNITED STATES Texas Lyric Gillett A Novel Method For Measuring Sonoluminescent Spectra
UNITED STATES Texas Kristen Carroll,  Katherine Frangos Hooked on Hydrogen
UNITED STATES Colorado Kelci Garcia Parabolic Solar Desalination for the Developing World
CAMBODIA - Manin Sam Ang A Kind of Hollyhock invention to diesel: What's Work?
SOUTH AFRICA - Ruco Pretorius Restaugester and Anaerobic Digestion for Restaurants & Hotels
DENMARK - Hanne Binder,  Jesper Rasmussen Production of the Green Gold: Optimized growth conditions and new, efficient harvest methods for algae
SILVER MEDAL WINNERS
Country State Contestant(s) Project Title
UNITED STATES Texas Elizabeth Quigley 'Round and 'Round it Goes 2: Measuring the Torque of Winglets
UNITED STATES Iowa Pavane Gorrepati Warning about Warming: Innovative Fuel Cells for the 21st Century - A Performance Study of the Proton Exchange Membrane, Reversible, and Direct Methanol Fuel Cells Under Multiple Operating Conditions
UNITED STATES Texas Brynn Umbach,  Jiayi Kong Energy's Orchard
UNITED STATES Texas Neil Redfield The Garage of the Future: Maximizing the Economic Value of Solar Panels
UNITED STATES New York Jordan Boucicaut Microbial Fuel Cells: Harvesting Reusable Energy from Organic Matter
UNITED STATES Kentucky Kartik Malhotra From Rust to Hydrogen: A Green Approach
UNITED STATES North Carolina Abram Detwiler Practical Power: The Solar Concentrator Solution for Low Cost Energy
CANADA - Bekir Buyukkocabas,  Kanan Suleymanov Waste Coffee Bean Miracle
UNITED STATES New York Natalie Alberman,  Sofya Kalantarova Analysis of chlorophyll content of dkg-1 strains of C. richardii: a novel approach to improving plant biomass
UNITED STATES Louisiana Caleb Gestes Light Intensity and Ambient Temperature vs. Solar Cell Output
DENMARK - Rasmus Hilbert Jensen Polishing the Green Gold: Optimizing the process from algal biomass to biodiesel
UNITED STATES Texas Vybhavi Bharadwaj Killing Phantom Power to Mitigate Global Warming: The Effect of Appliance Type and Temperature on Percentage of Phantom Power Consumption, Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Financial Savings
MACEDONIA - Stefan Kuzmanovski,  Nikolce Kolev Using aquatic species in the production of biodiesel
UNITED STATES Utah Kelsey James Generation of Electricity from Elemental Influences and Periodic Ocean Wave Oscillation
UNITED STATES Texas Wenxi (sheryl) Li Algae - The Green Fuel: The Effects of Different Amounts of Nitrogen on the Quantity of Lipids Extracted from Algae
INDONESIA - Reza Dwiaji,  Luthfi Rais NEW DEVICE FOR GETTING MAXIMUM BENEFIT FROM SOLAR ENERGY
CANADA - Eden Full Dynamic Photovoltaics – The Sustainable SolArray: A Novel Self-Tracking Passive Photovoltaic Diode Orientation System
PHILIPPINES - Rowell Castro,  Jereel Aron Sahagun Preparation of SnO2 Nanomaterial Using Vacuum Evaporation Technique for Photocell Application
GHANA - Edmund Oppong Wave Power
BRONZE MEDAL WINNERS
Country State Contestant(s) Project Title
UNITED STATES Arizona Kelsey Waite The Effects of Light Intensity on the Development of Photosynthetic Apparatus in Green Algae, Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii
UNITED STATES Minnesota Christina Serena Designing a Small Scale Wind Turbine for Low Wind Speed Areas: Phase II
UNITED STATES Arkansas Adiba Matin Alternative Fuel Energy
UNITED STATES Oregon Staci Sherer,  Victoria Callaway Utilizing Whey Powder for the Production of Ethanol
UNITED STATES Texas Brian Stutzman Wave Energy Extraction II
UNITED STATES New Mexico Jeffrey Trujillo An Unlikely Fuel Source
FRANCE - Etienne Lalique,  Axel Talon The solar balloon : Phaeton
PAKISTAN - Raja Ahsan Mehmood GLAMOUR GLORY CAR
UNITED STATES Minnesota David Troska Quantative analysis of an H-shaped Darrieus wind turbine near road systems.
UNITED STATES Texas Nikhil Kapur An Analysis and Application of the Stirling Engine
UNITED STATES Minnesota Michael Fuad Harvesting microalgae (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii) for biofuel production using wastewater treatment techniques
UNITED STATES Oregon Aishwarya Vardhana A Linear Programming Model for Optimal Renewable Energy Consumption
UNITED STATES Texas Grant Gilbert Effects of Wireless power transmission
UNITED STATES Minnesota Elaina Hamann Can Algae Be Converted Into Biodiesel?
CAMBODIA - Ayuwath Kuy WASTE COFFEE GROUND BIODIESEL
UNITED STATES New Mexico Cesar Soria Jimenez Enhancing Photovoltaics through the Incorporation of Algae
UNITED STATES Virginia Razvan Untaroiu The technology of a greener tomorrow
UNITED STATES Texas James Fritz Is Your Refrigerator Running....Efficiently?
