76th annual Connecticut Science & Engineering Fair announces winners

The 76th annual Connecticut Science & Engineering Fairawarded over $1,000,000 in awards, scholarships and prizes to middle and high school students, including the Urban School Challenge, of which JAX was the major sponsor. This special category recognizes the state's lowest performing Alliance District schools.

The statewide science and engineering fair is open to all seventh through 12th grade students residing or enrolled in Connecticut schools and Fishers Island. The program works to attract young people to careers in science and engineering, while developing skills essential to critical thinking. Through science fair participation, students are encouraged to pursue independent work using proper research methods.

This year, 20 JAX employees signed up to volunteer for preliminary or finalist CSEF judging.

Urban School Challenge Middle School Awardees:

Using Piezoelectric Sensors to Harvest Energy from Automobile Tires and the Road Surface

Palaniappan Manikandan and Duke Clottey

Grade 8, towns: Ellington and Hartford

1st Place Middle School - $300 and Trophy, Medallion

Building a Versatile Air Sensor That Can Detect PM10 & PM2.5 in the Air

Sarvesh Ram Sankarnarayan, Gabrielle Anderson, Eleftherios Amperidis

Grade 8, town: Danbury

2nd Place Middle School - $200 and Trophy, Medallion

The Effect of Different Substrates on the Growth of Mycelium
Milana Lenz

Grade 8, town: Danbury

3rd Place Middle School - $100 and Trophy, Medallion

Air Purifier that Effectively Removes Air Toxins - PM 2.5 and Formaldehyde

Arlis Arias-Paulino, Sivayazhini Sivasundar, Kuhutan Roy

Grade 8, town Danbury

4th Place Middle School - Trophy, Medallion

What Design of Mesh Water Filtration Device Most Effectively Removes Microplastics?

Jacob Godfrey

Grade 7, town: Waterbury

5th Place Middle School - Trophy, Medallion

Can you Detect Artificially Intelligent Generated Text from Human Generated Text?

Angelica Philogene, Kee'maja Lilley

Grade 8, town: Bridgeport

Middle School Finalist - Medallion

The Pinwheel Problem

Fernando Marin, Pandora Nguyen

Grade 8, town: Bridgeport

Middle School Finalist - Medallion

The Effectiveness of Different Distillation Methods for Desalination

Siddanth Ramakrishnan, Patrick Madden

Grade 7, town: Danbury

Middle School Finalist - Medallion

How Does Temperature Affect How Bright Bioluminescent Plankton Glow?

Montana Urban, Sebastian Madera-Guridy, Erin George

Grade 7, town: Danbury

Middle School Finalist - Medallion

How do Different Strength Magnets Affect a Phone's Charging Speed

Kylie Wilson, Caleb Lopes, Carmelo McCollough

Grade 8, town: Danbury

Middle School Finalist - Medallion

Urban School Challenge High School Awardees:

A Novel Machine Learning Model for Estrous Cycle Classification in Mice

Saachi Goyal

Grade 11, town: Stamford

1st Place High School - $500 and Plaque, Medallion

Therapeutic Potential of Antibody Drug Conjugates Targeting the Expression of Trophoblast Cell-Surface Antigen 2 (TROP-2) On High Grade Serous Epithelial Ovarian Carcinoma

Ana-Lois Davis

Grade 12, town: Broad Brook

2nd Place High School - $300 and Plaque, Medallion

Determining the incidence of Beech Leaf Disease symptom severity based on overwintering nematode abundance in Fagus grandifolia buds

Dina Watson

Grade 12, town: Manchester

3rd Place High School - $ 200 and Plaque, Medallion

Implementation of a Computationally Efficient Machine-Learning-Based System to Diagnose Cervical Cancer via Numerical Feature Extraction and Multivariate Regression

Ethan Joseph

Grade 9, town: West Haven

4th Place High School - Plaque, Medallion

Synthesis of Porous Polymer Sponge Matrix using Modified Sodium Alginate Clay Compound for Adsorptive Removal of Microplastics and Oil from Contaminated Water

Snigtha Mohanraj

Grade 11, town: Ansonia

5th Place High School - Plaque, Medallion

Non-Thermal Induction of Heat Shock Protein 90 to Mitigate Early Oncogenesis With Preserved HSR

Chloe Atkins

Grade 12, town: Stratford

Senior High Finalist - Medallion

Using Sodium Alginate Derived Porous Carbon Material to Increase Capacitance of a Cellulose Matrix

Isabella E Silva

Grade 12, town: Bridgeport

Senior High Finalist - Medallion

Utilizing Fucus distichus alginates to develop an enhanced aerosol treatment for Cystic Fibrosis

Mia Nierenberg

Grade 12, town: Stratford

Senior High Finalist - Medallion

Evaluating Hyperparameter Tuned Machine Learning Classifiers for Pancreatic Cancer Detection via Urinary Biomarkers

Nivrith Ananth Iyer

Grade 10, town: West Haven

Senior High Finalist - Medallion

The Effect of Surface Texture on the Efficiency of a Spoiler (airfoil) in Formula 1 Race Cars.

Willard Davis, Peter Davis

Grade 10, town: Broad Brook

Senior High Finalist - Medallion

Optimizing Laterite Soil Microbial Fuel Cells for Community-Centric Electricity Generation in Tropical Underdeveloped Regions

Namyanzi Edwards

Grade 11, town: New Britain

Senior High Finalist - Medallion

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