ALEX science & Engineering fair 2009

The Planetarium Science Center (PSC), in collaboration with ATLAS for Youth (NGO) organized ALEX Science and Engineering Fair (ASEF) on 25 February 2009, as a qualifying round for the Egypt Science & Engineering Fair (ESEF) 2009, organized in Cairo at the new campus of AUC on 26 March 2009.

ALEX Fair brought together students, 14-18 years of age, from more than 20 schools in Alexandria to train, research, innovate and compete.

40 projects participated in ASEF 2009 covering 13 scientific categories. 20 projects qualified to the finals in Cairo. Winners of the finals have participated in the international competition in Reno, Nevada, the USA, from 10-15 May 2009.

 

Category	No.
(1) Medicine & Health Sciences(MH)	3
(2) Behavioral & Social Sciences(BE)	4
(3) Physics And Astronomy(PA)	1
(4) Biology(BI)	1
(5) Chemistry(CH)	7
(6) Biochemistry(BC)	2
(7) Environmental Sciences(ENS)	6
(8) Environmental Management(ENM)	2
(9) Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical(EEM)	6
(10) Animal Sciences(AS)	1
(11) Energy & Transportation(ET)	5
(12) Eng. Materials &Bioengineering(EMB)	1
(13) Earth Science(ES)	2

After two years organizing the science fair on a national level; ESEF 2008 and ASEF 2009, the PSC has registered as an affiliate fair of the ISEF in order to increase the opportunity for more Egyptian students to participate in the Intel ISEF. It was important to increase locally affiliated fairs that are directly connected to the international competition. Each locally affiliated fair can only participate with three projects (one team project and two individual projects) in the international Intel ISEF finals.

 

The name of the library of Alexandria, and its established credibility, as well as its facilities and resources, renders the BA to be qualified to host and organize the Intel- BASEF 2010.

After negotiations with Intel Egypt, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) (Appendix (11)) between the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and Intel Egypt was signed in order to declare the Bibliotheca Alexandrina science fair an ISEF affiliate fair. From 10-11 of March 2010, the Planetarium Science Center (PSC) organized the Intel Bibliotheca Alexandrina Science and Engineering Fair 2010 (Intel-BASEF 2010). This year, the Library is considered an affiliate Fair and the top three projects which won at the Library competition (Intel BASEF 2010) participated in the International tournament directly which took place at San Jose, CA, USA from 9-14 May 2010.

This year the number of participated projects was 102 projects in 14 categories: Animal sciences (AS), Behavioral and Social (BS), Environmental Management (EM), Environmental Sciences (EV), Medicine & health (ME), Chemistry (CH), Computer Science (CS), Physics and Astronomy (PA), Energy and Transportation (ET), Eng. Electrical and Mechanical (EEM), Cellular and molecular biology (CB), Biochemistry.

I-BASEF 2010 projects categories :

The following graph shows the I-BASEF 2010 projects number in each category:

 

 

Winners Announcement

Alexandria, Egypt, March 11, 2010 – The Intel Bibliotheca Alexandrina Judging committee announced the winners of the 3rd pre-college science fair, who have been nominated to represent Egypt in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), a program of Society for Science & the Public.

The first place prize went to Omar Ghorab, Mohamed Ayman and Zeyad Emam in the Environmental Management (EM) category for their project entitled "How to Increase the Rate of Methane Production?" The aim of the project was to increase the rate of methane production from anaerobic digestion of organic solid wastes to overcome the global decline in hydrocarbons and to preserve our environment by recycling organic wastes into natural gas to be used as bio-fuel, securing an environmental friendly source of renewable energy.

The second place prize went to Romisaa Abdel Alim in the Electrical and Mechanical (EE) category for her project entitled "Safety Bag", which tackled the protection of humans subjected to car crashes.

The third place prize went to Aida Tarek Abdou in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (BE) category for her project entitled "A closer look at relationships between youth's recreational activities and their general knowledge". The project aims to investigate correlations between Recreational Activities (RA) and General Knowledge Level (GKL), considering some types of RA and their effect on GKL as well.

In addition to the Intel-BASEF Grand Awards, special awards were granted to the best team, best idea and best efforts as well as the American Psychological Association award, Association for Women Geoscientists award, Society for In Vitro Biology award, Yale Engineering Association award and Intel for Computer Sciences award. Moreover, there were prizes for the best in each category granted to 10 students and/or teams.

