The Broadcom Foundation and Society for Science & the Public are excited to reveal the names of the 30 middle school finalists in the 2012 Broadcom MASTERS competition.
2012 Competition Finalists
| First Name | Last Name | City | State | Project |
| Jessika | Baral | Fremont | CA | A Novel Way to Strengthen Eye Muscles and Enhance Peripheral Vision |
| Samuel | Coulson | Weston | MO | A Futuristic Study of the Effects of Microgravity on the Biomass and Variation of Stems from Perpendicular of Raphanus sativus |
| Lisa | Criscione | Seven Hills | OH | Rusty Concrete: Will Too Much Water Corrode Concrete Faster? |
| Shashank | Dholakia | Santa Clara | CA | The Sky is no Limit- a Photometric Comparison of the Variable Stars Beta Lyra and Delta Cephei |
| Shishir | Dholakia | Santa Clara | CA | The Sky is no Limit- a Photmetric Comparison of the Variable Stars Beta |
| Cassa | Drury | Louisville | KY | Exploring Cell Signaling in Wound Healing |
| Katherine | Fennell | New York | NY | Could A Small Aquatic Plant Have Reversed Global Warming 49 Million Years ago? |
| Elan | Filler | Rancho Palos Verdes | CA | What is the Environmental Source of Cryptococcus gattii? |
| Paige | Gentry | San Angelo | TX | Reducing Rabies Responsibly |
| Raymond | Gilmartin | South Pasadena | CA | Spare the Environment, Spoiler the Car: The Effect of Rear Spoilers on Drag and Lift |
| Maria | Grimmett | Jupiter | FL | H2Oh No! Pharmaceuticals are in my Groundwater. Sulfamethazine Adsorption/Desorption Isotherms and Kinetics using Purolite Resin MN250 |
| Olivia | Henderson | Loveland | OH | The Tsunami Safety System: Deploying the Barrier |
| Sean | Hnath | Reading | PA | Ride the Wave to Power: Building and Testing an Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Generator |
| Varun | Iyer | Springfield | IL | Energy: The Sound Way: The Effects of Various Configurations of Heat Stack on the Energy Output of a Thermoacoustic Piezoelectric Generator |
| Anirudh | Jain | Portland | OR | Use of Diatoms as biological indicators for silver nanoparticle pollution |
| Carolyn | Jons | Eden Prairie | MN | The Effect of Oxygen Removal Treatments on the Mold Growth of Blueberries |
| Chase | Lewis | Chapel Hill | NC | Nitrocellulose: Speedy as a Flash |
| David | Li | Commack | NY | The Impact of a Parabolic Reflector on Wi-Fi Reception at Different Angles: A Compromise between Signal Strength and Angle |
| Shixuan | Li | Lynn Haven | FL | No Mo Squitoes: Repellent Formulation Development with Natural Ingredients using Design of Experiments on Aedes aegypti via the K & D in vitro Method. |
| Anna | Lou | Anaheim | CA | Can 'Artificial' Intelligence Be More Intelligent Than Human Doctors and Professors in Playing Blokus? |
| Daniel | Lu | Carlisle | MA | Psychoacoustics: The Perception of Volume |
| Ceili | Masterson | Palm Bay | FL | The Effects of Reduced pH Levels on the Growth and Survival of the Calcareous Shelled Bivavle, Mercenaria mercenaria |
| Ethan | Messier | Assonet | MA | Wave To The Future (The Utilization of Marine Waves Using Wave Buoys to Generate Electricity) |
| William | Monts | Bluffton | SC | Sail Away |
| Nicole | Odzer | North Miami Beach | FL | Can Reef-Building Corals Adapt to the Stress of Global Warming? The Effect of Global Warming and PAR on Coral Bleaching in Montastrea cavernosa |
| Maura | Oei | Hebron | CT | Development of a Prototype Pendulum Wave Energy Conversion Device |
| Maya | Patel | The Woodlands | TX | Gauging Inferno Sprawl |
| Mabel | Wheeler | Orem | UT | Sunburnt Polymers |
| John | Wilkins | San Antonio | TX | The Effects of Changing the Moon's Eccentricity on High Tide Height (the maximum and minimum high tide in one year) in Boston, Massachusetts Coastal Area |
| Camille | Yoke | Midlothian | VA | The Effect of Boat Hull Shape, Height of Center of Gravity and Degree of Incline on Amount of Restoring Torque Produced |




