In doing so, they continue the tradition of the successes of young developers and scientists from Israel in these competitions.
Six of the nine Israeli youth who arrived in Phoenix this week won awards at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) which ended yesterday (Friday, May 17, 2013). so reported The local Jewish news site in Phoenix, (Jewish news of grater phoenix).
(See also advance notice on the Ha'dan website about the departure of the delegation)
At the awards ceremony that took place yesterday, Omer Granek (full disclosure - the son of Dr. Gali Weinstein, who, among other things, also writes on the Hidan website) and Idan Hadar-Sharon, both 17 years old from the Hoof HaCarmel comprehensive school in Ma'agan Michael, won second place in the field of electrical and mechanical engineering For the automatic buoyancy control system for divers ABCS: Automatic Buoyancy Control System. The two won a prize of $1,500.
Guy Avshalom Free, 18 years old student of the Leo-Bek educational center in Haifa won fourth place in chemistry, and a prize worth $500 for his project: synthesis and characterization of nanometer-sized semiconductors. Noam Ottolenghi, 17 years old from the same school in Modiin, also won 500 dollars when he came in fourth place in the field of physics and astronomy for a method he developed to estimate the mass of Higgs particles.
At an earlier conference held by the Society for Community Science and the Intel Foundation, Nicholas Javier Maron, 18, from the Ort Henry Monson School in Ashkelon, and Aviv Rabinovitz, 18, from the entrances of the Negev won a $3,000 prize from the Chinese Science and Technology Association for their project "Predicting earthquakes by monitoring the electron content in the ionosphere ". They also won the competition itself in third place and a prize of 250 dollars on behalf of the American Geophysical Society.
1,500 students from all over the world in grades 4-XNUMX participated in the entire competition, and the total prizes and scholarships that were distributed reached XNUMX million dollars.
