Two CK Students Headed to International Science Fair

Every year, tens of millions of students participate in science fairs around the globe but only about 1,800 earn the right to compete for nearly $5 million awards bestowed each May at the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF).

In all, seven Cranbrook students were recognized with a slate of awards and recognitions at the event.

Congratulations to Saaim, Marggie, and all the Cranbrook Schools students whose impressive research garnered much-deserved recognition this year.

The full results were as follows:

Mark Chen
Project: EB-dynaRE: Real-Time Adjustor for Predicting Price Changes of the Stock Market
Awards: Third place in category (regional), Professional award from Ricoh Corporation, third place (State competition)

Saaim Khan
Project: Identification of Novel Drug-like Compounds for Solute Carrier Anion Transport
Awards: First place in category, Professional award from American Statistical Association, Michigan chapter, US Metric Association award, first place and Grand Award (State competition, qualifier for ISEF)

Minh Pham
Project: Macroscopic Quantum System Model
Awards: Third place in category (regional), Third place (State competition)

Daniel Prakah-Asante
Project: Pulmonary Diseases Detection Assistant with Deep Learning Algorithms
Awards: First place in category, Professional award from American Statistical Association, Michigan chapter, Third place (State competition)

Jianyi Wang
Project: Using deep learning to block web tracking
Awards: Excellence award in category, Professional award from the United States Air Force

Margaret Yang
Project: Assemble Supramolecular Enzyme for Direct Conversion of Biomass to Ethanol
Awards: First place and Grand Award (Regional, qualifier for ISEF), Second place (State competition)

Gefei Zhu
Project: Seizure Detection Using Featured Space Based DNN Model Ensembling
Awards: Third place in category (regional)