Shola Places 1st at State Competition

Tsering Shola earned a trip to the International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles after qualifying at the Washington State Regional Science Fair on March 11. She also won first place in the biomedical and health sciences division at the state fair on April 1.

Tsering Shola is making waves with her hearing research.

In March, she won honors at two science fairs, which included an $80,000 scholarship and a spot at the prestigious Intel Science and Engineering Fair, known as ISEF, which runs from Sunday, May 14 to Friday, May 19.

Shola, a sophomore at Camas High School, won the Washington Regional Science Fair in early March, and then took first place in biomedical and health sciences at the state fair on April 1.

Shola, 16, became intrigued by hearing loss research after being diagnosed with sensoral neural hearing loss as a young child. Read more at the CW Post Record