CSEF students come away with five Special Awards and an Honorable Mention at the Intel ISEF Thursday’s Special Awards Ceremony totaling $7,000 in Cash!

Srikar Godilla & Cristian Rodriguez, CREC Academy of Aerospace and Engineering, Windsor
Effect of Experimental Parameters on Forming Prince Rupert’s Drops for Maximum Strength and Toughness

• First Award of $2,500- Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc.

Raina Jain, Greenwich High School 
Magnetically Induced, Visual Detection of Trace Arsenic Contaminants in Water Using Fe3O4 Photonic Crystal Structures

• Second Award of $1,000- Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh

Shobhita Sundaram, Greenwich High School 
Detection of Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease via Hierarchical Classification of Proteomic and Clinical Profiles

• Award of $1,000 for Research in Medicine- King Abdul-Aziz & his Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity

Keshav Vedula, CREC Academy of Aerospace and Engineering, Windsor
Undulated Leading-Edge Airfoils in Low to Medium Reynolds Number Regime

• Third Award of $1,000- American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics
• Second Award of $1,500- Arconic Foundation

Maya Geradi, Wilbur Cross High School
Synthesis and Separation of Chiral Compounds in the Preparation of a PET Radiotracer Targeting Synaptic Vesicle Glycoprotein 2A 

• Honorable Mention- American Chemical Society