White House Photo Gallery

2015 STS finalist Anvita Gupta tells President Barack Obama about her project at the 2015 White House Science Fair. Gupta’s project involved teaching a computer to identify potential new drugs for treating chronic illnesses.

2014 ISEF finalist Harry Paul presents his project to President Barack Obama at the 2015 White House Science Fair. For his project, Paul designed a spinal implant to help people with scoliosis avoid numerous operations.

Nikhil Behari, a 2014 Broadcom MASTERS alumnus, meets President Barack Obama at the 2015 White House Science Fair. Behari presented his project on security systems for protecting online data to the president.

President Barack Obama greets 2015 STS finalists Catherine J. Li, Jihyeon Lee, and Anya Michaelsen (from left to right) at the White House. For her project, Li explored particle fabrication, which has the potential to expedite the healing process after surgery.

President Barack Obama welcomes 2015 STS finalists to the White House. Finalist Noah Golowich (back row, third from left) developed a proof involving n-integers in the area of Ramsey theory for his project.

2015 STS finalist Tanay Tandon meets President Barack Obama at the White House. For his project, Tandon developed a microscope lens smartphone attachment that analyzes blood samples to identify parasitic diseases.

President Barack Obama shakes hands with 2015 STS finalist Michael Winer. Winer’s project, “Interactions of Electrons and Phonons in a Crystal,” showed that electrons emit fundamental units of sound when bombarded with sound waves.

2015 STS finalist Yelena Mandelshtam shakes hands with President Barack Obama at the White House. For Mandelshtam’s mathematics project, she investigated the properties of totally positive matrices.

President Barack Obama addresses 2015 STS finalists, including Andrew Jin (back row, fifth from left). Jin studied natural selection and used algorithms to identify adaptive mutations.

President Barack Obama meets Society for Science CEO Maya Ajmera (second from left), Nobel Prize winner and former Society Board Chair Bob Horvitz (third from left), and other Society and Intel staff at the White House while welcoming the 2015 STS finalists

President Barack Obama stands with participants of the 2016 White House Science Fair, the last of his administration. There were 23 alumni from STS, ISEF, and Broadcom MASTERS that participated.

President Barack Obama welcomes participants to the 2016 White House Science Fair. Reflecting on his experiences over the years, he stated, “Some of the best moments that I’ve had as president have involved science and our annual science fair.”