GPS Regional Science Fair participants from the Upper School
For the fifth consecutive year, GPS received the senior division award plaque for most first, second, and/or third place entries in this year’s 63rd annual Chattanooga Regional Science & Engineering Fair.
Christina Love, a junior, was a multiple-award winner. In addition to taking first place in the Chemistry category, she won the ASM Materials Education Foundation Award, the Yale Science and Engineering Association Award, and, by virtue of an I-SWEEEP Award win, was invited to compete in the 2015 International Sustainable World Energy Engineering Environment Project Olympiad in Houston, Texas, this May.
Ms. Love’s project researched the process of creating a superhydrophobic film on aluminum. “I was inspired by the modern demand for durable, lightweight, and waterproof products,” says Ms. Love. “My research intended to provide a solution to creating a material that would improve and elevate these standards, taking industry to the next level with its energy and cost saving benefits.” Currently an AP Physics student, Love was supported in her project by her sophomore chemistry teacher, Sonya Steele.
Other winners of special awards in the Senior Division were Tia Kemp, who received the Arizona State University Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solution Award, the Association of Women Geoscientists Award, and the Society for In Vitro Biology Award; Lily Everett, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Award; and Sarah McDougal, the U.S. Public Health Service Award.
Senior Division category winners were Sarah McDougal and Morgan Pels, 1st in and 3rd in Biomedicine/Health; Kate McVay, Anna Ward, and Delany Swann, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in Biochemistry; Ayushi Sinha and Lori Baxter, 1st and 3rd in Earth/Environmental Science; Rebecca Torrence, 1st in Energy/Chemical; Isabella Cornea, Iman Ali, and Anna Shaw, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in Microbiology; Lucy Newbold, 2nd in Physics/Astronomy; and Lauren Milner, 2nd in Plant Sciences.
Category award winners in the Junior Division were Abby Worlen and Savannah Petree, 2nd and 3rd in Animal Science; Rebecca Guhde, 1st in Biochemistry; Gwinnie Davis and Grayson Davis, 1st and 3rd in Biomedicine/Health; Maya Bhutwala, Jackie Michaud, 1st and 2nd in Chemistry, and Charlotte Vance and Mary Louise Whitfield, who tied for 3rd in Chemistry; Catherine Gray, 1st in Earth/Environmental Science; Katie Alford, 2nd in Engineering Mechanics; Christina Smith, 1st in Energy/Physical; Brianna House, 1st in Environmental Engineering; Kit Turner, 1st in Physics/Astronomy; Komal Patri and Mary Kinley Tugman, 1st and 3rd in Plant Sciences; and Isabel Hester, 2nd in Robotics.
GPs Regional Science Fair participants from the Middle School