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Over the weekend, young scientists from the area had a chance to showcase their projects during the 69th Annual Northern Virginia Regional Science and Engineer Fair. This year’s winners, which include students from APS middle and high schools, were announced this week.
The following first place high school winners were selected to compete in the Virginia State Science and Engineering Fair (VSSEF) at Old Dominion University.
| Josephine Brooke | Yorktown |
| Anna Brodsky | H-B Woodlawn |
| Emma Ackleson | Washington-Liberty |
| Kedar Kambhampaty | Washington-Liberty |
| Nicola Beaumont | H-B Woodlawn |
| Anna Mohanty | Washington-Liberty |
| Olivia Bartrum | Wakefield |
| Tomas Moran-Uriona | Washington-Liberty |
| Declan Leighton | Yorktown |
| Anthony Fiorino & Caleb DelVecchio | Washington-Liberty |
The following first place middle school winners were selected to compete in the 2024 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nominees – This is the nation’s premier STEM research competition for middle school students.
| Nate Knauer | Gunston |
| McKenzie Kelley | Swanson |
| Daniel Piester | Gunston |
| Margaret Saperstein | Swanson |
| Alexandra Leaning | Gunston |
| Zeynep Seyran & Kira Komlodi | Jefferson |
| Cassidy Wells | Williamsburg |
| Mason Mirabile | Williamsburg |
| Maedot Ayalew | Kenmore |
| Alessandra D’Amico | Swanson |
Grand Prize Awardee
Olivia Bartrum-Wakefield; Harnessing the Signalosome to Enhance Ex-Vivo Generation of Tumor Antigen-Specific T-Cells
Anna Mohanty-Washington-Liberty; Alcott: A Convolutional Neural Network to Predict Drug Target Binding Affinity in HIV-1 Neural Infection Treatment
Grand Prize Alternate Awardee
Declan Leighton- Yorktown; The Effect of Voltage and Nozzle Size on the Force Generated by Radial Magnetohydrodynamic Drive
For a complete list of the Category winners, click here: https://www.apsva.us/curriculum/science
Organizational awards will be published once they become available.
