Schedule of Events
Pre-Conference Day
Thursday, March 8, 2012
For All General Attendees and High School Participants
| Registration | 8:00am - 10:00am At Morgan State University |
| Opening Ceremony | 9:00am - 10:00am MSU Student Center Movie Theatre Presentation of Colors (MSU ROTC) National Anthem (Samantha Hernandez, Coppin State University, Sophomore) Glennae Williams, Mistress of Ceremonies Welcome Dr. Carl White, Director of MDJSHS Dr. Eugene DeLoatch, Dean of MSU School of Engineering Keynote Speakers Colonel William C Hoppe, Military Deputy Director (CERDEC) US Army Lieutenant Colonel Quentin Smith, Product Director C4SIR & Network Modernization (CERDEC) U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Richard J. Hornstein, Military Deputy, Command and Control Directorate (CERDEC) |
| 9:30 am to 10:00 am | Workshop Presenters Orientation Room 315 |
| 12:00pm to 1:00pm | Lunch for Special Guests Room 316 MSU Student Center |
| HIGH SCHOOLS Group A |
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| 10:00 am to 11:30 am | High School Research and Abstract Writing Training Workshops Room 210 A, 210 B, 212 A, and 212 B in Student Center |
| 11:35 am to 12:00 pm | Lunch Ballroom B and C in MSU Student Center |
| 12:05 pm to 2:05 pm | ISF STEM Exhibit Hall Gym in MSU Field House |
| 2:10 pm to 2:45 pm | ISC Pre Conference Closing and Dismissal Movie Theatre in MSU Student Center |
| Group B | |
| 10:00 am to 12:00 pm | ISC STEM Exhibit Hall Gym in MSU Field House |
| 12:05 am to 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 12:35 pm to 2:05 pm | High School Research and Abstract Writing Training Workshops Room 210 A, 210 B, 212 A, and 212 B Student Center |
| 2:10 pm to 2:45 pm | ISC Pre Conference Closing and Dismissal Movie Theatre in MSU Student Center |
Schedule of Events
Pre-Conference Day
Thursday, March 8, 2012
For All Middle School Participants
| Registation | 8:00am to10:00am At Morgan State University Student Center |
| Opening Ceremony | 9:00am to 9:45am MSU Student Center Movie Theatre Presentation of Colors (MSU ROTC) National Anthem (Samantha Hernandez) Glennae Williams, Mistress of Ceremonies Welcome Dr. Carl White, Director of MDJSHS Dr. Eugene DeLoatch, Dean of MSU School of Engineering Keynote Speaker Colonel William C Hoppe, Military Deputy Director (CERDEC) US Army Lieutenant Colonel Quentin Smith, Product Director C4SIR & Network Modernization (CERDEC) U.S. Army |
| Group A: | |
| 10:00 am to 10:30 am | Team Innovation Ballroom A in MSU Student Center |
| 10:32 am to 12:00 pm | ISC STEM Exhibit Hall Gym in MSU Field House |
| 12:05 pm to 1:00 pm | Lunch Ballroom B and C in MSU Student Center |
| 1:10 pm to 1:50 pm | Beat this Design Challenge/Tri-Math-Alon Movie Theatre in MSU Student Center |
| 1:50 pm to 2:00 pm | Award Ceremony Movie Theatre in MSU Student Center |
| 2:10 pm to 2:45 pm | ISC Closing and Dismissal Theatre in MSU Student Center |
| Group B: | |
| 10:00 am to 10:30 am | ISC STEM Exhibit Hall Gym in MSU Field House |
| 10:35 am to 11:05 pm | Team Innovation Ballroom A in MSU Student Center |
| 11:10 am to 12:00 pm | ISC STEM Exhibit Hall Gym in MSU Field House |
| 12:05 pm to 1:00 pm | Lunch Ballroom B and C in MSU Student Center |
| 1:10 pm to 1:50 pm | Beat this Design Challenge/Tri-Math-Alon Movie Theatre in MSU Student Center |
| 1:50 pm to 2:00 pm | Award Ceremony Theatre in MSU Student Center |
| 2:10 pm to 2:45 pm | ISC Closing and Dismissal Theatre in MSU Student Center |
| Group C: | |
| 10:00 am to 11:00 am | ISC STEM Exhibit Hall Gym in MSU Field House |
| 11:05 am to 11:35 pm | Team Innovation Ballroom A in MSU Student Center |
| 11:40 am to 12:00 pm | ISC STEM Exhibit Hall Gym in MSU Field House |
| 12:05 pm to 1:00 pm | Lunch Ballroom B and C in MSU Student Center |
| 1:10 pm to 1:50 pm | Beat this Design Challenge/Tri-Math-Alon Movie Theatre in MSU Student Center |
| 1:50 pm to 2:00 pm | Award Ceremony Movie Theatre in MSU Student Center |
| 2:10 pm to 2:45 pm | ISC Closing and Dismissal Movie Theatre in MSU Student Center |
| Group D: | |
| 10:00 am to 11:35 pm | ISC STEM Exhibit Hall Gym in MSU Field House |
| 11:40 am to 12:00 am | Team Innovation Ballroom A in MSU Student Center |
| 12:05 pm to 1:00 pm | Lunch Ballroom B and C in MSU Student Center |
