I-SWEEEP 2013 Category Award Winners

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Medal Category Contestant Project Title Country Grand Award Gold Energy Peter Russell Integration of Photoluminescent Manganese-doped ZnS Nanocrystals For Improved Solar Cell Response UNITED STATES Gold Energy Jaehyeong Lee An Optimal Design of Electrode Surface Morphology to Improve Water Electrolysis Efficiency UNITED STATES Gold Energy Andrew Chen, Alexandra Tse, Sneha Chittabathini Novel Methods of Incorporating Reduced Graphene Oxide into Layers of Organic Polymer Solar Cells UNITED STATES Gold Energy Travis Anderson Intrinsic Laptop Energy Capture via Keyboard Piezoelectric Conversion UNITED STATES Gold Energy Omar Yared, Ibrahim ALSaidi A great increase in rate of hydrogen production in water electrolysis driven by solar energy JORDAN Gold Energy Nipun Ramakrishnan The Super Energy Harvester: A Novel Device That Combines and Wirelessly Transmits Energy from Ambient Sources UNITED STATES Gold Energy ADEBOLA DURO-AINA, Oluwatoyin Faleke, Abiola Akindele The Urine Powered Generator NIGERIA Gold Energy Maxwell Tucker, Christopher Zhen, Kavi Jain The Impact of Early Transition Metal-Based Catalysts on the Performance of I-/I3– Redox Couples in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells UNITED STATES Gold Energy Andrew Yang A Novel Single-Compartment Concentration Cell Driven by Natural Evaporation for Green Energy Harvesting UNITED STATES Silver Energy Salma ELDEEK, Yara Mubarak A New Self-sufficient Chemical and Physical Technique to Produce Biofuel from Carbohydrates Without the use of enzymes JORDAN Silver Energy Sara Volz Algae Biofuels: Artificial Selection to Improve Lipid Synthesis UNITED STATES Silver Energy Jacob Weiser The Observations and Analyses of the Crystallization Process of CuxV2O5 in the Hydrothermal Synthesis using In-situ Synchrotron X-ray Powder Diffraction UNITED STATES Silver Energy Dre Steinwehr The Usage of Polyphenol and Spinosad Compounds As Biopesticides and Ethanol Inducers UNITED STATES Silver Energy Tanvi Tiwari Optimizing the Placement of Geothermal Wells in the Presence of Blockages UNITED STATES Silver Energy Nimit Gandhi Multi-Junction Oxide Solar Cells UNITED STATES Silver Energy Daniel Dorminy Rotor Tip Components For Residential Wind Turbines UNITED STATES Silver Energy Talia Pandan Sari, Rika Nuraini Dynamo Stairs as Alternative Source of Energy INDONESIA Silver Energy Ting-Wei Gau, Chih-Ning Ho Quantum Dot-Sensitized Solar Cells for Hydrogen Generation by Photocatalytic Water Splitting CHINESE TAIPEI Silver Energy Nurul MohdReza Optimizing Energy Production through Waste water Treatment: The Utilization of Mediator-less, Single-Celled Microbial Fuel Cells UNITED STATES Silver Energy Maeve Harris Generation of Power Using Piezo-Electric Leaves UNITED STATES Silver Energy Micah Dunkleberger A Concept Refrigerator for a Growing World: A Second Year Study UNITED STATES I-SWEEEP 2013 Category Award Winners

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Medal Category Contestant Project Title CountryBronze Energy Lucian Stancu, Dragos Serban An eco-friendly wall coating with better insulating properties ROMANIA

Bronze Energy Sishir Pasumarthy, Abhishek Ram,

Shreyansh Dhingra

Sustainable Green Energy: Harnessing Heat from Biomass to Supplement Energy

Costs

UNITED STATES

Bronze Energy Eric Koehlmoos Grass to Gas: Phase II UNITED STATES

Bronze Energy Shanta Katipamula Working Toward a Greener Future: Investigating the Most Efficient and Cost Effective

Method to Obtain Hydrogen from Water

UNITED STATES

Bronze Energy Andrew Ma Solvent Extraction of Hydrocarbons and Hydrocarbon Derivatives from Lythrum

salicaria

UNITED STATES

Bronze Energy yusuf zucchero, rakel ertovi YIELD COMPARISON BETWEEN SINGLE ROTOR AND DOUBLE ROTOR WIND TURBINES TURKEY

Bronze Energy Yaseem Rana The Effect of Complex Geometry on the Efficiency of a Solar Panel System UNITED STATES

Bronze Energy Ruairi O'Neill, Eoghan Flynn 'Polyfuel' - a novel solution to fuel shortages and disposal of ELPs NORTHERN IRELAND

Bronze Energy Kailash Sivakumar A Mean Green Rotating Machine: Building a Wave Energy Device Using Rotational

Energy

UNITED STATES

Bronze Energy Asım Burak Gunduz Evaluation of insulation performance relation of Aerojel and Diyotome shelled Nano

