Austin Area ISEF Winners
The Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) was held May 9-13 in Atlanta, GA. It was attended by over 1,700 students with 1,400 projects from 64 foreign countries and territories as well as state and regional fairs in the US, including ten projects from the Austin Energy Regional Science Festival.
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All Project Boards be viewed in the links below or in our Virtual Exhibit Hall
Grand Awards
Third Place Award - Biochemistry
Rajvi Babaria, Halley Compuesto, and Mehak Gaba, Vista Ridge High School, Leander ISD
Third Place Award - Biomedical Health Science
Aaron George, St. Dominic Savio Catholic High School, Private
Project Title: Identification of Malarial Infection from Thin Blood Smear Slide Images Using Convolutional Neural Network
Third Place Award - Environmental Engineering
Aseel Rawashdeh, Anderson High School, Austin ISD
Project Title: Low-cost Electrochemical Arsenic Detection (LEAD): A Novel Quantitative, Portable, and Ultra-Sensitive Arsenic Sensor Using Pencil Lead
Fourth Place Award - Materials Science
Alan Wang, Westlake High School, Eanes ISD
Project Title: Three-Dimensional Hierarchical Porous Electrode Structure for Improved Performance in Battery Applications
Special Awards
2nd Place, Science for Development Agriculture and Food Security, U.S. Agency for International Development, Full Tuition Scholarship to Drexel University
Nathan Elias, Liberal Arts And Science Academy, Austin ISD
Project Title: A Novel Method for Automated Identification and Prediction of Invasive Species Using Deep Learning