Students and science shine at annual Gaston Regional Science and Engineering Fair
Schiele Steward of the Earth Award -
Genevieve Ziemer, Belmont Middle School
- How salt affects plant growth
Technology and Engineering
Category
Technology and Engineering
Category
First Place - Will Shiflet, Forestview
High School - Flippin’ Fun
First Place - Jay Crawford, Jason Li, and
Alex Villarreal, Belmont Middle School - Is
WiFi your Ally? Second Place - Jacob Wooten and
Ryan Cates, East Gaston High School -
Acid Rain and Steel Nails
Physical Sciences Category Physical Sciences Category
First Place - Ashton Green, Ian
McGinnis, and Aidan Tobin, Belmont
Middle School - Temperature Bounce
Second Place - Hugh Glenn, Belmont
Middle School - Are Things Really
Attracted to Hot Stuff?
Third Place - Braden Duckworth and
James Robinson, Belmont Middle School -
How Healthy Is Your Water?
Life Sciences Category
Third Place - Reagan Kaufmann, Joy
Jordan, and Grace Fletcher, Belmont
Middle School - Are you too cool to use
the five second rule?
Earth and Environmental
Sciences Category
First Place - Kasey Owenby and
Caroline Hill, Forestview High School
- How can temperature affect a golf
ball?
Second Place - Sophia Raspanti
and Becca Cloninger, Forestview High
School - A Comparison of the Forces
Exerted by Sprinters vs. Distance
Runners
Third Place - Ben Harris and Jackson
Harbin, Forestview High School -
Corked bat
Life Sciences Category
First Place - Andrea Tejada and
Erin Jarrell, East Gaston High School
- Effects of Anti-Inflammatory
Prescription Drugs vs. Vitamin
Supplements on Gut Bacteria
First Place - Ben Leonhardt, Belmont
Middle School - Make it Rain, Acid Rain
(How Rain Affects Aquatic Environments) Second Place - Rebecca Watts and
Kaitlyn Mesimer, East Gaston High
School - Bacteria on Cooking Surfaces
Second Place - Genevieve Ziemer,
Belmont Middle School - How salt affects
plant growth Third Place - Holly Mullen and
Christina Rogers, East Gaston High
School - The Effects of Food Diets on
the Breeding Rate of Blaptica dubia
Third Place - Spencer Butler, Daniel
Harris, and Ethan Dellinger, Belmont
Middle - Does Something Smell Skunky?
n HIGH SCHOOL DIVISION
Overall Winner - Hannah Murrow
and Kennedy Ballard, East Gaston High
School - Effectiveness of Dog Toothpaste
on Bacteria in a Dog’s Mouth
Gaston College SPARC of Genius
Award - Jeb Black, Stuart W. Cramer
High School - Comparison of Viral RNA
Samples from Local and Non-Local Apple
Melliferal Variants
Schiele Steward of the Earth Award -
Jeb Black, Stuart W. Cramer High School
- Comparison of Viral RNA Samples from
Local and Non-Local Apple Melliferal
Variants
Earth and Environmental
Sciences Category
First Place - Jeb Black, Stuart W.
Cramer High School - Comparison of
Viral RNA Samples from Local and
Non-Local Apple Melliferal Variants
Second Place - Mackenzie Fallin,
Ashbrook High School - Eco friendly
detergents vs. regular detergents
effects on the environment
Third Place - Callie Payne, East
Gaston High School - Impact of
Climate Change on the Diet of Goats
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