| As you probably know, I like
science a lot, and one way that I have fun with science is doing science
fair projects. I have be blessed to go to the Intel International
Science and Engineering Fair twice. In 2001 it was held at the
McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. In 2002 it was
held at the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville,
Kentucky. ISEF 2003 was held in Cleveland, Ohio. Matt and
Larry won 3rd place in the grand award ceremony with their CPU scalability
project. You can find pictures from three years of ISEF at
Larry's
site which is hosted by Ben "Digiz" Jackson. Thanks, Ben, for the ad
free web space!
My 2001 project involved developing a Fractal dimension box-counting computer algorithm in C++ to differentiate between B-Cell chronic lymphocytic leukemic cells and normal lymphocytes (white blood cells.) In my research I concluded that the box-counting algorithm developed accurately differentiated between healthy and B-CLL cells. The box-counting algorithm has rarely been used in medical analysis--the more compute intensive probabilistic method and other time consuming methods have been used up until now. You can read my complete abstract here, or you can view the 52nd Intel International Science and Engineering (ISEF) Fair proceedings on page 393. I entered this project into the Intel Science Talent Search but did not win anything. Although, I did win third place at the Alabama Science Talent Search (Gorgas Scholarship.) Matt, Larry, and I are did a project in 2002 on a Java based hydrocarbon viewer for the ASPIRE competition and Intel Science Fair. You type in a hydrocarbon name like methane, or a carbohydrate like glucose and it will draw the molecule in 3D utilizing the Java3D API. If you would like the .class file or .java file you can email me from your ISP account only (no Hotmail accounts) and describe a little bit about what you need the files for. More than likely I will let you look at the files. I am not posting it on the website currently because we are seeking to apply for patent protection. You can read our complete abstract here, or you can view the 53rd Intel International Science and Engineering (ISEF) Fair proceedings on page 168. As I finish my high school career at UMS-Wright and venture into the college research environment, I hope to continue my research in the fields of computer science, biology, and chemistry. I will continue this research at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana where I will major in Electrical Engineering and Biochemistry. Rose-Hulman has been rated the best undergraduate engineering school in the country four years in a row by US News and World Report. Usually the only people that have heard of the school are people interested in engineering (not English majors and definitely not Drama, Sonnet, or Shakespeare majors), and my friends from ISEF. This summer I will self study statistics, and Allan Seibert and I will start researching a project that involves some ideas we have learned from our AP science classes. It is still in the "skunk works", so I won't give any information about it at this time. Basic level research needs to be done before the idea is determined to be feasible. If it is a workable conception we will have to use our AP Chemistry knowledge to determine if the idea will produce a prototype that is more efficient than current technology. Check here for updates.
Research is what I do
when I do not know what I am doing.
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