This year we had 14 judges attending 5 different Science Fairs providing certificates and cash awards to 26 winners (ties and teams!) to 19 projects.

Thank you to everyone who participated! It is an activity that surprises and delights every year - looking forward to 2024.

Below is a list of this year's winning projects in alphabetical order.

• A Deep Learning-Oriented AI Solution to Fire Detection and Recognition for Wildfires
• A Novel Hollow Continuum Robot Inspired by an Earthworm Toward Multiscale Applications in Medical, Industrial, and Hazardous Workspaces
• Carbon Monoxide Output of an Outboard Engine
• Comparative Analysis of Concrete Samples Ingrained with Recycled Fibers
• Designing 3 Frozen Food Safety Capsule
• Determination of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, Nitrates, and Phosphates in Different Locations on the Potomac River
• Fentanyl exposure in law enforcement
• How Effective Are Lights, Crosswalks, and Signage in Improving Pedestrian Safety?
• Measuring Ventilation via Carbon Dioxide
• Microplastics in the air: Characterization and quantification of their types, and calculation of deposition rates using machine learning and statistical methods
• Mycelium Blocks for Drywall Insulation to Prevent the Spread of Building Fires
• Particulate Matter in High School Classrooms. The impact of student density.
• Planarian Regeneration
• The Effect of Radioactivity on Patient Health
• The Effect of Sex Differences on Flexion in Automobiles to Address Automotive Injury
• The Effect of Varying Sharpie Odor Concentrations on Drosophila melanogaster Fertility Cycles through Generations
• The Effect of Water Quality on Health-acquired Infections in India
• Using clinical data to estimate parameters for a computational model of SARS-CoV-2 infection dynamics
• Winged Noise Barriers: The Future of Efficient Highway Sound Suppression