MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Oct. 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- Annie Ostojic (age 13) of
Munster, Ind., wins $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize for her project
on microwave design, STEM knowledge and ability to collaborate,
inspire and motivate others as a natural leader
- Sebastian Mellen (age 14) of
San Diego, Calif., wins
$10,000 Marconi/Samueli Award for
Innovation based on his app design and development together with
his aptitude and skill in technical and mathematical concepts while
demonstrating superior teamwork
- 12 top award winners hailing from all over the U.S., including
California with 4, Florida with 2, and Colorado, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New
York, and Texas with one
winner each
Broadcom Foundation and Society for Science & the Public
(SSP) today announced the top winners of the fifth annual Broadcom
MASTERS® national STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)
competition for sixth, seventh and eighth graders. Broadcom
Foundation and SSP also announced first and second place winners in
each of the STEM categories, Rising Stars, and a Team
Award. In addition, students elected their class speaker, the
first recipient of the Scott A. McGregor Leadership Award honoring
Broadcom's President and CEO who has championed sponsorship of the
program since 2010. Learn more at Broadcom and SSP.
The $25,000 Samueli Foundation
Prize is a gift of Dr. Henry
Samueli, co-founder of Broadcom Corporation, and his wife,
Susan Samueli. In addition to the
grand prize, Dr. Samueli also presented the $10,000 Marconi/Samueli Award for Innovation, an
honor made possible by Samueli's generous donation of his 2012
Marconi Society Prize award.
Broadcom MASTERS winners were chosen from the 30 top finalists
(14 girls and 16 boys) from 14 states representing 29 schools.
Winners were selected by a panel of distinguished scientists and
engineers.
Winners Include:
The Samueli Foundation Prize:
$25,000
Winner: Annie Ostojic, 13, of
Munster, Ind.
Project: A Novel Microwave Cavity Design Using Cylindrical
Parabolic Reflectors to Optimize Energy
Efficiency
Grand prize winner Annie Ostojic was awarded the Samueli Foundation
Prize for her mastery of STEM principles and team leadership
demonstrated throughout the rigorous weeklong competition.
Her science fair project expanded upon knowledge she accumulated in
prior competitions in order to apply science and engineering to
innovating a more energy efficient microwave design. Ostojic
performed complex experiments and designed prototypes to achieve
the next level of creative solutions for environmentally friendly
microwave cooking.
A three time Broadcom MASTERS participant, Ostojic won the
Rising Star award as a 2014
Broadcom MASTERS finalist and represented the United States as one of 24 delegates
representing 14 countries at Broadcom MASTERS International this
year. Ostojic competed against over 2,400 entrants to return as a
finalist of the 2015 Broadcom MASTERS.
Marconi/Samueli Award for Innovation: $10,000
Winner:
Sebastian Mellen, 14, of
San Diego,
Calif.
Project: MathSuite: An Innovative
Android App that Makes Dreaded Calculations FUN! Published on
Google Play!
Sebastian
Mellen was awarded the Marconi/Samueli Award for Innovation
for his vision and promise as an innovator who, in the spirit of
radio inventor Guglielmo Marconi,
demonstrated aptitude and skill in technical and mathematical
concepts both with his science fair project and throughout team
challenges.
Mellon was inspired by teachers who struggle with grading
students' self-written examinations and classmates who wrestle with
math and physics homework. To make their lives easier, Mellon
applied his math and engineering acumen to design and develop an
Android app for smartphones that can do a broad range of algebra
calculations that are routinely used in math, physics and other
sciences.
STEM Award Winners:
Each of these finalists (first and
second place award winners) were selected for demonstrated skills
and promise in each of the disciplines represented by STEM. First
place winners are awarded $3,500 and
second place winners receive $2,500,
in each case to support the finalist's choice of STEM summer camp
experiences offered around the country. Each STEM winner also wins
an iPad.
- Science Award:
- First Place: Maximilian Du,
Manlius, N.Y., for his project on
a new method to measure and extract caffeine from drinks.
- Second place: Hannah O. Cevasco, San Carlos, Calif., for
her research on the healing properties of honey.
- Technology Award:
- First place: Manasa (Hari)
Bhimaraju, Cupertino,
Calif., for her project on a low-cost animated teaching tool
for the study of elements in the periodic table with an interface
for the visually impaired.
- Second place: Anusha Zaman, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for her project on the potential
health effects of betel use.
- Engineering Award:
- First place: Avery P. Clowes,
Bolton, Mass., for his project on
an electrostatic generator.
- Second place: Soyoun Choi,
Melbourne, Florida, for her
project on the effect of bilingualism on cognitive development in
adolescents.