The Planetarium Science Center (PSC), in collaboration with Intel Co. organized the Intel Bibliotheca Alexandrina Science and Engineering Fair (Intel BASEF) hosted by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) from 13-15 March 2011. The event was a success; this year, 63 projects participated in Intel BASEF; the students competed in all stages with enthusiasm and zest, introducing their creative abilities, scientific thinking, skills, and innovative ideas to the judges and the encouraging audience.

All projects participated in Intel BASEF received awards; however, the first three grand awards will represent Egypt in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) from 8-13 May 2011.

The first grand award went to Mohamed Magdy in the Engineering: Electrical and Mechanical category for his project “Cars controller by satellite (Car Protector)”; the second grand award went to Ahmed Hassan Hessen in the Animal Sciences category for his project “Living with Termites”; the third grand award went to Sara Mohamed Samir in the Behavioral and Social Science category for her project “Do you know your Memory?”. The Research and Development Innovation Program (RDI) will support the grand awards winners with their needs to complete their researches until arriving to the Intel ISEF.

Other prizes went to under age participants to encourage them to keep on track.

Best effort award: Adel Ahmed Elkasrawy for his project “Helper 5000” in Engineering: Materials and Bioengineering category.

Best idea award: Mostafa Ahmed Sayed for his project  “How do human harm predators animals?” in the Animal Sciences category.

Best team award: Mohtadi Ihab Barakat and Muhannad Ihab Barakt for their project “A useful use for the children crying” in the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering category.

 

In addition to special awards; all special award winners also received an electronic microscope from the RDI:

- A certificate from the American Psychological Association went to Nourhan Mahmoud Soliman for her project “Women Harassment”; another certificate for Intel Excellence in Computer Science Awarad went to Mohannad Alaa Mekki for his project “Let all control”.

- A certificate from YALE Science and Engineering Association went to Mohammed Magdy Saad and Ahmed AbdElKarime Aly for their project “The third world’s worst problem…How can we make it useful?”.

- A certificate from Society for IN VITRO Biology went to Mohamed Aymen Zerban and Omar Amin Ghorab for their project “Assessing the best combination of human and animal sewage solid wastes for the highest  amount of biogas production”.

- A certificate from RICHO went to Mai Alaa ElDin ElFkiy for her project “With or against”.

 

In addition to best in each category awards;
• Animal Sciences (AS)

1st place: Ahmed Hassan Hessen for his project “Living with termites”

2nd place: Moataz Ahmed for his project “follow cat’s footprints”

 

 •  Behavioural and Social Sciences (BE)

1st place: Sara Mohamed Samir for her project “Do you know your memory?”

2nd place: Nourhan Mahmoud Soliman for her project “Women Harassment”

3rd place: Mai Alaa Eldin Elfkiy for her project “With or against”
 

 • Chemitsry (CH)

1st place: Aya Magdy Elsaqa for her prject “Using chemical reaction as an energysource for the heat pump”

2nd place: Mennat Allah Ali Abdou for her project “Magic Paper”

3rd place: Massoud Gaber Ibrahim for his project “Anti-bacteria fan”
 

 • Engineering: Electrical and Mechanical (EE)
 

 1st place: Mohamed Magdy for his project “Cars controller by satellite (Car Protector)”
 
 2nd palce: Mohamed Magdy Saad and Ahmed AbdelKarime Aly for their project “Thethird world’s worst problem….How can we make it useful?”

 3rd place: Mohanad Alaa Mekki for his project “Let all control”.

 

 • Engineering: Materials and Bioengineering (EN)
 

 1st place: Moemen Ramadan, Omar Ibrahim Hagras, and Marawan Ahmed Abou-El Hassen for their project “How to use superconductor to improve the electric circuit?”
 

 • Energy and Transportation (ET)
 

 1st place: Mahmoud Ali Elmohr for his project “TES system techniques for Adiabatic Compressed Air Energy Storage.”
 

 • Environmental Management (EM)
 

 1st place: Azza Abdel Hamid Faiad for her project “Ethanol production by cracking polyethylene plastic wastes”

2nd place: Mohamed Aly Elhaddad and Yomna Aly Elhaddad for their project “Accelerating Vermi-composting by supporting Allolobophora with specified bacteria and fungi”

3rd place: Mohamed Aymen Zerban and Omar Amin for their project “Assessing the best combination of human and animal sewage solid wastes for the highest amount of biogas production.”
 

