2023 PRSEF Winners
Junior Division Category Awards |
Behavioral & Consumer Science (JBC) |
First Place |
| Rishabh Krishnamurthy – Dorseyville Middle School Modeling the Detection of Pathogens in Sewage Sheds |
Second Place |
| Kimiko Smuckler – Community Day School Observing Fish and Their Response to Music |
Third Place |
| Corey Shipe – Elizabeth Forward Middle School Which Brand of Microwave Popcorn Pops the Most Kernels |
Biological Sciences (JBI) |
First Place |
| Vivianna Dowdy – Ave Maria Academy – Mt. Lebanon Soda You Think Your Teeth are Clean |
Second Place |
| Caroline Howell – Ave Maria Academy – Bethel Park Recycle Refresh (Watering Mint with Recycled Water |
Third Place |
| Katherine Pisani – Ave Maria Academy – Mt. Lebanon Plants that Grow Together stay Together |
Chemistry (JCH) |
First Place |
| Joyce Cheplic – Queen of Angels Catholic School Which Cheese is the Strechiest |
Second Place |
| Prudence Karr – Queen of Angels Catholic School Crystal Breakdown |
Third Place |
| Ella Vedro – Our Lady of Fatima School The Science Behind The Fizz |
Physical Sciences & Engineering (JPE) |
First Place |
| Judah Arnold – Community Day School Testing the Failure Weight of Lego Bridges |
Second Place |
| Abrar Alkamel – South Fayette Township Middle School Do different liquids affect how fast they reach thermal equilibrium |
Third Place |
| Evan Wood – Mount Lebanon Montessori School Aw snap! My bricks snapped |
Intermediate Division Category Awards |
Behavioral & Social Science (MBS) |
First Place |
| Nava Kass – Community Day School Do Men and Women Perceive Things Differently |
Second Place |
| Ulrich Johnsen – Pine-Richland Middle School Sound Psychology |
Third Place |
| Ayana Singh – Marshall Middle School Social Media’s impact on social behavior |
Biology (MBI) |
First Place |
| Lucia Doebler – Campus School of Carlow University How does fertilizer affect algae growth |
Second Place |
| Mary Monaghan – Ave Maria Academy – Mt. Lebanon Effects of sports drinks on daphnia |
Third Place |
| Giovanna Julian – Blessed Francis Seelos Academy Effectiveness of Cleaning Products |
Chemistry (MCH) |
First Place |
| Louisa Palumbo – Mary Queen of Apostles School On the Flip Side |
Second Place |
| Albert Pimenov – Ryan Gloyer Middle School School Flexible Aluminium-Air Batteries |
Third Place |
| Cooper Weagley – Elizabeth Forward Middle School Sticky Liquids |
Computer Science / Math (MCM) |
First Place |
| Vijay Nagarajan – Marshall Middle School Concierge |
Second Place |
| Kavin Puri – Marshall Middle School Novel way to detect certain medical issues using facial recognition techniques and AI machine learning |
Third Place |
| Felicity Aldous – Pittsburgh Colfax K-8 A Novel Approach to Predicting Flu Seasons” |
Consumer Science (MCS) |
First Place |
| Annabella Gibbons – Gibbons Homeschool Keeping Your Body Warm: An Insulation Investigation |
Second Place |
| Landon Nelson – Hopewell Junior High School Why do apples turn brown, and what prevents that the best? |
Third Place |
| Eva Palladino – Providence Heights Alpha School The Effects of Candle Burning on Indoor Air Quality |
Engineering / Robotics (MER) |
First Place |
| Jordan Block – Community Day School Removing Metal Contacts from Solars Cells to Improve Efficiency |
Second Place |
| Ronald Bushnell – Hopewell Junior High School Shower Flow Rate Display Device |
Third Place |
| Param Thawani – Dorseyville Middle School Building and Evaluating Limb Movement Tracking System |
Earth & Environment (MEE) |
First Place |
| Logan Polito – Mary Queen of Apostles School Does Magnetism Affect Hatchability? |
Second Place |
| Zain Ahmad – Hussain Homeschool Model to optimize energy consumption in a household to charge Electric Vehicle |
Third Place |
| Grace Misra – Saint John Paul II Homeschool CO-OP Effects of different Geological Substrates on Groundwater |
Medicine / Health / Microbiology (MMH) |
First Place |
| Daniella Babichenko – Community Day School The Effect of pH on Algae and its Cell Structure” |
Second Place |
| Vanessa Ibrahim – Mary Queen of Apostles School If You Can’t Beat Them, Should You Join Them? |
Third Place |
| Ishani Aluguvelli and Anika Reddy – Ingomar Middle School Efficiency of the 3 Stages of the Grey Water Management Cycle |
Physics & Astronomy (MPA) |
First Place |
| Sonaya Arora – Pine-Richland Middle School Does Viscosity of Fluids have an Effect on the Efficiency of a Hydraulic Lift? |
Second Place |
| Ethan Vaiz – Marshall Middle School Sound amplification and varying parabolic sizes |
Third Place |
