WINNERS OF WAKULLA MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE FAIR
Wakulla Middle Science Fair participants.
Special to The Sun
The Wakulla Middle School Science Fair was held on Thursday, December 15. Charlotte Hoover, the fair’s coordinator, oversaw the fair and invited local business people and community members to judge the fair. They were Cal Jamison (Retired DEP/Wakulla Springs Water Quality), Padraic Juarez (Florida Health), Sharon Wolfe (Retired Teacher/Shadeville Elementary), Terri Johnson (FSU/Medical Librarian), Dale Holcomb (Retired/Florida Health OPS), Robin Will (Retired/St. Marks Wildlife Refuge), Eric Livingston (Retired Water Management) and Laura Lawhon (School Board Member/District 5).
The fair showcased the end products of students learning about the Scientific Method in their science classes.
This year’s winners were:
Research
1st place – Hadley Brown
2nd place – Jon Tyler Ripstein
3rd place – Brody Baker
Chemistry
1st place – Kaitlyn Bickford
2nd place – Annalynn Martin
3rd place – Madeline McGuire
Technology & Engineering
1st place – Holden Stroud
2nd place – Arabella Martinez
Earth Science
1st place – Declan Walsh
Consumer Science
1st place – Matthew Byrne
2nd place – Logan Hand
3rd place – Tucker High
Behavioral & Social Science
1st place – Hannah Hall
2nd place – William Derrenberger
Environmental Science
1st place – Emily Matson
2nd place – Miles Briethaupt
3rd place – Mason Dimmen
Physics
1st place – Corbin Ferreira
2nd place – Sylvia Boykin
3rd place – Destiny Brannon
Inventions
1st place – Logan Crum
2nd place – Collin Ryan
3rd place – Lillian Brown
Best of show: 6th grader Logan Crum and 8th grader Kaitlyn Bickford.
The two projects winning best of show were 8th grader Kaitlyn Bickford for Chemistry and 6th grader Logan Crum for Inventions. Kaitlyn’s project was an experiment to see if colored candles burn faster than white candles. Logan made a homemade swamp cooler to see if he could cool air without electricity. There were 56 projects entered into the Science Fair.