My name is Vivek Prakash. I am a rising senior at Bridgewater-Raritan High School in Bridgewater, NJ. The summer of 2009 was the third summer that I have been doing research as an intern with the Borguet Group. I worked on research regarding the immobilization of biomolecules on silica surfaces. I will be continuing previous research regarding the development of a new class of Self Assembled Monolayers.

I am also a 2009 New Jersey Governors School of Engineering and Technology scholar and a member of the rescue squad in my hometown. In school, I am heavily involved with both Asha for Education, a club/sub-chapter of which I founded in my school, and the Debate team.