September 8, 2020
WSAS will be sponsoring six Washington State high school students to attend the American Junior Academy of Sciences (AJAS) meeting to be held virtually, in February 2021, 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 poster as well as a short video overview of their project, which can be viewed here.
| Student Name | Region | Title of Research Paper |
| Bridgette Bromell | Southwest WA | Examining and Comparing Diabetes Mellitus and Obese BMI as Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease and Vascular Dementia through Meta-Analysis |
| An Doan | North Puget Sound | Autonomous Drones for Search and Rescue Missions |
| Audrey Gruian | North Puget Sound | ALV+IN: An Intelligent Stereoscopic Olfactory System for Autonomous Localization of Volatile Organic Compounds |
| Samarjit Kaushik | North Puget Sound | Investigating the Effect of Fibulin-2 on NF-κB Pathway Activity and Proliferation of Pediatric Gliomas |
| Ankita Menon | North Puget Sound | Survival Analysis of Pediatric Neuroblastoma Patients using Gene Expression Data: Identification of Novel Neural-Related Biomarkers |
| Thomas Yim | North Puget Sound | Automatic Translation of American Sign Language |