The votes are in. After receiving more than 110,000 votes over the past week and a half, your three Intel ISEF People’s Choice Awards winners are..DRUM ROLL, PLEASE. First place and winner of an HP Mini Netbook featuring the Intel® Atom^TM processor is I-Ching “Frog” Tseng from Taiwan for her research project that looked at how mealworms might be a solution to the serious environmental pollution caused by Styrofoam. Second place, receiving an Apple ® iPod touch, goes to the team of Peter Massey and Shaunak Bakshi from Manhasset, NY for their project on Alzheimer’s disease and a chemical agent that could potentially reverse memory loss. Third place winner is Anartya Mandal from Boston, MA for his research project that looked at how a spice found in Indian cuisine might be an answer to killing cancer cells. He receives an Apple ® iPod nano.

Please join us in congratulating the winners for the amazing work they’ve done. And congratulations to the rest of the contestants for winning “Best in Category” at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair last month — no small feat considering there were well over 1200 projects there . I am inspired by these young humanitarians who are making a positive change in this world.

Meet the winners of the Intel ISEF People’s Choice Awards. You can learn more about their projects and the other contestants here.

Name: I-Ching “Frog” Tseng
Stats: 16 year-old Junior from National Taichung Girls’ Senior High School in Taichung City, Taiwan
Influential Person: My family and my school
Career Goal: Microbiologist, to help to save our earth.
Field Interest: I love to observe and find wonder from nature. I love to solve questions. This is how I started my project.

Project Team
Name: Peter Hans Massey
Stats: 16 year-old Junior from Manhasset High School in Manhasset, NY
Influential Person: Peter Guastella
Career Goal: I want to attend a university and begin pre-medicine and then eventually go to medical school. My ambition is to become a neuro-surgeon.
Field Interest: I have always had a general interest and love for the sciences. I enjoy research and the opportunities it had for entering the world of truly modern medical advancements. I enjoy being able to challenge myself and investigate things that are often beyond my understanding at this point.

Name: Shaunak Krishan Bakshi
Stats: 15 year-old sophomore from Manhasset High School in Manhasset, NY
Influential Person: Grandfather
Career Goal: I would like to do my undergraduate degree in Neuroscience and then attend medical school.
Field Interest: Medical research is of great interest to me because of the potential to improve the lives of many people. As a researcher, I find Neurology to be particularly important because of the increasing number of people suffering from neurodegenerative conditions. A greater understanding of such processes is required in order to slow down and eventually counteract them.

Name: Anartya Mandal
Stats: 18 year-old senior from Boston Latin School, Boston, MA
Influential Person: My Grandfather
Career Goal: To major in chemistry in college and pursue a career in nuclear magnetic resonance.
Field Interest: Epidemiological data in literature about curcumin’s potential to reduce the risk of cancer attracted me to satisfy my curiosities about its molecular mechanism of action.

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