It is my pleasure to inform you that several of our students participated in the St. Lucie County Regional Science and Engineering Fair STEM Competition held on January 31st at the Knight Center.  Please congratulate the following for their tremendous effort and scientific inquiry:

Ellyn Delano (11th) for her project “Think Before You Drink.” Ellyn placed 1st in the Biomedical category & won 2

                                   Special Awards from Florida Water & Pollution Control Operators Association as well as the

                                   Stockholm Jr. Water Prize.

Haley Hawkins (9th) for her project “Which Substrate do Ghost shrimp Prefer?” She placed 2nd in Animal Science

                                   category.

Samuel Porter (11th) for his project “Gravitational Effect on a Siphon.”  Sam placed 2nd in the Physics & Astronomy

                                   category and won a special award from YALE Science & Engineering Association.

Melyna Vaudrin (9th) for her project “Chemical vs Biological” looking at the differences of whitefly control and she

                                   placed 2nd in the category of Earth & Environmental Sciences.

Gabriel Yrola (10th) won a Special Award from Publix Supermarkets for his project on “Composting for the Future”.

Tomas Bhathena (9th) won 1st place in the Engineering category for his project “Sound Advice”.

Tomas will be representing FPWA at the Sate Science Fair to be held in Lakeland, FL, March 24th – 27, 2020.