| 1:10 pm to 1:50 pm | Beat this Design Challenge/Tri-Math-Alon Movie Theatre in MSU Student Center |
| 1:50 pm to 2:00 pm | Award Ceremony Movie Theatre in MSU Student Center |
| 2:10 pm to 2:45 pm | ISC Closing and Dismissal Movie Theatre in MSU Student Center |
Schedule of Events
Pre-Conference Day
Thursday, March 8, 2012
For All JSHS/ISS Participants
| Registration | 3:00 pm - 10:00 pm At the Marriott Baltimore Hunt Valley Inn Maryland Coat Check: Lobby Level |
| Opening Reciption | 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
At the Maryland Ballroom Dr. Carl White Opens Evening – 7:30pm Keynote Speaker US Department of Energy |
Schedule of Events
Friday, March 9, 2012
For All JSHS Participants
| Registration | |
| 7:00 am to 10:00 am | Registration Maryland Coat Check: Lobby Level |
| 7:00 am to 9:00 am | Breakfast Maryland Foyer |
| 7:00 am to 10:00 am | Oral/Poster Presentation Setup |
| Opening Session | 9:00 am to 9:45 am At the Valley Ballroom Dr. Carl White Welcome – 9:05 am Mistress of Ceremonies |
| 9:40 am to 10:00 am | Workshop Presenters Orientation (Mr Clifton Martin) Pimlico Room |
| High School Oral Research Presentations 10:00 am to 12:30 pm |
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| Session 1 Engineering Salon A |
Judges: Dr. Michel Reece Ms. Samantha Wallace Mr. William Campbell Valery Leng Poolesville High School Investigation of real-space interlayer coupling for twisted bilayer graphene Jack Zhu Poolesville High School Analysis of Electrostatic Charge on Small-Arms Projectiles Hyunji Kim River Hill High School MMA Polymerization Dominic Ong River Hill High School Harvesting and Converting Waste Energy Into Useable Energy Vir Thakor River Hill High School A Universal Algorithm for Locomotion: Artificial Central Pattern Generator Caroline Park Walt Whitman High School Novel Silicon/Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Anode Material for Lithium Ion Batteries Neil Davey Montgomery Blair Assessment of Map-Making Algorithms in Autonomous Robots for the Retrieval and Storage of Goods Ned Pollard Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Vibrational Testing Methods and System Identification Techniques for Modeling Seismic Response in Structures |
| Session 2 Environmental Science/Earth and Space Salon B |
Judges: Mrs. Antoinetta Thompson-Wood Dr. Carl White William Cameron Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Reducing paper use in schools Niranjan Lakhanpal River Hill High School Revolutionizing Thermal Coatings Anusha Nathan Centennial High School Syndecan Gene Expression in Brain, Fat, and Heart Tissues and its Effect on Immunity in Drosophila melanogaster Constance Fu River Hill High School Biochemical Thermodynamics: The Hydrolysis of Adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) Dhrisya Raman Centennial High School The Impact of Perilipin Overexpression on Triglyceride Prevalence in Cardiac Tissue Juing Yeh Centennial High School Zona Incerta Suppression in the Thalamus: A Mechanism for Central Pain Syndrome Morgan Greene Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Examining the Effect of Neuritin (CPG15) on B-16 Melanoma Proliferation Lori Kaufman Montgomery Blair High School Experimental Evidence for a High Temperature Iron Isotope Fractionation |
| Session 3 Life Science Salon C |
Judges: Dr. Mathumathi Rajavel Dr. Sandra Collier Robert Luo Poolesville High School Parallel Culture of Two Algal Biofuel Strains (Botryoccocus braunii and Chlorella vulgaris) David Lee Poolesville High School Induction of Cyr61 Protein and Its Role in Prostate Carcinoma PC-3 Cells Kevin Mei Poolesville High School Power-Dependence Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy Marshall Demaree River Hill High School The Effect of CARMIL on the Bond Duration of Capping Protein Daniel Shinn River Hill High School Regulating Myeloid-derived Suppressor Cells by down regulating iNOS Jai Thakor River Hill High School Nanofiber-Hydrogel Conduit as a Guide to Nerve Regeneration Lori Kaufman Montgomery Blair High School Experimental Evidence for a High Temperature Iron Isotope Fractionation |
| Session 4 Medicine and Health/Behavioral Science Salon D |
