Nearly 400 students from Northeast Florida recently gathered at the Morocco Shrine Auditorium to for the Regional Science Fair.
According to
Atlantic Coast High biology teacher Gara Leen, it was the largest fair in the last 10 years and there was fierce competition among the students.
Atlantic Coast had five projects entered in the fair, all completed by ninth graders, and of the five projects won three awards.
“All the projects were done by freshmen and they were competing against many juniors and seniors,” said Leen. “This is a great honor, and Atlantic Coast will proudly have one student representing us at the state fair."
A total of 36 projects were selected to compete in the state fair. The following is a list of all the Atlantic Coast students and their projects/awards:
- BLAST Intro Bioinformatics - Basic DNA Sequence Alignment
By Emma Carabenciov
Second-place Computers Award, and advancing to the state competition.
- Picture This: The Effects of a Lens on the Quality of a Picture
By Samantha Cristol
Fourth-place Engineer Award
- National Debt iPhone App
By Christian Ostensen and Jordan Hartsfield
- The Case of the Wobbles: What is the Effect of Multiple Planets on the Barycenter of our Solar System?
By Kristen Mousa and Sherya Mohan
American Meteorological Society Special Award
- Script Dipped: A Dive into Javascript Programming
By Tyler Wilson
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