Blair Magnet News: Winter 2020

Regeneron Scholars: Five seniors were named among the 300 semifinalists in the 2020 Regeneron Science Talent Search:

Tarun Mattikalli, Early Indicators of Osteoporosis in Children and Adolescents using Finite Element Analysis of Computed Tomography Scans
Michelle Tang, Deep Multimodal Learning for the Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Victoria Xin, Determining Antihypertensive Medication Efficacy through Machine Learning-Mediated Survival Analyses in a Revascularized Patient Population
Ambrose Yang, Analogues of the Robin-Lagarias Criteria for the Riemann Hypothesis
Zach Zhao, Clearing Kidney Exchanges via Graph Neural Network Guided Tree Search

Programming and cybersecurity:

Blair students won the 2019 Lockheed Martin CYBERQUEST™ Competition in Bethesda.
Blair students won the high school competition at NYU's Cyber Security Awareness Week.
MBHS Code Girls hosted a Women in STEM seminar at Blair.
Shreeya Khurana was recognized with a 2020 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing.

More awards and competitions:

Daniel Yuan won first prize and Timothy Qian won third prize in the 2019 University of Maryland High School Mathematics Competition. (@MBHSMathTeam)
Timothy Qian won 3rd place in the American Mathematical Society's Who Wants to Be a Mathematician competition. (@MBHSMathTeam)
Blair's Ocean Science Bowl team won the 2020 Chesapeake Bay Bowl. (@MrPham_at_MBHS)
The Quiz Bowl team won both the Varsity and JV divisions of the Maryland History Bee & Bowl. (@BlairQuizbowl)

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