The Central KY Regional Science and Engineering Fair was held on Saturday, March 11 and PLD/MSTC students did an outstanding job.  Please be sure to congratulate our winners, all who move on to the State Fair on March 25.  The 3 Best of Fair winners will also represent the State of KY in May at the International Science and Engineering Fair to be held in Dallas, TX.

Best of Fair (pictured)

• 1^st place  Emily Hu
• 2^nd place Joseph Vulakh
• 3^rd place Ana Despa

Animal Science - 1^st place Bailey Zhu

Behavioral and Social Sciences - 1^st place Halie Boyer, 2^nd place Olivia Maney, 3^rd place Sara Falluji

Biochemistry - 1^st place Ana Despa

Biomedical and Health Sciences - 1^st place Faisal Syed, 2^nd place Sireesha Gutti, 3^rd place Jodie Yang

Biomedical Engineering - 1^st place Laua Tong, 2^nd place Karthika Hariprasad

Cellular and Molecular Biology - 1^st place Kate Messerli, 2^nd place Andrew Blair, 3^rd place Mohit Patel

Chemistry - 1^st place Christina Lin and Miranda Ma, 2^nd place Alexander Stumbur, 3^rd place Phoenix DuBravac

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics - 1^st place Tony Xu, 2^nd place Daniel Strode, 3^rd place Nathan Zhu

Earth and Environmental Systems - 1^st place Jonah Hubert

Embedded Systems - 1^st place Derek Hollifield

Energy:  Sustainable Materials and Design - 1^st place Ralph Bright

Engineering Technology: Statics and Dynamics - 1^st place Justin Wong, Andrew Joyner, and Yasin Khan, 2^nd place Sepehr Dindoust

Materials Science - 1^st place Jason Chen

Mathematics - 1^st place Joseph Vulakh, 2^nd place Kaden Mahoney

Microbiology - 1^st place Om Shah

Physics and Astronomy - 1^st place Nedjma Kalliney, 2^nd place Yusuf Kahloon and Vijay Karthikeyan, 3^rd place Blake Cooper

Plant Sciences - 1^st place Kara Bracken

Robotics and Intelligent Machines - 1^st place Varun Hariprasad, 2^nd place Krishna Bhatraju, 3^rd place Mikhail Kovalev

Systems Software - 1^st place Ellen Fei, 2^nd place Connor Zhang, 3^rd place - Mwajuma Alexandre

Translational Medical Science - 1^st place Emily Hu, 2^nd place Agil Maharramov, 3^rd place Shreya Chandrashekar

Special Awards:

• Air Force Research Laboratory - Ellen Fei, Varun Hariprasad, Connor Zhang, Nedjma Kalliney
• American Psychological Association - Hallie Boyer
• NASA Earth Systems Science Project - Jonah Hubert
• National Geographic Society "That's Geography! - Cultivating Empathy for the Earth" - Aimee Stamm
• NOAA "Taking the Pulse of the Planet" - Jonah Hubert
• Office of Naval Research - Mwajuma Alexandre, Jason Chen, Derek Hollifield
• Regeneron Biomedical Science Award - Emily Hu
• Ricoh Sustainable Development Award - Ralph Bright

Yale Science and Engineering Award - Laura Tong