Upper School Students Present STEMM Projects at Annual Symposium

Hawken Science Research III students took part in the 8th annual Bob Maciunas STEMM Research Symposium on Thursday November 10, presenting their projects before a panel of expert judges, families and other guests. Topics ranged from finding a biomarker for epilepsy to studying insect diversity to the statistics involved in winning.  
 
Brian Sun '18 earned first place for his project "Vibration Enhanced Flame Spreading Over Thin Sold Fuels." David Gold '18 took second place for his project “3-Dimensional Object Recognition with Deep Convolutional Networks.” Third place went to Zade Akras '18 for his project “Analysis of Exhaled Breath in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.”
 
These three top winners  will be going to the Northeast Ohio Science and Engineering Fair along with the following students:
Haleigh Gundy '18, Vikash Modi '18, Dhweeja Dasarathy '17, Estehr Bedoyan '18, Sanjay Vallabhaneni '18, Alison Selman '18, Ryan Kastelic '18, Andrew Gerace '18, Helena Costantini '11. Alternates are Sauren Khosla '18 and Jane Wiertel '18.
 
Many thanks to the STEMM judges and mentors, and congratulations to all symposium participants on their presentations. 
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