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The winners of the 2013 Google Science Fair were: 13-14 age category: Viney Kumar (Australia) — The PART (Police and Ambulances Regulating Traffic) Program. Viney's project looked for new ways to provide drivers with more notice when an emergency vehicle is approaching, so they can take evasive action to get out of the emergency vehicle's way.
Brittany Wenger (born 1994) is a student who was the first-place winner of the Google Science Fair in 2012. Wenger currently studies at Duke University. [1]For her entry into the science fair, Wenger trained a statistical model to predict signs of breast cancer given nine features from the breast tissue samples as an input representation.
Obama congratulates Google Science Fair winners Naomi Shah, Shree Bose, and Lauren Hodge. In 2011, Shree Bose, then 17 years old and living in Fort Worth, Texas, won the grand prize and $50,000 for her research on the chemotherapy drug, cisplatin, that is commonly taken by women with ovarian cancer, tackling the problem of cancer cells growing resistant to cisplatin over time.
Winners of these regional fairs send students to national fairs such as the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) [6] and Canada-Wide Science Fair (CWSF). National science fairs typically send winners to international fairs such as ISEF (which is a national and an international science fair) and EUCYS. Currently, the biotechnology ...
Ciara Judge is an Irish scientist from Kinsale, County Cork [14] [15] and a public speaker. [16] She was a finalist of the 42nd BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2013 at the age of fifteen with two others: Emer Hickey, Sophie Healy-Thow.
Kiara Nirghin is an entrepreneur and technologist originally from South Africa. She gained recognition at a young age when she won the Grand Prize at the Google Science Competition with her patented technological innovation against climate change. [5]
25 May 2012: SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft (pictured) becomes the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous with the International Space Station. The year 2012 involved many significant scientific events and discoveries, including the first orbital rendezvous by a commercial spacecraft, the discovery of a particle highly similar to the long-sought Higgs boson, and the near-eradication of guinea ...
He presented the documentary Uranium – Twisting the Dragon's Tail, which aired in July–August 2015 on several public television stations around the world and won the Eureka Prize for Science Journalism. [12] [13] On 21 September 2015, Muller hosted the Google Science Fair Awards Celebration for that year. [14]