PARAGUAY - Corinne Wendy Centeno Espinoza,  Tania Araceli Leon Arevalos BUYATAY "Ecological and economically profitable option for the optencion of the biodiesel"
AZERBAIJAN - Fakhri Suleymanli,  Rafet Mikayilov ALUMINIUM-AIR BATTERY
UNITED STATES Pennsylvania Joseph Rudy Improving the Efficiency of Solar Cells: A Study Of Photovoltaics
UNITED STATES Texas Nathan Nissen A Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Construction and Analysis
UNITED STATES Washington Akshai Baskaran Optimizing the Growth of Nannochloropsis Oculata Microalgae for Production of Biofuels
AZERBAIJAN - Nemat Ibrahimkhanli,  Aziz Mamadli Mini Cooler
UNITED STATES Florida Katherine Stone What a Drag 2: A Study of the Effects of the Fluid Dynamics of a Wind Turbine
UNITED STATES Georgia Kenneth Mcgill Design of a Low Cost and Efficient Electrolyzer
MOLDOVA - Eugene Godunov,  Nicolae Nistor Interseasonal accumulation of solar heat
THAILAND - Piyaraj Waisayanuwat,  Phornphit Manageracharath Rotational Step Water Solar Still
HONORABLE MENTION WINNERS
Country State Contestant(s) Project Title
UNITED STATES Colorado Morgan Hart RENEWABLE^3: Water, Wind, and Solar - a Portable and Renewable Energy Source for Today's Technology
UNITED STATES Minnesota Max Keller Decomposing Energy
UNITED STATES Iowa Ethan Erickson Algae: Fuel of the Future - Phase II
UNITED STATES Texas Cameron Thomas Metabolic Engineering of a 1,2-Propanediol Pathway in E.Coli
UNITED STATES Wyoming Leah Hoblit Utilization of Hot Springs Bacterial Populations to Enhance Cellulose Fermentation
UNITED STATES Florida Ian Peterson Wind Energy
UNITED STATES Illinois Cyatharine Alias Bacteria Fueled Biofules
UNITED STATES Georgia Lauren Cameron Chlorella as an Alternative Fuel
POLAND - Piotr Smolko WIND MICROFARM
CHINA - Fei Chen A new energy-saving air condition water heater
KAZAKHSTAN - Saur Kopbaev,  Zharaskhan Sariyev,  Sanzhar Ainabek Linear Single Phase Flow simulator for a slightly compressible fluid of constant viscosity with multiple wells.
UNITED STATES Texas Robert Landis Efficient Concentrators For Solar Cell Systems II
LAOS - Phetnary Souvannarath,  Pathummaly Phommachanh Introducing an incredible curtain which can save and produce electric energy
UNITED STATES Texas Julie Loyd,  Rabia Ali Advancing Society to a More Sustainable Environment with Agriculture Residues. Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Aspergillus Niger, and Clostridium Sporogenes
UNITED STATES Arizona James West The Effect of Ether based diesel, B99, and Vegetable Oil Alternative Emissions on the pH of soil
PUERTO RICO - Enrique Cardenas-sifre Three renewable Sources of Energy in a Single Electrical Plant for a better Planet
UNITED STATES Oregon Anshu Tirumali The Production of Hydrogen by Exposing Aluminum-Gallium Alloys to Water
UNITED STATES Texas Anastasia Anazonwu Flash Points and Fuels
AFGHANISTAN - Omid Mohammad Hakim Contribition of wave electricity
TURKEY - Murat Tanriseven,  Omer Findik environmentally friendly biodiesel production from sunflower oil
UNITED STATES Iowa Furkan Pecen,  Erik Olsen Reengineering Holmes Junior High School with a Novel Energy Effiency

Junior Energy

GOLD MEDAL WINNERS
State Contestant(s) Project Title
Connecticut Bridget Oei Piezoelectric Tiles: A Novel Approach to Harvesting Vibrations as a Renewable Energy Source
Texas Travis Howk Creating an Effective Bio-Battery with Geobacter metallireducens
Texas Alex Crisara Pressure Supplemented Hydrogen Production
SILVER MEDAL WINNERS
State Contestant(s) Project Title
Texas Robert Nelson It's Cold In Here II
North Carolina Nicole Shaw “Evaluating and Comparing the Energy Content of Animal Feed Stock and Home Compost Using the Process of Anaerobic Digestion…” The Power of Poop!
New Mexico Anjik Ghosh The Efficiency of Vertical Axis Windmills at Different Wind Speeds
North Carolina Zebulon Amrol-davis "Cool Energy"
Texas Narahari Bharadwaj The Green Car: The Effect of the Wattage and Size of a Solar Panel, and the Weight of a Solar Car on the Speed and Efficiency of the Solar Car
BRONZE MEDAL WINNERS
State Contestant(s) Project Title
Texas Manu Bhanot Bhanot,  Dustin Brownlow The role of separators on the life of lead acid batteries
Texas Piper Reid Using Energy from the Sun, What Method Will Heat/Keep in Heat for a Model Pool? (Do solar covers work?)
Texas Justyn Fitz Processor Cache Perfomance
Arizona Bogdan Racolta Biofuels from algae?
Arkansas Jacob Brown Quantitative measurement of hydrogen gas in a reversible PEM fuel cell powered by solar energy. Measurements in hydrogen generated power.
Indiana Jason Molitsky Designing and Constructing Practical, Small-Scale Solar Heat Exchangers
Georgia Raja Selvakumar Energy Crisis: Flaming Fuels
Georgia Daniel Dorminy Maximizing Electrical Output by Optimizing Wind Turbine Blades
Arizona Stan Palasek Metabolic Comparison of Carbohydrates
HONORABLE MENTION WINNERS
State Contestant(s) Project Title
Arizona Joshua Sloane,  Ostin Zarse Upping the Power: Can reflective materials be cost effective while increasing the output of photovoltaic cells?
