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Lecture Room A
Rhea Almiya
Faith "Mindy" Burton
Keshav Ganapathy
Shreya Gunda
Everett Hutter
Alex Johnson
Daniel Johnson
Kyle Kingsberry
Sachet Korada
Elena Meiman
Katriana Meiman
Keya Pawar
Anna Ransohoff
Millie Ransohoff
Lakshmi Sangireddi
Divahar Sivanesan
Saahith Tupakula

Project Title
Moderators: Rajesh Iyer, Narissa Johnson, Amarjeet Kaur
Stars
Zzz the power of sleep
Acceleration of objects
Black holes: the edge of infinity
Environmental battery
Effect of string length on pendulum speed
Computer benchmarking
The speed of light and gelatin
A battery that makes cents
The iodine clock
Making butter: measuring the fat content in milk products
Acidic reaction of lemon on milk
Do you know your favorite skittle?
Comparison of heaters; time vs temperature
Why does a star shine?
What do we see?
How to extract dna from a strawberry

Lecture Room B
Rohit Banda
Vaishnavi Banda
Mia Barnes
Neha Chandra
Aritra Chowdhury
Will Grannis
Amrita Jilla
Mahita Kamalahasan
Sahana Kundu
Declan McGuire
Pranav Palavarapu
Pravalika Palavarapu
Sanjana Putta
Anisha Saxena
Rishiv Tadiparthi
Dhanvi Vasavada
Dwiti Vasavada
Reva Vemulapalli

Moderators: Peter McGuire, Ratan Tadiparthi, Priya Viswanathan

Effects of salt ona germination of plants
What liquid makes a penny change most in color
How I made my ball bounce
Lemon power
The evolution and future of batteries
FN P90
Mentos geyser experiment
Does the size of the paper airplane affect how far it flies?
Star wars saga inspired innovations
Where bacteria live on people
Salt melting ice
Suction karate
Oersted law
Chlorofluorocarbons
Pop pop pop corn
Fungus-where it grows
Plants: the living things
How to make a projectile go up at least 6 ft in air using household materials

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Lecture Room C
Vinamra Adikehithilu
Dev Bhardwaj
Jahnavi Das
Srimayi Ganesuni
Mihir Gupta
Sakash Khanna
Divya Koganti
Rouha Mahajan
Sruti Nandanavanam
Kavya Rajaram
Reshma Ramesh
Sara Shibu
Nithin Tangirala
Shevani Tewari
Akshay Varma
Akhil Vuppala
Brennan Zhao

Project Title
Moderators: Diganta Das, Ramesh Srinivasan, Liming Yang
How do search engines work and which works best?
Comparing maze solving algorithms
Afterimage colors
Candy chromatography
Airplane shapes
Affect of microwave water on plant's growth
Dimensions
Logic gates using electronic snap circuits
Controlling the growth of bacteria and virus in the closed environments
How does the type of music affect heart rate and blood pressure?
How catapult works
Solar eclipse
Prehistoric life for animals
Soccer angle and accuracy of scoring
Robots
Which type of pulley is best ?
To be announced

Lecture Room D
Akshaya Balaji
Tejas Jayaram
Rudav Kathiravan
Varun Khilnani
Dhruv Kumar
Esha Mittal
Suraj Modur
Eshaan Moorjani
Priya Moorjani
Sakshi Narula
Sidhant Narula
Kyle Newby
Nanditha Niranjan
Jordan Popov
Alina Sharma
Anjali Tangirala
Shriya Yavasani

Moderators: Manoj Khilnani, Girish Krishna, Sunil Modur

Speaking with accuracy
Water and its properties
Is chesepeak bay really healthy
Skateboarding physics
How does rust form?
The effects of magnetism
Experiments with electric circuits
Effects of video games on heart rate
Instant ice
Chemical reations
Batteries
What liquids make yeast rise?
Quadcopter
The effect of artificial sweeteners on gut bacteria
Can humans be an alternate source of energy?
Do scented hand sanitizers clean better?
Electricity generating using vegetables

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Green Auditorium
Abhishek Gogineni
Deyaan Guha
Mahilan Guha
Sharath Kannan
Abhinav Karthikeyan
Shreeya Khurana
Genevieve Malaika
Koduol
Sai Pranav Majeti
Mihith Mandala
Devarajan Palaniappan
Vinamr Pemmaraju
Araav Rotella
Sanjana Sharvirala
Anish Shrestha
Sanjit Thangarasu
Mahima Thirukkonda
Pranav Tippa

Project Title
Moderators: Romi Biswas, Udayan Guha, Murali Thirukkonda
Which flame retardant material is most effective?
Effect of microwave radiation on germination of seeds
Growing crystals on different types of string
What are computer viruses?
The depths of fracking
Measuring light pollution in my neighborhood
Oil and water

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How the heart works?