Judges: Dr. Jana Kesavan Anthony Armstong (c/o Dr White) Da'Kuawn Johnson Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Complications of Diabetic Retinopathy Are Suppressed in the Absence of Placental Growth Factor Billy Lu Baltimore Polytechnic Institute The Effect of the Combination of Kinase Inhibitors and Androgen Deprivation Therapy on the Survival of LNCaP Prostate Cancer Cells Sih Oka-Zeh Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Cardiac Gene investigation in Zebrafish Hannah Clark Home-Schooled Concentration and Distraction - Does Distraction Impair Accuracy Sean Wang Poolesville High School Integration of Imaging and Systems Biology to Study the Treatment of Medulloblastoma Tiffany Wong Poolesville High School Discovering the Connection Between Met Mutations and Kidney Cancer Ahmed Abbasi Poolesville High School Development of a detailed, high-resolution 3D atlas of the human basal ganglia Nicole Moy River Hill High School The Prediction of Obstructive Sleep Apnea by Physicians Using Photographic Analysis |
| Session 5 Physical Science/Mathematics and Computer Science Salon E |
Judges: Mr. Steve Taulbee Dr. James Carroll Dr. Satish Penmatsa Amman Haque River Hill High School Evaluating Digital Audio Compression Techniques for Subjective Quality Harrison Lee Baltimore Polytechnic Institute A Video Game Taxonomy from Biomedical Perspective: Describing Immersion Qualities in Video Games Brendan Rowan Web-based Flexible Data Reduction for Neutron Reflectometry Michael Tontchev Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Methods in Automated Grammar Induction Sandow Sinai Poolesville High School Three Proofs of the Generalized Hypergraph Ramsey Theorem Elric Zhang River Hill High School On the Creation of a Soliton Quantum Computer Simulation Pavleen Thukral Poolesville High School Hierarchical Automatic Image Based Human Age Estimation using Relevance Vector Machine Regression and Multi-Classifier Fusion Ruchi Gondalia Marriotts Ridge High School Public Key Cryptography and Implementation in Network Security |
| Session 6 Medicine and Health/ Life Science Salon F |
Judges: Mrs. Tiara Booker-Dwyer Dr. VIPIN K. RASTOGI Alexander Wang River Hill High School Flat-field Analysis of Fluorescent Microscope Images Devi Srinivansan Sherwood High School Use of a Double Immunostaining Procedure to Measure TNF- levels as an indicator of Vitamin A deficiency and/or use of Morphine in HIV transgenic rat tissues Tiffany Le Poolesville High School Investigation of Protein Markers Responsible for Antimicrobial Resistance in Orientia tsutsugamushi Elias Weston-Farber Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Effect of codon optimization on yeast Ty1 transposition: Understanding the mobile genetic elements existing within the genome of most organisms Abena Apaw Montgomery Blair High School Altering the Nucleotide Composition of Yeast Mitochondrial Genome: Synthesizing a COX2 Gene with Increased G-C Content Yuqing Peng Centennial High School Role of CACCs in Chronic Hypertension Marq Liah Harris Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Characterization of bacteriophage specific for E.coli |
| Session 7 Mathematics/Computer Science/Engineering/Physical Science Pimlico |
Judges: Dr. Sharma Sharad Mrs. Deanna Tyler Ms. Sharese Williams Ned Pollard Vibrational Testing Methods and System Identification Techniques for Modeling Seismic Response in Structures Godil Harris Poolesville High School Assessment of the Improvements of SLAM on Dead Reckoning through Base Case Scenarios Wang Xie Sidwell Friends School Shock Profile for Gas Dynamics in Thermal Nonequilibrium Jaideep Bhargava Poolesville High School Spectrum Depth and Classification Accuracy in Automated Particle Analysis Daniel Sun Poolesville High School Neutron Reflection Conditions for Magnetic Diffraction Stephen Timmel Baltimore Polytechnic Applications of Group Theory to Campagnology Joseph Park Feasibility of the Use of Pigeon Pea Urease to Utilize C5 Sugars in Lignocellulosic Ethanol Production Nathan Greene Baltimore Polytechnic Institute The Decay of Turbulence Generated by a Active Grid of Fractals Anuradha Banerjee Poolesville High School Characterizing the Thermal Frequency Response of Calorimeter Vessels due to Conduction and Incipient Convection Huy Lam Lam Poolesville High School A Multi-Sattelite Approach to Auroral Kilometric Radiation Using the Virtual Wave Observatory |
