Category: Competitions

MSA Student Research is on a Roll!

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Congratulations to all student researchers who shared their work at the Tidewater Science and Engineering Fair!  Special recognition to the following students (an * indicates that, in addition to the category award, the student also earned a “special award”).  Click here to see a video montage from the event.

Tidewater Science & Engineering Fair Outcomes

Animal Sciences: Jenny Vu, 1st place

Behavioral and Social Sciences: Jae Cook, 2nd place; and Lena Rice, honorable mention

Computer Science: Austin Mao, 2nd place

Electrical Engineering: Will Bettis, 2nd place

Material Science and Biological Engineering: Zayd Hasan*, 1st place; Emma Johnson*, 3rd place

Environmental Management: Dylan Mach*, 1st place and Overall Award of Excellence

Medicine and Health: Ahana Dutta*, 1st place; Joshua Han, 2nd place; and Ava Mae Swafford, honorable mention

Physics and Astronomy: Mark Chernov, 1st place; Rockwell Li, 2nd place

Environmental Science: Meilin Ranjan*, 2nd place

Additionally, the following student papers have been accepted to the Virginia Junior Academy of Science Symposium:

Zayd Hasan, “Designing a Compact, Cost-Effective Bioprinting Platform”
Meilin Ranjan, “A Pollution Distribution Confusion: Socioeconomics of Microplastics Contamination in Virginia Beach, VA Waterways”
Canon Robins, “Sports Analytics: Using Multiple Regression to Predict the Outcomes NBA Games”
Reagan Labert and Iana Niknezhad, “Development of Novel RNA Therapeutics for Female Infertility”
Natalie Patton, “The Impact of Motivational Theories on Perceived Persuasion”
Congratulations to these student researchers, their expert scientists, and to Mrs. Shoemaker for a successful year of scientific and engineering inquiry!

The best outcome for our student research is for our students to share their work with the communities that could benefit from their findings.  Two of our student researchers are doing just that.

Meilin Ranjan will be sharing his work with HRSD and touring their facilities as a part of the special award he won.  He would like to invite a few juniors to attend with him if they are interested–see Mrs. Graves!
Dylan Mach contacted the City of Virginia Beach and was invited to share a 30-minute presentation on his work, gaining great feedback and valuable networking contacts. He was also invited to share his work with the Virginia Department of Health Public Health Grants team!  Way to go, Dylan!

Dolphins Making Waves at the Tidewater Science and Engineering Fair

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Like with most things during virtual life, work, and school happening right now, student research has been difficult this year.  Despite all of the limitations, shutdowns, and setbacks of this year, many of our students managed to explore topics of personal interest and conduct an experimental design or engineering design project, sharing their findings at the 70th annual Tidewater Science and Engineering Fair.

In fact, Ocean Lakes High School will be representing our region at the Virginia State Science and Engineering Fair, where the four first-place winners listed below will be sharing their work.  The first-place and second-place Grand Prize winners will also be representing our school, region, and state, at the International Science and Engineering Fair!  If you are interested in learning more about any of these projects, click on the image below to access the students’ project portfolios and the four first-place project presentations!

Events like TSEF couldn’t happen without the support of our students’ expert scientists and our own, much loved, Mrs. Babette Shoemaker.  Thank you for sharing your expertise to help these students engage in these topics and produce quality work.

Click on the image to access more information about each project.