Frisco ISD students submitted 95 projects to the Dallas Regional Science and Engineering Fair, including 58 from middle school and 35 from high school. The DRSEF is a non-profit organization that holds an annual science fair for secondary students from public, charter, private and home schools. 

Of the submitted projects, one project advanced directly to the International Science and Engineering Fair and 12 advanced to the Texas State Science Engineering Fair competition.

Congratulations to the following state qualifiers advancing to the Texas State Science Engineering Fair in May! 

International Science and Engineering Fair Qualifier

Shobhit Agarwal of Reedy High School 

International Qualifier and Grand Prize winner for “FISQ: A Few-Shot, Interpretable, and Self-Supervised Quantum Machine Learning Approach to Automated Real-Time Prediction across Domains” in the Robotics and Intelligent Machines category in the Physical Sciences Senior Division

Life Sciences Junior Division

Raghav Gowda and Aadi Soni of Lawler Middle School

First Prize for “Creation of a novel lotion: Application of Lotion as a Marker for Dry Skin” in the Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology category

Krish Tadigotla of Wester Middle School

Third Prize for “Defeating Diabetes: An Affordable Approach to Automating Artificial Insulin Secretion via Hybrid Loop Systems to Combat Diabetes Mellitus” in the Biomedical Engineering & Computational Biology and Bioinformatics category

Life Sciences Senior Division

Vishnu Vasudev of Liberty High School

First Prize for “Selection of Site-specific Nanobodies Against Auto-ADP-ribosylated PARP1 Using Phage Display” in the Biochemistry category

Rashmiya Hasan and Arjun Karthik of Memorial High School

Second Prize for “Phagotherapy and Antimicrobial Resistance” in the Cellular and Molecular Biology category

Manyaa Bhatia of Reedy High School

Second Prize for “Utilizing a Receptome and Metabolomic Approach to Standardize Novel Early Diagnostic Methodology for Glial Tumors and Alzheimer's Disease” in the Biochemistry category

Vaishnavi Moturi of Centennial High School

Second Prize for “GlioGuide: A Multimodal Deep Learning and Phase Stretch Transform-Based Computer Vision Platform for Therapy Response Prediction in De Novo Glioblastoma” in the Translation Medical Science category

Helen Qin of Independence High School

Second Prize for “EquitLabor: Automated Labor Abuse Detection and Condition Monitoring via Deep Neural Networks for Natural Language Processing” in the Behavioral and Social Sciences category

Anikait Bharadwaj of Centennial High School

Third Prize for “Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease Using a Novel Approach in Deep Learning on Magnetic Resonance Images” in the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics category

Physical Sciences Junior Division

Varnika Ravi of Wester Middle School

First Prize for “Properties of Light and their Effects on Invisibility” in the Physics and Astronomy category

Pranavi Chatrathi of Pioneer Heritage Middle School

First Prize for “Side Impact Car Crash - External Airbag to Reduce Injury Severity” in the Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics category

Sahas Nuti and Anumita Pandit of Pioneer Heritage Middle School

Third Prize for “Determining Correlations Between Median Income and Casualties in Mass Shootings” in the Mathematics & Systems Software category

Physical Sciences Senior Division

Pranavanath Balamurali of Independence High School

Third Prize for “A Simple Mathematical Optimization Framework to Determine Optimal School Attendance Zones and Student Capacity Growth Plan” in the Mathematics category