Lackawanna County issued the following announcement on Mar. 13.
On March 5th, PJAS Region 2 held its virtual district competition. Students in grades 7-12 from the region had the opportunity to perform an experiment using the scientific method and present their findings to a board of judges. The students that win first place are invited to attend the state competition at Penn State Main Campus in May. Areas for experiments are Biology (BIO), Botany (BOT), Ecology (EC), Behavioral Psychology (BEH), Biochemistry (BC), Earth and Space (ES), Microbiology (MIC), Chemistry (CHM), Mathematics (MAT), Physics (PHY), Engineering (ENGR), and Zoology (ZOO).
Student Achievements:
Special Awards:
Jacob Bianchi was awarded the Advisory Board Award. Jacob’s presentation was selected as one of the top two presentations out of the nearly 400 presentations in Region 2.
Grace Hauenstein was awarded an annual scholarship to the University of Scranton.
Perseverance Awards – 6 years participation:
AJ Ambrosecchia
Jacob Bianchi
Emily Dombek
Grace Hauenstein
First Place Awards – Perfect Score:
Jacob Bianchi – Mathematics
Olivia DeScipio – Engineering
Gwendolyn Powell – Physics
Minerva Corea – Behavioral Psychology
First Place Awards:
Aj Ambrosecchia – Microbiology
Grace Hauenstein – Biochemistry
Carson Battle – Physics
Ava Blumer – Chemistry
Ela Arslan — Mathematics
Natasha Treitz – Microbiology
Second Place Awards:
Emily Dombek – Chemistry
Hale Arslan – Behavioral Science
Alexis Charles – Chemistry
Noah Beckish – Mathematics
Caroline Kutra – Biochemistry
Kaylee Whiteford – Botany
Ellie Ambrosecchia – Biology
Austin Arvoinio – Zoology
Kaylee Zeiler – Biochemistry
Original source can be found here.
