Thirteen Episcopal School of Jacksonville Honors Science Seminar students competed at the Northeast Florida Regional Science and Engineering Fair on Feb. 10, bringing home an impressive collection of awards and a combined total of nearly $1,000 in cash prizes. Eight students were selected to advance to the Florida State Science and Engineering Fair in late March.<\/p>\n
The students demonstrated excellence across multiple scientific disciplines, earning recognition in botany, chemistry, engineering, environmental science, microbiology, space science and zoology.<\/p>\n
First Place Winners:<\/p>\n
Blaire Massey \u201927\u00a0took first place in Botany<\/p>\n
Penny Phillips \u201928\u00a0earned first place in Chemistry and was selected to compete at the International Science and Engineering Fair<\/p>\n
Gregory Scales \u201927\u00a0claimed first place in Engineering and was also recognized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers for excellence in electrical and electronic engineering<\/p>\n
Sarina Tangyingyong \u201928\u00a0secured first place in Microbiology and received the UF College of Agriculture and Life Sciences award for best project related to agriculture and natural resources<\/p>\n
Liza Haley \u201927\u00a0won first place in Space Science<\/p>\n
Lilly McCoy \u201926\u00a0earned first place in Zoology and received the prestigious Marion Zeiner Women in STEM Award, which recognizes a junior or senior female who demonstrates strong scientific reasoning and thorough, logical design in solving a STEM-related problem.<\/p>\n
Additional Award Winners:<\/p>\n
Evelyn Carroll \u201927\u00a0\u2014 Second place in Botany and UF College of Agriculture and Life Sciences award<\/p>\n
Abby Phillips \u201928\u00a0\u2014 Society of American Military Engineers Honorable Mention and Haskell Construction Award<\/p>\n
James Rinaman \u201926\u00a0\u2014 Jacksonville Shell Club Excellence in Marine Science award<\/p>\n
Trey Morales \u201926\u00a0\u2014 Second place in Microbiology<\/p>\n
Kaitlyn Poe \u201927\u00a0\u2014 Jacksonville University Scholarship<\/p>\n
The Northeast Florida Regional Science and Engineering Fair brings together the region\u2019s top student scientists and engineers to showcase innovative research projects. Episcopal\u2019s strong showing reflects the rigorous preparation and mentorship provided through the Honors Science Seminar program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thirteen Episcopal School of Jacksonville Honors Science Seminar students competed at the Northeast Florida Regional Science and Engineering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-234690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}