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ORANGE PARK – Austin Hallett has a reason to feel confident about the Florida State Science and Engineering Fair in March and the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair in May.
Not only does he have a presentation that will have engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology scratching their heads, but he also has the inside experience of being at the state fair twice and the international fair once.
“I went to international and state last year,” the Clay High senior said during Monday’s award ceremony at Ridgeview High. “I got fourth place there. “I didn’t win anything at international, but I plan on changing that this year.
“There was a big change between two years ago and last year, just from going to state when I went two years ago. Just knowing the ropes of state helped me get to international. Hopefully, knowing the ropes this year at international will help me win something.”
He can also rely on his project.
“I used high voltage DC power to make an ion propulsion device,” he said. “What it does is it turns air molecules in between the two positive and negative terminals. It turns them into positively charged cations and then uses electric fields to accelerate them in the direction I wanted. Then I channeled that acceleration into thrust.”
Austin said he wants to seek a career as an electrical, chemical or nuclear engineer.
Austin was one of three students who competed at the Rotary Club Science Fair at the Clay County Fairgrounds on Thursday, Feb. 6. The others were Clay High’s Gracelynn Beckham and Ridgeview’s Joshua Chun.
Students from the district’s schools presented projects judged with 14, including Austin, Beckham and Chun, moving on to the state fair at Lakeland from March 25-27. The International Fair will be in Columbus, Ohio, from May 10-16.
Chun created artificial intelligence to identify the difference between plastic and glass during recycling.
“Given a picture, it can identify if it’s like plastic or glass, or like any of those sorts of things, and (whether it’s) acceptable glass, acceptable plastic,” he said.
Beckham’s project focused on her work toward animals. She said she hoped it would lead to a career as a veterinarian.
Other science fair winners who qualified for the state fair were Sophie Aranaga, Lauren Cormier, James Fryman, Joseph Fryman, Anthony Fryman, Anthony Morejon, Alex Zheng, Rija Patel, Brenna Finnegan, Calvin Prose, Cooper White and Angel Zheng.
The categories included animal sciences, behavioral and social sciences, biomedical and health sciences, cellular/molecular biology and biochemistry, chemistry, earth and environmental science, engineering, environmental engineering, intelligent machines, mathematics and computational sciences, microbiology, physics and astronomy and plant sciences.
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