First Place at the State Science & Engineering Fair

Dr.Yan Fernandez, Assistant Professor of Astronomy Department of Physics, worked with his UCF student Jean-Marc Denis to help a high school student, Tana Hanberry, win first place at the State Science & Engineering Fair.

The group focuses onresearch. Hanberry’s project involves studying the properties of serendipitously-observed asteroids in archival CCD imaging datasets. She won in the Earth and Planetary Science category at the fair.