Composites produced in different rates with Acuistic Empedance values measured

with Piezoelectric transducer

TURKEY

Bronze Energy H. VEDAT LEVİ, TREYSİ AŞKIN FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD “NATURAL HYBRID SOLAR - PIEZO - KINETIC CHARGING

DEVICE”

TURKEY

Bronze Energy Stanislav Lavrynenko Template synthesis as the most modern method of manufacture of electrodes for

powerful hybrid supercapacitors used in electric engines and vehicles

UKRAINE

Bronze Energy Karan Jerath Fuel For Thought UNITED STATES

Bronze Energy Joyce Guo Surface Alignment at a Smectic-A Liquid Crystal Transition UNITED STATES

Bronze Energy Aaron Josi Improving the Efficiency of Small Scale, Continuous Feed Methane Digesters for

Implementation in Rwanda

UNITED STATES

Bronze Energy Ilia Cernev, DMITRI VORNICOV Energy Production in Deserts with Using Sand MOLDOVA

Bronze Energy Lawand Lateef, SULEYMAN ER Chlorophyll Enhanced Dye Sensitized Solar Cells UNITED STATES

Bronze Energy Martin Josifoski, Martin Filipovski From Rain to Electrical Energy - Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Concept MACEDONIA

H.M. Energy Vidal Castaneda The Future of CH3CH2OH: The Re-Engineering of E85’s Chemical Composition UNITED STATES

H.M. Energy Pantakarn Paothahan, Panadda

Wongkanjun, Teerapat Uttama

Biogas from Waste Tanks: Sustainable Energy for Community THAILAND

H.M. Energy Laylo Mukhsinova Effects of Silver Nanoparticles on Algal Growth in a Flat Panel Photobioreactor UNITED STATES

H.M. Energy Remo Diethelm Nuclear phaseout in Switzerland and its consequences SWITZERLAND

H.M. Energy Kimberly Badocdoc, Niña Lyn Cesista Wooden Batteries PHILIPPINES

H.M. Energy Philletta Payne Biodiesel production from seaweed UNITED STATES

H.M. Energy Gabriella Wiseman Alternative Energy Source for Charging Cell Phones SOUTH AFRICA

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Medal Category Contestant Project Title CountryH.M. Energy John Paolo Lazarte, Jed Reuel

Castillo, Dexter Jason Pajarillo

CHLOROCELLS: Voltaic Cells Using the Chlorophyll of Common Water Hyacinths

(Eichhornia crassipes)

PHILIPPINES

H.M. Energy Gasy Abdalla, Mariam Safey Eldin Cyanobacteria as biocatalysts for solar- driven biofuel production EGYPT

H.M. Energy Nicholas Martin An Investigative Study of Flag Geometry to Maximize Wind Energy Harvesting Using

Piezoelectric Materials

UNITED STATES

H.M. Energy BUSE KILIÇ, GÜLERYÜZ CEYDA

KÜÇÜKBAŞ

TEA FUEL 2 TURKEY

H.M. Energy Aditi Sharma The Effect of Marine Diatoms on the Electrical Energy Conversion Efficiency of Dye

Sensitized Solar Cells

UNITED STATES

H.M. Energy NIKITA MISHCHANKA, Volha Mirko Optimum air disinfection system BELARUS

H.M. Energy Sara Song Biodiesel UNITED STATES

H.M. Energy Emran Shafaq, Humza Mohammed Algae: The Future of Biofuels UNITED STATES

H.M. Energy Selman Dericioğlu, Çağrı Hasan

Aytekin

Study of usage possibilities of organic dye extracted from rosehip (Rosa canina) in

making solar cells

TURKEY

H.M. Energy Igor Mavlevich ION THRUSTER RESEARCH RUSSIA

H.M. Energy Alexandria Chovan Ethanol Production Through Microbial Fermentation of Glycerol By-Product of

Biodiesel with E. Coli Strains

UNITED STATES

H.M. Energy Ellen Roufs Electricity from Mud: Optimizing the Microbial Fuel Cell - Year II UNITED STATES

H.M. Energy Jonathan Shaw The Effect of Temperature and Light Intensity on Solar Cell Voltage Output UNITED STATES

H.M. Environment Andrea Albaladejo Effect of conversion of the sunlight into electricity of the Kyllinga Brevifolia PUERTO RICO

H.M. Energy Preston Miller A New Source UNITED STATES

H.M. Energy Nives Bogataj, Zala Gruden Dye Sensitized Solar Cell with Tiulip Dye SLOVENIA

H.M. Energy ÖNCE DOĞA ÖZTÜRK, MERVE ÖZKAN BIOCOAL RECOVERY ,FROM GRAPE PULP RESIDUE AS INDUSTRIAL WASTE TURKEY

H.M. Energy Aasiya Ahmed A Novel Design for the Integration of a Microbial Desalination Cell in a Microbial Fuel

Cell for the Production of Energy and Purification of Water

UNITED STATES

H.M. Energy Yuyeon Lee Increasing the Operational Lifespan and Energy Output of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells:

