First Place第一名
$250K
top award最高奖金
Grand Prize · 2020头奖 · 2020
Class of 2020 · 79th Science Talent Search2020 届 · 第 79 届科学天才奖
2020
Top Ten前十名
The ten top awards十大奖项
As announced at the 2020 Finals Week awards ceremony. Source: official announcement.
依据 2020 年决赛周颁奖典礼的官方公告整理。来源：官方新闻稿。
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01 Lillian Kay Petersen
$250,000 -
02 Jagdeep Bhatia
$175,000 -
03 Brendan Crotty
$150,000 -
04 Rupert Li
$100,000 -
05 Anaiah Thomas
$90,000 -
06 Katherine St George
$80,000 -
07 Alek Westover
$70,000 -
08 Adriane Thompson
$60,000 -
09 Rohan Wagh
$50,000 -
10 Arjun Neervannan
$40,000
The Forty四十强
All 40 finalists全部 40 位决赛入围者
Every finalist received at least $25,000. Names, schools, hometowns and project titles as published on the official finalist list.
每位决赛入围者至少获得 25,000 美元。姓名、学校、家乡与课题名均照录官方入围名单。
Jagdeep BhatiaWatchung Hills Regional High School · Green Brook, NJSimple and Fast Algorithms for Interactive Machine Learning with Random Counter-Examples
Amogh BhatnagarUniversity School of Milwaukee · Mequon, WIMethodology Demonstration of a Cost Effective Comparison of Procedures Using Open and Laparoscopic Appendectomy: Total Charges vs Hospital Stay
Andrew John BrintonJohn F. Kennedy High School · Merrick, NYMarsh Restoration: Ribbed Mussels (Geukensia demissa) as a Revival Mechanism to Rebuild the Coastal Salt Marshes of Long Island, New York
Cynthia ChenThe Harker School · Cupertino, CADecoding Neural Networks: Discovery of Anti-Tumor B Cell Receptor Motifs Using a Novel Sequence-Based Computational Framework
Lauren ChenDutch Fork High School · Irmo, SCSerum miR-134 Predicts and Potentially Promotes Breast Cancer Recurrence
Holly ChengHorace Greeley High School · Mount Kisco, NYModulating Fetal Globin Levels Using CRISPR/Cas9 in an in vitro Mouse Cellular System
Brendan CrottyHickory Hill Academy Homeschool · Muskogee, OKAn Innovative Hybrid Diffusion Burner Design for NOx Reduction in High Temperature Applications Year Three of an Ongoing Study
Ankush DhawanSignature School · Newburgh, INAn Improved Method for Trace Level Arsenic Quantification in Water
Maria FieldsUniversity-Liggett School · Detroit, MIGenes that Potentially Drive Health Outcome Disparities for African-American Women with TNBC
Ari FiresterHunter College High School · New York, NYWormBots: Earthworm Inspired Robots with Self-Assembly Capabilities
Makayla GatesValencia High School · Peralta, NMComparative Analysis of Lovastatin Introduction Through Botanical Dietary Supplementation in Apis mellifera for Treatment of Social Anxieties in Fragile-X Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder Patients
Victoria GrafThomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology · Arlington, VADetermining Stimulus Selection Parameters for Treatment of Neurological Disorders Using Statistical Analysis of EEG Signal Entropy
Zander HillBASIS Scottsdale · Scottsdale, AZUpper Bound on the Distortion of Cabled Knots
Raina JainGreenwich High School · Riverside, CTControl of Varroa destructor Infestation with a Dual-Function Thymol-Emitting Honey Bee Hive Entranceway
Anushka JetlyFriendswood High School · Friendswood, TXAn Affordable, Machine Learning-Aided Otologic Diagnostic Suite for Automatic Detection of Middle Ear Abnormalities
Helena JiangBuchholz High School · Gainesville, FLNovel Bioinspired Colorimetric Sensors for Detecting Chemicals in Vapor, Liquid, and Solid Phases
Nithin KaviActon-Boxborough Regional High School · Acton, MACutting and Gluing Surfaces
Olivia KrivitskyBergen County Academies · Englewood Cliffs, NJKetones: Novel Treatment for Aberrant Conditions in the Diabetic Eye
Caitlin KunchurDutch Fork High School · Irmo, SCEvaluating Room Acoustics for Speech Intelligibility
