Intel and the Society for Science & the Public (SSP) recently announced the winners of the 2011 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the premier global science competition for students in grades 9–12.
SSP and Intel hosted the awards event in Los Angeles on May 8-13. More than 1,500 Finalists from affiliated fairs in 65 countries, regions, and territories competed for over $4 million in awards.

The top prize, the Gordon E. Moore Award, was awarded to Matthew Feddersen and Blake Marggraff from Lafayette, CA, for developing a potentially more effective and less expensive cancer treatment that places tin metal near a tumor before radiation therapy. Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards went to Taylor Wilson from Reno, NV, for developing a low-dose, high-sensitivity interrogation system for countering nuclear terrorism, and to the team of Pornwasu Pongtheerawan, Arada Sungkanit and Tanpitcha Phongchaipaiboon from Thailand for determining that a gelatin found in fish scales could be successfully used for an environmentally-friendly form of fish packaging.

As shown in videos at the Inspire web site, a number of this year’s winners focused on renewable and alternative energy sources including wind turbines and solar energy. All told, more than 250 awards were given out in the following fields: animal sciences, behavioral and social sciences, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, chemistry, computer science, molecular biology, earth and planetary sciences, engineering, energy and transportation, environmental management, environmental sciences, mathematical sciences, medicine and health sciences, microbiology, physics and astronomy, and plant sciences.

For more information about the winners visit: http://www.societyforscience.org/isef/