Hello Science Fair Friends, Sponsors, and Alumni,
The seven top high school winners of the 2017 Connecticut Science & Engineering Fair head to Los Angeles, Sunday, May 14, to compete in the Intel International 
Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), the world’s largest precollege science and engineering competition. Sorry to say leaving on Mother’s Day!
Intel ISEF takes place Sunday through Friday, May 14-19. We are continuing our tradition of providing newsletters of our students’ adventures for our sponsors and friends. The newsletters will be emailed to you and will be posted on the Fair’s website.
A limited number of photos will be attached to the emails but a great many more will be available through the CSEF website. See Photos There will be approximately six email newsletters, one for each major event, and each written by one of the CSEF competitors.
Get the ISEF Week Program and follow along with us. Throughout the week ISEF hosts a rich number of symposia. Check them out– Never a dull moment!
- Sunday – Meet at Bradley Airport at 4:50 am (Ouch!) for breakfast, then flying out at 6:50 am. Arrive Los Angeles noon time, check into hotel, have lunch, go through the registration process and in the evening the students are off to the Student Pin Exchange
- Monday – If need be, finish setting up projects and having them inspected by Display Rules & Safety Committee. If we manage to finish setup on Sunday, there will be a a visit to La Brea Tar Pits and Museum. Late afternoon features Opening Ceremony Dinner. The evening concludes with the Opening Ceremony.
- Tuesday – Clear any Project Violations, visit the California Science Center, and attend the Excellence in Science and Technology Panel Discussion with Nobel Laureates and then, meet and greet with the panelists. Evening features Welcome Events for students and adults
- Wednesday – Judging from 8 am to 4 pm and then it’s off to the Welcome Event at Universal Studios.
- Thursday – Public Viewing with students at their displays to explain their research to visiting school groups. Symposia sessions and After dinner, the first of the awards programs, the Special Awards Ceremony, starts at 7:00 pm.
- Friday – Grand Awards Ceremony, Pack up projects, and have lunch and perhaps fit in one adventure before heading to the airport for a 9:10 pm “red eye” flight home
- Saturday – Arrive Bradley at 5:33 am- Ouch!
Review the project titles in the Finalist Directory and judge for yourself. There is much to be learned from even a project title. See if you can pick the top placing projects in a category just from the title.
Official Party – Get Biographies and Project Abstracts Here
Meet the 2017 competitors and the adult chaperones. Get pdf containing the students’ abstracts and bios, and the bios for the accompanying adults.
Students
Luca Barcelo, Junior, Greenwich High School, Crowd-Sourced Detection
and Mapping of Nitrate Water Pollutants via a Mobile Web-Based Image Analysis System
See Luca’s Poster- Sophie Edelstein, Sophomore, Wilbur Cross High School, New Haven, Formulation of a Bovine Gelatin Cross-Linked Scaffold for Potential Human Tissue Applications: A Patient Specific, Cost-Effective Alternative Treatment of Acetabular Labral Tears of the Hip
See Sophie’s Poster - Maya Geradi, Sophomore, Wilbur Cross High School, New Haven, A Study of Circadian Genetics and Abiotic Stress towards Sustainable Agriculture
See Maya’s Poster - Eunji Lee, Junior, Sacred Heart Academy, Hamden, Computer-Aided Bleeding Detection in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Images Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
See Eunji’s Poster - Ethan Novek, Senior, Greenwich High School, Novel Low-Temperature Carbon Capture Using Aqueous Ammonia and OrganicSolvents
See Ethan’s Poster - Rahul Subramaniam, Sophomore, Greenwich High School, An Early Warning System For Zika Virus in Mosquito Populations Based On Real-Time Field Detection of Viral RNA In Mosquito Saliva
See Rahul’s Poster - Michelle Xiong, Junior, Greenwich High School, Development of a CNT/ZnO/TiO2 Membrane for Visible-Light Induced Photocatalytic Filtration of Water-Borne Organic and Bacterial Pollutants
See Michelle’s Poster
Accompanying Adults
- Ann Frattalone, ISEF Week Coordinator, Regular Awards Chair, Connecticut Technical High School System (retired)
- Kirk Shadle, ISEF Week Associate Coordinator, Science Research Teacher, Bridgeport Regional Aquaculture Science and Technology Education Center
- Bob Wisner, CSEF Fair Director, United Technologies Research Center and Otis Elevator (retired)
On behalf of our Board, Officers, and Executive Committee, thank you for your continuing support of the Connecticut Science and Engineering Fair. We hope that you enjoy following the week’s activities.
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Bob Wisner
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