CALIFORNIA

Berkeley

Bennin, Rio Gabriel (Home School)
N-Dimensional Equalizers and Pythagorean Quadrilaterals

Carlsbad

Fleischaker, Nathan Andrew (La Costa Canyon High School)
Development of an Anodic Stripping Voltammetry Electrode for Measurement of Heavy Metal Ions and its Use in Monitoring Clean-up of Contaminated Soils

Hillsborough

Ebbel, Erika Natalie (Crystal Springs Uplands School)
Isolation and Identification of the Anti-herpes simplex virus type-1 Components Found in Taraxacum mongolicum: Six-Year Study

La Jolla

Lew, Michael Yen Ming (La Jolla High School)
Functional Analysis of the Mouse and Rat Pem Homeobox Genes

Pasadena

Bellan, Leon Marcel (Polytechnic School)
Human Ability to Detect Soot Deposition Onto Works of Art

COLORADO

Boulder

Toro, Natalia (Fairview High School)
Independent Analysis of Evidence for nu_mu <--> nu_tau Oscillations in the Super-Kamiokande Atmospheric Neutrino Data

CONNECTICUT

Glastonbury

Dombrowski, Mary Alice (Glastonbury High School)
Cataclysmic Stellar Variability with Eclipsing Binary Superimposition

FLORIDA

Miami

Harden, David Lee (South Miami High School)
Trigonometry and Number Theory

GEORGIA

Watkinsville

Mathis, Charles Rollin (Oconee County High School)
Exponential Functions on Rings: Generalized Theory with Applications

HAWAII

Wailuku

Eno, Emi Malia (Henry Perrine Baldwin High School)
UV-B Radiation on Photosynthesis in Maize Lines Differing in Leaf Anthocyanin Content

ILLINOIS

Aurora

Winstein, Keith Jonathan (Illinois Math & Science Academy)
Lexical Steganography Through Adaptive Modulation of the Word Choice Hash

IOWA

Elgin

Fassbinder, Carol Anne (Valley Community High School)
Analysis of Monoterpenoids for Control of the Varroa jacobsoni

LOUISIANA

Bossier City

Cox, Rachel Anne (Airline High School)
Discovery of a Ralstonia Species Harboring Novel Plasmids Capable of Metabolizing 2,4 Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid

MARYLAND

Bethesda

Deng, Wei-Li (Montgomery Blair High School)
Crystallization Kinetics of Granitic Dikes by Using Crystal Size Distribution Theory

Gaithersburg

Safranek, Scott Michael (Montgomery Blair High School)
Limiting Behavior of History-Dependent Markov Chains

Potomac

Moore, David C. (Montgomery Blair High School)
Quantum Calculations to Determine Electrical Properties for Molecular Electronic Rectifying Diodes

Silver Spring

Hansen, James Michael (Montgomery Blair High School)
Chiral Perturbation Theory in Two-Nucleon Scattering

Lin, Grace C-Hwei (Montgomery Blair High School)
Hormonal Effects on Vitamin D Receptor Motion

Maire, Michael Randolph (Montgomery Blair High School)
3D Direction Finding Algorithms for Acoustic Target Tracking

MASSACHUSETTS

Falmouth

Ament, Seth Abrams (Falmouth Academy)
Mating, Sperm Flushing, Hectocotylus Use, Spermatophore Transfer, and Mate Quarding of Sepia officinalis: Evidence for Sperm Competition

West Roxbury

Fruhan, Scott Alexander (Roxbury Latin School)
Differentiated T Cells Expressing Intracellular IL-4 in vivo Decreased in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

NEW JERSEY

Berkeley Heights

Vo, Binh Dao (Governor Livingston High School)
Run-Time Transparent Checkpointing for Windows NT^â

NEW YORK

Glenmont

Blake, Cullen H. (Bethlehem Central High School)
Analysis of Scuti Variable Star V0830 Herculis

Great Neck

Bass, Trevor Alan (Great Neck South High School)
Investigating Punctuated Equilibrium via Genetic Algorithms

Stern, Eric David (Great Neck South High School)
Alzheimer's Disease and ICAB: Role of Enzymatic Activity in Ab -Induced Cytotoxicity

Jamaica

Grollman, Daniel H. (Bronx High School of Science)
Platelet-Endothelial Cell Adhesion Molecule (PECAM-1/CD31) Concentration on its Binding Affinity

New Hyde Park

Wissner-Gross, Alexander David (Great Neck South High School)
Rapid Granular Fabrication of Nanocircuitry: Modeling a Novel Process for the Macroscopic Control of Extended Nanoscopic Fullerene Structures

New York

Townsend-Butterworth, Diana Barnard (The Chapin School)
Human Neuronal Cell Model for Neurodegeneration: Cellular Stress on the Ubiquitin-Proteasome Pathway and Potential Ubiquitin Mutations

Wickelgren, Kirsten Graham (Stuyvesant High School)
Re-Calculation of the Deflection of Light by the Sun Based on an Equation From String Theory

North Woodmere

Lippel, Shana Traci (Lawrence High School)
Correlation Between Stroop Color Word Interference and Random Number Generation

Roslyn

Cooper, Lauren (Roslyn High School)
Effects of Gender-Bias Language and Candidate Sex on People's Perception of Presidential Candidates and Interest in Politics

Schwartz, Lisa Beth (Roslyn High School)
Positive Integer Sequences Satisfying a Determinant Condition

Smithtown

Superina, Nicholas Joseph (Smithtown High School)
Gamma Forest at Brookhaven National Laboratory New York: Geobotanical Analysis

Springfield Gardens

Burgess, Angela Patricia (Bronx High School of Science)
Father-Daughter Relationship During Adolescence From a Daughter's Perspective

OREGON

Portland

Semura, Patricia Jeanne (Oregon Episcopal School)
Sudden Fitness Transitions and Sexual Reproduction in Evolving Populations of Cellular Automata

PENNSYLVANIA

Reading

De Poister, Brett Charles (Central Catholic High School)
Effects of Zinc and Diazinon on the Embryonic Development of Xenopust laevis

PUERTO RICO

Carolina

Morales, Dorimar (Colegio Maria Auxiliadora)
Environmental Impact on Aratus pisonii in Puerto Rico: North/South Mangroves

VIRGINIA

Alexandria

Mitman, Kurt Elliott (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology)
Short Time-Scale Variability in External Shock Model of Gamma Ray Bursts

Chantilly

Kalicheti, Sirisha Venkata (Chantilly High School)
Elevated Ions Concentration in the Gunston Cove (Potomac River): Water Quality and Resultant Psysiological Status of Channel Catfish- I. punctatus, Tessallated Darter- E. olmstedi, and Banded Killfish- F. diaphanus

WASHINGTON

Richland

Wang, Constance JoAnne (Hanford High School)
Seratonergic Administration and Withdrawal on the Social Behavior of Procambarus clarkii