International Science and Engineering Fair

The Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) is an annual science fair in the United States.[1] It is owned and administered by the Society for Science & the Public,[2] a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C.[3] Each May, more than 1500 students from roughly 70 countries and territories compete in the fair for scholarships, tuition grants, internships, scientific field trips and the grand prizes, including one $75,000 and two $50,000 college scholarships. All prizes together amount to over $4,070,000.[4] Two awards ceremonies are held including: Special Awards Organization Presentation (which now includes the Government Awards Presentations) and the Grand Awards Ceremony. The International Science and Engineering Fair was founded in 1950 by Science Service (now the Society for Science & the Public) and was sponsored by the Intel Corporation from 1997 to 2019.[5][6] Starting in 2020, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals became the title sponsor for ISEF,[7] but the 2020 event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Notable alumni

ISEF alumni include:

Contestants and competition

Contestants are selected from regional, district, and state ISEF affiliated fairs. These fairs usually encompass multiple states or entire regions of a country. The regional fair committee is responsible for managing the fair when their city hosts the event.

Individual science projects and team science projects both compete for prizes. Teams are composed of two to as many as four high school students (grades 9-12).

The structure of the competition is as follows:

  • Sunday: Arrival, project setup, fixing Display and Safety violations, and pin exchange
  • Monday: Continual arrival and setup, opening ceremony
  • Tuesday: Final project clearance
  • Wednesday: Awards judging over 3 sessions, with both scheduled and unscheduled interviews
  • Thursday: Public visitation day, special awards ceremony
  • Friday: Grand awards ceremony, project teardown

Additionally, time is set aside for students to experience the host city, with ISEF coordinating signups for various tours and activities. A significant component of the program is social, as students interact with each other during mixers and ceremonies. Throughout much of the week, various seminars are also held for students, mentors, and teachers.

Prizes and honors
  • Gordon E. Moore Award: $75,000 scholarship, given to the top of the Best of Category Award winners, selected on the basis of innovative research and potential of the project to have an impact in the particular field and the world as a whole.
  • Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award: $ 50,000 award presented by Intel and SSP to two Best in Category projects. Previous winners include Henry Lin and Eesha Khare.
  • Dudley R. Herschbach SIYSS Award: all expense trip paid trip to the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar, and attendance to the Nobel Prize ceremonies.
  • Intel Best of Category Awards: Category winners are awarded a $5,000 scholarship; their school and the fair they represent are awarded a $1,000 grant.[14]
  • Intel International Excellence in Teaching Award is also given during the Intel ISEF since 1997. A prominent awardee was Josette Biyo.[15]

ISEF also used to hold a "People's Choice Award" to allow the public to vote for its favorite entries.[16]

Since 2001, MIT's Lincoln Laboratory has named asteroids after ISEF winners as part of the Ceres Connection.

Multiple organizations sponsor 'special awards' with their own distinct criteria. These organizations include the National Security Agency, Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE Foundation, and Patent and Trademark Office Society. [17]

Finalist Medal
Finalist of the Intel ISEF
(ISEF)
ISEF neck decoration
Awarded by Society for Science & the Public and Intel Foundation
Typemedal award
Established1950
Countryheld United States but an international competition
Ribbon     blue and      yellow
MottoInspiring innovators from around the world
EligibilityBecome a finalist at the Intel ISEF
StatusISEF
FounderGordon E. Moore
GradesIntel Young Scientist Award
Intel ISEF Best of Category Awards
Intel ISEF Grand Awards
Intel ISEF Special Awards
Intel ISEF Experiential Awards
Dudley R. Herschbach SIYSS Award
Statistics
First induction1950
Precedence
Next (lower)Varies, depending on rank

first time winner

The Intel ISEF Finalist Medal is given to about 1800 students from 75 countries each year, which are participating at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which is owned and administered by the Society for Science and the Public, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Washington, DC.

Each year about 7 million students participate in different regional, district and state ISEF affiliated fairs. Some of the winners of these affiliated fairs, which exist in over 75 countries, get the chance to take part at the Intel ISEF as a finalist, and each of them is awarded the Intel ISEF Finalist Medal. In 2013 there were 1611 finalists at the Intel ISEF in Phoenix, Arizona.

The medal has a diameter of 48 mm and is golden galvanized. The obverse shows the official logo of the Intel ISEF, the reverse shows the year of participating and the location of that year's Intel ISEF.

The ribbon bar is blue with a width of 40 mm and has a golden romanic 1 in the middle.

Top Prize Winners

When Intel began sponsoring ISEF in 1997, the Grand Awards were replaced with the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards, awarded to the top three projects.[5] In 2010, the top award was renamed for Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore.[18]

