About the YSEA Science Fair Award
The YSEA Science Fair Award is given to 11th grade students who present the most outstanding exhibits in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or Chemistry at ISEF regional high school science fairs around the world. The Award consists of the YSEA Award Medal and a formal certificate, both of which typical are delivered to awardees in the fall. Each winner also receives a brochure about undergraduate studies in Engineering at Yale. The list of winners is forwarded to the Yale Admissions Office. Through this award, YSEA reaches some of the world’s most engaged and enthusiastic high school science teachers and students, increasing awareness of Yale University as a premier institution for science and engineering education.
YSEA is an official Regional Affiliate of the Intel® International Science and Engineering Fair® (Intel ISEF) program, coordinated by the Society for Science & the Public, a Washington, D.C. based, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization “dedicated to public engagement in scientific research and education.” Intel ISEF is the world’s largest international pre-college science competition, providing an annual forum for more than 1,500 high school students from about 70 countries, regions, and territories to showcase their independent research as they compete for over $3 million in prizes and scholarships each year.
To find a regional science fair close to you, please visit https://findafair.societyforscience.org/ .
For more information, please contact ScienceFairs@YSEA.org.
History of the YSEA Science Fair Award
The YSEA Award initiative was conceived and crystallized by members of the YSEA Board in 1989, building on a seed idea from Elona Vaisnys ’66 Ph.D., editor and webmaster for Yale Engineering. Steven Lasewicz ’60E developed the project and grew it as the Coordinator for the YSEA Awards until 2000, at which time he passed the baton to Elie K. Track ’88 PhD. Dr. Track streamlined the process by introducing web-based submissions and worked at expanding alumni participation and broadened the program to include international participation. Beginning in 2009, Prof. Ralph France ’97 PhD took over the reins with the important goal of significantly increasing alumni participation. Lasewicz and Track continue to maintain a keen interest in the initiative they nurtured into the major project of the YSEA, and together with France, they intend eventually to make the YSEA Award one of the coveted awards at the annual International Science and Engineering Fair, where outstanding high school students from the U.S. and other countries compete for top laurels for scientific and engineering insight and ingenuity.
Previous Awardees
2021 – 2022
| Name | High School | Science Fair |
|---|---|---|
| Artem Chekanov | Secondary School №1537 | “Step into the Future” Program |
| Shivani Babu | Auburn High School | Alabama Science and Engineering Fair |
| Tobias Guo | Alabama School of Fine Arts | Central Alabama Regional Science and Engineering Fair |
| Anish Leekkala | Bentonville High School | Arkansas State Science and Engineering Fair |
| Dominick Spradling | Mountain Pine High School | Not Listed |
| Thoya Raman | American High School | Alameda County Science and Engineering Fair |
| Isaac Liu | Dougherty Valley High School | Contra Costa County Science and Engineering Fair |
| Houjun Liu | The Nueva School | Golden Gate STEM Fair |
| Bella Rose Schremmer | University City High School | Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair |
| Oguz Najafli | Nakhchivan Garrison High School | Azerbaijan Science and Engineering Fair |
| Cindy Lu | Arcadia High School | Los Angeles County Science & Engineering Fair |
| Hannah Shu | Carmel High School | Monterey County Science & Engineering Fair |
| Anthony Saturnino | Bishop Ryan Catholic Secondary School | Bay Area Science and Engineering Fair |
| Kathy Yao | Oakville Trafalgar High School | Bay Area Science and Engineering Fair |
