Washington State Finalists at the 2024
REGENERON INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR

 May 11-17, 2024

 

LOS ANGELES  Twenty student finalists from WASHINGTON REGIONAL AND STATE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIRS competed at the Regeneron International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF) on May 11-17, 2024, in Los Angeles, CA.  Regeneron ISEF is the world’s largest pre-college science competition.Over 1700 young entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists were selected from 49 states and 67 countries.   About 1000 judges from academia and industry made the award selections.

Kevin Shen, Olympia High School, won a 1st Grand Award of $5000 for his project, "Improving Oblique Wing Aircraft Control".

Vishal Yalla and Harini Thiagarajan, North Creek High School, won a 1st Grand Award of $5000 for their project, "ML for LIGO Continuous Gravitational Waves". 

Anson Chen, Tesla STEM High School, won a 2nd Grand Award of $2000 for his project, "Forecasting Domoic Acid Levels from Harmful Algal Blooms along the Pacific Northwest Coast".

Alexia Bravo, Union High School, won a 3rd Grand Award of $1000 for her project, "Investigation of New Brown Dwarf Spectral Binaries ".

Ajeet Venkatesh, Tesla STEM High School, won a 4th Grand Award of $500 for his project, "SpatioTemporal modeling of the Triple Negative breast cancer tumor microenvironment for in-silico testing of multi-immunosuppressive inhibitors for enhanced immunotherapy".

Aryaman Rtunjay, Tesla STEM High School, won a 4th Grand Award of $500 for his project, "ALS-SynAegis: A Molecular Dynamics Study on TDP-43 Aggregation to Prevent Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Onset".

Aanika Tangirala, Lakeside School, won a 4th Grand Award of $500 for her project, "Towards Improved Recognition and Diagnosis of Autism Among Females - A Novel Approach Using Machine Learning".  She also won an Arizona State University scholarship.

Matthew (Jerry) Yao, Walla Walla High School, won a 4th Grand Award of $500 for his project, "Tactron: A Low-Cost Tactile Graphics Display"

Isabella Pinto, Hanford High School, won the Office of Naval Research award of $15,000 for her project,  "How Magnetically Suspended Tires Utilizing High Temperature Superconductivity and Electromagnetism Creates the Most Eco-Friendly Vehicle".

Shangqiu (David) Li, Camas High School,  won a 3rd Grand Award of $1000 for his project, "MagGrid: Non-Levitative Electromagnet Propulsion".  He also won a Quorvo 3rd place award.

Washington International Science & Engineering (WISE) Team 2024  (Titles link to Projectboard info)

"Towards Improved Recognition and Diagnosis of Autism Among Females – A Novel Approach Using Machine Learning", Aanika Tangirala, Lakeside School, Seattle, grade 11	“A Eye Intelligence: The Future of Disease Detection Through the Eyes”,  Advaitha Motkuri, Richland High School, Richland , grade 11	“SpatioTemporal modeling of the Triple Negative breast cancer tumor microenvironment for in-silico testing of multi-immunosuppressive inhibitors for enhanced immunotherapy”, Ajeet Venkatesh, Tesla Stem High School, Redmond, grade 11
"An Investigation of New Brown Dwarf Spectral Binary Candidates From the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Initiative", Alexia Bravo, Union High School, Vancouver, grade 12	"Hypertropic Cardiomyopathy in Student Athletes:  HCM Detection From Echocardiograms Through CNN Algorithm", Amanda Ngyuen, Lewis & Clark High School, Spokane, grade 11	"Forecasting Domoic Acid Levels from Harmful Algal Blooms along the Pacific Northwest Coast", Anson Chen, Tesla Stem High School, Redmond, grade 11,
"ALS-SynAegis: A Molecular Dynamics Study on TDP-43 Aggregation to Prevent Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Onset", Aryaman Rtunjay, Tesla STEM High School, Sammamish, grade 11	"Locking the SUMO Switch: Design of Small Molecules to Inhibit Rhes SUMOylation Sites for Huntington's Disease", Bhavyahshree Navaneetha Krishnan, North Creek High School, Bothell, grade 10	"MagGrid: Non-Levitative Electromagnet Propulsion", Shangqiu (David) Li, Camas High School, Camas, grade 10
"How Magnetically suspended tires Utilizing High Temperature Superconductivity and Electromagnetism Creates the Most Eco-Friendly Vehicle",  Isabella Pinto, Hanford High School, Richland, grade 11	"Tactron: A Low-Cost Tactile Graphics Display", Matthew (Jerry) Yao, Walla Walla High School, Walla Walla, grade 11	"Using Propionate to Aid Leukemia Cancer Treatment", Keshav Iyer, Tesla STEM High School, Sammamish, grade 11
"Improving Oblique Wing Aircraft Control", Kevin Shen, Olympia High School, Olympia, grade 11	"Clean Water: Analysis of Interfacial Tension", Lakshmi Agrawal, Stanford Online High School, grade 10	"Creation of Active Magnetic Field Stabilizer", Mir Park, Pullman High School, grade 11
"GCPII Inhibitors to Treat Traumatic Brain Injury", Padmaja Senthil-Kumar, Lewis & Clark High School, grade 12, Spokane	"Characterizing Zika Infection in NHP Pregnancy", Richard Li, Bellevue High School, Bellevue, grade 12	"COCOTherm: Simulated Thermal Dataset",           Vedant Srinivas, Eastlake High School, Sammamish, grade 12
"ML for LIGO Continuous Gravitational Waves"       Vishal Yalla, Harini Thiagarajan, North Creek High School, Bothell, grades 11 and 12

Washington State Finalists at ISEF

At ISEF Student Pin Exchange, 67 countries

The ISEF Finalist Wall, Students Point to Their Names

Washington finalists at ISEF letters

After a long day of judging, finalists come out of the exhibit hall to find a cheering tunnel

formed by fair directors and chaperones waving pom-poms

Vishal and Harini receive first place in physics category from former First Lady of California, Gayle Wilson,

representing Caris Charitable Trust.  Wilson was a student finalist in the 1960 Science Talent Search.

To get to ISEF, WISE Team finalists won top awards at these science & engineering fairs.

  Washington State Science & Engineering Fair

    Discovery Regional Science & Engineering Fair

   Central Sound Regional Science & Engineering Fair

   Mid Columbia Regional Science & Engineering Fair

   Eastern Washington Regional Science & Engineering Fair

     Southwest Washington Science & Engineering Fair

Everyone gets a T shirt: 

ISEF Virtual Project Board Site

Special Awards Ceremony (youtube)

Grand Awards Ceremony (youtube) (link currently down)

Links:

What is Intel ISEF?

"I’ve been inspired by Confucius’ quote: "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." The formula is simple: work diligently to understand the fundamentals, then make new connections to develop innovative solutions. Think big, think different, and most importantly, don’t give up! In science, persistence is key."

  -Eshika Saxena, Interlake HS '19, Harvard '23, ISEF 3X finalist, STS top 10 2019, JSHS National 1st, AJAS Fellow '18

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