Regeneron ISEF 2022 - Future Forward

The Regeneron International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF) was conducted between May 7-13, 2022, in Atlanta, Georgia. Regeneron ISEF is the world’s largest pre-college science competition. This year, over 1700 young entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists were selected from 49 states and 64 countries and competed across 21 STEM categories. About 800 judges from academia and industry made the award selections.

Twenty three high school scientists from various school districts in Washington state were selected from four regional and one state level science fair to form the Washington International Science and Engineering Team (WISE Team). The WISE team represented Washington state at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF).



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CSRSEF (USWA03) Performance at ISEF 2022 in Numbers

ISEF student scientists: 1748

Total finalist projects: 1409

Total fairs: 367

Total awards: 826


WA is #1 of all 50 states and CSRSEF performance in 2022 was the highest of all fairs in the world in terms of awards won per finalist. Last year we were down in the middle of this list, so it's a spectacular change in one year. This shows the growing exposure of STEM in Washington state high schools. 

Much of this performance at the state level is driven by CSRSEF students. The CSRSEF total award/student ratio is 2.33, highest of all 367 fairs worldwide.


Awards Winners from Washington State

Vedant Srinivas, Eastlake High School, won a 1st Grand Award of $5000 for his project, "Eqwis: Rapid Animal Detection and Driver Warning System To Mitigate Animal Vehicle Collisions Using Artificial Intelligence".  He also won a 1st award of $1000 from the Central Intelligence Agency, and an Honorable Mention from the International Council on Systems Engineering.

Pinyu Liao, Inglemoor High School, won a 2nd Grand Award of $2000 for her project, "Exploiting Plasmid-Mediated Resistance: Discovery of Small-Molecule Inhibitors for the Artificial Activation of the Kid-Kis Toxin-Antitoxin System in Plasmid R1".  She also won a renewal tuition scholarship to the University of Arizona.

Kosha Upadhyay, Bellevue Senior High School, won a 3rd Grand Award of $1000 for her project "Cognitive Profiling and Personalized Therapy Recommendation for Dementia Through a Language-Aware Multi-Model Artificially Intelligent System".  She also won a 3rd award of $500 from the American Psychological Association

Evan Kim, Nikola Tesla STEM High School, won a 3rd Grand Award of $1000 for his project, "ScGAN: A Generative Adversarial Network To Predict Hypothetical Superconductors"

Rishi Hazra, Skyline High School, won a 3rd Grand Award of $1000 for his project, "Characterization of Enzymes, Chalcone Synthase, Chalcone Isomerase, and Dihydroflavonol 4-Reductase, by X-Ray Crystallography To Improve the Efficacy of Crops Panicum virgatum and Sorghum bicolor as Potential USDA Biofuel Sources".  He also won an Arizona State University ISEF scholarship, and a full scholarship to King Faud University in Saudi Arabia including a $400 cash award.

Aiden Bai, Camas High School, won a 3rd Grand Award of $1000 for his project, "Million.js: A Fast, Compiler-Augmented Virtual DOM for Performant JavaScript UI Libraries"

Anjali Sreenivas, Tesla STEM High School, won a 4th Grand Award of $500 for her project, "A Machine Learning Approach to Identifying Blood-Based Biomarkers for Differential Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease".  She also received an Honorable Mention from the American Statistical Association.

Arihant Singh and Druhin Bhowal, Tesla STEM High School, won a 4th Grand Award of $500 for their project, "It’s Flaming Out: Using Artificial Intelligence To Emulate Critical Aspects of Wildfire Growth".  They also won Arizona State University ISEF scholarships.

Kevin Shen, Olympia High School, won a 4th Grand Award of $500 for his project, "A Novel Approach to Biomimicking the Avian Tail on Fixed Wing Micro Air Vehicles"  He also won 1st place in category and $750 from the Air Force Research Laboratory.  In addition he won 1st place and $2000 from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Anna Armstrong, Joel E. Ferris High School, won a 4th Grand Award of $500 for her project, "Engineering a Bioplastic With Aspergillus oryzae To Increase Degradation Rate"

Harish Krishnakumar, Tesla STEM High School, won a full scholarship to King Faud University in Saudi Arabia for his project, "Analysis of Ring Galaxies Detected Using Deep Learning With Real and Simulated Data".  He also won a 2nd Award and $500 from the Patent and Trademark Office Society.

Ruth Elizabeth Wise-Maldonado, Sunnyside Senior High School, won a renewal tuition scholarship from the University of Arizona for her project, "How Do Sound Waves Affect Plant Root Physiology and Photosynthesis?"