NASA Fundamental Aeronautics Student Competition, 2007-2008
High School Division Results

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FLY HIGH IN NASA AERONAUTICS COMPETITION
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Feature is Live: Fundamental Aero Contest Winners
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Congratulations to each student or team that entered the contest. 
Entries were received from 15 different nations, including the United States. 
Over 140 students participated from 50 different schools across the globe.

Each entry was read and evaluated by a team of NASA engineers from the four aeronautics centers:  Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Center, Glenn Research Center, and Langley Research Center.  The highest average scores were used to rank the entries and determine the winners.

Congratulations to all that entered and special congratulations to those who achieved award level rank.

We thank each of the students for their interest in and enthusiasm for aviation and the future of aeronautics.   To use a phrase from one of the team entries: 
"The future is not something we enter.  The future is something we create."  
Quoted from Leonard Sweet

There are four categories of awards:

US Individual
US Team
International Individual
International Team

US Individual Awards

First place
Tom Neuman, Grade 12
George Walton Comprehensive High School
Marietta, Georgia

Second place, tie
Michael Donelson, Grade 12
Flagstaff High School
Flagstaff, Arizona

Second place, tie
Edric San Miguel, Grade 10
Norfolk Technical Center
Norfolk, Virginia

Third place
Michael Mamlok, Grade 10
Monterey High School
Lubbock, Texas

Honorable mention:

Daniel Ehrlich, Grade 11
Chester Nimitz High School
Houston, Texas

Matt Arnold, Grade 11
Linwood Holton Governor's School
Abingdon, Virginia

Spencer Gore, Grade 10
Naperville North High School
Naperville, Illinois

Andrew Andraka, Grade 9
Bishop Hendricken High School
Warwick, Rhode Island

Joshua Hall, Grade 11
Avalon Academy
Etowah, North Carolina

US Team Awards

First place
Jeffrey Lee, Daniel Oh, and Jay Park (All Grade 11)
West High School
Torrance, California

Second place
Madison Friedman, Aaron Rusheen, Jonathan Batscha, and Jared Hershler
(All Grade 10)
Milken Community High School
Los Angeles, California

Third place
Matthew Calloway, Grade 11 and Nathaniel Bush, Grade 12
Prairiland High School
Pattonville, Texas

Honorable mention US Teams

Benjamin Ashby, Grade 11 and Stephanie Lee, Grade 12
Galileo Academy of Science and Technology
San Francisco, California

Matthew Payne, Grade 12
Colin Piepho, Grade 12
Karl Schaettle, Grade 12
Tucker Ward, Grade 12
Lourdes High School
Rochester, Minnesota

Jonathan Albarran, Grade 11
Ben Gieger, Grade 11
Abdul Asif, Grade 10
Hansel Zelaya, Grade 11
Reading- Muhlenberg Career and Technology Center
Reading, Pennsylvania

International Individual Awards

First place
Aditya Singh, Grade 12
Anglo-Chinese Junior College
Singapore

Second place
Muhammad Usman Anwer, Grade 11
Aitchison College
Lahore, Pakistan

Third place, tie
Alexandra Iordachescu, Grade 11
Ovidius High School
Constantza, Romania

Third place, tie
Purmanun Gosvami Divedi, Grade 12
Emmanuel Anquetil State Secondary School
Mahebourg, Mauritius

Honorable mention international students

Nishant SP, Grade 11
MES Pre-university college
Rajajinagar, Bangalore
Karnataka, India

George Liu, Grade 11
Moscrop Secondary School
Burnaby
British Columbia, Canada

International Team Awards

First place

Ioana Ferariu
Anda Claudia Vladoiu
Luca Victor Iliesiu
(All Grade 9)
National High School of Computer Science, Tudor Vianu
Bucharest, Romania

Second Place

Adrian Zelaya (Argentina, Grade 11)
Uny Chan (Hong Kong, Grade 11)
United World College of the Adriatic
Duino, Italy

Third place

Fernanda Laguarda
Viviana Lombardi
Erica Guerendiain
Santiago Marenco
Thiago Ceballos
Leticia Dominguez
(All Grade 12)
Ecuela de la Construccion
Montevideo, Uruguay

Honorable mention international teams

Radu Iordache
Catlin Munteanu-Ene
Cosmin Ion
(All Grade 9)
National High School of Computer Science, Tudor Vianu
Bucharest, Romania

Maha Rubbani, Grade 11
Mehma Menail, Grade 12
Adventure Foundation
Islamabad, Pakistan

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