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SCI 2022 WINNERS

3/10/2023

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Congratulations to the following teams from SCI 2022 on their amazing projects! After SCI 2022 concluded, our judges evaluated several teams' programming projects and determined the following teams' projects to be exceptional.

1st place: Team Habitable
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nd place: Team Notify

SCI or Summer Coding Institute is AYSI's summer coding program, where students interested in computer science can gain in-depth knowledge from highly qualified teachers through project-based learning. This course is highly useful for anyone who might want to use coding in their science fair projects. Additionally, with data science and computer science becoming increasingly large fields, coding will be an invaluable skill in any STEM career. We offer two levels for beginners and those who are already experienced with programming, making SCI suitable for anyone wishing to improve their programming. For example, our beginner level runs through concepts such as loops and arrays, while our advanced level includes ideas such as machine learning.
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AYSI SCI 2021 Results!

8/7/2021

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AYSI SCI 2021 has officially concluded - thank you to all the officers, TAs, and students who made the program such a success for the second year in a row! 

Listed below are all the winners from this year's competition program. Over $4,000 in prize money was given out to the competitors for their two months of dedication and hard work.

Grand Prize Best in Show: Group S61b - Kevin Hong, Everett Jin
Junior Division
  • First Place: Group J51 (Kaitlyn Fan, Isabelle Hou) and Group J31 (Sharie Feng, Maggie Cheng)
  • Second Place: Group J36 (Chris Pan, Andy Shen) and Group J50 (Ethan Shen, Brandon Xu)
  • Third Place: Group J8 (Alan Shih) and Group J35 ( Tony Yu, Daniel Wu)
  • Honorable Mention: Group J71 (Amruta Soma) and Group J33 (Derek Qu, Madeleine Ye)

Senior Division
  • First Place: Group S61b (Kevin Hong, Everett Jin), Group S28 (Helen Mao, David Mao), and Group S49 (Vikraant Singh, Michael Liu, Neel Vashishta)
  • Second Place: Group S25 (Pranav Tonpe) and Group S64b (Matt Zhang, David Chen, Mark Yin)
  • Third Place: Group S24 (Jeffrey Wang) and Group S30 (Vedanth Venkatesh, David Cui)
  • Honorable Mention: Group S29 (Ethan Hao, Michelle Bao) and Group S17 (Harshita Sharma)
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Thank you once again to everyone who partcipated in AYSI-SCI! We hope you have a great rest of the summer and look forward to seeing everyone again in the school year!
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AYSI ISEF 2021 Results!

5/27/2021

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This past May, members and students of AYSI competed at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the most prestigious science fair in the world! The awards won are as follows:
  • First Place and Special Award: Ishaan Javali and Shrey Joshi, Plano East Senior High, Earth and Environmental Sciences, project title: GLAS: A Global Landslide Analytics System
  • Second Place and Special Award: Rithvik Ganesh, Plano West Senior High, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, project title: Tackling Tau: Identifying a Novel Inhibitor for the MSUT-2 Protein based on Quantum Machine Learning for the identification of treatments of Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Second Place and Special Award: Christine Song, Mayo High School, Rochester, MN, United States of America, project title: Cure of Breast Cancer, Year 4: First Discovery of Target Therapy for Aggressive Hormonal Breast Cancer using Clinical Database and 3D Model
  • Third Place and Special Award: Govardhan Poondi and John Rho, Plano West Senior High, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, project title: Non-Invasive, Two-Channel EEG Hearing Aid to Address the Cocktail Party Problem via Multi-Speaker Auditory Attention Decoding
  • Special Award: Harshal V. Bharatia, Plano Senior High School, Oracle Academy award outstanding project in systems software ($5,000), project title: DocAide: A Collaborative AI Medical Assistant Using Novel Autonomous Learning

Congratulations to all AYSI award winners!
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AYSI SCI TXEF 2021 Results!

5/26/2021

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This past March, members and students of AYSI took on the Texas Science and Engineering Fair (TXSEF). Below are all the results!

TEXAS BEST IN STATE
  • Senior Division, Physical Science Honorable Mention Team: Ishaan Javali & Shrey Joshi, Plano East Senior High School, GLAS: A Global Landslide Analytics System [ISEF Qualifer]

SPECIAL AWARDS
  • Noah Mathai, Plano West Senior High School, Biochemistry, Agar-Ponics: Novel Agarose-based Agricultural System Synergizing Soil Integrated GM-Bacteria and Aquaponics - Deere Family Scholarship, Life Science
  • Team: Ishaan Javali & Shrey Joshi, Plano East Senior High School, Mathematics, GLAS: A Global Landslide Analytics System - Mu Alpha Theta Award
  • Anjali Brown, Plano West Senior High School, Biomedical and Health Sciences, The Effects of Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, and Lactuca virosa on the Pain Receptors within Dugesia tigrina - Regeneron Biomedical Science Award