 • Environmental Sciences (EV)
 

 1st place: Omnia Ali Ibrahim and Aya Ali Ibrahim for their project “Planting one million  Acre In Western Sahara”
 

 • Medicine and Health Sciences (ME)
 

1st place: Bahaa Hisham and Mazen Aladdin Hamdy for their project “How to Increase your health stock by adjusting your clock?”

2nd place: Rana Mohamed Adam for her project  “the effect of eucalyptus on bronchial asthma”

3rd place: Somia Adel Dwidar for her project “Homipathy and the exploitation of the internal energy of self healing”
 

 • Microbiology (MI)
 

 1st place: Yara Ahmed Kamal for her project “The fight between the fire bight and the black knight”

 For the 5^th year in a row, The Planetarium Science Center (PSC), in collaboration with Intel Co. organized the Intel Bibliotheca Alexandrina Science and Engineering Fair (Intel BASEF), which was hosted by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) from 10 to 12 March 2012.

Intel BASEF team has organized three Intel BASEF affiliate school fairs within the framework of Intel BASEF 2012 year long program, in Victoria College ( from 27 to 28 December 2011), El-Nasr Girls College (from 7 to 8 February 2012), and El-Nasr Boys School (from 22 to 23 February 2012). 

37 projects participated in Victoria College Science and Engineering Fair VCSEF (from 27 to 28 December 2011) in eight different categories. 51 students from grade 7 to grade 12 participated at the school science fair.

55 inspiring science projects participated at El-Nasr Girls College Science and Engineering Fair EGCSEF (from 7 to 8 February 2012) in eleven different categories. 82 students from grade 7 to grade 12 participated at the school science fair. 

52 projects participated at El-Nasr Boys School Science and Engineering Fair EBSSEF (from 22 to 23 February 2012) in eleven different categories. 71 students from grade 7 to grade 12 participated at the school science fair.

Students’ Registration for participation at Intel BASEF 2012 was closed on 22 Feb 2012, 169 projects have succeeded in registering on Intel BASEF official registration page, to compete together in 15 different categories. Intel BASEF screening round was held on 25 February 2012. The total number of students who participated at Intel BASEF screening round was 266 students.

Intel BASEF 2012 Judging committee has announced the qualification of a total of 80 projects only, to participate at Intel BASEF final fair which was held from 10 till 12 March 2012, at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Conference Center. Those 80 projects, were in 13 different categories, and included 71 projects, which were qualified after passing Intel BASEF screening round and 9 winning projects from the three Intel BASEF affiliate school fairs. Out of those 80 projects, 19 were underage in 6 different categories. The total number of students who participated at Intel BASEF is 119 students.

Intel BASEF 2012 judging committee included 30 judges from multidisciplinary backgrounds, who, not only, assisted in judging the participating students’ projects, but also, provided valuable guidance to the students to help shape their perception of scientific research and planning related to their projects.

 

 

Intel BASEF 2012 judging committee

 

• Intel BASEF 2012 Grand Awards winners, who will represent Egypt at Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2012, held in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania May 13th -18th 2012 are:

- 1st Place award went to Moataz Ahmed Abd El-Ghafar, for his project entitled “Follow Mau’s paws”.

- 2nd Place award went to Osama Ahmed, Magdi Mamdouh and Esraa Saleh, for their project entitled “How to improve the efficiency of p-n junction silicon based solar cells using a nano material as a dopant”.

- 3rd Place award went to Clara Halim Zakhary and Ola Ezzat, for their project entitled “How to Detect Corrosion”.

 

Moataz Ahmed Abd El-Ghafar, 1st Place Grand Award Winner




Osama Ahmed, Magdi Mamdouh and Esraa Saleh, 2nd Place Grand Award Winners




Clara Halim Zakhary and Ola Ezzat, 3rd Place Grand Award Winners
 

 

 

37 awards were granted at Intel BASEF 2012 closing ceremony, including the following:

Intel BASEF special awards, granted From Intel ISEF Sponsoring Associations:

- Certificate of Outstanding Achievement granted from Society for IN VITRO Biology awarded to Mostafa Ahmed Said Ramadan for his project entitled “Ostrich is not a bird!”

- Certificate of award granted from The American Psychological association, granted to Rim Mahmoud Abdel Rahmen for her project entitled “Improving communication in teamwork”.

- Certificate of Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award, granted to Omar Khaled Obeya for his project entitled “Improving search in sorted arrays”.

