Dublin Freshman Wins 3rd At World's Largest Science Fair

DUBLIN, CA — Dublin resident and Quarry Lane School freshman Yookta Pandit won third place at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair, the world’s largest pre-college STEM competition.

Pandit competed against 1,800 entries selected from 365 affiliate fairs in more than 60 countries around the world. Pandit received a 3rd Place grand Award in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, as well as a $1200 prize. She developed a wearable system that can detect and even predict epileptic seizures using brain, heart, and muscle signals. When personalized for each patient, it correctly predicted nearly 87% of seizures, with few false alarms.

Pandit qualified in March, when she won the President’s Award and Grand Award in the High School category of the Hitachi Science and Engineering Fair in Alameda County. She also won a number of awards for a project that uses an AI model trained on MRI’s to detect dyslexia, including the Middle School Engineering Grand Award at the Alameda County State Fair, the California State and Engineering Fair Nomination Award, and the Special Award from the STEM4ALL Organization, in addition to the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination Award.

This summer, she is launching the AI Foundations Summer Camp, a two-week camp to help middle schoolers learn more about AI and train machine learning models with a hands-on project. See here to learn more and register.

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