| Sarah Stutsman | Corona High School | Riverside County Science and Engineering Fair |
| Malak Ramadan | El Shaheed Moustafa Samir Badawy Official Language School Kafr El Sheikh | Bibliotheca Alexandrina Science and Engineering Fair |
| Arul Loomba | Rancho Cucamonga High School | San Bernardino, Inyo and Mono Counties Science and Engineering Fair |
| Rohan Sangameswaran | Saratoga High School | Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship |
| Yicheng Teng | Fountain Valley School of Colorado | Colorado Science & Engineering Fair |
| Morgan Holien | Monarch High School | Corden Pharma BVSD Regional Science Fair |
| Mikael Miao | Cherry Creek High School | Denver Metro Regional Science and Engineering Fair |
| Lilly Figueroa | Mancos High School | San Juan Basin Regional Science Fair |
| Nicholas Lee | Hopkins School | Connecticut Science and Engineering Fair |
| Nathan Zhao | Charter School of Wilmington | Delaware Valley Science Fair |
| Vivek Sandrapaty | West Port High School | Big Springs Regional Science Fair |
| Phillip Lavrador | Satellite High School | Brevard Intracoastal Science Fair |
| Lavanya Natarajan | Viera High School | Brevard Mainland Regional Science and Engineering Fair |
| Ayah Saleh | West Shore Junior-Senior High School | Brevard South Regional Science and Engineering Fair |
| Alejandra Abramson | American Heritage School | Broward County Regional Engineering and Science Fair |
| Tiffani Gay | Orlando Science Middle-High Charter School | Dr. Nelson Ying-Orange County Science Exposition |
| Ishika Nag | Oviedo High School | Oviedo High School |
| Steven Spasov | Sofia High School of Mathematics “Paisii Hilendarski” | Bulgarian Science and Innovation Fair |
| Nolan Wen | American Heritage School Palm Beach Campus | Oviedo High School |
| Rudra Patel | Middleton High School | Hillsborough Regional Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics Fair |
| Nira Goyal | Martin County High School | Martin County Science and Engineering fair |
| Sean Ramsey | Episcopal School of Jacksonville | Northeast Florida Regional Science and Engineering Fair |
| Avery Blalock | Episcopal School of Jacksonville | Northeast Florida Regional Science and Engineering Fair |
| Conner Rucks | Okeechobee High School | Not Listed |
| Cooper Weisman | Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | Palm Beach Regional Science & Engineering Fair |
| Robert Sansone | Fort Pierce Central High School | State Science and Engineering Fair of Florida |
| Morgan Barnes | Canterbury School | The Thomas Alva Edison Kiwanis Regional Science & Engineering Fair |
| Michelle Barnes | Canterbury School | The Thomas Alva Edison Kiwanis Regional Science & Engineering Fair |
| Nermin Price | Navarre High School | West Panhandle Regional Science and Engineering Fair |
| Jack Shipp | Paulding County High School | Cobb-Paulding Regional Science Fair |
| Nidhi Shenoy | Lakeside High School | Central Savannah River Area Regional Science and Engineering Fair |
| Preston Taylor | Paulding County High School | Cobb-Paulding Regional Science Fair |
| Vinod Ruppa-Kasani | Chattahoochee High School | Fulton County Regional Science & Engineering Fair |
| Daylia Lian | Johns Creek High School | Georgia Science & Engineering Fair |
| Carlos Zambrano | Statesboro High School | Georgia Science & Engineering Fair |
| Yangyi Qi | Berzeliusskolan | Exhibition for Young Scientists |
| Love Sundin | Berzeliusskolan | Exhibition for Young Scientists |
| Luke Andrews | Cornwall Hill College | Exporecerca Jove |
| Jean Yu | Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology | Gwinnett Regional Science, Engineering + Innovation Fair |
| Giovanna Locateli Sartori | Colégio Militar de Brasília | Feira Brasileira de Ciências e Engenharia |
| Krisney Santos Goncalves | Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo | Feira Brasileira de Ciências e Engenharia |
| Eleanore Feldmann | Edwardsville High School | Not Listed |
