Hopkinton High School seniors Dylan Striek and Anoushkha Nair captured a first-place award at the Massachusetts Science and Engineering Fair on April 4 and qualified for a trip to Columbus, Ohio, to compete at the International Science Fair in May.

Striek and Nair’s project was titled The GlycoCharge: A Translational Spectrophotometric Apparatus for Noninvasive Glucose Monitoring in Type II Diabetes. They also won the Regeneron Biomedical Science Award.

Also at the state fair, Simrit Kukreja and Aryan Shah earned a second-place nod for Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Huntington’s Disease: An Antisense Oligonucleotide Therapeutic Strategy for Inhibiting Mutant Exon 1 Expression, and Miyu Hasegawa and Piyusha Majgaonkar took third place for The Effects of Terpene — a Plant Compound — on Reducing Lobaplatin-Induced Neurotoxicity.

Receiving honorable mention were Emilia Graham (Understanding the Immunomodulatory Effects of Echinacea Purpurea on the Innate Immune System of Caenorhabditis Elegans), Vaagmi Shukla (Understanding Neurotoxicity: Drosophila Melanogaster as a Model for Memory Loss), Madhav Warrier and Aarush Naik (Modeling Combustion-Induced Oxidative Stress in Drosophila Melanogaster) and Kaizar Rangwala (Scientific Machine Learning and Photodynamic Therapy for Anticipation, Prevention, and Mitigation of Harmful Algal Blooms).

Shukla also won the Harvard Summer School Secondary School Program Scholarship, while Warrier and Nail received the Pauline J. LaMarche Memorial Award.