South Dakota Alyson Roth,  Emily Mudder Creating A Drier Washer
Oregon Sophie Louaillier,  Molly Kemball Algae Based Biofuel
Texas Pradhith Konduri A bright future
Texas Melike Ekren,  Elsie Gutierrez Blue Energy
Texas Lydia Bickham Economical Power Source of the Future

 

Senior Engineering

GOLD MEDAL WINNERS
Country State Contestant(s) Project Title
CHINA - Zhangxiaowen Gong A Vehicle Biker Detection System
UNITED STATES New York Samantha Larsen,  Cole Blum Sunscreen: A Catch 22: Blocking of the photocatalytic activity of titanium dioxide nanoparticles by polymer coating
UNITED STATES Wisconsin Philip Streich,  Michael Cherkassky Graphene: First Practical Production and Applications of a Green Supermaterial
UNITED STATES Minnesota Anushua Bhattacharya Smart Fluids: From Automotives to Healthcare
UNITED STATES Minnesota Jeffrey Fahland An Investigation into Excess Energy Recycling Within a Solar Distillation Process
UNITED STATES New York Irsal Alsanea,  Julia Budassi A method of discriminating between double-stranded and single-stranded DNA on combed surfaces
SOUTH AFRICA - Sune Gerber Propeller Efficiency
UNITED STATES Ohio Julianne Golinski Neural Stem Cell Migration in Response to Chemokines
CHINA - Junming Zhu Precaution System for Being Drowned in the Natatorium
UNITED STATES Texas Ryan Alexander Gone with the Windmills:An Analysis of the Effectiveness of an Oscillating Wind Energy Generator
SILVER MEDAL WINNERS
Country State Contestant(s) Project Title
UNITED STATES New Mexico Adam Akkad Display of Specific and Random Peptides on Virus-like Particles of MS2 Bacteriophage for Materials Science and Biomedical Applications
UNITED STATES Pennsylvania Ellen Bechtel Thermal Property Differences as a Method of Humanitarian De-Mining
TURKEY - Barkin Alaybeyoglu,  Aziz Burak Eroglu Determining Enzymatic Deinking Conditions and Recycling of Paper with Flotation
SOUTH AFRICA - Jacob De Coning THE RUMBLE-STRIP ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATOR
UNITED STATES Texas Amy Chyao Keep Your Distance
MALAYSIA - Muhammad Izzat Ab. Rakib,  Mohammad Asraf Mohd Jaki PRODUCTION OF CITRONELLYL PALMITATE IN PACKED BED REACTOR USING IMMOBILIZED LIPASE
UNITED STATES Texas David Lebsack The War on Gas Mileage 2
SOUTH KOREA - Young Kun Ko Mathematical Characterizing and 3D modeling of Ladybug using two dimensional images and applications
MONGOLIA - Bayasgalan Tsend-ayush Sign Language Book
UNITED STATES Ohio Elizabeth Kilbane The Effect of Toluene on the L1-Mediated Activation of ERK 1 and 2
UNITED STATES Texas Amruth Venkatraman,  Navaneeth Ravindranath Novel Control Methodologies for Conserving Energy with Electrochromic Windows
MALAYSIA - Nurliyana Mohd Rosli,  Maryam Zainal Ariffin Synthesis of beta-TCP from Anadara granosa
UNITED STATES North Carolina Taylor Courier Mobile Autonomous Robotic Sensing System (MARSS)
UNITED STATES Florida Raymond La The Development of an Environmentally Safe Insecticide Using the Chemical Extracts of Common Yard Plants and Weeds
PHILIPPINES - Hannah Carize Sangalang,  Simon Anthony Lorenzo Development of Carbon Nanomaterial As An Electrode Voltage Source
MALAYSIA - El Insyiiraah Fathin Amiruddin,  Madihah Zuhari PADDY CHAFFS IN ADSORPTION OF COPPER (II) AND LEAD (II) IONS IN THE SOLUTION OF PALM OIL MILL EFFLUENT
BRONZE MEDAL WINNERS
Country State Contestant(s) Project Title
UNITED STATES Arkansas Siteng Ma Design and Fabrication of Low Cost Nano-Structured Solar Cell
UNITED STATES Texas Rounok Joardar Development of a Novel High Efficiency Photo-Thermovoltaic Concentrator Solar Cell
UNITED STATES Texas John Roberts Gas Wall II
MEXICO - Quiróz David Alonso Recognition vehicle under various conditions
UNITED STATES Oklahoma Jason Lugo Fractal Complexity: Unveiling Irrational Points and Beyond within the Mandelbrot Set
TAJIKISTAN - Sakhobiddini Nazarzoda,  Olim Hakimzoda A Mathematical Approach to Multiple Dose Model in Two-Compartmental Drug Delivery System
UNITED STATES New York Harrison Digia,  Harry Kucharczyk Better MPG Through Dimpling
SOUTH KOREA - Been Na Lee The Development of New System : Size Selective Separation System of Silver Nano Particle Using Porous Materials
UNITED STATES Texas Kenneth Marino Biomimicry of E. fuscus: Autonomous Robotic Navigation
UNITED STATES South Carolina Arjun Aggarwal Can the concept of Equilibrioception be applied in robotics?