A Second Year Study

UNITED STATES

H.M. Energy Zam Eekhapong, Vongkham

SENEDOUANGDY

Fiber Optic LAOS

H.M. Energy Wahibah Hannan Maglev Wind Turbine UNITED STATES

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Medal Category Contestant Project Title CountryGrand Award

Gold

Engineering Ionut Budisteanu A low cost self driving car - Using Artificial Intelligence ROMANIA

Gold Engineering Julia Abelsky Invisibility Two Steps Closer: An Analysis of Diblock Copolymers and Gold Nanocomposites

for Metamaterials

UNITED STATES

Gold Engineering Jiayan Chen Application of Quadrotor Unmanned Helicopter in Natural Disaster Rescue CHINA

Gold Engineering Marcus Langevin Powering the World: The Design and Development of Green Energy Technology UNITED STATES

Gold Engineering Steven Krim Creating a Thermally Conductive, Flame-Retardant Polypropylene Composite through the

Incorporation of Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes, and Carbon Black

UNITED STATES

Gold Engineering Elisabeth Ashmore Breaking the Silence: A Software-Based Brain-Computer Interface For Individuals with

Severe Upper-Body Paralysis

UNITED STATES

Gold Engineering Arjun Balasingam Design and Optimization of a Novel Flexure-Enhanced Aeroelastic Energy Harvester for

Remote Environmental Sensors

UNITED STATES

Gold Engineering Jennifer Metu Mutant of E. coli VS. Wild Type E. coli in Transformation UNITED STATES

Gold Engineering Emily Macomber Cloning and Analysis of the TubZ Partitioning Mechanism from the pBtoxis Plasmid in

Bacillus thuringiensis

UNITED STATES

Gold Engineering Wilson Mujang Nyuwak, Sharifah Badriatul

Afiqah Wan Madihi

The Potential of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) In the Production of Brick – From Waste

to Wealth

MALAYSIA

Silver Engineering Vitor Sternlicht Analysis on Victim Rescue Techniques by Autonomous Arduino Robot BRAZIL

Silver Engineering Evie Sobczak Algae to Oil Via Photoautotrophic Cultivation and Osmotic Sonication UNITED STATES

Silver Engineering EunSeok Lee, Yeongin Jung, Park

Youngseon

Mussel-inspired Polymer Coating in Organic Solvents for One-step Surface Immobilization of

Water-insoluble Drugs

SOUTH KOREA

Silver Engineering Yuxing Wang Adaptive Beam String Structures: Lightweight Structures With High Stiffness And A Control

Framework

CHINA

Silver Engineering Alyssa Bryan Impact of Fetal Exposure to Plasmodium falciparum on subsequent immune response during

Childhood

UNITED STATES

Silver Engineering Advaith Anand Natural Gas Separation Using Thermally Rearranged Polymers - Characterizing

Morphological Changes of HAB-6FDA Polyimide Structures

UNITED STATES

Silver Engineering Benjamin Sorkin Design and Construction of a Boundary Layer Development Wind Tunnel UNITED STATES

Silver Engineering Baris Ermis, Turker Gurakan PRODUCTION OF LIGHT CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL FROM TEXTILE PRODUCTS AND COTTON

WASTE AND RESEARCH OF ITS INSULATION FEATURES

TURKEY

Silver Engineering Andrew Lee Design and Control of an Expressive Robotic Head for Human-Robot Interaction Research UNITED STATES

Silver Engineering Elizabeth Crumley Freestanding Bamboo Gridshell for Sustainable Relief Efforts UNITED STATES

Silver Engineering Zeinab Nadim, Nouran Abd Elhalim Regeneration of Epidermal Tissue Using Stem Cells Merged with a Polymer EGYPT

Silver Engineering Ji'an Pan Throwable Mobile Robot with Transformable Spherical Structure CHINA

Silver Engineering Krystof Skach Synthesis of porphyrin esters with bile acids CZECH REPUBLIC

Silver Engineering Ruhika Roy Copper In Trouble : Vibration & HOPG Characterization UNITED STATES

Silver Engineering Puja Bansal Three Dimensional Molecular Imprinting for the Detection of Viral Pathogens UNITED STATES

Silver Engineering Marygrace Duggar, Olivia Guidry A Greener Shade of Gray: The Effects of Fly Ash in Concrete UNITED STATES

Silver Engineering Jason Sylvestre Engineering VoltX, A Multifunctional Teleoperated Rescue Robot UNITED STATES

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Medal Category Contestant Project Title CountrySilver Engineering Shawn Jacob Chelation Behavior of Poly(ethylene-glycol) Functionalized Oxidized Carbon Black (A Novel

Approach to the Targeted Therapy of Cerebrovascular Dysfunction in Mild Traumatic Brain

Injury)

UNITED STATES

Bronze Engineering Andrew Noonan Concentrated Solar: Creating an Improved Energy System UNITED STATES

Bronze Engineering Idriss HIBAR, Siwar JEBALI THE KINE ROBOT (A solution for a perfect physical rehabilitation) TUNISIA

