Georgetown school students earn awards at science fair
Students from The Georgetown School of Arts and Sciences took home four of the 12 top overall awards at the College of Charleston’s 35th annual Lowcountry Regional Science and Engineering Fair. The event, held on March 24 at the College of Charleston’s TD Arena, was open to all public, private, charter and home-schooled students in grades 5-12 in Georgetown, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton and Dorchester counties.
The winners are: seventh-grader Grayha Hejl, second place overall Junior 2 Division; Ryleigh Neubauer, seventh grade, third overall Junior 2 Division; ninth-grader Isabella Neubauer, second place overall Senior 1 Division; Thomas “Top” Lee, a sophomore, first place overall Senior 1 Division; and Michelle Neubauer, the group’s science teacher, won a monetary award as the teacher of a first-place winner. Grayha and Ryleigh were invited to compete nationally at the Broadcom MASTERS, a national middle school science fair.
Several projects took home special awards. Senior Sarah Exum and sophomore Lochlyn Hejl were awarded the S.C. Waterworks Association Excellence in Water Award. The Charleston County Soil and Water award and the Arizona State Sustainability Project awards were presented to freshman Avery Rose Higgins. Tenth-grader Joe Skerman was presented with the Intel Computer Science award, and the American Meteorological Society award went to both Nathan Gates and Zach McKinley’s junior-year team project and Lochlyn Hejl, a sophomore.
Students who also placed in other division categories are: Camille McCarty, first place Behavioral and Social Sciences, Junior 2 Division; Isabella Neubauer, first place Behavioral and Social Sciences, Senior 1 Division; Hurley Cribb, second place Behavioral and Social Sciences, Senior 1 Division; Top Lee, first place Biological Sciences, Senior 1 Division; Johnathan Lambert, second place Chemistry and Biochemistry, Junior 1 Division; Grayha Hejl, first place Chemistry and Biochemistry, Junior 2 Division; Jayla Reddick, second place Chemistry and Biochemistry, Junior 2 Division; Joshua Haas, first place Chemistry and Biochemistry, Senior 1 Division; Elizabeth Exum, second place Chemistry and Biochemistry, Senior 1 Division; Bronwen Bodie, second place Earth and Environmental Science, Junior 2 Division; Lochlyn Hejl, second place Earth and Environmental Science, Senior 1 Division; Avery Rose Higgins, first place Earth and Environmental Science, Senior 1 Division; Chris Attias, first place Engineering, Senior 1 Division; Joe Skerman, first place Mathematics and Computer Science, Senior 1 Division; Jesse DeLuca, second place Medicine and Health, Junior 1 Division; Ryleigh Neubauer, first place Physics and Astronomy, Junior 2 Division; Lizzy Culliton, first place Physics and Astronomy, Senior 1 Division; and Douglas DeVito, second place Physics and Astronomy, Senior 1 Division.
This story was originally published May 7, 2015 at 5:00 AM with the headline "Georgetown school students earn awards at science fair."