Gallery: Meet the Little Geniuses of a Giant Science Fair
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Isaac J.Z. Lo, 7th grade. Project: "Sensory Glasses for the Blind."
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Jerret Tingler, 8th grade. Project: "Will Hot or Cold Temperatures Affect How High Tennis Balls Will Bounce?"
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Lance Brown, 8th grade. Project: "Flame War: Which Combistible Fuel Is the Most Efficient?"
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Elyse Wong, 6th grade. Project: "A 'Stirling' Idea."
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Jennifer Quito Alvarez, 8th grade. Project: "The Effect of Nail Polish on Nail Growth."
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Paul Gauvreau, 9th grade. Project: "Artificially Formed Stable Interactions Through Gene Transfection."
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(Left) Anish Singhani, 7th grade. (Right) Aryan Patra, 7th grade. Project: "Using Human Brainwaves to Control Real-World Devices."
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Nathan Xu, 6th grade. Project: "How Much Weight Can It Hold?"
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Callie McCaffery, 7th grade. Project: "Capturing Wind Energy."
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Nikhil Sundrani, 8th grade. Project: "The Effects of Air Pollution on Lung Capacity in Adolescents."
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Mihoko Kubo, 12th grade. Project: "Detection and Comparison of Heavy Metals in Dog Foods Using Flame Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy."
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(Left) Jade Doyle and (right) Chloe Breen, 9th grade. Project: "Biofermentation."
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Phillip Chau, 8th grade. Project: "The Effect of Increasing the Chord Length of a Propeller on its Efficiency."
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Kevin Wu, 11th grade. Project: "A Novel Framework and Algorithm for Ultrafast Protein Shape Comparison."
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