UNITED STATES Indiana Chelsea Arthur Using Glass as a Catalyst for Diesel Particulate Filters
UNITED STATES Wisconsin Susan Huang Fabrication of Micro-Structured Stencils to Study Biofilm Formation
UNITED STATES Louisiana Ashley Spooner What's In Your Concrete?
UNITED STATES Georgia Sarah Pace Production of Microchips from Polystyrene Plates
UNITED STATES New Jersey Rosemary Wang Bend without Breaking III
UNITED STATES Texas Karam El-hallaq Underground Air Conditioning
UNITED STATES Texas Neriman Cavdar Thermal Transport Phenomena in Nanofluids
UNITED STATES Georgia Abigail Lewis Analysis of Nanofiber-based Scaffolds
UNITED STATES Texas Richard Tran Carbon Nanotube Filtration
ALBANIA - Ergent Birbo,  Mario Pojani An Alternative Additive to Mortar:SEASHELL
UNITED STATES Maryland Kevin Hogan,  Manpreet Khural The Impact of the Incorporation of Local Energy Storage into a Representative Model Power Grid
UNITED STATES Minnesota Michael Crump Engineering thin-layer organic solar cells using a novel tri-layer architecture
KYRGYZSTAN - Bakyt Abdraimov Analysis of fullerenes: Usage of C60 as a protector
JORDAN - Abd Al Raouf Rawabdeh a design that minimizes the consumption of fuel in cars
UNITED STATES Texas Narmeen Husainat The Effects of three Photoinitiators on the Mechanical Properties of PEGDA Hydrogels
HONORABLE MENTION WINNERS
Country State Contestant(s) Project Title
UNITED STATES Texas Vibhu Chittajallu Baby On Board
UNITED STATES Texas Christopher Winnier-cline Wireless Energy Transfer
UNITED STATES Texas Alyssa Bennett Sandbar Generation Through Pier Arrangement
UNITED STATES North Carolina Xavier Joyner The Constrained Crystallization and Nucleation Capability of Nylon 6 Chains Protruding from Non-Stoichiometric Nylon 6:α Cyclodextrin-Inclusion Compounds
UNITED STATES Texas Tyler Mrosko Propeller Dimensions and the Impact on Thrust and Static Airspeed
UNITED STATES Texas Xinyu Cao Bioinformatic Analysis of Pseudomonas Chlororaphis 201phi2-1 Bacteriophage Gene Expression
ROMANIA - Birkan Ismail,  Tapus Radu T-SPEAK
SLOVAKIA - Peter Rakyta Study of the effects of three human antioxidative genes under the eukaryotic (CMV) promoter during oxidative stress model in Escherichia coli
UNITED STATES Kentucky Marylynne Anderson-cooper,  Logan Jackson CONCRETE: What Is It Good For? Absolutely EVERYTHING!!
KAZAKHSTAN - Janerke Tagabergenova,  Gulzhaz Faizullakyzy,  Gulzhainar Karabalayeva The technology of manufacture of thin film scintillation detectors on the basis of cesium iodide
MACEDONIA - Gulardina Ramadani,  Jeta Avdiu CHEMICAL DEPOSITION OF QUANTUM-SIZED SEMI-CONDUCTING THIN FILMS OF ANTYMONY(III) SELENIDE-Sb2Se3
MOLDOVA - Sorin Tontici,  Nicolae Ghetiu Future's 3rd generation engine
SLOVAKIA - Matus Tomlein Synkron - an application for folder synchronisation
CHINA   Zhiwen Shen,  Shuowen Shen Research on Automatic Parking System Controlled by Mobile Phone
UNITED STATES Iowa Tracy Older CO2 Emmisions Filtration System Using Lithium Hydroxide Grease and Zeolite: Phase II
UNITED STATES Missouri Joshua Murphy Pumping Stream Water to Higher Altitudes : Water Hummer Pump
UNITED STATES South Dakota Nicole Dejong Valuable Volume
PHILIPPINES - Raida Rajan,  Ismahan Amil Printing and Writing Ink Formulations from Used Engine Oils
UNITED STATES North Carolina Victoria Jones Modification of Transfer Ribonucleic Acid (tRNA): The Binding of tRNA by YrdC, a Putative Threonyl-tRNA Transferase
CAMBODIA - Pichny Huot The New Origination Of Metropolis Phnom Penh
UNITED STATES Georgia Kathryn Johnson,  James Rives Carbon-Neutral Conversion of Atmospheric CO2 into Synthesis Gas
CZECH REPUBLIC - Pavel Sthyrba,  Filip Subert,  Tuan Anh Ly Introducing Youth with Robotics

Junior Engineering

GOLD MEDAL WINNERS
State Contestant(s) Project Title
Texas Faiza Tayyab Sound Economics
Texas Kishore Balasubramanian Increasing the Efficiency of Targeted Drug Delivery In Treating Cancer Using Ferrofluid And Magnetic Field
SILVER MEDAL WINNERS
State Contestant(s) Project Title
Texas Samuil Borisov,  Roman D.c. Sustainable Computing
Pennsylvania Marian Bechtel A Seismo-Acoustic Method for Detection and Discrimination of Landmines
Maryland Jack Andraka Can we stop the drowing machine? Retrofitting low head dams for safety
Texas Paul Huron Iv Computer Vision "The Year 2058"
BRONZE MEDAL WINNERS
State Contestant(s) Project Title
Minnesota Nick Schmall Reduce, Reuse, Reconstruct
Texas Aileen Huang Encrypting Chaos
Texas Sarah Akbani Disk Stabilized Emulsions
Texas Shari Rohret Stimulating Growth in Phaseolus lunatus Using a Low Amperage Current on their Fibrous Root Systems
Texas Zachary Hanzel Perpetual Motion
Oregon John Connall,  Hailey Kern The Blades
HONORABLE MENTION WINNERS
State Contestant(s) Project Title
Texas Druck Green Supervisory Fuzzy Logic Control of Isolated Buildings Utilizing Piezoelectric Friction Dampers
Texas Shifa Abuzaid,  Steven Dang Which Reinforcement Method Best Reduces Sttructural Damage To A Building During An Earthquake?
