Hey,
I've lost my isef finalist medal, and i really care about it... so, i was wondering, does anyone know what I should do now?
Thanks in advance.
I'm an Omani Arab, Public high school student and a First-generation researcher.
GPA: 3.7 UW
Class Rank: 5/150
English: IELTS 8.0
Honors
ISEF 2026 Finalist (Oman participates with 2/3 teams every year)
Nominated for Sigma Xi Associate Membership
Oman Scholar 2025: Selected as 1 of 157 scholars from 5,000+ applicants (\~3.1% acceptance rate). Led/co-authored proposal for a national port company to reduce lighting costs, CO2 emissions, and light pollution. Featured on Deputy Chairman of the State Financial and Administrative Audit Institution page.
Best Presenter Award - Regional Science Challenge (Arab World level)
2x National Runner-Up - National Olympiad for Scientific Innovation
2025: 2nd Place - Biology & Environmental Science
2024: 2nd Place - Information Technology
Lead Researcher - Neurotech and Behavioral Sciences Project (2025-2026)
Built a low-cost closed-loop neurobehavioral system for childhood ADHD. Developed ML pipeline using Contrastive Feature Alignment to reduce neural signal bias and overfitting. Achieved: AUC: 0.913, Macro-F1: 0.857. ran 4-week randomized controlled trial with d = 1.41 effect size for attentional retention.
Lead Developer - Assistive Technology Project (2024-2025)
Developed Generative AI-powered navigation and computer vision system for deaf-blind individuals Used Raspberry Pi 5 and custom 3D-printed haptic Braille communication device
Was chosen to exhibit at COMEX (the National exhibition for Science and Technology)
Selected to represent Oman for MILEST ESI 2025
2nd - National NASA Space Apps Challenge
2nd Place - National Cybersecurity CTF Competition
1st Place - National Autonomous Wireless Car Racing Competition
3rd - National Robotics Olympiad
2nd Place at Web development category - National Digital Festival
Rank 8 - National Informatics Olympiad
Rank 9/75 teams - Arab-world Informatics Olympiad
Software Volunteer - Regional Science Center
(bunch of other ranks in other national competitions)
Designed, programmed, and deployed event management dashboard and mobile application for an Ministry of Education innovation center
Letters of Recommendation
Supplemental LOR from Head of Robotics and AI, Ministry of Education