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Eight students from Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) won awards at the 2022 International Science and Engineering Fair, held recently in Atlanta.  

The students that received awards were:

• Suraj Vaddi of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, third place in Earth and Environmental Sciences for Tar Print: Novel Convolutional Remote Sensing Techniques to Quantify Urbanization and Study Water Quality.
• Shaunak Sinha of Marshall High School, fourth place in Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design for PAMNSys: An Integration of Novel Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning Algorithms to Accurately Predict and Optimize Electrical Energies Within Heaving Point Absorbers Based on Placement, Implementation and Real-Time Control.  
• Irfan Naffi, Raffu Khondaker, and Eugene Choi of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, third place in Engineering Technology: Statics and Dynamics for Decentralized Shared Intelligence of Autonomous Vehicles with Real-Time Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning.
• Fiona Dressbach of Hayfield Secondary School, fourth place in Microbiology for Changing the Martian Atmosphere: Examining Lichen's Effect on Oxygen Percentage in a Simulated Martian Atmosphere.
• Seoyoung Jun of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, second place in Robotics and Intelligent Machines for Mind Beacon: A Portable Spatial Recognition Device for the Visually Impaired Using a 3D Depth Sensor and Custom Tactile Display.
• Ron Nachum of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, third place in Translational Medical Science for PANDwriting: An Accessible, High-Sensitivity Parkinson's and Alzheimer's Screening System Using Vision-Based Handwriting Kinematic Analysis and Machine Learning.

Over 1,800 students from 81 countries participated in the 2022 International Science and Engineering Fair. Complete results are available online.

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For more information, contact Brian Mandell at 571-423-4785 or [email protected].