| 11:00 to 1:00pm | Urban Roundtable for STEM (UR STEM) [Invite Only] Belmont Room |
| 12:30 am to 1:00 pm | Judges Lunch Garden Room |
| 12:30 pm to 1:00 pm | Lunch Maryland Ballroom |
| 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm | High School Poster Presentations Maryland Ballroom |
| 2:30pm | Adjournment |
| Edutainment 7:00 pm to 11:00pm |
Jacob Lattimore and Dance Competition Maryland Ballroom |
Schedule of Events
Saturday, March 10, 2012
For All ISS Participants
| Registration | |
| 7:00 am to 1:00 pm | Registration Maryland Coatcheck - Lobby Level |
| 7:00 am to 9:00 am | Breakfast Maryland Foyer |
| 7:00 am to 10:00 am | Oral Presentation Setup |
| Opening Session |
9:00 am to 9:45 am At the Hunt Ballroom Dr. Carl White Welcome - 9:05 am Mistress of Ceremonies |
| 9:40 am to 10:00 am | Workshop Presenters Orientation (Mr Clifton Martin) Pimlico Room |
| ISS Research Presentations 10:00 am to 11:30 am |
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| Session 1 Engineering/Medicine and Health/Behavioral Science Salon A |
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| Judges: Dr. Weiwei Zhu Mrs. Antonetta Thompson-Wood Mr. Steven Taulbee Dr. Mathumathi Rajavel Dr. James Carroll |
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Shamara Collins Morgan State University Optimizing the Fabrication Process of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Richard Negri Morgan State University The Microwave Drying of Molecular Sieve for Joint Chemical Agent Detector Caroline Waiyaki Morgan State University S-band Power Amplifier Implementing a Novel Power Divider with Enhanced Harmonic Suppression Vidya Gondalia Johns Hopkins University Gene Therapy: Repercussions and Regulations Kamal Neupane Morgan State University Abstract Digital Radio |
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| Session 2 Physical Science/Math/Computer Science Salon B |
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| Judges: Dr. Mark Williams Ms. Samantha Wallace Dr. Sharad Sharma Dr. Muthuvel Murugan Mr. Byron Bradley |
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Duke Forsyth Benjamin Short Tanya Saha Northern Virginia Community College A PHYSICAL MODEL FOR A TOROIDAL DIPOLE MOMENT (group) Bradley Bynum Ramsey Benhusen Douglas Goncz Northern Virginia Community College Frictionless Bearings in a Model of Inductive Magnetic Levitation (group) Karyn Boggs Eva Hardy Omodele Omonijo Coppin State University Mathematica Soft Computing and Problem Solving (group) John Drew Tennessee State University Developing a Wearable Augmented Reality System for Weatherization Yvonne Villarreal University of Maryland Eastern Shore Closing the Gap: More Instructional Days and the Minority Student Izaiah Wallace Morgan State University Intelligent Switch Controller for CIAM TOAN Lab |
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| Session 3 Engineering/Physics/Math/Computer Science Salon C |
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| Judges: Dr. Atma Sahu Dr. Candice Ridlon Dr. Satish Penmatsa Mr. William Campbell |
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Zaeema Zafar Robert Argus Jonathan Mills Omar Moran Tony Nguyen Northern Virginia Community College Experiments in Inductive Magnetic Levitation (group) Eric Seabron Morgan State University Optimization Method to Improve Gain-Noise Trade-offs in Cascade Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) Designs Jamal Henderson Tennessee State University Weatherization Assessment with Augmented Reality and BIM: A Solution to Energy Cost Reduction Semaj Rashad Morgan State University IMPROVEMENT OF COMFORT FOR FLAT-FOOTED PEOPLE Matthew Moore University of Maryland Eastern Shore Hear and Measure Applications Ali Wilder Morgan State University Software-Defined Radio Transceiver Implementation for NASA Space Network |
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| Adjournment |
Schedule of Events
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Closing Ceremony for ISC Conference
| 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Dinner Maryland Ballroom |
| 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Awards Ceremony Maryand Ballroom |
