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ISEF Winners

In 2021, ISEF awarded $16,000 to eight projects led by 12 students who qualified for ISEF at TXSEF. Congratulations to all the award winners!

First Award Winners ($5,000)

  • Earth and Environmental Sciences — GLAS: A Global Landslide Analytics System
    Ishaan Javali | Plano East Senior High School
    Shrey Joshi | Plano East Senior High School
  • Cellular and Molecular Biology — The Neuro-Protective Role of Select Transcription Factors in a PINK1 Loss-of-Function Based Model of Neurodegeneration in Drosophila Melanogaster
    Parisa Vaziri | Plano East Senior High School

Second Award Winners ($2,000)

  • Embedded Systems — Smart Parkinson’s Strap: To Dynamically Detect and Mitigate the Tremors of Parkinson’s Patients
    Anushka Sridhar | Plano East Senior High School

Third Award Winners ($1,000)

  • Physics and Astronomy — A Population of Planetary Systems on Aligned Orbits with Wide Binary Companions
    Sam Christian | Liberal Arts and Science Academy
  • Earth and Environmental Sciences — A Third Year Study on the Bioremediation of Tetracycline Polluted Soils: How Antibiotic Resistance Can Reduce Antibiotic Pollution in the Environment and a Solution to Antibiotic Pollution-Related Crop Failure
    Sanjana Hiremath | Plano East Senior High School
    Sriya Teerdhala | Plano East Senior High School
  • Computational Biology and Bioinformatics — A Non-Invasive Ear-EEG Hearing Aid to Address the Cocktail Party Problem via Cloud-Based Deep Learning
    Govardhan Poondi | Plano West Senior High School
    John Rho | Plano West Senior High School

Fourth Award Winners ($500)

  • Materials Science — Carbon Dioxide Conversion to Hydrocarbon Fuel Utilizing Metal Catalyst
    Christopher Huh | Westwood High School
  • Animal Sciences — The Effect of Protease- Activated Receptors (PAR- 4) on the Fertility and Progeny of C. elegans as a Potential Therapeutic Agent for Hereditary Chronic Inflammatory Diseases
    Swetha Velayutham | Plano East Senior High School, TX, United States of America
    Vyshnavi Poruri | Plano East Senior High School

Special Awards

  • Acoustical Society of America Third Award Winner
    Computational Biology and Bioinformatics — A Non-Invasive Ear-EEG Hearing Aid to Address the Cocktail Party Problem via Cloud-Based Deep Learning
    Govardhan Thirumurthy Poondi | Plano West Senior High School
    John Rho | Plano West Senior High School
  • Air Force Research Laboratory (on behalf of the United States Air Force) First Award Winner
    Computational Biology and Bioinformatics — A Non-Invasive Ear-EEG Hearing Aid to Address the Cocktail Party Problem via Cloud-Based Deep Learning
    Govardhan Thirumurthy Poondi | Plano West Senior High School
    John Rho | Plano West Senior High School
  • Serving Society through Science Second Award Winner
    Cellular and Molecular Biology — The Neuro-Protective Role of Select Transcription Factors in a PINK1 Loss-of-Function Based Model of Neurodegeneration in Drosophila melanogaster
    Parisa Aryana Vaziri | Plano East Senior High School
  • USAID Science for Development First Award Winner – Working in Crisis and Conflict
    Earth and Environmental Sciences — GLAS: A Global Landslide Analytics System
    Ishaan Javali | Plano East Senior High School, Murphy, TX, United States of America
    Shrey Joshi | Plano East Senior High School, Plano, TX, United States of America
  • USAID Science for Development Third Award Winner — Agriculture and Food Security
    Earth and Environmental Sciences — A Third Year Study on the Bioremediation of Tetracycline Polluted Soils: How Antibiotic Resistance Can Reduce Antibiotic Pollution in the Environment and a Solution to Antibiotic Pollution-Related Crop Failure
    Sanjana Hiremath | Plano East Senior High School
    Sriya Teerdhala | Plano East Senior High School

 

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