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Trip Report ISEF 2016 Im blogging this from a Starbucks in Phoenix. Im sweating, partially because its hot even inside with the AC nominally blasting, and partially because I just ate so much BBQ Im worried I might actually pass out. More on that later. Im in Phoenix for the 2016 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the worlds largest math, science, and engineering research fair for high school students. Every year, millions of high school students across the world enter their local science fairs. The best students will often proceed to ISEF-affiliated regional fairs, and then state and/or national fairs. Ultimately, the top ~1,700 students will qualify to attend ISEF as finalists and present their work to expert judges to qualify for more than $4,000,000 in scholarships, Special Awards  (which are awarded by partner organizations), and Grand Awards  (which are awarded by the ISEF judges). #TFW you win at #IntelISEF! #winning pic.twitter.com/gK4jS2D8iY â€" Society for Science (@Society4Science) May 13, 2016 (Note: before I came to MIT, I did not know ISEF existed. No one at my small high school did research, and we had, to the best of my knowledge, no affiliated fairs. Ive since learned, however, that many talented, smart students not only distinguish themselves by doing high-level research as high schoolers, but also love doing so, and find communities of intellectual and social peers through them. Participation in ISEF or other research programs is neither a requirement nor expectation of applicants to MIT; most of our admitted students did not do so. However, they can be great experiences for the right sort of student. So if, like me ~10 years ago, this is the first youve heard of ISEF, and you want to do smart nerdy things with smart nerdy people, you might want to check them out). I attended ISEF for the same reason I attend the International Olympiad of Informatics or FIRST Robotics World Championships: because there are many students there who would love to attend MIT and who are well-matched to our particular institutions. Every year we admit dozens of students who have been to ISEF at least once, and many more who progressed to some level of the affiliated fairs, as well as a handful of students who have won a Special or Grand Award and distinguished themselves as one of the most promising young researchers of their generation. Some ISEF alumni, like Feng Zhang, are even on the MIT faculty. I got into Phoenix around 3AM on Thursday morning after a long, delayed, and long-delayed flight from Boston. After a nap at my hotel I went down to the Phoenix Convention Center for ISEF Public Day, when the project hall is open to members of the general public for viewing and when all finalists must be at their booths to help explain their research. Projects are sorted into 22 categories  of math, science, and engineering, which as far as I can tell is mostly a convenience for organizing judging; plenty of the projects are interdisciplinary in topic and method, and the finalists are well-prepared to help intelligent but inexpert laypeople understand their work. I spent most of Thursday morning roaming the project hall, saying hi to some of the admitted 2020s who were there and listening to exhausted, excited underclassmen pitch their projects. Its impossible to see everyone at ISEF, especially only in a single day, but I got to hear about a lot of awesome projects, most of which were far beyond my technical comprehension but nonetheless endlessly interesting to hear about. I generally find that, even if I dont understand the technical details of a students project, I can still have a good conversation with almost anyone about their research process: how they identified and framed a problem, selected methods, incorporated or extended prior work, and where they hope to proceed. My own research has always been more on the SHASS side than the STEM side, but certain fundamental aspects of what it feels like to conduct independent research transcend disciplinary boundaries and academic domains. Ultimately, research is about trying to figure out s omething no one knows yet, and requires just trying a lot of different stuff until you find something that helps you make your understanding of reality seem somewhat less broken. If you have the kind of brain that likes doing that, then I think you can sort of get the point of any research project even if the details elude comprehension. After wandering the hall for a few hours I got a quick lunch at Tommy Pastramis  and then headed into the symposium halls to give a talk on how to talk about your research in the college admissions process with my friend Jamilla, who is an admissions officer at Harvey Mudd and with whom I once shared an office at MIT when we both got our start in the profession. As you can see from the slides, the talk was pretty basic, in large part because the form of our presentation, like the advice it imparted, was to keep it simple, stupid. Ill blog more about our research portfolio later this summer, but the upshot is that we just look for students to describe their project in simple terms for the intelligent layperson, and to help us understand the underlying motivation for and method of conducting their research. Most admissions officers are not subject-matter experts in your particular subfield of a subfield; instead, what theyre trying to assess are high-level (or low-level, perhaps?) attr ibutes like how you approach problems, what motivates you to do research, how youve taken advantage of opportunities, and so on. The room was full to capacity; after we finished the talk in half an hour or so, we answered individual questions for almost an hour afterwards. Once the talk ended I met a bunch of the students we had admitted to the Class of 2020 and took them out for ice cream. The ISEF ice cream reunion is a bit of an office tradition and in the Arizona heat it felt pretty necessary. 