Plaques, medals and more than $1,200 will be awarded for the projects deemed the best at the third annual Lewiston High School Science Fair held Thursday, May 9th. Award-winning students will be presented at the high school’s “Night of Excellence” on June 3.<\/p>\n
Cash prizes were designated for best-of-fair and for first, second and third place in three grade-level categories. Prize money was provided in part by Bates College through a Bates Science Education Outreach Grant funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.<\/p>\n
Other awards will go to students who did not place in the top 10 but demonstrated significant effort and knowledge in their projects and presentations.<\/p>\n
Best-of-fair went to Tarrah Bowen<\/strong>, a 10th grader whose project examined the effects of caffeinated soda on blood pressure. She competed with more than 400 other projects for best-of-fair.<\/p>\n Elisha Armour<\/strong> and Sara Choate<\/strong> received first prize in the upperclass division (11th and 12th grade) for a project that determined which location in the high school harbored the most bacteria. First prize in the 10th grade division went to Renee Castonguay<\/strong> for a project examining the impact of music on thought processes. Nathaniel Jilette<\/strong> received first prize in the 9th grade division for his study of erosion.<\/p>\n In the upperclass division, second prize went to Tiffany Boisvert<\/strong> and Elise Jack<\/strong> for a project on diabetes. Second prize in 10th grade went to Ashley Nadeau<\/strong> and Amanda Toussaint<\/strong>, who looked at chlorine content in drinking water, and in 9th grade the prize was awarded to Roxanne Healey<\/strong> and Amanda Sasseville<\/strong> for their comparison of the strengths of various glues.<\/p>\n Third prize in the upperclass category went to Kari Gronin<\/strong> for the project on stress in medical professions. In the 10th grade, this prize was awarded to Alexis Handy<\/strong> and Katie Lauze<\/strong> for their comparison of the drying rates of nail polishes. In the 9th grade, Matt Parker<\/strong> and Tony Travaglini<\/strong> received third prize for their investigation of the aerodynamic efficiency of different fabrics.<\/p>\n The five auxiliary awards went to:<\/p>\n Kyle Dupuis<\/strong>, 9th grade, for studying computer processor efficiency;<\/p>\n Deneiges Labbe and Kat Ustach<\/strong>, 11th grade, for studying artificial cartilage;<\/p>\n Matt Chateauvert and Audrey Ellis<\/strong>, 12th grade, for a project on the healing of bones;<\/p>\n Kerri Smith<\/strong>, 12th grade, for investigating bipolar disorder;<\/p>\n and Travis Lowe<\/strong>, 12th grade, for his project on human evolution.<\/p>\n The starting time for the “Night of Excellence” will be announced later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Plaques, medals and more than $1,200 will be awarded for the projects deemed the best at the third annual Lewiston High School Science Fair held Thursday, May 9th. Award-winning students will be presented at the high school’s “Night of Excellence” on June 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,30,31,17],"tags":[1485,4261,5263,10830],"class_list":["post-21065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-civic-engagement","category-lewiston-auburn","category-partners-public","tag-bates-science-education-outreach-grant","tag-howard-hughes-medical-institute","tag-lewiston-high-school","tag-lewiston-auburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92672,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21065\/revisions\/92672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}