2024 IMSA Board of Trustees Alumni Awards
The IMSA Board of Trustees established its Alumni Awards program in 2006 to recognize Alumni who deliver outstanding contributions to IMSA, to the citizens of Illinois, our nation, and the...
Use of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines on Agricultural Drones
Sanjay Ravishankar Grade 11, Poster Presenter This experiment explored the effect of vertical axis wind turbines on the range and efficiency of an unmanned aerial vehicle by using the wind turbines as the independent variable as well as...
Permafrost Thaw in Relation to the Varied Photosynthetic Pathways and Abundance of Chlorophytum comosum, Sedum angelina, and Senecio cineraria to Limit Thermokarst Action
Ashrith Valluri Grade 10 The purpose of this research was twofold: 1) to investigate if plants that used varied photosynthetic pathways (C3 or CAM) decrease permafrost thaw amount and subsequent CO2 accumulation and 2) ascertain if plant...
Novel Convolutional Neural Networks for Improved Accuracy in User-Accessible Brain Tumor Detection
Kevin Tian Grade 9 The purpose of this design investigation was to create three user-friendly artificial intelligence (AI) models, specifically convolutional neural networks (CNNs), each designed using different and novel techniques for...
RISE Poster Presenter Sahana Garapati
Novel Treatment as Reduction of Oxidative Stress Using Mixed Antioxidants for Alzheimer’s Disease Symptoms Sahana Garapati Grade 10 The purpose of this experiment was to investigate if the combination of the antioxidants ferulic...
RISE Poster Presenter Maggie McIntyre Describes Project
The Impact of 2-Propanol and Sodium Hypochlorite on Quantity of Extracted DNA from Human Fingerprints for the Advancement of Forensic Fingerprinting Technologies Maggie McIntyre Grade 9 Physical fingerprints are frequently used as...