Wakulla Middle School Science Fair Winners are Announced

wms 2007 science fair winnersm 275.gif Wakulla Middle School held its annual Science Fair December 6, 2007. Every science student created a science fair project for their class and was allowed to enter the school wide fair. The topics were varied and covered 12 areas of science. Consumer Science and Physics had the most entries, and over eighty students competed in this year’s fair.

Seventh grader, Savanna Harris won First Place Best of Show with her Physics experiment entitled “Breaking Waves”. She was followed by her sister, winning Second Place Best of Show sixth grader Madison Harris with an Engineering experiment entitled “Building Bridges”. Third Place Best of Show was awarded to Marlee Kelly for her Consumer Science experiment entitled “Testing Fishing Line Strength”. (Pictured above: Savanna Harris, Marlee Kelly, and Madison Harris)

The first, second and third place winners for each of the areas of science are as follows:

Behavioral Science: 1st Jacque Baumeister, 2nd Jasmine Daily, 3rd Brooke Saladin;

Biology- 1st Aleyda Plagge, 2nd Melissa Gentry, 3rd Joshua Wilson;

Botany: 1st Ashley Lawhon, 2nd Tyler Tatum, 3rd Becca Pearce;

Chemistry: 1st Brianna Gubala, 2nd Ian Burse, 3rd Logan Kelly;

Consumer Science: 1st Marlee Kelly, 2nd Shannon Egler, 3rd Natalie Crum;

Earth Science: 1st Whitley Todd, 2nd Terri Swanger, 3rd Christy Sanders;

Engineering: 1st Madison Harris, 2nd Anthony Lanier;

Environmental: 1st Nick Davis, 2nd Danielle Brown-Nelson, 3rd Ramsey Lynn;

Health Science: 1st Ashley Roberts, 2nd Gil Damon, 3rd Jeffrey Miller;

Physics: 1st Savanna Harris, 2nd Gabe Hutchins, 3rd Daniel Burse;

Technology: 1st Caitlin Rowley, 2nd Shelby Harrell;

Mathematics: 1st Stepanie Cmehil, 2nd Shelby Shiver.

Guest judges knowledgeable in their fields evaluated the projects. Every student who entered in the school science fair created a backboard and logbook, and participated in an interview with the judges. A fieldtrip will be planned in the spring for first and second place winners. Congratulations to all the students for their hard work.

Click here to view a Wakulla.com photo gallery of the Science Fair winners.

- Submitted by Katherine Spivey, WMS

This article originally published on December 26, 2007.