Theo and Sarrah are students who have been competing in regional and state math fairs for over 8 years. Sarrah has been competing since she was in kindergarten and Theo has been competing since 4th grade. Between them, they have 14 regional and state math fair wins. Sarrah has also been competing in the North Carolina Science and Engineering Fair since 2016.
Learn more about the individual siblings below!
Theo is 19 years old. They attended Watauga High School before being accepted to the North Carolina School of Science and Math in their Junior year. Theo has been competing in the NCCTM regional and state math fairs since they were 10 years old. Theo has 5 regional placements and 4 state placements. The NCCTM state math fair is held on NCSSM campus.
Theo likes painting, baking and snuggling with their cat Goose in their freetime. Since graduating in May of 2021 from the school of science and math, Theo has been studying Biopsychology with a minor in visual art at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta Georgia.
Theo's favorite math projects typically included mathematical modeling real life situations which could be applied to real life situations and or raise awareness for social issues.
Sarrah is 16 years old and is just starting her second year at Watauga High School. She is following in her big sibling's footsteps and applying to NCSSM this year. Sarrah has 2 regional placements and 2 state placements in the math fair. She started doing the science fair in 2016 and has 8 first and second placements in the science fair and a handful of auxiliary and unranked awards, including two-time recognition in the national science competition Broadcom MASTERS.
Sarrah likes sewing, doing crafts, speed skating, and spends much of her free time in robotics, where she is Co-Captain of FTC Team 5881.
Sarrah's favorite projects focused on sustainability solutions to environmental problems, and she hopes to go to NC State to study Environmental Engineering.
In this project, I explored the efficiency gap model created in 2015 by Nicholas Stephanopoulos and Eric McGee to show the difference between the number of registered voters in a party as a number of seats, and the number of seats actually acquired by that party after an election. I looked at the legislative election efficiency gaps in NC in...
For this project, I wanted to do another mathematical modeling project, and I was interested in the societal impacts of predictive policing, which was used at the time in some precincts in my state. I pulled data from one geographical area and looked for correlation coefficients among data categories. I ran single variable regressions and organized...
What Would you Expect? examined possible insurance policies for houses in the flood plane across North Carolina. I looked at 4 houses across the different geographical regions of North Carolina and got flooding insurance quotes from each of them. I compared this data to the FEMA disaster relief payout to determine that buying flood insurance was...
Hunger is a huge issue in today's society. There is enough food in the world to feed everyone, the issue is how it's distributed. Using many demographical data sets for each county in my state, such as the number of food stamp recipients, number of supermarkets, populations of different races, etc., I wanted to see what demographical data can be...
In 2017, I became highly interested in renewable energy solutions and wanted to learn more about how to effectively implement them. My family had been considering putting solar panels on our house, so I conducted a cost-benefit analysis with both qualitative and quantitative factors included to determine if they would be worth it in the long run....
I hate litter, and have always been worried about pollution, especially pollution that gets into our oceans and disrupts the ecosystem. Due to ocean currents, plastic that enters the oceans collects in large patches around the world. Using data available on the garbage patches and projections for worldwide marine plastic measurements, I was able to...
In this project, I learned the difference between causation and correlation while examining the relationship between absences at my school and visits reported at my doctor's office. I won second place at the regional competition and third place at the state competition.
Can You Taste a Ratio was my first award-winning math fair project back in 2014. I made 2 drinks with different ratios of water to flavoring, then surveyed my class and asked them which one tasted stronger. The answer was unanimously the one with a higher ratio of flavoring to water, meaning that you can, in fact, taste a ratio....
Marble Drop was my first math fair project, completed when I was in kindergarten. I made 3 differently structured boxes out of plastic straws and hot glue and added weight with glass marbles until I crushed them. I graphed how much weight it took to crush each box and compared that data point to the overall structure of the box....