A number of Hopkinton High School students won awards at the Worcester Regional Science and Engineering Fair, which was held March 6 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Arjun Mehta and Sahaj Pogula received a third-place award for their project, “How Does Applying a Weak Electrical Force to the Blood-Brain Barrier System Make Drug Delivery More Efficient and Sufficient?” The duo also won an Alnylam Bioscience Excellence Award.

Pahlaj Sharma (“Kinetic Energy Harvester to Power Small Devices”) received an honorable mention and was awarded a United States Air Force Certificate of Achievement.

Swara Patkar, Samanvitha Vangala and Nitya Sunku (“Recovery of Dialysis Tubing After Heat Stress”) earned honorable mention.

All three projects qualified for the Massachusetts Science and Engineering Fair scheduled for April 9 at the DCU Center in Worcester.

Additionally, Swara Patkar, Samanvitha Vangala and Nitya Sunku (“Renal Recovery by Recooling: A Dialysis Representation”) took third place in the Woo! Science Community Impact Awards, while Lumen Zhang, Lindsay Xie and Hareesh Krishnasamy (“Simulating Coastal Ecosystems: The Impact of pH, Salinity, and Nutrients on Calcium Carbonate Dissolution”) won the NOAA Pulse of the Planet Award.