John Bapst students traveled to the Maine State Science Fair held at Bowdoin College over the weekend with 19 projects. John Bapst had the highest participation rate to date. Over 300 students from across Maine participated in the event.
The following students shared their science related research projects during poster sessions with the public and interacting with 5-10 judges:
Brandon Aponte, Tia Chen, Katherine Dalton, Sarah Dorey, Justin Duong, Logan Eckman, Maddie Faulkner, Andrea Grossman Matthew Hafener, Jerry Huang, Grace Kirkpatrick, Nadija Mamula, Jennifer Noyes, Alia Parsons, Jaelin Roberts, Ethan Sailor, Soleil Skehan, Trey Stimpel, Adelaide Valley.
Several John Bapst students were recognized for their work through awards. Awards for top projects in each category and several “special” awards sponsored by specific organizations, as well as several scholarships were awarded. The following honors were awarded to John Bapst students:
Category Awards:
Animal Science 1st Place- Logan Eckmann (Differentiation in herring gull tolerance levels between areas of varying human interaction on Mount Desert Rock)
Animal Science 3rd Place- Matthew Hafener (Utilizing photo-identification to study summer residence patterns of minke whales in the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine)
Environmental Science 1st Place- Andrea Grossman (Correlations between micro and macroplastic accumulation on Mount Desert Rock)
Physics and Astronomy 2nd Place- Grace Kirkpatrick (FFT analysis of the waveforms produced by various instruments)
Physics and Astronomy 3rd Place- Justin Duong (Alpha Orion Observation)
Special Awards:
Judges Fund Award for Genomics Excellence: Brandon Aponte (Effects of NSE and Cast Mnm Transgenes on the mutations of Ighmbp2)
Scholarships:
University of New England ($5,000 a year in addition to merit awards) Adelaide Valley (Algal habitat preference and foraging behavior of two native North Atlantic periwinkle species)
University of New England ($5,000 a year in addition to merit awards) Sarah Dorey (The effects of ocean acidification on the feeding rates of Semibalanus balanoides)
College of the Atlantic ($20,000 a year) Jennifer Noyes (The effect of animal colonies on the biodiversity of Mount Desert Rock tidepools)
