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."
  • Jennifer Quito Alvarez 8th grade. Project The Effect of Nail Polish on Nail Growth.
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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?"
  • Callie McCaffery 7th grade. Project Capturing Wind Energy.
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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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