The poised young scientist picked moon rocks as a topic, entitling the project: "Pressure Dependent Azeotropic Melting Relations in the Mg2SiO4-Fe2SiO4-NaAlSi3O8-CaAl2Si2O8 System: a Critical Role in Lunar Highlands Formation?"
Coraor will be in Washington next week, along with 39 other finalists from around the country, where winners will be announced. Finalists compete for $630,000 in awards, including a top prize of $100,000.
He described the project this way: "“My Intel project aimed to help explain the formation of the Moon. The current accepted model for how the Moon formed was largely developed in the 1970s when the bulk of the Apollo samples from the Moon’s surface were analyzed. However, while this traditional model has been improved slightly over time, an increasing number of inconsistencies between this model and data on samples from the Moon are being found. My project aimed to solve some of these inconsistencies by proposing alternate mechanisms by which the crust of the Moon may have formed. I justified the conclusions of my project by creating in a lab a magma [that is] similar to what likely would have been found billions of years ago as the Moon was solidifying and by measuring the composition of the crystals that formed from this synthetic magma.”
He is not only the second Huntington High School student to reach the finals since 1950, he's also only the second in his family. His sister Juliana reached the finals in 2012.
"I am thrilled for Aron on his incredible and very exciting accomplishment,” Huntington Superintendent James W. Polansky said. “When listening to him to speak of his project, it is easy to determine not only how much pride he has taken in his work, but also how much he has enjoyed the research and the competition process. There is no question that this has factored into his reaching this level. There is really nothing out of reach for this young man!”
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