500 MATHEMATICS AND SOFTWARE

By: Sebastian A.Year: 2024School: Northwood HighGrade: 10Science Teacher: Angie Oliveras In today’s digital landscape, where open-source software (OSS) plays a pivotal role in powering everything from entertainment platforms to critical infrastructure, cybersecurity has become a pressing concern. The widespread use of OSS brings numerous benefits, including cost-effectiveness and collaborative development, but it also introduces vulnerabilities, often lurking within …

By: Eli L.Year: 2023School: Fairmont Private Schools, North Tustin CampusGrade: 8Science Teacher: Joshua Riturban Baseball has always been a sport characterized by excitement, and excitement often stems from offense. However, the game has evolved over the years, and changes in environmental factors can significantly impact batting statistics in Major League Baseball (MLB). This experiment seeks to answer the …

By: Sebastian A.Year: 2023School: Northwood HighGrade: 9Science Teacher: Cathleen Zelesky In an increasingly digital world, it is crucial to ensure that everyone, including individuals with disabilities, can access and utilize digital tools, technologies, and websites seamlessly. However, conventional CAPTCHA systems, designed to differentiate between humans and spam bots, often pose challenges for users with disabilities. Sebastian, a talented …

By: Akshata T.Year: 2022School: Aliso Niguel High SchoolGrade: 11Science Teacher: Robert Jansen Stress detection through video is a fundamentally important concept. As autonomous vehicles become more commonplace and human alertness subsides, instantaneous detection of physiological features has a prominent role in ensuring human safety in dire situations. Autopilot or other safety mechanisms can be enabled …

Project “Anja” (the third eye, in Sanskrit language) is meant to help visually impaired people recognize day to day objects. The students used a Raspberry Pi, a Pi Camera, an external speaker and Python code to enable four capabilities (visual recognition, artificial intelligence, text to speech and speech to action) to work together. The Raspberry …

By: Andrei M.Year: 2021School: University HighGrade: 12Science Teacher: Tim Smay Motivated by the characterization of symmetric monoidal functors between Deligne categories, the additive monoid R_+(x) is defined as the set of all nonnegative integer linear combinations of binomial coefficients (x choose n) for nonnegative integers n. Andrei’s project was concerned with the inquiry into the …

By: Justin L.Year: 2021School: Troy HighGrade: 10Science Teacher: Kevin Jones AIVIS is an online application that allows for easy creation of an Artificial Neural Network. Artificial neural networks (ANNs), usually simply called neural networks (NNs), are computing systems inspired by the biological neural networks that constitute animal brains. An ANN is based on a collection of …

By: Su K.Year: 2021School: Capistrano Valley HighGrade: 11Science Teacher: Cheryl Johnson AbstractAbout 1 in 8 U.S. women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. Breast density is a strong indicator for breast cancer. Women with extremely dense breasts have a sixfold greater risk of developing breast cancer. This study is about the assessment of breast …

By: Dylan S.Year: 2021School: University HighGrade: 10Science Teacher: Valerie Thompson This project explores the development of a two-stage computer vision and LSTM neural network program that can assist archers by giving them an evaluation on their release. The computer vision function was designed specifically to replace a wrist-worn device developed in a prior project. Computer …

By: George Z.Year: 2021School: Santa Margarita Catholic High SchoolGrade: 11Science Teacher: Yu Sun My Non-profit organization PantryGo, is an app that serves to deliver resources from food pantries directly to individual households. The application targets families who have difficulties reaching food pantries because of limited transportation, multiple jobs, absence of family members, or new financial …