The American Chemical Society awarded the following Special Awards at the 2011 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair this last week in Los Angeles, CA:
First Award of $4,000
Analysis and Characterization of the Bioactive Antimicrobial NaturalProducts from Marine Sponges
Bernadette Ann Hritzo, 18, Villa Joseph Marie High School, Holland,Pennsylvania
Second Award of $3,000
Computational Analysis of Specific Missense Mutations in the SMN TudorDomain
Dianna Hu, 18, Half Hollow Hills High School West, Dix Hills, New York
Third Award of $2,000
Synthesis and Manipulation of Silver and Gold Nano-Mirrors
Michael Leonard Janner, 15, Redlands East Valley High School, Redlands,California
Forth Award of $1,000.00
Kinetic Analysis of Nanometallic Catalyst in Reduction of Nitrophenol:Investigation of a New
Class of "Super Catalyst"
Quoc-Bao Duy Nguyen, 16, Westwood High School and McNeil High School, Austin,Texas
Mai-Anh N. Vu, 15, Westwood High School and McNeil High School, Austin,Texas
Certificates of Honorable Mention:
Detection and Analysis of Point Mutations of the Oxidative Variety inthe K-ras Gene
Charles Preston Blakemore, 18, Academy for Math, Engineering andScience, Salt Lake City, Utah
Lighting Insulin with Gold Nanodots
Yun-Chen Chien, 17, Taipei First Girls' High School, Taipei, TaipeiCity, Taiwan (R.O.C), Chinese
Taipei
Polyfunctionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes as Novel Scaffoldsfor Multimodal Tumor-Targeted Therapy and Biological Imaging
Neil Pathak, 18, Herricks Senior High School, New Hyde Park, New York
From Dusk to Dawn: Contact Lenses in the Night Tear Proteome
Jack Huang, 17, Parkland High School, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Carbon Nanotube Synthesis and Characterization
Neerja Aggarwal, 17, L.V. Hightower High School, Missouri City, Texas
Characterization of Tyrphostin AG879 as a Novel Selective Modulator ofAmyloid Precursor Protein Gamma-Secretase: Towards Safe Neuroprotective Therapyfor Alzheimer's Disease
Shaunak Krishan Bakshi, 17, Manhasset High School, Manhasset, New York
All award winners and honorable mentions receive a subscription toChemMatters.