Arlington Students Win 1st Place Awards At NoVA Regional Science Fair

ARLINGTON, VA — Several middle and high school students from Arlington won first place awards at this year’s Northern Virginia Regional Science and Engineer Fair.

The science fair was held in-person at Wakefield High School in early March. The winners were announced on March 5.

Many of the first-place winners will go on to compete in the Virginia State Science and Engineering Fair at Old Dominion University on April 14-15.

The middle and high school students from Arlington who won first place awards at the regional science fair were:

Animal Sciences

• Sean Finnegan, Swanson Middle School

Behavioral and Social Sciences

• Lanyi Stroud, Yorktown High School

Biochemistry

• Olivia Bartrum, Wakefield High School

Chemistry

• Purvi Oberkisch, Gunston Middle School
• Ronald Ganzorig, Swanson Middle School
• Anna Freeman, Washington-Liberty High School

Engineering

• Michael Tarpley, H-B Woodlawn
• Claudia Volpe, Washington-Liberty High School

Environmental and Earth Sciences

• Asher Pines, Williamsburg Middle School
• Matthew Bu and Carson Decker, Dorothy Hamm Middle School
• Maya Umerov-Todoroki and Raika Louis, Williamsburg Middle School
• Roayba Adhi, Washington-Liberty High School
• Nicola Beaumont, H-B Woodlawn
• Olivia Cozette, Washington-Liberty High School
• Elle Pickard, Washington-Liberty High School
• Alina Sagatov, Washington-Liberty High School

Medical and Health Services

• Katherine Butler, H-B Woodlawn
• Anna Mohanty, Washington-Liberty High School

Microbiology

• Julia Westwater Brodsky, H-B Woodlawn

Physics and Astronomy

• Maedot Ayalew, Kenmore Middle School
• Colin Beckner, Swanson Middle School
• Declan Leighton, Yorktown High School
• Sebastian Monroy, Washington-Liberty High School

Plant Sciences

• Rebecca Zee, Kenmore Middle School
• Alba Edsall, Washington-Liberty High School
• Isla Wearmouth, Washington-Liberty High School

Best of Fair – Grades 7 and 8

• Michael Tarpley, H-B Woodlawn – C++ Retro Gaming Console

Grand Prize Awardees

• Olivia Bartrum, Wakefield High School – Analysis of Anti-Inflammatory Compounds in Drug Absorption and Calculated Transdermal Permeability Utilizing the Parallel Artificial Membrane Permeability Assay (PAMPA)
• Julia Westwater Brodsky, H-B Woodlawn – Characterization of Novel Acinetobacter baumannii Phages EAb3 and EAb7

Alternate Awardee

• Declan Leighton, Yorktown High School – The Effect of Electrode Spacing on the Force Generated by Magnetohydrodynamic Drive

More information and the complete list of winners is available online.