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.
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....