2025 Blue Ribbon Judging Finalists
Listed by division, then project name.
Animal Sciences
Senior Division: Utilizing Ants to Mitigate MSW Landfill-Derived Methane Production through Novel Aerobic Digester System for Anthropogenic Food Waste Decomposition
Junior Division: Classifying species of North Texas mosquitoes using computer vision
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Senior Division: Enhancing Autism Therapeutics: The Influence of Acute Cannabidiol Treatment and the Estrous Cycle on Social Behavior and Hormone Changes in Adult Male and Female Mice
Junior Division: MINDFUL: Measuring Individual Neurodiversity with Dimensionality and Five-factor Understanding of Labels
Biochemistry
Senior Division: One Blood Drop to New Hope: A Novel Test Method to Improve Fertility Assessment
Junior Division: Reducing Risk of Cancer Through Antioxidants
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Senior Division: Paving the Path to the Impossible: Regenerating Neurons using Prostaglandin E2 regulation as a therapeutic strategy
Junior Division: Enhancing Breast Cancer Image Analysis with a Customized High Accuracy Machine Learning Model
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Senior Division: Assembling Multifunctional Drug Capsules from Safe and Accessible Materials for Selective Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis: Synergizing Fluorescent and Iron-Based Magnetic Therapy.
Junior Division: Healing Eczema: Unveiling the Cellular Power of Natural Ingredients
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Senior Division: HMM & Structural Docking In Silico Framework for Identifying & Inhibiting CCN3 Protein Pathway Mutations for Osteosarcoma
Junior Division: Tandem Repeat Analysis and Visualization Atlas (TRAVA)
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Senior Division: Acoustic Filtration II: Scaling an Ultrasonic Microplastic Filtration Device and Exploring the Physical Phenomenon of Acoustic Blocking
Junior Division: The Ground Truth: A Novel Approach for Landslide Prediction with a Deep Learning Framework
Microbiology
Senior Division: Paracoccus for Bioremediation: Optimizing Formate Dehydrogenase in Paracoccus denitrificans for Development of a Non-toxic Bioremediation Strategy for Toxic C1 Compounds in Water
Junior Division: The Effects of Glyphosate on Microbial Health
Plant Sciences
Senior Division: A Green Alliance: Evaluating the Synergistic Dynamics of PETase Expression and Plant-Microbe Interactions in Enhancing Microplastic Degradation Pathways in S. alterniflora
Junior Division: Impact of Phaseolus Vulgaris (Red Silk Bean) Seed Priming on Drought Tolerance
Translational Medical Sciences
Senior Division: Neuroprotective Effects of Nutraceutical Supplementation for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
Junior Division: Nanocurc Gel for Smart Wound Biosensing and Healing
Biomedical Engineering
Senior Division: NeuroFlex: A Cost-Effective, Non-Invasive EEG-Controlled Bionic Prosthesis for Transfemoral Amputees
Junior Division: Development of a home-based, stage-specific diagnostic kit for the detection of protein biomarkers to enhance diagnostic capabilities and improve treatment precision for Cancer
Chemistry
Senior Division: Translation Between the Opacity of Photochromic Dye and UV Index
Junior Division: Computational Simulations of Antibody Binding to VAPB Receptors for Targeted Therapy in Medulloblastoma
Embedded Systems
Senior Division: Giving Robot Hands a Feeling
Junior Division: Foundation Tilt Prevention System: Protecting Structural Integrity Against Moisture Fluctuations While Optimizing Water Usage
Energy: Sustainable Materials & Designs
Senior Division: Enhancing Efficiency in Quantum Dot Solar Cells through Quantum Computational Simulations for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Health
Junior Division: Micro’fat’ories: Increasing microalgal biomass and lipids for biofuel production
Engineering Technology: Statics and Dynamics
Senior Division: HandTalk: A Two-Way Translation System for American Sign Language
Junior Division: Flying High
Environmental Engineering
Senior Division: CyanoHUB: A Data-Driven Harmful Algal Bloom Prediction & Control System Utilizing Nanobubble Technology
Junior Division: Sticking to a Greener World: Finding a Suitable Replacement for Plastic Lollipop Sticks
Materials Science
Senior Division: Anticorrosive Strategies for Cu-Al Wire-Bonded Devices in Extreme Automotive Applications
Junior Division: Development and Characterization of Hydrogel Systems for Encapsulation and Controlled Release of Model Compounds
Mathematics
Senior Division: A Novel Optimizer Equation to Predict KI67 Scores from Breast Cancer WSIs with CNN
Junior Division: Beyond the Curve: A Novel Mathematical Formula for Measuring Volume Under a 3D Parabolic Arch for Sustainable Agricultural Water Consumption.
Physics and Astronomy
Senior Division: The Power of a Star in a Jar: Using Nuclear Fusion for Medical Radioisotope Production.
Junior Division: T CrB: Visualizing the Potential of Exoplanet Transit Data in Predicting Nova Event
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Senior Division: AutoMates: Automating With Self-Learning Intelligent Agents
Junior Division: Smartphone-Integrated Retinal Imaging and Skin Analysis System Utilizing Neural Networks
Systems Software
Senior Division: AssemblyComplete: 3D Combinatorial Construction with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Junior Division: The Blockchain Exploit Playground: Learning Real-World Blockchain Vulnerabilities through an Open-Source Educational Platform for a Secure Future