| Zion Merrell – Pittsburgh Colfax K-8 Measuring Skyglow |
Senior Division Category Awards |
Behavioral & Social Science (SBS) |
First Place |
| Neeta Yechoor – Shady Side Academy Senior School The Effect of Age on Implicit Bias |
Second Place |
| Quincy Peterson – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Analyzing Northwestern PA Community Townhall Data for Improvement of Community Outreach for People Living with HIV in Pennsylvania |
Third Place |
| Alexander Donihi – Central Catholic High School Effect of Virtual Reality Gaming on Mental Concentration |
Biology (SBI) |
First Place |
| David Thomas – North Catholic High School Improving Cockroach Memory |
Second Place |
| Lilah Sahud – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Frogs and pH-ungi: The Relationship between Aquatic Acidity and Pathogen Growth |
Third Place |
| Michael Gao – North Hills Senior High School A Novel Autophagy Regulatory Protein ATG12-187 and Chloroquine Treatment Synergistically Induce Apoptotic Cancer Cell Death |
Chemistry (SCH) |
First Place |
| August Zentner – Mt Lebanon Senior High School Optimizing the Fuel to Oxidizer Ratio in Model Rocket Engines |
Second Place |
| Aidan Hall – Mt Lebanon Senior High School Energy Storage Utilizing Electrolysis |
Third Place |
| Grace Wang – Franklin Regional High School Photopolymerized Superabsorbent Polymers Prepared from Bio-resources |
Computer Science / Math (SCM) |
First Place |
| Arvind Seshan – Fox Chapel Area High School An Iterative Neural Network Based Approach to Automated IFT-20 Sensory Neuron Identification in Caenorhabditis elegans |
Second Place |
| Lucas Pu – North Allegheny High School Predicting lung, heart, and thoracic cavity volumes from subject demographics using machine learning to improve lung transplant |
Third Place |
| Landon Colaresi – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Finding JavaScript Vulnerabilities with Concolic Execution on Quivers |
Engineering / Robotics (SER) |
First Place |
| Nina Cranor – Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy An empirical evaluation of textiles for reusable menstrual pads |
Second Place |
| Thomas Aldous – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School A Novel Computer Vision Based Device for On-site Detection of Microplastics in Water |
Third Place |
| Varun Bhat – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Analyzing the Use of a Mouth-Operated Controller to Move Kinova Jaco Robotic Arm |
Earth & Environment (SEE) |
First Place |
| John O’Toole – North Catholic High School Preen Part VII: Trifluralin Migration through the Soil Matrix |
Second Place |
| Anya Jain – Shady Side Academy Senior School Effects on Plant Health with the Use of Precipitated Silica and Clay Rich Soil |
Third Place |
| Kathryn Huth – St Joseph High School The Effects of Light Pollution on Phaseolus vulgaris |
Medicine / Health / Microbiology (SMH) |
First Place |
| Daniel Levin – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Controlling Vancomycin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus with Electroactive Bacterial Cellulose-Carbon Nanotube Composites |
Second Place |
| Maria Kuhns – St Joseph High School Red light therapy and tissue regeneration |
Third Place |
| James Xiao – North Allegheny High School Decoding the Mechanisms of Gut Bacterial Metabolites for Colorectal Cancer Treatment |
Physics & Astronomy (SPA) |
First Place |
| Rohit Velankar – Fox Chapel Area High School Glugging Patterns of Flexible vs Rigid Containers |
Second Place |
| James Terrell – Sewickley Academy Application of Luminosity Modulus in Exoplanet Transits” |
Third Place |
| Pradyun Solai – North Allegheny High School Computational Modeling of Magnetic Moments |
International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) Finalists |
| Grace Wang – Franklin Regional Middle School/Franklin Regional High School Photopolymerized Superabsorbent Polymers Prepared from Bio-resources |
| James Terrell – Sewickley Academy Application of Luminosity Modulus in Exoplanet Transits |
| Daniel Levin – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Controlling Vancomycin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus with Electroactive Bacterial Cellulose-Carbon Nanotube Composites |
| Landon Colaresi – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Finding JavaScript Vulnerabilities with Concolic Execution on Quivers |
| Arvind Seshan – Fox Chapel Area High School An Iterative Neural Network Based Approach to Automated IFT-20 Sensory Neuron Identification in Caenorhabditis elegans |
