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 22 years old and a Senior at Oglethorpe University. 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. Theo will graduate from Oglethorpe in May of 2026 with a major in Biopsychology and a minor in studio art.
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 19 years old and a Freshman at Columbia University. She attended Watauga High School before being accepted to the North Carolina School of Science and Math (Morganton campus) in her Junior year. Sarrah has 2 regional placements and 2 state placements in the math fair. Since her first science fair (2016) she's received 8 first and second placements plus 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 doing robotics, where she has competed in both FTC and combat.
Sarrah's favorite math and science projects focused on sustainability and sustainable solutions to environmental problems.
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...
This was my favorite project, and I developed a love for mathematical modeling this year. For this project, I researched SIR models, which help predict how a disease can and will develop, and created models to predict how many people would be susceptible to infection, how many would be infected and how many would recover in a 24-hour period using...
For this project, I developed one of those indexes you read about that determine the "safest towns in America" or the "most innovative schools," in which you take subjective information and apply objective criteria to it to make it measurable. I did a bunch of research to gather and weight sustainability criteria about each of the 50 states, and...
With the benefit of what I learned from my first year in the math fair, I developed a much more complex project in my 6th grade year. Two things made a big difference here: my sister and I ran the school store, so I had all the data readily available, and I had a math tutor, who was earning his...
I did this project with a friend. We both love cats and had cats, and we thought it would be fun to examine how a cat's size affected the height of its jump. We weighed and measured our cats and did a pretty unscientific experiment where we used a laser pointer to get them to jump as high as we...
This was my first math fair project. I decided I wanted to enter the math fair after my sister's experience in kindergarten. I did this project independently, investigating the math behind anamorphic perspective, which is a visual arts technique that requires the viewer to be in a specific location to recognize an image. There are lots of really...
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....