Kushagra invented the Robot Ocean Saver to make cleaning up the oceans and protecting marine animals easy and safe. Kushagra explains what it does, how it works, and why this issue matters.

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The Oil Soaper is Dael’s idea to help prevent and clean up oil spills that are harmful to marine life. Dael explains what it does, how it works, and why this issue matters.

In collaboration with Little Inventors

by Sophia Yang
This study observed the link between negative thinking and mutation in the TP53 gene, commonly found to promote cancers. A content analysis showed that constant negative thoughts over long​ periods of time can change the way signals are being interpreted in the body and stimulate the release of compounds that prevent genes from producing proteins. Thirty-seven case studies​ revealed that 92.5% of TP53-mutated cancer patients had chronic negativity (>25 weeks) prior to any diagnostics, thus showing the correlation between negative thinking and carcinogenesis.

by Michelle Song
To provide consumers with fresh produce throughout the year, vegetables and fruit are stored immediately after harvest time. However, pre and postharvest losses caused by fungal diseases such as Botrytis cinerea (grey mold) are major factors limiting the marketing and storage life of produce (Zhang, 2009). Therefore, developing innovative and natural strategies to control these diseases with no environmental or health risks is vital.

by Anav Mehta
In recent years, reinforcement learning has seen increased interest because of deep Q-Learning, a learning algorithm where the model is a deep convolutional neural network trained with Q-learning variants. Deep Q-Learning has shown promising results in games such as Atari and Go (Mnih et al., 2015). Instead of learning the entire Q-table, it learns an estimate of the Q function that determines a state’s policy action. For this project, we used two reinforcement learning techniques, Q-Learning and deep Q-learning, to learn control policies of four constraint satisfaction games (15-Puzzle, Minesweeper, 2048, and Sudoku).

by Alicia Kee & Aareen Sharma
Capelin is a small short-lived species of fish with high reproductive potential. Capelin plays an important role in the ecosystem as a food source for predators such as cod, whales, seals, tuna, and more. Capelin fish are usually found in the North Atlantic, North Pacific and the Arctic Ocean and have two modes of reproductive behaviour: beach and deep-water spawning. They lay eggs at these sites that will eventually hatch into larvae.

by Sriya Rajyam
Machine learning (ML) is a subset of artificial intelligence, enabling systems to improve from experience without explicit instructions. Accomplished through computer algorithms, statistics are used to identify patterns in data. These patterns in turn help predict or make decisions regarding unknown data. Gesture recognition is the practice of interpreting human gestures with algorithms. This project uses ML to track human activity through gesture recognition.