Montgomery County Science Fair, 2022
Registration is now open for the 2022 Fair
WHEN: March 25-27, 2022
WHERE: We have contacted the Food and Drug Administration about hosting our fair at their facility. The FDA has indicated that it will decide whether or not to host large gatherings in January. Although vaccines have been approved for students ages 5-12, new concerns such as the transmissibility of the omicron variant have arisen. We will continue to use the zFairs platform both for an actual fair and, if necessary, a completely virtual fair.
WHO: Students living or attending school in Montgomery County, MD and/or Washington, DC
Fair Schedule
*Deadline for Preapproval by Institutional Review Board: Tuesday, January 2, 2022 at 11:59 pm (Only projects involving human experimentation)
Registration Deadline: Monday, February 7, 2022 at 11:59 pm
Participant Information Freeze: Friday, March 18, 2022 at 11:59 pm
*Projects that involve participation of human subjects require preapproval. This preapproval is available through your mentor if you completed your research at a university or research institution. If you develop your own project using human volunteers, you must have approval from our IRB before starting the project. You can contact us at Science Montgomery Institutional Review Board.
Category Winners - High School
First Place: $100 and Certificate
Second Place: $50 and Certificate
Third Place: $25 and Certificate
Honorable Mention: Certificate
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Category
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Place
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Project
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Student
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School
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Biology and Behavioral Science
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First
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SF-BI-082
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Daniel Choi
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Richard Montgomery High School
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First
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SF-BI-023
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Rahil Verma
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Winston Churchill High School
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Second
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SF-BI-150
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Junzhi Xie
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Richard Montgomery High School
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Third
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SF-BI-017
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Iris Gupta
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Montgomery Blair High School
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HM
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SF-BI-101
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Ashley Thommana
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Montgomery Blair High School
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Chemistry
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First
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SF-CH-118
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Frank Horrigan
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Poolesville High School
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First
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SF-CH-095
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Muhil Thendral
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Thomas S. Wootton High School
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Computer Science
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First
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SF-CS-099
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Simon Lee
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Whittle School and Studios
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First
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SF-CS-051
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Christine Tang
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Poolesville High School
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First
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SF-CS-007
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Dhruv Pai
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Montgomery Blair High School
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Second
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SF-CS-031
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Alex Jiang
and Evan Wang
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Montgomery Blair High School
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Second
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SF-CS-059
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Lauren Choi
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Walter Johnson High School
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Computer Science
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Second
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SF-CS-034
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Jane Liu
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Poolesville High School
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Third
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SF-CS-021
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Kathleen Kee
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Poolesville High School
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Third
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SF-CS-126
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Daniel Mathew
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Poolesville High School
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Third
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SF-CS-106
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Sumedh Vangara
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Poolesville High School
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HM
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SF-CS-071
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Pranav Tippa
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Poolesville High School
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HM
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SF-CS-044
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Kandasamy Chokkalingam
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Poolesville High School
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HM
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SF-CS-067
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Ayush Varney
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Montgomery Blair High School
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Engineering
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First
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SF-EN-016
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Aditi Gubba
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Poolesville High School
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Second
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SF-EN-072
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Aidan Goettsch
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Poolesville High School
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Third
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SF-EN-037
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Avani Ahuja
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Georgetown Day School
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HM
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SF-EN-104
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Abrar Sheikh
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Poolesville High School
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HM
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SF-EN-057
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Anjan Sesetty
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Poolesville High School
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Mathematics and Physics
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First
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SF-PH-125
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Rohan Ohja
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Montgomery Blair High School
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First
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SF-PH-122
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Dennis Chunikhin
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Thomas S. Wootton High School
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Second
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SF-MA-042
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Gabriel Wu
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Montgomery Blair High School
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Category Winners - Middle School
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Category
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Place
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Project
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Student
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School
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Biology, Behavioral Science, and Chemistry
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First
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SF-CH-062
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Shriyadita De
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Takoma Park Middle School
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First
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SF-BSS-147
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Edith Yang
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Cabin John Middle School
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First
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SF-BI-013
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Joseph Simak
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Takoma Park Middle School
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Computer Science, Engineering and Physics
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First
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SF-CS-128
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Yun Yeung
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Takoma Park Middle School
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First
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SF-CS-133
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Pranav Karthikeyan
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Roberto Clemente Middle School
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First
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SF-EN-115
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Annika
Balaji
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Takoma Park Middle School
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Awards continue on the Teacher tab.
REGIONAL AWARDS
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ORGANIZATION
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AWARD
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RECIPIENTS
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American Meteorological Society
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Certificate
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Taylor Chapman
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American Psychological Association
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Certificate
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Sragvi Pattanaik
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ASM Materials Education Foundation
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Certificate
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Muhil Thendral
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Association for Women Geoscientists
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Certificate
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Serena Choy
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Environmental Protection Agency
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Letter
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John Chapman
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Taylor Chapman
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Shriyadita De
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Sujit Hegde
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Benjamin Martin
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Brendan Martin
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Ritviik Ravi
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Joseph Simak
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Sudhish Swain
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Muhil Thendral
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Rahil Verma
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Junzhi Xie
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Lemelson Award
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$100
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Pranav Karthikeyan
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Mu Alpha Theta
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Certificate
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Gabriel Wu
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NASA Earth System Science Award
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Certificate
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Ritviik Ravi
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Certificate
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Ritviik Ravi
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Office of Naval Research
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Certificate, Medallion, $50 gift card
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Daniel Choi
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Christine Tang
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Dennis Chunikhin
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Certificate and Medallion
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Yun Yeung
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Pranav Karthikeyan
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Ricoh USA Inc.
