Two Federal Way students recently competed in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Students competed with pupils from around the world, taking fourth place in the world for their project, “Optical Ion Reflector: Investigating the Elastic Collision Relationship between Ions and the Chamber Walls in order to Enhance Plasma Density by Focusing a Plasma Beam.”

They were competing with students from Germany, Bulgaria, and Slovenia in the Astronomy and Physics category.

School district officials say congratulations to Todd Beamer student Rosemichelle Marzan and Thomas Jefferson student Hyrum Bock. Each won $500 and a summer internship at a Nuclear Collider Facility in New Jersey for this summer.