9:30-10:00 Registration Outside Lounge, 4th Floor, CoRE Building Refreshments Lounge, Room 401, 4th Floor, CoRE Building 10:00-10:10 Welcome Auditorium, 1st Floor, CoRE Building Professor Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director, Rutgers University Midge Cozzens, Colorado Institute of Technology 10:10-11:00 Keynote Address: Gary Benson Boston University Title: The Human Genome: What's In It and How Do We Know? 11:00-11:10 Break Lounge, Room 401, 4th Floor, CoRE Building 11:10-12:30 Session A - CoRE A, 3rd Floor 11:10-11:25 Won't You Be My Neighbor...Joining Project Chase Chapdelaine, Nate Jones, Billy Kistler, Dylan McKenna, Jessica Platt Monument Mountain Regional High School, Great Barrington, MA 11:25-11:30 Questions and Answers 11:30-11:45 Reverso Alanna Astion, Matt Dellea, Keelynn Harris, Drew Mintz Monument Mountain Regional High School, Great Barrington, MA 11:45-11:50 Questions and Answers 11:50-12:05 The Effect of Music on Auditory Acuity Sophia Wagner-Serrano Rondout Valley High School, Accord, NY 12:05-12:10 Questions and Answers 12:10-12:25 A Method for Automatically Registering Multiple Rigid Three Dimensional (3D) Data Sets Daniel F. Huber, Martial Herbert, presented by Andy Eggers Rondout Valley High School, Accord, NY 12:25-12:30 Questions and Answers Session B - Seminar Room, 431 11:10-11:25 Rodents and Humans and Cows (Oh My!) Zane Martin, Lauren Stephenson, Cindy Schmelkin, Emily Ury Monument Mountain Regional High School, Great Barrington, MA 11:25-11:30 Questions and Answers 11:30-11:45 RNA Reconstruction Alden Barbieri, Anna Lucia Lister, Elyse Yarmosky Monument Mountain Regional High School, Great Barrington, MA 11:45-11:50 Questions and Answers 11:50-12:05 The Interaction of TOG within the Cytoskeletal Complex in Immature Oligodendrocytes Danqing Li Rondout Valley High School, Accord, NY 12:05-12:10 Questions and Answers 12:10-12:25 SLC24A5 and Its Role in Human Pigmentation Kathleen Carter Villa Maria Academy, Malvern, PA 12:25-12:30 Questions and Answers 12:30-1:10 Luncheon Lounge, Room 401, 4th Floor, CoRE Building 1:10-2:10 Session A - CoRE A, 3rd Floor 1:10-1:25 Waksman Challenge Steve Andenmatten, Tucker Anderson, Nick Carlson, Greg Gniadek, Ned Grant, Keelynn Harris, Noah Kirsch, Anna-Lucia Lister, Ethan Seaman, Jess Yarmosky Monument Mountain Regional High School, Great Barrington, MA 1:25-1:30 Questions and Answers 1:30-1:45 Coliform Testing at a Wastewater Treatment Plant After Flooding in the Town of Ulster, NY Sarah Prehn Rondout Valley High School, Accord, NY 1:45-1:50 Questions and Answers 1:50-2:05 The Influence of WNT16 on Cell Division Haley Garrison Villa Maria Academy, Malvern, PA 2:05-2:10 Questions and Answers Session B1 - Seminar Room, 431 1:10-1:55 Avian Influenza Project (DVD Presentation) Yasemin Gokce, Dilan Mizrakli, Arda Kara, Aycan Nur Sagir Robert College, Turkey Session B2 - DIMACS PC Labs 448 and 450 1:55-2:10 Graph Theory Program Demonstration Dan Petrescu, Dancescu Emilian, Baiuta Sorin, Frigea Stefanut Alexandru Ian Cuza High School, Romania 2:10-2:55 Piles of Tiles Challenge Seminar Room, 431 2:55-3:05 Break Lounge, Room 401, 4th Floor, CoRE Building 3:05-4:05 Session A - DIMACS Lobby, 4th Floor 3:05-4:05 Poster Presentations Alzheimer's Disease-like Neuropathology of Gene-targetednext Term APP-SLxPS1mut Mice Expressing the Amyloid Precursor Protein at Endogenous Levels Christoph Kohler, Ulrich Ebert, Karlheinz Baumann, and Hannsjorg Schroder, presented by Sonia Narvaez Rondout Valley High School, Accord, NY Marketing Advertisement and the Strong Link with the Obesity of Children in Today's Society April Schindler Rondout Valley High School, Accord, NY Reinforcement Learning and Shaping: Encouraging Intended Behaviors Adam Laud and Gerald DeJong, presented by Leif Tokle Rondout Valley High School, Accord, NY The 30 Second Effect: An Experiment Revealing the Impact of Television Commercials on Food Preferences of Preschoolers Experiment Conducted by Dina L. G. Borzekowski, presented by April Schindler Rondout Valley High School, Accord, NY The Effects of Reward and Punishment in Violent Video Games on Aggressive Affect, Cognition, and Behavior Nicholas L. Carnagey, Craig A. Anderson, presented by Deven Connelly Rondout Valley High School, Accord, NY Evolution of Hemispheric Specialization: Advantages and Disadvantages Lesley J. Rogers, presented by Kristen Lamastro Rondout valley High School, Accord, NY The Adolescent Sexual World and AIDS Prevention: A Democratic Approach to Programme Design in Zimbabwe Paulette Schatz and Kuzvinetsa P. Dzvimbo, presented by Colleen Kruppa Rondout Valley High School, Accord, NY Session B1 - Seminar Room, 431 3:05-3:50 The Genealogical Connection of Turks to Western Asia and Europe (DVD Presentation) Ceyhun Arslan, Ceren Yalniz, Levent Tuzun Robert College, Turkey Session B2 - DIMACS PC Labs 448 and 450 3:50-4:05 Graph Theory Program Demonstration Dan Petrescu, Dancescu Emilian, Baiuta Sorin, Frigea Stefanut Alexandru Ian Cuza High School, Romania 4:05-4:20 Awards and Closing Remarks Auditorium, 1st Floor, CoRE Building