May 15th, 2025, Columbus, OH — Society for Science announced SVEC’s Special Awards of Regeneron ISEF 2025.
Each year, dozens of professional organizations — representing a wide variety of scientific disciplines across government, industry, and education — affiliate with #RegeneronISEF as Special Award Organizations (SAOs). This year, SVEC sponsored 3 Special Awards.
Student winners are ninth through twelfth graders who earned the right to compete at Regeneron ISEF 2025 by winning a top prize at a local, regional, state or national science fair.
Silicon Valley Engineering Council (SVEC) – Special Award Winners
1st Place Award – Claire Xu, The Harker School, Cupertino, CA
CBIO041 — Non-Invasive Blood-Based Early Alzheimer’s Detection Using Sex-Specific Brain-Blood Graph Reinforcement Learning
2nd Place Award – Vrishank Chandrasekhar, Lynbrook High School, San Jose, CA
TMED042 — OncoNote: Enabling the Discovery of a Novel Digital Biomarker for Early Pan-Cancer Survival and Recurrence Prediction via Free-Text Clinical Narratives
3rd Place Award – Mikhail Abraimov, Lawton Chiles High School, Tallahassee, FL
SOFT005 — Novel Approach to Calculation of Bike Route Distance Using Concept of Fractal Dimension
You may search for specific student projects here: https://isef.net/home
Learn more about the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair, the world’s largest international STEM research competition for high school students: https://www.societyforscience.org/isef/