Congratulations to all students who participated in this year’s Arizona Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS), a competition hosted by SARSEF promoting original research and experimentation in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) at the high school level.
The JSHS Program is a national competition promoting original research and experimentation in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) at the high school level and publicly recognizes students for outstanding achievement. It is a collaborative effort between the research arm of the Department of Defense (DoD) and nationwide academic research institutions and is administered by the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA).
The following students will be advancing to the National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium:
1st Place: Baochan Fan
School: Hamilton High School
Mentor: Dr. Shu Wang
Self Disinfecting High Performance Face Mask Based on Biomaterial Coated Nanofibers
2nd Place: Shreya Skreekantham
School: BASIS Chandler
Mentor: Dr. Avani Wildani
Evaluation of Gender’s Effect in Predicting Parkinson’s Disease from Voice Recordings: A Random Forest Approach
3rd Place: Calista Wilk
BASIS Scottsdale
Mentor: Peide Ye
Replacing Gallinium Arsenide in Space Solar Cells with 2-D Materials in a Novel 7-Junction Configuration
4th Place: Prisha Shroff
Hamilton High School
Teacher: Debbie Nipar
Ai-Based Wildfire Prevention, Detection, and Suppression System
5th Place: Savannah Botello
Cibola High School
Teacher: Patricia Garcia
Comparison of Struvite and Chlorella Vulgaris Solution to Phosphorus Water Pollution
Alternate: Saptarshi Mallick
University High School
Mentor: Yana Zavros
Hedgehog Signaling Mediates the Dysregulation of Adrenocorticotropin Hormone Secretion and Somatostatin Receptor Expression in Cushing’s Disease