Vinayak Ramesh, a Sophomore at Oak Ridge High School in El Dorado Hills, California has won 1st place overall at the 2006 Sacramento Regional Science and Engineering Fair for his work enhancing camera-based security with wireless sensor networks.

Vinnie taught himself TinyOS, purchased Tmote Sky motes with help from his family, and integrated application specific sensors to enable work on his award winning project titled "A Collaborative Framework to Enhance Camera-Based Security Systems Using Intelligent Wireless Sensor Networks". His work combines wireless sensor networks with his school's camera-based security system to reduce deployment costs and increase security coverage.

Vinnie was also awarded 2nd place in the engineering category and received additional awards from the National Society of Professional Engineers, Professional Engineers in California Government, Intel for Excellence in Computer Science, and the U.S. Army. He will now be competing at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in May.

Vinnie also received support and encouragement for his project from Assistant Principal Stuart MacKay and the school's security officer Phillip Espinosa.

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