Chatham Students Earn High Honors At Virtual Science Fair

CHATHAM, NJ — A science fair going virtual didn't stop Chatham High School students from standing out. Several students earned accolades last month at the Nokia Bell Labs North Jersey Regional Science Fair.

The event took place over several days. Most of the submissions were investigative in nature and tried to answer problems through experimentation and design.

All areas of science, math and engineering are included. The fair accepts entries from 10 North Jersey counties.

The following Chatham students earned awards for project submissions:

Mihir Rao: "BLEPNet: In-Silico B-Cell Epitope Prediction Using Deep Learning"

• 2nd place in the category Bioinformatics and Computational Biology ● Association for Computing Machinery Award

Xinyue Fan: "Analysis of the Correlation Between Immunogenomic Phenotype and Patient Outcomes in Cervical Cancer"

• 2nd place in the category Biostatistics
• 3rd place - Cancer Research Award

Stephen Andrews: "Sum Edge Coloring - When is the Problem Efficiently Solvable?"

• 2nd place - Nokia Bell Labs Distinguished Research Award
• 3rd place in the category Mathematics

Willy Chan:"Breathing Room: Designing Safer Indoor Airflow Solutions to Reduce Transmission of Infectious Agents"

• Naval Science Award

Although the science fair is over, the students continue to test new ideas. Along with other students, they're aiming to develop a computational model to optimize social distancing in the school building. The project involves analyzing videos of student movements and crown simulations to determine the optimal dismissal schedule to minimize the risk of COVID-19 transmission.

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