4 Philippine students win awards in US science fair

Filipino talent again shone at the recently-concluded Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Reno, Nevada, after four of the Philippine student delegates bagged prizes for their science research projects.

Sixteen-year-old Jovani Tomale’s passion for numbers is helping save the Philippine Eagle and has earned for him second prize in the Animal Sciences category during the International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) held in the United States last month.

Intel Philippines announced Thursday that the team of Kevin Jer David and Orven Jules Dumaoang of the Philippine Science High School (PSHS) Main Campus in Quezon City, took home a Grand Award, while Angela Joyce Ya-Dy of the Capiz National High School and Jovani Tomale of the Davao City National High School were each given Special Awards for their respective research works.


Visual sexing

The foundation usually resorted to what it called “visual sexing” or determining gender by observing the eagle for several days, a method that is very susceptible to error.

Formula

Tomale worked with his uncle Vladimir Kobayashi, an applied mathematics graduate of the University of the Philippines, who taught him the basic principles of statistics.

Other winners

Winning the grand prize in the Plant Sciences category were David and Dumaoang, both graduates of the Philippine Science High School. The two, who are incoming medical students at the University of the Philippines, studied how disease-causing bacteria can “communicate.” By being able to disrupt the communication, they can prevent the disease-causing bacteria from becoming resistant to antibiotics.

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