Filipino students bag grand awards in Intel international science fair

Filipino students won three grand awards and a top organizational award in the recent 55th Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) weeklong competition participated in by more than 1,200 students from 38 countries.


The team project, “Development of a Chemically Modified Carbon Paste Electrode from Green Mussels (Perna viridis) for the Analysis of Lead (II) Through Voltammetry,” of Manila Science High School students won the third grand award in chemistry.


Another team project entitled, “Lumos: A Simple, Rapid and Inexpensive Dissolved Oxygen Determination of Wastewater Samples Using the Tube Bioluminiscence Extinction Method of Vibrio Fischeri USTCMS 1063,” an entry of Quezon City Science High School students, won the fourth grand award in environmental science.


Joy Anne Lim Aquino, a student of E. Rodriguez High School in Quezon City, garnered the fourth grand award in medicine and health and a top organizational award given by the American Veterinary Medicine Association for her individual project, “Biologically Guided Isolation of the Antimicrobial Component on the Sea Snake Laticauda Colubrine Schneider Venom.”


The 55th Intel ISEF was held in Portland, Oregon, from May 9 to 15. Intel ISEF is the world’s largest precollege science competition. It is the only international science-project competition for students in the ninth through 12th grades.


The Intel ISEF brings together not only students, but also teachers, corporate executives and government officials from around the world. Students compete for over $3 million in scholarships, tuition grants, scientific equipment and scientific trips. Each year between three and five million students complete their science research projects, and roughly 1,200 of the students earn the right to compete at the Intel ISEF.


Throughout the United States and around the world, 500 Intel ISEF-affiliated science fairs send two individual finalists and one team project to compete at the international level. Students compete in 15 categories, namely, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Biochemistry, Botany, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth and Space Sciences, Engineering, Environmental Science, Gerontology, Mathematics, Medicine and Health, Microbiology, Physics, Team Projects and Zoology.


In the Philippines science-project entries to Intel ISEF are chosen through the multilevel Intel Philippine Science Fair administered by the Science Education Institute of the Department of Science and Technology. This strategy is adopted to increase students’ interests in science and technology and to entice them to consider science careers in the future. Ruby Cristobal/S&TMS

Congratulations to these students!

I hope more awards to follow

wow thats excellent! I'm so happy everytime I hear Filipino success stories such as those. Congratz to them and wish them all the best of luck! Hope they do more great deeds such as those to make their country more proud!

Bright Students..............

http://www.intel.com/education/isef/2004winners.htm

Uh here are the list of winners and all I see are 2 white people and 1 Chinese guy. Maybe I'm wrong and there are more winners that I didn't see on that website.

anyway, it is still an accomplishment . Congratulations to all!

yeah mabuhay ang mga filipinos!

sana parati ganyan

we are all intelligent!!!
lahat tayo magaling!!!
meron nga lang iba sa kalokohan magaling!!hahahaha!!!

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