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Certificate
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Muhil Thendral
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Society for In Vitro Biology
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Certificate
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Andrew Wang
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U.S. Agency for International Development
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Certificate
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Ritviik Ravi
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U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize
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Certificate
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Shriyadita De
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Ritviik Ravi
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Rahil Verma
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United States Air Force
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Certificate
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Dhruv Pai
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Yale Science and Engineering Association
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Certificate
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Andrew Wang
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Results continue on the Volunteer Tab.
Welcome to the 2022 Montgomery County Virtual Fair!
Thank you for volunteering to share your expertise with the young scientists and engineers in our community. Despite the pandemic, students in Montgomery County continue to research scientific questions and design engineering solutions. Through zFairs, our virtual science fair platform, judges will be able to view student videos and read project abstracts in the showcase prior to virtual conferences with the participants. Although the conferences will be virtual, the interactions between judges and students will be as valuable as ever. By listening to a young person explain his or her project and then asking questions, providing advice, and sharing their excitement about the research, you will have encouraged their enthusiasm for science and possibly sparked new directions for both their research and their career interests.
Our tentative fair schedule is:
Showcase: Sunday March 20, 2022 through Sunday, March 27, 2022
Community and Category Judging: March 25-26, 2022
ISEF Judging: March 27, 2022
There are three types of judges: category judges, judges from community organizations, and ISEF judges. Please register appropriately. Unless you are affiliated with a specific community organization that offers an award, you are most likely a category judge. If you have questions, contact the fair director. (fairdirector@sciencemontgomery.org)
Prior to judging, we will post videos that explain the procedure and provide access to appropriate documents.
ScienceMONTGOMERY salutes the following community organizations that supported our 2021 fair by encouraging student excellence in science and engineering. We hope to see them as well as others at the 2022 Fair.
America Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (National Capital Section, AIAA) will award:
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“Mission Design Lifecycle Experience @ NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, a partnership of the AIAA NCS and NASA GSFC’s Office of STEM Engagement”
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$25 check
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Student membership throughout high school in AIAA
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Memorable gifts from AIAA and our sponsors
American Industrial Hygiene Association (Potomac AIHA) will award first ($300), second ($200) and third ($100) place awards to the senior (high school) division.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers will present Certificates of Excellence in Engineering as well as checks for 1st place ($75), second place ($50), and third place ($25).
Central Intelligience Agency will invite the winners to the Awards Ceremony and Tour of CIA Museum consistent with COVID and security guidelines.
Clean AIr Partners will present a first place in each division for the best project that addresses air quality or climate change.
DC Commissioned Officers Association of the Public Health Service will present first, second, and third place Distinguished Achievement Awards as well as multiple Meritorious Achievement Awards.
Federal Water Quality Association will offer first, second, third place, and honorable mention awards to students in junior and senior divisions. Prizes include certificate, ribbon, and logo pin as well as $100 award for first place.
IEEE Washington will offer a first place award of $200 and a second place award of $100; both winners will also receive a subscription to IEEE Spectrum.
MIT Club of Washington, DC will award a $75 stipend, a certificate of excellence, and a one-year subscription to MIT Techology Review to each of three projects.
National Capital Astronomers will present a framed certificate, an invitation to present the project at the June 12, 2021 Zoom meeting, a one year subscription to Sky & Telescope, and a one year membership in the National Capital Astronomers.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission will select students to receive a certificate, a letter of recognition, t-shirt and an NRC coin.
OSA, the Optical Sociey of America will award Certificates of Outstanding and Notable Achievement.
Rockville Science Center will recognize students in both the junior and senior fair with certificates for "Excellence in Communication of Science".
SAE, International DC/VA section will award a 1st Place for Excellence in Mobility Engineering: $50 gift card and certificate and Honorable Mention (certificate).
Sigma Xi, FDA Chapter will award first ($150), second ($100), third ($50) and honorable mention ($25) gift cards and certificates to those projects which best represent the mission of the FDA.
Washington Statistical Society will present the following awards:
1st place: $100 cash award, Chance magazine subscription, certificate
2nd place: textbook (DeVeaux, Velleman, and Bock, STATS: Data & Models, Pearson Education, Inc.), Chance magazine subscription, certificate
3rd place: textbook (Sullivan, Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data, Pearson Education, Inc.), certificate
(Winners will be invited to compete for the Curtis Jacobs Award.)
Students from the following schools participated in the 2021 Fair; we hope to see students from these schools as well as any middle or high school in Montgomery County, MD or Washington, DC.
District of Columbia Schools
Georgetown Day School
Whittle School and Studios
Maryland Schools
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
Cabin John Middle School
Clarksburg High School
Georgetown Preparatory School
Holy Cross School
Kingsview Middle School
Landon School
Montgomery Blair High School
Northwest High School
Our Lady of Good Counsel High School
Parkland Middle School
Poolesville High School
Richard Montgomery High School
Robert Frost Middle School
Roberto Clemente Middle School
Takoma Park Middle School
Thomas S. Wooton High School
Walt Whitman High School
Walter Johnson High School
Winston Churchill High School