2018 Science Fair Results
Sunday, April 22, 2018 at 11:33 AM By: A.J. Fezza
Every year, Biotech sends many of its students (most from the Advanced Experimental Design and Biotech Lab Skills classes) to the Jersey Shore Science Fair. From there, students that place in the top three of each category move on to the Delaware Valley Science Fair, where they face other top-notch competitors from New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. Then, only three from each entire grade move on to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the most prestigious of them all.
This year, junior Ryan Luo is advancing to the Intel ISEF competition! He won for his project: The Use of AI Algorithms to Automatically Identify Premature Atrial Contractions from Electrocardiogram Recordings. We wish the best of luck to him as he competes (and takes his IB exams) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this May 13-18.
Science fair results can be found below:
Delaware Valley Science Fair
Greater Philadelphia Expo Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
April 4, 2018
First Place:
11th Grade
• Arya Sharma - Biochemistry
• Ryan Luo - Engineering
Second Place:
11th Grade
• Matthew Liu - Behavior & Social Science
• Andrew Colbert - Environmental Science
10th Grade
• David Yi - Microbiology
Third Place:
10th Grade
• Kush Chaudhari - Microbiology
Honorable Mention:
11th Grade
• Purab Kothari - Medicine
10th Grade
• Annika Agarwal - Medicine
• Rishi Sharma, Nikhil Kalyanraman, Sungmin Hwang - Team Project
Special Awards:
11th Grade
American Association for Cancer Research Award, First Place
• Henna Purewal
Junior Fair, Bronze Medal
• Ryan Luo
Harrisburg University Scholarship
• Matthew Liu
• Arya Sharma
• Ryan Luo
• Andrew Colbert
• Henna Purewal
• Purab Kothari
• Ester Teper
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Award, Second Place
• Andrew Colbert
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia Scholarship, First Place
• Arya Sharma
• Ryan Luo
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia Scholarship, Second Place
• Matthew Liu
• Andrew Colbert
Yale Science and Engineering Association Award
• Ryan Luo
10th Grade Future Scientist Award
• David Yi
Jersey Shore Science Fair
Richard Stockton College
Galloway Township, New Jersey
March 17, 2018
18 of our 31 projects received recognition, with 13 projects (18 students) moving on to Delaware Valley.
Ryan Luo received the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Best Engineering Project Award and a prize of $150.
First Place:
11th Grade
• Matthew Liu - Behavior & Social Science
• Arya Sharma - Biochemistry
• Ryan Luo - Engineering
• Henna Purewal - Medicine
• Ester Teper - Microbiology
10th Grade
• Kush Chaudhari - Microbiology
• Rishi Sharma, Nikhil Kalyanraman, Sungmin Hwang - Team Project
Second Place:
11th Grade
• Purab Kothari - Medicine
10th Grade
• David Yi - Microbiology
• Kirti Aplash, Cameron Jengo - Team Project
Third Place:
11th Grade
• Andrew Colbert - Environmental Science
10th Grade
• Annika Agarwal - Medicine
• Sanya Jain, Ayush Kadakia, Theodore Nguyen - Team Project
Honorable Mention:
11th Grade
• Eric Guan - Botany
• Shaanti Choi-Bose - Medicine
• Rohit Sivananthan - Zoology
10th Grade
• Samantha Greenberg - Medicine
• Jonas Simmons - Zoology
• Jacob Wellens, Michael Maizel, Chloe DiCianni - Team Project
Congratulations to all Biotechers that competed!