- Three certificates for the 2012 Regional Ricoh sustainable development award, granted to Mostafa Ali Mansour, for his project entitled “From Garbage to Energy”, Ahmed Samy Mahmoud and Mohmed Zewil, for their project entitled “Egy-Solar ball” and Mohamed Mostafa Mohamed Hussein, Ahmed Mohamed Kharob and Mostafa El-Said Ahmed, for their project entitled “Saving Drinking Water”.

- Certificate of Most Outstanding Eleventh Grade Exhibit granted from YALE science and Engineering Association, awarded to Ahmed Hassan Hussein, for his project entitled “Less Bacteria, More Conductivity”.

• Intel BASEF 2012 awards for underage students, including:

- Best Idea Award, granted to Ahmed Ali Fouad Mohamed, for his project entitled “Treatment of Alzheimer disease”.

- Best Team Award, granted to Youssef Mohy El-Din Ahmed and Nour Mohy El-Dien Ahmed, for their project entitled “Smart glass”.

- Best Presentation Award, granted to Marawan Tarek Ahmed Ibrahim, for his project entitled “Ideal Usage of Wastes”.

• Intel BASEF 2012 Best of Category Awards, including:

- In Physics and Astronomy Category: 1st Place award went to Nada Hazem Fahmy and Rowan Ahmed, for their project entitled “Water Filtration from Lead Using Gravitational Force”.

- In Microbiology Category: 1st Place award went to Yara Ahmed, for her project entitled “The Fight of the Black Knight-Phase Two”.

- In Medicine and Health Sciences Category: 1st Place award went to Shady Mohamed El-Naggar, for his project entitled “Brian Alarm of Relaxation”. 2nd Place award went to Rana Mohamed Adam, for her project entitled “Antifungal role of eucalyptus; possible future therapeutic implications for bronchial Asthma”. 3rd Place award went to Omar Mohamed Abdel Razik, for his project entitled “Treatment of skin cancer using zinc oxide nanoparticles”.

- In Environmental Sciences Category, 1st Place award went to Merna Mostafa Moawad and Menna Mahmoud Mohamed Gaber, for their project entitled “ Clever Rubbish Box”. 2nd Place award went to Ahmed Samy Mahmoud and Mohmed Zewil, for their project entitled “Egy-Solar ball”. 3rd Place award went to Mostafa Ali Mansour for his project entitled “ From Garbage to Energy”.

- In Environmental Management Category: 1st Place award went to Azza faiad and Hend faiad, for their project entitled “The Effect of Mixing Different Types of Types of Inocula on Enhancing Methane Production from Anaerobic Digestion of Food Waste”. 2nd Place award went to Abd El-Rahmen Mohamed El-Sayed, for his project entitled “Recycling of cement wastes”. 3rd Place award went to Ayman Osama Abdel-Latef, for his project entitled “Water”.

- In Engineering: Electrical and Mechanical Category: 1st Place award went to Mai Mohammed Hany Ibrahim and Enas Ashraf Abd-Elaziz, for their project entitled “Hocus Pocus Sweeper”. 2nd Place award went to Youmna El-Sharnouby, Fatma Emad and Panccee Alaa, for their project entitled “Seeking safety”. 3rd Place award went to Ziad Mohamed El-Said and Mohamed Ahmed Taha, for their project entitled “Car balancer”.

- In Energy and Transportation Category: 1st Place award went to Osama Ahmed, Magdi Mamdouh and Esraa Saleh, for their project entitled “How to improve the efficiency of p-n junction silicon based solar cells using a nano material as a dopant”.

- In Engineering: Materials and Bioengineering Category: 1st Place award went to Ahmed Hassan Hussein, for his project entitled “Less Bacteria, More Conductivity”.

- In Chemistry Category, 1st Place award went to Clara Halim Zakhary and Ola Ezzat for their project entitled “How to detect Corrosion”.

- In Behavioral and Social Sciences Category: 1st Place award went to Magdy Salah El-Dien Abo-Khedr , for his project entitled “The Facebook Generation”. 2nd Place award went to Sara Mohamed Samir, for her project entitled “Testimony: Friend or Enemy”.

- In Animal Sciences category: 1st Place award went to Moataz Ahmed Abd El-Ghafar, for his project entitled “Follow Mau’s paws”.

- In Computer Sciences Category: 1st Place award went to Omar Khaled Obeya, for his project entitled “Improving search in sorted arrays”.

• Intel ISEF Students Observers, including:

- 1st Student Observer selected was Aya Magdy El-Saqa, for her project entitled “Using Chemical Reaction as an Energy Source for the heat pump”.

- 2nd Student Observer selected was Merna Mostafa Moawad for her project entitled “Clever Rubbish Box”.