Florida Andrew Davis,  Mark Singh NEW WIND TURBINE DESIGN
Oregon Katherine Reinders,  Harper Hayes Iron Women: A Study of the Abrasion of Metal

Senior Environment

GOLD MEDAL WINNERS
Country State Contestant(s) Project Title
UNITED STATES Minnesota Xin Li Verification and characterization of sugar-response Arabidopsis mutant gte4 for higher biofuel and soy protein production
UNITED STATES Texas Param Jaggi The Algae-Mobile: Creating An Anti-Pollutant Device In The Exhaust Of A Car
UNITED STATES Utah Alexa Lunt The Effects of Artemia franciscana as an Alternative Nitrogen Source When Composting Biodegradable Materials. Phase II: An Investigation of the Effects of Pesticides on the Hatch and Survival Rates of Artemia franciscana
JORDAN - Omar Gharaeibeh, Maher Zghondi A system that absorbs the microwave radiation to be used in industries or equipments that releases that type of radiation.
UNITED STATES New York Jonathan Klus, Elan Heller Inhibiting the growth of soybeans (Glycine max) using various application methods of a walnut-based herbicide
UNITED STATES New York Neil Muir Nanoclay Composites: Synthesizing Biopolymers for Structural Viability and Flame Retardancy
VIETNAM - Ngoc Thao Quyen Nguyen Le, Khoa Dieu Anh Tran Preparation for arsenic pollution treating material from red mud waste in alumnia producing at chemical factory in Vietnam
UNITED STATES New York Jackie Bokor, Hannah Berkowitz The impact of abscisic acid on the sequestration of metals by Euglena gracilis
GERMANY   Lisa Schowe, Anja Massolle When leaves turn red... Chlorophyll fluorescence as a quantitative indicator of plant damage
INDONESIA - Dede Cintya, Evelyn Lee Reducing acid rain, gas pollutant, and heavy metal by using charcoal’s combustion waste
UNITED STATES Maryland A. Yashodhara Rao Evaluation of Environmentally Benign New Chemical Rust Removing Agent
MACEDONIA - Arzu Feta, Despina Krstevska REMOVAL OF Cr+6 FROM INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENTS BY RUSTED IRON WASTE- THE MOST ECOLOGICAL, EFFICIENT AND ECONOMICAL DECONTAMINATION TREATMENT
CHINA - Miao-rong Zhu Mercuric chloride-induced ultraweak luminescence changes of Chlorella Vulgaris
MACEDONIA - Ivana Ristova, Nadica Sibinovska TiO2- SOLUTION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS
TURKEY - Yavuz Çetin, Onur Bakici THE KILLER OF CORROSİON: TANNENS
KAZAKHSTAN - Akmaral Ospanova, Perizat Esenova, Ainur Makasheva Synthetic aluminium silicate polyphosphates sorbents for water treatment in petroleum engineering.
UKRAINE - Reyan Bari, Anton Sestritsyn INFLUENCE OF SINGLE CHAIN DNA-FRAGMENTS OF LYMANTRIA DISPAR NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS ON VIABILITY OF GYPSY MOTH CATERPILLARS:MODEL SYSTEM FOR CREATION OF BIONSECTICIDES AND MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS
TAJIKISTAN - Sorbon Rakhmatov, Mahmadrahimi Muhriddini A Novel Method for Cleaning Heavy Metal (Cu & Cr) Polluted Soil and Study of the Processed Wastes as Fertilizer
SILVER MEDAL WINNERS
Country State Contestant(s) Project Title
CHINA   Xiu Neng Li,  Si Jia He The effects of two kinds of detergents and two heavy metal ions on the growth and development of Daphnia carinata
UNITED STATES Indiana John Barnes Acid Mine Drainage Remediation: A Novel Approach
SERBIA - Andjela Blazic THE EFFECT OF LIQUID SMOKE DERIVED FROM BURNT HAY ON GERMINATION AND GROWTH OF LETTUCE
SLOVENIA - Edo Džafic The arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus mosseae alleviates maize autotoxicity in pot experiments – indications for its potential use in monoculture cropping systems
UNITED STATES New York Mathew Sabu,  Justin Mathew Effects of Anacardic Acid of Pelagronium x hortorum on Acrythosiphon pisum
AUSTRIA - Sieglinde Neudorfer,  Verena Thoma Lively Bees - Nasty Disease
CHINA - Yupeng Chen,  Wei Qi Solar energy ecological-restore-system on rivers
UNITED STATES New York Patriot Yang Genetic Identification of Reductive Dehalogenases in Dehalococcoides strain BTF08
UNITED STATES Oregon Priyam Shah The Positive Feedback Mechanism of Global Warming:
UNITED STATES Texas Li Boynton The Use of Bioluminescent Bacteria to Detect Environmental Contaminants
KAZAKHSTAN - Assetbek Muratuly,  Nurlubek Zhalgasbayev,  Dauren Zhekenbay Physical research of the influence of electric- magnet rays to the biological substances
UNITED KINGDOM - Aslihan Ogretici,  Elif Tan Sustainable soils with agriculture's black gold: humic acid
ARGENTINA - Augusto Germán Niez Gay Green, Green, How I don't Love you Green
UNITED STATES Texas Varun Sambhariya From Blue to Green
KOSOVO - Haris Krasniqi,  Arlind Bucinca Biological cleaning of river water with diatoms (algae's)
SOUTH AFRICA - Michael Leeuw TERMITE MOUND - NO GROWTH
