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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:
Congratulations to all AYSI award winners!
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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
SPECIAL AWARDS
FIRST PLACE
SECOND PLACE
THIRD PLACE
 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/!
 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  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  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 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 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!
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.  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!
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.
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.
The Association of Young Scientists and Innovators launched the first Summer Coding Institute with a member orientation meeting on May 24th. The Summer Coding Institute is AYSI's response to the global coronavirus pandemic, enabling students 6th-8th grade to learn the fundamentals of programming and artificial intelligence.
AYSI's Summer Coding Institute aims to provide students with a unique opportunity to explore cutting edge topics in computer science and artificial intelligence - conducted on a virtual platform. Our vision is to empower young students not just with technical skills but also with the mindset of “innovating for impact." The program teaches the fundamentals of programming and artificial intelligence to students and pushes them to consider how they can apply knowledge to community problems. The AYSI Summer Coding Institute kicked off with an information session on April 25th with around 240 registrants. Since then nearly 220 students are now fully enrolled in the 8-week program. Additionally, AYSI has granted 21 financial aid scholarships to registered members, granting them full and free access to the program's resources. AYSI's goal is to bring AI education to everyone, breaking the barrier between those who can learn and those who can't. Through sponsors AYSI is aiming to grant scholarships to all students in need, opening the program up to everyone. Powering the program at its roots is a group of devoted sponsors. AYSI is delighted to take on Ams AG, the ACP Foundation, and the CAST Association as sponsors and supporters to the program and AI education as a whole. The Summer Coding Institute also includes lectures taught by MIT, Caltech, Columbia, Stanford, and UT students. The program also includes guest lecturers from the Mark Cuban Foundation. The officers at AYSI are extremely grateful for the support and quick growth of the 2020 Summer Coding Insitute, hoping to teach students how to turn ideas into products with computer science.  On February 22, AYSI student and mentors competed at the annual Dallas Regional Science and Engineering Fair capturing 25% of the 1st Places (Advancing to the Texas State Science and Engineering Fair) and 38% of the Grand Prizes (Advancing to the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair).
AYSI students also received recognition from a variety of special award sponsors and corporations. GRAND PRIZE (ADVANCING TO ISEF) Life Sciences - John Rho (with partner Govardhan Poondi) Life Sciences Runner-Up - Rachel Mammen Physical Sciences Runner-Up - Alay Shah FIRST PLACE (ADVANCING TO TXSEF) Robotics and Intelligent Machines - Kevin Meng Physics & Astronomy - Derek Qin Computational Biology & Bioinformatics - John Rho Plant Sciences - Rachel Mammen Translational Medicine - Alay Shah SECOND PLACE (ADVANCING TO TXSEF) Biomedical Engineering - Andrei Spiride Chemistry - Nicholas Zhong Biochemistry - Lillian Ye THIRD PLACE (ADVANCING TO TXSEF) Computational Biology & Bioinformatics - Rithvik Ganesh Embedded Systems - Arnold Venter HONORABLE MENTION Earth & Environmental Systems - Ethan Zhao Earth & Environmental Systems - Kevin Su (Junior Division) Biomedical Engineering - Justin Rho & Sean Jannati Behavioral Sciences - William Yan SPECIAL AWARDS Kevin Meng - U.S. Air Force - Certificate of Achievement John Rho - Acoustical Society of America - Outstanding Senior Acoustic Project Arnold Venter - Terracon, Inc. - Engineering Excellence Award, Senior Div. 3rd Place Individual Derek Qin - Office of Naval Research - Naval Science Award, Senior Division, U.S. Air Force - Certificate of Achievement Ethan Zhao - DFW Chapter of Hazardous Materials Managers - Honorable Mention Next, AYSI members will prepare for the upcoming State and International Science Fairs. First, second, and third places will move on to the State Science Fair on March 27 & 28. Congratulations to All !!! |
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