2020 Awardees

Nikhita Bontha

Hanford High School

“Developing Novel Bipolar Membranes for Fuel Cells“

Manasvini Calmidi

Tesla STEM High School

“Determining the Most Effective Salt Water Concentration for Trichoderma harzianum to Confer Salt Tolerance Through Symbiosis to Oryza sativa Plants“

Zoe Gotthold

Richland High School

“Novel Oil-Spill Remediation Method Using Polymers“

Meredith Hillier

Newport High School

“Stimulating Gamma Brain Waves Via the Visual System using Flashing LED Lights: Optimizing a Potential Treatment for Alzheimer’s”

Ansel LaPier

Central Valley High School

“Arm Force During Functional Tasks – Open Heart Surgery Implications“

Sathvik Nallamalli

Olympia High School

“A Lung Cancer Prediction and Detention System using Nodule Based Methods and Machine Learning Algorithms“

Vita Olson

Sequim High School

“A Survey of Lake Crescent for Endemic Salmonid Spawning Sites Using eDNA“

Smriti Somasundaram

Olympia High School

“Perovskite Solar Cell: A simple hot casting method to formulate ahigh-quality, stable, lead free Perovskite film with reduced pin holes“

Aditi Subramanyam

Tesla STEM High School

“Identifying the Role of TEAD Proteins and the Pharmacological Disruption of YAP1 to Inhibit the Function of Oncogenic YAP1 Fusion Proteins”

Christine Ye

Eastlake High School

“Applications of Helium-4 Doubly Forbidden Singlet-Triplet Transition Lines in Astronomical Spectroscopy“