- Saturday, March 9th, 2024 at the UW-Milwaukee Student Union
- Senior High Fair: 32 judges, 61 students, and 52 projects
- Junior High Fair: 10 judges, 46 students, and 28 projects
Sponsored by:
- UW-Milwaukee
- ThermoFisher Scientific
- American Society for Quality
- Society for Science
- Marian University
- American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
- Milwaukee School of Engineering
- Marquette University
- Regeneron ISEF
- STI Engineering
- American Science & Surplus
- RTM Engineering Consultants
- UW-Whitewater
- C-Sup-Two
Junior High Specialty Award Winners
- Lemelson Early Inventor Prize
- Biruk Deneke
- ASQ Awards
- Oliver Whelan
- Arianna Parra
- Lesly Perez
- Yeiluz Ganan
- Crawford Young Scientist Awards
- C-Sup-Two Engineer Awards
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge
Junior High Category Award Winners
- Engineering Category
- 3rd Place: Tabyis Thomas & Joseph Curry
- 2nd Place: Spencer Robinson
- 1st Place: Henry Martin
- Science Category
- 3rd Place: DeAndrew Hatch Jr. & Lianna Johnston
- 2nd Place: Sasha Lindquist
- 1st Place: Adenike Olowu
Senior High Specialty Award Winners
- Alpha Chi Sigma
- Ritisha Dey, “Characterization of Antimicrobials from the Soil Bacterium Xenorhabdus Szentirmaii”
- American Psychological Association
- Zara Vaseem, “How Having a Sibling with Selected Mental Conditions Affects the Social and Academic Performance of Individuals”
- ASCLS American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
- Anand George, “Comparing the Functional Capacity and Transcriptional Landscape of Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T Cells and Bispecific T Cell Engagers (BiTEs)”
- ASQ American Society for Quality
- Aidan Liu, “Schedule for Planting”
- Association of Women Geoscientists
- Manasi Karthikeyan, “Effect of Common Road Salts Composition on the Environmental Mobility of Its Constituent Ions”
- Community Innovation Award
- Daijohn Hughes, Genesis Rivera, Emma Rosales, “Restorative Justice App”
- Genius Olympiad
- Aidan Liu, “Schedule for Planting”
- Tyler Shao, “Creating a Water Buoy that Harnesses Energy from Water Waves using Magnetic and Electrical Systems”
- MacGyver Award – STI Engineering and American Science & Surplus
- Jake Raymond, “The Seismology of Cars: Does Going Faster Make Bigger Seismic Waves?”
- Liyang (Victor) Han, “An Auxiliary Rehabilitation Device for Patients with Muscle Tremors”
- NASA Earth Science Award
- Jacob Byers, “The Impacts of synthetic and natural crumb rubber particles on the growth and density of freshwater algae in a controlled environment”
- NOAA Environmental Award
- Ziddane Isahaku, “Improvement and Empirical Testing of a Novel Autonomous Microplastics-Collecting Semi-submersible”
- Philip Streich Memorial Award
- Mairin Castellano, “Optimizing Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Efficiency: The Effect of Light Intensity on Energy Absorption in Organic Dyes”
- Regeneron Biomedical Award
- Ritisha Dey, “Characterization of Antimicrobials from the Soil Bacterium Xenorhabdus Szentirmaii”
- Ricoh Sustainable Development Award
- Mairin Castellano, “Optimizing Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Efficiency: The Effect of Light Intensity on Energy Absorption in Organic Dyes”
- Society for In Vitro Biology
- Ritisha Dey, “Characterization of Antimicrobials from the Soil Bacterium Xenorhabdus Szentirmaii”
- US Stockholm Junior Water Prize
- Manasi Karthikeyan, “Effect of Common Road Salts Composition on the Environmental Mobility of Its Constituent Ions”
- Jacob Byers, “The Impacts of synthetic and natural crumb rubber particles on the growth and density of freshwater algae in a controlled environment”
- Nathan Steinbach, “PureFlowAI: Leveraging a Deep Learning-Enabled Predictive Algorithm and the Analytical Hierarchy Process to Optimize Water Facility Functionality”
- US Agency for International Development
- Ritisha Dey, “Characterization of Antimicrobials from the Soil Bacterium Xenorhabdus Szentirmaii”
