WSAS will be sponsoring 15 Washington State high school students to attend the American Junior Academy of Sciences (AJAS) meeting to be held virtually, in February 2022, in conjunction with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting. The full list of sponsored students can be found below. Each student has submitted their research slides or poster, as well as a short video overview of their project, which can be viewed here.
| Student Name | Region | Title of Research Paper |
| Anna Armstrong | Spokane Regional | Composting Plant Starch Biomass Products Used as an Alternative to Plastics |
| Aiden Bai | Southwest Washington | Lucia (High Performance JavaScript Library) |
| Saketh Dhulipalla | Washington State | Predicting Wildfires in Washington |
| Jacob Gannon | Eastern Washington | The Impact of the Gut Microbiome on Personality in Canines |
| Anika Halappanavar | Mid-Columbia | Analysis of COVID-19 Misinformation Origin and Cure Narratives |
| Jennifer Hu | Washington State | Identification of Genes for Depressive Disorder as Biomarkers |
| Nidhi Krishna Kumar | South Sound | MUSR: Low-Cost Multipurpose Sterilization Robot |
| Yuchen Li | Central Sound | Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Weakening |
| Conan Lu | Central Sound | ComposeGAN: A Multi-GAN Approach to Symbolic Music Style Transfer |
| Gabriella Lui | Central Sound | Apply Machine Learning to Predict Rheumatoid Arthritis |
| Uma Paul | Washington State | Determining the Prognostic Value of Genes in Lung Adenocarcinoma |
| Alexis Schallock | Eastern Washington | The Impact of the Gut Microbiome on Personality in Canines |
| Emily Scrupps | Spokane Regional | Customized 3D Printing of Live Cells for Novel Bio-Circuitry |
| Kevin Shen | South Sound | The Variable Sweep Flying Wing: Investigating a Novel Concept for UAVs |
| Chloe Winkler | Spokane Regional | TiO2/UV based Photocatalytic Pretreatment of Post Harvest Canola Stalks for Celluloosic Ethanol Production |
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