Originally published on 3/10/22
The Science and Engineering Fair of Houston announced the winners of the science fair this past weekend. Alvin ISD had two students from Shadow Creek High School win special awards. Congratulations to Tanya Mahesh for winning a SEFH Girls Cyber Award and Prisha Verma for winning an Outstanding Investigator Award from U of H, College of Medicine.
Mahesh's project is titled "Detecting Dirty Driveways using Image Analysis and AI Models." She wanted to remove human bias and manual effort to detect dirty driveways in large residential areas in order to determine which ones require pressure washing. She did this by building AI models to compute the dirtiness index on a control set of images.
Verma's project is titled "Fusion Clinic: Where Cancer Gets Personalized Therapy." Her project focused on determining if personalized therapies for cancer patients would be more beneficial than the current treatment plans which treat all cancers as a homogeneous disease. She located the genes and fusion on chromosomes, examined survival curves and co-expression in cBioPortal, and ran the information in the ORF Finder to find those unique ORF's to determine which fusions look promising to target.
Congratulations to both of these outstanding students!