On February 29th, 14 Upper School students and 19 Middle School students presented their completed science projects at the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Sciences Regional 3 competition hosted by Northampton Community College.

Congratulations to our student awardees! Students who received first and perfect score awards are eligible to present their projects at the state level meeting on May 18th hosted at Penn State University, College Park.

Perfect Score Award Recipients (score: 5.0)

• Neil Deshmukh '20 - "Low-cost Device for Medical Analysis with RL-optimized NNs"
• Iylas Kose '22 - "Study of Crickets Reared on Vegetable Waste"
• Anjali Shankar '23 - "Is There Hidden Sugar in Your Drink?"

First Award Recipients (4.0 to 4.9)

• Alizeh Ali '24 - "Study of Lung Function in Athletes vs. Non-Athletes"
• Francesca Bartolacci '24 - "How Does Acid Rain Affect Different Building Materials?"
• Anya Chadha '24 - "The Stroop Effect: A Continuing Study"
• Ryan Cheng '24 - "An App: Mobile Sensing for Road Hazards"
• Grayson Domzalski '25 - "Does Water Type Affect the Health of Euglena?"
• Jolie Eyvazzadeh '25 - "The Effects Different Materials on Metals in a Tumbler"
• Lily Eyvazzadeh '22 - "Creating the Optimal Solar-Powered Desalinator"
• Ben Greenberg '25 - "Reaction Distraction Test"
• Kanchan Gupta '24 - "Causes of Stress and Correlation Between Stress and Vital Signs in Middle School Teachers"
• Krish Gupta '24 - "Which Method Is Best For Reducing The Runoff of Soil?"
• Kaitlyn Lee '23 - "The Effect of Organic Fertilizers on Plants"
• Sophie Lee '22 - "Cramer's Paradox"
• Sebastian Malaver '24 - "Aero Tunnel"
• Rayna Malhotra '24 - "Designing Non-Petrochemical Based Biodegradable Materials to Replace Single-Use Plastics"
• Samit Mohapatra '22 - "Microplastic Removal from Water by Activated Carbon"
• Eva Saramya '22 - "Mystery Bacteria to Roots:  The Effects of Compost on Plants"
• Ronak Saramya '25 - "Speed Cubing"
• Diya Sharma '25 - "Does the Amount of Sugar in Ice Cream Affect Freezing Time?"
• Nik Surya '22 - "5 Second Rule:  5 Seconds Too Much"
• Valia Tsirukis '24 - "Can Yeast Survive without Sugar?"
• Divya Verma '24 - "Downhill Aerodynamics"
• Hanning Yan '25 - "‘Cryptography and Applications"
• Brian Yang '25 - "How Does Salinity Affect Brine Shrimp?"

Second Award Recipients (3.0 to 3.9)

• George Botros '25 - "‘Does a Basketball Bounce Higher When it is Warmer or Colder?’"
• Aman Desai '24 - "The Bayesian Method and Financial Forecasting"
• Diana Lopez '22 - "Best Fit Chromatography"
• Nader Rifai '21 - "The Effect Beverages Have on the Rate in which NSAIDs Act"
• Kaia Reenock '22 - "Microplastics in Our Environment"
• Katy Shnier '22 - "The Practicality of Cleaning Up Oil Spills."
• Yan Yu '23 -"Solar Distillation:  Turning Seawater into Freshwater"