Jefferson High finalists for Intel Talent Search

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13 students from Fairfax County’s Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology became semifinalists for the Intel Talent Search which is the nation’s most outstanding high school science and math competition.12 students from Montgomery County’s Blair High School got the honor.

Rohan Puttagunta, 16, of Montgomery County’s Blair High School, is to make a mathematical theory associating to the frequency of monochromatic rectangles in multicolored grids.

Allison Koenecke, 16 of Thomas Jefferson High School, examined the facets and ridges on crumpled-up paper as a resemblance for thermodynamics that might predict earthquakes. She verified a certain mathematical formula and some collected data that is related in her theory.

By means of his study on fruit flies that 70 percent of the genes in human diseases also exists in the fly genome, Dennis Wang of Thomas Jefferson High School could cure a genetic disorder called Huntington’s disease that deteriorates brain functions.