LSU hosted the Region VII Science and Engineering Fair for middle and high school students Tuesday and Wednesday in the Royal Cotillion Ballroom. In the high school division, Berklee Zanders, a sophomore at Baton Rouge Magnet High School, won first place overall and received an international fair bid.
Sofia Zhu, a Baton Rouge Magnet senior, took second place and also received an international fair bid.
For her project, she used transformers to predict heat waves.
“I centered the project around Baton Rouge because it gets really hot here,” Zhu said. “It’s also very detrimental to vulnerable populations, so I thought having a predictive model would help with that issue.”