RICHLAND, Wash.-- Hanford High School Student Samuel Wang was given a top 300 nod from a prestigious, national STEM challenge.

When Wang was in 7th grade, he began working on a project that hoped to build-off recent scientific studies that looked at using acoustics for fighting fires.

His twist: artificial intelligence. Wang hypothesized that light and temperature readings from fires could tell automated systems what kind and how much acoustic frequency to use when fighting a fire.

His project title: "Multimodal Acoustic Frequency Modulation for Autonomous Fire Suppression: AI-Enhanced Spatiotemporal Mapping and Fire Dynamics Analysis."

Wang entered multiple science fairs in the Benton-Franklin area, and since those science fairs are officially recognized by the Society for Science, he

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