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2015 Divisional Award Winners
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Elementary Honorable Mention  (1190) Wind Turbine Rotor Blade Design
    Student: Garrett Stallings
    School: Holly Springs Elem
  (1169) That's The Way I Roll
    Student: Jocelyn Morgenstein
    School: Oak Grove Elementary
  (1128) Electric Mittens
    Student: Maia Osborne
    School: Kingswood Elementary
  (1147) Now You See It, Now You Don't
    Student: Austin Farrand
    School: Brier Creek Elem
  (1121) Color Changing Milk
    Students: Semaya LaSane , Ashley Morgan
    School: Walnut Creek Elementary School
  (1191) You're Driving Me Crazy: The Effect of Distractions on Driving
    Student: Brynn Bartle
    School: St. Timothy's School
  (1106) "RAD" Radish
    Students: Josephine Edge , Lauren Doyle
    School: Lacy Elementary
  (1103) Melting Ice Shapes
    Student: Jamari Moss
    School: South Warren Elem
Elementary Exemplary Projects
  (1179) The Sharpie Secret
    Student: Hailey Raschke
    School: Olds Elementary
  (1102) Endurance Snacks
    Student: Kyle Heise
    School: Mangum Elementary
  (1131) Furever Friends
    Student: Carah Gilmore
    School: Mills Park Elem
  (1155) Racing Marbles to discover a liquid's viscosity
    Student: Kaushik Sriram
    School: Washington Elem
  (1148) NUTTY NUTS! Which nut produces more energy?
    Student: Eshanth Padmonkar
    School: Washington Elem
  (1177) The Re-Invented Hovercraft
    Students: Ethan Kessler , Shrey Vasisht
    School: Holly Ridge Elem
  (1159) Robot Window
    Student: Marley Polit Shearin
    School: Timber Drive Elem
  (1153) Protecting the Earth from an Iron Meteorite
    Student: Britt Kirby
    School: Lacy Elementary
Junior - Biological Sciences A
Third Place  (2214) What if Alexander Fleming was a Fruit Farmer?
    Student: Madeline Guerra
    School: The Franciscan School
Second Place
  (2204) Does Caffiene Affect Heart Rate?
    Student: Austin Buckner
    School: Centennial Middle
First Place
  (2201) A Little Variety Can Go A Long Way!
    Student: Isabella Antonio
    School: Triangle Math and Science Academy
Senior - Biological Sciences A
Third Place  (3201) Quantification of Fibrosis Following Either Gene Suppression or Vincristine Chemotherapy in Rhabdomyosarcoma Tumors
    Student: Amelia Steinbach
    School: C E Jordan High
Second Place
  (3305) Characterization of human genetic variation affection Salmonella invasion
    Student: Peter Luo
    School: William G Enloe High
First Place
  (3307) High Content Analysis and Targeting Cancer-Specific Pathway in Three Dimensional Breast Cancer Tumor Spheroids
    Student: Arjun Jay Arora
    School: William G Enloe High
Junior-Biological Sciences B
Third Place  (2303) Oxidation Prevention
    Student: Cecilia Touzon
    School: The Franciscan School
Second Place
  (2301) Electronic Reader Versus Hard Copy
    Student: Evan Bartle
    School: St. Timothy's School
First Place
  (2305) Wingin' It: Can monarch butterflies' diet reduce the prevalence of Ophryocystis Elektroscirrha (OE)?
