{"id":42996,"date":"2023-03-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelandmark.com\/?p=42996"},"modified":"2023-03-23T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T10:00:00","slug":"wachusett-science-fair-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/2023\/03\/23\/wachusett-science-fair-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Wachusett science fair winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"byline\"><b>By Daniel Whitemore <\/b><br \/>\n<i>WRHS science teacher<\/i><\/div>\n<p>HOLDEN \u2014 The 68th Annual Wachusett Regional High School Science Fair was held March 1. Forty students from the high school participated, and the top 12 students won awards and competed at the Worcester Regional Science and Engineering Fair, which was held at WPI March 10. The winners are listed below with their placement in our school fair, their towns, and project titles.<\/p>\n<p>Honorable Mention:<\/p>\n<p><b>Sarah Cox <\/b>of Sterling Breaking the Dormancy The Effect of Plasma Ball Exposure on the Growth of\u00a0<i>Brassica rapa.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Haley Dow <\/b>of Paxton -The Effect of Stress due to Social Isolation on <i>Drosophila melanogaster <\/i>Memory and Learning.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ekaavli Daga <\/b>of Holden The Effectiveness of Algae in Desalination.<\/p>\n<p>Third Place:<\/p>\n<p><b>Avery Kremer <\/b>of Holden &#8211; The Effect of Caffeine Addiction Withdrawal on Memory and Learning.<\/p>\n<p><b>Sasha Litvak <\/b>of Holden &#8211; The Effects of Stressful Natural Disasters on Ant Productivity.<\/p>\n<p><b>Nathaniel Dziewietin <\/b>of Paxton &#8211; Agitating for Pond Health: Controlling Algae Growth Using a Surface-Level Underwater Impeller<\/p>\n<p>Second Place:<\/p>\n<p><b>Nikhita Varma <\/b>of Holden The Effect of Microplastics on the Stress Response of\u00a0<i>Daphnia magna.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Sierra Kelch <\/b>of Holden &#8211; Sip Sustainably: The Rheology and Durability of Single-Use Environmentally Friendly Alternatives for Plastic Straws.<\/p>\n<p><b>Verena Welch <\/b>of Holden &#8211; The Effects of Probiotics on Malnourished <i>Drosophila melanogaster.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>First Place:<\/p>\n<p><b>Tim Showalter <\/b>of Holden &#8211; Effectiveness of Biochar and Leguminous Cover Crops as Fertilizer Reduction Methods.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jocelyn MacDonough <\/b>of Holden &#8211; The Effect of Magnesium on Sleep Deprivation in <i>Drosophila melanogaster.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Gavin Finn <\/b>of Rutland Plant to Grid : The Effect of Increased CO2 Available to Algae on the Yield of Algae for Biofuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOLDEN \u2014 The 68th Annual Wachusett Regional High School Science Fair was held March 1. Forty students from the high school participated, and the top 12 students won awards and competed at the Worcester Regional Science and Engineering Fair, which was held at WPI March 10. The winners are listed below with their placement in our school fair, their towns, and project titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}