Physical Science: Rajveer Savla, Rice Middle School, Creating Environmentally Friendly Bioplastics Using Potato Peels

• Avery Gallovich, Schimelpfenig Middle School, 2nd place, title: Five Star Feeder

• Charlie Hancock, Rice Middle School, 3rd place, title: Ball Python Growth Rate

• Maariyah Choudhry, Murphy Middle School, honorable mention, title: Cat Intelligence

Jaya Sai Anshu Sivapuram, Haggard Middle School, 1st place, title: How does ocean acidification affect the shells and skeletons of sea life?

• Melody Jing, Rice Middle School, 2nd place, Analyzing Sugar Release: Food Nutrition and Their Impact on Blood Sugar to Prevent Diabetes

• Margaret Noll, Otto Middle School, 3rd place, title: Raw Honey Health Benefits

• Alison Amazigo, Otto Middle School, honorable mention, title: Evaluating Natural Substances on Glucose Regulation

• Aradhana Varatharajan, Rice Middle School, 2nd place, title: In A Heartbeat
• Mohammad Khanooni, Schimelpfenig Middle School, 3rd place, title: Using AI To Predict Phage Behaviour
• Jason Pi, Rice Middle School, honorable mention, title: 3D Printed Casts From Photos
• Julia Traylor, Frankford Middle School, honorable mention, title: WalkSteady

Chloe Ni, Rice Middle School, first place, Using Inducer (IPTG) to Boost L-Asparaginase Production for Anti-Tumor Treatment and Acrylamide Mitigation

• Abhiram Jetty, Otto Middle School, 1st place, title: Is it Pure?

• Darsh Gupta, Bowman Middle School, 3rd place, title: Potato Battery

• Riley Johnson, Haggard Middle School, 2nd place, title: A Gasp For Clean Air

• JaganMohan Nallamothu and Hrishi Shitole, Rice Middle School, 3rd place, title: Oyster Aid

• Khushi Karmacharya, Robinson Middle School, honorable mention, title: What material is the best for preventing landslides?

Ethan Pi, Rice Middle School, 3rd place, title: Al-LEAFviation: Comprehensive Deep Learning Approach to Identify Leaf Spots in Plant Leaves

• Matthew Kuo, Renner Middle School, 1st place, title: Factors Affecting Fuel Cell Energy Efficiency

• Om Narayanan, Schimelpfenig Middle School, 4th place, title: One Man's Dirt, Another Man's Power

• Ashlyn Eslick, Schimelpfenig Middle School, honorable mention, title: Water Filtration Using Solar Energy

Dang Tuan Pham, Bowman Middle School, honorable mention, title: Aircraft weight limits

Ritisha Bhat, Rice Middle School, 2nd place, title: Carbon Capture from Wood Combustion

• Rajveer Savla, Rice Middle School, 1st place, title: Creating Environmentally Friendly Bioplastics Using Potato Peels

• Terri Lv, Rice Middle School, 2nd place, title: Measurements and Synthesis of Superconductors

• Aadya Kumar, Renner Middle School, 4th place, title: Keep It Down!!

• Ishfa Aalia, Haggard Middle School, honorable mention, title: Oil Clean Up from Water using Ferrofluid

• Nathan Tan, Schimelpfenig Middle School, honorable mention, title: Magnetic Repulsion-Based Collision Avoidance System

• Mckenzie Fulton, Otto Middle School, 2nd place, title: The Bioluminescent Glow of Dinoflagellates

• Cal Miller, Haggard Middle School, 3rd place, title: Little Landfill Munchers

• Semaria Nessbu and Poushalii Rajendran, Otto Middle School, 1st place, title: Space Sprouts: Investigating plant life in microgravity

• Haniyah Ghaffar, Murphy Middle School, honorable mention, title: The interactions of colors with plants

• Humaira Raqib, Schimelpfenig Middle School, honorable mention, title: Which Herb Repels Ants Best?

