Following the SRSI program from last August, the RISC Lab welcomed the two SRSI Students back, Maria Qumsani and Bandar AlBraheem, for a one-week internship under the supervision of the RISC Lab faculty: Prof. Eric Feron. The students continued developing their projects to prepare for the National Olympiad for Scientific Creativity (Ibdaa), which honors 40 Saudi high school students.
We are glad to announce that Maria Qumsani and Bandar AlBraheem were two of the 40 Grand Award winners of the competition held from February 1st through 4th at KFUPM, Dhahran campus.
The obtained awards are as follows:
Maria Qumsani - 5th Place with the project: "Instrumentation of a Tethered Underwater Robot" under the mentoring of the Ph.D. students Angelica Coronado and Ibrahim Alsalamah.
Bandar AlBraheem - 6th Place and Special Award presented by SenseTime with the project: "Alleviating the Effect of a Broken Pulley on a 3D Printer" under the mentoring of Ph.D. student Renzo Caballero.
The students will be part of the ISEF 2023 Selection Workshop in Riyadh on the 17th and 18th of February. In this workshop, 35 students will be chosen to represent Saudi Arabia at the 2023 International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Dallas, Texas.
