NUWC Division Newport Presents Awards to Students in RI Science and Engineering Fair

On March 19, U.S. Navy Reservist Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Quinn, an engineer in the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport’s Sensors and Sonar Systems Department, presented Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Division Newport Innovation Awards to the selected winners of the R.I. State Science and Engineering Fair held on March 15 at the Community College of Rhode Island’s Knight Campus in Warwick.

Members of the Division Newport workforce also participated in the fair in which more than 200 high school and middle school students from across the state presented their respective projects before a panel of judges. Division Newport Sensors and Sonar Systems Department employees Dr. Lynn Antonelli, Dr. Kristina Kamensky, Joseph Muhitch, Carl White, and Dexter Hoag, of the USW Platforms and Payload Integration Department, served as special awards judges for the U.S. Navy, reviewing all the science projects and selecting the winners on behalf of the warfare center and ONR.

Quinn presented the NUWC Innovation Awards in both the Senior Division (four awards) and Junior Division (four awards), and ONR Science Awards in the Senior Division (three awards) and Junior Division (three awards).

The following are the special award winners:

NUWC Innovation Awards

Junior Division

• Michael Orsini, St.