Hannah Guan, a high school senior at BASIS San Antonio Shavano Campus, is a national finalist in the Regeneron Science Talent Search and will compete in Washington, D.C. in March, 2023.A high school senior at BASIS San Antonio Shavano Campus, a charter school on the North Side, is one of 40 students from across the country entering the final round of the prestigiousHannah Guan, born and raised in San Antonio, will be in Washington D.C. in March for a week.
The Regeneron competition is in its 82nd year. Thirteen past winners went on to win Nobel Prizes and 22 have received MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. “Normally, when I’m sort of bored or staring off into space, I just observe the world around me and get to wondering how things work,” which becomes “the inspiration for a lot of my science projects,” Guan said.
It takes in baseline health information and uses a combination of math modeling and machine learning algorithms via Python to produce possible health trajectories.