Challenge Participants

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The Temp Tracker

Srihita Adabala

2017 State Merit Winner

8th grade

Tennessee

Super Scrubber: revolutionizing filter

Ella Agran

2017 State Merit Winner

8th grade

Vermont

H-V Wind Transformer

Adheesh Ankolekar

2017 State Merit Winner

8th grade

New York

A Novel, Inexpensive Inhibitor for Bromelain: The Effect of Various Mushrooms as Inhibitors of Bromelain's Proteolytic Activity on Milk Proteins and its Cytotoxic Effects on Prostate Cancer Cells.

Perisa Ashar

2017 State Merit Winner

8th grade

Virginia

Hypoglycemic Effect of M. charantia and P. communis on Type 2 Diabetes

Pratiksha Bhattacharyya

2017 State Merit Winner

7th grade

Illinois

Plastic Water Bottle Insulation Construction Block

Emily Carter

2017 State Merit Winner

8th grade

Nevada

Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic: In-Silico Molecular Docking Study of Spike Protein of SARS-CoV-2 virus to develop Novel Antiviral drug

Anika Chebrolu

2020 Winner

Meet Anika. Anika used in-silico methodology for drug discovery to find a molecule that can selectively bind to the Spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in an attempt to find a cure for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Magnet Motor, Van de Graff Generator hybrid

Logan. Cottrell.

2017 State Merit Winner

7th grade

Arkansas

Dysgraphia Glove

Asher Demo

2017 State Merit Winner

6th grade

Kansas

Paper Fueled Stove

Matthew Gilbert

2017 State Merit Winner

7th grade

Maine

Recycler Robot

Kelly Gorman

2017 State Merit Winner

8th grade

Rhode Island

Investigating the molecular interaction of Alzheimer's,Schizophrenia and Bipolar

Arjun Gupta

2017 State Merit Winner

6th grade

Arizona

Automated spice rack

Melissa Hannemann

2017 State Merit Winner

7th grade

Kentucky

Charge!

Henry Keo

2017 State Merit Winner

8th grade

Minnesota

Proposed therapy for Multiple Sclerosis

Kevin Lorenz

2017 State Merit Winner

7th grade

North Carolina

Dye-sensitized Photovoltaic Cells

Megan McCarty

2017 State Merit Winner

8th grade

Wisconsin

Ecofriendly Encapsulation

Pooja Menon

2020 State Merit Winner

7th grade

Pennsylvania

The Winter Plant POD

Gavin Miller

2017 State Merit Winner

6th grade

Michigan

Fire Fighting Helicopter

Gavin Norman

2017 State Merit Winner

8th grade

Utah

SMART Pee-H Monitor

Ujjayi Pamidigantam

2017 State Merit Winner

8th grade

New Jersey

Rice Plasticity

Jacqueline Prawira

2017 State Merit Winner

7th grade

California

Epinephrine Phone Case

Parker Rabinowitz

2017 State Merit Winner

8th grade

Alaska

Microbot Injector: Helping patients with Alzheimer's disease

Udbhav Raghukanth

2017 State Merit Winner

7th grade

Ohio

"Tethys" : Water Lead Contamination Detector

Gitanjali Rao

2017 Winner

Meet Gitanjali. Gitanjali hopes to reduce the time of lead detection in water by using a mobile app, to connect over Bluetooth to get status of water, almost immediately.

Sensory Box