ISEF 1997 (Louisville, Kentucky)
  • Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards[19]
    • Scott Nicholas Sanders (Coral Springs, FL)
    • Logan Joseph Kleinwaks (Reston, VA)
    • Karen Mendelson (Worcester, MA)
ISEF 1998 (Fort Worth, Texas)
  • Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards[19]
    • James Warner Lawler (Greenwich, CT)
    • Jonathan Adam Kelner (Old Westbury, NY)
    • Geoffrey Robert Schmidt (Little Rock, AR)
ISEF 1999 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
  • Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards[19]
    • Jennifer Lynn Pelka (Orlando, FL)
    • Nisha Nagarkatti (Blacksburg, VA)
    • Feng Zhang (Des Moines, IA)
ISEF 2000 (Detroit, Michigan)
  • Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards[19]
    • Nazanin Jouei (Coral Springs, FL)
    • Karen Kay Powell (Fort Pierce, FL)
    • Jason L. Douglas (Milford, OH)
ISEF 2001 (San Jose, California)
  • Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards[19][20]
    • Ryan Randall Patterson (Grand Junction, CO)
    • Monika Paroder (Brooklyn, NY)
    • Francis Boulva (Town of Mount-Royal, Canada)
ISEF 2002 (Louisville, Kentucky)
  • Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards[19][21]
    • Naveen Neil Sinha (Los Alamos, NM)
    • Alexander C. Mittal (Cos Cob, CT)
    • Nina Vasan (Vienna, WV)
ISEF 2003 (Cleveland, Ohio)
  • Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards[19][22]
    • Lisa Doreen Glukhovsky (New Milford, CT)
    • Elena Leah Glassman (Pipersville, PA)
    • Anila Madiraju (Brossard, Canada)
ISEF 2004 (Portland, Oregon)
  • Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards[19][23]
    • Sarah Rose Langberg (Fort Myers, FL)
    • Uwe Treske (Grafenhainichen, Germany)
    • Yuanchen Zhu (Shanghai, China)
ISEF 2005 (Phoenix, Arizona)
  • Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards[19][24]
    • Gabrielle Alyce Gianelli (Orlando, FL)
    • Stephen Schulz (Gelsenkirchen, Germany)
    • Ameen Abdulrasool (Chicago, IL)
ISEF 2006 (Indianapolis, Indiana)
  • Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards[19][25]
    • Hannah Louise Wolf (Allentown, PA)
    • Madhavi Pulakat Gavini (Starkville, MS)
    • Meredith Ann MacGregor (Boulder, CO)
ISEF 2007 (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
  • Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards[26]
    • Dayan Li (Greenbelt, MD)
    • Philip Vidal Streich (Platteville, WI)
    • Dmitry Vaintrob (Eugene, OR)
ISEF 2008 (Atlanta, Georgia)
  • Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards[27]
    • Sana Raoof (Muttontown, NY)
    • Natalie Saranga Omattage (Cleveland, MS)
    • Yi-Han Su (Taipei, Taiwan)
ISEF 2009 (Reno, Nevada)
  • Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards[28]
    • Tara Adiseshan (Charlottesville, VA)
    • Li Boynton (Houston, TX)
    • Olivia Schwob (Boston, MA)
ISEF 2010 (San Jose, California)[29]
  • Gordon E. Moore Award: Amy Chyao (Richardson, TX)
  • Young Scientist Award: Kevin Ellis (Vancouver, WA)
  • Young Scientist Award: Yale Fan (Beaverton, OR)
ISEF 2011 (Los Angeles, California)[30]
  • Gordon E. Moore Award: Matthew Feddersen and Blake Marggraff (Lafayette, CA)
  • Young Scientist Award: Pornwasu Pongtheerawan, Arada Sungkanit and Tanpitcha Phongchaipaiboon (Suratthani, Thailand)
  • Young Scientist Award: Taylor Wilson (Reno, NV)
ISEF 2012 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)[31]
  • Gordon E. Moore Award: Jack Thomas Andraka (Glen Burnie, MD)
  • Young Scientist Award: Nicholas Benjamin Schiefer (Ontario, Canada)
  • Young Scientist Award: Ari Misha Dyckovsky (Sterling, VA)
ISEF 2013 (Phoenix, Arizona)[32]
  • Gordon E. Moore Award: Ionut Budisteanu (Ramnicu Valcea, Romania)
  • Young Scientist Award: Eesha Khare (Saratoga, CA)
  • Young Scientist Award: Henry Lin (Shreveport, LA)
ISEF 2014 (Los Angeles, California)[33]
  • Gordon E. Moore Award: Nathan Han (Boston, MA)
  • Young Scientist Award: Lennart Kleinwort (Wurzburg, Germany)
  • Young Scientist Award: Shannon Winjing Lee (Singapore)
ISEF 2015 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)[34]
  • Gordon E. Moore Award: Raymond Wang (Vancouver, Canada)
  • Young Scientist Award: Nicole Ticea (Vancouver, Canada)
  • Young Scientist Award: Karan Jerath (Friendswood, TX)
ISEF 2016 (Phoenix, Arizona)[35]
  • Gordon E. Moore Award: Han Jie (Austin) Wang (Vancouver, Canada)
  • Young Scientist Award: Syamantak Payra (Friendswood, TX)
  • Young Scientist Award: Kathy Liu (Salt Lake City, UT)
ISEF 2017 (Los Angeles, California)[36]
  • Gordon E. Moore Award: Ivo Zell (Hessen, Germany)
  • Young Scientist Award: Valerio Pagliarino (Castelnuovo Calcea, Italy)
  • Young Scientist Award: Amber Yang (Windermere, FL)
ISEF 2018 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)[37]
  • Gordon E. Moore Award: Oliver Nicholls (Sydney, Australia)
  • Young Scientist Award: Meghana Bollimpalli (Little Rock, AR)
  • Young Scientist Award: Dhruvik Parikh (Bothell, WA)
ISEF 2019 (Phoenix, Arizona)[38]
  • Gordon E. Moore Award: Krithik Ramesh (Greenwood Village, CO)
  • Young Scientist Award: Allison Jia (San Jose, CA)
  • Young Scientist Award: Rachel Seevers (Lexington, KY)
  • Craig R. Barrett Award for Innovation : Shriya Reddy (Northville, MI)
ISEF 2020 (Anaheim, California)[39]
  • Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and replaced with a virtual fair. Because some qualifier events did not name winners, the fair was not judged and prizes were not awarded.[40]

See also

The Society for Science & the Public also administers two other international science competitions:

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