I believe everyone knows that U.S. high school students have a lot more choices in memorizing activities than students from other places, and they have a natural advantage. So how to maximize this advantage ? Are there any exclusive STEM competitions that U.S. high school students can participate in? That's JSHS !
Not long ago, the new season of the Junior Science and Humanities Symposia (JSHS) , sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and open to high school students across the United States, concluded successfully in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with 245 outstanding high school students from across the United States. Attended the award ceremony!

JSHS Event Details

JSHS is sponsored by the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force. It is open to middle school students in grades 9-12 across the United States and encourages them to carry out original research and experiments. Every year, nearly 20,000 high school students participate in competition selections in various states and regions to compete for tickets to the national finals.

JSHS is divided into 8 major disciplines . The national competition review committee will start from two perspectives: exhibition boards and speeches , and select the first, second and third prizes in each discipline . The bonuses are also very generous!
Let’s take a look at this year’s list of winners

2024 JSHS National Winners

JSHS exhibition board winners list

environmental science

• first prize
  Student: Aditya Sengupta
  School: Washington, The Overlake School
  Project: Leveraging Convolutional Neural Networks for Plant Anomaly Detection and Classification for Farmers with Large Language Models for Natural Language Interaction
• second prize
  Student: Neel Ahuja
  School: New Jersey Northern, Millburn High School
  Project : Reducing Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Water Contamination With Mycorrhizal Hydroponics Plants
• third prize
  Student: Prisha Bhat
  School: Texas, Plano East Senior High School
  Project: Aqua-Arsenic Remediation

Biomedical Science

• first prize
  Student: Saathvik Kannan
  School: Missouri, David H. Hickman High School
  Project: Revolutionizing Cancer Drug Discovery with DrugGen: Identifying a Novel Drug for DNA polymerase θ
• second prize
  Student: Amara Martin
  School: Hawaii & Pacific, Kamehameha Schools Kapālama
  Project: Using Aspirin to Mitigate Renal Toxicity of Lithium for Bipolar Disorder Using HEK293 Cells
• third prize
  Student: Yifan Ding
  School: New England Southern, Boston Latin School
  Project: Engineering a Termination Readthrough-Based Gene Switch Enables Controllable CRISPR Gene Editing

life and behavioral sciences

• first prize
  student: Faith You
  School: Intermountain, Hellgate High School
  Project: microRNAs in Action: Regulation of Feeding Behavior
• second prize
  Student: Ashu Anand
  School: Alabama, Alabama School of Fine Arts
  Project: The Effects of Electrical Stimulation on Planaria Tissue Regeneration
• third prize
  Student: Camille Coffey
  School: Maryland, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
  Project: Exploring Lipoprotein De-fish-encies As A Result of Genetic Mutations

Medicine and Health

• first prize
  Student: Joseph Yu
  School: New England Southern, Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science
  Project: Using Immune Footprints in a Novel Deep Learning Model to Detect Human Diseases
• second prize
  Student: Jingjing Liang
  School: California Northern, The Harker School
  Project: SEL Fusion System: Multisource Digital Biometrics and Stimuli for Early ASD Screening
• third prize
  Student: Edmund Tsou
  School: New York – Upstate, Briarcliff High School
  Project: Language Models as Catalysts in EEG-Based BCI Speller Systems: A Low-Cost Solution for Paralyzed Patients

Engineering and Technology

• first prize
  Student: Shrihan Ganesh Babu
  School: South Carolina, Spring Valley High School
  Project: Reducing Tracheal Complications in Endotracheal Intubation Patients Using Automated Cuff Pressure Modulation
• second prize
  Student: Luc Nguyen
  School: Georgia, Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
  Project: Low-Cost, Adjustable, Pediatric Prosthetic Leg
• third prize
  Student: Shloka Shriram
  School: New Jersey Southern, Princeton High School
  Project: Novel Quantum Materials for Low Power Electronics