• Mckenzie Fulton, Otto Middle School, 2nd place, title: The Bioluminescent Glow of Dinoflagellates

• Cal Miller, Haggard Middle School, 3rd place, title: Little Landfill Munchers

• Zoe Tranytos, Rice Middle School, 1st place, title: Recycling-Sorting Machine Using AI

• Swastika Biswas, Schimelpfenig Middle School, 3rd place, title: EcoBot AI

• Nimit Garg, Robinson Middle School, honorable mention, title: Smart Walking Stick

• Eric Li and Henry Ludwig, Rice Middle School, 3rd place, title: A very RaD-SIDH: a quantum-resistant IND-CPA-secure key encapsulation mechanism

• Pranav Kusle and Sulav Kusle, Bowman Middle School, honorable mention, title: A

• Elim Wong, Schimelpfenig Middle School, honorable mention, title: Exploring Visual Recognition for Eye Movement Tracking in DUI Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus

• Diya Shah, Plano East Senior High School, 3rd place, title: The Salt to My Pepper: Utilizing The Bioactive Descriptors of Piperoyl Piperidine on Drosophila Melanogaster as a Neoteric Treatment for Breast Cancer

• Kaitlyn Fan, Plano West Senior High, honorable mention, title: Constructing a Fluid Dynamics Simulation to Aid Aqueous Humor and Intraocular Pressure Measurements in Glaucoma Prognosis

• * Life Science: Evelyn Ding, Plano West Senior High, title: SpeakNow: AI-Powered Early Detection of Developmental Speech and Language Disorders in Children

• * Life Science Runner-Up: Ananya Nagendra, Plano East Senior High, title: Utilizing Ants to Mitigate MSW Landfill-Derived Methane Production through Novel Aerobic Digester System for Anthropogenic Food Waste Decomposition

• * Physical Science: Sravya Pilla, Jasper High School, title: Wearable, High Sensitivity Bio-Transistor for the Detection of Lactate in Sweat (Year II)

• * Physical Science Runner-Up: Keshav Anand and Viren Bankapur, Plano East Senior High, title: GaitGuardian: Real-Time Freezing of Gait Prediction and Optical Monitoring for Parkinson's Disease (II)

• * Ananya Nagendra, Plano East Senior High, 1st place, title: Utilizing Ants to Mitigate MSW Landfill-Derived Methane Production through Novel Aerobic Digester System for Anthropogenic Food Waste Decomposition

• Mason Lien, Plano East Senior High, 2nd place, title: Effects of Acetophenone on Mosquito Activity

• Jordan Peters, Plano Academy High School, 3rd place, title: Zebra and Quagga Mussels: Exploring Environmentally Friendly Solutions to an Invasive Species

• * Evelyn Ding, Plano West Senior High, 1st place, title: SpeakNow: AI-Powered Early Detection of Developmental Speech and Language Disorders in Children

• Siri Peddinti, Plano East Senior High, 2nd place, title: Vocalyze: A Deep Learning Approach to Detecting Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and Tracking Treatment Efficacy via Vocal Acoustic Inflections, Facial Landmark Detection, and Sentiment Analysis

• Jake Li, Williams High School, honorable mention, title: The Impact of Colloquial Spanish on Language Development of Children with Developmental Disabilities

• Shivani Nathan, Plano West Senior High, 1st place, title: The Effect of Heavy Metal Pollution on the Phosphorus Uptake of Rhizophagus irregularis Inoculated Glycine max

• Tisha Sinha, Plano East Senior High, honorable mention, title: Power of pineapples: a hybrid approach on membrane protein purification technology to enhance the yield and proteolytic efficacy of stem bromelain

• * Shreyas Kolan, Jasper High School, 1st place, title: Building a Machine Learning Algorithm to predict Cardiovascular Disease and coding an application to provide personalized feedback

• Edward Ni, Jasper High School, honorable mention, title: Can Sound Reduce Motion Sickness

• * Sravya Pilla, Jasper High School, 1st place, title: Wearable, High Sensitivity Bio-Transistor for the Detection of Lactate in Sweat (Year II)

• Chloe Ngo, Jasper High School, 3rd place, title: Filling the Future - Development and Testing of a Mercury-Free, Sustainable Dental Filling Material

• David Liu and Samuel So, Plano West Senior High, honorable mention, title: Biodegradable Microbots to Accelerate Bone Regeneration

• Jerusha Abraham and Raina Hasan, Plano West Senior High, 1st place, title: Regulating Ligninolytic Enzymes to Improve Agrowaste Pretreatment Methods for Bioethanol Production

• Manya Gummaraju, Plano East Senior High, 2nd place, title: Investigating the role of Curcumin in the Activation of Specific p53 Isoforms

• * Chloe Lee, Plano East Senior High, 1stplace, title: 2-phenylalkynylsilyl Acetaminophen as a Less Toxic and More Effective Pain-Relief Medicine

