Menlo-Atherton High School holds its 11th annual STEM Fair

The 11th Annual M-A STEM Fair was held on Tuesday, March 3, in the Maker Space.

“Thank you to our students, whose projects were impressive,” emailed teacher Rachel Richards.  “These students’ ingenuity, diligence and passion for STEM was evident in their outstanding posters and presentations.

“Five of the students advanced to compete at the Golden Gate STEM Fair held on Sunday, March 8th.

“Thank you to our judges, including M-A teachers and STEM professionals from the Bay Area.”

3rd Place: *Alexander Erlebacher (9th Grade)
Project Title: The Benefits of a Cost-Effective RC Car Alternative

2nd Place: *Shawnak Shivakumar (12th Grade)
Project Title: Drugging the Undruggable: AI-Enabled Discovery of a Novel Cryptic Pocket and Inhibitors in Oncogene eIF4E

1st Place: *Isaac Chen (11th Grade)
Project Title: Wing Machine
A 4-Axis, CNC wire cutter for prototyping RC Plane Wings

Participants (in alphabetical order):
Hari Amba (9th Grade)
Project Title: Generating Electricity from Rainwater

*Colin Chien (10th Grade)
Functional Dissociation in Visual Processing
A Quantitative Analysis of Age-Related Cognitive Decline

Andrew Garff & Ajit Jain (10th Grade)
Best Sports Drink

Louis Koide, Elliot Keighery, Navid Riahi (11th Grade)
Project Title: Simulation-Based Energy Optimization

Kayla Lam & Lawrence Chao (11th Grade)
Project Title: How to Make the Tastiest Caramel

Diego Lopez (10th Grade)
Project Title: Evaluation of Shear-Thickening Fluids for Injury Prevention in Sports Medicine

*Shrushti Patel (10th Grade)
Project Title: Dive in, Drift off
A study on the effects of swimming on sleep quality

Ajla Ribic (11th Grade)
Equestrian Biomechanics and Musculoskeletal Discomfort
A survey-based analysis

Ellie Whittaker (10th Grade)
From Fabrics to Soil: Who Breaks Down First?

*These students will be competing in the Golden Gate STEM Fair, Sunday, March 8th.