FIRST PLACE
  • Team: Govardhan Poondi and John Rho, Plano West Senior High School, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Non-Invasive, Two-Channel EEG Hearing Aid to Address the Cocktail Party Problem via Multi-Speaker Auditory Attention Decoding*
  • Team: Ishaan Javali and Shrey Joshi, Plano East Senior High School, Mathematics, GLAS: A Global Landslide Analytics System*

SECOND PLACE
  • Team: Ashley Zhang and Sophia Zhang, Jasper High School, Biochemistry, The Effects of Aqueous Plant Extracts on the Inhibition of α-Amylase's Ability to Hydrolyze Alpha-linked Polysaccharides*
  • Alay Shah, Plano West Senior High School, Biomedical Engineering, Generating Functional MRI (fMRI) Images via Eye-Tracking Classification for Artificial Brain Scans*

THIRD PLACE
  • Noah Mathai, Plano West Senior High School, Biochemistry, Agar-Ponics: Novel Agarose-based Agricultural System Synergizing Soil Integrated GM-Bacteria and Aquaponics
  • Weixuan Yan, Plano West Senior High School, Microbiology, A Machine Learning Approach to Optimize CRISPR-Cas13d RNA Targeting as an Antiviral Therapeutics
  • Navya Ramakrishnan, Plano Senior High School, Systems Software, A Brain Computer Interface System for the Improvement of Cognitive and Communication Abilities for Patients with Neuromuscular Disorders
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2021 Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) Results

3/19/2021

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Congratulations to AYSI co-founder Alay Shah for winning 7th place at the 2021 Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS)! Alay has won $70,000 as a Top 10 finisher in this year's competition for high school seniors. STS is the nation's oldest and most prestigious science competition. Read more about Alay's project at https://www.societyforscience.org/regeneron-sts/2021-finalists/!
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AYSI - TJAS 2020 and TJSHS 2021

3/10/2021

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AYSI students competed at the annual Texas Junior Academy of Science (TJAS) and Texas Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (TJSHS) competitions this school year. Congratulations to all winners and best of luck at the next stage!

TEXAS JUNIOR ACADEMY OF SCIENCE (VIRTUAL; Oct 15-16)

Grand Prize Awards (American Junior Academy of Science (AJAS) Qualification)
3rd Grand Prize in Natural Science - William Yan

1st Place (AJAS Qualification)
Sophie Krajmalnik, Plano West Senior High, Engineering I 
Rachel Mammen, Plano West Senior High, Botany/Zoology
William Yan, Plano West Senior High, Biochemistry/ Microbiology

2nd Place
Rithvik Ganesh, Plano West Senior High, Medicine and Health
Navya Ramakrishnan, Plano Senior High, Computer Science
John Rho, Plano West Senior High, Medicine and Health
Alay Shah, Plano West Senior High, Computer Science

3rd Place
Shrey Joshi, Plano East Senior High, Computer Science
Lillian Ye, Plano West Senior High, Biochemistry/Microbiology

TEXAS JUNIOR SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES SYMPOSIUM (VIRTUAL; Jan. 29)

2nd Place Grand Prize (Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS) Qualification)
Navya Ramakrishnan

3rd Place Grand Prize (Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS) Qualification)
Alay Shah

4th Place Grand Prize (Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS) Qualification)
William Yan

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AYSI takes on DRSEF 2021!

3/10/2021

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From February 26-28, AYSI students competed at the virtual 2021 Dallas Regional Science and Engineering Fair (DRSEF). AYSI took home six first-place ribbons and two ISEF qualifications. Congratulations to all participants and winners!

Grand Prize Winner and ISEF Qualifer
Rithvik Ganesh

Grand Prize Runner-up and ISEF Qualifer
Harshal Bharatia

1st Place and TXSEF Qualifier
Biochemistry - Noah Mathai
Computational Biology - Rithvik Ganesh
Mathematics - Shrey Joshi and Ishaan Javali
Robotics and Intelligent Machines - Harshal Bharatia
Systems Software - Navya Ramakrishnan
Translational Medicine - Alay Shah

2nd Place and TXSEF Qualifier
Biochemistry - Ashley and Sophia Zhang
Biomedical and Health Sciences - Anjali Brown
Computational Biology - John Rho and Govardhan Poondi
Microbiology - Weixuan (William) Yan

3rd Place
Embedded Systems - Arnold Venter (advancing to state)

Special Awards
Acoustical Society of America, Outstanding Senior Project - John Rho and Govardhan Poondi
National Space Society of North Texas, Space Exploration Scholarship 2nd Place - Arnold Venter
Office of Naval Research, Naval Science Award - Harshal Bharatia
Southwestern Medical Foundation, Kathryn and Ashley H. Priddy Award - Rithvik Ganesh


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AYSI-SCI Award Winners

8/2/2020

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On August 1st, AYSI-SCI students, teachers, officers, judges, and sponsors gathered for our finalist presentations awards ceremony. The event concluded the 2020 AYSI Summer Coding Institute, honoring our students' hard work and thanking all the people who made this amazing event possible. Listed below are the award winners from our 4 week long Competition Program. 