COSTA RICA - Cristian Miguel Orozco Vega Zamioculcas zamiifolia used as a phytoinsecticide in the Raphanus sativus farming
EGYPT - Basma El Shenawy,  Yara Elsharkawy Detecting landmines by using thalecress
UNITED STATES Louisiana Taylor Wood Natural Mosquito Control, Year VII: Field Evaluation of Botanical Extract Mexican Marigold, Tagetes minuta lucida, as a Barrier Spray for Managing Mosquitoes
UNITED STATES New York Michelle Leonetti,  Mark Goodman Comparative nutrient analysis of Medicago sativa inoculated with S. meliloti and R. leguminosarum
MACEDONIA - Zarko Daniloski,  Aleksandra Dejkoska PRODUCTION OF SECONDARY METABOLITES BY APPLICATION OF SALICYLIC ACID ON THE CALENDULA OFFICINALIS (MARIGOLD) IN VITRO SHOOT’S
MALAYSIA - Luqman Safwan Che Mohd Fauzi,  Mohd Sharizam Mohd Shaari ALGAE-BASED BIO INCINERATOR TO COUNTER GLOBAL WARMING
TURKEY - Defne Angin,  Nurdeniz Ozturk Determination of Optimum Surfactant and Floatation Conditions in Paper Recycling
UNITED STATES New York Ruby Monichan Engineering biofilms for sustainable biological wastewater treatment
UNITED STATES Oregon Therese Chen Infrared CO2 Detection as a Measure of the Degradation of Biodegradable Plastics
UNITED STATES New Jersey Priya Gupta Duckweed Control
RUSSIA - Artem Shalyapin Plants as bioindicators of polluted soil in the territory of Natural park “Bitsevsky Forest”.
UNITED STATES California Jonathan Tinoco CHLOROELECTRICITY - SOLARCELL FROM OLD LEAVES
UNITED STATES Minnesota Michael Glawe Beyond Blue: The use of meta-material to channel renewable energy while protecting shoreline environment.
UNITED STATES Minnesota Emily Nimmer Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus) as Bioindicators of Global Climate Change
SOUTH KOREA - Joshua Kim Preparation and Characterization of Biodegradable Polylactide Nano-Web Electrospun for Harmful Algae Removal Fabric
TURKEY - Eren Bilgili,  Ahmet Soruklu,  Muhammed Furkan Cetintas,  Grape Molasses
PERU - Callupe Correa Paul Santiago,  Landeo Panduro Jairo Kevin ICHU REVEGETATION POTENTIAL IN THE ANDES OF PERU AND THE WORLD
UNITED STATES Utah Kaylee Glenn Optimum conditions for growing algae to be used as a fuel source.
UNITED STATES Texas Miranda Harris Mailbox Malpractice: An Analysis of Environmental Heat in Correlation to Degradation of Pharmaceutical Mailings Year II
TURKEY - Abdulkadir Slocum,  Elburz Kipge Recycling Gold and Platinum From The Catalyzer İn The Car Exhaustes
BRONZE MEDAL WINNERS
Country State Contestant(s) Project Title
UNITED STATES Vermont Stephanie Chang Reducing Phosphorus in Dairy Effluent via Constructed Wetland-Steel Slag Filter System
UNITED STATES Connecticut Laurence Pevsner Fungal Remediation of Diesel-contaminated Soil with the Oyster Mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus
KAZAKHSTAN - Nursagatova Nurgul,  Narbota Zhansaya,  Bayansulu Sultanova Exploiting of vestigial watery plants in water cleaning biotechnology
UNITED STATES Texas Aakash Sur Defining Impact of Environment on Prevalence of Childhood Asthma
TURKEY - Meltem Kaya,  Ismail Güzelis Removal of The Arsenic Accumalated in the Ground through Ferns
VIETNAM - Mai Khanh Dinh Tran,  Huong Tram Ho Si EXAMINE ISOFLAVONES CONTENT IN SOY YOGURT PRODUCT
UNITED STATES Oregon William Maurer,  Jeffrey Richardson The Irresistible Effects of Magnetism and Motion in Groundwater Remediation
UNITED STATES Texas Cameron Strong Getting Carried Away III
UNITED STATES Wisconsin Jamie Molloy The Effect of Nano Metal Oxides on Sentinel Organisms in the Aquatic Environment
UNITED STATES New York Jane Smyth,  Arianne Papa Varying light intensities on photosynthesis and bioluminescence in Pyrocystis fusiformis
TURKEY - Öykü Demirkiran,  Orçun Burak Akin DISPOSAL OF CADMIUM IONS FROM WATER BY MEANS OF CHICKEN FEATHER
BRAZIL - Igor Ogashawara Constructed Wetland - System for Water Pollution Control
UNITED STATES North Carolina Morgan Neely The Impact of Dilution of the Ocean on the Rate at Which Sea Ice Forms
UNITED STATES Minnesota Hannah Anderson The Ecology of Terra Preta Soils
UNITED STATES Oregon Julia Denning The Effects of Prescribed Burning on Environmental Mercury Release during Subsequent Forest Fires
UNITED STATES Georgia Nneoma Ahuruonye Georgia Red Clay and Rhizobium Bacteria
UNITED STATES Minnesota Logan Pallin The use of a rain garden to control road run-off in Scanlon Creek and an assessment of rain gardens as the best storm water management practice- Phase III
UNITED STATES Oklahoma Lacey Jobe Attack of the Green Algae: The effects of fertilizer runoff on a micro aquatic environment
JORDAN - Yasser Abboura Obtaining bitumen from unrecycled PVC plastic
PORTUGAL - Claudia Viana,  Ruben Campos Monarch butterfly in Portugal.
