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December 2, 2023
Please note that all the time slots for PRESENTERS are filled now. We are not taking further applications.
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SCALACS invites you to attend the virtual
International High School Students Research Symposium
Date: Saturday, December 2, 2023
Morning Session: 9:00 am to 12:00 noon Pacific Time
Afternoon Session: 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm Pacific Time
Topic(s): STEM-related subjects
Mode of Presentations: Powerpoint via Zoom (15 minutes for each presentation)
SCALACS will be hosting a Virtual International High School Students Research Symposium on December 2, 2023, from 9 am to 6 pm under the ACS’s LSAC/DEIR Grant Funding. Sponsored by Lumiere Education, registration for this event is free to all high school students. The Symposium features 15-minute high school students' presentations via Zoom. Topics include all areas of the STEM subjects. We urge high school teachers to encourage their students to attend this free event as there are many interesting topics being presented by their peers from all over the world. It'll be a very insightful event for all.
The top 6 presentations will be awarded US$100 each as determined by a panel of judges appointed by SCALACS. Attendee registration closes at midnight on November 27th. To date, we have around 30 student presenters from all over the world (see below).
TO REGISTER AS AN ATTENDEE TO THIS VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM, PLEASE COMPLETE THE FORM BELOW. TO BE A PRESENTER, PLEASE EMAIL office@scalacs.org.
We will email the Zoom link to registrants by December 1, 2023.
PARTICIPATING PRESENTERS AND THEIR RESEARCH TOPIC
| Name | Research Topic |
| Aashima Keswani | In what ways is the data of women between the ages of 15 to 25 being unethically collected by social media apps and what is the resulting impact? |
| Achint Kaur | How can we use phylogenetics methods in tracing back the origins of Acute Myeloid Leukemia, as well as elucidating the role of driver mutations and the specific locations of the mutations involved? |
| Ryan Santosh | How can machine learning be applied in the ideation stage in automotive design and how can breakthroughs in ML affect this field? |
| Adhiraj Gupta | How do different CNN architectures compare for the task of classifying road signs and drawing bounding boxes around them? |
| Ayaan Waqar | What are the privacy considerations in federated machine learning for healthcare wearables? |
| Mihaela Petrova Tzvetkova | What is the impact of zinc finger proteins in developing and promoting metastasis in breast cancer? |
| Oguzhan Sinik | What are the key characteristics of human speech that contribute to perceived naturalness? What are the technical challenges in creating human-like sounds for virtual voice assistants and how can these challenges be overcome? |
| Nada Elmahmoudy Hassan & Elazazy Harraz | How can rising sea levels affect The Coastal Zone of the Nile Delta in Egypt? |
| Udaiveer Parihar | Evaluating the effectiveness of a PMSA (Prostate Membrane Specific Antigen) antigen radioisotope based screening method in screening for PDAC (Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma) in high-risk populations compared to existing screening tools. |
| Aisana Kasenova Askhatovna | How are the racial biases within the training datasets used to develop AI models affect the accuracy and reliability of dermatological diagnoses? |
| Isabella Jabbour | What are the predicted consequences of strategic marketing and social influences on the number of current e-cigarette users in middle school and high school? |
| Kaylyn Sethakosee | Did the COVID-19 pandemic have an adverse effect on pregnancy outcomes and C-Section rates in the state of Massachusetts? |
| Raiya Minhas | How do soft materials and engineered artificial biosystems improve biocompatibility for the application of Total Artificial Heart (TAH) development? How has improved medical technology affected the instance of heart transplants? |
| Yung Hau Hong Joseph | How did different Covid-19 policies impact stroke admissions and the severity of stroke in Hong Kong? |
| Simar Rajpal | Comparing protein structure prediction using AlphaFold to protein structures that were solved experimentally for key oncogenic proteins involved in cancer progression. |
| Anant Gupta | To what extent can large language models help to predict changes in the stock market? |
| Kanjonavo Sabud | Based on climate computational models, how does changing climate increase the probability of wildfires in the East Coast of the USA? |
| Maya Malik | How have coral reef ecosystems in Hawaii, USA evolved over time when analyzed through machine learning techniques applied to underwater images? |
| Lea Chen | How can I design an assistive robotic companion to support the needs of elders living alone? |
| Rianna Amin | Constructing a Global Electricity Supergrid Based on Renewable Energy Sources: A Qualitative Analysis |
| Jose Maria Salvador | Are attention-based neural networks more effective than any other neural network architecture for software vulnerability analysis? |
| Samantha Wu | How is the quantity of exosome derived miRNAs in human milk affected by 1) multiple freeze thaws, 2) storage at different temperature conditions, and 3) isolating EV and miRNA on the same day using the size exclusion chromatography method? |
| Niharika Sapre | How can computational methods help increase the efficiency of small farmers’ harvest and make work less arduous? |
| Sean Seguin | How can long language models be applied to medicine in order to make diagnosis easier for both doctors and patients? |
| Angelina Yang |
Synthesis and In-Depth Evaluation of Degradable Copolymers via Cyclic Ketene Acetal Incorporation
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| Sean Seguin | How can long language models be applied to medicine in order to make diagnosis easier for both doctors and patients? |