TNJSF JEI Award Winner: Jeffrey Xu

Jeffrey Xu attends Montgomery High School and was selected as one of the JEI Featured Young Scientist Award winners at the Terra North Jersey STEM Fair. He has been interested in math for a long time which influenced his project. Jeffrey’s project was an extension of the Vieta-Newton Theorem and how it could be applied to other situations, including computer algebra systems.

One takeaway Jeffrey had from his experience is that the research process was much longer than he had expected. He said that he learned research is much more than just doing the research - it also includes a fair amount o thinking how to effectively communicate your results to others. While presenting at TNJSF Jeffrey took this idea and put it into action by breaking his project into simpler ideas and using analogies to relate technical information to something more accessible to a general audience. Lastly, he noted that being able to make a human connection with his audience made it easier to explain some of the technical parts of his project to them.

JEI extends our congratulations to Jeffrey for taking on such an interesting project and showing excellence in presenting his work to a general audience!

The material on this page was prepared by Kari Mattison, JEI co-Editor in Chief. Jeffrey Xu provided the photo and answers to standard questions which was edited lightly for clarity.