BY SPECIAL REQUEST, ST AUGUSTINE SCHOOL ANNUAL SCIENCE FAIR, PHOTOS AND WINNERS

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St. Augustine School Annual Science Fair was held on March 6th with a full day of presentations before a panel of Judges. The 7th & 8th grade students have been working on their research and experiments for most of the academic year.  The winners are posted below with their topic of research. PHOTOS AND MROE INFO AT Science Fair - St. Augustine School - Ossining, NY (staugustineschool.org)

8th Grade Winners

1st Place
Real or Fake: Do Natural Remedies Contain Antibiotic Properties?
~Ines Moreno-Olivares

2nd Place
Stealth Mode-The Lightbox Experiment
~ Luke Sosa, Marco Radeljic, Aiden Clemente

3rd Place
Chewing on Plastic: Can Organic Gum Replace Plastic-Based Gum?
~ Elizabeth Cerulli

4th Place
Purifying Salt Water with Reverse Osmosis
~ Vincent McKenna, Anthony Perruccio, James Rosensteel

5th Place
The 5 Second Rule: Can You Eat Food After It Falls On The Cafeteria Floor?
~ Emily Mirabella, Lizzie Allan

7th Grade Winners

1st Place
Streamlining Wind Energy: What is the Best Angle for Windmill Blades
to be Placed to Maximize Energy Efficiency?
~ Kenta Fujii

2nd Place
Sunspots: What is their Period of Rotation and How Do they Affect Our Daily Lives?
~ Juliana Garcia, Ava Shiri-Garakani

3rd Place
The Relationship Between Fertilizer and Algae
~ Alanni Smith, Camil Alba

4th Place
Gasification: Carbon Negative Fuel
~Lachlan McLean, Ryan Wang

5th Place
What's Got Your Pulse Racing?
~ Sophia Eremita, Tierney Toth-Jamieson