Intel Science Talent Search 2006 Finalists

Alabama

Florence

Taylor, Jennifer Ann (Florence High School)
Investigation of Prescription Antibiotics and Multidrug Resistant Pathogens in the Tennessee River

California

Palos Verdes Estates

Williams, Genevieve (Redondo Union High School)
Foraging Behavior and Food Preferences of Argentine Ants

San Diego

Viscardi, Michael Anthony (Josan Academy)
On the Solution of the Dirichlet Problem with Rational Boundary Data

San Jose

Sun, Yi (The Harker School)
On the Expected Winding Number of a Random Walk on the Unit Lattice

Colorado

Colorado Springs

Sidman, Adam Daniel (William J. Palmer High School)
A Handheld Multi-axis Camera Stabilization Device Utilizing MEMS Gyro Sensors

Connecticut

South Glastonbury

Pendri, Kiran Reddy (Choate Rosemary Hall)
Macrocyclization Using Ring-Closing Olefin Metathesis: Synthesis of a 13-Member Dithiolactone

Westport

Sellon, Jonathan Blake (Staples High School)
Modeling Auditory Attention by Implementing IHC Movement into Frequency Selectivity of the Inner Ear: A Novel Approach to Stimuli Separation

Florida

Coral Springs

Tell, Shoshana Sophie Rothman (Pine Crest School)
Characterizing the Wnt/Beta-Catenin Signaling Pathway in Retinoblastoma

Idaho

Moscow

Moller, Lucas Edward (Moscow Senior High School)
Micromechanics of Mars Dust on Round Surfaces: A Precursor Measurement for the Safe Human Exploration of Mars

Illinois

Chicago

Zhang, Letian (Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy)
GLY Conjecture on Upper Estimate of Integral Points in Real Tetrahedra

Geneva

Wang, Xin (Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy)
nm2608A : A New Naturally Arising Mouse Model for Human Autosomal Recessive Achromatopsia 2

Northbrook

Ranjan, Sukrit (Glenbrook North High School)
The Influence of Topography on Martian Polar Clouds

Louisiana

Slidell

Lowry, Kate Elizabeth (Louisiana School for Math Science and the Arts)
Gullies in the Northern Hemisphere of Mars: How Much Water Was Needed for Gully Formation?

Maryland

Baltimore

Davis, Myers Abraham (Baltimore Polytechnic Institute)
Bounding Sphere Images: A Parametric Bounding Volume Hierarchy for Collision Detection on the GPU

Clarksville

Xing, Jeffrey Chunlong (River Hill High School)
A Novel Single Nucleotide Polymorphism, T105G, in Intron 9 of the PIK3CA Gene Protects Against Follicular Thyroid Cancer

Rockville

Zhang, Yuan (Montgomery Blair High School)
Oxidized LDL Metabolites Upregulate Expression of the Adhesion Molecule CX3CL1 in Primary Coronary Artery Smooth Muscle Cells

Silver Spring

Huynh-Le, Minh-Phuong (Montgomery Blair High School)
Toward Understanding the Global Carbon Cycle: The Response of Soil Organic Matter to Changes in Forest Density and Flora

Massachusetts

Wellesley

Scott, Kimberly Megan (Wellesley High School)
A Partial Characterization of Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse Games on Fields and Vector Spaces

Michigan

Northville

Zhou, John Cong (Detroit Country Day School)
Synthesis of Polyaniline-based Conducto-Magnetic Polymers as Nanotransducers in Biosensor Design

New York

Armonk

Vellone, Joseph Daniel (Byram Hills High School)
An Investigation into the Effectiveness of Novel Water Removal Methods Applied to the MEMS-based Gas Diffusion Media of a Passive Micro PEM Fuel Cell

Bedford

Gardner, Allison Mae (Byram Hills High School)
Mosquito Populations and Arboviral Vectors Associated with Equines

Bellmore

Solomon, Adam Ross (John F. Kennedy High School)
The Effects of Age on Brown Dwarf Spectral Features in the Near-Infrared

Centereach

Zaitseva, Irina Vladimirovna (Centereach High School)
Stability of Sunscreen to UV Radiation and Reduction of Photocatalytic Activity of Titanium Dioxide

East Setauket

Lieblich, Jerrold Alexander (Ward Melville High School)
When the Brain Doesn't Hear What the Mind Does: A Lexical Approach to McGurk Adaptation

Zhang, Harley Huiyu (Ward Melville High School)
Role of General Relativity in Core Collapse of Spherically Symmetric Supernovae

Highland

Kelley, David Bruce (Highland High School)
Quantum Tunneling Effect of Electron Bubbles at the Liquid-Vapor Interface in Liquid Neon and Its Application to a Time Projection Chamber Neutrino Detector

Merrick

Russo, Brittany Nicole (Sanford H. Calhoun High School)
Seeing Through the Ears

New York

Rapoport, Sarah Kate (Horace Mann School)
How the Brain and Body Learn Right from Left: Revealing Embryonic Symmetry-Breaking Mechanisms through in vitro and Mathematical Models

Northport

Meyerowitz, Eric Allan (Northport High School)
Probing the Confirmation and Dynamics of Allatostatin Neuropeptides: A Structural Model for Functional Differences

Port Washington

Schickler, Carmiel Effron (Paul D. Schreiber High School)
Creating a Conflict Alert System: Leadership Change, Violence and the Cycle of Relative Power

Suffern

Krishnan, Sheela (Suffern High School)
Isolation and Characterization of a Potential Probiotic Cocktail for the Control of American Foulbrood in Domestic Honeybees

Syosset

Choi, Diane Jeehea (Syosset High School)
Measuring Passive Love: Amae and Japanese Uniqueness

North Carolina

Pinehurst

Gawlik, Evan Scott (Texas Academy of Mathematics & Science)
A Computational Study on New Krypton- and Argon-Bonded Molecules

Ohio

Bellbrook

Moore, John Pease (Dayton Christian High School)
Low Reynolds Number Aerodynamics: Development and Optimization of a Micro Air Vehicle

Oregon

Portland

Hope, Elyse Autumn (Oregon Episcopal School)
Creating a Novel Program for Determining the Three-Dimensional Movement Rates of Sunspots and Active Solar Magnetic Regions

West Linn

Zenisek, Sergio-Francis Mellejor (Oregon Episcopal School)
The Recombination of RNA by Azoarcus Ribozyme in a Compartmentalized System: An Origin-of-Life Study

Utah

Highland

Babb, Shannon Lisa (American Fork High School)
Troubled Waters: A Six-Month Longitudinal Water Quality Study of the Spanish Fork River Drainage System

Virginia

Oakton

Solomon, Justin Moore (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology)
Three-Dimensional Face Recognition from Video: Facial Surface Reconstruction and Analysis Using Tensor Algebra and Differential Geometry

Washington

Shoreline

Mork, Anna Jolene (Shorewood High School)
Comparative Autofluorescence of a Unicellular to a Multicellular Plant: Acetabularia acetabulum vs. Arabidopsis thaliana

Wisconsin

Appleton

Wage, Nicholas Michael (Appleton High School East)
Character Sums and Ramsey Properties of Generalized Paley Graphs