WSSEF 2023 Grand Champion Awards

Washington State Science & Engineering Fair Grand Medalist Champions

Gold

Nikki Taleghani Carbon Dot and Cyanoacrylate Fuming Method for Latent Fingerprint Detection

Silver

Annie Adhikary Identification of Novel Diagnostic Neuroimaging Biomarkers for Autism Spectrum Disorder Through Convolutional Neural Network-Based Analysis of Functional, Structural, and Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data Towards Enhanced Autism Diagnosis

Bronze

Tanaya Sharma The Sweet Spot: Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Monitoring using Spectroscopy and Machine Learning

Go WISE Team!ISEF 2022

The top seven WSSEF projects (seven student / teams) will join finalists from the five WSSEF affiliated Regional Science & Engineering Fairs (Central Sound, Eastern Washington, Mid-Columbia, Discovery, Southwest Washington) to form the WISE Team (Washington International Science & Engineering Team).  Regeneron ISEF is the world’s largest pre-college science competition with 1,800 young entrepreneurs and innovators from 80+ countries worldwide.

WSSEF Finalists to Represent WSSEF at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair

FIRST NAME LAST NAME GRADE  PROJECT TITLE
Annie Adhikary 11 Identification of Novel Diagnostic Neuroimaging Biomarkers for Autism Spectrum Disorder Through Convolutional Neural Network-Based Analysis of Functional, Structural, and Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data Towards Enhanced Autism Diagnosis
Yue Ding 11 Early Detection of Cancer Using Microbial Taxonomic and Functional Information
Nishka Kacheria 11 Dimensionality Reduction and Optimization of the GloVe Words Database using Principal Component Analysis and Birch Clustering
Jamie Kwon 10 Uncovering the Benefits of Ultrasound: Effects on Colocalization of Microglia and Amyloid-Beta Plaque in Alzheimer Mouse Models
Saachi Sharma 11 Quantifying Depression: An art-based approach to reducing the self-report bias in diagnosing depression using Koch’s Baum Test and color psychology.
Tanaya Sharma 11 The Sweet Spot: Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Monitoring using Spectroscopy and Machine Learning
Andy Ye 11 Drug-Target Prediction via Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks and Large-Scale Unsupervised Training

Meet the Regional Fair ISEF Finalists Comprising the WISE Team

Ourania-Maria Glezakou-Elbert
Rohak Jain
Padmaja Senthil Kumar
Alexandria McNutt
Advaitha Motkuri
Kaia Olsen
Jessica Palmer
Kevin Shen
Bliss Singhal
Vedant Srinivas
Nikki Taleghani
Kosha Upadhyay
Jenny Wang
Matthew Yao

Meet the Regional Fair ISEF Student Observers Comprising the WISE Team

Aashrita Bhamidimarri
Selje Larson
Audrey McCann
Faith Wanless