| Jeriko Kammerer | Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology | Rockdale Regional Science & Engineering Fair |
| Natalie Kuo | Henry J. Kaiser High School | Hawaii State Science & Engineering Fair |
| Rachel Tao | Waiakea High School | Hawaii East District Science and Engineering Fair |
| Viorel Bohotici | I.I.S. Galileo Galilei Jesi | Not Listed |
| Malina Chiddo | Kealakehe High School | West Hawaii District Science Fair |
| Mei Kanada | Kealakehe High School | West Hawaii District Science Fair |
| Giullia Porter | King Kekaulike High School | Maui County Regional Science and Engineering Fair |
| Jonathan Fan | Iowa City West High School | Eastern Iowa Science & Engineering Fair |
| Aaron Blackburn | American Heritage Charter School | Not Listed |
| Jacob Swenson | American Heritage Charter School | Not Listed |
| Gautami Lohakare | Little Rock Central High School | Not Listed |
| Christian Reed | Lewiston High School | Northern Idaho Science & Engineering Fair |
| Anthony Yu Jung | Emmett High School | Western Idaho Science Fair |
| Macy Putnam | Southeastern Jr./Sr. High #337 | IJAS Region 10 Science Fair |
| Sneha Vashistha | Carmel High School | Central Indiana Regional Science and Engineering Fair |
| Ava Budak | Angola High School | Northeastern Indiana Tri-State Regional Science Fair |
| Isabella Budak | Angola Middle School | Northeastern Indiana Tri-State Regional Science Fair |
| Jet Gregory | New Tech Institute | USI Tri-State Science & Engineering Fair |
| Luke Fehrenbacher | New Tech Institute | USI Tri-State Science & Engineering Fair |
| Hannah Spencer | Terre Haute North Vigo High School | Not Listed |
| Callie Locke | Not listed | Kansas State Science and Engineering Fair |
| Elise Avery | duPont Manual High School | duPont Manual Regional Science Fair |
| Chaitanya Ongole | Deens Academy, Bengaluru, Karnataka | Initiative for Research and Innovation (IRIS) in STEM National Fair |
| Emily Hu | Paul Laurence Dunbar HS | Kentucly Science and Engineering Fair |
| Atanas Dimitrov | Sofia High School of Mathematics | Bulgarian Science and Innovation Fair |
| Karthik Nadimpally | Ballard High School | Louisville Regional Science & Engineering Fair |
| Natalie Janzaruk | Notre Dame Academy | Science and Engineering Fair of Northern Kentucky |
| Caitlin Estrada | Isidore Newman School | Greater New Orleans Science and Engineering Fair |
| Joy Dong | Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts | Louisiana Region V Science and Engineering Fair |
| Margaret Moe | St. Joseph’s Accademy | Louisiana Region VII Science and Engineering Fair |
| Jaehan Kim | Incheon Academy of Science and Arts | Korea Science Fair |
| Jiwon Choi | Incheon Academy of Science and Arts | Korea Science Fair |
| Gyeongmin Kwon | Incheon Academy of Science and Arts | Korea Science Fair |
| Gyujin Kim | Incheon Academy of Science and Arts | Korea Science Fair |
| Seogyun Yim | Incheon Academy of Science and Arts | Korea Science Fair |
| Park Ho | Incheon Academy of Science and Arts | Korea Science Fair |
| Harene Kim | Northfield Mount Hermon School | Korea Science Fair |
| Megan Yeager | Chesapeake Science Point Charter School | Anne Arundel County Public Schools Science and Engineering Expo |
| Christy Li | Montgomery Blair High School | Montgomery County Science Fair |
| Alyssa Hawkins | Oxon Hill High School | Prince George’s Area Science Fair |
| Ayan Nair | Okemos High School | Flint Regional Science and Engineering Fair |
| Evan Knoll | Park Christian School | Western Minnesota Regional Science Fair |
| Saloni Somia | Minnetonka High School | Minnesota State Science & Engineering Fair |
| Isaiah Langer | Cloquet Public School | Northeast Minnesota Regional Science Fair |
| Marc Zoghby | Mayo High School | Rochester Regional STEM Fair |
| Emma Boys | Burnsville High School | Twin Cities Regional Science Fair |
| Emily Shaw | Ladue Horton Watkins High School | Academy of Science – St. Louis Science Fair |
