Upper Dublin Students Win Big At Delaware Valley Science Fair

Students from around the area won big at the 68th annual Delaware Valley Science Fairs, held March 29-31 at the Philadelphia Expo Center.

Students were recognized for their outstanding student science research work as they competed against more than 1,000 students from Pennsylvania, South Jersey and Delaware. Nearly $2 million in scholarship and prize money were awarded at DVSF to students in grade 6-12.

These top winners from DVSF are awarded a trip to compete at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Phoenix, in May.

Beyond that handful, however, there were many other winners recognized. The local students which scored in the top three projects for grades 10-12 n each category are recognized below.

Methacton High School:

• Shayan Farman, (11th Grade) Gold Medalist, Medicine/Health:Novel Tol C Inhibitors: Computer-aided Drug for MDR-causing Efflux Pumps
• Karthik Yegnesh, (10th Grade) Bronze Medalist, Mathematics:Constant Theoretic Constructions of Resistant Homology and Neural Networks
• Vivek Gopalan, third place, Mathematics
• Shayan Farmand, first place, Medicine and Health
• Harleen Suri, second place, Microbiology
• Vaibhav Gupta, third place, Microbiology
• William Chen, second place, Earth and Space Sciences
• Samuel Geiser, second place, Behavior and Social Sciences
• Karthik Yegnesh, first place, Mathematics
• Jeremy Wang, second place, Mathematics
• Sahas Kurumety, third place, Physics

Souderton Area High School:

• Ethan Moyer (9th Grade) Bronze Medalist, Computer:The Dawn of Genetic Storage: Proof of Concept
• Avery Price, second place, Physics
• Lizzie Wilson, third place, Zoology
• Dominic Adamo, honorable mention, Physics

North Penn High School:

• Corson Chao, first place, Environmental
• Pradyot Yadav, honorable mention, Engineering

Upper Merion High School:

• Shloke Nair, second place, Zoology

Upper Dublin:

• Calvin Chan, second place, Mathematics
• Dustin Zhang, honorable mention, Behavior and Social Sciences
• Alexis Schneider, third place, Biochemistry
• Nina Cheng, honorable mention, Medicine and Health
• Roman Smith, third place, Behavior and Social Sciences
• Victoria Hoffner, third place, Chemistry
• Soo-Un Jeong, third place, Zoology

Lower Moreland:

• Daniel Barychev, third place, Mathematics
• Katya Farber, honorable mention, Chemistry

Wissahickon High School

• Sanjna Shelukar, first place, Zoology

Germantown Academy:

• Kian Jamasbi, third place, Engineering
• Tyler Hook, first place, Physics
• Hyunji Kim, first place, Computer

Academy of Notre Dame de Namur

• Alysa Dinh, third place, Physics
• Jackie Lanzalotto, first place, Biochemistry
• Abigail Smith, second place, Microbiology

Owen J. Roberts

• Jonathan Arditi, third place, Biochemistry

Chester County

Malvern Prep

• Zachary DeStefano, second place, Computer
• Turner Emery, honorable mention, Engineering

Conestoga High School

• Jahnavi Kishore, second place, Medicine and Health
• Michael Zhang, 12 Grade Gold Medalist

Devon Prep

• Matthew Siracusa, third place, Engineering

Since 1949, the Delaware Valley Science Fairs have stimulated interest in science, technology engineering and mathematics(STEM) among middle and high school students in the tri-state region.

DVSF’s philosophy is that students learn science by doing science. Its mission is to bring together parents, teachers and industry leaders to motivate and nurture young people’s curiosity in science and problem solving as we build lifelong learners.

For a complete listing of specific awards won by students, go to the Delaware Valley Science Fairs, Inc. website at: www.dvsf.org and click on the link of 2016 award winners. To see the students which will compete at the international competition, see here.

Image courtesy Temple University.