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Meet CSEF’s “Super Science Girls” at Connecticut Science Center, 11am – 2pm, Sat. Oct 22

Seven 2016 Fair Alumnae Show Their Winning Projects- 11am – 2pm, Sat. Oct 22, Connecticut Science Center Seven of our Fair’s top young women winners will discuss their research and how they found ways around problems in meeting their goals. Read about their projects and Fair awards. This is part of the Connecticut Science Center’s Women in Science programs. Visit the Connecticut Science Center …

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2016 Google Science Fair – Connecticut Has Three Regional Finalists

We are pleased to announce that state of Connecticut has three regional Google Science Fair finalists. All are 2016 Connecticut Science & Engineering Fair Alumni. Each year Google sponsors the Google Science Fair, which is an online science competition, where thousands of students, ages 13-18, apply using their independent research projects. Of the thousands of entrants, Only 100 Finalists are selected, …

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2015 Google Science Fair- Connecticut Students Finalists

View the lifestreamed awards ceremony on September 21st, 10:00 pm EDT. Each year, Google sponsors the Google Science Fair, which is an online science competition, where thousands of students, ages 13-18, apply using their independent research projects. Of the thousands of entrants, Only 90 Finalists are selected, WORLDWIDE, with only 18 finalists selected from the “Americas” (North and South America and Canada), from the …

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Lyme Disease Research by CSEF Alumni in the News

Lyme disease research of two Connecticut Science & Engineering Fair alumni is referenced in a media release by the Lyme Disease Research Alliance and appears in Fairfield’s HamletHub web news. Read about it in the Greenwich Post Ryan Kerr, Danbury CT- 2011 alumnus Ryan Kerr then a Danbury High School sophomore, now a sophomore at Harvard University, researched a technique using emtomopathongenic nematodes (naturally occurring roundworms) to kill ticks. …

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CT Science & Engineering Fair Participants Get “Style”-ish

Connecticut Science & Engineering Fair participants will be coming to your television sets next week!  Watch for Mallory Madfes of Greenwich High School, Delaney Kehoe of Glastonbury High School and Jordan Henck of Amity Regional High School in Woodbridge, as they explain their projects and talk about their science fair experiences on WTNH-TV’s Connecticut Style show on Channel 8.  These …

Ryota Ishizuka is selected as a Davidson Fellow, winning a $25K Scholarship

Hi Everyone, I am excited to tell you that Ryota Ishizuka was selected as a 2012 Davidson Fellow, which is accompanied by a $25,000 Scholarship, for his junior-year project on the Optimization of Microbial Fuel Cells. Here’ s a link to the short bio/posting of his award: Thanks, Andy Bramante Fair Director’s Note- Past CSEF Davidson Fellows 2004 Anna-Katrina Shedletsky …

Ryota Ishizuka Chosen As A Top Ten High School Inventor

Ryota Ishizuka, as a senior from Greenwich High School (now a freshman at Harvard University), has been selected by the magazine “Popular Science”  (August 2012 issue See clipping.) as a one of its Top Ten High School Inventors. Ryota’s project, “An Organic Thin Film Transistor and Elastic Organic Solar Cell Based Electronic Skin for Biochemical and Tactile Sensing” is our Fair’s …

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2010 CSF Alumnae Named 2012 Women of Innovation Collegian Finalist

Heather Leask, 2005-2010 CSF Competitor and a 2010 top fair high school winner, has been announced as a Collegian Finalist in the Connecticut Technology Council “Women of of Innovation Awards”. Heather is continuing her material sciences research as an undergraduate at the UMASS, Amherst, Nanotechnology Lab.  Heather is completing her sophomore year at the University of Connecticut where she is …

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CSF Winner Recipient of MacArthur Fellowship

I am delighted to report that Kelly Benoit-Bird, 1994 Connecticut Winner and competitor at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, has been named a recipient of a 2010 MacArthur Fellowship. Kelly was a 1994 CT Junior Science and Humanities Symposium Finalist. Kelly was a 1994 Winner of the United Technologies Corporation Award at the Connecticut Science Fair. She conducted1994 …