National 2013 Intel finalists
| 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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