• Annie Li, Plano West Senior High, 2nd place, title: Cyclometalated Platinum Complexes for Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

Vaani Chellamuthu, Plano East Senior High, 4th place, title: Diagnosing Progressive Supranuclear Palsy using the Parkinonism Index in Deep Learning

Nehal Sharma, Siya Tripathi, and Shivam Tripathi, Plano East Senior High, 2nd place, title: Engineering a Sustainable Menstrual Pad using Plant-Based Fibers

• * Varun Sridhar, Plano East Senior High, 1st place, title: Modality Matched Sensory Smart Skin System To Restore Tactile Sensation for Amputees with Adaptive Visuo-Tactile Predictive Texture Recognition

• Trisha Desai, Plano West Senior High, 2nd place, title: Mind to Voice : A Non-Invasive EEG Based System for Converting Imagined Speech to Text

• Rishabh Mehta and Ishaan Nirmal, Jasper High School, honorable mention, title: SmartWalk: Utilizing Haptic Vibration Technology to Combat the Freezing of Gait (FoG) Symptom in Parkinson's Disease

• Arya Gurumukhi, Plano East Senior High, 1st place, title: "The Bionic Leaf": Developing a Novel Self-Healing, Bi-Functional Nickel Oxide Catalyst to Use with the Bacterium Ralstonia eutropha for Sustainable Ethanol Production

• Akul Menasinahal, Plano East Senior High School, 3rd place, title: Triboelectric Nanogenerator Roads Harvesting Energy

• * Ryan Xu, Plano West Senior High, 1st place, title: ASCEND: Autonomous Structure Construction With Novel Agent Swarms

• Ana Spiride, Plano East Senior High, 3rd place, title: HandTalk: A Two-Way Translation System for American Sign Language

• Neel Marripalapu, Plano West Senior High, honorable mention, title: Dual-Thrust Bi-Directional Landing System for Rockets

• Jessica Zhang, Jasper High School, 1st place, title: Pressure-ase: Optimizing PET Degradation Rate by Stimulating Pressure

• Akansh Karthik, Jasper High School, 2nd place, title: Seacop: Using Machine Learning and Underwater Submersibles to Monitor Overfishing

• Bipul Padhy, Plano East Senior High, 4th place, title: The Water Guardian

• Aika Saadiq, Vines High School, 1st place, title: Radiant Barriers Assemble: Discovering Efficiency of Radiant Barriers to Intercept Heat Transfer

• Neo Cheshkov-Drandov, Shepton High School, 2nd place, title: Estimating the House-Cooling Cost Savings and Environmental Benefits from Using Non-Standard Roofing, Part 2

• Abhinav Civi, Jasper High School, 3rd place, title: Using Sodium Polyacrylate and Silica Gel to Combat Indoor Flooding

Annika Ghuman, Jasper High School, 2nd place, title: Chaos Theory Models to Predict Stock Market Crashes

• Prisha Bhat, Plano East Senior High, 1st place, title: Paracoccus denitrificans for Bioremediation - Optimizing Formate Dehydrogenase in Paracoccus denitrificans for Development of a Non-toxic Bioremediation Strategy for Toxic C1 Compounds

• Vijay Shivnani, Shepton High School, 2nd place, title: Elucidating Allergy Risk: The Role of Food Introduction and Type on the Infant Gut Microbiome

• Anish Bairineni, Plano East Senior High, honorable mention, title: Methods to prevent the transcription of HIV

• Aarini Sen, Jasper High School, 1st place, title: A BIOPHYSICAL APPROACH TO TACKLING EYE REFRACTIVE DISORDERS OptiSkew System: Advancing Clinical Optimetrics through Simulations and Innovative Techniques

• Vedant Sundar, Plano East Senior High, 2nd place, title: Anderson Localization in a Ferrofluidic Waveguide System with a Topological Defect

• Sanabhi Gauraw, Plano East Senior High, 3rd place, title: Quantitative Analysis of Acoustic Propagation in Glycerin-Water Dilutions Using Effective Bulk Modulus Elastography for Ultrasonic Applications

Arundhati Vankayalapati, Plano East Senior High, honorable mention, title: Elucidating the Flavonoid Biosynthesis Pathway in Oryza sativa and Computationally Modeling Flavonoid-Microbial Interactions in the Rhizosphere