A record-breaking 45 students from the Kent School District were among the 560 competing at the 55th annual Washington State Science and Engineering Fair on March 30-31 at Bremerton High School.
Schools represented were Meridian, Mill Creek and Sunrise elementaries. The district won high honors with nine first-place efforts, 15 seconds, 15 thirds and three special awards.
First-place trophies were awarded to Anthony Rudenko, Ostap Ben, Rebecca Nielsen, Kelsey Newcomb, AJ Soccey, Garrett Stewart, Ravneet Purewal, Sheridan Brown, and Kelsey Evenson
Second-place honors went to Jordan Ortiz, Juan Alvarez Villa, Ahbishek Mor, Makenna Heiss, Lauren-Julia Melamed, Gavin Michaels, Justin McDaniel, David Balint, Brittany Woke, Luis Moreno, Ilya Russu, Celeste Mader, Elana Cueto, Victoria Roberts, Radha Goewey.
Third places went to Tristan Ingold, Benjamin Wadowski, Charlotte Ross-Lyons, Amelia Stergion, Chaya Nguyen, Josh Tingstad, Skyler Mortensen, Rita Kanonik, Monique Dabalos, Kinza Mohammad, Kaarina Charlot, Junaina Shamdeen Ashley Spickelmier, Irie Frigillana and Kathryn Araki.
In addition to Best in Category, Anthony Rudenko and Ostap Ben also won Museum of Flight awards and the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) award for their project on airplane flap design using a wind tunnel.
Kelsey Evenson won an invitation to compete in the Broadcom MASTERS, a national competition for middle schools.
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