2017 Winners

NHSEE Expo 2017 was held on March 16, 2017. We had a tremendous turnout and a gymnasium chock-a-block with impressive projects and serious student scientists. Congratulations to everyone for a great fair!

Special thanks to NHTI for their usual amazing job at supporting the fair, Shaws and Jacques Flowers for their generous donations, and Sabrina St. George for volunteering to shoot pictures all day!

First Second and Third place overall winners
2017 NHSEE overall winners (L to R): Vinjai Vale (3rd), Shaan Bhandarkar (2nd), Maru Zhu (1st)

Open Competition by Category

Behavioral Science
1st place; Mary Zhu; Nashua High School South for “Impact of Carbon Tax Policies on the Global Agricultural Economy: A Computational Spatial Partial Equilibrium Modeling Approach”
2nd place; Arden Brenan; Goffstown High School for “Is Society Swayed By Colors?”

Biochemistry
1st place; Vinjai Vale; Phillips Exeter Academy for “Engineering Surface Chemistries to Improve Tissue-Material Integration in Medical Implants”
2nd place; Anushka Ray; Nashua High School South for “Interaction Between Nucleoside Diphosphate Kinase And Graphene Oxide And Its Impact On Cardiovascular Diseases”

Biology
1st place; Shaan Bhandarkar; Phillips Exeter Academy for “A Computational Model of CRISPR/dCas9 Circuits: Towards Programmable Gene Therapy”
2nd place; Maya Davis; Nashua High School North for “Sugar Rush: How do different types of sugar affect the growth rate of bacteria?”

Chemistry
1st place; Inyoung Choi; St. Paul’s School for “Thermodynamic Stability Analysis of the Fullerenes and Metal Oxides Nano Molecules Used in Alzheimer Disease Treatment”
2nd place; Sarah Tadman; Goffstown High School for “Neutralizing and detecting date rape drugs in alcohol”

Engineering
1st place; Minhyung Lee; St. Paul’s School for “Novel Origami Helmholtz Resonator Fabrication with Waterbomb Tessellation Design”
2nd place; Evan Vogelbaum; Phillips Exeter Academy for “Understanding Repeatability in Measurements for Data Analytics for PV Material Degradation”

Environmental Science
1st place; Meghana Avvaru; Nashua High School South for “A novel and low cost approach for accurately measuring toxins in water and food by using a combination of alternative IR Spectro-analysis and Colorimetry”
2nd place; Tejas Sathyamurthi; Nashua High School South for “Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms to Predict the Occurrence of Forest Fires”

Mathematics
1st place; Nicholas Payne; Salem High School for “Chess Throughout the Ages (and other interesting trends)”

Physics and Electronics
1st place; Alyssa Leonard; Goffstown High School for “Physics vs. Tenor Saxophone”
2nd place; Christina Choquette & Alice Butcher; Goffstown High School for “How does a reduction in magnetic field affect plant growth?”

 

Overall Fair Winners

1st place   1st place for the fair went to Mary Zhu from Nashua High School South for “Impact of Carbon Tax Policies on the Global Agricultural Economy: A Computational Spatial Partial Equilibrium Modeling Approach”
 
2nd place   2nd place for the fair went to Shaan Bhandarkar from Phillips Exeter Academy for “A Computational Model of CRISPR/dCas9 Circuits: Towards Programmable Gene Therapy”
 
3rd place   3rd place for the fair went to Vinjai Vale from Phillips Exeter Academy for “Engineering Surface Chemistries to Improve Tissue-Material Integration in Medical Implants”

 

 
Special Awards
In addition to competing for trophies, bragging rights and a chance to move on to international competition, students also may also win Special Awards. Specific companies and organizations will provide prizes and recognition for students that excel with projects that meet certain criteria.

This year, the NHSEE recognized 14 student teams for Special Awards.


Award    Student team
American Psychological Association    Arden Brenan from Goffstown High School won in Behavioral Science for “Is Society Swayed By Colors?”
Arizona State University Walton Sustainability Solutions    Katherine Duan and Alexander Kish from Phillips Exeter Academy won in Biology for “The Impact of Round-Up on Daphnia Magna”
     Mary Zhu from Nashua High School South won in Behavioral Science for “Impact of Carbon Tax Policies on the Global Agricultural Economy”
Mu Alpha Theta Award (Mathematics Award)    Shaan Bhandarkar from Phillips Exeter Academy won in Biology for “A Computational Model of CRISPR/dCas9 Circuits: Towards Programmable Gene Therapy”
NASA Earth System Science Award    Tejas K Sathyamurthi from Nashua High School South won in Environmental Science for “Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms to Predict the Occurrence of Forest Fires”
NOAA Taking the Pulse of the Planet Award    Tamanna Asarpota from Nashua High School North won in Biology for “Early Bird gets the Planaria”
Office of Naval Research Award (support of STEM research)    Inyoung Choi from St. Paul’s School won in Chemistry for “Thermodynamic Stability Analysis of the Fullerenes and Metal Oxides Nano Molecules Used in Alzheimer Disease Treatment”
     Minhyung Lee from St. Paul’s School won in Enginering for “Novel Origami Helmholtz Resonator Fabrication with Waterbomb Tessellation Design”
RICOH Sustainable Development    Mary Zhu from Nashua High School South won in Behavioral Science for “Impact of Carbon Tax Policies on the Global Agricultural Economy”
Society for In Vitro Biology    Maya Davis from Nashua High school North won in Environmental Science for “Sugar Rush: How do different types of sugar affect the growth rate of bacteria?”
Stockholm Junior Water Prize    Meghana Avvaru from Nashua High School South won in Environmental Science for “A novel and low cost approach for accurately measuring toxins in water and food”
U.S. Metric Association Award    Hannah Thomas and Lindsay Radl from Goffstown High School won in Environmental Science for “Purification of Coffee Wastewater”
Yale Science and Engineering Association    Vinjai Vale from Phillips Exeter Academy won in Biochemistry for “Engineering Surface Chemistries to Improve Tissue-Material Integration in Medical Implants”
Northeast Institute of Food Technologists    Grace Danielson and Mandy Chen from Goffstown High School won in Biology for “Put a Little Spice in My Life”