Winners of the Intel ISEF Competition in Phoenix, AZ were announced 5-17-13. Six of the 9 sponsored projects won category awards, and 5 of the 9 projects also won multiple special awards. Eesha Khare from Lynbrook High in San Jose won the $50,000 Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award.
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The ISWEEEP awards are posted at http://isweeep.org/files/I-SWEEEP-2013-Category-Award-Winners.pdf. Both projects awarded eligibility to this competition from the Synopsys Championship won.
Gold Award: Arjun Balasingam; Engineering Category
Silver Award: Kriti Lall; Environment Category
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Natalie Ng from Cupertino won the International BioGENEius Challenge 4-24-13 in Chicago. The prize is $7.5K cash. See news release.
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Broadcom MASTERS competition: 13 projects from our fair won Semifinalist awards. see their website.
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Michelle Xu from our fair won the State Merit Winner from California in the 2013 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge.
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Venkat Sankar, an 8th grader from Harker Middle School won a Finalist Award for his project Ecology or Economy: Managing the Impact of Infrastructure Projects on Endangered Species in the 2013 Google Science Fair.
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Anin Sayana won the Grand Prize in Marvel’s Iron Man 3 Inventor and Innovator Fair, a national level competition. Anin Sayana ( Synopsys Championship and CSSF participant and winner for the past four years) entered his winning project at the National Science competition – Marvels’ Invention and Innovator Fair. It was sponsored by Marvel/Disney studios, Discovery Science Center and Visa Signature.
From the 800+ applications solicited, 30 semi-finalists were interviewed by 12 judges, and a panel of 4 judges chose 12 finalists across the nation who were invited to compete for the Grand Prize in Los Angeles ( Hollywood – El Capitan Theatre) May 1- May 3. In addition, all the finalists also got to meet Robert Downey Jr. ( Ironman lead actor) as a surprise.
