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National 2013 Intel finalists
Two Long Island students -- from Kings Park High School and Smithtown High School East -- are finalists in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search. Mayuri Sridhar, 17, of Kings Park, and Michael Zhang, 18, of St. James, will square off with 38 other finalists from across the country to compete for top awards in March. Here is a list of all 40 finalists nationwide, along with their winning projects.
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| Name | City | State | High school | Age | Project |
| Annie Dai | Phoenix | AZ | Desert Vista High School | 17 | Development of "Smart" Hydrogels for Three-Dimensional (3D) Dynamic Tactile Displays |
| Pavan Mehrotra | Chatsworth | CA | Sierra Canyon School | 17 | Facile, Single Step Conversion of Biomass to Electricity |
| Kevin Chen | Fremont | CA | Mission San Jose High School | 17 | Development of a Low-Cost Analyzer for Ferroelectric Characterization |
| Kelly Zhang | Oakland | CA | The College Preparatory School | 17 | Fluorescent Imaging for Nano-Detection (FIND) of Cancer Cells for Future Surgery |
| Sahana Vasudevan | Palo Alto | CA | Gnyanam Academy | 15 | Minimizing the Number of Carries in the Set of Coset Representatives of a Normal Subgroup |
| Jack Takahashi | San Jose | CA | Lynbrook High School | 17 | Wnt Independent -catenin Activation is Associated With Increased Pulmonary Artery Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation in Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension |
| Paulomi Bhattacharya | San Jose | CA | The Harker School | 18 | A Novel AAA-ATPase p97/VCP Inhibitor Lead for Multiple Myeloma by Fragment-Based Drug Design: A Computational Binding Model and NMR/SPR-Based Validation |
| Sara Volz | Colorado Springs | CO | Cheyenne Mountain High School | 17 | Optimizing Algae Biofuels: Artificial Selection to Improve Lipid Synthesis |
| Stephen Le Breton | Greenwich | CT | Greenwich High School | 17 | In vivo Regeneration of Tooth Enamel using an Innovative Hydrophilic Polymer-Coated Retainer |
| Brittany Wenger | Sarasota | FL | Out-of-Door Academy | 18 | Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer |
| Lillian Chin | Atlanta | GA | The Westminster Schools | 17 | Agent-Based Modeling of Collective Cell Movement During Wound Healing |
| Raja Selvakumar | Milton | GA | Milton High School | 17 | Gastro Microbial Fuel Cell: A Novel Implementation of a GMFC in Capsular Nanorobotics |
| Lane Gunderman | Chicago | IL | The University of Chicago Laboratory High School | 18 | Investigating the Fenna-Matthews-Olson Complex Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations: Exploring the Mechanics of Energy Transport in Photosynthesis |
| Peter Kraft | Munster | IN | Munster High School | 17 | Synthesis and Analysis of Novel Coordination Polymers Containing 3- or 4-Pyridylnicotinamide and Benzenedicarboxylates |
| Naethan Mundkur | Louisville | KY | duPont Manual Magnet High School | 17 | Investigation into the Thermal and Rheological Properties of CuO Nanofluids for Heat Transfer Applications |
| Jacob Johnson | Acton | MA | Acton-Boxborough Regional High School | 17 | Integrative Genomic Analysis of a Mouse Model of Malignant Breast Cancer Reveals Crucial and Novel Cancer Drivers |
| Surya Bhupatiraju | Lexington | MA | Lexington High School | 17 | On the Complexity of the Marginal Satisfiability Problem |
| Samuel Zbarsky | Silver Spring | MD | Montgomery Blair High School | 17 | On Improved Bounds for Bounded Degree Spanning Trees for Points in Arbitrary Dimension |
| Lilia Popova | Ann Arbor | MI | Ann Arbor-Huron High School | 17 | Elucidating Environmental and Genetic Mechanisms of Magnetically Altered Plant Growth |
| Jennifer Chan | Hackensack | NJ | Academy for Medical Science Technology | 18 | Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID): a common target for ER-dependent and ER-independent breast cancer therapies |
| Catherine Wong | Morristown | NJ | Morristown High School | 17 | A Novel Design for Wireless Low-Cost Cardiac Examination Over the Mobile Phone Platform: Telemedicine for the Developing World |
| Katherine Cordwell | Albuquerque | NM | Manzano High School | 17 | Lower Central Series Quotients of Finitely Generated Algebras over the Integers |
| Samantha Scibelli | Burnt Hills | NY | Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High School | 17 | Census of Blue Stars in the Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
| Jiayi Peng | Chappaqua | NY | Horace Greeley High School | 17 | A Cellular Automaton Model for Critical Dynamics in Neuronal Networks |
| Chris Traver | Croton-on-Hudson | NY | Croton-Harmon High School | 17 | Investigating Noise Pollution Using Smartphones and Citizen Scientists |
| Mayuri Sridhar | Kings Park | NY | Kings Park High School | 17 | Computational Analysis of the DNA-Binding Mechanism of the p53 Tumor Suppressor and its Inactivation through the R249S Mutation |
| Jamie Solimano | New York | NY | Stuyvesant High School | 17 | Super-resolution STED Microscopy Provides Insight Into the Dynamics of Intraflagellar Transport and Reveals Novel Distribution of Adenylate Cyclase III in Primary Cilia |
| Daniel McQuaid | Ossining | NY | Ossining High School | 17 | Identification of post-translational regulation sites on the KLF6 tumor suppressor as novel targets for cancer therapies |
| Michael Zhang | Saint James | NY | Smithtown High School East | 18 | Role-Inducted Perspective Visual Behavior during Scene Free-Viewing |
| Hannah Larson | Eugene | OR | South Eugene High School | 18 | Classification of Some Fusion Categories of Rank FOUR |
| Naomi Shah | Portland | OR | Sunset High School | 17 | The Toxicological Effect of Airborne Pollutants on Lung Health |
| Raghav Tripathi | Portland | OR | Westview High School | 17 | Design and Synthesis of Novel Fatty Acid Binding Protein Inhibitors for Analgesic and Anti-Inflammatory Effects through Increases in Endogenous Anandamide Concentrations |
| Joy Wang | Allentown | PA | Parkland High School | 17 | Polyoxovanadate-based Surfactants: The Search for an Effective Heterogeneous Catalyst |
| Jonah Kallenbach | Fort Washington | PA | Germantown Academy | 17 | Characterizing and Identifying Interactions of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins |
| Meghan Shea | Kennett Square | PA | Unionville High School | 18 | Optimizing the Coagulating Property of Moringa oleifera Seeds: A Novel Approach to Water Purification Techniques in Low-Income Countries |
| Akshay Padmanabha | Germantown | TN | Houston High School | 16 | Predicting, Detecting, and Treating Seizures through Vagus Nerve Stimulation |
| Adam Bowman | Nashville | TN | Montgomery Bell Academy | 17 | Apparatus and Analysis Techniques for Portable, Low-voltage Pulsed Plasma Sources |
| Kensen Shi | College Station | TX | A&M Consolidated High School | 17 | Lazy Toggle PRM: A Single-Query Approach to Motion Planning |
| Alexa Dantzler | Arlington | VA | Bishop Denis J. O'Connell High School | 17 | Quantification of Perchloroethylene Residues in Dry Cleaned Fabrics |
| Vincent O'Leary | Wheeling | WV | Wheeling Central Catholic High School | 17 | A Multi-Year Analysis of Orconectid Crayfish Invasion Dynamics in West Virginia Utilizing Laboratory and Field Methodologies. |
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