BEST IN SHOW (Cash prize of $1000)
S32: Endangered Species Classifier
Evan Yu, Michael Zheng, and Alex Cheong
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FIRST PLACE JUNIOR DIV (Cash prize of $200)
J24: Covid-19 Clinic App
Carah Su and Ellen Zulkarnain

FIRST PLACE SENIOR DIV (Cash prize of $300)
S7: Soap Underwater Detection System (SUDS): A Neural Network for Dishwasher Water Conservation
Ethan Zhao, Aaron Liu, Alan Zhao

SECOND PLACE JUNIOR DIV (Cash prize of $100)
J8: Trace it!- A COVID-19 contact tracing app
J16: OurMovies
J18: App That Aides to Detect Plagiarism
J26: MediLinked
J37: House Stability Detector

SECOND PLACE SENIOR DIV (Cash prize of $200)
S1: Alert System for Reducing Occurrences of Car Accidents Related to Driver-Related Mistakes
S15: Arch A-Eye
S18: Detecting Underage Alcohol Consumption in a Non-Intrusive Manner Using Deep Learning
S22: Fast Violence Detection Through Deep Learning

THIRD PLACE JUNIOR DIV 
J4: Book App
J6: Music Buddy
J10: Family Finder
J28: Hydraulic Flume Simulation

THIRD PLACE SENIOR DIV
S26: An Application for Quick Classification of American Sign Language via Deep Learning Image Recognition
S5: Predicting House Prices by Linear Regression
S4: Pocket Recycler: A Convolutional Neural Network Approach to Recyclables Classification
S25: Classifying Skin Diseases via Artificial Neural 
Networks

FOURTH PLACE JUNIOR DIV 
J11: Carbon Dioxide Reduction
J20: The Dog Dictionary
J21: Covid-19 Case Tracker and Comparison Calculator
J23: Grade Face ID
J33: Happiness Game
J39: EduProject

FOURTH PLACE SENIOR DIV 
​S2: SnapCycle
S6: DeepFake Photoshop Image Detector Using Convolutional Neural Networks via Deep Learning
S10: Shield Covid
S24: Second View Alzheimer's Disease Recognition
S29: Low-Maintenance Method of Detecting Mask Wearing in a Public Area via Machine Learning and Computer Vision
S31: Tracking Phone Usage to Help Users Increase Productivity

RISING STARS AWARDS
Karl Hui 
Oscar Li 
Hollis Lin 
Clement Wang

HONORABLE MENTIONS JUNIOR DIV
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J7: Nnews
J27: Using MIT App Inventor to Help Students Manage Stress Using Problem-Based  Coping
J5: Kids Adventure
J29: Obesitysolve
J22: Secure Messenger App
J38: Expired Products
J34: Dangerous Animal Classification Tool
J30: The Way of the Sensors
J12: Tax Estimator
J32: Gardening App
J15: Learning App
J35: Improving and maintaining mental health through music
J36: The SOS Emergency App
J19: Fade
J17: Book Finder
J9: Meal Suggestor
HONORABLE MENTIONS SENIOR DIV
​S16: Heart Health App
S27: Detecting Phishing Emails/SMS Texts with Machine Learning
S11: Neural Network-Based Speech-To-Text System with Identification of Stuttering
S3: Identification of Fake New
S28: Food Identification App
S9: Distinguishing Poison Ivy From Similar Three-Leaved Plants Through Deep Learning Image Classification
S8: Face Space: A Free, Accessible Program for Facial Detection
S21: COVID-19 Prediction

Congratulations to all of our competitors and award winners! 
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Lecture Program Completed!

6/28/2020

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The AYSI-SCI lecture program has officially come to an end! Thank you so much to the amazing students, parents, lecturers, and teaching assistants that helped contribute to our success. A special thank you goes out to our amazing sponsors at AMS and the ACP foundation as well as our guest lecturers from the Mark Cuban Foundation. 

Although our lecture program may have ended, we are far from finished. Starting July 1st will be our much anticipated competition program in which students will use the topics they've learned to create a capstone project and compete for monetary prizes and trophies​.
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Students will work with their previously chosen or assigned teammates to create applications or software projects that aim to solve real issues present in their community or society at large. They will have a month to complete their projects and presentations, so get working soon and good luck to all!
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AYSI-SCI Lecture Program Update

6/16/2020

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Our AYSI-SCI students are now well into the lecture program with both our junior and senior divisions completing lesson 8 yesterday. Students have learned topics ranging from introductory programming syntax to advanced machine learning concepts, and every day they continue to practice their skills with homework and take-home projects. 
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Both junior and senior divisions of the AYSI-SCI lecture program were also delighted to welcome Jesse Stauffer from the Mark Cuban Foundation to guest lecture our joint 3rd lesson. Over the past few weeks, our amazing AYSI team has delivered a practical and fun computer science education to our 250 phenomenal students. We hope to continue our engagement and success throughout the rest of the lecture program and onwards into the competition program.
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