EU Contest for Young Scientists Award

EU Contest for Young Scientists logoAn all-expense-paid trip enables attendance at the European Union Contest for Young Scientists located in a new city each year. The EU Contest for Young Scientists was developed to promote the ideals of co-operation and interchange between young scientists. The contest is the annual showcase of the best of European student scientific achievement.

Learn more about the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair and about the awards presented at ISEF.

Winners of the EU Contest for Young Scientists Award

Backstage at the Grand Awards Ceremony - the 2024 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair, Los Angeles, CA, May 17, 2024 Nikhil Vemuri, 17, of Cary, North Carolina, received the EU Contest for Young Scientists Award.

2024

Nikhil Vemuri, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, NC, United States of America

EAEV019 — ANOMaLY: A Real-Time Globalized System for Effective Regional Mitigation of Agricultural Nitrous Oxide Emissions

Backstage at the Grand Awards Ceremony - the 2024 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair, Los Angeles, CA, May 17, 2024 First Award Winner - Environmental Engineering, sponsored by Jacobs Jack Shannon, Clane, Kildare, Ireland Jack Shannon, 18, of Clane, Kildare, Ireland, received the EU Contest for Young Scientists Award.

2024

Jack Shannon, Clongowes Wood College SJ, Kildare, Ireland

ENEV016 — Global Carbon Sinks: Remote Sensing for Peatland Restoration

ISEF 2023 Award Ceremony, Dallas Texas - top award winner: EU Contest for Young Scientists Award - George Cheng

2023

George Cheng, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, NC, United States of America

BMED011 — DiaMiR: A MicroRNA (miR-23) Microneedle Patch for Type-2 Diabetes Control

 

ISEF 2023 Award Ceremony, Dallas Texas - top award winner of the EU Contest for Young Scientists Award: Yik Chun John Peng, Shanghai American School – Puxi Campus, Shanghai, China

2023

Yik Chun John Peng, Shanghai American School – Puxi Campus, Shanghai, China

EBED004 — A Fully Automatic Self-Assembling Modular Robot System

 

ISEF Awards - 2022 - EU Contest for Young Scientists: Saan Cern Yong and Sheng Ze Yeoh of Malaysia with their project

2022

Saan Cern Yong, Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Katholik, Selangor, Malaysia
Sheng Ze Yeoh, Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Katholik, Selangor, Malaysia

ROBO002T — Soft Origami-Inspired 3D Print-In-Place Artificial Intelligence Robots

 

2019 ISEF Winners of the EU Contest for Young Scientists Award: Leo Takemaru and Poojan Pandya

2019

Leo Takemaru, Ward Melville High School, NY, United States of America
Poojan Pandya, Half Hollow Hills High School West, NY, United States of America

MCRO052T — Investigating the Role of the Novel ESCRT-III Recruiter CCDC11 in HIV Viral Budding: Identifying a Potential Target for Antiviral Therapy

2015

Thananon Hiranwanichchakorn, 16, Damrongratsongkroh, Muang, Thailand
Nattapong Chueasiritaworn, 15, Damrongratsongkroh, Muang, Thailand
Sutthiluk Rakdee, 15, Damrongratsongkroh, Muang, Thailand

ANIM062T – A New Method of Silk Sheath Production Developed from Observation of Spinning Behavior of Silkworms

 

 

2015

Sanath Kumar Devalapurkar, 15, West High School, Torrance, California

MATH039I – Preserving Algebraic Structures on Exact Infinity: Categories with the K-theory Functor

2014

Yue Yao, 16, High School Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, JiaDing Campus, Shanghai, China

CS016 – A New Optical Computing Method with Combination of Colored Lights Realizing Balanced Ternary Computation

 

 

2014

Yu-Hsin Chen, 17, Taipei First Girls High School, Taipei, Chinese Taipei

EA005 – Increase in Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Ocean Subsurface Warming in the Western North Pacific Ocean

2014

Faye Jong-Sow Fei, 15, Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Batu Lintang, Kuching, Malaysia

EM006 – Bio-Waste Materials as Eco-Friendly Mordant in Fabric Dye Process

 

2013

Zeyu Liu, 17, Sir Winston Churchill High School, Calgary, Canada

EE064 – A Novel Modular Repulsive Type Hybrid Magnetic Bearing for FES Systems

2013

Vinay Sridhar Iyengar, 17, Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, Oregon

MA011 – Efficient Characteristic 3 Galois Field Operations for Elliptic Curve Cryptographic Applications

2012

Zeyu Liu, 17, Sir Winston Churchill High School, Calgary, Canada

EE064 – A Novel Modular Repulsive Type Hybrid Magnetic Bearing for FES Systems

2012

Vinay Sridhar Iyengar, 17, Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, Oregon

MA011 – Efficient Characteristic 3 Galois Field Operations for Elliptic Curve Cryptographic Applications

 

2011

Lai Xue, 18, Chengdu International School, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

CS030 – Efficient Implementation of Tilt Compensated Compass and Depth Camera in Interactive Augmented Reality

2011

Jane M. Cox, 16, Timpview High School, Provo, Utah

EA023 – Using Amino Acid Analysis to Distinguish Chondritic Meteorites from Rocks Launched into Space from Earth

2011

Erica Brooke Portnoy, 17, Commack High School, Commack, New York

MI030 – A Novel Approach to Mapping Protein Interactions during Pilus Biogenesis by Using in vivo Photocrosslinking