Several Oak Ridge High School students participated in the Tennessee Junior Science and Humanities Symposium held on February 23-24, 2017 at the Holiday Inn World’s Fair Park in Knoxville. The symposium is sponsored by the United States Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and is administered by the Academy of Applied Science in cooperation with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Oak Ridge National Laboratory also sponsors this event for our region, stating in the program brochure, “Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the largest US Department of Energy science and energy laboratory, conducting basic and applied research to deliver trans-formative solutions to compelling problems in energy and security.”
Wilson Huang presented at the 11:10 a.m. time slot in Session I on Friday, February 24th, with the topic, “Designing Acoustically-Driven Microrobots to Stimulate Active Matter. Logan Rumbaugh presented at the 1:50 p.m. time slot in Session II on Friday, February 24th with the topic, “Modeling Collective Motion with Periodic Obstacles.”
Poster sessions from students at Oak Ridge High School included Ryan Armstrong presenting, “Quantifying the Evolution of Gas from Li-ion Battery Materials” and Dylan Payne presenting “Correcting image distortion from an SEM.” Tammy Carneim is the school’s official teacher sponsor.
Wilson Huang won first place in the state of Tennessee at this Junior Science and Humanities Symposium. His mentors are Dr. Bradley Lokitz and Dr. Nickolay Lavrik from the Center for Nanophase Materials at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Wilson will travel to San Diego, CA during the last week of April and present his research at the National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium competition.
Tammy Carneim stated, “Wilson did an outstanding job communicating his modeling of acoustically driven microrobots. He and the rest of our competitors represented Oak Ridge High School well.”
A total of $4,500 in undergraduate tuition scholarships, awarded at $2,000, $1,500, and $1,000, were presented to the top three finalists at the TJSHS. The scholarships can be used at any school of the student’s choice and will be payable upon matriculation.
The top four student presenters and the top poster presenter receive an all-expense-paid trip to attend and compete at the national JSHS, where the top two TJSHS winners will be able to compete in the national competition for additional scholarships.
