2023 Regeneron ISEF has announced award winners

ISEF, the International Science & Engineering Fair, returned this year with 1600 finalists participating in-person with the sponsorship of Regeneron. Finalists represented 49 states and 63 countries.  Congratulations to all the participants from the Synopsys Championship and to the award winners announced on May 18 (special awards) and May 19 (scientific category awards). ISEF winners from the Championship are listed here.

Special congratulations to Kaitlyn Wang for her ISEF top award, the George D. Yancopoulos Innovator Award, as the finalist who was selected on the basis of outstanding and innovative research, as well as on the potential impact of the work — in the field and on the world at large. Her project in Physics and Astronomy/Astronomy and Cosmology is Discovery of the Smallest Ever Ultra-Short-Period Planet Using Novel Phase Folding Detection System Parallelized on a Cheap GPU.

Open enrollment has begun for the Society’s Science News in High Schools program for the 2023-2024 school year! A free resource for any public school. Enroll your school in Science News

Regeneron and other sponsors are generously funding the participation of nearly 6,000 public high and middle schools in The Society’s Science News Learning program during the 2023 – 2024 school year. Fill out and submit this form to express interest in signing up your school.

Congratulations to our outstanding Santa Clara County students! 130 Synopsys Championship participants qualified to compete virtually at the California State Science & Engineering Fair on April 11th.  Winners were announced online and are posted on the CSEF web site.  SCVSEFA has a summary page of all 71 winning participants from the Synopsys Championship.

Special congratulations to Sharanya Chudgar who was awarded Project of the Year in the Junior Division!

The awards that were not collected at the March 26th Awards Ceremony will be delivered to your school over the next 2 weeks. We are aware that many schools will be on Spring Break so we will be sure to deliver before or after your break.

A few judges had substantive comments that they wished to share with students after the fair, and these comments have been emailed to the students. Don’t be surprised if you did not receive comments, as most students will not receive comments.

Unfortunately, we cannot answer questions about the judge’s comments if you did receive them.

SCVSEFA announced the 2023 Synopsys Championship winners on the web site on March 26, click here to see results, including the students who qualified for CSEF and Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (JIC) nominees.

CSEF posted the list of qualified students from the Synopsys Championship on their web page. They have also individually sent each student an email invitation to submit their CSEF application through a special URL crafted just for the students. If you’re named on the list but have not received an invitation check your spam folder and other email accounts, but then email CSEF@usc.edu to request a new invitation – perhaps to a different email address – as soon as possible.
Follow CSEF instructions to begin your application by the March 28th deadline. The project presentation materials and all forms are due by March 30th. Important: Do not submit your original forms 1B, 4, 5a or 6a to CSEF. You must submit copies with an official SRC/IRB signature(s). If you did not get these forms signed at the Synopsys Championship please bring them Sunday March 26th to be signed after the Awards Ceremony. If you have questions please contact fairmanager@science-fair.org.

To learn more about how one is chosen for CSEF please visit our Judging FAQ for Students page.

The 2023 Synopsys Championship Awards Ceremony is set for March 26th at the Heritage Theater in Campbell.  See the Winner Summary page for a list of students who will be invited to the ceremony.

The Awards Ceremony is an ‘Invitation Only’ event for each student plus 2 guests. Middle school students should arrive at 12:40 PM. High school students should arrive at 3:10 PM.

If any students have changed their email addresses since applying to the 2023 fair, they should notify fairmanager@science-fair.org at once.

Congratulations to Sally Zhu, who participated in the 2022 & 2023 Synopsys Championship and Ryan Lee and Vivian Wu, who participated in the 2022 Synopsys Championship. Forty finalists, including nine students from California, participated in the finals week competition of Regeneron STS March 8 – 15, 2023. Regeneron STS is the nation’s oldest science and mathematics competition for high school seniors. The competition was in-person this year, culminating in a public Exhibition of projects on March 12th and a formal awards ceremony on March 14th.

Congratulations to all the students who participated in the 2023 Synopsys Championship. A special Thank you to our sponsors, teachers and our great volunteers for making the event successful. Stay tuned for the winners listing.