BOISE, Idaho — Governor Brad Little awarded four students for their projects for the Idaho STEM Action Center's Idaho Research & Engineering Showcase. Submissions were focused on ACL tears and how to improve diagnosis, accelerate new green-energy solutions, thwart antibiotic resistance and reduce recovery injuries. The top three projects won $2000, $1000, and $500 awards.
"I'm really honored that my work could be recognized in this way," Li, the first-place winner, said, "and I'm very thankful for this opportunity to learn more about things that I'm interested in and to show that even research on this small of scale can show really detailed stuff about the world that we live in. There are so many undiscovered things that are left to be discovered by our generation."
The top three winning submissions:
Boise High School senior Zhiyu Li earned first place for her project, "Quantification of Ampicillin through KinExA Technology," which addresses the global challenge of antibiotic resistance by exploring how to detect and quantify the antibiotic ampicillin in solution.
Zayah Cortright and Jalen Lu, a senior and junior at Boise High School and Timberline High School, respectively, took second place for their project, "ML Study of Perovskites as Electrocatalysts in Green Energy." The project examines how machine learning can accelerate research into green-energy storage by eliminating bottlenecks in the discovery process caused by cost limitations imposed by traditional catalysts like platinum.
Kiana Mohammadi and Amulya Tanikella, juniors at Capital High School who formerly attended Treasure Valley Math & Science Center, garnered third place for their project, "Examining Biomechanical Factors in Joints of ACLR Patients." The project identifies locomotion behaviors that can lead to reinjuries as patients recover from ACL tears with the goal of helping them recover faster.
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