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10 Students Will be Representing the Egyptian Delegation at Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair 2012
Published Mar 18, 2012
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Six of Egypt’s brightest and most innovative students win the opportunity to travel to the United States to compete at Intel’s 2012 International Science and Engineering Fair in the state of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Traveling from the 13th-17th of May this year the students will participate in the world’s largest pre-college, science research competition. The finalists were celebrated at two separate award ceremonies that took place at Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria and the Educational City in Cairo over this week.
This years’ 10 finalists that will be competing from Egypt with 6 projects in the fields of Animal sciences, Chemistry, Energy & Transportation. A total of 22 governorates across Egypt participated in the local ISEF this year. The competition was divided into two fairs - Cairo and Alexandria - which encompassed the governorates closest to them. A total of 97 projects were presented in the Cairo fair, representing 145 students from 99 schools, while the Alexandria fair reviewed 80 projects in total, representing a total of 120 students, from 35 schools.
The competition in Cairo took place in the Educational City in 6th of October district from the 14th of March to the 15th of March, while that in Alexandria took place in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, from the 10th of March to the 12th of March.
With Intel’s commitment to the improvement of society through the innovation of education as well as the encouragement of the youth to think creatively and engage in competitions, Nihal Abbas, Intel Egypt Corporate Affairs Manager stated that, "The Egyptian youth that participated in Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair exemplified passion, drive, and collaboration, which allowed them to successfully develop projects that were ultimately aimed towards improving the Egyptian society".
Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair is a program that reaches out to students from grades 9 to 12 specifically in the fields of Science and Engineering. The fair is the largest science competition where students have the chance to explore, discover and innovate. More than 1,500 students from 65 countries will compete for prestigious awards and prizes exceeding USD 4 million.
Listed below are the 6 winners with their corresponding projects, who are representing Egypt and will be competing in the fair:
1. Project: Follow Maus Paws
Category: ASO3 (Animal Sciences)
Student: Moataz Ahmed Abd El-Ghafar (Grade 12)
Governorate: Alexandria
The Egyptian Mau is the only spotted domestic cat that developed naturally. Mau Cats are the oldest known descendents of domesticated cats in existence since Pharaonic time It Is probably recognized from 3500 Pc. This study was addressed as a heritage and culture identify of Egypt. The experiment is going to prove that the Egyptian Mau still exists in Egypt. The experiment will be done over 3 steps. The first step revolves are swabs being taken from cats in Egypt, United States of America and ancient cat mummy. The second step will include extracting the DNA from swab. Finally, the DNA sequence analysis result will be received from university of California, to support the argument that the Native Maus cats in modern Egypt are similar to the ancient Maus. Essentially, this will prove that the Maus in Egypt are purer than overseas Maus, The differences and similarities between native Maus and overseas Maus will also be examined.
2. Project: How to Improve the Efficiency of P-N Junction Silicon
Based Solar Cells Using a Nano Material as a Dopant
Category: ET03 (Energy and Transportation)
Students: Osama Ahmed (Grade 12), Magdi Mamdouh (Grade 11),
Esraa Saleh (Grade 11)
Governorate: Alexandria
It has become well recognized there is a great loss (<88.6%) in the sun power transmitted into the earth which is estimated by 1000watt/m2. This loss is due to the low efficiency of solar cell devices. One of the most effective devices is "Dye-sensitized solar cells", whose efficiency depends on the light absorption of the dye used. The highest efficiency reached using these type of cells is 11.4%. This is a result of several reasons, one of the most important being the narrow range the dye absorbs in. The aim of this research is to improve the efficiency of Dye-sensitized solar cells by using a composite of more than one dye. The purpose of using this unique composite of dyes is to mix more than one dye with different peaks of absorbance, in order to absorb in a wide range of the visible light (λ= 400nm:700nm). To prove this hypothesis, a controlled experiment was completed. The main goal of the experiment was to measure the photo spectroscopy of various dyes, mixtures of dyes, and the mixtures of dyes and silver Nano particles (10nm) depending on the phenomena of photo plasmonic effect. As a result of the analytical scanning for the dyes, researchers found that the composition of Olive Drab Dye and Silver Nano Particles (10nm) has efficiently absorbed spectrum from λ= 190nm to λ= 704nm, which a has a peak from λ= 197nm to λ= 230nm and from λ= 378nm to λ= 426nm.
3. Project: How to Detect the Erosion
Category: CH03 (Chemistry)
Students: Clara Hakim Zaki (Grade 10), Ola Ezzat (Grade 10)
Governorate: Alexandria
Using a very simple method, Clara and Ola made extractions from a cheap, natural plant, known as rice straw, to attain the compounds that are present in the plant. Rice Straw is a good inhibitor for the metals – Metals + water results in the corrosion of metals while Metals + water + (rice straw) doesn’t result in any corrosion of metals. Following the extraction process, they used these compounds in the experimental procedures in order to discover the inhibition metal.
4. Project: A Biofuel for the Poor
Category: ET20 (Energy and Transportation)
Students: Yomna Yasser Mohamed Abdel Aziz (Grade 12)
Governorate: Giza
There are numerous poor villages in Egypt that don't have electricity. Yomna’s project is related to devising an innovative plan that could help poor people in rural villages manufacture their own fuel locally. She discovered a process through which biodiesel is generated, by finding all the ingredients related to manufacturing a biodiesel fuel from the Jatropha plant.
5. Project: Comparing Methane Production by Anaerobic Digestion of
Cattle Manure, Rice Straw and a Mixture of Both
Category: EM03 (Environmental Management)
Students: Khadiga Khaled (Grade 10)
Governorate: Cairo
The objective Khadiga’s project is to determine how to maximize methane production from abundant earthly substance (cattle manure, rice straw or a mixture of both). This can help reducing black cloud over Egypt caused by rice straw burning, harness wasted methane and produce high quality natural agricultural fertilizer.
6. Project: World Destiny Without Oil
Category: PH03 (Physics and Astronomy)
Students: Mohamed Rifaat Ahmed (Grade 11), Ahmed Hany Abdel Rahman (Grade 11)
Governorate: Ismailia
Oil, natural gas, coal and liquefied petroleum gases (LPGs), are known as “hydrocarbons” due to their chemical structure, as they are mainly composed of Hydrocarbon molecules, which are hydrogen and carbon atoms. Under heat and pressure, carbon has many forms, one of which is called Graphite (pure carbon). That form has degrees of energies such as the Heat of Vaporization to convert Graphite from solid state to gas state, which later has to be ionized by the Electron Impact Ionization system. The Plasma Magnetic Field pulls the Ionized Gas Carbon, which consists of sharing bonds with gas Hydrogen under heat and pressure. Ultimately, Mohamed and Ahmed proved that at the as a result of the process that the Carbon and Hydrogen Atoms undergo, Hydrocarbon Molecules can serve as a Renewable Source of Energy.
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