Volcanos
Can water float on water
The solar oven
Why does the compass always face north
Energy & nuclear power
Why do things float or sink?
Nanotechnology in medicine
Do everyone's blood look the same at microscopic level?
Macho-robo cleaning

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Dining Room A
Nathela Sudhakhar Aditya
Sudarsan
Jonathan R. Anand
Debika Biswas
Karen Boby
Dennis Chunikhin
Sai Abhiram Divvela
Muhammad Hashmi
Shruthi Kishore
Joshua Morris
Suved Pantula
Martin Peterson
Raiyan Rizwan
Matthew Salvado
Ishaan Samantray
Saragha Surendra
Agathiya Tharun
Sara Zoulfagharian

Moderators: Jeremy Peterson, Alberto Salvado, Tharun Sundaresan

Osmosis using eggs

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Can trees filter water?

Solar cooker
Cleaning power of vinegar
Fruit electricity
Does vegetation effect soil erosion
Other inhabitant planets
Do eggs float or sink in salt water?
Why does my snack turn brown?
Reflexes - effects as humans age
Underwater robot power
Anatomy of rc-planes
Pencils as electrical resistors
Insulation testing
Impact of ocean currents on marine life
Cross staff
Achalasia - a rare medical condition

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Dining Room B
Gayathri Aravindan
Curtis Arnold
Megan Arnold
Archit Ashok
Siddharth Buddha
Katheriine Chen
Matthew Chen
SaiHavish Gadde
Pranav Hegde
Pratyusha Mandal
Hrishita Mareddy
Samarth Nayak
Sareet Nayak
Nivitha Paranthaman
Eashan Siddalingaiah
Nabhoneel Sil Upadhyay
Konstantin Tomashevsky

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Project Title
Moderators: Pradip Mandal, Sukumar Nayak, Madhu Siddalingaiah
Which vegetable/fruit produces more energy
Light up motherboards
Crystallization
Which cleans a penny faster? Lemon juice or vinegar
Self inflating balloon
Effect of wire thickness on electricity conduction
Comparison of electrical power from different sources
How an electric motor works?
Building the lightest but strongest wooden truss bridge
Where is it easier to swim, in a pool or sea?
Why the oceans are blue in color
Health effects of cell tower radiation
Correlation of the solar sunspot cycle
Series circuit
Stirling engines
Tea: light or dark?
How a refractometer works

Moderators: Ramaraj Kalaiselvi, Anu Panchumarthy, Mark van

Eeghen
Aditya Balasubramanian Do natural or man-made drinks have more electrolytes?
Aditi Banka
Self-inflating balloons
Varadraj Chavan
Balloon-inflating chemical reaction
Eesha Gogineni
Heart health
Divija Katakam
How does hydrogel change a plant growth of speed and food?
Pranav Katakam
In the blink of emotion
Ashish Kumar
Paper airplanes and aerodynamics
Divya Kumar
Density and bouyancy
Sadhana Lolla
Effect of color on heat absorption
Satvik Lolla
How to make hydrogen at home?
Kapil Maicka
Affect of turns in the coil on speed in a motor
Ashwathi Menon
Seed germination
Akhil Pramanik
Artificially colored crystals
Kush Savsani
Factors affecting the freezing point of water
Shrikar Vasisht
How do soft drinks affect teeth?
Saahas Yaddula
Why things float on water
Tejasa Yaddula
Yeast: waste production

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Adventurer Name
Portrait Room
Dhruva Arun
Roshni Arun
Abhishek Beeram
Feroz Campbell
Samhitha Gandla
Shreedatta Indur
Madhuri Kola
Divya Mathur
Connell Paxton
Anjali Samavedam
Karthick Sankar
Barathi Sivakumaran
Sibi Sivakumaran
Varun Somasundar
Nisha Thope
Sreenija Thope
Sujal Umrikar