38 of the students we admitted to the Class of 2020 were ISEF finalists this year, and 22 of them are enrolling at MIT, so it was a nice way to get the gang back together after CPW and before everyone goes to college. Picture from the ice cream reunion; most, though not all, of these adMITs are enrolling this fall After that, I went to a small reception for sponsors and partners and other Important People, where I briefly schmoozed and hobnobbed and fraternized and otherwise discoursed with people in elegant attire much unlike my own. As the Special Awards began, I slipped away to return to my hotel and collapse jetlagged at an unreasonably early hour. This morning, I awoke at 3AM local time, which makes sense because Im pretty hardwired at this point to wake up at 6AM or earlier Eastern. I went to the gym, returned to the hotel, ironed my shirt, and drove back downtown for the Grand Awards. I wish I had taken a picture of the Grand Awards, because its always an incredibly well-staged event, right down to the actual stage itself, which is always enormous in a way that communicates the grandeur of the ceremony while somehow not dwarfing the award winners who stroll out from a crowd of ~1,700 to take their place as one of the most distinguished young researchers in the world. The cheering and roaring and happily shocked students never fails to make me smile. The 3 top winners from last years ISEF (2015). Go ahead, look at this picture and try not to smile; I dare you. As I said, there were 22 finalists at ISEF 2016 who will be enrolling at MIT. I always hesitate to post these kinds of things on the blogs because I dont want people to mistakenly think they have to do (or do well at) ISEF to get admitted to MIT. In this case, a) since we admitted these students before they went to ISEF, hopefully its evident, from the perspective of naive causality, that it isnt because they went to ISEF, and b) I think its pretty cool that we have so many internationally renowned researchers in the Class of 2020, so I wanted to recognize them. Here are the projects they presented at ISEF, ordered alphabetically by first name and including their category and any Grand Awards they won at this years fair: Alexis D. 20, Design and Implementation of a Sustainable Permeate Gap Membrane Distillation System for Water Purification in the Turkana Basin of Kenya, Second Award in the category of Environmental Engineering, representing the  Long Island Science and Engineering Fair Agni K 20, Break Divisors as Canonical Representatives for Divisor Classes on Complete Graphs: Applications to the Internet of Things, Fourth Award in the category of Mathematics, representing the  Georgia State Science and Engineering Fair Bilal A. 20, Comparison of Heat to Work Conversion in First Order and Second Order Magnets, finalist in the category of Materials Science, representing the New York City Science and Engineering Fair Brian M. 20, with teammate Spencer T., Capability of Modern Technology to Detect Exoplanets Orbiting Black Holes, Third Award in the category of Physics and Astronomy, representing the Indian River Regional Science and Engineering Fair in  Florida Charles N. 20, Efficient Blockchain-Driven Multiparty Computation Markets at Scale, Best in the category of Software, representing the Contra Costa County Science and Engineering Fair in  California Emma B. 20, Nematicidal Activity and Saponin Concentration of Chenopod Extracts, finalist in the category of Plant Science, representing the Southern Appalachian Science and Engineering Fair in  Tennessee Francisca V. 20, Shape-Shifting Origami Robotics, Second Award in the category of Robotics, representing the Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair Jovan Z. 20, with teammate Sophia L., Applying Jacobian Free Krylov Solvers to Model Epidemics, Fourth Award in the category of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, representing the New Mexico Science and Engineering Fair Kat Y. 20, Developing Cellularly Active Inhibitors of CARM1 for New Anti-Cancer Treatment, finalist in the category of Translational Medical Devices, representing the North Carolina Science Fair Region 3B Kate L. 20, with teammate Katherine Y., The Effect of Carbon on Iron Nickel Bimetallic Nanoparticle Degradation of Orange G, Best in the category of Chemistry, representing the  Corden Pharma Colorado Regional Science Fair Kavya R. 20, A Nanomedicine Approach for Targeted Thrombolysis, finalist in the category of Biomedical Engineering, representing the Hathaway Brown Upper School Fair Mahi E. 20, Drug Vulnerabilities of the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia Are Revealed by Machine Learning Approaches, finalist in the category of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, representing the Central Sound Regional Science and Engineering Fair in Washington Michelle C. 20, Determining the Protein Structure from Ant Colony Optimization Using Energy Minimization Derived from the Ising Model, Third Award in the category of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, representing the Orange County Science and Engineering Fair in California Rishi S. 20, A Novel Method of Reverse Electrowetting Utilizing Self-Induced Potential with Direct Applications in Energy Harvesting, Second Award in the category of Energy: Physical, representing the North Carolina Science Fair Region 3B Rishi S. 20 (a different Rishi S.!), Collagen Microfiber Scaffolding for Nerve Repair Applications, finalist in the category of Biomedical Engineering, representing the  New York State Science and Engineering Fair Sadhika M. 20, Application of EMDomics to Identify Age-Associated Expression and Treatments in Cancer, finalist in the category of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, representing the Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship Sanath D. 20, The Algebra and Geometry of Quasicategories, finalist in the category of Mathematics, representing the Los Angeles County Science and Engineering Fair Shreyas K. 20, Cellphone Based Optometry Using Hybrid Images, Third Award in the category of Biomedical Engineering, representing the Initiative in Research and Innovation in Science fair in New Dehli, India Sloan K. 20, Creation of Additional Signal Regions to Increase Signal Sensitivity in the Search for Vector-Like Quarks at the LHC, finalist in the category of Physics and Astronomy, representing the Southern Arizona Research, Science and Engineering Fair Venkatesh S. 20, A Novel Orientation-Based Statistical Potential for Efficient Prediction of Protein Structure, Fourth Award in the category of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, representing the Central Ohio Regional Science and Engineering Fair Yang Y. 21 (gap), with teammate Annie Y., An Investigation of Poxvirus Response to the Integrated Cellular Stress Mechanism through Steady-State Analysis and Stochastic and Deterministic Models, finalist in the category of  Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, representing the  Salt Lake Valley Science and Engineering Fair And there was much rejoicing. After the Grand Awards, I got back in my car and drove to Little Miss BBQ, a legendary restaurant in Phoenix that my buddy Charlie had told me I should visit. When I arrived, I had to wait in line just to park, whereupon I was confronted by another line, in 104F midday heat, to order. I was told it would be worth the wait, so I did. I waited about an hour. And it was worth it. I bought about three pounds of meat, some ranch beans, and a personal pecan pie, and ate almost all of it right there under a tent, cooking like meat in the desert heat. And thats why, two hours later, Im still sweating, and struggling to stay awake, in a Starbucks in Phoenix, head full of science, belly full of BBQ, blogging about ISEF until my redeye home. This has been your 2016 ISEF trip report! See you in Los Angeles in 2017, when I will talk to more nerds and eat a ton of tacos, probably.

