(Princeton, NJ—March 21, 2015) High Tech science
students attended the annual Young
Science Achievers Science & Math Day, held in the Friend Center at Princeton University, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal
of High Tech High School.
In collaboration with the MIRTHE Engineering Research Center at Princeton,
the Young Science Achievers attended a day of workshops and lab demonstrations. Students listened to workshops on how to
prepare for college admissions, toured labs, and spent one hour attempting to
invent and present their inventions. On
this last note, students assembled into groups of four for the express purpose
of inventing something in less than an hour.
Also, the groups had to offer an illustration of the invention, its
name, the problem that it would solve, and the production cost (as a rule, it
had to cost less than $500) all in a minute.
High Tech, in the end, placed three winning groups in the competition,
receiving a $25 gift card for their troubles.
Please
note the High Tech classes and corresponding winning projects for the Young
Science Achievers (YSAP) 2014-2015 program year:
Dr. Arun Srivastava
(“Energy Crash Course”; “Sterilizing Surgical Equipment Using the Polyphenol,
Catechin”; “Let It Grow”; “Bioengineering for Tomorrow: 3D Scaffold Printing to
Sustain Cell Culture”; “Comparing the Plaque Formation in an Escherichia coli
Virus with T4 Bacteriophae and Syzgium Aromaticum”; “Clean water vs.
Polluted/Dirty Water in Fish Habitat; Pollution and Plants”; “Effects of
Various Concentrations of Sulfur Dioxide”; “Effects of Genetically Modified Corn
on the Motor Skills and Behaviors of Mice; Bio-remediation”; “The Effects of
Oil-Eating Bacteria Under Various Environmental Conditions”) and Dr.
Nina Lavlinskaia (“Milk or Kale Leaver: Which has More Calcium?”; “How Does
F Plasnid PsiB Effect Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics?”; “Effects of
Microwave Radiation on Microorganisms”; “Does a Plant Benefit More from
Nitrogen Fertilizer or Nitrogen Fixing Bacterial in a Limited Sunlight
Environment?”; “The Effect of Various Concentrations of Plant Extracts around
TiO2 on the Efficiency of Dye-Sensitive Cell Structure”; “Fighting Fungus with
Vitamins”; “How Does Microwave Radiation Affect Different Organisms?”; “The
Effect of Organic Wastes on the Output of Clean Energy in Microbial Fuel
Cells”; “Effects of Acne Medications on P. Acnes”; “How Does the
5-Second Rule Affect Bacterial Contamination of Different Snacks?”; “The
Effect of Mild Stress on Teenage Boys vs. Girls”; “Will
Almond Milk Substitute Cow’s milk?”; “Effects of Allicin on Probiotic and
Harmful Bacteria”; “The Efficiency of Water Purification Methods Usable by
Third-World Countries”; “Cleaning Up Oil Spills”: “Which of Five Sorbents Is
Most Effective?”; “Acid Rain and Liming Material’s Affect on Plant Survival”; “Dissolving
Kidney Stones”; “Soil Safe for
Residents?”; “The Effect of Hydraulic
Fracturing on the Environment”; “Stimulus-triggered Fate Conversion of Somatic Cells
into Pluripotency Due to Membrane Perforation by Streptolysin O”; “The Most
Suitable Environment for Crude Oil Degradation”; “The Effect of CO2 and
Temperature Change on Pollen Count”; and “Can Algae Help Produce an Egg with a
Lower Level of Cholesterol?”)
