Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/05/19
By: Kuan-lin Liu and Chen Chih-chung
Taipei, May 19 (CNA) Taiwanese high school students won five awards at the annual Intel
Photo courtesy of National Taiwan Science Education Center
International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Friday.
The 2018 competition, said to be the largest international pre-college science competition in the world, brought together nearly 1,800 students from 81 countries for the seven-day event from May 13 to 19.
Taiwan was represented by eight science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) projects presented by a total of 14 students, who were selected by the National Taiwan Science Education Center (NTSEC).
The highest honor Taiwan received at the fair was a second award, given to Yen Po-hsun (顏伯勳) and Lee Shang-jung (李尚融) of Concordia Middle School, a junior and high school institution in Chiayi City, in the engineering category for their “spherical induction motor with hexahedron stator for attitude control.” [FULL STORY]