Saturday, 22 May, 2021 - 10:15 Riyadh - Asharq Al-Awsat
Saudi Arabia, represented by the King Abdulaziz and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba) and the Ministry of Education, has, for the 15th consecutive year, won five major and three special awards at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2021, which took place in the United States from May 3-21, 2021.
Among the big winners were Mansour Al Marzooqi for his Advanced Synthesis of Potent Photocapacitor Based on Novel 3D-Hierarchical BiVO4 and Self-Synthesized Carbon project, and Lama Abdulrahman AlQahtani, for her Anti-VOCs and Antimicrobial Activity of Natural Palm Waste Cellulose Fibers/ZnO Nanoparticles Biocomposite for Use in Face Masks: The GBV99 project.