The Washington State Science and Engineering Fair (SEF) finals were held last Saturday, March 31.  There were 540 projects entered in this year’s State SEF.  Camas School District had one project from Dorothy Fox and 15 projects from Camas High School.  9 parents accompanied their students to the fair.  One parent, new to SEF, summed up her experience by saying: “This feels like a ‘Big Bang’ convention.  It is so refreshing to hear this techno-nerdy humor from all of these kids.  I am so happy mine is here and I wish more parents would bring theirs”.

Emily Sheppard, fifth grader from Lee Ellen Lawrence’s classroom at Dorothy Fox, placed first in category with her project “Elevation and Temperature”.

CHS also had a good showing with 7 firsts in category, 3 seconds, 4 thirds, and 8 special awards.  Only one high school had more projects winning awards than CHS.  Below is the CHS projects listing:

Listing (place, entry#, name, short title, special awards:

2^nd EV 261         Camas            Caroline Kealoha                       Lacamas Lake; Fixing Soil to Grow Brassica rapa, NASA Space Grant; and Ricoh Sustainable Development Award

2^nd BI 274           Camas            Meghal Sheth                            Design and Analysis of Synthetic Peptide Based Protease Inhibitors,

** PH 262         Camas            Yushuan Peng                           Musical  Instrument Design

1^st BE 258       Camas              Jonathan Liao                           Boys vs Girls in Active and Passive Learning,

3^rd BE 251       Camas              Rachel Fadlovich, Camille Ritter  Learning the Kids Way, Outstanding Statistical Thinking Award

1^st CS 248       Camas              Noah Encke                              Utilizing a Cross-Platform Mobile Software Engine to Develop an Application for a Client Company

2^nd ME 263       Camas              Joanna Liao                              Improving the Process, Parkinsons Patient Registry

1^st EM 275       Camas              Sophie Shoemaker                    A Recycled Aquaponic System-The Agriculture3 of the Future, Stockholm Water Prize

1^st EN 250       Camas              Kyle Binder and Shicon Wen      Affects of Motor Oil on Pisum Stavia,

1^st CB 286       Camas              Reesab Pathak                          Design of Novel Pro-Protein Convertase Inhibitors; Wolfram Mathematica Award, Ohio Wesylyan Scholarship (20,000/yr, renewable), WSU College of Arts and Sciences, scholarhip (2,500/yr renewable); Best of Show finalist

1^st EM – 257        Camas              Elizabeth Nickerson                   Cleaning up an oil spill using ferrofluids in different proportions, NASA Space Grant

3 EM – 253         Camas              Jackson Merle                           Ferrofluid application in fresh and salt water oil spills

1^st BE – 249            Camas                   Aaron Deml                  Exploring environmental teaching options

3^rd ET – 256             Camas                   Jonathan Ho               Compost to Electricity

3^rd EE – 259             Camas                   Lily Hsu and Philip Barlas               Wafer Failure Analysis and Stage Design Improvement