TOP LEFT
Shouq Faisal Madani of
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia,
celebrates with her
peers during the Grand
Awards Ceremony on
the closing day of ISEF- Madani won
a $1,000 award in
the environmental
engineering category.
TOP RIGHT
Shriya Reddy of
Northville, Michigan,
approaches the stage
to receive a $10,000
innovation award
for her melanoma
diagnostic technique.
“It was like a dream
come true,” she says.BOTTOM LEFT
Allison Jia of Cupertino,
California, received
a top award of $50,000
for her novel approach
to tracking tau, a brain
protein implicated in
Alzheimer’s disease.BOTTOM RIGHT
Jocelyn Zonnefeld
(center), from Sioux
Center, Iowa, com-
peted in microbiology.
ISEF participants are
selected based on the
merit of their work.126 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC