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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.
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.
