Stanton Students Win Gold at STEM Fair in Akron

Three seventh-grade students from placed first in their category Saturday at the BEST Medicine Engineering Fair sponsored by Austen BioInnovation Institute.

Harrison Fisher, Edward Matyja and Sonny Kim won several awards in the fair, which was held at the National Inventor's Hall of Fame STEM School in Akron. The project included about 150 students from 28 Northeast Ohio schools.

Fisher, Matyja and Kim won a Rockwell Automation Gold Award for value-driven engineering in the seventh-eighth grade category; the Cleveland Clinic Learner Research Institute Award for sixth through eighth grade; and the K'NEX ZIN Technologies award for their crossbow made of K'NEX building materials.

The students were the only school from Portage County to win an award.

The BEST (Bridging Engineering, Science, and Technology) Medicine Engineering Fair was sponsored by the Austen BioInnovation Institute of Akron, Summa Health Systems, Akron Children's Hospital, Akron General Health System, Northeast Ohio Medical University, University of Akron Biomaterials and Polymer Medicine, Rockwell Automation, Roetzel & Andress, Frisina & Smith LLC, ZIN Technologies, and the Cleveland Clinic.