- United States Air Force Award
- Kaitlyn Paullin, “Influence of Front Track Width on the Turning Radius of Robotic Vehicles: Enhancing Autonomous Automobiles”
- US Metric Association
- Sophia & John Torinus, “The Effect of Different Biofilters on the Efficiency of an Aquaponics System”
- Yale Science & Engineering Award
- Mairin Castellano, “Optimizing Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Efficiency: The Effect of Light Intensity on Energy Absorption in Organic Dyes”
- Z. Galin Excellence in Social Sciences Award
- Nikhil Lazzaro, “Effects of Demographic Factors and Device Habits on Happiness When Using Social Media”
Senior High Category Award Winners
- Behavioral Sciences
- 3rd Place: Zara Vaseem, “How Having a Sibling with Selected Mental Conditions Affects the Social and Academic Performance of Individuals”
- 2nd Place: Nikhil Lazzaro, “Effects of Demographic Factors and Device Habits on Happiness When Using Social Media”
- 1st Place: Kate Melbye, “The Effect of Different Organizational Techniques on the Productivity of High School Students With ADHD”
- Biology, Chemistry, & Life Sciences
- 3rd Place: Jason Shao, “Analyzing Antimicrobial Activity of Natural Oils to Develop Effective Personalized AD Treatment Plans”
- 2nd Place: Chloe Chen, “The Thermostability of Probiotic Bacillus coagulans Strain JBI-YZ6.3 (BC4U) in Baked Products”
- 1st Place: Ritisha Dey, “Characterization of Antimicrobials from the Soil Bacterium Xenorhabdus Szentirmaii”
- Engineering & Physics
- 3rd Place: Kaitlyn Paullin, “Influence of Front Track Width on the Turning Radius of Robotic Vehicles: Enhancing Autonomous Automobiles”
- 2nd Place: Aditi Muduganti, “A Neural Network Approach Using Deep Learning for Image Classification of Polar Ring Galaxies”
- 1st Place: Liyang (Victor) Han, “An Auxiliary Rehabilitation Device for Patients with Muscle Tremors”
- Environmental Science
- 3rd Place: Jake Raymond, “The Seismology of Cars: Does Going Faster Make Bigger Seismic Waves?”
- 2nd Place: Mairin Castellano, “Optimizing Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Efficiency: The Effect of Light Intensity on Energy Absorption in Organic Dyes”
- 1st Place: Ziddane Isahaku, “Improvement and Empirical Testing of a Novel Autonomous Microplastics-Collecting Semi-Submersible”
- Math & Computer Science
- 3rd Place: Ashna & Sanjay Dagam, “A Study in the Creation of Safe Zones Using Link Removal in Epidemiology”
- 2nd Place: Aidan Wang, “A Novel Alignment-free Genome Sequence Comparison Using Fourier Power Spectrum: Define Distance Metrics Leveraging Singular Value Decomposition
- 1st Place: Krish Vasudev, “Decoding Multiple Joint Movements from Electrocorticography (ECoG) Data Using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Networks”
- Medicine & Health
- 3rd Place: Eliana Igwike, “Biological Similarities Between Multi-Species Apo-Transferrin’s Effect on Potential Malaria Treatments Through Human Apo-Transferrin Inhibition”
- 2nd Place: Alden John, “Discovering the role of the Platelet-Derived Growth Factor Receptor (PDGFR) in the development of the visual system using a zebrafish model”
- 1st Place: Anand George, “Comparing the Functional Capacity and Transcriptional Landscape of Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T Cells and Bispecific T Cell Engagers (BiTEs)”
Grand Prize Award Winners, Best In Show
- Anand George, “Comparing the Functional Capacity and Transcriptional Landscape of Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T Cells and Bispecific T Cell Engagers (BiTEs)”
- Liyang (Victor) Han, “An Auxiliary Rehabilitation Device for Patients with Muscle Tremors”
- Aidan Wang, “A Novel Alignment-free Genome Sequence Comparison Using Fourier Power Spectrum: Define Distance Metrics Leveraging Singular Value Decomposition”
- ALTERNATE BACKUP: Aditi Muduganti, “A Neural Network Approach Using Deep Learning for Image Classification of Polar Ring Galaxies”