The 76th annual Connecticut Science & Engineering Fair awarded 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