The Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) is the world’s largest international pre-college science competition. Each year, ISEF brings over 1,800 high school students from 75 countries to exhibit and demonstrate ingenuity and innovation through science projects of their own design. For more information, visit https://www.societyforscience.org/isef/.

USAID presents the Science for Development Award to recognize innovative student projects in science and technology that could advance our ability to meet current and future development challenges. Student projects are recognized with first place ($5,000), second place ($3,000), and third place ($2,000) awards in four categories. For ten years, USAID has provided over $300,000 in awards. Additionally, USAID presents the Science Champion Award to exceptional students or teams exhibiting at ISEF-Affiliated Fairs around the world whose projects have the potential to make an impact on addressing international development challenges.

USAID’s Involvement in ISEF Fact Sheet

At the 2024 Regeneron ISEF, USAID presented the Science for Development Award to the following projects:

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Global Health and Nutrition

1st Place: Faisal Isam Nabulsi & Michael Xu (USA) - SCOMAE: Diagnosing Tuberculosis from Cough Acoustics Using Supervised Contrastive Masked AutoEncoders

2nd Place: Siriarpha Panturaporn & Siripapha Panturaporn (Thailand) - Alternative Organic Sanitary Pads From Plant Fibers Enhanced with Gooseberry Extract Coating

3rd Place: Jackson Wilson (USA)- DengueScreen: A Novel Computer Vision-Based Diagnostic Alternative for Dengue Fever Prioritizing Efficiency, Cost-Effectiveness, and Accuracy


 
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Education and Youth

1st Place: Abhishek Amit Shah (USA) - AuralStudio: A Multisensory Development Environment With a Novel, Bytecode-Compiled Programming Language

2nd Place: Maya Shah (USA) - Prevention of Gun Violence Through the Buffering Effects of Intellectual Humility in Traumatized Psychopaths

3rd Place: Nira Goyal (USA) - A Review of the Use and Promotability of Mental Health Apps by Teenagers


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Climate and Environmental Protection

1st Place: Kshemaahna Nagi (India) - A New Cost-effective Adsorbent Device for Civic Remediation to Reduce Lead, Copper and Cadmium in Surface Water Runoff

2nd Place: Ruvarashe Moyo (Zimbabwe) - A Low Cost and High Performance Xylem-Activated Carbon Filter Water Purification Device: A Novel Approach to the Global Clean Water Crises

3rd Place:  Haaris Masood & Haon Kim (Pakistan) - Leveraging Electrochemistry and Light Scattering to Improve Air Quality Detection


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Working in Crisis and Conflict

1st Place: Sierra Anne Sun (USA) - Differential Empathy, Social Dominance Orientation, and the Limitations of Social Science Research

2nd Place: Burak Eren Demir, Muhammet Basar Ozcan & Salih Celik (Turkey) - Differential Empathy, Social Dominance Orientation, and the Limitations of Social Science Research

3rd Place: Meenakshi Nair (USA) - Urban Slum Detection and Mapping: Semantic Segmentation on VHR Satellite Imagery


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