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SCS names STEM winners
Winners of Saipan Community School’s 2017 STEM Fair pose with principal Amanda Dunn and science and math teacher T.J. Van. (Saipan Tribune)
Saipan Community School named its STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Fair winners last month.
Fourth grader Jii Lee topped the elementary division with her “Don’t Get Swelled” project, while winning the junior high category was seventh grader Jason Sablan with his “Quantifying Electrolytes” submission.
Aside from the overall elementary and junior high winners, SCS also chose the Top 3 winners in each grade level.
Joining Lee in the winners’ circle in fourth grade were second place Irene Kim (“Nail Polish Quality vs. Price”) and third place Soledad Sablan (“Counting Steps”).
The fifth grade winners were first place Camille Sablan with her “Best Power To Grow” concept followed by Olivia Huang’s “Brand New Pennies For Sale” and Paul William Camacho-Deleon Guerrero’s (Leaf Growth), who came in second and third, respectively.
Moon Zeng’s “The Speed of Data” topped the STEM Fair in Grade 7, while Tina Zhen’s “What Did You Eggspect?” and Sukey Wu’s “Ice Into Water” finished second and third.
Other winners in eighth grade were Puti’on Palacios Camacho and Maxine Rabago whose “Duel Fuel” and “Does Font Style Affect Memory” came in second and third, respectively.
SCS principal Amanda Dunn lauded all the winners and participants: “I am so very impressed with the hard work our SCS students brought forth in this year’s science fair projects. It was a great opportunity for our students to develop positive attitudes about themselves and their work. I enjoyed seeing our students take pride in their projects as they spoke about them.”
The judges of the 2017 SCS Stem Fair were Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality scientists Mallory Muna and Katie Graziano and Department of Lands and Division of Fish & Wildlife biologist Trey Dunn.