| Nina Cranor – Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy An empirical evaluation of textiles for reusable menstrual pads |
Sponsor Awards |
Cook MyoSite |
| Josh Neiss – Community Day School Testing the 5 Second Rule |
| Giovanna Julian – Blessed Francis Seelos Academy Effectiveness of Cleaning Products |
| Lucas Hertzel – Bethel Park High School Effects of Food Additives on Probiotic Bacteria |
American Industrial Hygiene Association |
| Daniel Levin – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Controlling Vancomycin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus with Electroactive Bacterial Cellulose-Carbon Nanotube Composites |
American Society of Civil Engineers, Pittsburgh Section |
| Emma Grim – Indiana Area Senior High School Abandoned Mine Drainage Water Bioindicators |
Allegheny County Health Department |
| Evangelina Passero – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Influence of particle matter on athletic performance |
| Quincy Peterson – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Analyzing Northwestern PA Community Townhall Data for Improvement of Community Outreach for People Living with HIV in Pennsylvania |
| Maya Zimmerman – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Longitudinal Statistics and the Pittsburgh Girls Study |
Allegheny County Medical Society Foundation |
| Vanessa Ibrahim – Mary Queen of Apostles School If You Can’t Beat Them, Should You Join Them? |
American Chemical Society – Pittsburgh Chapter |
| Grace Wang – Franklin Regional High School Photopolymerized Superabsorbent Polymers Prepared from Bio-resources |
Clinical Research Strategies |
| Lucy Pu – North Allegheny High School Predicting Postoperative Lung Cancer Recurrence Survival using Cox Proportional Hazards Regression and Machine Learning |
Thermo Fisher Scientific |
| Rishabh Krishnamurt – Dorseyville Middle School Modeling the Detection of Pathogens in Sewage Sheds |
| Caroline Howell – Ave Maria Academy – Bethel Park Recycle Refresh (Watering Mint with Recycled Water) |
| Kavin Puri – Marshall Middle School Novel way to detect certain medical issues using facial recognition techniques and AI machine learning |
| Clare Feeley – Saint Ambrose Academy Bacteria In The Home |
| Elijah Magness – Freeport Area Middle School Why We Should Have Vertical Wind Turbines for Pittsburgh’s Roads |
| Cecilia Passero – Campus School of Carlow University What is the best material for filtering water? |
HATCH |
| Christian Jablunovsky – Indiana Area Senior High School Ecological Comparison of Two Lick and Crooked Creek |
ATI Metals |
| Alex Claditis – Freeport Area Middle School Hammer time! Work Hardening of Metals |
Society for Women Engineers |
| Divya Thirumala – Dorseyville Middle School Sustainable Soundproof Materials |
| Nina Cranor – Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy An empirical evaluation of textiles for reusable menstrual pads |
Vesuvius USA |
| Alex Claditis – Freeport Area Middle School Hammer time! Work Hardening of Metals |
Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP) & Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh (SSP) |
| Rishabh Krishnamurt – Dorseyville Middle School Modeling the Detection of Pathogens in Sewage Sheds |
| Faith Simon – Ave Maria Academy – Bethel Park Acid Rain, Such a Pain! |
| Grace Wang – Franklin Regional High School Photopolymerized Superabsorbent Polymers Prepared from Bio-resources |
| Prudence Karr – Queen of Angels Catholic School Crystal Breakdown |
| Zion Merrell – Pittsburgh Colfax K-8 Measuring Skyglow in Pittsburgh |
| Shivani Umesh – Seneca Valley High School Finding the Limit of Detection of a qPCR using eDNA |
Pittsburgh Geological Society |
| Rylan Greene – Blessed Francis Seelos Academy How Does Ocean Acidification Affect Marine Life? |
| Michael Shaefer – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Reconstructing Paleoclimate Conditions of Lago Frio in Northern Patagonia |
Naval Nuclear Laboratory (AKA Fluor Marine Propulsion) |
| Rishabh Krishnamurt – Dorseyville Middle School Modeling the Detection of Pathogens in Sewage Sheds |
| Vijay Nagarajan – Marshall Middle School Concierge |
| Thomas Aldous – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School A Novel Computer Vision Based Device for On-site Detection of Microplastics in Water |
Institute of Electical and Electronics Engineers |
| Varun Bhat – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Analyzing the Use of a Mouth-Operated Controller to Move Kinova Jaco Robotic Arm |
