Five students from Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) won awards at the 2023 International Science and Engineering Fair, held recently in Dallas.    

Winners of category awards included: 

• Elizaveta Plis of Falls Church High School, fourth award in Animal Sciences for her project Effect of Larval Crowding of the Zophobas morio Beetle on Consumption of Polystyrene Foam.
• Mihika Dusad and Aryaman Khanna from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, third award in Engineering Technology: Statistics and Dynamics for their project HypeFL: A Novel Blockchain-Based Architecture Using Federated Learning and Cooperative Perception for a Fully Connected Autonomous Vehicle System.
• Rohan Kalahasty from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, third award in Robotics and Intelligent Machines for his project Hybrid Plasticity: Adaptive, Brain-Like Artificial Intelligence via Prefrontal Cortex Inspired Meta-Learning.
• Shinyoung Jeon from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, second award in Systems Software for her project MoodBox: Vocal Screening for Depression and Gamified Relief.

Over 1,600 students from 49 states and 64 countries, regions, and territories participated in the 2023 International Science Fair. 

For a complete list of winners, please visit the Society for Science website.

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For more information, contact Michelle Gilligan at [email protected] or 571-423-4619.