Blair Magnet News: Winter 2021

• • Four seniors were named Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholars, each winning $2,000 prizes!

    • Yash Anand, Developing a Toy Model for Quantum Chaos Theory: Entanglement Entropy of Bipartite System Under Random Real Hamiltonians (mentored by Mike Winer '15)

    • Alan Chen, Predicting High Energy Eigenstates by Coupling Discrete Supersymmetry and the Localization Landscape

    • Timothy Qian, Optimal Measurement of Field Properties with Quantum Sensor Networks

    • Christopher Tong, Signatures of Second Generation Exoplanet Formation (mentored by Nick Stone '04)

• Timothy Qian was named a 2021 Regeneron STS Finalist, winning a $25,000 scholarship!

  • Blair juniors are seeking remote research opportunities for this summer. If you are interested in mentoring a student, please contact Ms. Bosse (Angelique_P_Bosse@mcpsmd.org)

More students who have recently won recognition:

• • Senior Kevin Xu was one of the winners of the 2020 Congressional App Challenge, for developing the free virtual whiteboard app, Tabulo

  • A team from Blair won the Junior Varsity Division at the 2020 National History Bowl.

  • Four Blair teams won awards in the 2020 High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling, including one finalist team and one meritorious team who qualified for the International Mathematical Modeling Challenge.

  • Blair's Cybersecurity Team won the Red Team competition at NYU's CSAW Cybersecurity Games (@CSAW_NYUTandon)

  • Blair's Science Olympiad team won 1st place at the UMD virtual invitational competition (@ihartblair)

  • Senior Isabella Fan won Honorable Mention in the New York Times Personal Narrative Contest.

  • Freshman Madeline Gold wrote a book on Alzheimer's Disease: Read This Book and Save Your Brain

  • Juniors Matt Casertano and Dhruv Pai were recognized on the Disney Channel for their work with Teens Helping Seniors (@teensforseniors)

  • Junior Arjun Oberoi was recognized as one of WTOP's Top Kids for his work with Rockville Face Shields.

In Memoriam: former Magnet teacher Eric Walstein passed away in November 2020 (legacy.com)