| Luca Gagliano | Athens High School | Not Listed |
| Jacob Arnold | Eldon High School | CMU Eagles Science & Engineering Fair |
| Kimberly Spoon | St. Clair High school | Mastadon Art and Science Regional Fair |
| Hunter Merkley | Joplin High School | Missouri Southern Regional Science Fair |
| Owen Howser | Camdenton High School | Ozarks Science and Engineering Fair |
| Qiancheng Sun | Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science | Region V Mississippi Science & Engineering Fair |
| Dayne Sullivan | Simms High School | GFCMSU Regional Science and Engineering Science Fair |
| Jay Nimbalkar | Green Hope High School | North Carolina Science & Engineering Fair |
| Gracie Nutt | Tioga High School | Northwest North Dakota Regional Science & Engineering Fair |
| Maya Schwickert | BASIS Scottsdale | Not Listed |
| Morgan Huizenga | Strasburg Public School | Southwest Central North Dakota Regional Science and Engineering Fair |
| Kayla Salasidis | Herzliah High School | Montreal Regional Science and Technology Fair |
| Serese Janssen | Adams Central Jr.-Sr. High School | Central Nebraska Science and Engineering Fair |
| Swayam Kontamwar | Millard North High School | Greater Nebraska Science and Engineering Fair |
| Aditya Prasad | Bishop Guertin High School | New Hampshire State Science & Engineering Expo |
| Divyash Shah | Bergen County Academies | BCA Research EXPO |
| Deven Chakrabarti | Moorestown High School | Delaware Valley Science Fair |
| Kevin Liu | High Technology High School | Delaware Valley Science Fair |
| Shamika Deva-Adithiya | Jose Marti STEM Academy | Jersey City Medical Center/RWJBarnabas Health STEM Showcase |
| Jenna Kim | Peddie School | Mercer Science and Engineering Fair |
| Landon Flemming | Explore Academy | Central New Mexico STEM Research Challenge |
| Caoimhe Dudgeon | Homer Senior High School | Central New York Science & Engineering Fair |
| Andreea Merzianu | City Honors School | Terra Rochester Finger Lakes Science & Engineering Fair |
| Vivian Orthwein | Saratoga Springs High School | Greater Capital Region Science & Engineering Fair |
| Samantha Palmadessa | Manhasset High School | Long Island Science & Engineering Fair |
| Emily Kim | Jericho High School | Long Island Science & Engineering Fair |
| Ava Malysa | Manhasset High School | Long Island Science & Engineering Fair |
| Samay Lakhani | Jericho High School | New York State Science & Engineering Fair |
| Sarah Gardner | Ossining High School | Regeneron Westchester Science and Engineering Fair |
| Johnny Shi | Staten Island Technical High School | Terra NYC STEM Fair |
| Nicholas Odle | Odle Homeschool Academy | Terra Rochester Finger Lakes Science & Engineering Fair |
| Karl van Hoesel | Rome Free Academy | Utica College Regional Science Fair |
| Kandace Kellon | Hathaway Brown School | Hathaway Brown Annual Poster Session |
| Adam Fronduti | Rutherford B. Hayes High School | Marion Area Science & Engineering Fair |
| Grace Chen | Mentor High School | Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair |
| James Bell IV | Hilltop High School | Northwest Ohio Science and Engineering Fair |
| Joyce Yang | Bartlesville High School | Bartlesville District Science Fair |
| Elizabeth Wallace | Not listed | Northwest Oklahoma Regional Science Fair |
| Erica Lambrecht | Cascia Hall Preparatory School | Oklahoma State Science & Engineering Fair |
| Cadence Tillman | West Linn High School | CREST-Jane Goodall Science Symposium |
| Claire Jaroonjetjumnong | Oregon Episcopal School | Aardvark Science Expo |
| Jackson Knipe | Trinity Lutheran School | Northwest Science Expo |
| Samyak Shrimali | Jesuit High School | Northwest Science Expo |
| Samuel Wang | Germantown Academy | Delaware Valley Science Fair |
| Alexander Bell | Moravian Academy | Delaware Valley Science Fair |
| Arvind Seshan | Fox Chapel Area High School | Pittsburgh Regional Science & Engineering Fair |
| Claire Hinkle | Wilson High School | Reading-Berks Science and Engineering Fair |