Princeton Alumni Association of Western Pennsylvania |
| Erin Price – Oakland Catholic High School Sound Transmission Fluctuations Through Ferrofluid and Generated Magnetic Fields |
| Belinda Lin – Indiana Area Senior High School Flywheel Energy Storage System (FESS) |
Well Done Foundation |
| John O’Toole – North Catholic High School Preen Part VII: Trifluralin Migration through the Soil Matrix |
Chemical Association of Pittsburgh, Chemistry Award in Honor of Mary Bates |
| Grace Wang – Franklin Regional High School Photopolymerized Superabsorbent Polymers Prepared from Bio-resources |
Affiliated Sponsor Awards |
American Psychological Association |
| Quincy Peterson – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Analyzing Northwestern PA Community Townhall Data for Improvement of Community Outreach for People Living with HIV in Pennsylvania |
Association for Women Geoscientists |
| Jayona Leicher – City Charter High School Soil Quality as An indicator for Environmental Racism |
Broadcom Coding with Commitment |
| Shivum Telang – Marshall Middle School Fall Sensor Detection |
Lemelson Early Inventor Prize |
| Param Thawani – Dorseyville Middle School Building and Evaluating Limb Movement Tracking System |
NASA Earth System Science Award |
| Megumi Kawabe – North Allegheny High School Impact of Environmental Change on Daphnia |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| Michael Shaefer – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Reconstructing Paleoclimate Conditions of Lago Frio in Northern Patagonia |
National Geographic, That’s Geography! Award |
| Malcolm Kurtz – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School What is the Fundamental Niche of Breeding Blue-Headed Vireos in the Eastern U.S.? |
Office of Naval Research – U.S. Navy/U.S. Marine Corps |
| Lucia Doebler – Campus School of Carlow University How does fertilizer affect algae growth? |
| Thomas Aldous – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School A Novel Computer Vision Based Device for On-site Detection of Microplastics in Water |
| Gabriel Kenning – Indiana Area Senior High School Project O.P.E.G.S. |
| Alexander Kim – Seneca Valley High School Leveraging Dense Neural Networks for Improved Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Sampling |
| Jack Lehman – Indiana Area Senior High School The Impact of Thermochromic Pigment on Roof Temperature |
| Lamar Abushaban – Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy Running For Charge: Electricity Collected From Motion! |
| James McManus – North Allegheny High School Germinating wild and cultivated tomatoes in salt water. |
| Edmond Lin – Indiana Area Senior High School Hybrid Wind Powered Street Light |
| Christian Jablunovsky – Indiana Area Senior High School Ecological Comparison of Two Lick and Crooked Creek |
| Michael Shaefer – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Reconstructing Paleoclimate Conditions of Lago Frio in Northern Patagonia |
Regeneron Biomedical Science Award |
| Yara Almoussa – Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy Dragon’s Blood and Wound Healing |
Ricoh USA, Inc. Sustainable Development Award (RSDA) |
| Ishani Aluguvelli – Ingomar Middle School Efficiency of the 3 Stages of the Grey Water Management Cycle |
Society for In Vitro Biology |
| Alexander Wang – Sewickley Academy Inducing Neurogenesis in Dental Pulp Stem Cells Via a Dynamic Magnetic Field |
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) |
| Felicity Aldous – Pittsburgh Colfax K-8 A Novel Approach to Predicting Flu Seasons |
U.S. Metric Association |
| Sonaya Arora – Pine-Richland Middle School Does Viscosity of Fluids have an Effect on the Efficiency of a Hydraulic Lift? |
U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize |
| Thomas Aldous – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School A Novel Computer Vision Based Device for On-site Detection of Microplastics in Water |
| John O’Toole – North Catholic High School Preen Part VII: Trifluralin Migration through the Soil Matrix |
| Bailey Linza – St Joseph High School The effects of microplastics on Daphnia magna |
United States Air Force |
| Varun Bhat – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Analyzing the Use of a Mouth-Operated Controller to Move Kinova Jaco Robotic Arm |
| Andrew Zeng – Shady Side Academy Senior School Demonstration of the Hydrogen Energy Cycle Using a PEM Fuel Cell. |
| Edmond Lin – Indiana Area Senior High School Hybrid Wind Powered Street Light |
