Filipino students bring home major ISEF awards

**RafRaf** · May 26th, 2004 12:39 PM

Share ko lang sa inyo... la lang, proud lang ako sa achievment nila... :D

Filipino students bring home major ISEF awards

The victorious Team Philippines successfully reaped four major awards at the recently concluded 2004 Intel Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) held at Portland, Oregon amidst stiff competition from their peers around the world. ISEF is the world’s largest pre-college science competition showcasing the world’s most promising young scientists and inventors. This year, 1,431 students from 41 countries around the world participated and competed for different awards.
Filipino high school student Joy Anne Lim Aquino's research on sea-snake venom earned her two major awards at the recently held ISEF.

Joy Anne Lim Aquino a senior from the E. Rodriquez Junior High School bagged First Place from the American Veterinary Medical Association and Fourth Place grand Award in Medicine and Health with her project “Biologically-Guided Isolation of the Antimicrobial Component on the Sea-Snake Laticauda colubrina Schneider Venom” her winnings totaling US$1,500.

Garnering the third place, Grand Award for the Team Projects is the team from Manila Science High School made up of Alan Ray Escobido Gonzales, Maria Katrina De Vera Rivera and Anne Margarette Contreras Velasquez. Their Physical Chemistry project which they dubbed as “Development of a Chemically Modified Carbon Paste Electrode from Green Mussels (Perna viridis) for the Analysis of Lead (II) through Voltammetry” won US$1,000.

On fourth place for the Grand Award is the team from Quezon City Science High School made up of Trina Granada Napasindayao, Melanie Cayanan Melcho, Jayson Reggie Taruc Obos. Their project, called “A Simple, Rapid, and Inexpensive Dissolved Oxygen Determination of Wastewater Samples Using the Tube Bioluminescence Extinction Method of Vibrio fischeri USTCMS 1063 competed in the category Environmental Science under subcategory Water Pollution and Water Quality. They get to bring home US$500.

Philippine students Alan Gonzales, Anne Velasquez, and Katrina Rivera won Third Place Grand Award for team projects.

The elated, and exhausted Philippine team will be home on May 26, 2004 and will be feted a heroes welcome by Intel on May 28.

More than 500 students received scholarships and prizes at the Intel ISEF. Sponsored by Intel since 1997, the ISEF is the biggest gathering of youth science and math enthusiasts from all around the globe. The students that competed in Portland this year emerged from a worldwide field of several million science fair participants during the past academic year. They then went on to compete with over 65,000 students at more than 500 regional Intel ISEF-affiliated science fairs around the world to win the right to attend the Intel ISEF.

Intel’s sponsorship of the Intel ISEF is part of the Intel® Innovation in Education initiative, a sustained commitment – in collaboration with educators and government leaders worldwide – to help prepare students to succeed in a knowledge-based economy.

**RedHorse** · May 26th, 2004 03:54 PM

Yes! Mabuhay ang Filipino

**zero** · May 26th, 2004 04:06 PM

that's good news.

**empy** · May 27th, 2004 08:53 AM

Originally posted by RafRaf
Their Physical Chemistry project which they dubbed as “Development of a Chemically Modified Carbon Paste Electrode from Green Mussels (Perna viridis) for the Analysis of Lead (II) through Voltammetry”

ok yan ah....electric tahong!!