A 15-year-old American student won the grand prize at Intel’s International Science and Innovation Competition

15-year-old Jack Andraka has developed a paper-based diagnostic method that can detect early-stage pancreatic cancer in both blood and urine.

The special feature of the method is that it is twenty-eight times faster and cheaper, and a hundred times more sensitive than the tests known so far. Jack also received a $ 75 cash prize by winning the Gordon E. Moore Award, named after Intel founder, as well as a number of special awards for his discovery.

Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award went to 17-year-old Nicholas Schiefer of America and 18-year-old Ari Dyckovsky of Canada, who received a $ 50 cash prize. Nicholas ’project called“ microsearch ”shows the searchability of status messages from the fastest growing social networks like Twitter and Facebook. The student wants to improve their search engine skills in their own way. Ari Dyckovsky researched the science of quantum teleportation.

“We support Intel ISEF because we know exactly that science and math are essential for development. This competition motivates millions of students to develop their own skills and find answers to global challenges. ” Said Wendy Hawkins, president of the Intel Foundation.

This year, more than 1500 competitors took part in ISEF in Pittsburgh, who made it to the finals from 70 different competitions in some 446 countries, with more than 400 students receiving some prizes.

Two Hungarian students also took part in the competition: Péter Énekes and Gergő Köpenczei took 4th place in the mathematics category. The two students developed an encryption algorithm based on the s (n) function. Péter and Gergő discovered a property of the function that can be used for encryption in cryptography. Unique in their development is that this function has never been used for encryption purposes before.

Source: Press release