{"id":312471,"date":"2026-05-28T14:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/312471\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T14:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:58:08","slug":"international-acclaim-for-student-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/312471\/","title":{"rendered":"International acclaim for student scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six projects by Plano ISD students advanced this year to the 76th annual International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the world\u2019s largest international pre-college science competition.<\/p>\n<p>Four projects captured category grand awards. One student placed first and three placed fourth. In addition, four projects received special awards.<\/p>\n<p>Ana Spiride of Plano East Senior High School placed first in Engineering Technology: Statics and Dynamics and won $6,000 for her project, Handtalk: A Translation System for American Sign Language.\u201d She also won a Third Award of $2,000 from Qorvo technology.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story and stay informed \u2014 subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/publisher1.etype.services\/Murphy-Monitor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Murphy Monitor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six projects by Plano ISD students advanced this year to the 76th annual International Science and Engineering Fair&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-312471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}