Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Md., has again produced a national finalist — actually, two of the 40 nationwide — for the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search competition that started Friday in Washington.
Arnold Mong and Josephine Yu, 17-year-old seniors in Blair’s math-science-computer science magnet program, are vying for the competition’s top honors with research projects that sound well beyond their years. Take Yu’s “Lattice and Continuum Models of Solitons and Vortices in Bilayer Graphene,” an investigation in theoretical physics.