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