UNITED STATES New York Karrine Guerrier,  Anupa Singh Beat it! A Novel Approach to Eradicate Acyrthosiphon pisum Using Fungal Bio-Pesticides
UNITED STATES Oklahoma Nick Shepherd Tar Creek - Measuring the Recovery of a Superfund Stream using Macroinvertebrates
UNITED STATES Texas Leon Lin Sync!
MALAYSIA - Amalina Johar,  Mohd Saiful Iqram Rosli Magnificient filter from coconut shelf to remove colour
BULGARIA - Kristian Strumeliev,  Viktoria-azemina Balijagic Bio-augmentation of anaerobic filters: an attempt to enhance biodegradation of dairy wastewaters
CHINA   Li Hongji Intelligent indoor air purification machine
MYANMAR - Myat Thwin Oo,  Aung Heain Soe Solar Distiller
UNITED STATES Indiana Stephen Chou Analysis of Abiotic Factors Affecting the Bioremediation Potential of Arthrobacter sp.
TURKEY - Merve Begü Gönül,  Sena Nur Arslan Sunbathing Without Sunscreen
UNITED STATES Michigan Erika Trigg Water Quality: An Analysis of City Water in Bay City, Michigan
UNITED STATES Minnesota Karin Sather Fertile Waters: Recyling Over Fertilized Waters to Reduce Phosphourus Levels In Minnesota Bodies of Water
TURKMENISTAN - Ezizmurad Annamuradov Waste products of Oil refinery instead of toxic TEL as an antiknock in gasoline
UNITED STATES Georgia Rachael Ceciliani What's Left Behind? Phase III: The Effect of Extreme Conditions on the Integrity of Wood
UNITED STATES Wyoming Talysa Stockert Variation in Containment Methodologies for the Remediation for CBM Effluents
GEORGIA - Mariam Kekenadze Sea water –excellent source of the ecologically clean fertilizer
KAZAKHSTAN - Gulnaz Muratkyzy,  Uldana Zhangirova,  Aliya Aitmagambetova INFLUENCE OF RADIOACTIVITY ON PLANTS MORPHOLOGY AND ANATOMY
UNITED STATES New York Stephanie Alphee Examing the impact of global change on the ranges of New York City flora
UNITED STATES South Carolina Benjamin Strauss The effect of elevated amounts of carbon dioxide on the growth of Arabidopsis thaliana
UNITED STATES Texas Brian Truong,  Rohan Shah Navy Scum: A Study of the Prevention of Biofilm
UNITED STATES Texas Christina Rice CO2 Revolution
INDIA - Tanvee Thakur Wealth from waste or Water for future
HONORABLE MENTION WINNERS
Country State Contestant(s) Project Title
UNITED STATES Ohio John Boykin Iii Can recycled plastics be used to improve infra structural concrete for bridges, roads and highways as well as reduce environmental waste, pollution and cost?
UNITED STATES Pennsylvania Elisabeth Bleistine Water Quality of the Conestoga River: A Microbial Study
UNITED STATES South Carolina Emily Bakaj THE EFFECT OF FERROUS AMMONIUM SULFATE CONCENTRATION ON MARINE SYNECHOCOCCUS SP.'S CO2 ABSORPTION AND O2 PRODUCTION
HUNGARY - Csaba Leél-ossy Chrystal palace under the capital city of Hungary
TURKEY - Gökhan Yildirim,  Mehmet Akif Kurt USE OF WHEAT STALKS AND STUBBLES IN MANUFACTURING ADHESIVES (GLUE)
PORTUGAL - Stephanie Correia,  Sandra Lopes ROTA DAS LAGOAS 27
UNITED STATES Oregon Andrew Stout The Effect of pH on the Oil Production of Algae
UNITED STATES Oklahoma Joseph Odon Lush Life 2: The Effects of Fertilizers and Grey Water on the Growth of Lolium Multiflorum
CHINA - Hao Chen Factory discharging fume monitoring system based on digital image processing technology
UNITED STATES Texas Vaibhav Sharma,  Rohit Vadvadgi Weed 'Em and Reap: The Effects of Hydroponic and Aeroponic Methods on Plant Growth
TURKEY - Ebrar Özkalay,  Efe Eris MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY CONSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS BY USING THE CONSTRUCTIONAL CONTAMINANTS AND POLLUTANTS
UNITED STATES Minnesota Amber Erickson,  Shelby Little Susceptibility of Alfalfa to Petroleum
MEXICO - Nadja Carrasco,  Ana Patricia Moreno The Solar Stove
UNITED STATES Colorado Johanna Phillips Infested Forests and Evapotranspiration
UNITED STATES Florida William Li Variations on Dissolved Oxygen in Lentic and Lotic Ecosystems
UNITED STATES Minnesota Lucas Kleinschrodt,  Trae Swehla Biodegradable Plastic
UNITED STATES New York Jennifer Loo,  Iris Kao Determining the Validity of the "Microwave-Safe" Claim of Plastics Using Infrared Spectroscopy
UNITED STATES Oregon Rahul Gates,  Emily Axelrod Drought Resistance in the F2 Generation of Brassica rapa
TUNISIA - Ghazi Sfaxi,  Hela Oueslati Monitoring soil degradation and environmental assessment
UNITED STATES Oklahoma Rachel Rickards Phytoremediation of Hydrocarbon Contaminated Onshore Regions
UNITED STATES Texas Emily Wagoner The Effects of Carbon Dioxide on Cambaridae camburus
UNITED STATES Georgia Ashley Jackson,  Bijal Patel The Effects of Silver Nano-Particles on Aquatic Biomes
UNITED STATES Louisiana Anita Saraf Effect of Corticosterone on the Expression of Insulin Receptor mRNA in Xenopus Laevis (African Clawed Frog)
KOSOVO - Jeton Dukakjini,  Mithat Ibollari UTILIZING USED TEA WASTE IN ABSORBING PHENOL FROM SYNTHETIC AND INDUSTRIAL WASTE WATER
PORTUGAL - Vanessa Viegas,  Susana Caetano Salvinia molesta: a global threat.
