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Texas Junior Science & Humanities Symposium (TJSHS) Past Results

2025 Top 8 Finalists
Left to right: Kara Li, Chloe Lee, Ana Spiride, Satvika Nadella, Siri Peddinti, Sanskriti Manoharan, Neel Marripalapu, Diya Shah
1st Place - Siri Peddinti

Plano East Senior High School, 12th grade

Life & Behavioral Sciences

2nd Place - Diya Shah

Plano East Senior High School, 12th grade

Medicine and Health

3rd Place - Chloe Lee

Plano East Senior High School, 12th grade

Chemistry

Honorable Mention - Sanskriti Manoharan

LV Hightower High School, 12th grade

Mathematics & Computer Science

Honorable Mention - Satvika Nadella

Allen High School, 12th grade

Environmental Science

Additional Finalists

Kara Li (Glenda Dawson High School, 11th) Neel Marripalapu (Plano West Senior High School, 11th) Ana Spiride (IB World School, 10th)

Biomedical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering & Technology

2025 Top 3 Winners
1st Place - Siri Peddinti; Project Title: Vocalyze: A Deep Learning Approach to Detecting Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and Tracking Treatment Efficacy via Vocal Acoustic Inflections and Sentiment Analysis
2nd Place - Diya Shah; Project Title: The Salt to My Pepper: Utilizing The Bioactive Descriptors of Piperoyl Piperidine on Drosophila Melanogaster as a Neoteric Treatment for Breast Cancer
3rd Place - Chloe Lee; Project Title: Chemical Modification of Acetaminophen to Reduce Liver Toxicity
Honorable Mention - Sanskriti Manoharan; Project Title: A Biologically-Inspired Quantum Machine Learning Algorithm
Honorable Mention - Satvika Nadella; Project Title: Year 3: A Novel Water Filtration System Using Nano-Particle Enhanced Moringa oleifera and Coconut Shell-Activated Carbon
2024 Top 8 Finalists
Left to right: Anirudh Mazumder, Sanskriti Manoharan, Caiman Moreno-Earle, Alan Chen, Prisha Bhat, Evan White, Alanna PolyakSuhani Singh,
1st Place - Prisha Bhat

Plano East Senior High School, 11th grade

Environmental Sciences

2nd Place - Caiman Moreno-Earle

St. John's School, 11 grade

Engineering I

3rd Place - Alanna Polyak

Plano West Senior High School, 12th grade

Medicine and Health/Behavioral & Social Sciences II

Honorable Mention - Alan Chen

Westlake High School, 11th grade

Engineering II

Honorable Mention - Sanskriti Manoharan

L.V. Hightower High School, 11th grade

Computer Science/Mathematics

Additional Finalists

Anirudh Mazumder (TAMS, 11th) Suhani Singh (TAMS, 11th) Evan White (Academy of Science and Technology @ College Park High School, 11th)

Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Medicine and Health/Behavioral & Social Sciences I

2024 Top 3 Winners
1st Place - Prisha Bhat; Project Title: Enhancing Drought and Arsenic resistance in Oryza sativa by hyperexpression of aquaporin genes
2nd Place - Caiman Moreno-Earle; Project Title: Autonomous Over-The-Board Chess Solution For Players In Isolated Conditions
3rd Place - Alanna Polyak; Project Title: Utilizing Planarian and Starfish Neural Networks as Cures for Central Nervous System Disorders
Honorable Mention - Alan Chen; Project Title: Simulation-aided Learning from Demonstration for Robotic LEGO Construction
Honorable Mention - Sanskriti Manoharan; Project Title: A Novel Quantum-based model of the Cortical Canonical Microcircuit
2023 Top 8 Finalists
Left to right: Anthony Xu, Alden Pool, Amitha Mandava, Prisha Bhat, Hannah Guan, Katherine Lee, Diya Shah, Ricardo Victorio
1st Place - Anthony Xu

Allen High School, 11th grade

Engineering I

2nd Place - Amitha Mandava

Plano East Senior High School, 11th grade

Computer Science/Mathematics

3rd Place - Prisha Bhat

IB World School, 10th grade

Life Sciences

Honorable Mention - Katherine Lee

Plano West Senior High School, 11th grade

Environmental Science

Honorable Mention - Diya Shah

Willams High School, 10th grade

Medicine & Health/Behavioral & Social Sciences II

Additional Finalists

Hannah Guan (BASIS Shavano, 12th) Alden Pool (John Jay Science & Engineering Academy, 12th) Ricardo Victorio (Academy of Science & Technology, 11th)

Medicine and Health/Behavioral & Social Sciences I, Physical Sciences, Engineering II

2023 Top 3 Winners
1st Place - Anthony Xu; Project Title: A low-cost low-power long-range localization system using Helium Network
2nd Place - Amitha Mandava; Project Title: Traffic Counting System Using Machine Vision
3rd Place - Prisha Bhat; Project Title: Rhizoremediation using Agro-transformed Oryza sativa to facilitate detoxification of Arsenic in-situ
Honorable Mention - Katherine Lee; Project Title: Testing the Effectiveness of Aloidendron barberae and Bambusa dolichomerithalla as Natural Coagulant
Honorable Mention - Diya Shah; Project Title: Effects of Utilizing Bioactive Descriptors of Piperoyl on B16-F10 as Neoteric Treatment for Melanoma
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