| Gautam Ramkumar – North Allegheny High School Determining Orbital Parameters of Near-Earth Object 2016WG |
| Jack Lehman – Indiana Area Senior High School The Impact of Thermochromic Pigment on Roof Temperature |
| Rachel Cassley – Norwin High School Can gunshot residue lead to wrongful convictions? |
| Lamar Abushaban – Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy Running For Charge: Electricity Collected From Motion! |
| Brooklynn Savage – Southern Garrett High School Social Media and the Affects of Mental Health |
Yale Science and Engineering Association |
| Sophia Sandholm – Shady Side Academy Senior School Creating a Machine Learning Model of Orca Language |
Scholarship Awards |
Indiana University of Pennsylvania |
| Yara Almoussa – Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy Dragon’s Blood and Wound Healing |
| Jinyi Guo – Shady Side Academy Senior School Using HepG2 cell in vitro model to investigate non-invasive ultra-sensitive diagnosis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) |
| Vipin Bhat – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Diagnosis of Neurological Diseases using Classification Methods |
| Avery Edmond – Indiana Area Senior High School Supplemental Feeders for Migratory Birds |
University of Pittsburgh at Bradford |
| Alexa Wheeler – Indiana Area Senior High School Bolded Font Effect on Reading Speed and Comprehension |
| Kevin Liu – Indiana Area Senior High School Drinking Water Quality |
| Anya Jain – Shady Side Academy Senior School Effects on Plant Health with the Use of Precipitated Silica and Clay Rich Soil |
| Malcolm Kurtz – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School What is the Fundamental Niche of Breeding Blue-Headed Vireos in the Eastern U.S.? |
| Shivani Umesh – Seneca Valley High School Finding the Limit of Detection of a qPCR using eDNA |
| Bailey Linza – St Joseph High School The effects of microplastics on Daphnia magna |
Carlow University |
| Isabella Yuha – Indiana Area Senior High School Endocrine Disruption from Menstrual Products |
| Patrick Kerrigan – Norwin High School Testing Fingerprint Composition Over Time |
| Veroncia Koval – Shady Side Academy Senior School The Effects of Metal Catalysts on Water Electrolysis |
Slippery Rock University |
| Erin Price – Oakland Catholic High School Sound Transmission Fluctuations Through Ferrofluid and Generated Magnetic Fields |
| Taylor Frankel – Hampton High School Impact of the Three Rivers in Pittsburgh on Human DNA Degradation Over Time |
| Jadyn Ball – Indiana Area Senior High School Turning Plants into Biofuel |
| Nina Cranor – Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy An empirical evaluation of textiles for reusable menstrual pads |
| Daniel Komlosi – Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy Novel GFP tested in saccharomyces cerevisiae. |
| Gayath Karunaratne – Westmont Hilltop Junior/Senior High School The Effects of Natural Antioxidants on Food Additives |
| Veroncia Koval – Shady Side Academy Senior School The Effects of Metal Catalysts on Water Electrolysis |
| Rachel Cassley – Norwin High School Can gunshot residue lead to wrongful convictions? |
| Vipin Bhat – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Diagnosis of Neurological Diseases using Classification Methods |
| Adhitya Thurumala – Fox Chapel Area High School Clickbait Classification and Spoiling Using Natural Language Processing |
Thiel College |
| Jinyi Guo – Shady Side Academy Senior School Using HepG2 cell in vitro model to investigate non-invasive ultra-sensitive diagnosis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) |
| Shivani Umesh – Seneca Valley High School Finding the Limit of Detection of a qPCR using eDNA |
| Patrick Kerrigan – Norwin High School Testing Fingerprint Composition Over Time |
| Caroline Sweeney – Avonworth High School Impact of Exercise on Student Focus |
Point Park University |
| Yara Almoussa – Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy Dragon’s Blood and Wound Healing |
| Andrew Zeng – Shady Side Academy Senior School Demonstration of the Hydrogen Energy Cycle Using a PEM Fuel Cell. |
Mt. Aloysius College |
| Jeremiah Satcho – North Allegheny High School Determining the Best Chemotherapy for TACE Therapy |
| Jinyi Guo – Shady Side Academy Senior School Using HepG2 cell in vitro model to investigate non-invasive ultra-sensitive diagnosis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) |
| Yara Almoussa – Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy Dragon’s Blood and Wound Healing |
