A Kenmore Middle School seventh grader is receiving national recognition for a project studying massive bursts of plasma from the sun.
Maedot Tinsae Ayalew has been named one of 30 finalists in the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge, a contest that celebrates middle schoolers who excel in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
Ayalew’s project, “The Effects of Seasonal Variation on the Kinematics of Coronal Mass Ejections Using the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Satellite,” studies how the frequency of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) varies throughout the calendar year…