>> Sara Volz: 40 of us were selected for high school students from across the

nation for our research.

My research is on algae biofuels.

I am trying to make algae into a sustainable option

to power our fuel economy.

Akshay Padmanabha: My project is pretty much predicting, detecting,

and treating seizures.

Lane Gunderman: My research was on investigating a certain photo,

certain protein involved in photosynthetic and root

tree transfer.

Catherine Wong: So I work in mobile phone based diagnostics.

And that is about building low cost medical tools specifically

for patients in the developing world.

Raja Selvakumar: I took electricity from stomach bacteria,

and the essentially what I was trying to do with this was to

see how it could be applied in biomedical applications.

Jonah Kallenbach: Classifying when certain types of proteins will interact with

each other.

And it can potentially be used to develop new treatments for

diseases including tuberculosis, breast, and ovarian cancer.

Kelly Zhang: The goal of the my project is to create a biodegradable

Nano-particle that can paint tumors with fluorescent colors

so surgeons can see cancer cells during surgery.

Kensen Shi: I created a new and more efficient robotics navigation

algorithm that can plan safe paths for robots.

Vincent O'Leary: I looked at the invasive species of crayfish.

It is basically I am just trying to figure out how they

invade and use that to stop them.

Raja Selvakumar: Find a problem and you think about it,

you try to come up with a solution.

Sometimes it doesn't work, sometimes it does work.

In my case, it did work, so here I am.

Kelly Zhang: I realize that, wow, I can actually go to the lab and

pursue some, some of the ideas that I had.

And that was really a cool realization that science is not

just limited to the classroom.

But it can be applied in real life.

Kensen Shi: Science can be viewed as the propeller of humanity.

It has led us from the Stone Age to the current information

age and beyond.

Sara Volz: Science, I like to think of it as a verb, not a noun.

So it is, it is really a process,

it is a philosophy of being able to find something new and really

exciting in everything that you do.