Drop the STEM podcast

We've covered a bit of "orbits" in terms of astronomy, but we're gonna discover another realm (it's gonna get chaotic)! Let me introduce you the newest guest, Muhammad Abdulla, who with his project of "Fine Classification of Minimal Orbits in Dynamic Systems", last year at Intel ISEF won First and Best of Category Awards in Mathematics. He was also invited to participate at SIYSS, along with the Nobel Prize Ceremonies in Stockholm in December, where we actually met, so I'm pumped for you to take a few moments of science with us!

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The microbio gang’s officially got a new member, you guys! Divyam Goel won the third award at ISEF with his project, in which he used microtiter assays and an in-lab developed simulated anatomic lung model to determine the effectiveness of bacteriophage therapy as a preventative measure against poly-microbial biofilms in cystic fibrosis patients. So dope, right? We actually got to know each other on the Drop the STEM server, and found out that both of our works targeted PA infections. Tune in to the newest episode 🎤

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Sophie Kearney at Intel ISEF this year won the third award in the category Microbiology with her project of crucial importance, since more and more people acquire antibiotic resistant infections. She developed an algorithm that determines the efficacy of an antibiotic against pathogenic species. Her technology has utility to make best practices easily available to private physicians and hospital managers since it can regulate and standardize the prescription of antibiotics.

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The very first girl on the podcast, who undoubtedly drops the STEM is Allison Jia! At ISEF she received the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award of US$50,000 for her outstanding research into toxic tau protein aggregates, which spread in neurons in the human brain and are associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. She is the president of the Society for Neuroscience - Bay Area’s Chapter, and is passionate about promoting scientific discoveries. Allison tickles the ivories and serves strong on the volleyball court, too!

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If you wanna discuss dark matter, get to know the world of machine learning, computer science or robotics, Brendon is your person! He is the youngest contestant ever to take the Best Project Award at Canada-Wide Science Fair, he won first prize at the European Contest for Young Scientists for the project in which he developed an autonomous vehicle based on an electric go-kart. At SNOLAB, he applied deep learning to dark matter detection, used machine learning to build an algorithm that improves particle classification. And guess what, Brendon's also an Intel ISEF Alumni 2019! With the project, he won Second Award in Physics and Astronomy, the China Association for Science and Technology’s Award and the National Security Agency Research Directorate’s Honorable Mention. Take a few moments of science with us! https://www.instagram.com/dropthestempodcast/

Get to know Brian Wu, who can be easily titled the Luke Skywalker of science today! 🚀 He discovered nine giant planets, one brown dwarf, two binary stars, as well as the first-ever low-mass circumbinary planet using Radial Velocity spectrographs. This year at the world’s largest scientific championship, Intel ISEF he won NASA’s Grand Award! He’s an exoplanet researcher at the University of Florida, TEDx speaker, founder of an aviation news site, an athlete and someone who’s got some moves! 😎 https://www.instagram.com/dropthestempodcast/

Get to know Krithik Ramesh who is an aviation enthusisast, aspiring engineer, programmer, 3d printing hobbyist and propulsion nerd. Oh, and last but not least, he won the grand award at the world's largest scientific championship! He’s such a cool person, who reaches out to others in many ways and has a great sense of humour! Take a few moments of science with us! https://www.instagram.com/dropthestempodcast/