Bronze Engineering Hunter Park Real Time Multi-Square Detection and Tracking UNITED STATES

Bronze Engineering Harrison Lee, Xavier Tapia Application of the Piezoelectric Effect UNITED STATES

Bronze Engineering Daniel Scanteianu A Non-Holonomic Wedge Skiing robot for Sustainable Snow transport and Rescue UNITED STATES

Bronze Engineering Tareq Abu dahab Generating electricity in streets JORDAN

Bronze Engineering Csaba Szalóki Pallet dam HUNGARY

Bronze Engineering Robert Kitaoka Impact Energy Attenuation Performance of Football Headgear in Simulated Helmet to

Helmet Collisions

UNITED STATES

Bronze Engineering Galen Lee Solar Funnel Cooler: Potential Source of Refrigeration/Cooling for Undeveloped Areas UNITED STATES

Bronze Engineering Ryan Chiapoco Soil Stabilization Using Lime: The "Super Milk" UNITED STATES

Bronze Engineering Elliott Weiler The Origins of Life: Engineering a Biosphere to Study Phospholipid Self-assembly UNITED STATES

Bronze Engineering Insik Yun Research on a Metal-polymer Corporate Body-making Technique through Additives

Application and Surface Preparation

SOUTH KOREA

Bronze Engineering Audrey Luo Creation of a Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Reactor for Biomedical Applications UNITED STATES

Bronze Engineering Rahul Mohoto Agile Surveillance and Rescue Robot Made of Common Junkyard Material BANGLADESH

Bronze Engineering Calvin Leung Analysis of Vibration Dampening Methods in Thermal Links UNITED STATES

Bronze Engineering Shreya Mandal Circumferential Detection Using Piezoelectric PVDF UNITED STATES

Bronze Engineering Luca Passerini, Michele Simoncelli Static sun detector ITALY

Bronze Engineering Talha Koc, Hur Kanal Controlling Firearms Using Global Positioning System Locators and Micro-controllers UNITED STATES

Bronze Engineering Connor Lewis The Compressive Strength of Concrete Cylinders with Recycled Post Consumer Product

Aggregate Replacements

UNITED STATES

Bronze Engineering Brazos Webb Instantaneous Hot Water Heater UNITED STATES

Bronze Engineering Sijal Dudin A New Innovative Way of Using Water for Irrigation through Water of Crystallization JORDAN

Bronze Engineering Clara Altemus, Arianna Hall Application of a Rain Powered Water Wheel for Supplementing Residential Energy

Generation

UNITED STATES

Bronze Engineering SARDI HYSKA, KRISTIAN PECI TENSILE STRENGTH ANALYSIS OF SCRAP TIRE CONTRIBUTED CONCRETE ALBANIA

Bronze Engineering Emma Chandler Solar Panel Design UNITED STATES

Bronze Engineering Yi Tian DMP Multi-lens Connecting Device CHINA

Bronze Engineering Bodibileg Amarbayar, Chintugs Tseren Subconscious MONGOLIA

Bronze Engineering chung hin Leung, Chun Kit Choi Snap shot window HONG KONG

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Medal Category Contestant Project Title CountryBronze Engineering Sydney Anderson Carbon Monoxide Personal Protective Equipment to Detect Dangerous Levels of

Environmental Gas

UNITED STATES

Bronze Engineering Zeferin Turturro Modified Ice As A Green Building Material UNITED STATES

Bronze Engineering Kazbek Sultanov, Galymzhan Sabit The Effects of Coriolis Force on the Flow of Syrdarya River and the Solutions to Protect the

Aralsk Seaside against Flooding

KAZAKHSTAN

H.M. Engineering rahaf ismail, qusai hussein snelll's scale JORDAN

H.M. Engineering MARGIE MAE BIGARAN, CHRISTEL

MARGARET FACUNDO

Bioplastic from Bacterial Cell: Isolation, Screening, and Identification of PHA

(Polyhydroxyalkanoates) Producing Bacteria from Palm Oil Sludge

PHILIPPINES

H.M. Engineering Michael Gapuz Application of NXT in Mechanical Characterization of Materials Under Biaxial Loading UNITED STATES

H.M. Engineering Prashanth Ganesh Roofing Robot: An Automated Roofing Mechanism UNITED STATES

H.M. Engineering Kyeong Gyu Lee, Ji hyeon Park, HYEONHYE

KIM

A study on Engineering a Design for Manufacturing Musical Instruments Using the Patterns

in the Structure of a Cricket's Wings

SOUTH KOREA

H.M. Engineering Sasaank Bandi, Nitya Rayapati Piezo Power: The Optimization of Piezoelectric Plates UNITED STATES

H.M. Engineering VADZIM ZAKHARCHENIA, KIRYL ALIMAU Gas and liquid flows on the boundaries of surfaces. BELARUS

H.M. Engineering Sydney Young Electrically Assisted Velomobile UNITED STATES

H.M. Engineering murad memmedzade, Togrul Rzayev Design of Platform with Solar Power Electrolyzer System for Production of Hydrogen from

