Dhruvik Parikh, a senior at Jackson High School in Mill Creek, was named a Young Scientist and earned a $50,000 prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair held in May.
“It’s the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for high school students,” said Dana Riley Black, an Everett School District administrator.
Parikh was honored for his research project, “A Novel Sol-Gel Derived SPEEK/Silicon Dioxide Composite Membrane for the Vanadium Redox Flow Battery.” He also won first place and best in category in chemical energy, earning an additional $8,000.
Parikh plans to attend Stanford University in the fall to study materials science and computer science. He hopes to one day form his own clean energy company.
Classmate Sriharshita Musunuri also was a winner at the event. She won a $500 award for her work in the translational medical science category. The title of her research: “A Novel Point-of-Care Theranostic for Gram-Negative Sepsis: Synthesis and Application of Polymer Nanoparticles for Rapid Endotoxin Capture.”
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