Pinoy student among finalists in Google science fair

A Filipino student -- Mark Borris Aldonza -- is one of the 90 finalists in the age 17 to 18 category of Google's international science fair.

In a news release, Google said: "We had thousands of entries from more than 100 countries, and topics ranging from improving recycling using LEGO robots to treating
cancer with a substance created by bees to tackling meth abuse."

"Our judges were impressed by the quality of the projects, and it was no easy task to evaluate the creativity, scientific merit and global relevance of each submission to narrow down the entries to just 90 finalists," it said.

Thirteen of the 90 finalists have also been nominated for the Scientific American
Science in Action award.

The winner of which will be announced on June 6.

The top 15 and the Science in Action winner will be flown out to Google’s headquarters in California in July for a celebratory finalist event and for the last round of judging, which will be conducted by a panel of renowned scientists and innovators.

The regional finalists in each of the three age categories are:

ASIA (Age 13 - 14)

• Sadanand Patil, India
• Utkarsh Gupta, India
• Anjan Venkatesh, India
• Aravind Muraleedharan, India
• Nitya Raju, India
• Aditya Jain, India
• Sumit Singh, India
• Ayushi  Khedkar, Shraddha Kukade, Pournima Shinde, India
• Nihar Dalal, India
• Shravan Patankar, Abhishek Dedhe, India

ASIA (Age 15 - 16)

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• Ivan Jie Xiong Ang, Malaysia
• Marco Ochsner, Ludwig Hruza, Singapore
• Edith Loo, Li Yin Tan, Singapore
• Rohit Fenn, India
• Hamza Azhar, Pakistan
• Benjamin Chan, Paul Jeanbart, Singapore
• Xi Xu, China
• Scott Guan, Cher Yeoh, China
• May Ning Law, Shi Hui Ang, Ruixin Ng,Singapore
• Akshat  Boobna, India

ASIA (Age 17 - 18)

• Shaoxiong Luo, Singapore
• Mark Borris Aldonza, Philippines
• Geoffrey Tanudjaja, Singapore
• Michael Teoh, Singapore
• Shan Tan, Singapore
• Wenqing Yan, Ronghui He, Singapore
• Chung Kyu Kim, Ho Shin Cho, Joo Hee Lee, South Korea
• Raghavendra Ramachanderan, India
• Kay Yi Low, Singapore
• Wataru Ogasa, Takeshi Kitagawa, Youta Nakagawa, Japan

EMEA (Age 13 - 14)

• Sakhiwe Shongwe, Bonkhe Mahlalela, Swaziland
• Carlos Vega García, Spain
• Natanel  Levis, Israel
• Marcin  Pitek, Poland
• Ana María Santos Espósito, Spain
• India Hannon, Naomh Hannon, Isabelle Bond, England
• Isabel Medrano Sáinz, Spain
• Anthony Carmoy, France
• Alexey Kozlov, Milena Klimenko, Ukraine
• Ralph Moran, Ireland

EMEA (Age 15 - 16)

• Artem Mosiyenko, Javed Lindner, Germany
• Mohammed Al Eydan, Saudi Arabia
• Pablo González Recio, Alvaro Cuevas
• Alvarez, Alejandro Sánchez Lechón, Spain
• Shahd Al Jasser, Saudi Arabia
• Iván Hervías Rodríguez, Marcos Ochoa,
• Sergio Pascual, Spain
• Gonzalo Balbás Moñivas, Spain
• Judith Calvo Rull, Spain
• Omar  Obeya, Egypt
• Karsten  Roth, Germany
• Menna  AbdelGawad, Saudi Arabia

EMEA (Age 17 - 18)

• Danijar Hafner, Germany
• Eugen Hruska, Germany
• Till Speicher, Paul Georg Wagner, Germany
• Ibrahim Khalil, Egypt
• Eduardo Sancho Calzada, Alejandra
• Bargues Carot, Laura García Marco, Spain
• Muireasa Carroll, Mairéad Kingston, Denise Hurley, Ireland
• Melvin Zammit, Malta
• Abdallah Reda, Egypt
• Adrián Díaz, Sandra Garrido Romero, Spain
• Philip Glass, Callum Middleton, England

The Americas (Age 13 - 14)

• Kriti Lall, USA
• Anirudh Jain, USA
• Jonah Kohn, USA
• Mark Liang, USA
• Andrew Chen, USA
• Raymond Wang, Canada
• Garima Singh, USA
• Arjun Mahajan, Maya Flannery,
• Jonathan Berman, USA
• Suruchi Ramanujan, USA
• Martin Schneider, Joshua Li, USA

The Americas (Age 15 - 16)

• Kimberley Yu, Phillip Yu, USA
• Natalie Ng, USA
• Rishabh Mazmudar, USA
• Emily S. Wang, Trevor Wang, USA
• Joshua Meier, USA
• Catherine Wong, USA
• Katherine Zimmerman, USA
• Sabera Talukder, USA
• Grace Brosofsky, USA
• Alejandro Andres Fuentes Herrera, Chile

The Americas (Age 17 - 18)

• Daniel   Wang, USA
• Brittany Wenger, USA
• Yamini  Naidu, USA
• Karen Resnick, USA
• Grace Pan, USA
• Yuhao (Danny) Huang, Canada
• Blake Smith, Vickram Gidwani, USA
• Pascal  Gendron, Canada
• Yassine Bouanane, Canada
• Ricardo Enrique Alba Torres, Jessica
• Alba Torres, Colombia

The Scientific American Science in Action Award nominations are:

• Anjan Venkatesh, India
• Sumit Singh, India
• Geoffrey Tanudjaja, Singapore
• Sakhiwe Shongwe, Swaziland
• Carlos Vega García, Spain
• Mena Abdel Gawad, Saudi Arabia
• Mark Liang, USA
• Andrew Chen, USA
• Catherine Wong, USA
• Sabera Talukder, USA
• Grace Brosofsky, USA
• Ricardo Enrique Alba Torres, Jessica Alba Torres, Colombia
• Katherine Zimmerman, USA    

- VVP, GMA News