Blair Magnet News: Winter 2020

• • 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)

In Silver Chips online:

• Magnet Foundation opens arms for end-of-semester teacher luncheon

• Pushing past Senior Research Project stereotypes