Marine Water

AZERBAIJAN

H.M. Engineering Suraj Shah Engineering a Cost-Effective, Portable Syringe Pressure-Based Water Filter Using a Hollow

Fiber Membrane

UNITED STATES

H.M. Engineering Ross Sparrow Netting Oil: Designing a Mobile Oil Containment System using Bubbles UNITED STATES

H.M. Engineering Sahin Dereli, Tolga Yuksel Magnetic and Liquid Mirror TURKEY

H.M. Engineering NADIRE ZEYNEP BENER, BERK OLGAC INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF BRAKING BY FORMING AN EDDY CURRENT IN ALLOY WHEEL

RIM

TURKEY

H.M. Engineering Hamza BEN NHILA THE SMART BOWL TUNISIA

H.M. Engineering Diego Espiau, Carlos Gimenez ECOTECNOSIL "Panel agglomerated of organic residues, a structural element for the

construction of housings, ecological and economically sustainable"

PARAGUAY

H.M. Engineering Yibo Feng, Di Wu Effect of different lights on the fruit body growth of Pleurotus eryngii CHINA

H.M. Engineering Chak Kai Chan, Wai Man Ng Food Preservator HONG KONG

H.M. Engineering Alexey Berestov IDE "RoboScript" RUSSIA

H.M. Engineering Vaclav Kotyza Effect of hyaluronic acid and glucose concentration on hyaluronidase activity of wound

pathogens Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus agalactiae isolated from chronic

wounds

CZECH REPUBLIC

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Medal Category CONTESTANTS TITLE CountryGrand Award

Gold

Environment Zachary Loeb Preventing the Reproductive Failure of Aquatic Life from the Global Threat of Endocrine Disrupting

Compounds through Catalytic Waste Water Treatment

UNITED STATES

Gold Environment Stephen Yao An Experimental Study of Vadose Zone Flux Meter UNITED STATES

Gold Environment Thabit Pulak Home-Based Rapid Arsenic Water Test Using Nanotechnology UNITED STATES

Gold Environment Edward Aryee Laughing Gas is No Laughing Matter: Impact of Post-Anoxic Dissolved Oxygen Concentrations on

N2O Production in the Full Nitrification Process

UNITED STATES

Gold Environment Aditi Shah, Lucas Newman Fishy Nanoparticles: The Effects of Nanoparticles on Biological Functions of Invertebrates UNITED STATES

Gold Environment ENES HYKA, MEHMET AKIF

DEMIRCAN

Reduction of radiation and reinforcement of thermal and sound insulation through battery wastes ALBANIA

Gold Environment Darby Schumacher A Filter Today Keeps Pollutants Away: A Study of Nanofiber Based Stormwater Filtration UNITED STATES

Gold Environment Rikhav Shah Fluorescent Quantum Dots as a Solid-Phase Detection Medium for Heavy-Metal Contaminates in

Drinking Water

UNITED STATES

Gold Environment Kushal Kadakia Heavy Metal Removal Using Fe3O4 Nanoparticles II UNITED STATES

Gold Environment Zheni Gusho Sustainable Enhancement of Plant Growth & Disease Reduction Using Biochar Soil Additives UNITED STATES

Gold Environment Jessica Fleischman Cloudy with a Chance of Migration? The Relationship Between Weather Variables and Avian Night

Flight Call Production During Migration

UNITED STATES

Gold Environment Rachel Hodge Year 4: The Effect of House Structure Design on Radon Gas Mitigation System Efficiency UNITED STATES

Gold Environment Kristina Thoren An Improved Novel Method for Measuring Atmospheric Haze and Its Use in Identifying Areas of

Higher Air Contamination

UNITED STATES

Gold Environment Abby Anderson Black is the New Green-Phase III: Comparing the Effects of Different Biochars on the Growth of

Glycine max Cultivars

UNITED STATES

Gold Environment RASHMIPARVATHI K COCONUT PALM PETIOLE – Its use for enriching the soil nutrients and its antimicrobial properties INDIA

Gold Environment Patrick Fahey, Michael

Kusnierek

Engineering a Biosensor Using the Bioluminescent Algae Pyrocystis fusiformis to Detect Heavy Metal

Toxicity in Water

UNITED STATES

Silver Environment Nicole Biddinger Daphnia Development: a comparative temperature and phosphorus tolerance study using

resurrection ecology of Daphnia pulex

UNITED STATES

Silver Environment Ashley Wyrick Neonicotinoids: Have We Opened an Ecological Pandora's Box? Investigating the Trophic Effects of

Thiamethoxam on Euplectrus comstockii When Parasitizing Trichoplusia ni

UNITED STATES

Silver Environment Martin Sarker MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF NITROGEN EXCESS ON WHEAT PLANTS IN THE VEGETATIVE STAGE SLOVAKIA

Silver Environment Cheuk Yin Tang Biogas HONG KONG

Silver Environment Selman Avci, Almas

Myrzatay

A novel approach to degrade harmful byproducts formed during the production of Polyethylene

Terephthalate (PET) by using Fomepizole.

