2013 Intel ISEF Winners

FIRST PLACE AWARDS

Eesha Khare, 18, Lynbrook High School, San Jose,
Design and Synthesis of Hydrogenated TiO2-Polyaniline Nanorods for Flexible High-Performance Supercapacitors.
Awarding Organizations:

  • Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award – Young Scientist Award of $50,000
  • Intel ISEF – BEST IN CATEGORY AWARD $5000 in chemistry and & CATEGORY AWARD, $3000, 1st Place in Chemistry
  • Patent and Trademark Office Society – First Award of $250
  • American Chemical Society – Second Award of $3,000

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Natalie Ng, 17, Monta Vista High School, Cupertino, California
Advancing Precision Medicine: MicroRNA Prognostic Signatures and Prediction Models for Distant Metastasis-Free Survival in Breast Cancer.
Awarding Organizations:

  • Intel ISEF – CATEGORY AWARD, 1st Place, $3000, in Medicine & Health Sciences
  • Arizona State University – Annual Scholarship, renewable for four years, in addition to a one-time $2,500 award to conduct research, sponsored by the Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development
  • China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) – $3000

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SECOND PLACE AWARDS

Andrew Cheng Jin, 16, The Harker School, San Jose, California.
Breast Cancer Prognosis through Gene Expression Profiling and Tumor Morphology.
Awarding Organizations:

  • Intel ISEF – CATEGORY AWARD – 2nd place, $1500, in Medicine & Health Sciences
    American Statistical Association – Third Award of $250

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David Andrew Zarrin, 18, Saratoga High School, Saratoga, California.
Turbopulse: A Resilient Hybrid Pulsating Turbine Jet Engine.
Awarding Organizations:

  • Intel ISEF – CATEGORY AWARD, 2nd Place, $1500 in Engineering: Electrical and Mechanical
  • International Council on Systems Engineering – INCOSE – Certificate of Honorable Mention
  • Society of Experimental Test Pilots – First Award of $1,000

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THIRD PLACE AWARDS

Joy Qiu Jin, 15, Henry M. Gunn High School, Palo Alto, and
Thomas Michael Luh, 17, Leland High School, San Jose, California.
Hedgehog-Gli Signaling Promotes Cell Proliferation and Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition in Lung Cancer.
Awarding Organizations:

  • Intel ISEF – CATEGORY AWARD, 3rd Place Award $1000 in Cellular and Molecular Biology.

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FOURTH PLACE AWARDS

Colin Campbell Aitken, 17, Leland High School, San Jose, California.
Dots and Lines: A Combinatorial Interpretation of the Homotopy Groups of Finite Topologies.
Awarding Organizations:

  • Intel ISEF – CATEGORY AWARD, 4th place, $500, in Mathematical Sciences
  • American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science – All-expense paid four week trip and scholarship to the Bessie Lawrence International Summer Science Institute
  • American Mathematical Society – First Award of $1,000
  • European Organization for Nuclear Research-CERN – All-expense paid trip to tour CERN, including travel to Switzerland and France June 23 – June 28.