Federal Way Public Schools students from Todd Beamer High School, Federal Way High School, Thomas Jefferson High School and TAF Academy participated in the Washington State Science and Engineering Fair on March 28 in Bremerton, and all brought home top honors in their categories.
Todd Beamer’s Rosemichelle Marzan and Thomas Jefferson’s Hyrum Bock teamed up with a third student from Snohomish High School to take first place in the physics and astronomy category with the project, “Optical Ion Reflector: Investigating the elastic collision relationship between ions and fusor chamber walls during nuclear fusion in order to enhance neutron output by focusing a plasma beam.”
Their accomplishment earned each of the students a $20,000 four-year renewable college scholarship, Mathematica software and an all-expenses paid trip to represent the state of Washington at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair May 10-15 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Beamer students Madison Rogers and Julia Kim teamed up with Federal Way High School’s Jack Bull to also take first place in their category for a project involving boron neutron capture therapy, a cancer treatment used to treat glioblastomas and malignant melanoma. They each won Mathematica software and a free quarter at Evergreen State College.
Thomas Jefferson’s Brianna Ashing and Beamer’s Kevin Lee took first place in their category with their project, “Multiple Gas Reactor.” Lee won first place in his individual category as well by creating a programmable thermo-nuclear reactor.
Darryl Worcester took first in his category with the project, “Parallel Ring Poisser;” Bradley Hoefel did the same with his project, “Utilizing Web Services in Industrial Automation and Controls.” Hoefel and Worcester are both Beamer students.
In addition, TAF Academy sixth-grade students brought home the Washington State Science Fair Overall School Award.
Many, if not all, of these students are part of the Northwest Nuclear Consortium founded by Carl Greninger, a Federal Way resident. Read more about Greninger’s program at www.federalwaymirror.com/news/183085141.html.
