2023 Winners

First Place ~ National JSHS Oral Presenter, $2000 scholarship Eliana Juarez ~ V. Sue Cleveland High School (Rio Rancho, NM) Project Title: An Integrated Approach for Immediate and Long-Term Air Quality Regulation and Monitoring in Mexico

Second Place ~ National JSHS Oral Presenter, $1500 scholarship Aditya Koushik ~ La Cueva High School (Albuquerque, NM) Project Title: Deep Learning Prediction and In-vitro Validation of Novel Anti-cancer Peptides from Marine Taxa Database

Third Place ~ National JSHS Poster Presenter, $1000 scholarship Marissa Martinez ~ Monte Vista Senior High School (Monte Vista, CO) Project Title: The Efficacy of Abiotic/Biotic Factors and Trap Design for Effective Capture of Invasive American Bullfrog Tadpoles (Lithobates catesbeianus)

Fourth Place ~ National JSHS Poster Presenter Galilea Rodriguez ~ Harmony Science Academy (El Paso, TX) Project Title: Implementing Quantum-Classical Machine Learning Architectures to Optimize Convolutional Neural Networks

Fifth Place ~ National JSHS Poster Presenter Henry Tischler ~ Academy for Technology & the Classics (Santa Fe, NM) Project Title: Utilizing the Learned Latent Structure from Dimensionality Reduction Algorithms to Prevent the Effects of Catastrophic Forgetting in Neural Networks

POSTER SESSION WINNERS ~ LIFE SCIENCES

1st Place ($250) ~ George Privett Rio Rancho High School
2nd Place ($150) ~ Diego Porras Harmony Science Academy
3rd Place ($100) ~ Cassie Sandoval School of Dreams Academy

POSTER SESSION WINNERS ~ PHYSICAL SCIENCES

1st Place ($250) ~ Rodrigo Valdes Harmony Science Academy
2nd Place ($150) ~ Daniel Kim Los Alamos High School
3rd Place ($100) ~ Augustus Miller Monte Vista Senior High Schoold