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IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
For
additional information:
Tim
Fino, Science Fair Director
248-471-9900
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Science Fair
winners receive awards at International Science & Engineering Fair in San
Jose, Calif.
In a total of two award ceremonies, 5 student projects (7 students) from the Detroit Metro area won seven prestigious awards at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair held in San Jose, California. These special awards were presented on May 13-14, 2010 and consisted of key awards from scientific, professional and educational organizations, governmental organizations, and overall category awards.
Michael Yurko, 16, Detroit Catholic Central High School, Novi,
Michigan.
Project title: “A Parallel Computational Framework for
Solving Quadratic Assignment Problems Exactly”
Association
for Computing Machinery, Third
Award of $300
Symantec Corporation, Third Award of $750
Computer Science Category Award, Second Place Award of $1,500
Norman Jin, 15, Notre Dame Preparatory School, Pontiac, Michigan.
Project Title: “High Efficiency Unity Power Factor Battery
Charger”
Florida Institute of Technology – Scholarship Award of $12,500 per year, renewable annually
Siddhartha Jena, 16, International Academy, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Project Title: “High Cholesterol Impairs Wate and Gas
Transport in Red Blood Cells and is Ameliorated by the PLA2 Inhibitor
ONO-RS-082”
Medicine and Health Sciences Category Award, First Place Award of $3,000
Sherwin Wu, 17, Detroit Country Day School, Beverly Hills, Michigan.
Project Title: “Glucosaminyl (N-acetyl) Transferase 2 (GCNT2) Gene Expression Highly Influences
Breast Cancer Metastasis and Promotes an Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition
(EMT)”
Medicine and Health Sciences Category Award, Second Place Award of $1,500
Stephen Morrison, 16, Grosse Pointe North High School
Genevieve Wang, 18, Grosse Pointe South High School
Laree Gardner, 18, Grosse Pointe North High School
Project
Title: “H-α [O III] Photometry of Galactic Plane Candidate Planetary
Nebulae”
Team Projects Category Award, Second Place Award of $1,500
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