St. Mary’s School Science Fair Winners Advance to Southern Appalachian Science and Engineering Fair

The St. Mary’s Middle School Science Fair was held on Thursday, February 6th, 2020.  A total of forty-four projects were entered for judging.  The projects were divided into two categories, physical and biological sciences, and the judges awarded a first through 3rd place in each category.  Additionally, four honorable mentions were awarded in each area.

In Biological Sciences:

1^st Place:  Dropping Like Flies-Tennison Barnes and Isa Zolnierczuk

2^nd Place:  There Mite Bee a Problem-Victoria Corbett

3^rd Place:  Hidden in Plain Sight-Alyssa Shedlock

Honorable Mentions:  Best Bread Keeper-Xavier Miller, To Fertilize or Not to Fertilize-Fernanda Solis, Which Gender Has Better Memory-Dylan Umansky, Concentrating CO2-Trey Phillips

 

In Physical Sciences:

1^st Place:  Pointing the Finger at Crime-Ilse Dale

2^nd Place:  Goodbye Pesticide-Caleb Beauchamp

3^rd Place:  Music to My Ears-Maverick Queern

Honorable Mentions: Bounce-Griffin Welch, Worth Dyeing For-Sarah Duhamel, Brawny Vs Bounty-Maria Barnes, Set ‘em up, Knock ‘em down-Jonas Tilson

 

These students qualify to participate in the Southern Appalachian Science and Engineering Fair (SASEF) to be held at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville on Tuesday, March 31^st 2020.

 

The 2020 St. Mary’s Science Fair panel of judges included representatives from local business and industry who volunteered to serve in this capacity: Saint Mary’s School is grateful to each of them for lending their time and talents to our school; In Biological Sciences: Sig Christensen, Fred Sloop, Cheryl Kress, Reid Kress and Ana Gonzalez. In Physical Sciences: Andrew Hughes, Rick Lowden, John Iacovino, Gary Sega, Glenn Romanski and Harold Ketterer.