UNITED STATES Alaska Whitney Walker A Survey of Microbial Diversity in a Muskeg of Southeast Alaska using Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis
HONG KONG - Hoi Ming Chu Inedible cellulosic ethanol
PHILIPPINES - Carissa May Enriquez,  Kevin Bryan Jose DEVELOPMENT OF AN ORGANIC BATTERY USING P-TOLUENE POLYPYRROL AS A POTENTIAL ELECTRODE VOLTAGE SOURCE AND COCONUT (Cocos nucifera) VINEGAR AS ELECTROLYTE
UNITED STATES New York Tahirah Cook Phytoremediation: The Application of Hyperaccumulators and Phytoextraction to Remove Heavy Metal Contaminants from Soil
UNITED STATES Texas Medine Tosun The Alternative protection for power poles before hurricanes
UNITED STATES Indiana Gretchen Catron Food Additives and Medicine in Runoff: A Growing Environmental Problem
NIGER - Mariam Mouddour WATER PURIFICATION
UNITED STATES Oregon Caitlyn Au The Effect of Substrate Material on Nitrate and Phosphate Levels in a Constructed Wetland
RUSSIA - Yulia Khvostova Trees testify.Ecological-dendrochronology study in the landscape "Teply stan"

Junior Environment

GOLD MEDAL WINNERS
State Contestant(s) Project Title
Oregon Naomi Shah Sustainable Indoor Air Quality: The Impact of Airborne Particulate Matter, Carbon Monoxide, Carbon Dioxide, and Volatile Organic Compound levels on the Peak Expiratory Flow of Asthmatic Subjects
Texas Austin Joe Greenfield The Potential Use of Magnetite and Magnetite + Humic Acid to Filter Heavy Metals from Water
Arkansas Sarthak Garg The effect of pesticides on the protein levels of brine shrimp
SILVER MEDAL WINNERS
State Contestant(s) Project Title
Maryland Soo Yeon Kim Best Green Roof Plant that Keeps the Right House Temperature
Texas Kevin Lee The Effect of Motor Oil and Potassium Chromate on the Growth of Halobacteria NRC-1
Texas Derek Lam Investigation of Rain-X™ and Sunscreen Coating to Block UVA Exposure (Year 2)
Utah Andrew Tate The Effect of Common OTC Drugs on Daphnia survival
Louisiana Brayden Wood Are Termites Picky Eaters? Wood Preferences of Reticulitermes Flavips
Texas Autumn Rose Greenfield Comparing Organic and Non-Organic Antibacterial Potency of Trigonella foenum-graecum and Allium sativum Against Escherichia coli
Ohio Kelly Haller Is Vermicomposting a Viable Alternative to Commercial Fertilizer?
BRONZE MEDAL WINNERS
State Contestant(s) Project Title
Utah Calee Gardner Which Type of Sediment is Most Toxic to Daphnia
Maryland Gregory Bekher Organic Fertilizers Significantly Improve Photosynthesis Capability Of Plants
Minnesota Michelle Erdahl Seed Germination: The Effect of Road Salt on Various Types of Plants
Texas Emran Shafaq Antifreeze out of Frost Hardy Plants
Texas Alexander Sherwood The Effect of Aeration on Micro-organisms in Stagnant Ponds Polluted with Invasive Water Weeds
Texas Siddharth Reddy Soap Nuts: An Alternative to Synthetic Detergents
Texas Venkatasai Katta Pure It: Safe Drinking Water
Texas Zahra Qureshi To Determine Optimum Conditions Decreasing Hand Transfer of Bacteria And Its Environmental Impact
Nebraska Matthew Gerdes How Much Nitrogen Does Glycine max Add To The Soil ?
Colorado Cellene Feathers Recharge and Save
HONORABLE MENTION WINNERS
State Contestant(s) Project Title
Florida Chelsea Milstid Which Plant Will Draw Out The Most Pollutants From Water?
Texas Dee Anthony Racing Colors
Texas Alexandra Friar Water Toxicity
Utah Duke Dunham The Tipping Point
Texas Ivan Mota Filtering Water and Green
Minnesota Elijah Welu Manure - The Natural Alternative
Illinois Brian Cruz salty roads and environment
Texas Chelsea Truong Nanocrystal to the rescue!
Louisiana Jesus Chavez Are you Safe in New Orleans
Texas Sabrina Van Ravenstein Can greywater be recycled and used on plants?
 
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