4 Recent Competition Wins for Troy High Biology Competitions Club

Congratulations to Biology Competitions Club Members and/or AP Biology Students on the following recent accomplishments:

At the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium Jasmine Wu (senior) won 2nd Place and $1,500 for her research presentation titled: Modeling Michigan West Nile Virus Cases Amid Climate Change. Aryan Singh (sophomore) won 4th Place for his project titled: Hyperglycemic conditions impair lung epithelial innate response to Klebsiella pneumoniae infection.

Claire Wu (junior), Jasmine Wu (senior), Alex Xu (senior), and Ray Zhang (sophomore) are all Semifinalists for the USA BioOlympiad having scored in the top 10% of the nation against over 9,000 students on this very challenging multiple-choice exam and will compete in April to become finalists.

At the Science Fair of Metro Detroit, Angela Xu (junior), Ethan Chen (junior), and Jonathan Chen (sophomore) are the Grand Award Winners for their research on Non-contact Continuous Cardiovascular Monitoring System and they won a Yale Science and Engineering Association Award. This team will now compete at the ISEF Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair in May.

Also, at the Science Fair of Metro Detroit, Deepti Aggarwal (sophomore) and Sanya Chawla (junior) won 1st Place for their research on the Measurement of Reactive Nitrogen Species Using Automated Western Blot System along with an award from the Society for In Vitro Biology. Sonnet Xu (sophomore) won 2nd Place for her research on A Machine Learning Approach to Mortality Prediction in Maintenance Hemodialysis and an award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Sneha Dinda (senior) won 3rd Place for her research on Mechanochemical Synthesis of Nanocrystalline Hydrooxyapatite. Gary Xu (junior) won 4th Place for his research on Properties of Stella Binaries and an award from the American Statistical Association.

The Wyland National Mural and Art Challenge awarded Annie He (senior) the 12th Grade Individual Artist Winner which included a $50 gift card for her impressive entry shown below.