The fun never stops at Intel ISEF.
Thursday night was the Special Awards Ceremony for the finalists. Sponsoring companies, Special Award Organizations, academic institutions, and government agencies proudly awarded hundreds of students for their outstanding science and engineering projects.
The Master of Ceremonies promptly started the presentations and one of the first companies, Aligent Technologies awarded three paid internships and two large monetary prizes to very deserving finalists.
As each company or organization's representative walked across the stage for presentation, Tami and I felt a sense of pride for each winner as we had talked to several finalist in each of the seventeen categories. We still wanted to hear the woman's voice on the sound system call out Dylan or Priya's name. Many of the Florida finalists names were called and we applauded for our home state team. But we still waited......
Fortunately and finally, the woman's voice said " in the category of Computer Science, from Pensacola, Florida, Dylan Dalrymple."! Yes, we hooped and hollered.
SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering presented him with the 1st place award!! So glad for him to receive an award for his hard work. Proud parents is an understatement.
What a way to conclude a fantastic day..........
The fun never stops at Intel ISEF.
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