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2013 Program Participants

  • Garrett Adler, MS 223 The Laboratory School of Finance & Technology, Bronx, NY
    • Upmanu Lall Civil Engineering Research Group
    •     Project: Atmospheric Anomalies and The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
    Nancy Azcona, MS 88, Bronx, NY
    • Sunil Agrawal Mechanical Engineering Research Group
    •     Project: Rethinking Design of School Backpacks
    Elizabeth Barrett-Alexander, Columbus Elementary School, New Rochelle, NY
    • Brendan  Buckley - Tree Ring Group
    •     Project: Crossdating Pseudotsuga sinensis from Bac Kan Province, Vietnam

    Kelli Buck, Brooklyn Theater Arts High School

    • Ah-Hyung (Alissa) Park - Earth and Environmental Engineering Research Group

          Project: Developing a Protocol for Quantifying Oxalate Absorption and Desorption During Serpentine Mineral Dissolution
Katelin Corbett, New Explorations into Science Technology & Math, Manhattan
  • Keren Bergman - Electrical Engineering Research Group 
  •     Project: An Experimental Validation of the Temperature Dependence of Microring Resonators

Liliette Guzman, East Side Middle School, Manhattan

  • Kartik Chandran - Civil Engineering Research Group
  •     Project: Biological Conversion of Methane to Methanol Using Monooxygenic Pathways in Mix Culture Nitrifying Biomass
Sabrina Hussein, The Garden School, Garden City, NY
  • Irving Herman Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics Research Group
  •     Project: Hybridization of Nanomaterials and its Application in Energy Devices

Dawn Kennedy, Fort Lee High School, Fort Lee, NJ 

  • Scott Banta Chemical Engineering Research Group
  •     Project: Designing Binding Proteins for Explosive Identification
Nuenyan (Jane) Lam, IS 223 David A. Boody Intermediate School, Brooklyn, NY
  • Samuel Sia Biomedical Engineering Research Group
  •     Project: Fabrication of Engineered Skin Constructs With Perfusable Vascular Networks

Rachel Matundan, PS/IS 119, Queens, NY

  • Raimondo Betti - Civil Engineering Research  Group
  •      Project: Artificial Photosynthesis to Produce Carbonaceous Fuel from Earth Abundant Materials

Thomas McManus, PS/MS 29, Bronx, NY

  • Kristin Myers Environmental Engineering Research  Group
  •      Project: Ethnic Gap in Risk of Cervical Insufficiency

Anne Williard, Mott Hall II, Manhattan 

  • Huiming Yin Civil Engineering Research Group
  •       Project: Tesing the Strength and Conductivity of Novel Materials

Jeffrey Wuebber, New Rochelle High School, New Rochelle, NY

  • Christa Placzek Science and Engineering Research Group, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
  •      Project: Climate Reconstruction Utilizing Oxygen & Carbon Isotopes of Speleothems
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