Rupert LiJesuit High School · Portland, ORCompatible Recurrent Identities of the Sandpile Group and Maximal Stable Configurations
Jason LiuThe Davidson Academy of Nevada · Reno, NVOn Q-binomial Polynomials and Quantum Integer-Valued Polynomials
Kyra McCreeryNorth Shore High School · Glen Head, NYAssociations between the Slowdown in North Atlantic Tropical-Cyclone Translation Speed and Intensifying Storm Precipitation
Nadine MeisterCentennial High School · Ellicott City, MDCooperative Relaxation in Supercooled Liquids: Kadanoff's Block Construction and Wilson's Renormalization Group Transformation
Sonja MichalukHopewell Valley Central High School · Pennington, NJA Novel Method of Monitoring the Health of our Global Fresh Water Supply using DNA Barcoding of Chironomidae (Diptera)
Arjun NeervannanUniversity High School · Irvine, CACombating Cyberbullying and Toxicity by Teaching AI to Use Linguistic Insights from Human Interactions in Social Media
Annie OstojicMunster High School · Munster, INTargeting Cancer via Signaling Pathways: A Novel Approach to the Discovery of Gene CCDC191's Double-Agent Function using Differential Gene Expression, Heat Map Analyses through AI Deep Learning, and Mathematical Modeling
Lillian PetersenLos Alamos High School · Los Alamos, NMReal-Time Prediction of Crop Yields from MODIS Relative Vegetation Health: A Continent-Wide Analysis of Africa
Alina PollnerCanyon Crest Academy · San Diego, CANovel Strategy to Increase Fruit Production via CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Engineering
Katherine St GeorgeJohn F. Kennedy High School · Merrick, NYThe Ketogenic Diet Ameliorates The Effects of Caffeine in Seizure Susceptible Drosophila melanogaster
Anaiah ThomasBergen County Academies · Hackensack, NJThe Manipulation of Natural Killer Cell Phenotype and Function using Sacromal Fibroblast-Like Synoviocytes in vitro
Adriane ThompsonThe Wellington School · Columbus, OHDifferentially Expressed Genes from RNA-Seq Identify both RNA Polymerase IV- and Dicer-like3- Independent Regulatory Pathways in Zea mays, Verified through qPCR and Bioinformatic Analyses of Novel Gene Classes
Rohan WaghSunset High School · Portland, ORDesigning a Microbial Fuel Cell Based In-Situ Soil Conductivity Monitoring System for Precision Agriculture and Water Management
Ella WessonManhasset High School · Manhasset, NYEngineering One Layer of a Two-Dimensional Acoustic Band Gap Material and Reconstructing the Sound Pressure Field using Acoustic Holography
Alek WestoverBelmont High School · Belmont, MACache-Efficient Parallel-Partition Algorithms using Exclusive-Read-and-Write Memory
Brian WuHorace Mann School · Bronx, NYTatooine Found! Discovery, Confirmation, and Characterization of the First-Ever Circumbinary Planet Detected Using Doppler Spectroscopy Applied in Conjunction with a Novel Synthetic Spectra-Based Confirmation System and Machine Learning
Yi XieBronx High School of Science · Flushing, NYHarnessing the Power of Comparative Functional Genetics: How the Medically Important Enzyme Na+, K+-ATPase Can Advance the Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases
Ellie YangParkway Central High School · Chesterfield, MOA Deep Learning Model Using a Convolutional Neural Network for the Detection of Guns, Knives, and Blood: SafetyNet
Kevin YangFairview High School · Boulder, COFrom Greenhouse to Redhouse: Development of an Advanced Film to Promote Photosynthetic Activity and Crop Production
Jake YasonikHomestead High School · Mequon, WIMultiobjective De Novo Drug Design with Recurrent Neural Networks and Nondominated Sorting
Zhifei YuPhillips Academy · Andover, MAOrbital Decay of the X-Ray Binary LMC X-4
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