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Singapore Students Put Up Good Achievement at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2010
The Ministry of Education congratulates the Singapore Team on their achievements at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2010 held in San Jose, California, United States from 9 –14 May 2010. The Singapore Team submitted two individual projects and one team project.
Both individual projects clinched awards at ISEF:
Cheng Jingjie of Raffles Girls’ School won the Second Award, which includes a cash prize of US$1,500, in the Cellular and Molecular Biology category for her project “Investigating the mitigating effects of Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG) in Parkinson’s Disease”. Jingjie worked under the supervision of Associate Professor Lim Kah Leong and Dr Ng Chee Hoe from the National Neuroscience Institute.
Edrei Chua Zheng Fu of National Junior College won the Third Award, which includes a cash prize of US$150 and a one year student membership at the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, in the Special Award category from the Northern California Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. Edrei conducted his research on Automated Characterization of Ultra-Light Metal Foam from μCT Reconstructed Images, under the supervision of Dr Andrew A. Malcolm at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), A*STAR.
The Singapore Team was led by Professor Kanaga Sabapathy, Principal Investigator, National Cancer Centre and Mr Lim Poh Yeong, Curriculum Planning Officer, MOE.
About ISEF
ISEF, the world’s largest pre-college science fair, is held in the United States annually and provides an opportunity for students from around the world to showcase their science research projects. This year the competition saw 1,611 finalists chosen from 539 ISEF-affiliated science fairs from 59 countries. Two individual projects and one team project from each affiliated fair are selected to compete at the international level. About 1,000 judges from different fields of science, engineering, and industry professionals are involved in the on-site judging of the projects and selection of the winners. ISEF is often regarded as the “Olympics” of science research competitions. In each topic category, First, Second and Third awards are given out.
The Singapore Team is chosen from top awardees in the Singapore Science and Engineering Fair (SSEF) held in March this year. SSEF is a national competition jointly organised by the Ministry of Education, the Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR) and Science Centre Singapore.