 

To view Intel-BASEF winning projects, please click here.

The PSC has organized the Intel Bibliotheca Alexandrian Science & Engineering Fair (Intel BASEF) for six consecutive years. The event took place from 9-11 March 2013 at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Conference Center. The top three projects participated in the Intel ISEF competition in Phoenix, Arizona May 12-17, 2013. This year the number of participated projects were 143 projects, in 17 different categories.

Table (1) shows the I-BASEF 2013 projects statistics .
 

Item	No.
Number of categories	17
Number of participants	196
Number of projects	143

 

Table (2) shows the I-BASEF 2013 no. of projects in each category.

 

Project Category	Number of Projects
Animal Sciences (AS)	5
Behavioral and Social Sciences (BE)	8
Biochemistry (BI)	5
Cellular and molecular Biology (CB)	5
Chemistry (CH)	10
Computer Science (CS)	2
Earth and Planetary Science (EA)	1
Energy and Transportation (ET)	10
Engineering: Electrical and Mechanical (EE)	41
Engineering: Materials and Bioengineering(EN)	4
Environmental Management (EM)	12
Environmental Sciences (EV)	10
Medicine and Health Sciences (ME)	21
Microbiology (MI)	1
Physics and Astronomy (PH)	6
Plant Sciences (PS)	1
Mathematical Sciences (MA)	1
TOTAL	143

Students from Alexandria and 6 governorates (Dakahlia, El Gharbeya, Kafr El Sheikh, Beheira, Damietta, and Matrouh) participated in Intel BASEF 2013 throw Local Fairs.

Local Fairs that will affiliate with Intel BASEF 9-11 March 2013:


 

Governorate	El Gharbia Local Fair	Kafr El Sheikh Local Fair	El Dahklia Local Fair	Alexandria Local Fair
Targeted Governorates	El Gharbiaa	Kafr El Sheikh	El Dakahlia and Damietta	Alexandria, Marsa Matrouh and Behera
Date	27 Jan 2013	28 Jan 2013	29 Jan 2013	12-14 Feb. 2013
Place	Egyptian E-Learning University- Tanta	Technological Development Center- Kafr El Sheikh	Talkha Experimental School	Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Number of Participated Projects	45	17	22	280
Number of Projects Affiliating to IBASEF	18	8	9	97

 
School Fairs

Intel BASEF organized four School Fairs in Alexandria. The school fairs covered 6 districts out of 8 districts in Alexandria.

 

No.	School Fair	Date
1	Agyal Science and Engineering Fair	19 Dec. 2012
2	Victoria College Science and Engineering Fair	28-29 Dec. 2012
3	El-Nasr Girls College Science and Engineering Fair	1- 2 Feb. 2013
4	El-Nasr Boys School Science and Engineering Fair	3- 4 Feb. 2013
5	Technological Development Center Fair (TDC)	7 Feb. 2013

Winners Announcement:

Many awards were granted at Intel BASEF 2013 closing ceremony, including the following:

• Intel BASEF special awards, granted From Intel ISEF Sponsoring Associations.
•  Intel BASEF Best in Category awards (for  top three projects in Each Category )
•  Intel BASEF awards for three Uunderage Pprojects.(Best Effort, Best Idea, Best Presentation)

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Intel BASEF 2013 Grand Awards Winners:

1- The first grand award went to Abdelrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, Omar Khaled Ibrahim Obeya, and Sara Mohamed Samir Hagras in the Computer Science (CS) category for their project “Early Detection of Cancer Through Handwriting Analysis”. This project got the Fourth Award in the Computer Science category.

2- The second grand award went to Ahmed Atef Saber in the Engineering: Electrical and Mechanical (EE) category for his project “Ships rescue system”. won the Fourth Award in the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering category.

3- The third grand award went to Amira Ahmad Hassan Jabr in the Medicine and Health Sciences (ME) category for her project “Natural wounded Healing”  this project face problem in the ISEF SRC interviews and student did not show up her project.

Egyptian Team Participating in Intel-ISEF 2013 got Two Grand Awards:

On 16 May 2013, in Phoenix, Arizona, the USA, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2013 grand awards were announced. The Egyptian team participating in the Fair has won two of the Grand Awards for the first time.
 
• “New Screening Method for Early Pediatric Cancer Detection through Automated Handwriting Analysis” has won the Fourth Award in the Computer Science category.

• “Ships Rescue System” has won the Fourth Award in the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering category.