UNITED STATES

Silver Environment Ben Van Maren Effects of Horseshoe Two fire on N-fixing bacteria and soil quality UNITED STATES

Silver Environment Aliyah Walker, Alejandro

arteaga

A Study of Devulcanization Technologies on Vulcanized Waste Rubber UNITED STATES

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Medal Category CONTESTANTS TITLE CountrySilver Environment Lexi Madlom Is Earth’s Best Friend Slimy & Green? (Phase II) Algae Based Carbon Dioxide Sequestration From

Simulated Flue Emissions and Nutrient Extraction From Eutrophic River Water

UNITED STATES

Silver Environment Mary Yavelak The Safest Combination of Fabric and Treatment Method for Cloth Diapers in Order to Minimize

Microbial Exposure in Household Environments

UNITED STATES

Silver Environment Wenjia (Dara) Li The Clear Solution: Combating Ocean Dead Zones With Macro Algae Scrubbers UNITED STATES

Silver Environment GREI MUSKAJ, SONI YZEIRI CONSTRUCTION OF OVER/UNDER PASSES IN HIGHLY CONGESTED AREAS AND ITS IMMENSE

ADVANTAGES IN DIFFERENT LIFE SECTORS

ALBANIA

Silver Environment Kriti Lall Mutating E. coli with the arxA gene: Creating a Novel, Practical Solution to the Global Arsenic Water

Problem

UNITED STATES

Silver Environment Manvitha Katta Antimicrobial and heavy metal sequestration capacities of graphene polymer nanocomposite films UNITED STATES

Silver Environment Ömerül faruk Ergin, Safa

Salih Gurlu

ANALYSIS OF BONE DUST EFFECT ON RADIATION SHIELDING TURKEY

Silver Environment Katelyn Boisvert Making Good Use of Environmental Waste to Remove Contaminants from Water UNITED STATES

Silver Environment ayush panara Bio-de-gradable packing material INDIA

Silver Environment Christie Jiang Chitosan-modified cellulose as adsorbent to collect and reuse nitrate from groundwater UNITED STATES

Silver Environment Angela Moynan The Photodegradation of Ibuprofen and Dissolved Organic Matter and its Effects on a Lake Superior

Microbial Isolate

UNITED STATES

Silver Environment Sam Thompson Estimating Carbon Storage and Sequestration by Urban Wetlands in Springfield, Ohio UNITED STATES

Silver Environment Terence John Vesagas Engineered Zinc Oxide Nanorods: Its Characterization and Practical Application as Wastewater

Disinfectant and Gas Sensor

PHILIPPINES

Silver Environment Changzhi Liu Isolation, Identification of Photosynthetic Bacteria and Application in Pesticide Degradation CHINA

Silver Environment Carlan Ivey Solar Energetic Particle Effects on Atmospheric Ozone Pressures UNITED STATES

Silver Environment Elena Stefova, Andrej

Simeski

An innovative and inexpensive way of upcycling plastic waste into valuable carbon nanotubes MACEDONIA

Silver Environment Pedro Viagem Junior,

Sydney Alfredo Antoni

Effective and Reusable Candidate for the Removal of Dyestuff (Methylene Blue) from Aqueous

Solutions

MOZAMBIQUE

Silver Environment Jared Taylor Wood Shavings for Hydrocarbonous Remediation on Water UNITED STATES

Silver Environment Julie Lejre CO2 selective membrane DENMARK

Silver Environment Khrystyna Ganzyuk Universal sorbent on the basis of natural mineral saponite UKRAINE

Silver Environment Raquel Ruiz, Anjali Chacko Environmental Dyesaster: A Solution for the Effects of Hair-Dye on the Environment UNITED STATES

Silver Environment Niekara Harrielall, Sria

Chetty

Fire in the HALL SOUTH AFRICA

Silver Environment İPEK TÜKER REMOVAL OF SILICATE SCALING IN GEOTHERMAL ENERGY PRODUCTION AREAS TURKEY

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Medal Category CONTESTANTS TITLE CountrySilver Environment Frann Christian Serrano,

Arianne Christian Tapao,

Euler Christian Talledo

Screening the Different Parts of Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (Kandikandilaan) as Potential

Bioaccumulators of Heavy Metals

PHILIPPINES

Silver Environment Merdan Yoldashov, Eldar

Sabirov

Research on nitrate ion absorption degree of plants in salinated soils of Dashoguz state. TURKMENISTAN

Silver Environment kushal suvarna, Nambi

rajan konar

Saga seed oil coating to preserve fruits and vegetables. INDIA

Silver Environment Wajana Thaweerat,

Nopparat Sakonsontisate

Cadmium (II) Ion Removal from Aqueous Solution by Activated Carbon Made from Water Hyacinth THAILAND

Silver Environment Hunter Rogoff A natural solution too eliminate heavy metal pollution in aquatic environments: Relationship

between Caulerpa mexicana with nitrifying bacteria and Penicillium paxilli to phytoextract copper

and zinc from the ecosystem of the Long Island Sound.

