<p>I am a Sophomore in HighSchool, and have about half of this project I am working on. I was told I should look into Intel and Siemons Westinghouse. However, I don't have any partners, and will be 16 by June 10th 2005. Am I elligible to enter? My project is computer science/Artificial Intelligence related.</p>
<p>you're elligible for siemens
<a href="http://www.siemens-foundation.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.siemens-foundation.org/</a></p>
<p>But don't I have to be in a group? Because there is nobody in my area who wants to work on a project with me.</p>
<p>Dang. I have to be in a group to enter as a sophomore. Can I just pick my friend to be on my team, and then enter?</p>
<p>How hard is it to get to Semi-Finalist status?</p>
<p>My project is more of the type where you do it, without knowing results, and then look at results, and see what you get.</p>
<p>Lets just say that this is general purpose AI stuck together with evolution(Gentic Algorithms), and then the results are stored as big data files. I then have another program that reads the data, and plays it like a video on screen, so you can see the bots moving around and interacting.</p>
<p>My Project is a bunch of C++ code. Do they ever look at it?</p>
<p>if you want to enter that badly, I suggest you find a partner who will work with you, not just a manakin to drag along. I doubt they will ever look at your code. what's more important is the scientific significance of what you're trying to do. what questions/problems are you tackling? just a simulation of robots with no purpose sounds pretty meaningless.</p>
<p>no! there is purpose. The bots are just drones, with which I test my AI.
I am basically tackling the question, can a bot with absolutely no influence from the outside survive in an environment on their own. I can't describe too much of it right now, but I will put up the abstract in a few days.</p>
<p>But there is nobody in my area who wants to do this. I mean, nobody understands what I am doing in HS kids. So I could just get my friend to work with me. Plus, the experment generates massive amounts of data, and you have to watch the video to look for evidence of intelligence.</p>
<p>Awesome. Apparently, I can enter Intel!!!</p>
<p>You need to be a Senior to enter Intel STS, ISEF you just have to be in highschool.</p>
<p>If you're not a senior, you'll need to have a group project to enter Siemens. Each member needs to have made <em>some</em> contribution, they will have ways of checking. Siemens gets fewer group projects than individual so anyone that enters one already has a great chance of being semifinalist.</p>
<p>In the question regarding whether they'll look at your C++ code, you are only allowed to send them 20 pages. (no video) Those pages should be in the format of a scientific paper outlining your design project, your methods, your experiments, data, results, and analysis. I wouldn't include actual C++ code but maybe a model to illustrates how the program would basically function. Remember they will only see 20 pages of paper, that's all you can give them!!!</p>
<p>good luck with it =)</p>
<p>Awesome. Last year I was confused because I didn't realize the difference between STS and ISEF. </p>
<p>Would it be ok if my friend did data analysis for the results?</p>
<p>I would still suggest you find a competent friend who's willing to work hard and share half the burden...</p>
<p>But I already tried, and there is nobody in the area who wants to do it... well, I guess I will try.</p>