Top Winners
Latest top Intel ISEF Award Winners
Intel ISEF held in Pittsburgh, May 2018
In 2018, Oliver Nicholls, 19, of Sydney, Australia was awarded the first place Gordon E. Moore Award of $75,000 for designing and building a prototype of an autonomous robotic window cleaner for commercial buildings.
Meghana Bollimpalli, 17, of Little Rock, Arkansas, received one of two Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards of $50,000 for her novel, low-cost approach for synthesizing materials that could greatly cut the production and energy costs of making electrodes for devices like supercapacitors.
Dhruvik Parikh, 18, of Bothell, Washington, received the other Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award of $50,000 for his development of less expensive yet more robust ion exchange membranes for use in large industrial-scale batteries for storing solar or wind-generated electricity for later distribution.