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Matthew Turnblom, a high school senior from the DaVinci Academy of Science and the Arts, was awarded the 2008 Symantec Software Scholarship at the Richey Science Fair (Weber State University), for his project “Security Without Chaos.” For his project, Matt programmed three security encryption algorithms without random number generators and evaluated the effectiveness of each. He succeeded in determining which of the three was the most secure. Matt will continue to extend the scope of his project following the science fair by including the encryption of binary code. He intends to use the scholarship to pursue a computer science related degree at Brigham Young University.
Trevor Boardman, a sophomore from Delta attending Delta High School, was awarded the 2008 Symantec Software Scholarship at the Southern Utah Science and Engineering Fair (Southern Utah University) for his project “Predictive Modeling and Validation of Alternative Energy Resource Potential”. In this project Trevor used a solar cell and an anemometer to gather basic solar and wind data. He then created a program to predict based on his data how much energy you could obtain if you scaled up the size of your solar cells and incorporated wind generators. He also included in his program day of year, latitude and Longitude.
Matt Wright, a senior at Olympus High School in Salt Lake City, was awarded the 2008 Symantec Software Scholarship at the Salt Lake Science and Engineering Fair (University of Utah). For his projects he wrote a software package that allowed a user to highlight areas in individual frames of a video and then apply one of four lighting effects to the collection of highlighted areas. The software was written in Java. The software package, Rebas Light, is available for download at the URL http://rebaslight.com for $20.00. There are commercial video effects packages that have this feature, but Matt chose this one to fit his project’s budget.
Samuel White, a junior at Riverton High School, was awarded the 2008 Symantec Software Scholarship at the Central Utah Science and Engineering Fair (Brigham Young University) for his project “Artificial Intelligence: Testing Strategy through Computer Simulation”. Samuel’s project included a real-time strategy war game that he used to test various strategies against each other. He wrote the project himself beginning during Christmas break and continuing through January and February. Samuel began programming in HTML in the 6th grade, and soon taught himself Java Script and PHP. His current project is written in Java. He is mostly a self-taught programmer using books from the library and online sources. He got interested in the science fair when he heard about the Symantec Software Scholarship and thought he would give it a try. He got the idea for the game from playing Risk with his brothers. He hopes to improve his game by adding alliances and additional units, including networking capabilities, and enhancing the graphics.
Kelsee Hart of T.H. Bell Junior High School Freshman, and Winner of the 2007 Symantec Software Scholarship at the Richey Science Fair (Weber State University), was awarded a 2007 Symantec Software Scholarship for her project, "Light Intensity: Can robots really see?”. Using a robot kit, Kelsee built a robot that included multiple sensory inputs: sound, sight and touch. She then programmed the robot’s software to discern the difference between a red and a blue ball, and then to correctly choose the red ball. Upon command, the robot would pick up a ball and analyze it. If it was not the desired red ball, the robot would put the ball back down. Once the correct ball was discovered, the robot would hold onto the ball until the verbal command was given to release it.
Ben Arnold, a high school senior, was awarded the 2007 Symantec Software Scholarship at the Brigham Young University Science Fair. Ben was one of fifteen candidates at the Brigham Young University Science Fair that met the Symantec Software Scholarship criteria. Ben entered the Computer Science category with a software program that he wrote in the C programming language. His program runs diagnostics on a traffic sensing and mentoring system. His program runs its diagnostics using real traffic monitoring sensors, but also runs them through emulated traffic sensors. His program is cross compiled on a personal computer, but it runs on a small, single board computer (SBC) in the traffic monitoring subsystem. Data output is displayed through a system of light emitting diodes (LEDs) on the front of the SBC. This software is currently being used to resolve problems in working traffic systems.
Tyson Boardman, a high school senior, was awarded the 2007
Symantec Software Scholarship at the Southern Utah University Science Fair. Tyson was one of four candidates at the Southern Utah University Science Fair that met the criteria for the scholarship. He entered the category Engineering: Electrical and Me with his project titled, "Semi-Autonomous UAV Control Using Ultrasonic Multilateration". Tyson wrote a software program that determines the position of a UAV within 1cm, calculated in 3 dimensional space. He used sonar and timings to determine the position.
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