Several area students competed and placed at the recent Region V Mississippi Science and Engineering Fair, hosted by Mississippi State University’s Bagley College of Engineering and held at The Hill and Moor in Crawford in early March.
The Region V fair is open to all schools, K-12th, and home-school students in the 15 counties including Attala, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Kemper, Lauderdale, Leake, Lowndes, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Scott, Webster and Winston Counties.
The following students from Meridian Public School District, Lauderdale County School District and St. Patrick Catholic School placed at the Region V science fair:
6th Grade Behavioral and Social Sciences – Aiden Palmer, first place, St. Patrick Catholic School
6th Grade Inorganic Chemistry – Kate Mattingly, first place, West Lauderdale Middle School, and Madison Powell, second place, St. Patrick Catholic School
8th Grade Inorganic Chemistry – Earl Duhon, first place, Northeast Lauderdale Middle School
8th Grade Organic Chemistry — Jerion Hunter, third place, Northeast Lauderdale Middle School
7th grade Earth and Environmental Science — Jameson Smith, second place, Magnolia Middle School
6th Grade Animal Sciences — Ayden Everington, first place, St. Patrick Catholic School, and Bryce Rush, second place, St. Patrick Catholic School
7th Grade Biomedical and Health Science — Barbara Mattingly, first place, West Lauderdale Middle School; Phiona Johnson, second place, Magnolia Middle School; Caiya Blakney, second place, Magnolia Middle School; and Zi’yanta Coleman, third place, Magnolia Middle School
High School Biomedical and Health Science – Ananya Mantri, third place, Northeast Lauderdale High School
6th Grade Microbiology – Charlene Rogers, first place, Northwest Middle School
7th Grade Microbiology — Anariah Rue, first place, Northwest Middle School, and A’kerria Jordan, second place, Magnolia Middle School
8th Grade Microbiology – Baylee Coker, second place, Magnolia Middle School, and Chasity Vincent, third place, Northeast Lauderdale Middle School
6th Grade Physics and Astronomy – Lindsey Leake, first place, West Lauderdale Middle School, and Ayden Rush, second place, St. Patrick Catholic School
8th Grade Engineering Mechanics – Jamir Townsend, first place, Northwest Middle School
6th Grade Mathematics and Systems Software — John Martinez, second place, St. Patrick Catholic School
6th Grade Robotics and Intelligent Machines — Julie McClelland, first place, Northwest Middle School, and Mariana Mora-Cordova, second place, Northwest Middle School
6th Grade Plant Sciences — Juan Pablo Garcia, second place, St. Patrick Catholic School
8th Grade Plant Sciences — Allen Huang, second place, Magnolia Middle School, and Ingrid Guzman, second place, Magnolia Middle School
Best of Fair — Kate Mattingly, 6th grade, West Lauderdale Middle School, and Barbara Mattingly, 7th grade, West Lauderdale Middle School
Nominated for the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge — Earl Duhon, 8th grade, Northeast Lauderdale Middle School; Barbara Mattingly, 7th grade, West Lauderdale Middle School; Phiona Johnson, 7th grade, Magnolia Middle School; Caiya Blakney, 7th grade, Magnolia Middle School; Kate Mattingly, 6th grade, West Lauderdale Middle School; and Lindsey Leake, 6th grade, West Lauderdale Middle School
Office of Naval Research Special Award — Kate Mattingly, 6th grade, West Lauderdale Middle School, and Barbara Mattingly, 7th grade, West Lauderdale Middle School
Junior Science and Humanities Symposium Award — Ananya Mantri, 9th grade, Northeast Lauderdale High School