[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 42 (Wednesday, March 5, 2025)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E185]
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            RECOGNIZING OWEN ZHANG FOR SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE

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                         HON. SUZAN K. DelBENE

                             of washington

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, March 5, 2025

  Ms. DelBENE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Owen Zhang as 
a top 40 finalist for the 2025 Regeneron Science Talent Search 
(Regeneron STS). Regeneron STS is the most prestigious science 
competition for high school seniors in the country and has been held 
annually as a program of Society for Science since 1942. Alumni from 
Regeneron STS have gone on to become recipients of the world's most 
distinguished science and math honors, including the Nobel Prize and 
National Medal of Science.
  In this 84th year of Regeneron STS, Owen is one of the top 40 
finalists that were selected from nearly 2,500 entries. For his 
project, he developed a solution to a problem about 3-uniform 
hypergraphs. This project, ``Tetrahedron-Intersecting Families of 3-
uniform Hypergraphs,'' utilized computer programming techniques to 
answer a long-standing question about the maximum number of unique 
connection conformations that can be found in 3-uniform Hypergraphs 
with the same vertices. Owen believes the result of his project is the 
first time such a problem has been solved in a hypergraph setting.
  Owen Zhang, the son of Yunjing Ma and Geqiang Zhang, attends Bellevue 
High School in Washington's 1st Congressional District, where he leads 
the math club and competes in DECA events. Mr. Speaker, I ask my 
colleagues to join me in celebrating Owen Zhang and this victory for 
science education in Washington state. We are grateful for his 
contributions to the scientific community and wish him a successful 
career.

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