UNITED STATES

Bronze Environment Jason Beangstrom Miraculous seed used to purify water SOUTH AFRICA

Bronze Environment Hans Pande Sustainable Water Purification System Using UV Irradiation UNITED STATES

Bronze Environment Rejepmyrat Baymiradov,

Yaran Shyhberdiyev

Making more durable and tough asphalts by using waste polymers TURKMENISTAN

Bronze Environment Aram Suthadson, Atikarn

Maythawatcharakorn

Using melanin as an organic semiconductor for decolorization of Azodyse THAILAND

Bronze Environment Suchin Patel Spread No More III UNITED STATES

Bronze Environment Ye Lim Lee Positive Stimuli of Weight Stress on Plant Growth SOUTH KOREA

Bronze Environment Bruna Pinto, Greice Calloni Obtaining of cellulose acetate from rice husk BRAZIL

Bronze Environment Crysna Mendes, Raissa de

Lima

RE-ACTION, SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS BRAZIL

Bronze Environment Sarthak Aggarwal A Novel Coating Seed Treatment Using Sodium Polyacrylate For the Future of Sustainable

Agriculture

UNITED STATES

Bronze Environment Ruthanne Reiley Lighting the World one Recycled Bottle at a Time UNITED STATES

Bronze Environment Benjamin Fechter The carcinogenic properties of triclosan and its photolytic derivatives UNITED STATES

Bronze Environment Divya Sirdeshpande Rapid Production of Novel Environmentally Sustainable Material From Local Waste(Biosolids) And

Mushroom Mycelia.

UNITED STATES

Bronze Environment Aung Min Thein, Ye Min

Htet

REMOVAL OF HEAVY METALS FROM AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS BY ZEOLITES MYANMAR

Bronze Environment Yiğit YILMAZ, Ruofan CHEN Preparation of a Novel Sustainable Water Filter for Heavy Metal Removal from Water and Detailed

Analysis of Pb (II) Adsorption on Snail (Helix pomatia) Shell Adsorbents

CYPRUS

Bronze Environment Raj Warman How Does Changing the Real and Imaginary Perturbation Affect the Mandelbrot Fractal? UNITED STATES

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Medal Category CONTESTANTS TITLE CountryBronze Environment Patthapong Chaiseanwang,

Wichaya Sittiruk

The Magic of Leonardite: the Absorbent Agent to Clean Wastewater THAILAND

Bronze Environment Madison Thompson The Effects of Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contamination on the Hatching of Artemia salina UNITED STATES

Bronze Environment Feridun Öncel, Göktürk

Keleş

REMOVAL OF DIRECT RED 23 USING PREPARED POLYMER BY MOLECULAR IMPRINTING

TECHNIQOUE

TURKEY

Bronze Environment Alexandra Stensvad GMOs In The Food Chain: Roundup Ready CP4 Protein Detection in Manduca sexta tissue with ElISA

Lateral Flow Strips

UNITED STATES

Bronze Environment Sreevidya Ghantasala The Effect of Trace Quantities of Non-Steroidal, Anti-Inflammatory Drugs in Soil Samples UNITED STATES

Bronze Environment Rena Weis Impacts of Biochar on Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Soil Moisture, and Crop PAH Concentrations UNITED STATES

Bronze Environment Taylor Murdock Fingerprinting Oil Wells UNITED STATES

Bronze Environment Sandi Putrazony, Alief

Moulana

The Utilization of Egg Shell-Based Adsorbent for Dye Waste Removal from Aqueous Medium INDONESIA

Bronze Environment ALEXANDRA MATEA

MOLDOVAN, STEFAN

FLORIN NEAGA

We have obtained transgenic cyanobacteria, very effective in integrated bio-ecological control for

the mosquitoes, from which we have isolated West Nile Virus

ROMANIA

Bronze Environment Jack Lyons Beetles as Indicators of Biodiversity in Managed and Unmanaged Irish Hedgerows IRELAND

Bronze Environment NUR FATIN NABILA MOHD

NADZRI, NUR SYAFIQAH

IZZATI PADELI

LecPro Antidote MALAYSIA

Bronze Environment OMOSALEWA IBRAHIM,

OLUWASEYI ANDREW

ODUKOYA

CORN COB ASH:THE UNTAPPED GOLD MINE NIGERIA

Bronze Environment Ding Zizhen Study of Line Source Characteristics for Physical Modeling of Pollutant Dispersion in old-style

building Canyons

CHINA

Bronze Environment ZAINAB BELLO, OPEYEMI

AKINDEHIN

Save A Tree: Get Paper From Maize Straw NIGERIA

Bronze Environment Jed Matthew Paz Cascading Mixed-Media Denitrifying Bioreactor UNITED STATES

Bronze Environment Alejandra Lorenzen Vertical Farming Year III UNITED STATES

Bronze Environment Askar Aytmagambet,

Askhat Aitmagambet

The examination of the role of prime aquatic plants in hydrobotanical waste water purification KAZAKHSTAN

