2021 Award Winners
Competitive Awards
March 27, 2021
5th Grade Competitive Awards
1st PLACE Vassar Brothers Institute Award ($50) Liberty Dickman Measuring the Speed of a Moving Object
6th Grade Competitive Awards
1st PLACE Vassar Brothers Institute Award ($50)
BROADCOM Masters Nominee Cooper Greene Micro Extraction
HONORABLE MENTION Amanda Myers Testing Different Thermometers
7th Grade Competitive Awards
1st PLACE Vassar Brothers Institute Award ($50)
BROADCOM Masters Nominee Tanya Jabcuba Simple Page Turner
HONORABLE MENTION Carlos Franco Sub Swift Corrosion
8th Grade Competitive Awards
1st PLACE Vassar Brothers Institute Award ($50)
BROADCOM Masters Nominee Casey Greene Nature’s Assassin
9th Grade Competitive Awards
1st PLACE Vassar Brothers Institute Award ($50) Maya Jabcuba Raspberry Pi Automated Messaging
Senior Division Grade Competitive Awards
1st PLACE Vassar Brothers Institute ($50)
Sigma XI, the Scientific Research Society ($100)
Pamela Edington Science Award ($100)
Application to International Science Fair
Ananya Govidarajan Behavioral Effects of Chemorepellents on Wild-Type and Mutant Tetrahymena Thermophila
2nd PLACE Sigma XI, the Scientific Research Society ($75)
Application to International Science Fair
Ditte Isak Investigating Correlations Between Internalized Homophobia and Transphobia in Adolescents and Environmental and Demographic Factors
3rd PLACE Sigma XI, the Scientific Research Society ($50) Lauren Tocci Effect of an Interactive Mobile Game on the Movement in a Queue Line at an Amusement Park
HONORABLE MENTION Lauren Radicchi The Impact of Technology Use Before Sleep and Its Effects on Implicit and Explicit Memory Retention
HONORABLE MENTION Abigail Strauss Lie Detection in Relation to Menstrual Cycle
HONORABLE MENTION Hayden Housen Lecture2Notes: Summarizing Lecture Videos by Classifying Slides and Analyzing Text using Machine Learning
HONORABLE MENTION Jasmine Zoha Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on High School Students' Education and Mental Health
HONORABLE MENTION Samuel Kelson Effect of Arm Mirror Loss on the Sensitivity of Gravitational Wave Detectors Using FINESSE Simulations
HONORABLE MENTION Sarah Ball The Effects of Road Salt on Nearby Aquatic Ecosystems
HONORABLE MENTION Taha Ali Pyruvate and Glutamine Significantly Reduce Parasite Burden in Experimental Malaria Trials
HONORABLE MENTION Ava Allen The Effects of Road Salt on the Ecosystem: Possible Alternatives
HONORABLE MENTION Azalea Bailey The Effects of Noise Pollution
HONORABLE MENTION Susannah Smith Investigating the Effects of Region 2 Wind on Spar, Barge, and Semi-Sub FOWT
HONORABLE MENTION Ahona Mukherjee The Myth of the Machine: Data Bias in Medical Machine Learning
HONORABLE MENTION Samantha Meehan Short Term Memory and Its Effects on Eyewitness Testimonies
Special Awards
March 27, 2021
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY- MID HUDSON
Carlos Franco Sub Swift Corrosion
Amanda Myers Testing Different Thermometers
Cooper Greene Micro Extraction
Sarah Ball The Effects of Road Salt on Nearby Aquatic Ecosystems
Ava Allen The Effects of Road Salt on the Ecosystem: Possible Alternatives
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Lauren Radicchi The Impact of Technology Use Before Sleep and Its Effects on Implicit and Explicit Memory Retention
EXCEPTIONAL GENIUS AWARD
Lauren Tocci Effect of an Interactive Mobile Game on the Movement in a Queue Line at an Amusement Park
Lauren Radicchi The Impact of Technology Use Before Sleep and Its Effects on Implicit and Explicit Memory Retention
IBM SPECTRUM DIVERSITY NETWORK GROUP
Cooper Greene Micro Extraction
Maya Jabcuba Raspberry Pi Automated Messaging
Jasmine Zoha Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on High School Students' Education and Mental Health
Taha Ali Pyruvate and Glutamine Significantly Reduce Parasite Burden in Experimental Malaria Trials
Azalea Bailey The Effects of Noise Pollution
MID-HUDSON ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION
Liberty Dickman Measuring the Speed of a Moving Object
Samuel Kelson Effect of Arm Mirror Loss on the Sensitivity of Gravitational Wave Detectors Using FINESSE Simulations
MID-HUDSON PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB
Casey Greene Nature’s Assassin
NANCY PFIRMAN SCIENCE AWARD
Ditte Isak Investigating Correlations Between Internalized Homophobia and Transphobia in Adolescents and Environmental and Demographic Factors
NATIONAL OCEANIC and ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
Ava Allen The Effects of Road Salt on the Ecosystem: Possible Alternatives
POUGHKEEPSIE FARM PROJECT
Casey Greene Nature’s Assassin
RHONDA HTOO MEMORIAL SCIENCE AWARD
Abigail Strauss Lie Detection in Relation to Menstrual Cycle
SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS
Liberty Dickman Measuring the Speed of a Moving Object
Amanda Myers Testing Different THermometers
Tanya Jabcuba Simple Page Turner
Maya Jabcuba Raspberry Pi Automated Messaging
Ananya Govidarajan Behavioral Effects of Chemorepellents on Wild-Type and Mutant Tetrahymena Thermophila
Ditte Isak Investigating Correlations Between Internalized Homophobia and Transphobia in Adolescents and Environmental and Demographic Factors
Lauren Tocci Effect of an Interactive Mobile Game on the Movement in a Queue Line at an Amusement Park
Susannah Smith Investigating the Effects of Region 2 Wind on Spar, Barge, and Semi-Sub FOWT
Ahona Mukherjee The Myth of the Machine: Data Bias in Medical Machine Learning
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
Samuel Kelson Effect of Arm Mirror Loss on the Sensitivity of Gravitational Wave Detectors Using FINESSE Simulations
UNITED STATES NAVY & MARINE CORP
Tanya Jabcuba Simple Page Turner
Sarah Ball The Effects of Road Salt on Nearby Aquatic Ecosystems
Jasmine Zoha Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on High School Students' Education and Mental Health
WESLEY PFIRMAN MEMORIAL AWARD
Susannah Smith Investigating the Effects of Region 2 Wind on Spar, Barge, and Semi-Sub FOWT
YALE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING ASSOCIATION
Ananya Govidarajan Behavioral Effects of Chemorepellents on Wild-Type and Mutant Tetrahymena Thermophila