ISEF, the International Science & Engineering Fair, returned this year in a virtual format with the sponsorship of Regeneron and 1,833 finalists representing 49 states and 64 countries. Congratulations to all the participants from the Synopsys Championship and to the award winners announced on May 20 (special awards) and May 21 (scientific category awards).
Special congratulations to Franklin Wang for his ISEF top award, the Peggy Scripps Award for Science Communication, as the finalist who is best able to communicate their project to the lay public, explaining both the science and its potential impact on society. His project in Physics & Astronomy is The Fast and Inconspicuous: New Near Earth Asteroids Discovered Using Deep Learning and Synthetic Data Are Fainter and Move Faster than Those Previously Discovered.
| Student | Scientific Category | Awarding Organization | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashwika Agrawal | Biomedical and Health Sciences | ISEF | First Award of $5000 |
| Mihir Baviskar | Systems Software | King Abdul-Aziz & His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity | $500 award and Online access to the Mawhiba Universal Enrichment Program |
| Roy Gross | Embedded Systems | ISEF | Third Award of $1000 |
| Tim Jing | Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | ISEF | Third Award of $1000 |
| Suryabhan Mohapatra | Systems Software | King Abdul-Aziz & His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity | $500 award and Online access to the Mawhiba Universal Enrichment Program |
| Shrinandan Narayanan | Systems Software | ISEF | Second Award of $2000 |
| Andy Phung | Systems Software | King Abdul-Aziz & His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity | $500 award and Online access to the Mawhiba Universal Enrichment Program |
| Marek PInto | Translational Medical Science | ISEF | Fourth Award of $500 |
| Franklin Wang | Physics & Astronomy | ISEF | First Award of $5000 |
| ISEF | Peggy Scripps Award for Science Communication of $10,000 | ||
| Office of Naval Research on behalf of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | Chief of Naval Research Scholarship Award of $15,000 | ||
| Stephen Xia | Materials Science | ISEF | Second Award of $2000 |
| Ella Yee | Biomedical and Health Sciences | ISEF | Second Award of $2000 |
| Alexander Zhang | Mathematics | ISEF | First Award of $5000 |
| American Mathematical Society | Third Award of $500 | ||
| Mu Alpha Theta | First Award of $1500 |
