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Carrie Oh ’16 Qualifies as a Regional Finalist in the Siemens Competition
On the morning of Nov. 7, 2015, while most of the EHS campus was still fast asleep, Carrie Oh ’16 was on a conference call with a judging panel for the prestigious Siemens (formerly Westinghouse) Competition in Math, Science, and Technology. Oh was a team regional finalist, along with Yujin Kim from Stony Brook School, Stony Brook, N.Y, with a project entitled "On the size of the Euclidean sphere of influence graph," focused on finding a better estimation of the maximum edges that a sphere of influence graph can have.
The project aimed to help improve visual modeling technology, pattern recognition, and geographic information systems - ultimately leading to the potential development of higher-resolution images and more intelligent machines capable of better interacting with humans. The scope of this project required Oh to work from previous mathematicians' papers and try to figure out a different, innovative way to approach the problem that would yield better results.
Launched in 1998, the Siemens Competition is the nation’s premier science research competition for high school students. Nearly 4,000 students registered for this year’s competition, and a total of 3,162 projects were submitted for consideration. Approximately 466 students were named semifinalists, and 97 were named regional finalists. As a regional finalist, Oh competed in a virtual presentation tournament based at Georgia Tech in which the students presented their research in a closed, online forum, and entries were judged by esteemed scientists at six leading research universities that host the regional competitions.
Science Department Chair Kim Olsen says, “It is a very significant accomplishment to be chosen as a Siemens finalist, and it's the first time in my memory that EHS has had a regional finalist in the Siemens competition.”
Read more about the Siemens Competition here.