Project Title
Moderators: David Campbell, Niranjan Indur, Krishna Samavedam
Bouncy balls
Bouncy balls
Cloud in a bottle
Impact of environment on crystal growth and their physcial properties
Conduction of electricity through various forms of water and salt
How to reduce friction?
Which materials are the best conductors?
Impact of gas on light spectrum
Where bacteria hide in school
Do vegetables lose glucose as they age?
All about magnets
Heat capacity of water vs. Heat capacity of oil
Heat convection in liquids
Can a magnet act through different surfaces?
Conductors or insulators
Under what condition potatoes sprout faster?
Wing properties affect on flight of paper planes

Heritage Room
Srihitha Akula
Sriya Akula
Edith Arunkumar
Laura Canseco
Meherzan Gai
Nush Gai
Sreehitha Gandluri
Ojas Jagtap
Senthoor Krishnaraju
Soumya Maturi
Dhwani Parekh
Nidhi Parekh
Tej Pemmarazu
Abhaya Saridena
Srivatsaan K Sreenivasan
Namratha Sribuddharaju

Moderators: Srikanth Akula, Neville Gai, Vikas Kumar

Ecosystem
Global warming
Friction
Boiling oranges and vitamin C levels
Sweaty science
Interesting properties of turmeric
Static electricity
Magnetic force
What soda can do to your body
Measuring conduction
Transpiration: why do plants loose so much water to transpiration?
Which chocolate melts the fastest?
Food fungus
How air pressure works
The strength of an electromagnet
Can chaos cuase creativity?

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Aatish Paul Valaparla

Shuban Bala
Digonto Chatterjee
Sreejato Chatterjee
Brandon Chen
Cedric Chen
Avani Katre
Natasha Oberoi
Akhil Raman
Arpita Raman
Shriya Rejeesh
Eashana Subramanian
Anjali Thomas
Atul Thomas
Poornima B Tomy
Rhea Vidyababu
Tara Vidyababu

Project Title
Moderators: Ramesh Maturi, Balamurgan Natarajan, Sivakumaran
Subramanian
Formations of dry ice
Caffeine and typing
Designing a game using scratch programming
Electricity-magnetism
Water
Water
Time as a fourth dimension
Time as a fourth dimension
Barometer
Electrical circuits
Does music affect your mood
Comparing energy efficiency of light bulbs
Water purification_making water fish friendly
Chemical reactions_endothermic or exothermic?
Electricity, electroscope and conductivity
Investigating surface tension
Bouncing balls: effects of surface and ball on bounce height

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Aishani Bakshi
Jeevika Bakshi
Eli Buehler
Nikita Danthi
Rohit Harapanhalli
Vrinda Mullapudi
Trisha Raghuram
Vinay Raman
Ryan Rariewa
Ritesh Shrivastav
Ritika Shrivastav
Arjun Verma
Ashish Verma
Rahil Verma
Ritik Verma
Pranav Vijay

Moderators: Jacob Buehler, Donna Sherard, Chhaya Shetty

Density and floating
How different soaps kill bacteria
Effect of temperature on borax crystal growth
Multitasking, is it effective?
To develop line- and wall-following algorithms
Oxygen requirement for combustion
Balloon powered car
Strength of electromagnets
Brine to beverage: solar-powered salt removal
Finding the mass of the earth
Digestive system; processing our food
At what temperature does water boil?
Comparison of density of various materials
My coin battery
Comparison of density on a variety of soda
Identify endothermic and exothermic reactions

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Red Aud. Annex
Meera Barochia
Saatchi Barochia
Ishaan Bhardvaj
Kavi Daliparti
Andy Deng
Liana Grosko
Aryaman Gudwani
Virali Kataria
Uma Manikoth
Yamini Manikoth
Pritham Mulagura
Saiadvaith Vootukur

Project Title
Moderators: Amisha Barochia, Natesh Manikoth, Ram Mulagura
Paper chromatography
Electromagnets
Controlling depth of field in photography
Working of a camera
Is salt water water?
Study on the effects of road salt on grass
Can we grow veggies without soil
Tsunami
Why are some humans color blind?
Do people who enjoy reading have higher empathy levels?
Salt effect on plant germination and growth
Effect of center of gravity on the speed of car on different surfaces

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Manav Desai
Heather Gurnsey
Jason Liu
Vibha Sastri
Vanshika Shah
Shreya Surendra
Ashley Thommana

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Air pressure in a foot ball, does it matter?
Black hole representation in the movie "interstellar"
Fighting bacteria with different handwashing methods
All about vaccines
Vascular and non-vascular plants
Middle school science
Why is sleep important?

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