Bronze Environment Patti Callahan Lead Remediation UNITED STATES

Bronze Environment Barbora Hermanovska Determination of arsenic in natural water applying hydride generation atomic-absorption

spectrometry (HG-AAS)

CZECH REPUBLIC

Bronze Environment Suada Stitkovac, Nejra

Dzankovic

BIOMONITORING OF AIR POLLUTION BY USING CICHORIUM INTYBUS BOSNIA and

HERZEGOVINA

Bronze Environment Cambo Keng, Norleakvisoth

Lim

Removing Heavy Metals From Water Using Banana Peels As Bioabsorbent CAMBODIA

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Medal Category CONTESTANTS TITLE CountryBronze Environment İBRAHİM AKPINAR, HALİL

ŞİBİL

ARSENIC (As) REMOVAL FROM WATER WITH MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES TURKEY

Bronze Environment Paige Dempsey Characteristics that Contribute to Nest Success of Endangered Red-headed Woodpeckers

(Melanerpes erythrocephalus)

UNITED STATES

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application in the production of instant food having as beneficiaries Llacanora's community,

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PERU

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Schwade

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İBRAHİM BALANLI

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symptoms and internal morphology evaluation of Polygonum punctatum Elliot

BRAZIL

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Ashirbekova

Utilization and recycling of industrial wastes and their usage in manufacture of building materials

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KAZAKHSTAN

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Ilievska

Brand New Solution to Cleaning Industrial Wastewaters by Converting Food Wastes to Cost-

Effective Biosorbents for Heavy Metals Such as Cu, Cr and Pb

MACEDONIA

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Balsytė

Investigation of influence of alkaline waters as compared to normal waters on growth of plants LITHUANIA

H.M. Environment William Stewart Waves: Testing the Magnitude of Compressive Waves through Semipermeable Mediums UNITED STATES

H.M. Environment Debarshi Bhowmik Prediction of Global Climate Change using Heliospheric Satellite Imaging UNITED STATES

H.M. Environment Ching-Yun Hsu, Li Yang A Study on Kalanchoë daigremontiana’s Viviparity under Different Soil Conditions CHINA

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H.M. Environment James Janani, Frida

Cronqvist

WaterPhoria - Purification of Sea Water through Solar Energy SWEDEN

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H.M. Environment Intan Zulaikha Salehuddin,

Noratikah Saharani

Rubber Seeds As The Source Of Fish Pellet MALAYSIA

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UNITED STATES

H.M. Environment Nora Laberee Fire Ecology: Effect of smoke-water on germination of Lupinus perennis UNITED STATES

H.M. Environment VAIDYA GOVINDARAJAN Impact of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in Removing Nutrients from Artificially Polluted Water UNITED STATES

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Medal Category CONTESTANTS TITLE CountryH.M. Environment Connie Kim Surveying Anchialine Pools at Kalaeloa National Wildlife Refuge to Restore the Population of the

Hawaiian Orange-Black Damselfly (Megalagrion Xanthomelas)

UNITED STATES

H.M. Environment Shazma Khan Does the Addition of an Oxidizer Heighten the Amount of Heat Energy Produced In Ethanol

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UNITED STATES

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H.M. Environment Devon Enke Mycoremediation - A Solution to Runoff Pollution? UNITED STATES

H.M. Environment Joshua Iglesia, Ahmet

Murat Acar

Yeast as a bio-sorbent for heavy metals in industrial waste waters UNITED STATES

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UNITED STATES

H.M. Environment Behar Hyseni, Lorik Berisha Removal of Heavy Metals From Water Using Extreme Power of Zeolite KOSOVO

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H.M. Environment MARA ISABELLE MARIANO Effects of Flavonoids from Allium cepa (Red Onion) in Reducing Hazardous Metal Waste (Lead and

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PHILIPPINES

H.M. Environment Ionescu Andrei Theodor,

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A Full Exploitation of Nature's Medicine - Apple ROMANIA

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UNITED STATES

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CHINA

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H.M. Environment Crystal Moynan, Christine

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What effect does gender and a tone that mimics the frequency of a male Round Goby (Neogobius

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UNITED STATES

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H.M. Environment Iran Alpizar, Jonathan

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COMPREHENSIVE PROJECT REGARDING THE USE OF WASTE MATERIAL (RESIDUE) IN BENEFIT OF

THE COMMUNITIES

MEXICO

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Medal Category CONTESTANTS TITLE CountryH.M. Environment Muhammad Bilal BHUTTO DECREASING LEAD CONTENT AGAINST AIR POLLUTION BY USAGE OF LOLIUM sp. and PASPALUM sp. PAKISTAN

H.M. Environment AIPERI BAKZAILU, JİBEK

SADYKOVA

REMOVING HEAVY METALS FROM WATER BY THE ECOLOGICAL WAYS - THE NEW WATER

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KYRGYZSTAN

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Making Fiberboard from cotton stems by using natural organic glue obtained from Ononis spinosa TURKMENISTAN

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