| Montana Geibel – St Joseph High School The Effects of Pseudomonas putida on Lumbricus terrestris |
| Bailey Linza – St Joseph High School The effects of microplastics on Daphnia magna |
| Alexander Kim – Leveraging Dense Neural Networks for Improved Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Sampling |
Washington & Jefferson College |
| Audrey Yang – Indiana Area Senior High School The Effect of Wind Intensity on Flute Sound Quality |
| Shivani Umesh – Seneca Valley High School Finding the Limit of Detection of a qPCR using eDNA |
| Yara Almoussa – Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy Dragon’s Blood and Wound Healing |
| David Thomas – North Catholic High School Improving Cockroach Memory |
Robert M. Thompson Jr. Scholarship |
| Quincy Peterson – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Analyzing Northwestern PA Community Townhall Data for Improvement of Community Outreach for People Living with HIV in Pennsylvania |
Diane V. Thompson Scholarship |
| Arina Sokolova – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Competitive Fitness and Gene Evolution of C. Elegans |
Student Choice Awards – Top 30 Student Projects |
Junior Division Category Awards |
| Christian Thomas – Marshall Middle School How would plant growth be affected by the type of sunlight on Mars? |
| Bri Anna Dixon – Our Lady of Fatima School How Music Effects the Tunneling of Ants |
| Rona Shelef – Community Day School Grey Tree Squirrels Food Preferences: Natural, Processed, and Ultra-Processed Foods |
| Angelina Calabrace – Derry Area Middle School and Derry Area High School Picture Perfect |
| Samuel Hauser – Derry Area Middle School and Derry Area High School The Bob Meow-ley Project |
| Michael Frassinelli – Campus School of Carlow University What hits a baseball farther a wood or aluminum bat? |
| Edward Ulrich – Campus School of Carlow University How does breathing affect heart rate? |
| Evan Wood – Mount Lebanon Montessori School Aw snap! My bricks snapped |
| Caroline Howell – Ave Maria Academy – Bethel Park Recycle Refresh (Watering Mint with Recycled Water) |
| Sofia Winston – Campus School of Carlow University Does Tin Foil or Plastic Wrap Preserve Food Longer? |
Intermediate Division Category Awards |
| Alaina DiPofi – Ave Maria Academy – Bethel Park Cheerio Mate! |
| Ainsley Kelman – Providence Heights Alpha School Can Chickens Learn? |
| Faith Simon – Ave Maria Academy – Bethel Park Acid Rain, Such a Pain! |
| Joseph Bulebush – Hopewell Junior High School Guitar Strings and Temperature |
| Vanessa Ibrahim – Mary Queen of Apostles School If You Can’t Beat Them, Should You Join Them? |
| Elijah Magness – Freeport Area Middle School Why We Should Have Vertical Wind Turbines for Pittsburgh’s Roads |
| Dylan DeVore – Providence Heights Alpha School Remediation of Acid Mine Drainage |
| Kavin Puri – Marshall Middle School Novel way to detect certain medical issues using facial recognition techniques and AI machine learning |
| Louisa Palumbo – Mary Queen of Apostles School On the Flip Side |
| Nava Kass – Community Day School Do Men and Women Perceive Things Differently? |
Senior Division Category Awards |
| Lilah Sahud – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Frogs and pH-ungi: The Relationship between Aquatic Acidity and Pathogen Growth |
| Theodore Rothstein – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School A Novel Method of Measuring Intraocular Pressure via Acoustic Engineering |
| Gautam Ramkumar – North Allegheny High School Determining Orbital Parameters of Near-Earth Object 2016WG |
| Thomas Aldous – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School A Novel Computer Vision Based Device for On-site Detection of Microplastics in Water |
| Sophia Sandholm – Shady Side Academy Senior School Creating a Machine Learning Model of Orca Language |
| Maya Zimmerman – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Longitudinal Statistics and the Pittsburgh Girls Study |
| Praydun Solai – North Allegheny High School Computational Modeling of Magnetic Moments |
| Daniel Levin – Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Controlling Vancomycin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus with Electroactive Bacterial Cellulose-Carbon Nanotube Composites |
| Alexander Kim – Seneca Valley High School Leveraging Dense Neural Networks for Improved Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Sampling |
| John O’Toole – North Catholic High School Preen Part VII: Trifluralin Migration through the Soil Matrix |
