arizona daily star
Eleven Tucson-area students are among the 400 semifinalists nationwide vying to be named America’s Top Young Scientist of the Year.
The students, all in fifth through eighth grade in the last school year, submitted exceptional science projects to this year’s Southern Arizona Regional Science and Engineering Fair. They’re from the Marana Unified, Catalina Foothills and Tucson Unified school districts, as well as from a private school and a home school. The students are:
● Peter Angeli, Manzanita Elementary School (“How to Make the Best Trebuchet”).
● Erin Celaya, Twin Peaks Elementary School (“Flower Power”).
● Laura DeMers, Manzanita Elementary School (“Nice Save!”).
● Anna Guarino, St. Michael’s Parish Day School (“Sound Rebound”).
● Lyda Treistman Harris, Doolen Middle School (“Down the Drain”).
● Crystal Higgs, Twin Peaks Elementary School (“Flower Power”).
● Yurika Isoe, Lineweaver Elementary School (“Airzooka and Air Traveling Distance”).
● Theo Jones, home school (“How Can Modern Potters Make Their Pots Like Prehistoric People Did?”).
● Olivia Peake, Doolen Middle School, eighth grade (“Fungi and Bacteria: Can They Clean?”).
● Gage Walker, Dodge Traditional Middle Magnet School (“The Effect of Photoperiod on Algae Growth and Dissolved Oxygen Levels in Culture Flasks”).
● Emily Windes, Butterfield Elementary School (“Glass Choir”).
Emily, now a sixth-grader at Butterfield with designs on astronomy, said her project involved predicting musical notes heard as she rubbed her fingers on water-filled wineglasses. She said she didn’t expect recognition from her project beyond the regional science fair.
Arizona has 15 semifinalists in the competition, the sixth-highest state total. Florida is the top state with 36 semifinalists. Last year, Garrett Yazzie of Piñon was the only Arizona student to be selected as a finalist. Piñon is a village on the Navajo Reservation, in the northeastern part of the state.
This year’s list of semifinalists was selected from about 60,000 submissions to regional science fairs, the contest’s Web site says. The semifinalists will be winnowed to 40 finalists on Sept. 14. The finalists’ projects will compete in Washington, D.C., at the finals for four scholarships totaling $35,500.
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