BSSEF 2024

  • 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”