- Mathematics Award:
- First place: David Yue,
Plano, Texas for his project on
3-D x-ray reconstruction processing and its application to cancer
prevention.
- Second place: Madison A.
Toonder, St. Augustine,
Fla., for her project on the study on the effect of sunblock
nanoparticles on oysters' ability to filter bay water.
Rising Stars Award:
Each of the Rising Stars wins a
trip to Intel ISEF, the world's largest international high school
science fair competition, in May 2016
as the United States delegate to
Broadcom MASTERS International, in recognition of their work
throughout the Broadcom MASTERS finals.
- Winners:
- Evelyn Bodoni, Centennial,
Colo., for her project on the prevalence and reasons for
student cheating.
- Anish Singhani, San Ramon, Calif., for his project on an
electronic system that lets a person use brain waves to control
devices, such as a wheelchair and computer keyboard.
Team Award:
Each member of the team that best
demonstrates their ability to work together, and solve problems
through shared decision making, communication and scientific and
engineering collaboration will receive an iPod nano.
- Winners: Glenn Grimmett,
Elizabeth Kinsey, Naya Menezes, Anish
Singhani, David Yue
Scott A. McGregor Leadership Award:
Finalists select
one student from the group based on their leadership abilities to
represent their class as speaker.
Avery P.
Clowes, Bolton,
Mass.
"Now in its fifth year, the Broadcom MASTERS competition has hit
its stride as a competition that draws upon increasing numbers of
passionate and talented young people who are eager to partake in a
program that helps them grow as scientists, engineers and
innovators, but more importantly provides them with new skills to
tackle future challenges, as exemplified by our top winners
Annie Ostojic and Sebastian Mellen," said Paula Golden, President and Executive Director,
Broadcom Foundation and Director, Community Affairs, Broadcom
Corporation. "As we have seen with our Broadcom MASTERS alumni who
are entering college as freshman this year, our finalists have
exciting futures ahead of them."
The Broadcom MASTERS (Math, Applied Science, Technology, and
Engineering for Rising Stars) program helps middle school students
translate a personal interest into a passion for science,
engineering and innovation, and encourages them to continue
studying science and math through high school and college.
Sponsored by Broadcom Foundation, a non-profit public benefit
organization funded by Broadcom Corporation, the Broadcom MASTERS
is a program of Society for Science & the Public. SSP has been
the leader of the world's most prestigious science competitions for
more than seven decades.
"Society for Science & the Public congratulates Annie Ostojic, our top winner at the 2015
Broadcom MASTERS," said Maya Ajmera,
President and Chief Executive Officer of Society for Science &
the Public and Publisher of Science News. "Last year, Annie
was selected as a Rising Star and
this year she impressed the judges even more with her knowledge of
STEM, her leadership skills, and her project on optimizing energy
efficiency inside a microwave. We look forward to seeing where her
interest in STEM takes her, and the rest of the finalists,
next."
Resources
For more information on the Broadcom MASTERS, visit the Broadcom
Foundation and SSP websites or visit Broadcom Foundation's Newsroom
and read the B-Inspired Blog.
To keep up with the Broadcom MASTERS on Twitter, use hashtag
#brcmMASTERS or follow Broadcom and SSP. And to stay connected,
visit the Broadcom MASTERS and SSP Facebook pages.
About Broadcom Foundation
Broadcom Foundation was founded to inspire and enable young
people throughout the world to enter careers in science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) through partnerships
with local schools, colleges, universities and nonprofit
organizations. Broadcom Foundation is the proud sponsor of the
Broadcom MASTERS®, a program of Society for Science & the
Public – a premier science and engineering competition for middle
school children. The Foundation's mission is to advance education
in STEM by funding research, recognizing scholarship and increasing
opportunity. Learn more at www.broadcomfoundation.org.
About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a FORTUNE 500® company, is
a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired
and wireless communications. Broadcom® products seamlessly deliver
voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office
and mobile environments. With one of the industry's broadest
portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip solutions, Broadcom
is changing the world by Connecting everything®. For more
information, go to www.broadcom.com.
About Society for Science & the Public
Society for Science & the Public is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
membership organization dedicated to the achievement of young
researchers in independent research and to public engagement in
science. Established in 1921, its vision is to promote the
understanding and appreciation of science and the vital role it
plays in human advancement. Through its acclaimed education
competitions, including the Intel Science Talent Search, the Intel
International Science and Engineering Fair, and the Broadcom
MASTERS, and its award-winning publications, Science News
and Science News for Students, Society for Science
& the Public is committed to inform, educate, and inspire.
Learn more at www.societyforscience.org.
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Broadcom
Foundation
Dana
Orsini
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Society for
Science & the Public
Sarah Wood
202-872-5110
swood@societyforscience.org
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