Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - Nine NCSSM students were honored as semifinalists in this year’s Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology, one of the most prestigious STEM competitions in the nation. The competition gives high school students an opportunity to achieve national recognition for science research projects.

Ranked in the top 322 students from a nationwide pool of 2,255 student competitors are NCSSM’s Landon Carter, William Ge, Morgan Howell, Jason Liang, Halston Lim, Param Sidhu, Yu Wang, Eric Wang and Amy Xu.

Group projects were entered by Liang and Lim — “Detectability of Neutrinos from Failed Supernovae and Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers” and Howell and Sidhu — “A High-Throughput Optogenetic Toolkit for Rapid Screening of Therapeutic Targets in Medical Genetics.”

Individual projects were submitted by Carter — “Design and Synthesis of Novel Tetraphenyl-Porphyrin Based Metal-Organic Framework for Photodynamic Therapy and Drug Delivery,”  Ge — “Differential Sequestration of TLR Agonists: a Novel Mechanism by Which apoE Isoform Regulates Immunoresponse in Humans,” Eric Wang — “Novel Visualizations of Genomic Population Data,” Yu Wang – “A Computational and Statistical Analysis on the Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles” and Xu — “Electrodeposition of Group IV Chalcogenide Thin Solar Cells.”