| Alondra Hernandez Martinez | Escuela Especializada en Ciencias, Matematicas y Tecnologia | Puerto Rico Metropolitan Science Fair |
| Brett Mylek | North Kingstown Senior High School | Rhode Island Science and Engineering Fair |
| Michael Rosol | Academy for the Arts, Science, and Technology | Lowcountry Science and Engineering Fair |
| Danila Spolokhov | Municipal Lyceum #40 | ROST |
| Daniil Maslov | Municipal Lyceum #38 | ROST |
| Logan Kusher | Spartanburg Day School | Piedmont Region III Science Fair |
| Cam Srivastava | Spartanburg Day School | Piedmont Region III Science Fair |
| Sofia Encarnacion | Radians School | Radians Science & Engineering Fair |
| Cathy Tang | Spring Valley High School | South Carolina Region II Science and Engineering Fair |
| Sarah Mitzel | Roncalli High School | Northern South Dakota Science and Mathematics Fair |
| Priyam Kumar | Santa Gertrudis Academy High School | Coastal Bend Regional Science Fair |
| Yu-Yi Chang | Taoyuan Senior High School | Taiwan International Science Fair |
| Jose-David Solchaga | Harmony School of Excellence – Laredo | Alamo Regional Science and Engineering Fair |
| Abrie Olguin | Christ the King Diocesan High School | South Plains Regional Science and Engineering Fair |
| Aneesh Vanguri | Westwood High School | Austin Energy Regional Science Festival |
| Ibrahim Almaghrabi | Ain Jaloot Secondary School | Mawhiba Science & Engineering Fair – The National Olympiad for Scientific Creativity (Ibda’a) |
| Sultanah Alessa | Al-Bassam Private Schools | Mawhiba Science & Engineering Fair – The National Olympiad for Scientific Creativity (Ibda’a) |
| Maymonh Fatani | 4th High School | Mawhiba Science & Engineering Fair – The National Olympiad for Scientific Creativity (Ibda’a) |
| Ghaliah Samarin | Umm Salamah High School | Mawhiba Science & Engineering Fair – The National Olympiad for Scientific Creativity (Ibda’a) |
| Mohrah Alzakari | Al-Rowad Private School | Mawhiba Science & Engineering Fair – The National Olympiad for Scientific Creativity (Ibda’a) |
| Alma Alturaiki | Ibn Khaldun International Schools | Mawhiba Science & Engineering Fair – The National Olympiad for Scientific Creativity (Ibda’a) |
| Junsung Lee | Logan High School | Ritchey Science & Engineering Fair |
| Oakley Marriott | Fremont High School | Weber School District STEM Fair |
| Mercedes Randhahn | St. Joseph Catholic High School | University of Utah Science & Engineering Fair |
| Keiley Mitchell | Fremont High School | Weber School District STEM Fair |
| Seoyoung Jun | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Fairfax County Regional Science and Engineering Fair |
| Kylie White | Woodgrove High School | Loudoun County Regional Science and Engineering Fair |
| Galilea Rodriguez | Harmony Science Academy-EL Paso | Sun Country Science Fair |
| Ashton Smyth | Woodgrove High School | Loudoun County Regional Science and Engineering Fair |
| Ambica Sharma | Washington-Liberty High School | Northern Virginia Regional Science & Engineering Fair |
| Dawson Richards | Southwest Virginia Governor’s School | Blue Ridge Highlands Regional Science Fair |
| Saksham Bhardwaj | South Burlington High School | Vermont STEM Fair |
| Ourania-Maria Glezakou-Elbert | Hanford High School | Mid-Columbia Regional Science and Engineering Fair |
| Anjali Sreenivas | Nikola Tesla STEM High School | Washington State Science & Engineering Fair |
| Jocelyn Liao | Homestead High School | Badger State Science and Engineering Fair |
| Nihal Mahalingam | Middleton High school | Capital Science and Engineering Fair |
| Aditya Pillai | University School of Milwaukee | USM Regional Science Fair |
| Georgia Honts | Roanoke Valley Governor’s School | Western Virginia Regional Science Fair |
| Alysha Mendenhall | Riverside Middle-High School | Northern Wyoming Regional Science & Engineering Fair |
| Dakota Morgan | Newcastle High School | Wyoming State Science Fair |
| Yuxuan Guo | Southeast High School | Not Listed |