Amity Regional High School students from the Science Research Program took 21 out of 27 places awarded at the Connecticut Science, Technology, and Engineering Fair held annually in February.
Students from all over the state compete. This year over 260 projects were judged in five categories; Amity students won first place in all of them. They also swept the “Teams” category, winning all four places.
Each year CT-STEM fair sponsors five projects to move on to the CT Science and Engineering Fair. All five sponsorships were awarded to Amity students.
The Amity winners were:
Behavioral Category: Shreya Hebbar, first place; Kevin Lu, second place; and Angela He, fourth place.
Environmental Category: Maggie Liu, first place; Mason Zhang, tied for second place; Daniel Liu, tied for fourth place; and Anthony Sharonov, tied for fourth place.
Health and Medical Category: Ethan Lavi, first place; Cindy Chen, tied for second place; Aadya Wijesekera, tied for second place; and Wendy Zhang, tied for fourth place.
Physical Science Category: Iris Yan, first place; Bridget Lowder, third place; Anushka Acharya, tied for fourth place; Scott Lowder, tied for fourth place; Haoyue Yang, tied for fourth place; and Annika Yun, tied for fourth place.
Teams Category: Allen Liu and Sheehan Munim, first place; Caroline Chen and Christian Chen, second place; Adarsh Kongani and Philip London, third place; and Keerthi Kongani and Margaret Luo, fourth place.