    Student: Addison Bordeaux
    School: The Franciscan School
Senior-Biological Sciences B
Third Place  (3303) Amino Acids: An Alternative Nitrogen Source for Biofuel Production
    Student: Nadia Cohen
    School: Holly Springs High
Second Place
  (3306) Effects of the Blimp Df106 Mutation on the Development of the Midline in Drosophila Melanogaster
    Student: Swetha Ravichandran
    School: William G Enloe High
First Place
  (3301) Understanding Parasitism: Plant Transcription Factors are Regulated in a Strain-Dependent Manner by Root-Knot Nematode
    Student: Holly Ren
    School: William G Enloe High
Junior-Chemistry
Third Place  (2401) Hazelnuts Roasting on a Calorimeter
    Students: Noah Kirksey , Truman Meyer
    School: Sherwood Githens Mid
Second Place
  (2407) The Viscosity Challenge
    Student: Tanner Price
    School: The Franciscan School
First Place
  (2405) The Icing on the Cake: Analyzing Effectiveness of Food Additives by Comparing Heat Resistance of Icing
    Student: Imaan Siddiqi
    School: Al-Iman School
Senior-Chemistry
Third Place  (3404) Silver and Gold Dendrites for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
    Student: Jackline Omweno
    School: Garner High
Second Place
  (3402) Probing the Formation of a Carbon-Carbon Bond for OLED and Solar Cell Synthesis
    Student: Crystal Villines
    School: Knightdale High
First Place
  (3403) A Modified Krasnovsky Photochemical Cycle to Explore the Prebiotic Origins of Photosynthesis
    Students: Jessica Du , Howard Li
    School: William G Enloe High
Junior- Earth, Space, & Environmental Sciences
Honorable Mention  (2507) The Lead Scare: Are there hazardous levels of lead in your soil?
    Students: Kripa Sriram , Sanjana Tharuvesanchi
    School: Carnage Middle
Third Place
  (2501) Are Wetlands The Solution To Pollution?
    Student: Anna Decarlucci
    School: The Franciscan School
Second Place
  (2509) Salty Problem
    Student: Allison Baumgartner
    School: The Franciscan School
First Place
  (2504) How Do Different Plants React to Powdery Mildew?
    Student: Elias Guedira
    School: Triangle Math and Science Academy
Senior - Earth, Space, & Environmental Sciences
First Place  (3501) The Use of Polyethylene Glycol Functionalized Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes to Enhance Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Polyethylene Terephthalate Nano-fibers.
    Student: Abbott Ndukwe
    School: Millbrook High
Junior - Physics
Honorable Mention  (2607) What happens to a current-carrying wire in a magnetic field?
    Student: Mahmoud Yaaseen Sabir
    School: Triangle Math and Science Academy
Third Place
  (2602) Betelgeuse vs Aldebaran
    Student: Ashleigh Nicoll
    School: Holly Ridge Middle
Second Place
  (2601) Bed of Nails
    Students: Kelly Vann , Eliza Miller
    School: Sherwood Githens Mid
First Place
  (2604) Now You Hear Me, Now You Don't
    Student: Catherine Allen
    School: The Franciscan School
Junior - Engineering & Technology
Honorable Mention  (2709) which electromagnetic design is strongest
    Student: Conor Oxley
    School: East Cary Middle
Third Place
  (2705) The Wax Attack
    Student: Hannah Comeskey
    School: The Franciscan School
Second Place
  (2704) Code Cracking the Cube: Comparing Heuristic Rubik's Solution Methods by Programmed Algorithms and Move Efficiency
    Student: Emily Lamb
    School: Dayspring/Cary Homeschoolers
First Place
  (2707) Random or Not? Harvesting Brownian Motion for Internet Security.
    Student: Emily Wang
    School: Carnage Middle
Senior - Engineering & Technology
Third Place  (3702) Aqua Quadcopter: Conserving Water through Automated, Precision Irrigation
    Student: Jeremy Dunne
    School: Franklin Academy
Second Place
  (3704) Irreducible Representations of GL_n with Dimension p^2 or p
    Student: Angela Deng
    School: William G Enloe High
First Place
  (3701) Passive Routing: A Novel Approach to Secure and Efficient Mobile Ad Hoc Networking in Disaster Relief Scenarios
    Students: Visrut Sudhakar , Svetak Sundhar , Gordon Ma
    School: William G Enloe High