Mathematics and Computer Science

• first prize
  Student: Om Shah
  School: Washington, Lakeside School
  Project: Serum Bilirubin Prediction for Neonates using Segmentation-Guided Neural Networks
• second prize
  Student: Antonia Kolb
  School: Connecticut, King School
  Project: DETICKT IT: A Machine Learning-Based Application for Real-Time Tick Identification and Spatiotemporal Disease Risk Assessment
• third prize
  Student: Yunjia Quan
  School: North Carolina, Charlotte Country Day School
  Project: Enhancing Ethereum's Security with LUMEN, Novel Zero-Knowledge Algorithms Generating Transparent and Efficient SNARKs Based on Hidden Order Groups

physical science

• first prize
  Student: Emily Alemán
  School: Puerto Rico, CROEC
  Project: Discovery of New Extragalactic Planet Candidates: A Novel End-to-end Machine Learning Pipeline for Efficient Transit Detection in the X-ray Spectrum
• second prize
  Student: Cayden Shen
  School: New York – Long Island, Roslyn High School
  Project: Using an Inexpensive Night Vision Camera as a Detector in NIR Spectroscopy
• third prize
  Student: Lauren Shen
  School: West Virginia, Morgantown High School
  Project: Two-Step X-Ray Transit Identification: Bayesian Block Simplification and Sequential Machine Learning Techniques

Chemical

• first prize
  Student: Calvin Mathew
  School: Florida, American Heritage Broward
  Project: 3D Printing Personalized Knee Implants: Novel Computational Geometric Models for Stem Cell Regeneration in Meniscus Tears
• second prize
  Student: Aarush Tutiki
  School: Southwest, Albuquerque Academy
  Project: A Two-Pronged Method for the Identification of Highly Biocompatible Nanomaterials
• third prize
  Student: Yiwen Wang
  School: Alabama, Northridge High School
  Project: Producing Sustainable, Cost-Effective Aluminum-Sulfur Batteries Through a Triple-Function Cathode Design and Anion Charge Carriers

JSHS Speech Winners List

environmental science

• first prize
  Student: Lydia Evans
  School: New York – Metro, The Packer Collegiate Institute
• second prize
  Student: Anika Hooda
  School: North Central, Brookings High School
• third prize
  Student: Maya Abdelaal
  School: New Jersey Southern, Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science (MATES)

Biomedical Science

• first prize
  Student: Lucy Teng
  School: Kentucky, duPont Manual High School
• second prize
  Student: Katherine Chen
  School: New York – Upstate, Hackley School
• third prize
  Student: Collin Chan
  School: Tennessee, University School of Nashville

life and behavioral sciences

• first prize
  Student: Reyhan Haider
  School: Virtual, Freedom High School
• second prize
  Student: Arisha Sultana
  School: Louisiana, Caddo Parish Magnet High School
• third prize
  Student:Quinn Hughes
  School: North Central, Minnetonka High School

Medicine and Health

• first prize
  Student: Siddhartha Milkuri
  School: Arkansas, Bentonville High School
• second prize
  Student: James Xiao
  School: North Allegheny Intermediate High School, Pennsylvania
• third prize
  Student: Divya Ariyur
  School: Indiana, Carmel High School

Engineering and Technology

• first prize
  Student: Samhita Pokkunuri
  School: New Jersey Northern, Old Bridge High School
• second prize
  Student: Karthik Muthukkumar
  School: Maryland, Urbana High School
• third prize
  Student: Max Kopp
  School: Philadelphia and Delaware, Germantown Academy

Mathematics and Computer Science

• first prize
  Student: Ryan Cho, Illinois
  school: Illinois, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
• second prize
  Student: Tessla Chan
  School: New York – Long Island, Roslyn High School
• third prize
  Student: Sydney Bostic
  School: Sydney Bostic, West Virginia, Spring Mills High School

physical science

• first prize
  Student: Aditi Muduganti
  School: Wisconsin/Upper Peninsula Michigan, Onalaska High School
• second prize
  Student: Padmalakshmi Ramesh
  School: Wyoming and Colorado, Laramie High School
• third prize
  Student: Jerry Wang
  School: Pennsylvania, Parkland High School
  Virginia, Mills E. Godwin High School

Chemical

• first prize
  Student: Alexander Zhang
  School: Wyoming and Colorado, Fairview High School
• second prize
  Student: Mairin Castellano
  School: Wisconsin/Upper Peninsula Michigan, University School of Milwaukee
• third prize
  Student: Avani Kaur
  School: Mills E. Godwin High School, Virginia

The above list of winners comes from：https://jshs.org/2024/05/14/2024-national-jshs-winners/

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