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Question: Discuss about theQantas Business Growth Strategies. Answer: Report on Marketing Strategy at Quantas The principal goal of any business entity is to grow, whether its just a start-up one or a recognized market leader still seeks to increase profitability. For Quantas to enhance the best strategies for growth in the business, the Ansoff matrix offers a solution through assessing the various stages of risk in seeking business growth (Richardson Evans, 2007). This paper will outline the current market strategy employed by Quantas to tolerate competition in the international market. Below is an overview of the Ansoffs Matrix. (Richardson Evans, 2007) The Qantas uses the Ansoff business strategies through the development of the development of markets and products. Qantas has substantially invested in new various products with the aim of attracting customers to the existing services in their market. For instance, it has been granted a patent which involves innovation of self-services in the passage check in stations as well as in the luggage processing (Park, 2007). Noticeably, it is participating in marketing development where it attracts new markets through engaging the potential customers through offering good deals and promotions. Also, through maintaining the present customers while at the same time enabling innovation helps the firm to attract new clients in the market which is a good way of enhancing the growth of the business. A good example of innovation in the Qantas is that it has been given or rather granted a patent which allows it to connect its customers easily to their prevalent luggage through identification chips with bag tags (LeClair, 2012).The Q bag tags makes sure that the client's luggage is not lost or travel to a different place while at the same time it helps in speeding check-ins when customers are in a position to check their bags on previous arrivals. Apart from the air transportation business, Qantas had put in several other business-related opportunities like the flight catering, engineering, defense services and holidays (Rothkopf, 2009). Consequently, it coordinated and centralized its business to attain greater efficiency which would eventually result in cost effectiveness that is essential in enhancing the growth of its markets. Through the integration strategy employed in the investing other services of the value chains in the firm helps in realizing the competitive advantage of the business transfer of the resources at lower cost. Notably, the Qantas business is augmenting their products within the current competencies in other areas (Rothkopf, 2009). Outstandingly, the strategy builds the recognition of the product to diversified risks. The profits derived from other businesses provide Qantas with resources that help in the implementation of the organization change as well as maintaining the momentum of all the process. J etstar, which is Qantas creation, is a market development strategy according to the Ansoffs matrix that was aimed at curbing the Virgin Blue growth through paving the way for the new entrants from the domestic duopoly that undermines the profitability in the local markets (Richardson Evans, 2007). Conclusively, Qantas has reconstructed itself to focusing on the important business priorities as well as improvements in its technological systems (Preez, 2015). Therefore, that makes it a leaner with boosted operation efficiency and productivity at large. Arguably, it is because the company has been developing its network and capabilities such as the introduction of Jetstar through making bold diversification that reaches many customers hence immense success. It should be noted that Qantas past success does not guarantee future success and for that reason, it must strive harder in implementing the discussed strategies to enhance growth and maintain the success of the market. References Dempsey, P.S., 2011. Airlines in Turbulence: Strategies for Survival. Transportation Law Journal, 23(15), pp.1-84. LeClair, M.S., 2012. Exigency and Innovation in Collusion. Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 8(2), pp.399-415. Park, J.W., 2007. Passenger perceptions of service quality: Korean and Australian case studies. Journal of Air Transport Management, 13(4), pp.238-42. Preez, D.d., 2015. Qantas puts technology at the centre of its 2016 growth plans. [Online] Available at: https://diginomica.com/2015/08/21/qantas-puts-technology-at-the-centre-of-its-2016-growth-plans/ [Accessed 5 February 2017].Richardson, M. Evans, C., 2007. Strategy in action: applying Ansoff's matrix. Manage. British Journal of Administrative Management, 59, pp.1-3. Rothkopf, M., 2009. Innovation in commoditized service industries: an empirical case study analysis in the passenger airline industry. LIT Verlag Mnster.

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