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!

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