The Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS) is the nation's most prestigious pre-college science competition. Alumni of STS have made extraordinary contributions to science and hold more than 100 of the world's most coveted science and math honors, including seven Nobel Prizes and four National Medals of Science. The Intel STS recognizes 300 students and their schools as semifinalists each year - 1,839 applicants in 2012 - to compete for $1.25 million in awards. From that select pool, 40 finalists are then invited to Washington, DC in March to undergo final judging, display their work to the public, meet with notable scientists, and compete for the top award of $100,000. (Source:
Society for Science & The Public)
3 Finalists
Stuyvesant High School Huihui Fan
Root Nutrient Foraging: A Morphometric Approach to Quantifying the Developmental Plasticity Space of Arabidopsis Ecotypes in Laboratory and Natural Environments
Mimi Yen
Characterizing the Behavior and Genetics of Headplugging in C. elegans
Bronx High School of Science Danielle Goldman
The Role of GABA in the Cormorbidity of Adolescent MDD and GAD
Below are the 22 semifinalists from New York City public schools:
Stuyvesant High School
Edward Cho
Let There Be No Light! ESR Dating of Quartz from the Bytham River Palaeochannel
Huihui Fan
Root Nutrient Foraging: A Morphometric Approach to Quantifying the Developmental Plasticity Space of Arabidopsis Ecotypes in Laboratory and Natural Environments
Ian Conway Grant
Characterization of Bacillus subtilis Bacterial Spore Kinases
Yuebi Hu
Density Functional Theory Calculations of Optimized Graphene Electrodes for Use in Rubrene and DBTTC Transistors
Brian Chungman Kim
Packing and Covering with Centrally Symmetric Convex Disks
Robert Jeahyun Kim
On the Existence of Small and Large Cells in Decomposition of a Convex Region by Lines
Jeremy Isaac Courtney Majerovitz
Working Under Pressure: Effects of Time Constraints on Time Discounting and the Disposition Effect
Nicholas Hugo Rivera
Design of a Nozzle Beam Chemical Vapor Deposition (NBCVD) Reactor
Melissa Seto
A Study on the Reduction of Particulate Matter Concentration by a Green Roof in New York City
Daniel Thomas Swift
Synthesis of 5,10-Dipyridyl-15,20-diperfluorophenylporphyrin
Lucy Tan
Effect of Mobile Phone Radiation on Human Keratinocyte Migration in vitro
Meisze Yau
Detecting Microbial Pathogens in Food Products Using a Novel Bead Capture-Quantitative PCR Assay
Mimi Yen
Characterizing the Behavior and Genetics of Headplugging in C. elegans
Staten Island Technical High School
Stephanie Azzopardi
Auditory and Visual Memory Recall and Susceptibility to Misleading Questioning and Schematic Gap Filling
Bronx High School of Science Sahil Agrawal
Assessing the Use of Multiphoton Microscopy Derived Redox Ratios as a Diagnostic Tool for Cancer
Bhargava Suved Chitti
Modeling Stem Cell Proliferation and Differentiation in Hybrid Spheroid Cultures of Cancer Cells: Toward a New Method of Optimizing and Minimizing Radiation Treatment
Michael Sivitz Gellman,
The Effect of Racial Bias on Learning and Generalizing Same-Race and Cross-Race Asociations
Danielle Goldman
The Role of GABA in the Cormorbidity of Adolescent MDD and GAD
Olivia MargotMunk
Environmental Enrichment Influences Neuronal Structure Well into Adulthood
Talal Syed
Biomarkers Provide a Necessary but not Sufficient Means of Identifying Breast Cancer Stem Cells: Hybrid Spheroids as a Functional Assay for Cancer Stem Cells
Qian Kun Tan
Investigation of the Mechanisms Behind Nuchal Edema in Aneuploidic Fetuses
Catherine Wang
Structural and Functional Studies of Linker Histone H1 in Drosophila Development