ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent awarded three Special Awards yesterday to students competing in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair here, which is administered by Science Service. The competitors were ninth through twelfth graders from around the world who earned the right to compete here by winning top prize at a local, regional, state or national science fair.
The Alcatel-Lucent awards were announced at a "Special Awards" ceremony last night, which was sponsored by the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation, whose primary areas of focus are improving math and science education and youth development. At the event, special swards were presented by over 70 scientific, professional and educational organizations. Awards included scholarships, summer internships, book and equipment grants and scientific field trips.
The Alcatel-Lucent special awards were: -- A $15,000 scholarship award for Innovation to Andrew John Nowell, 19, Nottingham High School, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom, for his work on a Remote Computer Interface and Security System -- A $15,000 scholarship award for Scientific Depth and Rigor to John Wilson Dorminy, 16, Sola Fide Home School, McDonough, Georgia, for his work on Improper Fractional Base Encryption -- A $15,000 scholarship award for Creativity to Ruby Kandah, 17, William Mason High School, Mason, Ohio, for her work on Improving Mileage Efficiency of Hybrid Cars
Alcatel-Lucent also sponsored Grand Awards, presented here today, in the chemistry and mathematical sciences categories. Awards winners included:
In the Chemistry category:
-- Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner
and First Award of $3,000 to Philip Vidal Streich, 16, Homeschool,
Platteville, Wisconsin, for Determining Carbon Nanotubes' Thermodynamic
Solubility: The Missing Link to a Practical Supermaterial?
-- Second Award of $1,500 to Michael Ding, 17, Glen Cove High School, Glen
Cove, New York, for DNA Electrophoresis on Nanoporous Polyethersulfone
Membrane Surfaces
-- Second Award of $1,500 to Jarrett Renn Remsberg, 17, Middletown Senior
High School, Middletown, Maryland, for Synthetic Analogs of Smoothened
Intracellular Loop as Potent Inhibitors of Cancer Cells Growth
-- Second Award of $1,500 to Alexandra Maria Courtis, 17, Davis Senior
High School, Davis, California, for Bright, Luminescent Silicon
Nanoparticles for Biological Applications
-- Third Award of $1,000 to Ye Tao, 18, Fuzhou No.1 Middle School, Fuzhou,
Fujian, China, for Development of a New Gasoline Detergent---NDEEC
-- Third Award of $1,000 to Clifford Byungho Kim, 17, North Allegheny
Senior High School, Wexford, Pennsylvania, for Capillary Action in
Continuously-tapered Narrow Gap Space
-- Third Award of $1,000 to Sarah Elizabeth Marzen, 17, Thomas Jefferson
High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Virginia, for A New
Model for Hydrophobic Hydration
-- Third Award of $1,000 to Leonid V. Romashov, 16, The State Educational
Establishment Lyceum #1303, Moscow, Russia, for 3-bromo-5,6-dihydro-
[4H]-1,2-oxazine-N-oxides: Synthesis, Properties and Application
-- Fourth Award of $500 to Markrete Krikorian, 18, Townsend Harris High
School, Flushing, New York, for Synthesizing DMPC-capped Gold and
Water-soluble Cadmium Sulfide Nanoparticles
-- Fourth Award of $500 to Sophie Alice Renner, 17, James Allen, London,
London, United Kingdom, for Hydrogenic Defects in Ice
-- Fourth Award of $500 to Samantha Kay Lawrence, 18, Christian Heritage
High School, Riverdale, Utah, for Corrosion Mitigation Using Thin-film
Coatings of Polyelectrolyte Multilayers
-- Fourth Award of $500 to Richard J. Li, 16, Monte Vista High School,
Danville, California, for A Novel Approach to Rapid Diagnosis of Cancer
-- Fourth Award of $500 to Matthew Bret Weiss, 18, Breck School, Golden
Valley, Minnesota, for Synthesis of Supramolecular Self-assembling
Macromolecular Structures
In the Mathematical Sciences category:
-- Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner
and First Award of $3,000 to Dmitry Vaintrob, 18, South Eugene High
School, Eugene, Oregon, for The String Topology BV Algebra, Hochschild
Cohomology and the Goldman Bracket on Surfaces
-- Second Award of $1,500 to Daniel Karoly Bezdek, 17, Notre Dame High
School, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, for Short Billiards
-- Second Award of $1,500 to Ardit Kroni, 16, Synge Street CBS, Dublin,
Ireland, for Infinite Product Expansions of the nth Root
-- Second Award of $1,500 to Arkajit Dey, 17, The Harker School, San Jose,
California, for Tree-realizability of a Distance Matrix
-- Third Award of $1,000 to Joel Antonio Morales-Rosado, 17, Escuela
Florencia Garcia, Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, for Reconnaissance
Mechanism for the Polygonal Numbers
-- Third Award of $1,000 to Hagai Helman, 18, Reut School, Jerusalem,
Israel, for Function Pools
-- Third Award of $1,000 to Cheng-Tao Chung, 17, Taipei Municipal Jianguo
High School, Taipei, Taiwan, Chinese Taipei, for EASE Polygons Are Not
Easy
-- Third Award of $1,000 to Akhil Mathew, 15, Madison High School,
Madison, New Jersey, for Investigations in Analysis
-- Fourth Award of $500 to Prachi Janardan Pai, 16, School of Science and
Technology, Beaverton, Oregon, for Mathematical Determinism in the
Creative Process of Musical Composition
-- Fourth Award of $500 to Albert Chiehyang Liu, 16, Kaohsiung Municipal
Kaohsiung Senior High School, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, Chinese Taipei,
for Endless Propagation--the Arithmetic Rules of Regular Pentagons
-- Fourth Award of $500 to John Imbrie-Moore, 14, Charlottesville High
School, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Mathematical Modeling of the
Speed of Evolution in Asexual Populations
-- Fourth Award of $500 to Sarah Lee Sellers, 16, Hedgesville High School,
Hedgesville, West Virginia, for Prime Magic Square: Possible or
Impossible?
-- Fourth Award of $500 to Mark Krummelbein, 20, Lemvig High School,
Lemvig, Denmark, for Cryptology Using the "Butterfly Equation"
The International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) is sponsored by Intel and has been administered by Science Service since its inception in 1950. Science Service is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the understanding and appreciation of science among people of all ages.
Information on all ISEF winners and their projects is available on the Science Service website at http://www.sciserv.org/isef.
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